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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 05, 2012
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| US 08191224 | Richards |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelton O. Richards (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener has a metallic member and a nonmetallic cap member. The metallic member has a head and a shaft. The shaft has a first end at the head, a distal second end, and an externally threaded portion. The metallic member further has a projection extending from the head opposite the shaft. The cap member is mated to the head opposite the shaft and retained by the projection. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719301 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191245 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/116317 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/842 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191351 | Loehr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Loehr (Tucson, Arizona); Gerald M. Turner (Tucson, Arizona); Jeremy C. Danforth (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed a solid fuel rocket motor including a center-perforated solid fuel grain. The solid fuel grain may be adapted to burn outwardly from a center surface facing the center perforation when ignited by a primary igniter during a normal mode of operation. The solid fuel grain may be further adapted to burn longitudinally from an end face when ignited by a secondary igniter during a safety mode of operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261905 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191398 | Matthews |
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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) | Robin L. Matthews (Port Deposit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A vapor generator safety relief device for use in a surety system includes a conical flask, manifold, bubbler, and relief valve. The manifold includes a first chamber for inlet gas and a second chamber for outlet gas. The first chamber comprises an inlet port, an inlet tube, and a relief valve housing. The second chamber comprises an outlet tube and an outlet port. The bubbler is confluent with the inlet tube and disposed within the flask. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559603 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08191475 — Energy harvesting power sources for generating a time-out signal for unexploded munitions
| US 08191475 | Rastegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (Ronkonkoma, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Richard Dratler (Montville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for detecting a target impact of a munition. The method including: providing the munition with a power supply having a piezoelectric material for generating power from a vibration induced by the munition; monitoring an output from the power supply; and determining whether the output of power from the power supply has dropped below a predetermined threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751941 |
| 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 12/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191683 | Rathbone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Rathbone (Amesbury, Massachusetts); Frank Labarba (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Bahram A. Adly (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention features an entrance module for a height adjustable enclosure with a top portion movable with the respect to a bottom portion. The preferred entrance module comprises a hingedly attached platform movable between a stowed folded position and a deployed unfolded position. A locking assembly releasably locks the platform in the folded position independent of the position of the top movable part of the shelter. The preferred locking assembly includes a rail attached to the top movable portion of the shelter, one of a female and a male portion of a lock attached to and slideable along the rail, and the other of the female and the male portion of the lock attached to the platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069633 |
| ART UNIT | 3634 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold 182/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191833 | DiCocco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack DiCocco (Granger Township, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio); Mehul Patel (Streetsboro, Ohio); Tsun Ming Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an afterbody flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile flow control system for enhanced maneuverability and stabilization. The present invention further relates to a method of operating the flow control system. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a missile or aircraft comprising an afterbody and a forebody; at least one activatable flow effector on the missile or aircraft afterbody; at least one sensor each having a signal, the at least one sensor being positioned to detect forces or flow conditions on the missile or aircraft afterbody; and a closed loop control system; wherein the closed loop control system is used for activating and deactivating the at least one activatable flow effector based on at least in part the signal of the at least one sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415534 |
| 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 244/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191933 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin Sanjay Rao (Cincinnati, Ohio); Scott Richard Zearbaugh (Milford, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly for a fluid coupling includes: (a) a generally planar, substantially rigid seal retainer with opposed first and second faces, having an annular first groove formed in the first face; (b) a first resilient seal disposed in the first groove; and (c) an annular first backup ring positioned radially outboard of the first resilient seal and secured to the first resilient seal, wherein the first backup ring is substantially harder than the first resilient seal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174091 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192141 | Dale |
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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) | Mark R. Dale (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a gas turbine rotor having a first axial compression stage for compressing air in a first direction and a second axial compression stage for compressing the air in a second direction, the second direction being generally opposite the first direction. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156808 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192158 | Tews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mainstream Engineering Corp. (Rockledge, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian E. Tews (Melbourne, Florida); Christian O. Rodriguez (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for increasing the total-to-static pressure ratio across a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) has designed and experimentally tested. The invention develops a localized accelerated flow of free-stream air near the discharge of the turbine rotor exhaust. This localized accelerated flow decreases the static pressure at the exit of the turbine and allows for additional power generation for a given free-stream flight condition. Full-scale wind tunnel experimenting testing shows that creating this low static pressure region behind the turbine resulted in significant increases in turbine output power when compared to a turbine that is not subjected to this invention. The invention showed the ability to increase the total-to-static pressure ratio across the turbine. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/333770 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192567 | Heister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Heister (West Lafayette, Indiana); Benjamin L. Austin, Jr. (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jeremy Corpening (Spartanburg, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite solid rocket propellant comprising a fuel, an oxidizer and a dicyclopentadiene binder is provided. The dicyclopentadiene binder may be mixed with the fuel and oxidizer as a monomer and then polymerized after mixing to form the composite solid propellant. The composite solid propellant may also comprise plasticizers, triphenylphosphine, lecithin or combinations thereof. Methods for making the composite solid rocket propellant of the present invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/098702 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192638 | Pomerene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia); Timothy J. Conway (Gainesville, Virginia); Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Mark Jaso (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing multiple layers of waveguides is disclosed. Initially, a first cladding layer is deposited on a substrate, a first inner cladding layer is then deposited on the first cladding layer, and a first waveguide material is deposited on the first inner cladding layer. The first inner cladding layer and the first waveguide material are then selectively etched to form a first waveguide layer. Next, a second inner cladding layer followed by a second cladding layer are deposited on the first waveguide layer. The second inner cladding layer and the second cladding layer are removed by using a chemical-mechanical polishing process selective to the first waveguide material. A third inner cladding layer followed by a second waveguide material are deposited on the first waveguide material. The third inner cladding layer and the second waveguide material are then selectively etched to form a second waveguide layer. Finally, a fourth inner cladding layer followed by a third cladding layer are deposited on the second waveguide layer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/517692 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192646 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Anderson (Latham, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); J. Matthew Mauro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The ionic conjugates include an inorganic particle electrostatically associated with a macromolecule which can interact specifically with predetermined chemical species or biological targets. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229177 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192720 | Kozel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kozel (Reno, Nevada); William Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Suzanne Brandt (Boise, Idaho); Bruce R. Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Julie A. Lovchik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter Thorkildson (Reno, Nevada); Ann Percival (Reno, Nevada); C. Richard Lyons (Ft. Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the detection, prevention, or treatment of anthrax or other infectious diseases. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods for immunizing humans or animals against Bacillus anthracis or other capsulated pathogens. The methods include administering a capsular polypeptide of a pathogen of interest and a CD40 agonist to a human or animal. The capsular polypeptide or the CD40 agonist is administered in such an amount or frequency that an immunoprotective response can be elicited in the human or animal against the pathogen of interest. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of using passive immunization with anti-capsular polypeptide antibodies to prevent or treat infections caused by Bacillus anthracis or other pathogens. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods useful for diagnosis of anthrax by detection of capsular polypeptide in serum or other biological samples. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701149 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192765 | Sarangapani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICET, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shantha Sarangapani (Walpole, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An antimicrobial and chemical deactivating composition for use in a liquid medium or for incorporation into a coating, structural plastic materials, thin microporous membranes, textiles and sponges. The composition includes macrosize or submicron particles of silver, platinum with silver and their salts with parabens, oxide, salicylate, acetate, citrate, benzoate and phosphate along with copper and zinc salts of the same. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263782 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192794 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Peng Sun (Skokie, Illinois); Yuhuang Wang (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven Lenhert (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Massive parallel printing of structures and nanostructures, including lipids, at high speed with high resolution and high quality using two dimensional arrays comprising cantilevers and tip-based transfer of material to a surface. The invention provides a nanolithographic method comprising (1) providing a two-dimensional array of a plurality of cantilevers, wherein the array comprises a plurality of base rows, each base row comprising a plurality of cantilevers extending from the base row, wherein each of the cantilevers comprising tips at the cantilever end away from the base row; wherein the two dimensional array has a support; (2) providing a patterning composition, wherein the composition comprises one or more lipids; (3) providing a substrate; (4) coating the tips of the cantilevers with the patterning composition; and (5) depositing at least some of the patterning composition from the tips to the substrate surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/000456 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192795 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Lithographic and nanolithographic methods that involve patterning a first compound on a substrate surface, exposing non-patterned areas of the substrate surface to a second compound and removing the first compound while leaving the second compound intact. The resulting hole patterns can be used as templates for either chemical etching of the patterned area of the substrate or metal deposition on the patterned area of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/770477 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192843 | Ober et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher K. Ober (Ithaca, New York); Sitaraman Krishnan (Ithaca, New York); Qin Lin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polymers, methods of preparing polymers, and compositions that include polymers, wherein said polymers include a plurality of two-carbon repeating units in a polymer chain, wherein one or more of the two-carbon repeating units of the polymer chain have a substituent that is covalently bonded to a semifluorinated alkyl ethoxy moiety, and the semifluorinated alkyl ethoxy moiety is attached to the polymer chain substituent through an ester, amide, ketone, carbamate, amine, or other suitable linking group. The polymers can be used to provide antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026615 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192853 | Hilmas et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Greg Hilmas Hilmas (Rolla, Missouri); William Fahrenholtz (Rolla, Missouri); Jeremy Watts (Rolls, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A toughened composite material, having a first phase defining a matrix and a plurality of typically second phase particles dispersed in the first phase matrix. Each respective particle is characterized by a predetermined geometric architecture, such as a spiral shape. The presence of the geometrically distinct dispersed second phase operates to deflect and attenuate crack propagation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210131 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192928 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); Deborah Meyers (Mocksville, North Carolina); Sigun Zheng (Clemmons, North Carolina); Patrick C. Walsh (Hunt Valley, Maryland); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Eugene Bleecker (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); David Herrington (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of screening a subject for increased likelihood or risk of certain diseases or disorders. This method comprises detecting the presence or absence of at least one mutation in the MSR1 gene wherein the presence or absence of such mutation indicates an increased risk for certain diseases, such as cancer asthma and/or cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/504034 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193020 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stacia Keller (Santa Barbara, California); Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); Nicholas K. Fichtenbaum (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the heteroepitaxial growth of smooth, high quality films of N-face GaN film grown by MOCVD are disclosed. Use of a misoriented substrate and possibly nitridizing the substrate allow for the growth of smooth N-face GaN and other Group III nitride films as disclosed herein. The present invention also avoids the typical large (μm sized) hexagonal features which make N-face GaN material unacceptable for device applications. The present invention allows for the growth of smooth, high quality films which makes the development of N-face devices possible. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466705 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193167 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); W. Brad Wan (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections, cell proliferation and bone metabolism. The compounds provided herein are alkyl esters of phosphonates. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635644 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193238 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Martin (Severna Park, Maryland); Rebecca Whipple-Bettes (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally concerns microtubule protrusions in cancer cells, including detached cancer cells, and inhibition of the protrusions. In particular aspects, the inhibition of the protrusions interferes with attachment of the cell to a vessel wall, and in further aspects the cell is killed by forcing it to enter capillaries and be destroyed, for example by shearing. Inhibition by a variety of agents and methods is contemplated. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282014 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193294 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Molecular Institute (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Hu (Stow, Ohio); Quiyun Xu (Midland, Michigan); Rakesh Sachdeva (Mundhwa, India); Dale J. Meier (Midland, Michigan); Robert M. Nowak (Midland, Michigan); Petar R. Dvornic (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to hyperbranched copolymer networks containing hyperbranched copolymers that have perfluorocarbon and organosilicon entities that have high hydrophobicity, or high oleophobicity, or high thermal stability, or good adhesion to substrates, or any combinations thereof. This invention provides a further desirable combination of properties that include solubility before crosslinking, chemical resistance, and easy processibility. The copolymers may be crosslinked with a variety of crosslinking agents to give either rigid or elastomeric networks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/934307 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193611 | Rajavel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Rajavel (Oak Park, California); Ken Elliott (Thousand Oaks, California); David Chow (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Material layer structures that have high mobility, a high conduction band barrier and materials that can be implanted to enable higher performance FET device. The structures contain a quantum well layer disposed between two barriers and disposed above a buffer layer and a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641917 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193686 | Cooke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Peter Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric actuator for use in a diesel engine. The actuator comprises a piezoelectric element which is encapsulated such that a layer of gas at a pressure above atmospheric pressure surrounds the piezoelectric element. The presence of the gas within the encapsulation around the element avoids the need to passivate electrodes exposed on the surface of the element. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319574 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193761 | Singh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harmohan N. Singh (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid power system is comprised of a high energy density element such as a fuel-cell and high power density elements such as a supercapacitor banks. A DC/DC converter electrically connected to the fuel cell and converting the energy level of the energy supplied by the fuel cell. A first switch is electrically connected to the DC/DC converter. First and second supercapacitors are electrically connected to the first switch and a second switch. A controller is connected to the first switch and the second switch, monitoring charge levels of the supercapacitors and controls the switching in response to the charge levels. A load is electrically connected to the second switch. The first switch connects the DC/DC converter to the first supercapacitor when the second switch connects the second supercapacitor to the load. The first switch connects the DC/DC converter to the second supercapacitor when the second switch connects the first supercapacitor to the load. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937341 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193816 | Perryman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louisa J. Perryman (Rainham, United Kingdom); Martin A. P. Sykes (Rainham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for detecting faults in an injector arrangement is described. The injector arrangement comprises a plurality of piezoelectric injectors that are located in parallel branches of an injector bank circuit of an injector drive circuit. Each branch of the injector bank circuit comprises a high side isolation switch. The high side isolation switches are each operable to enable an associated piezoelectric injector in the injector bank circuit when closed, and disable the associated piezoelectric injector in the injector bank circuit when open. The fault detection method comprises the steps of operating the high side isolation switches so as to enable one of the piezoelectric injectors and disable the other piezoelectric injector(s), and performing diagnostics to detect the presence or absence of faults on the enabled piezoelectric injector. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291516 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193955 | Hermann |
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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) | Charles J. Hermann (Westville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive data conversion device is typically embodied as a modular unit including a PCBA and a frame that houses it. The PCBA includes a PCB and electronic components mounted thereon including a computer and one or more conventional conversion devices, viz., at least one conventional synchro-to-digital converter and/or at least one conventional digital-to-synchro converter. According to typical inventive synchro-to-digital conversion, analog synchro data (received from a synchro) is converted by the synchro-to-digital converter(s) to lower-level-format parallel-binary-angle digital synchro data, which in turn is converted by the computer to higher-level-format digital synchro data. According to typical inventive digital-to-synchro conversion, higher-level-format digital synchro data (received from a modern-day digital device/system/network) is converted by the computer to lower-level-format parallel-binary-angle digital synchro data, which in turn is converted by the digital-to-synchro converter(s) to analog synchro data. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916020 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193967 | Nguyen 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) | Lam Huy Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland); Jeffrey P. Sichina (Ocean View, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for generating images from projection data comprising inputting first values representing correlated positional and recorded data; forming an image by processing the projection data utilizing a pixel characterization imaging subsystem to form the SAR imagery utilizing one of a back-projection algorithm or range migration algorithm; integrating positional and recorded data from many aperture positions, comprising: forming the complete aperture A0 comprising collecting the return radar data, the coordinates of the receiver, and the coordinates of the transmitter for each position k along the aperture of N positions; forming an imaging grid comprising M image pixels; selecting and removing a substantial number of aperture positions to form a sparse aperture Aifor L iterations; classifying each pixel in the image into target class based on the statistical distribution of its amplitude across L iterations; otherwise, the pixel is given the value of zero. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881364 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194239 | Harres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Harres (Belleville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to measure optical characteristics of a fiber optic transmission line or other optical medium may include a source to generate a bipolar pulse signal waveform. The apparatus may also include a mixer to mix the bipolar pulse signal waveform and an optical pulse and reflected signal waveform from the fiber optic transmission line or other optical medium to form a mixed product waveform, wherein the reflected signal is responsive to the optical pulse being transmitted into the fiber optic transmission line or optical medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436206 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194250 | Morgan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Morgan (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of wideband RF detection. The method may include transmitting a signal from a plurality of transmit positions along a drive path. Reflections of the transmitted signal are received at a plurality of receive positions along the drive path. A signature is formed based on arrival angles of the reflections at each of the receive positions. The signature includes the arrival angles of the reflections at each of the receive positions with respect to a distance along the drive path of a corresponding transmit position and a corresponding receive position of each of the reflections. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/155184 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194501 | Damarla |
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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) | Thyagaraju Damarla (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method of sniper localization includes an internal clock; an acoustic sensor positioned in a known location and detecting pressure waves; a first processor determining the trajectory of the supersonic projectile, where the first processor includes a shock wave threshold detector receiving time series information and recording arrival times of shock wave components of the pressure waves; a blast threshold detector receiving the time series information and recording arrival times and amplitude information of blast wave components of the pressure waves; a discrimination processor discriminating between a blast wave, a shock wave, or neither, and storing arrival times of each of the potential blast wave components classified as the blast wave; and a localization estimation processor calculating an estimated trajectory of the projectile based on the blast wave and the shock wave arrival times and calculating an estimated firing position of the projectile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625124 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194504 | Kitchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kitchin (Laurel, Maryland); Charles W. Kerechanin, II (Burtonsville, Maryland); Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. (Dayton, Maryland); Ronald W. Mitnick (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrophone unit comprising a resilient central wire; a conductive wire coiled around the resilient central wire, said conductive wire being coated with a piezo material for generating an electrical signal in response to the presence of an acoustic vibration, wherein the resilient central wire is fabricated from spring steel, the conductive wire is a copper wire, the piezo material includes polyvinylidene difluoride; a layer of conductive material deposited on the piezo material-coated conductive wire, wherein the layer of conductive material comprises a silver ink; and a jacket of polyurethane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720871 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194582 | Scott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Scott (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The system contains an RF demodulator. A packet aggregation switching device is in communication with the RF demodulator. At least one packet processing engine is in communication with the RF demodulator. The packet aggregation switching device controls communication between the RF demodulator and the packet processing engine. An RF modulator may also be in communication with the packet processing engine along an egress path. The packet aggregation switching device may output traffic into the egress path. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418429 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194638 | Benner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Benner (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Eugen Schenfeld (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Craig Brian Stunkel (Bethel, Connecticut); Peter A. Walker (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly, according to an embodiment of the invention, a computing system comprises: a plurality of tightly coupled processing nodes; a plurality of circuit switched networks using a circuit switching mode, interconnecting the processing nodes, and for handling data transfers that meet one or more criteria; and a plurality of electronic packet switched networks, also interconnecting the processing nodes, for handling data transfers that do meet the at least one criteria. The circuit switched networks and the electronic packet switched networks operate simultaneously. The system additionally comprises a plurality of clusters which comprise the processing nodes, and a plurality of intra-cluster communication links. The electronic packet switched networks are for handling collectives and short-lived data transfers among the processing nodes and comprises one-tenth of the bandwidth of the circuit switched networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493951 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194709 | Kaertner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franz X. Kaertner (Newton, Massachusetts); Hyunil Byun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jian Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Erich P. Ippen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dominik Pudo (Quebec, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Femtosecond pulse trains in waveguide lasers with high fundamental repetition rates are achieved by exploiting the nonlinearity in the waveguide. Components of the apparatus include an optical resonator, a saturable absorber for starting and stabilizing mode-locking, and a gain element. Part of the laser cavity or the entire laser cavity is made of waveguide or fiber (collectively called “waveguide” herein). The net dispersion of the laser cavity can be anomalous. This anomalous dispersion in combination with the positive self-phase modulation nonlinearity in the waveguide creates soliton formation to shorten the pulse duration in the invented lasers. Conversely, a normal dispersive waveguide with negative self-phase modulation nonlinearity can also be used. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475674 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194766 | Kun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Kun (Torrance, California); Neil Morgan (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal detection apparatus includes electronics configured to receive an RF input and to process the RF input applying a decision rule that is a normalized quantity to determine if a man-made signal is present or if only noise is present while achieving a constant false alarm rate. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471191 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195013 | Lagakos 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) | Nicholas Lagakos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph A Bucaro (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An intensity-based fiber optic temperature sensor having a fiber probe with a multimode transmit/receive fiber, a reflector spaced apart from the end of the fiber, and a housing affixed at its ends to the fiber probe and reflector, the housing having a larger or smaller thermal expansion coefficient than those of the fiber probe and reflector. Temperature changes cause a change in the gap distance between the fiber end and the reflector, changing the amount of reflected light coupled into the optical fiber. Temperature sensors can also have a fiber probe with two or more multimode receiving fibers surrounding a transmitting fiber. Other temperature sensors include a fiber probe with a multimode transmitting fiber, a reference multimode receiving fiber and a sensing multimode receiving fiber for reducing noise effects. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692830 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195021 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University/Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer optical waveguide includes providing a biopolymer, unwinding the biopolymer progressively to extract individual biopolymer fibers, and putting the unwound fibers under tension. The tensioned fibers are then cast in a different polymer to form a biopolymer optical waveguide that guides light due to the difference in indices of refraction between the biopolymer and the different polymer. The optical fibers may be used in biomedical applications and can be inserted in the body as transmissive media. Printing techniques may be used to manufacture the biopolymer optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513387 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195105 | Erickson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan R. Erickson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present example provides for adaptive preset gain control. Adaptive Preset gain control may initially utilize calibration look up table values to initially set a power amplifier's gain. Subsequent additional corrections are determined and an adaptation look up table is created and applied to bring operation within tolerance. To maintain the amplifier within tolerance additional corrections may also be determined and added to the Adaptation Look Up table. In an alternative example the Calibration Look Up Table may be omitted, with a first transmission through the power amplifier acting as a training event. The Adaptation Look Up Table, may, by storing the last corrections form a history of prior operation which may be used as built in test to indicate potential system failures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973765 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/115.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195311 | Karpman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Karpman (Marlborough, Connecticut); Richard P. Meisner (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Mark E. Lacour (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system comprises an actuator, a control law and a processor. The actuator positions a control surface and the control law controls the actuator. The processor comprises an open loop module, a corrector, a comparator, and an estimator, and generates model output to direct the control law. The open loop module generates the model output as a function of a model state and a model input. The corrector generates a corrector output as a function of the model output. The comparator generates an error by comparing the corrector output to the model input. The estimator generates the model state as a function of the error, such that the error is minimized as a function of single-input, single-output gain matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475038 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195368 | Leban 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) | Frank A. Leban (Columbia, Maryland); Gordon G. Parker (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is typically embodied to exert active control of two same-shipboard cranes performing joint lifting of a payload. Sensory signals indicative of ship motion, and of luff angle and hoist line length of both cranes, are transmitted to a computer. The sensory signals are processed by the computer using a ship motion cancellation algorithm, which solves for values of the respective luff angles and hoist line lengths of both cranes, such values achieving static equilibrium (e.g., zero motion horizontally, vertically, and rotationally in the same vertical geometric plane) of the suspended payload. Inverse kinematic control signals in accordance with the mathematical (e.g., minimum norm) solutions are transmitted by the computer to respective luff angle actuators and hoist line length actuators of both cranes so that the suspended payload tends toward steadiness. Inventive control thus acts on a continual basis to significantly reduce pendulation during the two-crane lifting operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587324 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195409 | Bruno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Bruno (Hoboken, New Jersey); Barry Bunin (Far Hills, New Jersey); Laurent Fillinger (Hoboken, New Jersey); Howard Goheen (Manahawkin, New Jersey); Alexander Sedunov (Jersey City, New Jersey); Nikolay Sedunov (Jersey City, New Jersey); Alexander Sutin (Summit, New Jersey); Mikhail Tsionskiy (East Rutherford, New Jersey); Jeremy Turner (Hoboken, New Jersey); Malcolm Kahn (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); Hady R. Salloum (Glen Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable threat detection apparatus and method is disclosed which may comprise a plurality of acoustic emission sensors arranged in a cluster, forming a polygon defining at least two axes of alignment between respective pairs of acoustic emission sensors; a computing device in cooperation with a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions for performing: receiving a first signal produced by a first acoustic emission sensor within a respective pair of acoustic emission sensors, in response to the first acoustic emission sensor detecting an acoustic emission from a source, and receiving a second signal produced by a second acoustic emission sensor within the respective pair of acoustic emission sensors, in response to the second acoustic emission sensor detecting the acoustic emission; determining a cross-correlation factor between the first signal and the second signal; and, determining a bearing to the source based on the cross correlation factor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938708 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195437 | Timmerhoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Timmerhoff (Sahuarita, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A systems power distribution tool integrates the design of the power source and distribution network to provide a robust interconnect topology and power source. This is accomplished with a machine of one or more computing devices configured as a systems power distribution tool. The tool “pulls” load current from the source through interconnects to the loads. This allows the interconnects to be designed to satisfy derating conditions for worst case voltage and current conditions and the power source to be designed to source the loads under actual conditions without margin stacking. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573096 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195490 | Tambe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind Tambe (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Praveen Paruchuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fernando Ordóñez (Van Nuys, California); Sarit Kraus (Givat Shemuel, Israel); Jonathan Pearce (New York, New York); Janusz Marecki (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient heuristic methods are described for approximating the optimal leader strategy for security domains where threats come from unknown adversaries. These problems can be modeled as Bayes-Stackelberg games. An embodiment of the heuristic method can include defining a patrolling or security domain problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program. The mixed-integer quadratic program can be converted to a mixed-integer linear program. For a single follower (e.g., robber or terrorist) scenario, the mixed-integer linear program can be solved, subject to appropriate constraints. For embodiments applicable to multiple follower situations, the relevant mixed-integer quadratic program and related mixed-integer linear program can be decomposed, e.g., by changing the response function for the follower from a pure strategy to a weighted combination over various pure follower strategies where the weights are probabilities of occurrence of each of the follower types. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251766 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195580 | Kozma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kozma (Memphis, Tennessee); Leonid Perlovsky (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for the detection of propagating phase gradients using model field theory of non-Gaussian mixtures. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for identifying phase cones in a data set. The method includes generating an initial set of values of parameters (ξA,ηA,tA) for a preset number of cones, initializing a covariance matrix with high values, evaluating the ratio of volume of a phase cone over total observed space-time volume, comparing the data set with a model, estimating a class probability density function, and generating a revised set of values of parameters (ξA,ηA,tA). |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156237 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195595 | Felke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Felke (Glendale, Arizona); George D. Hadden (Plymouth, Minnesota); David M. Kolbet (Scottsdale, Arizona); Randy Magnuson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for predicting the functional availability of a complex system is provided. Parameters of the complex system are converted from a plurality of binary values to at least one prognostic vector. At least a portion of a binary input expression is converted into an equivalent fuzzy output expression, the fuzzy output expression operable on the at least one prognostic vector. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165440 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195734 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Combining multiple clusterings arises in various important data mining scenarios. However, finding a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings is a challenging task because there is no explicit correspondence between the classes from different clusterings. Provided is a framework based on soft correspondence to directly address the correspondence problem in combining multiple clusterings. Under this framework, an algorithm iteratively computes the consensus clustering and correspondence matrices using multiplicative updating rules. This algorithm provides a final consensus clustering as well as correspondence matrices that gives intuitive interpretation of the relations between the consensus clustering and each clustering from clustering ensembles. Extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of this framework as well as the algorithm for discovering a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/945956 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195758 | Winfrey |
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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) | Clinton M. Winfrey (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided by method and circuit for transmitting message information from a first platform to a second platform. The first platform has first and second servers. The second platform has first and second receivers that correspond to the server counterparts. Each of the servers has a respective server port and each of the receivers has a respective receiver port. Each respective server port corresponds to each respective receiver port. The process includes several steps. First, one of the first and second servers is designated as an assigned server, with the other being a backup server. Second, the message information is sent to the first and second servers. Third, the message information is forwarded to the respective server port that corresponds to the assigned server. Fourth, the message information is transmitted from the respective server port to the respective receiver port that corresponds to the assigned server. Fifth, the message information is forwarded from the respective receiver port to the corresponding receiver. Sixth, assigned and backup verification signals are sent to corresponding receiver ports. Seventh, the verification signals are transmitted to corresponding server ports. Eighth, the verification signals are forwarded to a transmission assigner. Ninth, the process switches from said one of the first and second servers as the backup server and the other as the assigned server in response to absence of the assigned verification signal, otherwise maintaining the one as the assigned server. Preferably, the process further includes terminating transmission of the message information in response to absence of both of the assigned and backup verification signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287728 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/209 |
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| US 08195880 | Gai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjeev Gai (Round Rock, Texas); Guy Lynn Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Hugh Shen (Round Rock, Texas); William John Starke (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An information handling system (IHS) includes a processor with a cache memory system. The processor includes a processor core with an L1 cache memory that couples to an L2 cache memory. The processor includes an arbitration mechanism that controls load and store requests to the L2 cache memory. The arbitration mechanism includes control logic that enables a load request to interrupt a store request that the L2 cache memory is currently servicing. The L2 cache memory includes dual data banks so that one bank may perform a load operation while the other bank performs a store operation. The cache system provides dual dispatch points into the data flow to the dual cache banks of the L2 cache memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424255 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/120 |
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| US 08196211 | Vidya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranganathan Vidya (Bangalore, India); Murali Vaddagiri (Bangalore, India); Ravi A Shankar (Austin, Texas); Saurabh Desai (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The Authorized Authorization Set System comprising a modified operating system, a command table containing authorized authorization sets, and a modified RBAC security system, eliminates the need for inherited privileges that must be passed to subcommands in order for the command to run. The modified operating system accesses a table containing authorized authorization sets which identify the privileges for all subcommands within a command. When a user is assigned an accessauth for a command, and a sub-command is a privileged sub-command, the privileged sub-command is only run when the accessauth of the sub-command is included in the authorized authorization set of the command. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191644 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan White (San Diego, California); Anders Dale (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatus and methods that use a hidden Markov model to estimate motion of a sample under measurement and to reduce a motion-induced effect in the measurement. MRI systems and other sample measurement systems can be implemented based on motion sensing using the hidden Markov model. Recursive and non-recursive estimation processes are described. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/735409 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191552 | Przekwas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama); Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrzej Przekwas (Huntsville, Alabama); Vincent Harrand (Huntsville, Alabama); Mark Papania (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for nasal drug delivery comprises a first tube in fluid communication with a means for generating a negative pressure and a second tube in fluid communication with an aerosol. The first tube is contacted with one nostril, the said second tube is contacted with the other nostril, and a negative pressure is applied to the first tube, producing a negative pressure within a nasal cavity and causing the aerosol to be drawn into the nasal passages and to deposit on an internal nasal surface. |
| FILED | Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/618387 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/207.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192348 | Tranquillo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Tranquillo (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Jeffrey Ross (Roseville, Minnesota); Morayma Reyes (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to engineered blood vessels and methods of making such vessels using matrices comprising endothelial and smooth muscle cells, or cells capable of differentiating into endothelial and smooth muscle cell lineages (e.g., stem cells, or the progenitors thereof). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/562955 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/36 |
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| US 08192600 | Leburton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Pierre Leburton (Urbana, Illinois); Gregory Timp (Urbana, Illinois); Maria E. Gracheva (Potsdam, New York); Julien Vidal (Bages, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a solid-state selector having a vessel for carrying a liquid medium with one or more molecules surrounded by ions, a solid state conductive structure doped with impurities having one or more through-holes extending between two surfaces of the solid state conductive structure positioned within the liquid medium of the vessel, a voltage source coupled to the solid state conductive structure to selectively stimulate the ions surrounding the one or more molecules to pass through the one or more through-holes. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237551 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192673 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Bouler, Colorado); Neil B. Cramer (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a new photopolymerizable resin system for dental restorative materials. The resin system utilizes a thiol-ene component as the reactive diluent in dimethacrylate systems. The ternary resin system comprises a thiol monomer, an ene monomer and a dimethacrylate monomer. Use of an off-stoichiometric ratio of thiol:ene functional groups in favor of excess thiols results in enhanced overall functional group conversion, improved polymer mechanical properties, and reduced shrinkage stress of the ternary system when compared to either traditional dimethacrylate or thiol-ene resin systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415783 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192720 | Kozel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kozel (Reno, Nevada); William Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Suzanne Brandt (Boise, Idaho); Bruce R. Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Julie A. Lovchik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter Thorkildson (Reno, Nevada); Ann Percival (Reno, Nevada); C. Richard Lyons (Ft. Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the detection, prevention, or treatment of anthrax or other infectious diseases. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods for immunizing humans or animals against Bacillus anthracis or other capsulated pathogens. The methods include administering a capsular polypeptide of a pathogen of interest and a CD40 agonist to a human or animal. The capsular polypeptide or the CD40 agonist is administered in such an amount or frequency that an immunoprotective response can be elicited in the human or animal against the pathogen of interest. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of using passive immunization with anti-capsular polypeptide antibodies to prevent or treat infections caused by Bacillus anthracis or other pathogens. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods useful for diagnosis of anthrax by detection of capsular polypeptide in serum or other biological samples. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701149 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192732 | Sugaya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Willow Springs, Illinois); Tingyu Qu (Chicago, Illinois); Ankur V. Vaghani (Chicago, Illinois); Christopher Brannen (Vancouver, Washington); Hojoong M. Kim (Chicago, Illinois); Jose S. Pulido (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Xiajing Dong (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for preparing novel mammalian multipotent stem cells (MSCs), compositions thereof, and methods of preparing and administering the cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644425 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192794 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Peng Sun (Skokie, Illinois); Yuhuang Wang (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven Lenhert (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Massive parallel printing of structures and nanostructures, including lipids, at high speed with high resolution and high quality using two dimensional arrays comprising cantilevers and tip-based transfer of material to a surface. The invention provides a nanolithographic method comprising (1) providing a two-dimensional array of a plurality of cantilevers, wherein the array comprises a plurality of base rows, each base row comprising a plurality of cantilevers extending from the base row, wherein each of the cantilevers comprising tips at the cantilever end away from the base row; wherein the two dimensional array has a support; (2) providing a patterning composition, wherein the composition comprises one or more lipids; (3) providing a substrate; (4) coating the tips of the cantilevers with the patterning composition; and (5) depositing at least some of the patterning composition from the tips to the substrate surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/000456 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192928 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); Deborah Meyers (Mocksville, North Carolina); Sigun Zheng (Clemmons, North Carolina); Patrick C. Walsh (Hunt Valley, Maryland); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Eugene Bleecker (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); David Herrington (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of screening a subject for increased likelihood or risk of certain diseases or disorders. This method comprises detecting the presence or absence of at least one mutation in the MSR1 gene wherein the presence or absence of such mutation indicates an increased risk for certain diseases, such as cancer asthma and/or cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/504034 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192929 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey); Michael R. Rosen (Manhattan, New York); Ira S. Cohen (Stony Brook, New York); Peter R. Brink (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for determining the ability of a gene construct to alter the rhythm and contractility of a syncytial cell. Furthermore, this invention provides methods for constructing a gene construct capable of altering the rhythm or contractility of a syncytial cell. Finally, this invention provides a method for constructing a gene construct capable of coupling to a syncytial cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/792426 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192932 | Shuman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research (New York, New York); Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Shuman (New York, New York); JoAnn Sekiguchi (Belmont, Massachusetts); John Comiskey (Carlsbad, California); Joseph Fernandez (Carlsbad, California); James Hoeffler (Carlsbad, California); Robert Marcil (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of covalently joining a DNA strand to an RNA strand, a method of tagging a 5′ end of an RNA molecule, a DNA-RNA molecule which has been joined in vitro by the use of a topoisomerase, a method of tagging a 5′ end of an mRNA, and a method of isolating and cloning full-length gene sequences using capped mRNA after subtraction of non-capped RNA. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/658764 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192936 | Frasch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne D. Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); Lars Chapsky (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale motion detector attaches a gold nanorod (30) to the rotating arm (26) of a molecular structure (10) to cause the nanoparticle to rotate. The molecular structure is an F1-ATPase enzyme. The gold nanorod is exposed to a light source. The long axis of the gold nanorod scatters red light when the nanorod is in a first position. The short axis of the gold nanorod scatters green light when the nanorod is in a second position. A polarizing filter filters the red and green light to detect the rotational motion by observing alternating red and green lights. A detection DNA stand (50) is coupled between the gold nanorod and the molecular structure. The detection DNA strand hybridizes with a target DNA strand (58) if the target DNA strand matches the detection DNA strand to form a structural link between the molecular structure and gold nanorod. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/103407 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Schmittgen (Granville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods, reagents, kits and compositions for detecting microRNA (miRNA) precursors in a biological sample. The methods uses gene-specific primers and reverse transciptase to convert the primary miRNA precursors (pri-miRNA) and pre-miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs) to cDNA. The method also uses amplification reactions using gene specific forward and reverse primers that are targeted to the hairpin sequence of pri- and pre-microRNA precursors to detect the expression levels of both the pri- and the pre-microRNAs. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816767 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A fibrillation-resistant insulin analogue may be a single-chain insulin analogue or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, containing an insulin A chain sequence or an analogue thereof and an insulin B chain sequence or an analogue thereof connected by a polypeptide of 4-10 amino acids. The fibrillation-resistant insulin analogue preferably displays less than 1 percent fibrillation with incubation at 37° C. for at least 21 days. A single-chain insulin analogue displays greater in vitro insulin receptor binding than normal insulin while displaying less than or equal binding to IGFR than normal insulin. The fibrillation-resistant insulin may be used to treat a patient using an implantable or external insulin pump, due to its greater fibrillation resistance. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419169 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
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| US 08192986 | Lindquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Martin Duennwald (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for identifying compounds that modulate huntingtin mediated impairment of protein degradation pathways. Compounds identified by such screens can be used as candidate drugs for the treatment of prevention of polyglutamine diseases such as Huntington's Disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/568653 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 08192991 | Portnoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Portnoy (Albany, California); Richard Lane Calendar (Berkeley, California); Peter M. Lauer (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Site-specific Listeria integration vectors and methods for their use are provided. The subject vectors include a bacteriophage integrase gene and a bacteriophage attachment site, where in many embodiments the bacteriophage that is the source of these elements is a listeriophage. In certain embodiments, the subject vectors further include a multiple cloning site, where the multiple cloning site may further include a polypeptide coding sequence, e.g., for a heterologous antigen. The subject vectors and methods find use in a variety of different applications, including the study of Listeria species and the preparation of Listeria vaccines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/783491 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/477 |
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| US 08193123 | Rank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Rank (Palo Alto, California); Jeffery Wegener (Cupertino, California); Jonas Korlach (Castro Valley, California); Daniel Roitman (Menlo Park, California); Yue Xu (Fremont, California); John Lyle (Redwood Shores, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California); Paul Peluso (Hayward, California); Geoff Otto (Santa Clara, California); Ron Cicero (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing substrates having selected active chemical regions by employing elements of the substrates in assisting the localization of active chemical groups in desired regions of the substrate. The methods may include optical, chemical and/or mechanical processes for the deposition, removal, activation and/or deactivation of chemical groups in selected regions of the substrate to provide selective active regions of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978171 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/43 |
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| US 08193145 | Burkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean J. Burkin (Sparks, Nevada); Jachinta E. Rooney (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of treating a subject using laminin or a composition that includes laminin. In one embodiment, the method is used to enhance muscle regeneration, maintenance, or repair in a subject. In another embodiment, the method is used to promote wound healing. The method, in yet another embodiment, is used to prevent or reduce muscle damage or injury. In specific implementations of these methods, the laminin or composition that includes laminin is administered in a therapeutically effective amount. In some implementations, the laminin is a complete laminin protein. In other implementations, the laminin is a laminin fragment, a laminin derivative, or a laminin analogue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243752 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 08193151 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rishi Arora (Chicago, Illinois); Alan Kadish (Evanston, Illinois); Annette Gilchrist (Barrington, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating heart conditions. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods that block G protein coupled receptor mediated signaling for treating atrial fibrillation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430595 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16.400 |
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| US 08193165 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yung-chi Cheng (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Hiromichi Tanaka (Tsuzuki-ku, Japan); Masanori Baba (Kagoshima, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds according to the general formulas I, II, III, IV or V: wherein B is nucleoside base according to the structure: and the remaining variables as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds are useful interalia as anti-viral agents in viral therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583229 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/49 |
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| US 08193167 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); W. Brad Wan (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections, cell proliferation and bone metabolism. The compounds provided herein are alkyl esters of phosphonates. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635644 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193200 | Sitaraman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanthi V. Sitaraman (Atlanta, Georgia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Guoquan Wang (Charlottesville, Virginia); Robert Douglas Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to method for treating inflammatory bowel disease that includes administration of an effective amount of an antagonist of A2B adenosine receptors (ARs). |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982817 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.220 |
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| US 08193225 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Schneider (Coppell, Texas); Jenny Hsieh (Irving, Texas); Douglas Frantz (Flower Mound, Texas); Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods for inducing neuronal differentiation in normal neural stem cells and brain cancer stem cells. The compounds are isoxazole amides and derivatives thereof. The methods may take place in vitro, such as in isolates from the adult mammalian brain, or in vivo. Compounds and methods described herein may find use in the treatment of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases, the repair and regeneration of the nervous system, and in treatment of neurologic malignancy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974479 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/378 |
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| US 08193238 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Martin (Severna Park, Maryland); Rebecca Whipple-Bettes (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally concerns microtubule protrusions in cancer cells, including detached cancer cells, and inhibition of the protrusions. In particular aspects, the inhibition of the protrusions interferes with attachment of the cell to a vessel wall, and in further aspects the cell is killed by forcing it to enter capillaries and be destroyed, for example by shearing. Inhibition by a variety of agents and methods is contemplated. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282014 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/449 |
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| US 08193241 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Simon J. Shaw (San Francisco, California); David C. Myles (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 6- and 7-substituted coumarin and related 6- and 7-substituted 1H-quinolin-2-one compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods for their pharmaceutical use are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the 7-substituted coumarin and related 7-substituted 1H-quinolin-2-one compounds mimic or exceed the high level of pharmacological activity of discodermolide. In other embodiments, their preparation involves more readily available materials, higher yield processes and/or simpler synthetic sequences. In yet other embodiments, the compounds of the invention represent structurally simpler, therapeutically active analogues of discodermolide than heretofore known and may be useful as microtubule stabilizers and, inter alia, for treating and/or preventing cancer and other diseases, disorders, and/or conditions mediated by the stabilization of microtubules. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946280 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/457 |
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| US 08193248 | McCarthy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Starpharma Pty Limited (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas David McCarthy (Malvern East, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a contraceptive composition including an effective amount of a dendrimer compound including one or more naphthyl disulphonic acid surface groups, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of the dendrimer compound; and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient and/or diluent therefor. The contraceptive composition may also exhibit antimicrobial activity. The invention also relates to a method of selectively reducing or preventing conception in a female animal, including a human, which method includes administering to the animal an effective amount of a contraceptive composition which composition includes an effective amount of a dendrimer compound including one or more naphthyl disulphonic acid surface groups, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of the dendrimer compound; and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient and/or diluent therefor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/294024 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/616 |
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| US 08193290 | Levy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Ivan Alferiev (Clementon, New Jersey); Stanley J. Stachelek (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified polyurethane including a lipid substituent from at least one urethane nitrogen and/or at least carbon atom of the modified polyurethane. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143275 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/204 |
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| US 08193309 | Hollingsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Anthony Hollingsworth (Omaha, Nebraska); Karl Kohlgraf (Iowa City, Iowa); Tom Caffrey (Bellevue, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a MUC1 cytoplasmic tail peptide or portion thereof. These peptides are useful for inducing an immune response to MUC1-expressing tumor cells and thus for preventing or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696603 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Darnell (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptide vaccines, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and associated methodologies that promote the immune-mediated regression of tumors expressing an onconeural antigen, e.g. a cdr-2 antigen, HuD antigen. The cancer peptide vaccines of the present invention are antigenic peptides capable of being faithfully presented on the MHC I complex of a target cell or antigen presenting cell. This external cellular presentation of these peptides promotes a specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated immune response against tumor cells expressing these proteins, thereby, inducing immunological reactivity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/046875 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 08193315 | Lipton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart A. Lipton (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Dongxian Zhang (San Diego, California); Jon E. Chatterton (San Diego, California); Kevin A. Sevarino (Cheshire, Connecticut); Marc Awobuluyi (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated N-methyl-D-aspartate type 3B (NR3B) polypeptides, functional fragments and peptides, encoding nucleic acid molecules and polynucleotides, and specific antibodies. Also provided are excitatory glycine receptors, containing either NR3B or NR3A polypeptides. Further provided are methods for detecting excitatory glycine receptor ligands, agonists and antagonists. The invention also provides related diagnostic and therapeutic methods. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/842974 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08193327 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Hoon Cho (Lexington, Kentucky); Hsin-Hsiung Tai (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel computational method and generation of mutant butyrylcholinesterase for cocaine hydrolysis is provided. The method includes molecular modeling a possible BChE mutant and conducting molecular dynamics simulations and hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations thereby providing a screening method of possible BChE mutants by predicting which mutant will lead to a more stable transition state for a rate determining step. Site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and protein activity is conducted for mutants determined computationally as being good candidates for possible BChE mutants, i.e., ones predicted to have higher catalytic efficiency as compared with wild-type BChE. In addition, mutants A199S/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/A328W/Y332G, A199S/S287G/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/Y332G, and A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/E441D all have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine compared with wild-type BChE. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/018641 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. German (Daly City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features polypeptides having activity of human neurogenin3 (hNgn3), and nucleic acid encoding such polypeptide. The invention also features use of islet transcription factors such as hNgn3 to facilitate production of pancreatic islet cells from progenitor cells, and to facilitate insulin delivery by production of islet cells so produced. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/642093 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 08193334 | Radovic-Moreno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technologoy (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksandar F. Radovic-Moreno (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Liangfang Zhang (San Diego, California); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for encapsulating nucleic acids, particularly siRNAs, shRNAs, microRNAs, gene therapy plasmids, and other oligonucleotides in biodegradable polymers is disclosed, whereby the nucleic acids are formulated into reverse micelles composed of non-toxic and/or naturally-occurring lipids prior to nanoparticle formation by nanoprecipitation. This method can be coupled to other techniques that improve intracellular drug targeting, ultimately enhancing intracellular delivery of the aforementioned nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573411 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 08193645 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mayurachat Ning Gulari (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ying Yao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a first device structure having a semiconductor platform, and a second device structure having a microstructure spaced from the semiconductor platform. The device further includes a cable having a plurality of beams to couple the microstructure to the first device structure. Each beam of the plurality of beams has a polymer coating and a serpentine-shaped region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858192 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/776 |
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| US 08193809 | Akgun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Can E. Akgun (Woodbury, Minnesota); Carl Snyder (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lance DelaBarre (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Steen Moeller (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele (Minneapolis, Minnesota); John Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In one illustrative embodiment, a radio frequency (RF) coil is disclosed. The RF coil may include a plurality of transmission line elements, wherein at least one of the plurality of transmission line elements may have at least one dimension different than a dimension of another one of the plurality of transmission line elements. In some cases, each of the transmission line elements may include a signal line conductor and a ground plane conductor separated by a dielectric. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151053 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
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| US 08194936 | Abramoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Abramoff (University Heights, Iowa); Meindert Niemeijer (Utrecht, Netherlands); Sangyeol Lee (Fishers, Indiana); Joseph Reinhardt (University Heights, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for image registration implementing a feature-based strategy that uses a retinal vessel network to identify features, uses an affine registration model estimated using feature correspondences, and corrects radial distortion to minimize the overall registration error. Also provided are methods and systems for retinal atlas generation. Further provided are methods and systems for testing registration methods. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/387071 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/117 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing a high quality image from undersampled image data is provided. The image reconstruction method is applicable to a number of different imaging modalities. Specifically, the present invention provides an image reconstruction method that incorporates an appropriate prior image into the image reconstruction process. Thus, one aspect of the present invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that requires less number of data samples to reconstruct an accurate reconstruction of a desired image than previous methods, such as, compressed sensing. Another aspect of the invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that produces a time series of desired images indicative of a higher temporal resolution than is ordinarily achievable with the imaging system. For example, cardiac phase images can be produced with high temporal resolution (e.g., 20 milliseconds) using a CT imaging system with a slow gantry rotation speed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253400 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
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| US 08194951 | Penn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philips Electronics North (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Penn (Rockville, Maryland); Scott F. Thompson (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of aiding in the evaluation of lesions in a body using a plurality of sets of image data of sections of the body region in mutually parallel planes. Processing of the data requires several steps, including pixel intensity pattern recognition, ˜ contouring of the regions of probable pathology, thresholding and 3-dimensional clustering, providing each pixel with a color representative of a selected opacity level and displaying an image of the region of interest where areas of probable pathological conditions are highlighted. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088301 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08195021 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University/Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer optical waveguide includes providing a biopolymer, unwinding the biopolymer progressively to extract individual biopolymer fibers, and putting the unwound fibers under tension. The tensioned fibers are then cast in a different polymer to form a biopolymer optical waveguide that guides light due to the difference in indices of refraction between the biopolymer and the different polymer. The optical fibers may be used in biomedical applications and can be inserted in the body as transmissive media. Printing techniques may be used to manufacture the biopolymer optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513387 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
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| US 08195267 | Seymour et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Seymour (Toledo, Ohio); Daryl R. Kipke (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, an implantable microelectrode is provided with a shank comprised of a laterally extending platform whose thickness and/or configuration contributes to reduced tissue encapsulation, with at least one electrode site disposed at least partially on or in the laterally extending platform. Novel methods of designing, making, and using an implantable microelectrode or biosensor resulting in reduced tissue encapsulation are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/576321 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/377 |
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| US 08195274 | Wong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Wong (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems and computer program products are disclosed for mapping of vascular perfusion territories by placing one or more blood vessels of the vascular perfusion territories in a tag condition and others in a control condition by applying a train of pseudo-continuous radio frequency tagging pulses. In addition, an encoding scheme is applied to fully invert or relax the blood vessels of the vascular perfusion territories. Also, a tagging efficiency is measured for each blood vessel based on the applied encoding scheme. Further, the vascular perfusion territories are separated by using the measured tagging efficiency in a decoding process. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111133 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/419 |
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| US 08195301 | Roy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Chunhong Zhou (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Avraham I. Caspi (La Jolla, California); Pishoy Maksy (Newport Beach, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of editing a video configuration file downloadable to or from a video processing unit of a fitting system for a visual prosthesis is shown. The visual prosthesis has a plurality of electrodes and the video configuration file defines mapping of a video signal captured from a camera of the visual prosthesis to an electrical signal for the electrodes. The editing controls a brightness map for an individual electrode or electrode groups, together with a temporal stimulation pattern to which an individual electrode or electrode groups are assigned. A related computer-operated system is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114635 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
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| US 08195302 | McClure et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Xiaofan Wu (Saugus, California); Scott Loftin (Rosamond, California); Susan McCord (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A video processing unit configured to convert a video image to stimulation patterns for stimulating neural tissue in a subject's eye, the video processing unit comprising a video processor for converting a video image to a digital video stream; a memory for storing the digital video stream; and a video preprocessor data interface for forming stimulation patterns based on the stored digital video stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936497 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| US 08195303 | McClure et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Xiaofan Wu (Saugus, California); Scott Loftin (Rosamand, California); Susan McCord (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual prosthesis apparatus comprising: a video capture device for capturing a video image; a video processing unit associated with the video capture device, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns; and a retinal stimulation system configured to stimulate neural tissue in a subject's eye based on the stimulation patterns, wherein the video processing unit is configured to be powered on after a first time interval upon activation of a power button, wherein the video processing unit is configured to be powered off after a second time interval upon activation of a power button. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936534 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| US 08195415 | Fan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Fremont, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method to achieve digital quantification of DNA (i.e., counting differences between identical sequences) using direct shotgun sequencing followed by mapping to the chromosome of origin and enumeration of fragments per chromosome. The preferred method uses massively parallel sequencing, which can produce tens of millions of short sequence tags in a single run and enabling a sampling that can be statistically evaluated. By counting the number of sequence tags mapped to a predefined window in each chromosome, the over- or under-representation of any chromosome in maternal plasma DNA contributed by an aneuploid fetus can be detected. This method does not require the differentiation of fetal versus maternal DNA. The median count of autosomal values is used as a normalization constant to account for differences in total number of sequence tags is used for comparison between samples and between chromosomes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696509 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunLink Corporation (San Rafael, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret Birmingham Mittan (Oakland, California); Robert H. J. Miros (Fairfax, California); Malcolm P. Brown (San Francisco, California); Robert Stancel (Loss Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic panel clamp includes an upper and lower section. The interface between the assembled clamp halves and the module edge is filled by a flexible gasket material, such as EPDM rubber. The gasket preferably has small, finger like protrusions that allow for easy insertion onto the module edge while being reversed makes it more difficult to remove them from the module once installed. The clamp includes mounting posts or an integral axle to engage a bracket. The clamp also may include a locking tongue to secure the clamp to a bracket. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587919 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
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| US 08191435 | Grate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Grate (West Richland, Washington); David L. Baldwin (Kennewick, Washington); Norman C. Anheier, Jr. (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A pre-concentration device and a method are disclosed for concentrating gaseous vapors for analysis. Vapors sorbed and concentrated within the bed of the pre-concentration device are thermally desorbed, achieving at least partial separation of the vapor mixtures. The pre-concentration device is suitable, e.g., for pre-concentration and sample injection, and provides greater resolution of peaks for vapors within vapor mixtures, yielding detection levels that are 10-10,000 times better than direct sampling and analysis systems. Features are particularly useful for continuous unattended monitoring applications. The invention finds application in conjunction with, e.g., analytical instruments where low detection limits for gaseous vapors are desirable. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188987 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
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| US 08191477 | Roesler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander W. Roesler (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Microelectromechanical (MEM) apparatus and methods for operating, for preventing unintentional detonation of energetic components comprising pyrotechnic and explosive materials, such as air bag deployment systems, munitions and pyrotechnics. The MEM apparatus comprises an interrupting member that can be moved to block (interrupt) or complete (uninterrupt) an explosive train that is part of an energetic component. One or more latching members are provided that engage and prevent the movement of the interrupting member, until the one or more latching members are disengaged from the interrupting member. The MEM apparatus can be utilized as a safe and arm device (SAD) and electronic safe and arm device (ESAD) in preventing unintentional detonations. Methods for operating the MEM apparatus include independently applying drive signals to the actuators coupled to the latching members, and an actuator coupled to the interrupting member. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305258 |
| 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 12/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191618 | Gering et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Daryl R. Haefner (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal management system for a vehicle includes a heat exchanger having a thermal energy storage material provided therein, a first coolant loop thermally coupled to an electrochemical storage device located within the first coolant loop and to the heat exchanger, and a second coolant loop thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. The first and second coolant loops are configured to carry distinct thermal energy transfer media. The thermal management system also includes an interface configured to facilitate transfer of heat generated by an internal combustion engine to the heat exchanger via the second coolant loop in order to selectively deliver the heat to the electrochemical storage device. Thermal management methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537785 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191630 | Stegemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas); Gary Lee Beer (Houston, Texas); Etuan Zhang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are described herein. Methods for treating a tar sands may include heating a portion of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from one or more heaters located in the portion. The heat may be controlled to increase the permeability of at least part of the portion to create an injection zone in the portion with an average permeability sufficient to allow injection of a fluid through the injection zone. A drive fluid and/or an oxidizing fluid may be provided into the injection zone. At least some hydrocarbons including mobilized hydrocarbons are produced from the portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769379 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191753 | Fleming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Fleming (Boulder, Colorado); David H. Lammlein (Houston, Texas); George E. Cook (Brentwood, Tennessee); Don Mitchell Wilkes (Nashville, Tennessee); Alvin M. Strauss (Nashville, Tennessee); David R. Delapp (Ashland City, Tennessee); Daniel A. Hartman (Fairhope, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and computer program are disclosed for processing at least one workpiece using a rotary tool with rotating member for contacting and processing the workpiece. The methods include oscillating the rotary tool laterally with respect to a selected propagation path for the rotating member with respect to the workpiece to define an oscillation path for the rotating member. The methods further include obtaining force signals or parameters related to the force experienced by the rotary tool at least while the rotating member is disposed at the extremes of the oscillation. The force signals or parameters associated with the extremes can then be analyzed to determine a lateral position of the selected path with respect to a target path and a lateral offset value can be determined based on the lateral position. The lateral distance between the selected path and the target path can be decreased based on the lateral offset value. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242766 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192682 | Maziasz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip James Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John Paul Shingledecker (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael Leonard Santella (Knoxville, Tennessee); Joachim Hugo Schneibel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vinod Kumar Sikka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Randy Carl John (Houston, Texas); Dong Sub Kim (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | High strength metal alloys are described herein. At least one composition of a metal alloy includes chromium, nickel, copper, manganese, silicon, niobium, tungsten and iron. System, methods, and heaters that include the high strength metal alloys are described herein. At least one heater system may include a canister at least partially made from material containing at least one of the metal alloys. At least one system for heating a subterranean formation may include a tublar that is at least partially made from a material containing at least one of the metal alloys. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/767565 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Ho Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of extracting uranium from spent nuclear fuel (SNF) particles is disclosed. Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) (containing oxides of uranium, oxides of fission products (FP) and oxides of transuranic (TRU) elements (including plutonium)) are subjected to a hydrogen plasma and a fluorine plasma. The hydrogen plasma reduces the uranium and plutonium oxides from their oxide state. The fluorine plasma etches the SNF metals to form UF6 and PuF4. During subjection of the SNF particles to the fluorine plasma, the temperature is maintained in the range of 1200-2000 deg K to: a) allow any PuF6 (gas) that is formed to decompose back to PuF4 (solid), and b) to maintain stability of the UF6. Uranium (in the form of gaseous UF6) is easily extracted and separated from the plutonium (in the form of solid PuF4). The use of plasmas instead of high temperature reactors or flames mitigates the high temperature corrosive atmosphere and the production of PuF6 (as a final product). Use of plasmas provide faster reaction rates, greater control over the individual electron and ion temperatures, and allow the use of CF4 or NF3 as the fluorine sources instead of F2 or HF. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/035087 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192854 | Borole |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijeet P. Borole (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for removing inhibitor compounds from a cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol process which includes a pretreatment step of raw cellulosic biomass material and the production of fermentation process water after production and removal of ethanol from a fermentation step, the method comprising contacting said fermentation process water with an anode of a microbial fuel cell, said anode containing microbes thereon which oxidatively degrade one or more of said inhibitor compounds while producing electrical energy or hydrogen from said oxidative degradation, and wherein said anode is in electrical communication with a cathode, and a porous material (such as a porous or cation-permeable membrane) separates said anode and cathode. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366713 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192952 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiangyun Wang (San Diego, California); Jianming Xie (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate the coumarin unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl)ethylglycine into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing the unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl)ethylglycine and related translation systems. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/227383 |
| 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 08193113 | Soloveichik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grigorii Lev Soloveichik (Latham, New York); Matthew John Andrus (Cape Canaveral, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a complex hydride and a borohydride catalyst wherein the borohydride catalyst comprises a BH4 group, and a group IV metal, a group V metal, or a combination of a group IV and a group V metal. Also disclosed herein are methods of making the composition. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794857 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193256 | Celina |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathias Celina (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An epoxy resin mixture with at least one epoxy resin of between approximately 50 wt % and 100 wt %, an anhydride cure agent of between approximately 0 wt % and approximately 50 wt %, a tert-butoxycarbonyl anhydride foaming agent of between proximately 0.1-20 wt %, a surfactant and an imidazole or similar catalyst of less than approximately 2 wt %, where the resin mixture is formed from at least one epoxy resin with a 1-10 wt % tert-butoxycarbonyl anhydride compound and an imidazole catalyst at a temperature sufficient to keep the resin in a suitable viscosity range, the resin mixture reacting to form a foaming resin which in the presence of an epoxy curative can then be cured at a temperature greater than 50° C. to form an epoxy foam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555251 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193292 | Bowen, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Bowen, III (Olathe, Kansas); Eric A. Eastwood (Raymore, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers comprising residues of borane and/or carborane cage compound monomers having at least one polyalkoxy silyl substituent. Such polymers can further comprise one or more reactive matrices and/or co-monomers covalently bound with the cage compound monomer residues. Methods of making and applications for using such polymers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859658 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Foote (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for performing light-directed reactions in spatially addressable channels within a plurality of channels. One aspect of the invention employs photoactivatable reagents in solutions disposed into spatially addressable flow streams to control the parallel synthesis of molecules immobilized within the channels. The reagents may be photoactivated within a subset of channels at the site of immobilized substrate molecules or at a light-addressable site upstream from the substrate molecules. The method and apparatus of the invention find particularly utility in the synthesis of biopolymer arrays, e.g., oligonucleotides, peptides and carbohydrates, and in the combinatorial synthesis of small molecule arrays for drug discovery. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488242 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193406 | Simpson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Brian R. D'Urso (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A bandage that includes a material, which can be breathable, having a first surface, and a plurality of superhydrophobic particles attached to the first surface. The plurality of superhydrophobic particles ranging in size from about 100 nanometers to about 10 micrometers. The superhydrophobic particles including a protrusive material defining a plurality of nanopores and a plurality of spaced apart nanostructures that define an external boundary of the hydrophobic particles. The nanopores providing a flow through porosity. The first surface can be rendered superhydrophobic by the attached superhydrophobic particles. The material can have a second surface opposite the first surface that is hydrophilic. The superhydrophobic particles can be adhered to the first surface by a binder. Also included is a method of making the bandages described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/273800 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193747 | Gallegos-Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Gallegos-Lopez (Torrance, California); James M. Nagashima (Cerritos, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California); Silva Hiti (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for controlling two alternating current (AC) machines via a five-phase PWM inverter module. The system comprises a first control loop, a second control loop, and a current command adjustment module. The current command adjustment module operates in conjunction with the first control loop and the second control loop to continuously adjust current command signals that control the first AC machine and the second AC machine such that they share the input voltage available to them without compromising the target mechanical output power of either machine. This way, even when the phase voltage available to either one of the machines decreases, that machine outputs its target mechanical output power. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473988 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193823 | Watson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather Christine Watson (Dublin, California); Jeffrey James Roberts (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly apparatus for measurement of electrical conductivity or other properties of a sample in a piston cylinder device wherein pressure and heat are applied to the sample by the piston cylinder device. The assembly apparatus includes a body, a first electrode in the body, the first electrode operatively connected to the sample, a first electrical conductor connected to the first electrode, a washer constructed of a hard conducting material, the washer surrounding the first electrical conductor in the body, a second electrode in the body, the second electrode operatively connected to the sample, and a second electrical conductor connected to the second electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428559 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193962 | Terwilliger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve Terwilliger (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Piecewise conversion of an analog input signal is performed utilizing a plurality of relatively lower bit resolution A/D conversions. The results of this piecewise conversion are interpreted to achieve a relatively higher bit resolution A/D conversion without sampling frequency penalty. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835024 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194068 | Staten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Staten (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Adam C. Woodbury (Provo, Utah); Steven E. Benzley (Provo, Utah); Jason F. Shepherd (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A techniques for coarsening a hexahedral mesh is described. The technique includes identifying a coarsening region within a hexahedral mesh to be coarsened. A boundary sheet of hexahedral elements is inserted into the hexahedral mesh around the coarsening region. A column of hexahedral elements is identified within the boundary sheet. The column of hexahedral elements is collapsed to create an extraction sheet of hexahedral elements contained within the coarsening region. Then, the extraction sheet of hexahedral elements is extracted to coarsen the hexahedral mesh. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874064 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194246 | Thundat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battellle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles W. Van Neste (Kingston, Tennessee); Gilbert M. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lawrence R. Senesac (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system generates a photoacoustic spectrum in an open or closed environment with reduced noise. A source focuses a beam on a target substance disposed on a base. The base supports a cantilever that measures acoustic waves generated as light is absorbed by the target substance. By focusing a chopped/pulsed light beam on the target substance, a range of optical absorbance may be measured as the wavelength of light changes. An identifying spectrum of the target may detected by monitoring the vibration intensity variation of the cantilever as a function of illuminating wavelength or color. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488238 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194813 | Prasad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manoj K. Prasad (Pleasanton, California); Neal J. Snyderman (Berkeley, California); Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of absolute nuclear material assay of an unknown source comprising counting neutrons from the unknown source and providing an absolute nuclear material assay utilizing a model to optimally compare to the measured count distributions. In one embodiment, the step of providing an absolute nuclear material assay comprises utilizing a random sampling of analytically computed fission chain distributions to generate a continuous time-evolving sequence of event-counts by spreading the fission chain distribution in time. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480562 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194814 | Rowland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California); Neal J. Snyderman (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector system for discriminating fissile material from non-fissile material wherein a digital data acquisition unit collects data at high rate, and in real-time processes large volumes of data directly into information that a first responder can use to discriminate materials. The system comprises counting neutrons from the unknown source and detecting excess grouped neutrons to identify fission in the unknown source. The system includes a graphing component that displays the plot of the neutron distribution from the unknown source over a Poisson distribution and a plot of neutrons due to background or environmental sources. The system further includes a known neutron source placed in proximity to the unknown source to actively interrogate the unknown source in order to accentuate differences in neutron emission from the unknown source from Poisson distributions and/or environmental sources. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925682 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195967 | 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 (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption during execution of an application on a plurality of compute nodes that include: executing, by each compute node, an application, the application including power consumption directives corresponding to one or more portions of the application; identifying, by each compute node, the power consumption directives included within the application during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives; and reducing power, by each compute node, to one or more components of that compute node according to the identified power consumption directives during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129319 |
| 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 08196101 | Bouchard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann M. Bouchard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon C. Osbourn (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A reach and get technique includes invoking a reach command from a reach location within a computing environment. A user can then navigate to an object within the computing environment and invoke a get command on the object. In response to invoking the get command, the computing environment is automatically navigated back to the reach location and the object copied into the reach location. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738574 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); John McCormick (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, dead space and associated coupling losses are reduced in energy storage and recovery systems employing compressed air via use of a compressed-gas reservoir for maintaining a connector between cylinder assemblies at an intermediate pressure, thereby reducing the volume of dead space in the connector and increasing efficiency of the energy storage and recovery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080914 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191401 | Daraio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiara Daraio (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system supporting the formation and propagation of tunable highly nonlinear pulses using granular chains composed of non-spherical granular systems. Such a method and system may be used to support the creation of tunable acoustic band gaps in granular crystals formed of particles with different geometries (spherical or not) in which the tunability is achieved by varying the static precompression, type of excitation and/or pulse amplitude in the system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364947 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08191468 | Malek Azary |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Javad Malek Azary (Tabriz, Iran) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooking utensil having five layer members which includes a first diaphragm member and a second diaphragm member, at least one thermostat set wherein said at least one thermostat set is situated within first layer, at least one heat sensor, wherein said at least one sensor comprises of a liquid which is sensitive to heat, a thermal induction actuator (81), which selectively closes said first diaphragm member and second diaphragm member according to temperature of the outer member of bottom of intermediate member. A hot air passage formed vertically in a part of the circumference between the sidewalls of the outer member and outer member of third layer, which causes the passage of hot air, a cool air passage formed vertically in a part of circumference between the sidewalls of outer member and inner member of second outer member which causes entering of cool air. Heat energy transmitted from the bottom of outer member will be diverted from the intermediate member and guided to outside of the cooking utensil by being spread out throughout the sidewalls of the cooking utensil. Therefore, the food in inner member which is closely contacted with the intermediate member is not scorched or burned. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420067 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods and beverages: Apparatus 099/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Belfield (Oviedo, Florida); Ciceron O. Yanez (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient method for preparing sulfonium photoacid generators (PAGs) by microwave-assisted reaction of diarylsufides in the presence of alkylaryliodonium salts. Microwave-assisted synthesis of the PAGs is significantly faster, reducing reaction time with less energy consumption. Reaction times using the microwave-assisted synthesis are in a range of from 90 to 420 faster than conventional thermal conditions. The photoacid quantum yields of several salts prepared by the microwave reaction were measured; the photoacid quantum yields of new sulfonium PAGs were in a range from 0.01 to 0.4 times greater than yields from conventional synthesis. Incorporating a nitro group in the structures of the sulfonium salts increased photoacid quantum yield, induced intersystem crossing and increased the efficiency of photoacid generation compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422724 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/157.760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192600 | Leburton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Pierre Leburton (Urbana, Illinois); Gregory Timp (Urbana, Illinois); Maria E. Gracheva (Potsdam, New York); Julien Vidal (Bages, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a solid-state selector having a vessel for carrying a liquid medium with one or more molecules surrounded by ions, a solid state conductive structure doped with impurities having one or more through-holes extending between two surfaces of the solid state conductive structure positioned within the liquid medium of the vessel, a voltage source coupled to the solid state conductive structure to selectively stimulate the ions surrounding the one or more molecules to pass through the one or more through-holes. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237551 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192609 | Gerken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Gerken (Madison, Wisconsin); Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are electrolysis catalysts formed from cobalt, oxygen and fluorine. They can be formed as a coating on an anode by conducting an electrolysis reaction using an electrolyte containing cobalt and fluoride. The catalysts will facilitate the conversion of water to hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, even at pH neutral/room temperature reaction conditions. The resulting hydrogen gas is a means of storing renewable energy for use in hydrogen powered vehicles or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628464 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192643 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruiting Zheng (Beijing, China PRC); Jinwei Gao (Zhangjiajie, China PRC); Gang Chen (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluids comprising graphite particles and related methods are generally described. In some embodiments, “microfluids” are described. Generally, the microfluids can comprise a fluid and a plurality of graphite particles with microscale dimensions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/638135 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192646 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Anderson (Latham, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); J. Matthew Mauro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The ionic conjugates include an inorganic particle electrostatically associated with a macromolecule which can interact specifically with predetermined chemical species or biological targets. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229177 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192754 | Uhrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (Plainfield, New Jersey); Lu Tian (Morrisville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses micelle assemblies, compositions having micelle assemblies, and methods for preparing micelle assemblies and compositions thereof. Also, the invention encompasses compounds of the formula: A-X—Y—Z—R1 wherein A is a carboxy group or is absent; X is a polyol, Y is —C(═O)—, —C(═S)—, or is absent; Z is O, S, or NH; and R1 is a polyether, wherein one or more hydroxy groups of the polyol are acylated with a fatty acid residue, wherein the compounds form micelle assemblies. The invention encompasses methods of encapsulating molecules using the compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323143 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192794 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Peng Sun (Skokie, Illinois); Yuhuang Wang (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven Lenhert (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Massive parallel printing of structures and nanostructures, including lipids, at high speed with high resolution and high quality using two dimensional arrays comprising cantilevers and tip-based transfer of material to a surface. The invention provides a nanolithographic method comprising (1) providing a two-dimensional array of a plurality of cantilevers, wherein the array comprises a plurality of base rows, each base row comprising a plurality of cantilevers extending from the base row, wherein each of the cantilevers comprising tips at the cantilever end away from the base row; wherein the two dimensional array has a support; (2) providing a patterning composition, wherein the composition comprises one or more lipids; (3) providing a substrate; (4) coating the tips of the cantilevers with the patterning composition; and (5) depositing at least some of the patterning composition from the tips to the substrate surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/000456 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08192795 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Lithographic and nanolithographic methods that involve patterning a first compound on a substrate surface, exposing non-patterned areas of the substrate surface to a second compound and removing the first compound while leaving the second compound intact. The resulting hole patterns can be used as templates for either chemical etching of the patterned area of the substrate or metal deposition on the patterned area of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/770477 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193010 | Gopal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashwini Gopal (Austin, Texas); Sunmin Kim (Ithaca, New York); Xiaojing Zhang (Austin, Texas); Kazunori Hoshino (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of uniformly transferring luminescent quantum dots onto a substrate, comprising: a) preparing a colloidal suspension of luminescent quantum dots in a hydrophobic solvent, wherein the density of the hydrophobic solvent is from 0.67 g/cm3 to 0.96 g/cm3; b) dispensing the suspension onto a convex aqueous surface; c) allowing the hydrophobic solvent to evaporate; d) contacting the film of luminescent quantum dots with a hydrophobic stamp; and e) depositing the film of luminescent quantum dots onto a substrate with the hydrophobic stamp is described herein. Further described is a method of preparing quantum dot based light emitting diodes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/824949 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193102 | Mason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California); Kun Zhao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling composite structures from objects in fluid includes providing a plurality of objects, each having a preselected size, shape, and spatial distribution of surface structural features characterizing a surface roughness; dispersing the objects into the fluid; and introducing a depletion agent. The depletion agent includes a plurality of particles having a size distribution preselected causing an attractive force arising from a depletion attraction between at least a first object and second object of the plurality in at least one relative position and orientation based on the preselected spatial distribution of surface structural features on the first and second objects, and the depletion attraction between the first and second objects forms at least one rigid bond or slippery bond at or proximate to respective surface portions based on the preselected spatial distribution of surface structural features on the first and second objects to form a two-object composite structure. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/739697 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/778 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193314 | Stephanopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to global transcription machinery engineering to produce altered cells having improved phenotypes and methods for evaluating phenotypic diversity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170617 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193392 | Scriban et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corina Scriban (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David S. Glueck (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a process for preparing an enantioenriched phosphorus-stereogenic, tertiary phosphine. Secondary phosphines are contacted with an alkyl halide and base in the presence of a chiral metal catalyst thereby producing the enantioenriched phosphorus-stereogenic, tertiary phosphine for subsequent use in homogeneous catalysis reactions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/996008 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193645 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mayurachat Ning Gulari (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ying Yao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a first device structure having a semiconductor platform, and a second device structure having a microstructure spaced from the semiconductor platform. The device further includes a cable having a plurality of beams to couple the microstructure to the first device structure. Each beam of the plurality of beams has a polymer coating and a serpentine-shaped region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858192 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194939 | Perlmutter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AOL Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keren O. Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Sharon M. Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Joshua Alspector (South Riding, Virginia); Mark Everingham (Oxford, United Kingdom); Alex Holub (Pasadena, California); Andrew Zisserman (Jericho, United Kingdom); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/849134 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195021 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University/Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer optical waveguide includes providing a biopolymer, unwinding the biopolymer progressively to extract individual biopolymer fibers, and putting the unwound fibers under tension. The tensioned fibers are then cast in a different polymer to form a biopolymer optical waveguide that guides light due to the difference in indices of refraction between the biopolymer and the different polymer. The optical fibers may be used in biomedical applications and can be inserted in the body as transmissive media. Printing techniques may be used to manufacture the biopolymer optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513387 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195651 | Page |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Page (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large variation in quality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698803 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08196205 | Gribble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Gribble (Seattle, Washington); Henry Levy (Seattle, Washington); Alexander Moshchuk (Seattle, Washington); Tanya Bragin (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system analyzes content accessed at a network site to determine whether it is malicious. The system employs a tool able to identify spyware that is piggy-backed on executable files (such as software downloads) and is able to detect “drive-by download” attacks that install software on the victim's computer when a page is rendered by a browser program. The tool uses a virtual machine (VM) to sandbox and analyze potentially malicious content. By installing and running executable files within a clean VM environment, commercial anti-spyware tools can be employed to determine whether a specific executable contains piggy-backed spyware. By visiting a Web page with an unmodified browser inside a clean VM environment, predefined “triggers,” such as the installation of a new library, or the creation of a new process, can be used to determine whether the page mounts a drive-by download attack. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426370 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08193601 | Sambandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Sambandan (Palo Alto, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California); Rene A. Lujan (Sunnyvale, California); Scott J. Limb (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a sensor array. The method includes depositing a source/drain contact layer; depositing a semiconductor layer on the source/drain contact layer; and patterning the source/drain contact layer and the semiconductor layer substantially simultaneously, wherein the patterned semiconductor layer forms part of a sensor of the sensor array. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692379 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195395 | Teng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Chu Teng (Slidell, Louisiana); Rodney Riley (Long Beach, Mississippi); Richard Bouchard (Gulfport, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A moored buoy floating at the ocean surface and anchored to the seafloor precisely measures acceleration, pitch, roll, and Earth's magnetic flux field of the buoy over a limited sampling period. The system includes: 1) A buoy, 2) A mooring system, 3) An electronic data logger controlling communications between the system and the on-board remote telecommunications system, 4) an embedded computer for data input/output, temporary or permanent data storage, and algorithms to convert the measured time series data into surface ocean wave spectra and quality assurance statistics and encode the results for transfer to the data logger, 5) Sensors include one or three acceleration sensors, three orthogonal angular rate sensors, and three orthogonal magnetometers to measure the Earth's magnetic flux field, 6) A telecommunications system that links the buoy data logger and a shoreside processing system, and 7) A shoreside processing system that decodes the transmitted data, performs, quality control, and computes derived wave parameters. |
| FILED | Sunday, September 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554910 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08195260 | Otto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Otto (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Peter D. Antaya (Sutton, Massachusetts); John P. Voccio (West Newton, Massachusetts); Henry C. Valcour (Upton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-sided joint for splicing two laminated wires together, while preserving the mechanical integrity of the wire is disclosed. The two-sided joint can splice two laminated HTS wires having tapered ends and includes a bottom strap and a top strap. Under one aspect, a laminated, spliced superconductor wire includes a superconductor joint, which includes first and second superconductor wires, each wire including a laminate layer, a substrate layer overlaying the laminate layer, a buffer layer overlaying the substrate layer, a superconductor layer overlaying the buffer layer, a gap layer overlaying the superconductor layer, and a laminate layer overlaying the gap layer, a first HTS strap in electrical connection with the second laminate layer of the first laminate wire and the second laminate layer of the second laminate wire, and a backing strap proximate to the first laminate layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178469 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195490 | Tambe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind Tambe (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Praveen Paruchuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fernando Ordóñez (Van Nuys, California); Sarit Kraus (Givat Shemuel, Israel); Jonathan Pearce (New York, New York); Janusz Marecki (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient heuristic methods are described for approximating the optimal leader strategy for security domains where threats come from unknown adversaries. These problems can be modeled as Bayes-Stackelberg games. An embodiment of the heuristic method can include defining a patrolling or security domain problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program. The mixed-integer quadratic program can be converted to a mixed-integer linear program. For a single follower (e.g., robber or terrorist) scenario, the mixed-integer linear program can be solved, subject to appropriate constraints. For embodiments applicable to multiple follower situations, the relevant mixed-integer quadratic program and related mixed-integer linear program can be decomposed, e.g., by changing the response function for the follower from a pure strategy to a weighted combination over various pure follower strategies where the weights are probabilities of occurrence of each of the follower types. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251766 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08193167 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); W. Brad Wan (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections, cell proliferation and bone metabolism. The compounds provided herein are alkyl esters of phosphonates. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635644 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193312 | Murray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California); Elsa J. Murray (Saugus, California); Jeffrey C. Wang (Sherman Oaks, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyclized peptide designated BMP Binding Peptide (BBP) is a synthetic peptide that avidly binds rhBMP-2, as do endogenous forms of BBP, and sequence conservation between species results in a variety of useful BBP compositions. BBP increases the over-all osteogenic activity of rhBMP-2, increases the rate at which rhBMP-2 induces bone formation, and BBP induces calcification alone. Compositions and substrates including BBP, and methods of using BBP are useful in therapeutic, diagnostic and clinical applications requiring calcification and osteogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/985745 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08191426 | Gregory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto J. Gregory (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Ximing Chen (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A high temperature thin film strain gage sensor capable of functioning at temperatures above 1400° C. The sensor contains a substrate, a nanocomposite film comprised of an indium tin oxide alloy, zinc oxide doped with alumina or other oxide semiconductor and a refractory metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd, Rh, Ni, W, Ir, NiCrAlY and NiCoCrAlY deposited onto the substrate to form an active strain element. The strain element being responsive to an applied force. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133743 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193280 | Paley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AZ Technology, Inc. (Hunstville, Alabama); The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Paley (Huntsville, Alabama); Rhonda S. Libb (Huntsville, Alabama); Richard N. Grugel (Decatur, Alabama); Richard Ernest Boothe (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Ionic liquid epoxide monomers that react with cross-linking agents to form polymers exhibiting high tensile and adhesive strengths are described. The polymers exhibit high tensile and adhesive strengths at extremely low temperatures and are stable at elevated temperatures. The polymer resins are particularly well-suited for use as adhesives, and in coatings, composites, and articles of manufacture. |
| FILED | Friday, July 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168085 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/612 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08195567 | Cinelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Cinelli (Paeonian Springs, Virginia); Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary systems and methods eliminate a check or a remittance stub from a bill payment process, which may simplify the bill payment process for consumers, providers, and check processing systems. A delivery service provider receives a delivery item at a delivery processing center. It is determined that an account associated with the delivery item is designated for electronic payment. Contents of the delivery item are scanned, and converted into electronic data, which is made available to a biller. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/812932 |
| ART UNIT | 3694 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08195575 | Krause et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Krause (Severna Park, Maryland); Wayne H. Orbke (Germantown, Tennessee); Michael Selnick (Reston, Virginia); Michael Murphy (Collierville, Tennessee); Harry W. Aldstadt (Woodbridge, Virginia); Audrey K. Conley Williams (Memphis, Tennessee); Gerald Matthews (Germantown, Tennessee); Pat Matthews, legal representative (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes systems and methods for collecting and processing change of address data and providing change of address services to a customer using a computer network. The address data can include a physical address, an electronic address, or both. The systems and methods may also provide additional services to the customer to assist in changing addresses. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/833699 |
| ART UNIT | 3718 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08195490 | Tambe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind Tambe (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Praveen Paruchuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fernando Ordóñez (Van Nuys, California); Sarit Kraus (Givat Shemuel, Israel); Jonathan Pearce (New York, New York); Janusz Marecki (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient heuristic methods are described for approximating the optimal leader strategy for security domains where threats come from unknown adversaries. These problems can be modeled as Bayes-Stackelberg games. An embodiment of the heuristic method can include defining a patrolling or security domain problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program. The mixed-integer quadratic program can be converted to a mixed-integer linear program. For a single follower (e.g., robber or terrorist) scenario, the mixed-integer linear program can be solved, subject to appropriate constraints. For embodiments applicable to multiple follower situations, the relevant mixed-integer quadratic program and related mixed-integer linear program can be decomposed, e.g., by changing the response function for the follower from a pure strategy to a weighted combination over various pure follower strategies where the weights are probabilities of occurrence of each of the follower types. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251766 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08195630 | Ellis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information Solutions Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Ellis (Del Mar, California); Michael T. Hornbeek (Poway, California); Mark Meadows (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | What is provided is a spatially-enabled content management system in which unstructured information is data mined for location or spatial references, with the search query including not only the spatial reference that has been provided by the data mining but also other search query terms, thus to provide an analyst with rapid geo-searching for unstructured information management. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978419 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/696 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08192765 | Sarangapani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICET, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shantha Sarangapani (Walpole, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An antimicrobial and chemical deactivating composition for use in a liquid medium or for incorporation into a coating, structural plastic materials, thin microporous membranes, textiles and sponges. The composition includes macrosize or submicron particles of silver, platinum with silver and their salts with parabens, oxide, salicylate, acetate, citrate, benzoate and phosphate along with copper and zinc salts of the same. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263782 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08196216 | Moeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Moeck (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Scanning probe microscope (SPM) images are enhanced by enforcing one or more symmetries that can be selected based on suitable Fourier coefficient amplitude or phase angle residuals, and/or geometric Akaike information criteria, and/or cross correlation techniques. Alternatively, this selection can be based on prior knowledge of specimen characteristics. In addition, a scanning microscope point spread function is obtained based on the evaluation of a calibration image by enforcing at least one symmetry and can be applied to other image acquisitions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/660422 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08192485 | Ravi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterens Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Ravi (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to reversible hydrogel systems for medical applications. Particularly, the hydrogel of the present invention is made up of copolymers that can be a hydrogel when in an oxidized state and can be a solution when in a reduced state. A solution of the copolymer can be oxidized to form a hydrogel; and the hydrogel can be reduced to form a solution of the copolymer. The solution can be dehydrated to produce the dry copolymer for storage. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to methods of making and using the reversible hydrogel systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706081 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08193883 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey A. Long (Torrance, California); Felix T. Sasso (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A switching system includes two or more rotary switching mechanisms for selectively moving items. The switching system may be used for switching optical elements, such as filters, into and out of an optical path, for example selectively placing one of a group of available filters into the optical path. Each of the rotary switching mechanisms has a passive torque device, including a mechanical flexure and a magnetic latch, that provides most of the torque for moving an item between a retracted position and an extended position, and vice versa. The passive torque device has a pair of null positions or detents at the retracted and extended positions. A brushless DC motor is used to provide a force to get the passive torque device out of these null positions. Thereafter the passive torque device is able on its own to provide most of the torque for movement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/980254 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08194125 | Mack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Mack (El Segundo, California); Marion N. Todd (Gainesville, Georgia); David F. Rock (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiance source includes a housing having an interior wall, wherein at least a spherical portion of the interior wall of the housing is spherical, an interior volume, and an exit port. A light source is disposed within the interior volume of the housing. A calibration structure blocks and reflects a light ray that would otherwise travel directly from the light source to the exit port without reflecting from the interior wall. The calibration structure has a calibration body having a curved back surface facing the light source and a curved front surface facing the exit port. There is an optically diffuse, lambertian reflecting surface on at least the spherical portion of the interior wall of the housing, the back surface of the calibration body, and the front surface of the calibration body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/980912 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, June 05, 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
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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