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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 08156726 | Dunn |
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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) | Paul M. Dunn (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiclosed diesel fueled Brayton cycle power system is provided using CO2 and steam as the working fluid. Combustion occurs in a combustor between diesel fuel and O2 with CO2 present as a diluent. During combustion, a heated, high pressure working fluid of CO2 and steam is formed. The heated working fluid is expanded in a turbine and power is withdrawn from the fluid. The fluid is then used in a regenerator to heat cooler, compressed CO2 before the compressed CO2 is transferred to the combustor. The expanded working fluid is cooled conventionally by seawater in a cooler, condensing steam in the working fluid to water. The water is separated from the gaseous CO2. The gaseous CO2 is recycled, and the water is used to backfill the system's diesel fuel tank. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 1992 |
| APPL NO | 07/926115 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156870 | South |
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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) | Joseph T. South (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an ammunition cartridge case that includes a sleeve, a base fixedly attached to the sleeve and a fiber reinforced polymer composite annulus that is at least partially within the base. In certain embodiments, the sleeve and the base are formed partly or entirely from a metal, for example steel or stainless steel. The base has a central aperture that affords for the annulus ring to fit within. The annulus is dimensioned such that it fits securely within the central aperture of the base and has a center aperture wherein a primer can be located. The annulus ring contains a volume of composite fibers ranging from 10 to 90 volume percent. The annulus isolates the primer from the cartridge case and thereby prevents galvanic corrosion between the primer and case. In addition, a metallic foil can be present between the annulus and the cartridge case in order to assure proper securement of the annulus therewithin. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137989 |
| 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 12/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156897 | Evans 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) | James A. Evans (Tallulah, Louisiana); Leandro E. Miranda (Starkville, Mississippi); James P. Kirk (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | An “implant and forget” device for interacting with biota after a pre-established time period. Preferably, the biota are fauna and more particularly fish. In select embodiments, the device comprises packaging enclosing an apparatus for timing interaction via opening the packaging. In select embodiments of the present invention, the device is a sealed capsule inserted in fish. Embodiments of the present invention are implanted in triploid grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) to facilitate control of aquatic weeds in bodies of water. When the carp have been in the water for a pre-established approximate period of time, toxins in the device are dispensed via long term bioerosion of the sealed opening in the packaging. Otherwise, the carp may destroy all vegetation and harm the aquatic environment for other aquatic life. Several alternative bioerodible seal configurations are provided as embodiments. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008538 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156964 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of valve apparatuses are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786344 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157216 | Deiters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATA Engineering, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Deiters (San Diego, California); Tomoya Ochinero (Hermosa Beach, California); James C. Newman, III (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A fairing includes three sections: an aft section, a middle section, and a nose section. The aft section includes a first surface having a generally constant conic angle (i.e., a “boat-tail angle”) with respect to the longitudinal axis such that the aft section tapers to a first end configured to attach to a generally cylindrical body. The middle section, which intersects and is axially aligned with the aft section, has a second surface characterized by a constant elliptical cross-section along a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The nose section intersects and is axially aligned with the middle section. The nose section is further defined by four generally concave trianguloid surfaces, each extending from the middle section to a common apex intersecting the longitudinal axis, wherein each adjacent pair of trianguloid surfaces intersects at an edge (e.g., an incurvate edge). The four trianguloid surfaces are asymmetrically disposed with respect to rotational symmetry about the longitudinal axis, and the edges have a sharpness that varies from the common apex to the middle section. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165357 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157383 | Scanlon |
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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) | Michael V. Scanlon (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for displaying information via a light source on rotating helicopter blades of an aircraft such as a helicopter is provided. The light source may be a laser light source and the light therefrom may be directed onto the aircraft blade by one or more motion controlled mirrors and a computer controller. A sensor is capable of determining the position of helicopter blades during rotation, such that light may be projected upon only the moving blade at precisely timed intervals, so as to form perceivable graphics and/or messages thereon. In addition, such system may be utilized for displaying graphics and/or messages on rotating propellers of fixed wing aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243436 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157565 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giles D. Jones (Vail, Arizona); Bradley Huang (Chino Hills, California); Qingce Bian (Corona, California); Christopher A. Tomlinson (Vail, Arizona); Peter M. Wallrich (San Jose, California); William W. Price (Upland, California); Jeffrey E. Decker (Moreno Valley, California); Eric R. Davis (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a military training device includes a multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) device configured in a piece of apparel. The multiple integrated laser engagement system device includes a light transducing element coupled to an electrical circuit. The light transducing element transmits or receives multiple integrated laser engagement system compliant signals. The light transducing element is attached to an outer surface of the apparel and oriented so that a radiation pattern of the multiple integrated laser engagement system compliant signals is generated outwardly from the apparel during use. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024775 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157785 | Salinas 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) | Jose Salinas (San Antonio, Texas); George C. Kramer (Galveston, Texas); Guy A. Drew (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for operating a semi-closed loop and/or a closed loop resuscitation of a burn patient in view of patient information and other physiological data gathered as part of the method and/or by the system. The method in at least one embodiment includes receiving patient information, calculating an infusion rate based at least on part on a portion of the received patient information, outputting the infusion rate to an infusion pump, obtaining a urinary output, calculating a new infusion rate using infusion rate model based constants, and outputting the new infusion rate to an infusion pump. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying medical staff when problems arise, displaying information regarding the resuscitation, and setting limits regarding the infusion rates. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/977609 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158094 | Lyons 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) | Karen Swider Lyons (Alexandria, Virginia); Arnold M. Stux (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments relate methods of preparing metal carbides, for example some embodiments relate to methods of preparing metal carbides that do not contain the formation of an intermediate oxide compound. Some embodiments relate to methods that do not employ hydrocarbons in the reaction. Some embodiments relate to a method of preparing metal carbides that involves citrate gel precursors and a non-hydrocarbon gas but does not use a hydrocarbon gas, does not form an oxide intermediate species and does not produce carbon monoxide. In some embodiments, the metal carbides are transition metal carbides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/464429 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158096 | Frantz 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) | Jesse A. Frantz (Landover, Maryland); Jasbinder S Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Vinh Q Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Ishwar D Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally directed to a bulk barium copper sulfur fluoride (BCSF) material made by combining Cu2S, BaS and BaF2, heating the ampoule between 400 and 550 ° C. for at least two hours, and then heating the ampoule at a temperature between 550 and 950 ° C. for at least two hours. The BCSF material may be doped with potassium, rubidium, or sodium. The present invention also provides for a BCSF transparent conductive thin film made by forming a sputter target by either hot pressing bulk BCSF or hot pressing Cu2S, BaS and BaF2 powders and sputtering a BCSF thin film from the target onto a substrate. The present invention is further directed to a p-type transparent conductive material comprising a thin film of BCSF on a substrate where the film has a conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. The substrate may be a plastic substrate, such as a polyethersulfone, polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, or some other suitable plastic or polymeric substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250808 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158131 | Apt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AltraVax, Inc. (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doris Apt (San Jose, California); Juha Punnonen (Belmont, California); Alice M. Brinkman (Tustin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded therefrom having advantageous properties, including an ability to induce an immune response to flaviviruses. The polypeptides and polynucleotides of the invention are useful in methods of inducing immune response against flaviviruses, including dengue viruses. Compositions and methods for utilizing polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075097 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08158200 — Methods of forming graphene/(multilayer) boron nitride for electronic device applications
| US 08158200 | Kelber |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry Kelber (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a substrate-mediated assembly for graphene structures. According to an embodiment, long-range ordered, multilayer BN(111) films can be formed by repeated atomic layer deposition (ALD) of a boron-halide or organoborane precursor and NH3 onto a substrate followed by a high temperature anneal. Graphene can then be formed on an ordered BN(111) film by depositing carbon on the ordered surface of the BN(111) film. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543053 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158203 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Bo Chen (Sugar Land, Texas); Austen K. Flatt (Sugar Land, Texas); Michael P. Stewart (Mountain View, California); Christopher A. Dyke (Houston, Texas); Francisco Maya (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of attaching or grafting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to silicon surfaces. In some embodiments, such attaching or grafting occurs via functional groups on either or both of the CNTs and silicon surface. In some embodiments, the methods of the present invention include: (1) reacting a silicon surface with a functionalizing agent (such as oligo(phenylene ethynylene)) to form a functionalized silicon surface; (2) dispersing a quantity of CNTs in a solvent to form dispersed CNTs; and (3) reacting the functionalized silicon surface with the dispersed CNTs. The present invention is also directed to the novel compositions produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579614 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158338 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for enhancing the sensitivity of a resist composition are disclosed. In one aspect, compositions for use with a matrix material (e.g., a lithographically sensitive polymeric material) can be formulated with an acid generator and a sensitizer, where the sensitizer can be present in a relatively small amount. The sensitizer can include a compound with one or more silicon-silicon bonds, and can act to enhance the efficiency of acid generation when the resist is impinged by a selected lithographic radiation. The methods of the present invention can be especially useful in performing short wavelength (e.g., less than 200 nm) lithography, or for processes such as e-beam lithography, which traditionally suffer from low throughput. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/169224 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/926 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158354 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for rapid solution capture purification of nucleic acids for subsequent analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry which is efficient and cost-effective relative to existing methods. The present invention also provides kits useful for practicing rapid solution capture of nucleic acids so that purified samples are in condition for analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943344 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158391 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Gross (New York, New York); Wenhua Lu (Brooklyn, New York); Jon Ness (Redwood City, California); Jeremy Minshull (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially pure Candida host cell for the production of a α-carboxyl-ω-hydroxy fatty acid having a carbon chain length in the range from C6 to C22, a α,ω-dicarboxylic fatty acid having a carbon chain length in the range from C6 to C22, or mixtures thereof, is provided. The Candida host cell is characterized by a first genetic modification class and a second genetic modification class. The first genetic modification class comprises one or more genetic modifications that disrupt the peroxisomal β-oxidation pathway. The second genetic modification class comprises one or more genetic modifications that collectively or individually disrupt at least one gene selected from the group consisting of a CYP52A type cytochrome P450, a fatty alcohol oxidase, and an alcohol dehydrogenase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436729 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158404 | Lies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Stephanie Porter-Scheinman (Conifer, Colorado); Julie Kelly (Denver, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, 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 | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/076284 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158422 | Slukvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); Maryna E. Gumenyuk (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions of erythroid cells that produce adult β-hemoglobin, generated by culturing CD31+, CD31+/CD34+ or CD34+ cells from embryonic stem cells under serum-free culture conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672724 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158444 | Gaylord et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sirigen, Inc. (, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent S. Gaylord (Santa Barbara, California); Janice W. Hong (Santa Barbara, California); Tsu-Ju Fu (Poway, California); Cheng-Jun Sun (Goleta, California); Russell Baldocchi (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided that include a multichromophore and/or multichromophore complex for identifying a target biomolecule. A sensor biomolecule, for example, an antibody can be covalently linked to the multichromophore. Additionally, a signaling chromophore can be covalently linked to the multichromophore. The arrangement is such that the signaling chromophore is capable of receiving energy from the multichromophore upon excitation of the multichromophore. Since the sensor biomolecule is capable of interacting with the target biomolecule, the multichromophore and/or multichromophore complex can provide enhanced detection signals for a target biomolecule. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/868870 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158595 | Galloway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katie Galloway (Pasadena, California); Christina D. Smolke (Pasadena, California); Maung Nyan Win (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extensible RNA-based framework for engineering ligand-controlled gene regulatory systems, called ribozyme switches, that exhibit tunable regulation, design modularity, and target specificity is provided. These switch platforms typically contain a sensor domain, comprised of an aptamer sequence, and an actuator domain, comprised of a hammerhead ribozyme sequence. A variety of modes of standardized information transmission between these domains can be employed, and this application demonstrates a mechanism that allows for the reliable and modular assembly of functioning synthetic hammerhead ribozyme switches and regulation of ribozyme activity in response to various effectors. In some embodiments aptamer-regulated cis-acting hammerhead ribozymes are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938220 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158596 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Pan Zheng (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xing Chang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lizhong Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Runhua Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yin Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yan Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tao Zuo (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of treating a cancer in a subject comprising administering a FOXP3 protein, a nucleic acid encoding a FOXP3 protein, or an inducing compound which induces FOXP3 protein expression. Methods of altering a phenotype of a cancer cell or tumor cell, methods of inhibiting growth of such cells, and methods of inducing apoptosis of these cells are also provided herein. These methods comprise contacting the cell with a FOXP3 protein, a nucleic acid encoding a FOXP3 protein, or an inducing compound which induces FOXP3 protein expression. Further provided herein are diagnostic methods, comprising comparing the expression or structure of a FOXP3 protein or FOXP3 gene in a test sample to that of a normal or prior sample. A method of screening a test compound for anti-cancer activity comprising administering to cells the test compound and measuring FOXP3 protein or FOXP3 gene expression is moreover provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119158 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08158728 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chape Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Ginger M. Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Paul Resnick (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and Methods are provided for fabricating microfluidic devices. The materials include low surface energy fluoropolymer compositions having multiple cure functional groups. The materials can include multiple photocurable and/or thermal-curable functional groups such that laminate devices can be fabricated. The materials also substantially do not swell in the presence of hydrocarbon solvents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063284 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158770 | Wedekind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Wedekind (Rochester, New York); Harold C. Smith (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to cytidine deaminase inhibitors (Cytidine deaminase inhibitors) of cytidine deaminases and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579660 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158809 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sutter West Bay Hospitals (San Francisco, California); Catholic Healthcare West (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li-Xi Yang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 4-O esters of podophyllotoxin and 4′-demethylepipodophyllotoxin are provided. The compounds are 4-O esters of an alkanoic acid or substituted alkanoic acid and podophyllotoxin and 4′-demethylepipodophyllotoxin. The compounds are useful for treating cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534787 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/298 |
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| US 08158832 | Carroll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Nicholas J. Turro (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for controlling the surface properties are described. Compounds of the invention can form radicals upon exposure to irradiation, which can then react with nearby molecules to alter the surface properties of various substrates. The invention can provide surfaces that are resistant to dewetting, surfaces that have immobilized molecules such as carbohydrates and polymers immobilized, and surfaces that have metals deposited on the surface. The invention can be utilized in a wide range of application, such as sensors, microreactors, microarrays, electroless deposition of metals, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595292 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158973 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tse Nga Ng (Mountain View, California); Ana C. Arias (Los Gatos, California); Sanjiv Sambandan (Sunnyvale, California); Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California); Jurgen H. Daniel (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic non-volatile memory array including multiple pixels and associated signal lines that are disposed on and between a substrate, a single ferroelectric dielectric layer, and a single organic dielectric layer, where each pixel includes a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) and at least one organic thin-film field effect transistor (FET) that are connected to associated signal lines in a way that facilitates addressable reading and writing to the FeFET of a selected pixel without disturbing the data stored in adjacent pixels. Analog data storage in the FeFET array is also introduced that does not require analog-to-digital conversion of the stored data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607890 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159134 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment low stress electrode and a preferred array of microcavity plasma devices of the invention include a plurality of thin metal first electrodes and stress reduction structures and/or geometries designed to promote the flatness during and after processing. The first electrodes are buried in a thin metal oxide layer which protects the electrodes from the plasma in the microcavities. In embodiments of the invention, some or all of the electrodes are connected. Patterns of connections in a one- or two-dimensional array of microcavities can be defined. In preferred embodiments, the first electrodes comprise circumferential electrodes that surround individual microcavities. A second thin layer having a buried, second electrode is bonded to the first thin layer. A packaging layer, e.g., a thin glass or plastic layer, seals the discharge medium (a gas or vapor, or a combination of the two) into the microcavities. In a preferred methods of formation of arrays of microcavity plasma devices or electrodes, a thin metal foil or film is symmetrically anodized and formed with a stress reduction geometry and/or structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152550 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/631 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159259 | Lewis et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Lewis (Moulton, Alabama); Joey R. Haddock (Decatur, Alabama); Dane R. Walther (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-modifying FPGA system includes an FPGA and a configuration memory device coupled to the FPGA for providing the FPGA with configuration information. The configuration memory device is programmed with configuration data and dormant data. The FPGA system is also provided with a configuration assist circuit coupled to the FPGA and the configuration memory device for controlling loading of configuration information from the configuration memory device to the FPGA. A tamper detection system provides a tamper signal to the FPGA, wherein when a tamper signal is received by the FPGA the configuration data is replaced with the dormant data. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/882803 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159366 | Choy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Winnie Wai-Yue Choy (Cerritos, California); Ich D. Ngo (Monterey Park, California); David J. Walter (Downey, California); Mark Honda (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises switches, a measurement unit, and a telemetry subsystem. The switches connect the current sources to a power bus when in a first position and to the measurement unit when the switches are in a second position. The measurement unit generates a ramp signal to control the solar strings from an open circuit state to a short circuit state linearly in a short duration and provides continuous current and voltage telemetry data at the output while the set of switches is in the second position. The telemetry subsystem is pre-set to a dwell mode and samples a large amount of voltage and current telemetry data. The telemetry subsystem transmits this data to ground directly to eliminate the need for processing and storage resources in the spacecraft. The telemetry data is used to plot I-V curve for health monitoring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174436 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/870.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159385 | Farneth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensis Corporation (East Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mike Farneth (East Syracuse, New York); Stephen E. McMahon (Homer, New York); John A. Rougas (Liverpool, New York); Edward M. Valovage (Memphis, New York); Brian Edward (Jamesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive line radar comprising at least one signal surface wave launcher, which comprises a signal surface wave transceiver, which is physically attached to a power line. The signal surface wave transceiver transmits a wave signal along the power line with another signal radiating from the wave signal in a plurality of directions along the power line. The at least one signal surface wave transceiver receives reflected signals from a target within a distance of the power line. The at least one signal surface wave launcher includes at least one RF communications transceiver and can be inductively powered from the power line. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/658217 |
| 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 342/27 |
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| US 08159387 | Fernandez 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) | Jose Fernandez (Panama City, Florida); Richard Rikoski (Alameda, California); John Stroud (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for obtaining target elevation information are disclosed. The systems and methods use multiple vertical transmitters and one or more receivers to infer changes in the elevation plane and the height of objects. Changes in elevation and heights of objects are inferred from path length differences between the transmitters and a particular backscattering point. Using known geometric information regarding the configuration of the transmitters, propagation time differences can be estimated via time delay estimation methods in either the time or frequency domain. Appropriate modulation schemes are used such that the multiple signals transmitted are separable upon reception. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798170 |
| 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 342/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159411 | Welsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Welsh (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Stacy E. Davis (Medway, Massachusetts); Timothy R. Hebert (Clinton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a rotary connector having a longitudinal axis includes a first metal portion including a groove about the longitudinal axis. The rotary connector also includes a second metal portion and a spring disposed in the groove and having metal contact with the first portion and the second portion. One of the first metal portion or the second metal portion is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis and the other of the first metal portion or the second metal portion is configured to remain substantially rotationally fixed with respect to the longitudinal axis. The rotary connector may be used for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding with antenna pedestals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481879 |
| 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 343/882 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159680 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan S. Robinson (Arlington, Massachusetts); Don M. Boroson (Needham, Massachusetts); Marius A. Albota (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a system and method for three-dimensional imaging using a single transducer. A laser in a transmitter emits a sequence of short pulses, each of which is at a different center wavelength (frequency). A dispersive element in the transmitter spatially separates the pulses according to wavelength, with different pulses mapped to different spatial locations in a target volume via a lens. The pulses travel to the target, which scatters or back-reflects the pulses towards the dispersive element via the lens. The lens collects the returned pulses and transmits them to a single transducer via the dispersive element. The transducer measures the time of arrival for each returned pulse. Because the arrival time depends on the range to the object in the portion of the target illuminated by the corresponding emitted pulse, the measured arrival time can be used to reconstruct a 3D (angle-angle-range) image of the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706532 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159738 | Hoffman 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) | Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Maryland); Timothy Pritchett (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A large-aperture direct-view high-speed electro-optic shutter includes an electro-optic polymer material constructed to form a Pockels cell and an integrated photoconducting semiconductor switch. A chromophore-doped polymer material or chromophore copolymer, wherein the chromophore is oriented within the polymer material, exhibits a linear electro-optic effect when an electric field is applied to the device. In one embodiment, the polymer host material comprises one or more of a polycarbonate, amorphous polycarbonate, or polymethylmethacrylate polymer hosts. The optically active chromophore comprising one or more coumarin and coumarin derivatives, stilbene or tolane derivatives is incorporated within the polymer host, forming a guest-host polymer. In another embodiment, the chromophore is chemically bonded to the monomer that forms the polymer, resulting in an optically active copolymer. The electro-optic shutter device is then activated by incident light through the photoconducting semiconductor switch, rendering the Pockels cell to have an optical density of at least 3.0. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816417 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/257 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir V. Dotsenko (Mahopac, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrically interconnecting two substrates, each having a corresponding set of preformed electrical contacts, the substrates comprising an electronic circuit, and the resulting module, is provided. A liquid curable adhesive is provided over the set of contacts of a first substrate, and the set of electrical contacts of the second substrate is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the first substrate. The sets of electrical contacts of the first and second substrate are compressed to displace the liquid curable adhesive from the inter-contact region, and provide electrical communication between the respective sets of electrical contacts. The liquid curable adhesive is then cured to form a solid matrix which maintains a relative compression between the respective sets of electrical contacts. One embodiment of the module comprises a high-speed superconducting circuit which operates at cryogenic temperatures. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840931 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
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| US 08160293 | Fridrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Vestal, New York); Jan Lukas (Johnson City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method to verify the integrity of a digital image (i.e., deciding whether or not the entire image or just a portion has been tampered with, and/or finding the doctored area in the image). One first determines the imaging sensor's reference pattern noise, which serves as a unique fingerprint that identifies the imaging sensor that captured the image. To verify the integrity of the content in a region of the image, a correlation detector determines the presence or absence of the imaging sensor's reference pattern noise in that region, thereby verifying whether or not the image has integrity. The correlation detector can also find automatically one or more regions in the image that were tampered with. In another embodiment, one determines the pattern noise of only the image in question and tests that noise to determine whether or not the image has integrity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437187 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
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| US 08160404 | Pan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Pan (Andover, Massachusetts); Jifeng Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jurgen Michel (Arlington, Massachusetts); Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic device includes an input waveguide structure that receives an input optical signal. A GeSi/Si waveguide structure receives from the input waveguide the input optical signal and performs selective optoelectronic operations on the input optical signal. The GeSi/Si waveguide structure outputs an optical or electrical output signal associated with the selective optoelectronic operations performed on the input optical signal. An output waveguide structure receives the output optical signal from the GeSi/Si waveguide structure and provides the optical output signal for further processing. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561474 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
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| US 08160414 | Karras |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Karras (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of forming an optical coupling between two optical waveguides where at least one of the optical waveguides is non-UV transmissive are disclosed. In one aspect, a self-forming waveguide (SFWG) is formed in a photosensitive material disposed between a UV transmissive optical waveguide and a non-UV transmissive component at least in part by a portion of an incident UV beam reflected from an interface between the photosensitive material and the non-UV transmissive material. In another aspect, two separate SFWG waveguides are formed in two separate photosensitive materials by UV beams passed thereto via a UV transmissive bridge waveguide. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/088312 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/50 |
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| US 08160452 | Tidwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Space Photonics, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Tidwell (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jeffrey T. Gregory (Mountainburg, Arkansas); Charles Henry Chalfant, III (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Fred J. Orlando (West Melbourne, Florida); Matthew Leftwich (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An acquisition, pointing and tracking system for free space optical communications systems performs the pointing and tracking function internally by way of translating an internal optical fiber in the focal plane of the transceiver telescope with a reflecting mirror in the telescope focal plane of each linked transceiver. The beam reflected from the mirror records the exact direction of the reflected beam at the transmitting beam's transceiver terminal, providing the transmitting source to lock on to the receiving telescope, allowing for the link to be acquired. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349570 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160845 | De et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradipta De (Kolkata, India); Ravi Kothari (New Delhi, India); Vijay Mann (Haryana, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for emulating operating system jitter on a platform using a given trace are provided. The techniques include calculating a scale factor, wherein the scale factor is equal to a maximum of measured overhead of introducing synthetic jitter on the platform and a resolution of one or more timer calls on the platform, scaling up each of one or more jitter values and each of one or more gaps between each of one or more jitter instances in the trace and an execution period of a benchmark parallel application using the scale factor, introducing synthetic jitter using each of the one or more scaled jitter values and each of the one or more scaled gaps from the trace while running the benchmark parallel application for the scaled execution period to emulate operating system jitter on a platform, and scaling down one or more final time measurements from the benchmark parallel application by the scale factor. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129821 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 08160982 | Zhang 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) | Zhongfei Zhang (Vestal, New York); John J. Salerno (Utica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting people of interest from information sources. Method performs automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving specific problems, for example, such as determining the activities between individuals within a money laundering ring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/319167 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apurva N. Mody (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An algorithm to detect a broad class of signals in Gaussian noise using higher-order statistics. The algorithm detects a number of different signal types. The signals may be in the base-band or the pass-band, single-carrier or multi-carrier, frequency hopping or non-hopping, broad-pulse or narrow-pulse etc. In a typical setting this algorithm provides an error rate of 3/100 at a signal to noise ratio of 0 dB. This algorithm gives the time frequency detection ratio that may be used to determine if the detected signal falls in Class Single-Carrier of Class Multi-Carrier. Additionally this algorithm may be used for a number of different applications such as multiple signal identification, finding the basis functions of the received signal and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820063 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/404 |
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| US 08161187 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph Phillip Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark David Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Genady Ya. Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic planning system is provided for stream processing workflow composition. End users provide requests to the automatic planning system. The requests are goal-based problems to be solved by the automatic planning system, which then generates plan graphs to form stream processing applications. A scheduler deploys and schedules the stream processing applications for execution within an operating environment. The operating environment then returns the results to the end users. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114105 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
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| US 08161263 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor includes a first address translation engine, a second address translation engine, and a prefetch engine. The first address translation engine is configured to determine a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. The prefetch engine is coupled to the first translation engine and is configured to fetch content, included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line) of a memory, at the first memory address. The second address translation engine is coupled to the prefetch engine and is configured to determine a second memory address based on the content of the memory at the first memory address. The prefetch engine is also configured to fetch (e.g., from the memory or another memory) a second data block (e.g., a second cache line) that includes data at the second memory address. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024239 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/204 |
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| US 08161264 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for performing data prefetching using indirect addressing includes determining a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. Content, that is included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line) of a memory, at the first memory address is then fetched. An offset is then added to the content of the memory at the first memory address to provide a first offset memory address. A second memory address is then determined based on the first offset memory address. A second data block (e.g., a second cache line) that includes data at the second memory address is then fetched (e.g., from the memory or another memory). A data prefetch instruction may be indicated by a unique operational code (opcode), a unique extended opcode, or a field (including one or more bits) in an instruction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024246 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/204 |
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| US 08161265 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for performing data prefetching using multi-level indirect data prefetching includes determining a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. Content that is included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line of a memory) at the first memory address is then fetched. A second memory address is then determined based on the content at the first memory address. Content that is included in a second data block (e.g., a second cache line) at the second memory address is then fetched (e.g., from the memory or another memory). A third memory address is then determined based on the content at the second memory address. Finally, a third data block (e.g., a third cache line) that includes another pointer or data at the third memory address is fetched (e.g., from the memory or the another memory). |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024260 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/204 |
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| US 08161493 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Steven R. Kunkel (Rochester, Minnesota); Aaron C. Sawdey (Cannon Falls, Minnesota); Philip L. Vitale (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect of the present invention improves the accuracy of measuring processor utilization of multi-threaded cores by providing a calibration facility that derives utilization in the context of the overall dynamic operating state of the core by assigning weights to idle threads and assigning weights to run threads, depending on the status of the core. From previous chip designs it has been established in a Simultaneous Multi Thread (SMT) core that not all idle cycles in a hardware thread can be equally converted into useful work. Competition for core resources reduces the conversion efficiency of one thread's idle cycles when any other thread is running on the same core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/173771 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglass F. Taber (Newark, Delaware); Christopher G. Nelson (Bear, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A stable, homogeneous dispersion of potassium hydride is formed by reacting a mixture of wax and potassium metal with hydrogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700161 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/646 |
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| US 08158107 | Schiemann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Schiemann (Elizabeth, Colorado); Allan R. Albig (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a panel of biomarkers associated with angiogenesis, and the use of such biomarkers (genes, proteins, homologues and analogs thereof) to regulate angiogenesis. Methods for identifying compounds useful for regulating angiogenesis and conditions related thereto are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542670 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 08158110 | Iacono et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aldo T. Iacono (Hunts Valley, Massachusetts); Griffith Bartley (Gibson Island, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for prevention of graft rejection in lung transplant recipients and for treatment of subjects with pulmonary disorders. Specifically, the methods and compositions of the invention provide a means for inhibiting immune response mediated inflammatory processes in the lungs. The method of the invention comprises the administration of aerosolized cyclosporine for prevention of acute and/or chronic refractory rejection in lung transplant patients. The invention further provides for the use of aerosolized cyclosporine to treat subjects having immunologically mediated inflammatory pulmonary disorders including, but not limited to, asthma, cystic fibrosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, chronic bronchitis and allergic rhinitis. The present invention, by enabling a method for the use of aerosolized cyclosporine for inhibiting pulmonary inflammation leading to prevention of graft rejection and treatment of pulmonary disorders, provides a safer and less toxic treatment than those methods that utilize systemic administration of cyclosporine. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433231 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/46 |
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| US 08158119 | Bridges |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Bridges (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering cardiac stem cell and treating damaged cardiac tissue is provided. The method involves isolation of subject's cardiac circulation from the subject's systemic circulation and perfusing a solution comprising stem cells into the cardiac circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/086024 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 08158123 | Stashenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Stashenko (Medfield, Massachusetts); Yoshimura Okamatsu (Boston, Massachusetts); Hajime Sasaki (Needham, Massachusetts); Richard Battaglino (Boston, Massachusetts); Ulrike Späte (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of treating a bone resorption disease or a bone generating disease, methods for prognosing and/or diagnosing a bone resorption disease or a bone generating disease, methods for identifying a compound that modulates bone resorption disease development or bone generating disease development, methods for determining the efficacy of a bone resorption disease therapy or a bone generating disease therapy, and oligonucleotide microarrays containing probes for genes involved in osteoclast development. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734692 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08158130 | Doms et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W Doms (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Joseph Rucker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Trevor L Hoffman (Irvine, California); Paul Bates (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); James A Hoxie (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Michael J Endres (Painesville, Ohio); John Balliet (Norristown, Pennsylvania); Dennis L Kolson (Secane, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Enveloped virus vectors are described which comprise a cellular virus receptor protein and which are capable of fusing with a cell which comprises a viral envelope protein to which the cellular virus receptor protein is cognate. Enveloped virus vectors comprising a plurality of cellular virus receptor proteins are also described. Methods for making the enveloped virus vectors are described, as are methods of using the enveloped virus vectors. The invention further relates to a lipoparticle comprising a membrane spanning protein, and the lipoparticle can be attached to a sensor surface. The invention relates to methods of producing and using the lipoparticle to, inter alia, assess protein binding interactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720398 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 08158344 | Haines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Haines (Nashville, Tennessee); Simon G. Gregory (Durham, North Carolina); Silke Schmidt (Durham, North Carolina); Margaret A. Pericak-Vance (Coral Gables, Florida); Mariano Garcia-Blanco (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in certain aspects, a method of identifying a subject as having an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis, comprising detecting in the subject the presence of a nucleotide variant in the interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain gene, whereby the presence of said variant identifies the subject as having an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147171 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158347 | Sharpless et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman E. Sharpless (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Krishnamurthy Janakiraman (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods for determining the molecular age of a tissue. Also provided are methods for employing a molecular age that has been determined for a tissue for assessing the appropriateness of various therapeutic applications for the tissue or a subject comprising the tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663667 |
| 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 08158354 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for rapid solution capture purification of nucleic acids for subsequent analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry which is efficient and cost-effective relative to existing methods. The present invention also provides kits useful for practicing rapid solution capture of nucleic acids so that purified samples are in condition for analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943344 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158418 | Polo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Polo (Encinitas, California); Silvia Perri (Castro Valley, California); Kent Thudium (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric alphaviruses and alphavirus replicon particles are provided, including methods of making and using same. Specifically, alphavirus particles are provided having nucleic acid molecules derived from one or more alphaviruses and structural proteins (capsid and/or envelope) from at least two or more alphaviruses. Methods of making, using, and therapeutic preparations containing the chimeric alphavirus particle, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372295 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08158420 | Greene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd A Greene (Larchmont, New York); James M Angelastro (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for regulating the growth and/or survival of tumor cells and stem cells by modulating the expression or function of ATF5. The present invention also provides methods for promoting or suppressing differentiation of stem/progenitor cells, for producing differentiated cells and for isolating/purifying differentiated cells, including neural cells. Also provided are differentiated cells, cell populations and transgenic animals comprising same and uses of same. The present invention further provides methods for treating nervous tissue degeneration and for identifying an agent for use in treating nervous tissue degeneration. Methods for promoting apoptosis in neoplastic cells and for treating or preventing tumors, and identifying agents for use in treating or preventing tumors are also provided by the present invention. The present invention further provides methods for identifying agents that inhibit ATF5, agents identified by these methods. Also provided are methods for diagnosing tumors, for assessing the efficacy of therapy to treat tumors and for assessing the prognosis of a subject who has a neural tumor. Finally, the present invention provides a kits for use in detecting and treating tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971483 |
| 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 435/376 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158424 | Thomson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Tenneille Ludwig (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Previous methods for culturing primate pluripotent stem cells have required either fibroblast feeder cells or a medium which was exposed to fibroblast feeder cells to maintain the stem cells in an undifferentiated state. It has now been found that high levels of fibroblast growth factor in a medium together with at least one of gamma aminobutyric acid, pipecolic acid, and lithium, enables pluripotent stem cells to remain undifferentiated indefinitely through multiple passages, even without feeder cells or conditioned medium. Without beta-mercaptoethanol, the medium improves cloning efficiency. Also, a matrix of human proteins can be used to culture the undifferentiated cells without exposing the cells to animal products. Further disclosed are new primate pluripotent cell lines made using the defined culture conditions, including the medium and the matrix. Such new cell lines will have never been exposed to animal cells, animal products, feeder cells or conditioned medium. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/754574 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 08158592 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Joel Kline (Iowa City, Iowa); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response and to redirect a Th2 response to a Th1 response in a subject are disclosed. Methods for treating atopic diseases, including atopic dermatitis, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031460 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08158595 | Galloway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katie Galloway (Pasadena, California); Christina D. Smolke (Pasadena, California); Maung Nyan Win (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extensible RNA-based framework for engineering ligand-controlled gene regulatory systems, called ribozyme switches, that exhibit tunable regulation, design modularity, and target specificity is provided. These switch platforms typically contain a sensor domain, comprised of an aptamer sequence, and an actuator domain, comprised of a hammerhead ribozyme sequence. A variety of modes of standardized information transmission between these domains can be employed, and this application demonstrates a mechanism that allows for the reliable and modular assembly of functioning synthetic hammerhead ribozyme switches and regulation of ribozyme activity in response to various effectors. In some embodiments aptamer-regulated cis-acting hammerhead ribozymes are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938220 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08158596 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Pan Zheng (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xing Chang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lizhong Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Runhua Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yin Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yan Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tao Zuo (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of treating a cancer in a subject comprising administering a FOXP3 protein, a nucleic acid encoding a FOXP3 protein, or an inducing compound which induces FOXP3 protein expression. Methods of altering a phenotype of a cancer cell or tumor cell, methods of inhibiting growth of such cells, and methods of inducing apoptosis of these cells are also provided herein. These methods comprise contacting the cell with a FOXP3 protein, a nucleic acid encoding a FOXP3 protein, or an inducing compound which induces FOXP3 protein expression. Further provided herein are diagnostic methods, comprising comparing the expression or structure of a FOXP3 protein or FOXP3 gene in a test sample to that of a normal or prior sample. A method of screening a test compound for anti-cancer activity comprising administering to cells the test compound and measuring FOXP3 protein or FOXP3 gene expression is moreover provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119158 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158603 | Rubin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Wasington, District of Columbia); University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Rubin (Potomac, Maryland); Aykut Üren (Rockville, Maryland); Susan Cumberledge (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Frieda Reichsman (Shutesbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention stems from the discovery that sFRP and fragments thereof can bind to members of the Wnt family of proteins and cause an increase in Wnt biological activity. Furthermore, fragments of sFRP that do not contain the CRD domain are shown to bind to Wnt proteins and modulate Wnt biological activity. Accordingly, the invention provides these sFRP fragments and variants of these fragments, as well as vectors and host cells containing nucleic acid sequences encoding the sFRP fragments and variants. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031060 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158604 | Linden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described here. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712022 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
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| US 08158614 | Lambert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Lambert (Madison, Wisconsin); SangHyuk Chung (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treatment of cervical or vaginal cancer and their associated dysplasia, including the steps of identifying a human cervical or vaginal cancer and/or dysplasia patient, administering an effective amount of an estrogen antagonist therapy to the patient, wherein the amount is effective to reduce cancer and dysplasia symptoms, and observing a reduction of cancer and dysplasia symptoms in the patient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693850 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182 |
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| US 08158627 | Watterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Martin Watterson (Chicago, Illinois); Linda Van Eldik (Chicago, Illinois); Wenhui Hu (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions, conjugates and methods comprising pyridazine compounds and cholinesterase inhibitors for modulation of cellular pathways (e.g., signal transduction pathways), for treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), for research, drug screening, and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/298623 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/236.500 |
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| US 08158646 | Ablordeppey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Y. Ablordeppey (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An indoloquinoline wherein the quarternary N-5 atom is a straight C(1-5) chain, a branched C(1-5) chain, a heteroatom chain, a straight chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring, a branched chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring, a heteroatom chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring; the 10 position is N—R10, O, S, S═O, CH2, or C═O, where R10 is a branched C(1-5) chain, a heteroatom chain, a straight chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring, a branched chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring, a heteroatom chain substituted terminally by a cycloalkyl or aromatic ring. In one embodiment the quarternary N-5 atom is —CH3 and the 10 position is N—(CH2)5—Ph. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394158 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/285 |
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| US 08158658 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Haitao Ji (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds selectively inhibiting neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNos), such compounds of a formula wherein the variables are defined, herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/346152 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/343 |
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| US 08158674 | Detty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Detty (Rochester, New York); David J. Donnelly (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are chalcogenoxanthylium compounds which can effectively be used as sensitizers in photodynamic therapy, virucides in photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy and reversal agents of Pgp function in cancer cells. Further provided is a general method for the preparation of chalcogenoxanthylium compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/045977 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/437 |
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| US 08158677 | Munger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josh Munger (Rochester, New York); Bryson Bennett (Metuchen, New Jersey); Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Joshua Rabinowitz (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Alterations of certain metabolite concentrations and fluxes that occur in response to viral infection are described. Host cell enzymes in the involved metabolic pathways are selected as targets for intervention; i.e., to restore metabolic flux to disadvantage viral replication, or to further derange metabolic flux resulting in “suicide” of viral-infected cells (but not uninfected cells) in order to limit viral propagation. While any of the enzymes in the relevant metabolic pathway can be selected, pivotal enzymes at key control points in these metabolic pathways are preferred as candidate antiviral drug targets. Inhibitors of these enzymes are used to reverse, or redirect, the effects of the viral infection. Drug candidates are tested for antiviral activity using screening assays in vitro and host cells, as well as in animal models. Animal models are then used to test efficacy of candidate compounds in preventing and treating viral infections. The antiviral activity of enzyme inhibitors is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156517 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/473 |
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| US 08158761 | Wands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack R. Wands (Providence, Rhode Island); Miran Kim (North Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present specification provides, inter alia, methods of using Wnt and FZD proteins, genes, FZD and Wnt-specific antibodies and probes in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and for screening test compounds for an ability to treat cancer. Also disclosed are compounds useful for treating cancer such as liver cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/909308 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158770 | Wedekind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Wedekind (Rochester, New York); Harold C. Smith (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to cytidine deaminase inhibitors (Cytidine deaminase inhibitors) of cytidine deaminases and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579660 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159676 | Gryczynski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Texas, Health Science Center at Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zygmunt Gryczynski (Fort Worth, Texas); Ignacy Gryczynski (Fort Worth, Texas); Evgenia Matveeva (Fort Worth, Texas); Julian Borejdo (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods for ratiometric detection of analytes by surface plasmon coupled emission detection that includes disposing a target on the metal layer of a surface plasmon resonance detection system; coupling a first analyte to a first fluorescent dye and a second analyte to a second fluorescent dye; contacting the first and second analytes to the target on the surface plasmon resonance detection system; and measuring the intensity of a first and a second surface plasmon resonance enhanced fluorescence emission ring, wherein the first and second rings, respectively, quantitatively represents the amount of first and second analyte within 50 nanometers of the metal surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/356288 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160311 | Schaefer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a pointing location are used to define the control input to the electronic device based on the user's motions. Visual feedback is optionally provided to the user during the controller's actions. Additional sensor elements are optionally provided to improve performance of the system. Hardware and software elements are combined to provide for the specified control actions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287087 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160319 | Holland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominic Holland (La Jolla, California); Anders Dale (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques for reducing distortions in magnetic resonance images. In one aspect, machine-implemented method for reducing image distortion in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes receiving a first MRI image and a second MRI image, estimating displacements of voxels between the first MRI image and the second MRI image by minimizing a cost function expressing a cost of the displacements, reducing distortion in an MRI image using the estimated displacements, and making the MRI image having reduced distortion available. The first MRI image and the second MRI image were acquired using different gradient fields. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152842 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160713 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an electrode array for neural stimulation. In particular it is an electrode array for use with a visual prosthesis with the electrode array suitable to be positioned on the retina. The array includes multiple attachment points to provide for even pressure across the electrode array surface. The attachment points are arranged so as to not damage retinal tissue stimulated by the electrode array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196203 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunlink Corporation (San Rafael, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. J. Miros (Fairfax, California); Margaret Birmingham Mittan (Oakland, California); Martin N. Seery (San Rafael, California); Rodney H. Holland (Novato, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar array mounting system having unique installation, load distribution, and grounding features, and which is adaptable for mounting solar panels having no external frame. The solar array mounting system includes flexible, pedestal-style feet and structural links connected in a grid formation on the mounting surface. The photovoltaic modules are secured in place via the use of attachment clamps that grip the edge of the typically glass substrate. The panel mounting clamps are then held in place by tilt brackets and/or mid-link brackets that provide fixation for the clamps and align the solar panels at a tilt to the horizontal mounting surface. The tilt brackets are held in place atop the flexible feet and connected link members thus creating a complete mounting structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587970 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156737 | Gonze et al. |
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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); Garima Bhatia (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes an electrical heater and a particulate matter (PM) filter that is arranged one of adjacent to and in contact with the electrical heater. A control module selectively increases an exhaust gas temperature of an engine to a first temperature and that initiates regeneration of the PM filter using the electrical heater while the exhaust gas temperature is above the first temperature. The first temperature is greater than a maximum exhaust gas temperature at the PM filter during non-regeneration operation and is less than an oxidation temperature of the PM. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941545 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156822 | DeWall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bettelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin George DeWall (Pocatello, Idaho); Humberto Enrique Garcia (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael George McKellar (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of evaluating a fluid condition may include stroking a valve member and measuring a force acting on the valve member during the stroke. Methods of evaluating a fluid condition may include measuring a force acting on a valve member in the presence of fluid flow over a period of time and evaluating at least one of the frequency of changes in the measured force over the period of time and the magnitude of the changes in the measured force over the period of time to identify the presence of an anomaly in a fluid flow and, optionally, its estimated location. Methods of evaluating a valve condition may include directing a fluid flow through a valve while stroking a valve member, measuring a force acting on the valve member during the stroke, and comparing the measured force to a reference force. Valve assemblies and related systems are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628267 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861.750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157189 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Xavier Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection nozzle comprises a body member having an upstream wall opposing a downstream wall, a baffle member having an upstream surface and a downstream surface, a first chamber, a second chamber, a fuel inlet communicative with the first chamber operative to emit a first gas into the first chamber, and a plurality of mixing tubes, each of the mixing tubes having a tube inner surface, a tube outer surface, a first inlet communicative with an aperture in the upstream wall operative to receive a second gas, a second inlet communicative with the tube outer surface and the tube inner surface operative to translate the first gas into the mixing tube, a mixing portion operative to mix the first gas and the second gas, and an outlet communicative with an aperture in the downstream wall operative to emit the mixed first and second gasses. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417896 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/132.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157886 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Robinson (Fremont, California); Stephen J. Fares (Pleasanton, California); Kim L. Tran (Livermore, California); Mary E. Langham (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for providing nanoporous palladium and platinum powders. These materials were synthesized on milligram to gram scales by chemical reduction of tetrahalo-complexes with ascorbate in a concentrated aqueous surfactant at temperatures between −20° C. and 30° C. The prepared particles have diameters of approximately 50 nm, wherein each particle is perforated by pores having diameters of approximately 3 nm, as determined by electron tomography. These materials are of potential value for hydrogen and electrical charge storage applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/371821 |
| 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 075/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157931 | Qian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yana Qian (Sunnyvale, California); Gregory B. Olson (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An advanced secondary hardening carburized Ni—Co steel achieves an improved case hardness of about 68-69 Rc together with nominal core hardness of about 50 Rc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/459477 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157948 | Maxwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Maxwell (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); Craig A. Chavez (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marcie R. Black (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing an article comprises providing a first sheet, wetting the first sheet with a liquid precursor to provide a first wet sheet, and irradiating the first wet sheet in a pattern corresponding to a first cross section of the article such that the liquid precursor is at least partially converted to a solid in the first cross section. A second sheet is disposed adjacent to the first sheet. The method further comprises wetting the second sheet with the liquid precursor to provide a second wet sheet, and irradiating the second wet sheet in a pattern corresponding to a second cross section of the article such that the liquid precursor is at least partially converted to a solid in the second cross section. In particular the liquid precursor may be converted to a metal, ceramic, semiconductor, semimetal, or a combination of these materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099601 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/272.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158088 | Peterman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean R. Peterman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David H. Meikrantz (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jack D. Law (Pocatello, Idaho); Catherine L. Riddle (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry A. Todd (Firth, Idaho); Mitchell R. Greenhalgh (Iona, Idaho); Richard D. Tillotson (Moore, Idaho); Richard A. Bartsch (Lubbock, Texas); Bruce A. Moyer (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Laetitia H. Delmau (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Peter V. Bonnesen (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixed extractant solvent that includes at least one dialkyloxycalix[4]arenebenzocrown-6 compound, 4′,4′,(5′)-di-(t-butyldicyclohexano)-18-crown-6, at least one modifier, and, optionally, a diluent. The dialkyloxycalix[4]arenebenzocrown-6 compound is 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(octyloxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(decyloxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(dodecyloxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(2-ethylhexyl-1-oxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(3,7-dimethyloctyl-1-oxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, 1,3-alternate-25,27-di(4-butyloctyl-1-oxy)calix[4]arenebenzocrown-6, or combinations thereof. The modifier is a primary alcohol. A method of separating cesium and strontium from an aqueous feed is also disclosed, as are dialkyloxycalix[4]arenebenzocrown-6 compounds and an alcohol modifier. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268189 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158247 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Eve Bauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexander H. Mueller (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Light-emitting devices are prepared by coating a porous substrate using a polymer-assisted deposition process. Solutions of metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for metal precursor were coated onto porous substrates. The coated substrates were heated at high temperatures under a suitable atmosphere. The result was a substrate with a conformal coating that did not substantially block the pores of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322419 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/312.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158256 | Dooley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas F. Broderick (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of plant biomass feedstock particles characterized by consistent piece size and shape uniformity, high skeletal surface area, and good flow properties. The particles of plant biomass material having fibers aligned in a grain are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. In particular, the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces. The L×W surfaces of particles with L/H dimension ratios of 4:1 or less are further elaborated by surface checking between longitudinally arrayed fibers. The length dimension L is preferably aligned within 30° parallel to the grain, and more preferably within 10° parallel to the grain. The plant biomass material is preferably selected from among wood, agricultural crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246318 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158377 | Greenbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); Miguel Rodriguez, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hairong Qi (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaoling Wang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of biosensor-based detection of toxins comprises the steps of providing at least one time-dependent control signal generated by a biosensor in a gas or liquid medium, and obtaining a time-dependent biosensor signal from the biosensor in the gas or liquid medium to be monitored or analyzed for the presence of one or more toxins selected from chemical, biological or radiological agents. The time-dependent biosensor signal is processed to obtain a plurality of feature vectors using at least one of amplitude statistics and a time-frequency analysis. At least one parameter relating to toxicity of the gas or liquid medium is then determined from the feature vectors based on reference to the control signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216282 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158399 | Chidambaram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devicharan Chidambaram (Middle Island, New York); Arokiasamy J. Francis (Middle Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing environmental or industrial samples to remove, reclaim or otherwise reduce the level of chemical species present in the sample that act as redox active species. The redox active species is kept in a waste chamber and is separated from an aqueous bacterial culture that is held in a culture chamber. The waste chamber and the culture chamber are separated by a porous membrane through which electron transfer can occur but through which the aqueous bacterial culture cannot pass. The redox active species substantially remains in the waste chamber and is in non-contact with the aqueous bacterial culture during the process of removal, reduction or reclamation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/046707 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158437 | Swager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Samuel W. Thomas, III (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to methods for modulating the optical properties of a luminescent polymer via interaction with a species (e.g., an analyte). In some cases, the present invention provides methods for determination of an analyte by monitoring a change in an optical signal of a luminescent polymer upon exposure to an analyte. Methods of the present invention may be useful for the vapor phase detection of analytes such as explosives and toxins. The present invention also provides methods for increasing the luminescence intensity of a polymer, such as a polymer that has been photobleached, by exposing the luminescent polymer to a species such as a reducing agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/308298 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158545 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); David L. King (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Qisheng Huo (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly effective and regenerable method, system and device that enables the desulfurization of warm fuel gases by passing these warm gasses over metal-based sorbents arranged in a mesoporous substrate. This technology will protect Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts and other sulfur sensitive catalysts, without drastic cooling of the fuel gases. This invention can be utilized in a process either alone or alongside other separation processes, and allows the total sulfur in such a gas to be reduced to less than 500 ppb and in some instances as low as 50 ppb. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140798 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158843 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunshan Song (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaoliang Ma (State College, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Sprague (Calgary, Canada); Velu Subramani (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to processes for reducing the sulfur content in hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The invention provides a method and materials for producing ultra low sulfur content transportation fuels for motor vehicles as well as for applications such as fuel cells. The materials and method of the invention may be used at ambient or elevated temperatures and at ambient or elevated pressures without the need for hydrogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365574 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/820 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158909 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane M. England (Bloomfield, New York); Gail E. Geiger (Caledonia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An igniter for igniting combustible gases in a hot zone, such as in a solid oxide fuel cell, comprising a subassembly including an electrical resistance heating tip comprising SiC, metal leadframe clips formed of a nickel-based superalloy and attached to the heating tip, wire leads formed of a nickel-chromium alloy and connected to the leadframe clips for supplying electric current to the heating tip, and a nickel-based braze alloy comprising palladium and cobalt for connecting the leadframe clips to the heating tip and to the wire leads; an alumina ceramic body for receiving the brazed subassembly; and a potting compound comprising zirconia for potting the subassembly into the alumina ceramic body. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157662 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159107 | Stalford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroZeus LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold L. Stalford (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro rotary machine may include a micro actuator and a micro shaft coupled to the micro actuator. The micro shaft comprises a horizontal shaft and is operable to be rotated by the micro actuator. A micro tool is coupled to the micro shaft and is operable to perform work in response to motion of the micro shaft. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757331 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159158 | Popovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Muons, Inc. (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milorad Popovic (Warrenville, Illinois); Rolland P. Johnson (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for accelerating particles includes an RF cavity that contains a ferrite core and a liquid dielectric. Characteristics of the ferrite core and the liquid dielectric, among other factors, determine the resonant frequency of the RF cavity. The liquid dielectric is circulated to cool the ferrite core during the operation of the system. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/359810 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160118 | Dallum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory E. Dallum (Livermore, California); Garth C. Pratt (Discovery Bay, California); Peter C. Haugen (Livermore, California); James M. Zumstein (Livermore, California); Mark L. Vigars (Livermore, California); Carlos E. Romero (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual burst transmitter for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems generates a pair of precisely spaced RF bursts from a single trigger event. An input trigger pulse produces two oscillator trigger pulses, an initial pulse and a delayed pulse, in a dual trigger generator. The two oscillator trigger pulses drive a gated RF burst (power output) oscillator. A bias driver circuit gates the RF output oscillator on and off and sets the RF burst packet width. The bias driver also level shifts the drive signal to the level that is required for the RF output device. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641711 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160730 | Lou |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Xinsheng Lou (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system (300) for optimizing a power plant includes a chemical loop having an input for receiving an input signal (369) and an output for outputting an output signal (367), and a hierarchical fuzzy control system (400) operably connected to the chemical loop. The hierarchical fuzzy control system (400) includes a plurality of fuzzy controllers (330). The hierarchical fuzzy control system (400) receives the output signal (367), optimizes the input signal (369) based on the received output signal (367), and outputs an optimized input signal (369) to the input of the chemical loop to control a process of the chemical loop in an optimized manner. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/394200 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08161248 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Phillip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for managing coherence between two processors of a two processor node of a multi-processor computer system. Generally the present invention relates to a software algorithm that simplifies and significantly speeds the management of cache coherence in a message passing parallel computer, and to hardware apparatus that assists this cache coherence algorithm. The software algorithm uses the opening and closing of put/get windows to coordinate the activated required to achieve cache coherence. The hardware apparatus may be an extension to the hardware address decode, that creates, in the physical memory address space of the node, an area of virtual memory that (a) does not actually exist, and (b) is therefore able to respond instantly to read and write requests from the processing elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/953770 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08161268 | Faraj |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmad Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer. Each compute node includes at least two processing cores. Each processing core has contribution data for the allreduce operation. Performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer includes: establishing one or more logical rings among the compute nodes, each logical ring including at least one processing core from each compute node; performing, for each logical ring, a global allreduce operation using the contribution data for the processing cores included in that logical ring, yielding a global allreduce result for each processing core included in that logical ring; and performing, for each compute node, a local allreduce operation using the global allreduce results for each processing core on that compute node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124756 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08161307 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda E. Peters (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption while synchronizing a plurality of compute nodes during execution of a parallel application that include: beginning, by each compute node, performance of a blocking operation specified by the parallel application, each compute node beginning the blocking operation asynchronously with respect to the other compute nodes; reducing, for each compute node, power to one or more hardware components of that compute node in response to that compute node beginning the performance of the blocking operation; and restoring, for each compute node, the power to the hardware components having power reduced in response to all of the compute nodes beginning the performance of the blocking operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/277350 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08161480 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Gabor Dozsa (Ardsley, New York); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation using shared memory that include: receiving, by at least one of a plurality of processing cores on a compute node, an instruction to perform an allreduce operation; establishing, by the core that received the instruction, a job status object for specifying a plurality of shared memory allreduce work units, the plurality of shared memory allreduce work units together performing the allreduce operation on the compute node; determining, by an available core on the compute node, a next shared memory allreduce work unit in the job status object; and performing, by that available core on the compute node, that next shared memory allreduce work unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754782 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinay Gupta (Tampa, Florida); Maya Trotz (Tampa, Florida); Cecil Coutinho (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Microcomposites comprising titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles embedded within cross-linked, thermally responsive microgels of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) are disclosed. Interpenetrating linear chains of poly(acrylic acid) functionalize the nanoparticles for dispersal within the microgel framework. The microcomposites show rapid sedimentation, which is useful for gravity separation applications such as environmental remediation via photocatalytic degradation. The extent of loading of the TiO2 within the colloidal particles can be easily manipulated from 10% (weight) to a value as high as 75%. The microgel-titania composites showed rapid sedimentation, which is useful for gravity separation of these particles in photocatalytic applications. The settling of the microgel-titania composites occurred over minutes and was much faster than solid, impermeable spheres. As the content of TiO2 increased within the particles from 10% to 75%, the increased effective particle density led to significant decrease in the settling time from approximately 2200 seconds to approximately 100 seconds. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263799 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/668 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158193 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509869 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158203 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Bo Chen (Sugar Land, Texas); Austen K. Flatt (Sugar Land, Texas); Michael P. Stewart (Mountain View, California); Christopher A. Dyke (Houston, Texas); Francisco Maya (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of attaching or grafting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to silicon surfaces. In some embodiments, such attaching or grafting occurs via functional groups on either or both of the CNTs and silicon surface. In some embodiments, the methods of the present invention include: (1) reacting a silicon surface with a functionalizing agent (such as oligo(phenylene ethynylene)) to form a functionalized silicon surface; (2) dispersing a quantity of CNTs in a solvent to form dispersed CNTs; and (3) reacting the functionalized silicon surface with the dispersed CNTs. The present invention is also directed to the novel compositions produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579614 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158556 | Feaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EnerG2, Inc. (Seattle, Washington); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron M Feaver (Seattle, Washington); Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon cryogels, methods for making the carbon cryogels, methods for storing a gas using the carbon cryogels, and devices for storing and delivering a gas using the carbon cryogels. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748219 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158728 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chape Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Ginger M. Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Paul Resnick (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and Methods are provided for fabricating microfluidic devices. The materials include low surface energy fluoropolymer compositions having multiple cure functional groups. The materials can include multiple photocurable and/or thermal-curable functional groups such that laminate devices can be fabricated. The materials also substantially do not swell in the presence of hydrocarbon solvents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063284 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158832 | Carroll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Nicholas J. Turro (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for controlling the surface properties are described. Compounds of the invention can form radicals upon exposure to irradiation, which can then react with nearby molecules to alter the surface properties of various substrates. The invention can provide surfaces that are resistant to dewetting, surfaces that have immobilized molecules such as carbohydrates and polymers immobilized, and surfaces that have metals deposited on the surface. The invention can be utilized in a wide range of application, such as sensors, microreactors, microarrays, electroless deposition of metals, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595292 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159024 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tat-sing Paul Chow (Niskayuna, New York); Kamal Raj Varadarajan (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a lateral MOS device is provided. The lateral MOS device includes a gate electrode disposed at least partially in a gate trench to apply a voltage to a channel region, and a drain electrode spaced from the gate electrode, and in electrical communication with a drift region having a boundary with a lower end of the channel region. The device includes a gate dielectric layer in contact with the gate electrode, and disposed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode. The channel region is adjacent to a substantially vertical wall of the gate trench. The device includes a field plate contacting the gate electrode and configured to increase a breakdown voltage of the device. |
| FILED | Sunday, April 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/596593 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159235 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Lynch (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tsung-Chin Huo (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Nadine Wong Shi Kam (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenneth J. Loh (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings relate to the application of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to demonstrate the multifunctionality of carbon nanocomposite thin films under various types of environmental stimuli. Carbon nanotube (CNT) thin films are fabricated by a layer-by-layer (LbL) technique or other techniques and mounted with electrodes along their boundaries. The response of the thin films to various stimuli determined by relying on electric current excitation and corresponding boundary potential measurements. The spatial conductivity variations are reconstructed based on a mathematical model for the EIT technique. Here, the ability of the EIT method to provide two-dimensional mapping of the conductivity of CNT thin films is validated by (1) electrically imaging intentional structural defects in the thin films and (2) mapping the film's response to various pH environments. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209318 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159952 | Ansari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirwan Ansari (Montville, New Jersey); Ehsan Haghani (Kearny, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques of scheduling data packets are disclosed. For example, such data packet scheduling techniques may be employed to schedule data packets on wired and/or wireless networks. An example embodiment includes techniques for scheduling voice-over-Internet protocol data packets transmitted between a base station and a subscriber station on a WiMAX network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/368516 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160400 | Snavely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Noah Snavely (Seattle, Washington); Steven Maxwell Seitz (Seattle, Washington); Richard Szeliski (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493436 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160692 | Principe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Convergent Engineering, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Dorothee Maroserro (Paris, France); Tammy Y. Euliano (Gainesville, Florida); Neil Russell Euliano, II (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for monitoring uterus contraction activity and progress of labor. The system of the subject invention can comprises (1) a plurality of sensors; (2) an amplifying/filtering means; (3) a computing means; and (4) a graphical user interface. Accurate clinical data, which can be extracted and provided to the user in real-time using the system of the invention, include without limitation, progress of labor, prediction and monitoring of preterm labor, and intrauterine pressure prediction. In a preferred embodiment, the system of the invention includes an intelligence means, such as a neural network system, to analyze and interpret clinical data for use in clinical diagnosis as well as delivery strategy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475911 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160993 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley W. Chu (Pacific Palisades, California); Jianming He (Los Angeles, California); Zhenyu Liu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining a probability of inferring an unknown attribute value for an attribute of interest for a target node in a social network. The method comprises the steps of receiving as an input attribute values and link relationships for a plurality of additional nodes in the social network, creating a simplified network using the input values and relationships, and calculating the probability of inferring the unknown attribute value for the target node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124640 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08157219 | Ashraf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Central Signal, LLC (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahtasham Ashraf (Madison, Wisconsin); David Baldwin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An vehicle detection system is provided for tracking, detecting, and monitoring vehicles. The system and methods of the present invention are suitable for on track and roadway vehicles. In particular the present invention provides an improved and cost effective system and methods for tracking, detecting and monitoring locomotives and on track vehicles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014630 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Railway switches and signals 246/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158089 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington); Multiform Harvest, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianxi Zhang (Pullman, Washington); Keith E. Bowers (Seattle, Washington); Joseph H. Harrison (Puyallup, Washington); Shulin Chen (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Particular aspects provide a method for recovering phosphate, comprising: obtaining an effluent or wastewater, etc. having calcium-sequestered phosphate; adding to the effluent or wastewater a calcium chelating or sequestration agent suitable to chelate or sequester Ca++ ions from the calcium-sequestered phosphate to facilitate release of phosphate from the calcium-sequestered phosphate; transferring, facilitated by said Ca++ ion capture and in the presence of sufficient concentrations of NH4+ and Mg2 ions, of the phosphate into struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate or MgNH4PO4.6H2O), or hydrated magnesium ammonium complex of phosphate; and recovering the struvite, or the formed hydrated magnesium ammonium complex. Preferably, the method further comprises acidification of the effluent or wastewater to facilitate release of Ca++ ions from the calcium-sequestered phosphate and chelation of sequestration of the Ca++ ions by the calcium chelating or sequestration agent. Additional aspects provide a phosphate-containing fertilizer comprising struvite, and methods for making same. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172884 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158356 | Beever et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agrigenomics, Inc. (Mansfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Edward Beever (Mansfield, Illinois); Brandy Michele Marron (Fithian, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, materials and kits for analyzing DNA samples from bovine to determine whether the animal is a recessive carrier of a genetic mutation that is associated with tibial hemimelia. DNA-containing samples are analyzed by genetic testing to determine whether or not a deletion mutation is present in one of the alleles that encodes Aristaless-like4 (ALX4) protein, wherein the deletion mutation is associated with tibial hemimelia. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/549888 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158371 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Collins (Blue Mounds, Wisconsin); Sung Jae Shin (Madison, Wisconsin); Donghee Cho (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting an immune response to a paratuberculosis-specific antigen, comprising incubating a sample from a subject with the paratuberculosis-specific antigen and detecting the presence of an antibody in the sample as an indication of an immune response to the paratuberculosis-specific antigen. The antigen may be obtained from a novel M. paratuberculosis strain JTC303. The antigen may be obtained from the JTC303 culture filtrate. Also provided are antibodies to the paratuberculosis-specific antigen, and a diagnostic kit for the detection of an immune response to a paratuberculosis-specific antigen in a mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/904790 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158383 | Keasling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yasuo Yoshikuni (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey Allen Dietrich (Berkeley, California); Farnaz F. Nowroozi (Berkely, California); Patricia C. Babbitt (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of designing and generating polypeptide variants that have altered properties compared to a parent polypeptide. The present invention further provides a computer program product for carrying out the design of a variant polypeptide. The present invention further provides nucleic acids encoding enzyme variants, as well as vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acids. The present invention further provides variant enzymes; methods of producing the variant enzymes; and methods of producing compounds using the enzymes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049008 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158404 | Lies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Stephanie Porter-Scheinman (Conifer, Colorado); Julie Kelly (Denver, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, 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 | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/076284 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159525 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bosoon Park (Bogart, California); Michio Kise (Kennewick, Washington); Kurt C. Lawrence (Watkinsville, Georgia); William Robert Windham (Watkinsville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiport multispectral portable imaging systems having at least two cameras with charge-coupled device sensors, a front lens unit, at least two rear lens units, a beamsplitter, and at least two bandpass filters is used to detect contaminants on food. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/456022 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160819 | Fagerquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton K. Fagerquist (Brentwood, California); Leslie A. Harden (Richmond, California); Brandon R Garbus (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to the identification of proteins using laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, the identification of source organisms from which the identified proteins are derived and a computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for the identification of proteins using mass spectra generated through the application of laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry of the proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415741 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod G. Mengle (Bellevue, Washington); Russell H. Thomas (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzle exit configurations and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment includes a jet engine exhaust nozzle having an internal flow surface and an exit aperture, with the exit aperture having a perimeter that includes multiple projections extending in an aft direction. Aft portions of individual neighboring projections are spaced apart from each other by a gap, and a geometric feature of the multiple can change in a monotonic manner along at least a portion of the perimeter. Projections near a support pylon and/or associated heat shield can have particular configurations, including greater flow immersion than other projections. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836517 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/53.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157217 | Anderson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Grant A. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacecraft radiator system designed to provide structural support to the spacecraft. Structural support is provided by the geometric “crescent” form of the panels of the spacecraft radiator. This integration of radiator and structural support provides spacecraft with a semi-monocoque design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428421 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/171.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158045 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Unmanned Aircraft Programs Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Jeffrey Campbell (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a composite material utilizes a tooling material having a desired shape. The surface of the tooling material is coated with a composite film that includes a conductive filler material. A composite composition is introduced into contact with the surface of the tooling material to form a desired shape. The composite composition is processed to produce the composite material, and the composite material has a conductive composite surface layer that includes the conductive filler material. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177005 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158203 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Bo Chen (Sugar Land, Texas); Austen K. Flatt (Sugar Land, Texas); Michael P. Stewart (Mountain View, California); Christopher A. Dyke (Houston, Texas); Francisco Maya (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of attaching or grafting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to silicon surfaces. In some embodiments, such attaching or grafting occurs via functional groups on either or both of the CNTs and silicon surface. In some embodiments, the methods of the present invention include: (1) reacting a silicon surface with a functionalizing agent (such as oligo(phenylene ethynylene)) to form a functionalized silicon surface; (2) dispersing a quantity of CNTs in a solvent to form dispersed CNTs; and (3) reacting the functionalized silicon surface with the dispersed CNTs. The present invention is also directed to the novel compositions produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579614 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158409 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama); University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianjun Wei (Madison, Alabama); Sameer Singhal (Huntsville, Alabama); David Hennessey Waldeck (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Joseph Kofke (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidically-controlled transmission mode nanoscal surface plasmonics sensor device comprises one or more arrays of aligned nanochannels in fluid communication with inflowing and outflowing fluid handling manifolds that control the flow of fluid through the array(s). Fluid comprising a sample for analysis is moved from an inlet manifold, through the nanochannel array, and out through an exit manifold. The fluid may also contain a reagent used to modify the interior surfaces of the nanochannels, and/or a reagent required for the detection of an analyte. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685487 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159238 | Krasowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Krasowski (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Norman F. Prokop (South Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments of the present invention describe an apparatus that includes an oscillator, a ramp generator, and an inverter. The apparatus includes an oscillator, an inverter, and a ramp generator. The oscillator is configured to generate a waveform comprising a low time and a high time. The inverter is configured to receive the waveform generated by the oscillator, and invert the waveform. The ramp generator configured to increase a gate control voltage of a transistor connected to a solar cell, and rapidly decrease the gate control voltage of the transistor. During the low time of the waveform, a measurement of a current and a voltage of the solar cell is performed as the current and voltage of the solar cell are transmitted through a first channel and to a second channel. During the high time of the waveform, a measurement of a current of a shorted cell and a voltage reference is performed as the current of the shorted cell and the voltage reference are transmitted through the first channel and the second channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570742 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159669 | Wrbanek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Wrbanek (Sheffield Village, Ohio); Gustave C. Fralick (Middleburg Heights, Ohio); Susan Y. Wrbanek (Sheffield Village, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle detector is provided, the particle detector including a spherical Cherenkov detector, and at least one pair of detector stacks. In an embodiment of the invention, the Cherenkov detector includes a sphere of ultraviolet transparent material, coated by an ultraviolet reflecting material that has at least one open port. The Cherenkov detector further includes at least one photodetector configured to detect ultraviolet light emitted from a particle within the sphere. In an embodiment of the invention, each detector stack includes one or more detectors configured to detect a particle traversing the sphere. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/972624 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160728 | Curtis |
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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) | Steven A. Curtis (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining complete sensor requirements for autonomous mobility of an autonomous system includes computing a time variation of each behavior of a set of behaviors of the autonomous system, determining mobility sensitivity to each behavior of the autonomous system, and computing a change in mobility based upon the mobility sensitivity to each behavior and the time variation of each behavior. The method further includes determining the complete sensor requirements of the autonomous system through analysis of the relative magnitude of the change in mobility, the mobility sensitivity to each behavior, and the time variation of each behavior, wherein the relative magnitude of the change in mobility, the mobility sensitivity to each behavior, and the time variation of each behavior are characteristic of the stability of the autonomous system. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558672 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08157217 | Anderson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Grant A. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacecraft radiator system designed to provide structural support to the spacecraft. Structural support is provided by the geometric “crescent” form of the panels of the spacecraft radiator. This integration of radiator and structural support provides spacecraft with a semi-monocoque design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428421 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/171.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157219 | Ashraf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Central Signal, LLC (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahtasham Ashraf (Madison, Wisconsin); David Baldwin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An vehicle detection system is provided for tracking, detecting, and monitoring vehicles. The system and methods of the present invention are suitable for on track and roadway vehicles. In particular the present invention provides an improved and cost effective system and methods for tracking, detecting and monitoring locomotives and on track vehicles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014630 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Railway switches and signals 246/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158045 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Unmanned Aircraft Programs Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Jeffrey Campbell (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a composite material utilizes a tooling material having a desired shape. The surface of the tooling material is coated with a composite film that includes a conductive filler material. A composite composition is introduced into contact with the surface of the tooling material to form a desired shape. The composite composition is processed to produce the composite material, and the composite material has a conductive composite surface layer that includes the conductive filler material. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177005 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158256 | Dooley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas F. Broderick (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of plant biomass feedstock particles characterized by consistent piece size and shape uniformity, high skeletal surface area, and good flow properties. The particles of plant biomass material having fibers aligned in a grain are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. In particular, the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces. The L×W surfaces of particles with L/H dimension ratios of 4:1 or less are further elaborated by surface checking between longitudinally arrayed fibers. The length dimension L is preferably aligned within 30° parallel to the grain, and more preferably within 10° parallel to the grain. The plant biomass material is preferably selected from among wood, agricultural crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246318 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159825 | Dotsenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir V. Dotsenko (Mahopac, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrically interconnecting two substrates, each having a corresponding set of preformed electrical contacts, the substrates comprising an electronic circuit, and the resulting module, is provided. A liquid curable adhesive is provided over the set of contacts of a first substrate, and the set of electrical contacts of the second substrate is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the first substrate. The sets of electrical contacts of the first and second substrate are compressed to displace the liquid curable adhesive from the inter-contact region, and provide electrical communication between the respective sets of electrical contacts. The liquid curable adhesive is then cured to form a solid matrix which maintains a relative compression between the respective sets of electrical contacts. One embodiment of the module comprises a high-speed superconducting circuit which operates at cryogenic temperatures. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840931 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160296 | O'Hara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. O'Hara (Columbus, Mississippi); Anil Cheriyadat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suyoung Seo (Starkville, Mississippi); Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining change in a state of an object using images of the object, the method including providing a first image and a second image of the object, the first image and the second image being spaced apart in time, performing a plurality of pixel-based change detection algorithms to obtain a plurality of output difference products/images containing change information and pseudo change information, combining the plurality of output difference products to form a hybrid output difference product and thresholding the output difference product to detect changes in the object. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279841 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08160311 | Schaefer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a pointing location are used to define the control input to the electronic device based on the user's motions. Visual feedback is optionally provided to the user during the controller's actions. Additional sensor elements are optionally provided to improve performance of the system. Hardware and software elements are combined to provide for the specified control actions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287087 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08156996 | Forbes Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); Sterry A. Shaffer (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108402 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08158289 | Cutright et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Cutright (Corinth, New York); Wayne W. Huang (Latham, New York); Jeffrey E. Ingraham (Albany, New York); Kerry J. Jameson (Saratoga Spgs., New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack that includes PEM fuel cells. Each fuel cell has an operating temperature of at least 120° C. The fuel cell stack has a cathode inlet to receive a flow of ambient air and a cathode outlet to provide a cathode exhaust flow. The fuel cell system includes a fuel processing reactor that has inlet and an outlet. The inlet and outlet are in fluid communication with a catalyst that is suitable for convening a hydrocarbon into a gas that contains hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The outlet is in fluid communication with an anode chamber of the fuel cell, and the inlet of the fuel processing reactor is in fluid communication with the cathode outlet. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299862 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08156810 | Huebler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Emerson Huebler (Brookfield, Illinois); Maurice Givens (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for characterizing a defect of a defective heat fusion joint connecting two pipe segments in which the time of flight of an ultrasonic waveform reflected off an exterior surface of a heat fusion joint fitting connecting the two pipe segments or reflected off an interior wall of one of the pipe segments at a plurality of locations around the circumference of the heat fusion joint fitting is measured to determine the minimum and maximum times of flight, which correspond to the maximum and minimum combined wall thicknesses of the heat fusion joint fitting connecting the pipe segments and the pipe segment wall. If the difference between the minimum and maximum combined wall thicknesses as determined from the measured times of flight is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, then the heat fusion joint is defective and possibly unacceptable for use, requiring a second set of time-of-flight measurements to characterize the nature of the defect. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644056 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08157207 | Mengle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod G. Mengle (Bellevue, Washington); Russell H. Thomas (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzle exit configurations and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment includes a jet engine exhaust nozzle having an internal flow surface and an exit aperture, with the exit aperture having a perimeter that includes multiple projections extending in an aft direction. Aft portions of individual neighboring projections are spaced apart from each other by a gap, and a geometric feature of the multiple can change in a monotonic manner along at least a portion of the perimeter. Projections near a support pylon and/or associated heat shield can have particular configurations, including greater flow immersion than other projections. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836517 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/53.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08159286 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naresh Kesavan Rao (Clifton Park, New York); Brian David Yanoff (Niskayuna, New York); Yanfeng Du (Rexford, New York); Jianjun Guo (Ballston Spa, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An event time stamping system comprising a current source, an integrator comprising an input and an output, and configured to output a voltage proportional to the length of time the current source is coupled to the input, and one or more switches configured to couple the current source to the input of the integrator upon receipt of an event signal and configured to de-couple the current source from the input of the integrator upon receipt of a control trigger. The system further comprises a lock-out signal generator configured to generate a lock-out signal, and a controller coupled to the one or more switches, wherein the controller is configured to generate the control trigger based on the lock-out signal to ensure a minimum integration time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199020 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08161187 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph Phillip Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark David Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Genady Ya. Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic planning system is provided for stream processing workflow composition. End users provide requests to the automatic planning system. The requests are goal-based problems to be solved by the automatic planning system, which then generates plan graphs to form stream processing applications. A scheduler deploys and schedules the stream processing applications for execution within an operating environment. The operating environment then returns the results to the end users. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114105 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08158950 | Rubenstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital images or the charge from pixels in light sensitive semiconductor based imagers may be used to detect gamma rays and energetic particles emitted by radioactive materials. Methods may be used to identify pixel-scale artifacts introduced into digital images and video images by high energy gamma rays. Statistical tests and other comparisons on the artifacts in the images or pixels may be used to prevent false-positive detection of gamma rays. The sensitivity of the system may be used to detect radiological material at distances in excess of 50 meters. Advanced processing techniques allow for gradient searches to more accurately determine the source's location, while other acts may be used to identify the specific isotope. Coordination of different imagers and network alerts permit the system to separate non-radioactive objects from radioactive objects. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/814258 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
| US 08158432 | Grof et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Atomic Energy Commission, State of Isreal (Yavne, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yair Grof (Rehovot, Israel); Moshe Soschin (Herzelia, Israel); Uziel Ben-itzhak (Beir Oved, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | System (50) for marking a fluid by a marker, the fluid flowing from a source to a destination, the system including a sensor (58) for determining a value of a fluid property and a fluid flow controller (54) for admitting a selected amount of the marker to the fluid, wherein the selected amount is determined according to the fluid value and a predetermined concentration of the marker in the fluid in the destination. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/480012 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08161279 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates with a proofing server that maintains a list of valid certificates and a list of revoked certificates. The proofing server sends a response to the proofing workstation, where it is received by the third party. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/219268 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08158054 | Iwasaki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iwao Iwasaki (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Michael J. Lalich (Duluth, Minnesota); Robert C. Beaudin (Duluth, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota); Andrew J. Lindgren (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Rodney L. Bleifuss (Grand Rapids, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for producing metallic nuggets includes providing reducible mixture (e.g., reducible micro-agglomerates; reducing material and reducible iron bearing material; reducible mixture including additives such as a fluxing agent; compacts, etc.) on at least a portion of a hearth material layer. In one embodiment, a plurality of channel openings extend at least partially through a layer of the reducible mixture to define a plurality of nugget forming reducible material regions. Such channel openings may be at least partially filled with nugget separation fill material (e.g., carbonaceous material). Thermally treating the layer of reducible mixture results in formation of one or more metallic iron nuggets. In other embodiments, various compositions of the reducible mixture and the formation of the reducible mixture provide one or more beneficial characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639584 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08159808 | Torres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Torres (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for suppressing voltage fluctuations across a relay coil is disclosed. The method includes the steps of monitoring a voltage drop across a relay coil by a difference amplifier; providing an output of a reference source and an output of the difference amplifier to an integrator amplifier; providing an output of the integrator amplifier to a transistor; and driving the relay coil by controlling an output of the transistor based on the output of the integrator amplifier, wherein the output of the reference source is selectively applied to the integrator amplifier in response to a monitored undesired voltage fluctuations across the relay coil. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393746 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 17, 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.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2012/fedinvent-patents-20120417.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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