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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 03, 2012
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| US 08209769 | Ellis 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) | Arthur W. Ellis (Bel Alton, Maryland); Matthew A. Johnson (Milford, Pennsylvania); Lance A. Brown (Laplata, Maryland); Manuel R. Vega (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bomb suit carrier is constructed from a sheet of fabric material shaped to fit within the front torso portion of a bomb suit. A sheet of loop material is attached to the sheet of fabric material and a plurality of parallel straps are attached to the side of the sheet of fabric material having the sheet of loop material. The parallel straps form a pouch attachment ladder system and include loop material along their entire length. A hole passes through the sheet of fabric material to accommodate a rapid doffing handle of a bomb suit to which the bomb suit carrier is attached. An attachment mechanism is provided to secure the sheet of fabric material to the bomb suit. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802452 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/2.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08209857 | Najafi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ethem Erkan Aktakka (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hanseup Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin-film device and a method of fabricating the thin-film device are provided herein. The thin-film device comprises a bond layer, a film layer that has bulk material properties, and a substrate that has a heat-sensitive component disposed thereon. The method of fabricating the thin-film device comprises the step of providing an active material that has bulk material properties. The active material is bonded to the substrate through the bond layer. After bonding the active material to the substrate, the active material that is bonded to the substrate is thinned to produce the film layer of the thin-film device. The substrate is provided with the heat-sensitive component disposed thereon prior to bonding the active material to the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819827 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/832 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08209897 | Schneider 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) | John F. Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A targeting system for determining the distance to a target and, in response thereto, altering the angular position of a projectile launcher relative to a hand held support. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157814 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08209911 | Welch 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) | Charles R. Welch (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Kevin Abraham (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Robert M. Ebeling (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Karen Buehler (Northbridge, Massachusetts); Claudia Quigley (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural element employing hydrostatic pressure to compress cohesion-less particles to significantly increase the load carrying capacity of the element along a load-bearing axis, a system for deploying said structural element and a method for deploying said structural element using the system. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793790 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/2.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210052 | Biggs |
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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) | Gary Biggs (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method for forecasting fatigue damage of a solid rocket motor through ignition, where over the lifetime of the motor it can be exposed to a plurality of stressing events, which may have a broad spectrum of mechanical loads with multiple modes. For instance, a mode may be a change in the thermal contraction or a change in a direct mechanical load. The method expresses all stressing events in terms of a common mode. The thermal contraction is the selected common mode measured in units of stress. The stress is proportionally adjusted according to the conditioning temperature, the stress free temperature, the pressures, and the age. Cumulative damage for the time before and after ignition is determined. Finite element analysis reference points are adjusted for the stressing events. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802450 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210289 | Lu 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) | Ryan P. Lu (Carlsbad, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbot includes a spherical housing, first and second servomotors that are located internal to the housing and oriented horizontally and orthogonal to each other, and a plunger within the housing that selectively extends in the vertical direction. Castors are attached to each servomotor; and traction balls corresponding to each castor are placed so that each ball frictionally engages both a respective castor and the interior of the housing at the same time. As the servomotors rotate, the attached castors also rotate, which causes rotation of the traction balls and rolling of the housing, and results in translation of the microbot in the horizontal plane. As the plunger rapidly extends, it strikes the interior surface of the housing with sufficient force to cause a hopping motion of the microbot in the vertical direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685808 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210424 | Weibezahn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl S Weibezahn (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for solder bonding entities to solid materials. One or more through apertures are formed in a solid material. Solder paste is introduced into each through aperture. Respective entities having solderable surface features are disposed in overlying alignment with the through apertures. The arrangement is heated causing molten solder paste to wet the solderable surface features and the solid material. Cooling results in the electrical and mechanical bonding of the entities to the solid material. Devices having substantially planar form factors and without lead wires can be electrically and mechanically secured to a supporting conductive stratum. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/883750 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210471 | Keennon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerovironment, Inc. (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Todd Keennon (Simi Valley, California); Karl Robert Klingebiel (Simi Valley, California); Alexander Andryukov (Simi Valley, California); Bart Dean Hibbs (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023772 |
| 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 244/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210557 | Schneider |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A convertible trailer that may be reconfigured for use with different towing hitch arrangements. The trailer includes a first deck, a second deck, and an adjustable neck configured to support the second deck substantially level with the first deck in a pintle configuration and to support the second deck above the first deck in a fifth wheel configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609958 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/417.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210841 | Alms et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin B. Alms (Newark, Delaware); James L. Glancey (Blackbird, Delaware); Suresh G. Advani (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A vacuum-induced injection molding apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a tool surface having an injection port extending therethrough. A flexible film extends over and is sealingly coupled to the tool surface. The flexible film comprises an outer surface and an inner surface such that the flexible film inner surface and the tool surface define a volume. A vacuum chamber is sealingly coupled to the outer surface of the flexible film. A vacuum port is in fluid communication with the volume. A method of injection molding a polymer matrix composite is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541004 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211017 | Foley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica L. Foley (Seattle, Washington); Shahram Vaezy (Seattle, Washington); James W. Little (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat neurological structures to achieve a desired therapeutic effect. Depending on the dosage of HIFU applied, it can have a reversible or irreversible effect on neural structures. For example, a relatively high dose of HIFU can be used to permanently block nerve function, to provide a non-invasive alternative to severing a nerve to treat severe spasticity. Relatively lower doses of HIFU can be used to reversibly block nerve function, to alleviate pain, to achieve an anesthetic effect, or to achieve a cosmetic effect. Where sensory nerves are not necessary for voluntary function, but are involved in pain associated with tumors or bone cancer, HIFU can be used to non-invasively destroy such sensory nerves to alleviate pain without drugs. Preferably, ultrasound imaging synchronized to the HIFU therapy is used to provide real-time ultrasound image guided HIFU therapy of neural structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887178 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211026 | Schutz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blacktoe Medical III, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald W. Schutz (Portland, Oregon); Scott S. Corbett, III (Portland, Oregon); Kenneth N. Bates (Beaverton, Oregon); William McDonough (Portland, Oregon); Albert H. Krause (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasound finger-mounted probe that has a finger clip that is adapted to be mounted on a human finger. The finger clip also has an interior surface adapted to contact the human finger. An ultrasound probe is adapted to be supported by the finger clip. Also, the ultrasound probe protrudes outwardly, relative to the interior surface, by less than 1.5 cm. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895607 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211436 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry Kao (St. Louis, Missouri); Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jarrod A. Marto (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for vaccinating a patient against a malignancy comprising introducing a protein or peptide comprising of all or an immunogenic fragment of a cyclin protein into the patient. The invention further provides a method of identifying tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698822 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211447 | Angov 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) | Evelina Angov (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeffrey A. Lyon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Christian Asare Darko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joe D. Cohen (Brussels, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (FVO) MSP-142. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein that retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant MSP-142 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507004 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/268.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211559 | Waggoner |
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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) | Susan Marie Waggoner (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting liquid leaked from an energy storage structure, e.g., a battery is provided. One embodiment includes a sensor that detects the leaked electrolyte as it leaks through a breach in the wall retaining the electrolyte in the battery. The sensor has a sheet-like layer with a conductive surface and an electrical connection to a first interface. The sensor is positioned substantially flush to the battery wall, so that leaking electrolyte contacts the sensor. If the battery has a case, there is a first external communication point in electrical communication with the first interface. In the absence of leaked electrolyte there is substantially no electrical connection between the first external communication point and either of the terminals as indicated by a very high resistance. When leaked electrolyte is present there is an electrical connection between the first external communication point and either of the terminals. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023218 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211625 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical structure is provided. The optical structure includes a substrate structure. A photosensitive material layer is positioned on said substrate structure. The photosensitive material layer having uniform periodic geometry and a period length throughout associated with a 2D periodic pattern. The 2D periodic pattern includes a period length greater than the exposing light wavelength and spatial variation in the duty cycle of the features of a mask layer used in the formation of said 2D periodic pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/266869 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211628 | Thatte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hemant Thatte (Medfield, Massachusetts); Patrick Treanor (Dedham, Massachusetts); Shukri F. Khuri (Needham, Massachusetts); Randa Khuri, legal representative (Needham, Massachusetts); Laki Rousou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for resuscitating, storing, and preserving functional integrity of organs and tissues. Metabolic function is maintained by sustaining ATP levels, mitochondrial function, cardiomyocyte contractility, prevention of acidosis, inhibition of induction of apoptosis, maintaining ionontrophy and lusiotrophy by regulating calcium, sodium, potassium and chloride ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527119 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211645 | Tomlins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/650164 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211709 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Ivar Meyvantsson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jay W. Warwick (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Toepke (Normal, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided of controlling communication between multiple ports in a microfluidic device. The method includes the step of providing a channel network in a microfluidic device. The channel network including a first channel having a first input port and an output port. The first channel is filled with a fluid and a first output droplet is deposited on the output port. The first output droplet has a radius of curvature. The first output droplet flows toward the first input port in response to placement of a first input droplet having a radius of curvature greater than the radius of curvature of the first output droplet on the first input port. The first input droplet flows toward the output port in response to the first input droplet having a radius of curvature less than the radius of curvature of first output droplet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843291 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211730 | Thai 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) | Serey Thai (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Paul R. de la Houssaye (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (Kapolei, Hawaii); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacture of a nanophotonic device can include the step of operatively coupling a planar light source and a photodetector with an optical waveguide. The planar light source, photodetector and optical waveguide can then be monolithically integrated in direct contact with a sapphire substrate, along with an electronic component that is also in direct contact with the sapphire substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248099 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211782 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jurgen H. Daniel (San Francisco, California); Ana Claudia Arias (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A first patterned contact layer, for example a gate electrode, is formed over an insulative substrate. Insulating and functional layers are formed at least over the first patterned contact layer. A second patterned contact layer, for example source/drain electrodes, is formed over the functional layer. Insulative material is then selectively deposited over at least a portion of the second patterned contact layer to form first and second wall structures such that at least a portion of the second patterned contact layer is exposed, the first and second wall structures defining a well therebetween. Electrically conductive or semiconductive material is deposited within the well, for example by jet-printing, such that the first and second wall structures confine the conductive or semiconductive material and prevent spreading and electrical shorting to adjacent devices. The conductive or semiconductive material is in electrical contact with the exposed portion of the second patterned contact layer to form, e.g., an operative transistor. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605109 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211967 | La Scala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Joseph La Scala (Bear, Delaware); James Matthew Sands (Kingsville, Maryland); Giuseppe Raffaello Palmese (Hainsport, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a composition and method for fabricating composite resins that produce either reduced or zero volatile organic compound (VOC) and zero hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. The non-volatile reactive diluents of the composite resin, fatty acid monomers, enhance the stability, shelf-life, flexibility and strength of the composite resin. The resins incorporating fatty acid monomers may be used to repair military equipment or for any commercial repair purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/283061 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211994 | Kolel-Veetil 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) | Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula. Each R is methyl or phenyl; R2 comprises one or more of silane, siloxane, and aromatic groups; n is a nonnegative integer; and m is 1 or 2. The dashed bond is a single bond and the double dashed bond is a double bond, or the dashed bond is a double bond and the double dashed bond is a triple bond. A polymer made by a hydrosilation reaction of a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane having pendant siloxane groups with an acetylene- and silicon-containing compound having at least two vinyl or ethynyl groups, and a crosslinked polymer thereof. The reaction occurs between the pendant siloxane groups and the vinyl or ethynyl groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211347 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212012 | Blagg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. J. Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novobiocin analogues useful as Hsp90 inhibitors in the treatment of cancer, neuroprotection, and autoimmune disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390175 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212195 | Geswender |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris E. Geswender (Green Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A guided projectile may include a projectile body. An inertial measurement unit may be disposed within the projectile body, the inertial measurement unit including sensors to measure motion parameters relative to first, second, and third mutually orthogonal axes. Each of the first, second, and third mutually orthogonal axes may form an oblique angle with a longitudinal axis of the projectile body. A controller may be configured to control a trajectory of the guided projectile in response, at least in part, to measurement data received from the inertial measurement unit. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/235246 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212206 | Patterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth E. Patterson (Brookston, Indiana); James Mitchell Wells (Lafayette, Indiana); Brent Rardin (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | In one implementation, an analysis device operational method includes providing a plurality of levels of programming abstraction corresponding to programming of an analysis device configured to analyze a sample, receiving input data corresponding to one of the levels of programming abstraction, processing the input data to generate analysis control data, and implementing an operation with respect to analysis of the sample using the analysis control data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570707 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212215 | La Lumondiere et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen La Lumondiere (Torrance, California); Terence Yeoh (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods of imaging subsurface features of objects. An illumination source may be directed towards a surface of an object comprising subsurface features at a first angle relative to the normal of the surface. The object may have a portion between the subsurface features and the surface that has an index of refraction that is greater than the index of refraction of a surrounding medium. An imaging device may be placed with an objective lens oriented substantially normal to the surface. The first angle may be larger than an acceptance angle of the objective lens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/368026 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212217 | Scherer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Harold Hager (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Photodetection devices and methods are described. The photodetection devices comprise semiconductor tapered pillars. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572234 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212225 | Hutchison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Gregory J. Kearns (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon grids with electron-transparent SiO2 windows for use as substrates for high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of chemically-modified SiO2 surfaces are fabricated by forming an oxide layer on a silicon substrate. An aperture is defined in the silicon substrate by etching the substrate to the oxide layer. A single substrate can include a plurality of apertures that are in respective frame regions that are defined by one or more channels in the substrate. Structural or chemical functionalizations can be provided, and surface interactions observed via TEM. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600764 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/440.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212287 | Strittmatter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Strittmatter (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure method for producing same provides suppressed lattice defects when epitaxially forming nitride layers over non-c-plane oriented layers, such as a semi-polar oriented template layer or substrate. A patterned mask with “window” openings, or trenches formed in the substrate with appropriate vertical dimensions, such as the product of the window width times the cotangent of the angle between the surface normal and the c-axis direction, provides significant blocking of all diagonally running defects during growth. In addition, inclined posts of appropriate height and spacing provide a blocking barrier to vertically running defects is created. When used in conjunction with the aforementioned aspects of mask windows or trenches, the post structure provides sign0ificant blocking of both vertically and diagonally running defects during growth. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/562675 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212289 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Peter Smith (Carrboro, North Carolina); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Group III Nitride based field effect transistor (FETs) are provided having a power degradation of less than about 3.0 dB when operated at a drain-to-source voltage (VDS) of about from about 28 to about 70 volts, a gate to source voltage (Vgs) of from about −3.3 to about −14 volts and a normal operating temperature for at least about 10 hours. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270063 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212290 | Heikman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sten Heikman (Goleta, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor device capable of high performance at high temperatures. The transistor comprises a gate having a contact layer that contacts the active region. The gate contact layer is made of a material that has a high Schottky barrier when used in conjunction with a particular semiconductor system (e.g., Group-III nitrides) and exhibits decreased degradation when operating at high temperatures. The device may also incorporate a field plate to further increase the operating lifetime of the device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726975 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212569 | In 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) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Norman Liu (San Diego, California); Patrick Longhini (San Diego, California); Yong (Andy) Kho (Chula Vista, California); Joseph D. Neff (San Diego, California); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California); Antonio Palacios (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ambient electric field detector comprising: a collection mechanism disposed to generate a current signal in response to the ambient electric field; an input current mirror operatively coupled to the collection mechanism and disposed to amplify and duplicate the current signal to generate a duplicate signal; and an odd number (i) of at least three nonlinear, over-damped, bi-stable elements coupled uni-directionally in a ring such that the ring of elements oscillates, wherein at least one of the elements has a different initial state than the other elements and each element is disposed to receive the duplicate signal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/749338 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212573 | AbouKhousa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Ahmed AbouKhousa (Rolla, Missouri); Reza Zoughi (Wildwood, Missouri); Sergiy Kharkivskiy (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Analyzing a device under test (“DUT”) at higher frequencies. A phase shifter varies the phase of a standing wave on a transmission line coupled to the DUT. The standing wave magnitude is sampled at each of the phase shifts and one or more DUT characteristics are determined as a function of the sampled magnitudes and phase shifts. Further aspects include a related phase shifter comprising a waveguide having a plurality of sub-resonant slots formed therein and having active elements for loading the slots to control the phase shift applied to the signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354545 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212640 | Tuschner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Tuschner (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetically driven tool includes a shaft having a bottom application end including a contacting surface, at least one support around a portion of the shaft for supporting components positioned outside the shaft that float with respect to the shaft. A first magnet is affixed to the shaft. An electromagnet secured to the support is positioned outside the shaft and floats with respect to the shaft above the first magnet. At least one bearing is provided for sliding the shaft in an axial direction and optionally rotating the shaft. For pushing operations, the direction of current through the electromagnet is applied so that like poles relative to the first magnet face one another to provide a repulsive force, while for pulling operations unlike poles face one another. The magnitude of the current sets a force applied by the contacting surface to a workpiece. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/191112 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212709 | Bradley |
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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) | Timothy Bradley (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A countermeasure method for directing a mobile tracking device away from an asset is provided. The countermeasure method includes directing the output of a continuous wave laser source at a seeker head of the mobile tracking device. The countermeasure method causes the generation of localized sources within the mobile tracking device and confuses the mobile tracking device as to the true location of the asset. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549516 |
| 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 342/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212710 | Samaniego |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Samaniego (Prosper, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a synthetic aperture radar includes a back projection processor that is configured to receive multiple return signals from the radar as the radar is moved with respect to an object, wherein the return signals are representative of electro-magnetic radiation reflected from the object. The back projection processor generates a dynamic image of one or more internal features of the object from the return signals by varying a squint angle of the plurality of return signals in which the squint angle varied by modifying a back projection filter. Once generated, the back projection processor displays the dynamic image on a display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607616 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212711 | Schultz 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) | Abraham Schultz (Alexandria, Virginia); Feng-Ling C Lin (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a corrected UAV trajectory for a UAV having an on-board synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a programmed trajectory includes the SAR obtaining observed radar range profile curves associated with point scatterers; calculating an error objective function based on the observed radar range profile curves to obtain a perturbation path; and applying the perturbation path to the programmed trajectory to obtain the corrected UAV trajectory input back into the SAR. Optimal parameter values applied to the UAV motion model then constitute an improved estimate of the UAV trajectory. A system for computing the corrected UAV trajectory also includes an on-board UAV inertial navigation system and an on-board processor having a machine-readable storage media capable for storing the software instructions for applying the subject algorithm via the processor that then applies the corrected trajectory to the SAR. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729330 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212880 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University Research Foundation (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Anderson (Logan, Utah); Morgan Davidson (River Heights, Utah); Jason Lee Wooden (Mendon, Utah); R. Camden Robinson (Lindon, Utah); James Peterson (North Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An image stabilization system includes an optical assembly configured to receive electromagnetic radiation emitted by a target and produce focused image of the target; a focal plane array, the focal plane array being configured to receive the image and integrate at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation making up the image to produce an electrical representation of the image; sensors configured to provide kinematic data; a control system receiving the kinematic data and estimating jitter-induced motion of the image on the focal plane and outputting a control signal; and actuators configured to receive the control signal and to translate the focal plane along two orthogonal axes and rotate the focal plane about a third orthogonal axis such that jitter-induced motion of the image on the focal plane is reduced. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/339444 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212995 | Koehler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elka E. Koehler (Tucson, Arizona); Clarence C. Andressen (Tucson, Arizona); David G. Jenkins (Tucson, Arizona); Byron B. Taylor (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a laser imaging system with uniform line illumination and method for generating images are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the laser imaging system includes a polarizer beam splitter to angularly separate an input laser beam into a pair of overlapping cross-polarized beams having a first angular separation therebetween, and a diffraction optic beamlet generator to generate a plurality of beamlets of alternating polarization states with a second angular separation therebetween. The laser imaging system may also include a focal-plane array (FPA) having a field-of-view (FOV) to be illuminated by the plurality of beamlets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/725144 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213010 | Sivaprakasam |
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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) | Vasanthi Sivaprakasam (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Measuring and tracking velocity of individual aerosol particles in a bio-threat detection system are accomplished using a single beam laser source in combination with a birefringent crystal that splits the laser beam into two beams having orthogonal polarization. Scattered light is collected with an elliptical reflector and directed into two detection channels, sampling total elastic scatter in the first channel and sampling polarized elastic scatter in the second channel. The difference in intensity of the scattered light in the polarized channel is used to identify the position of the particles. By taking the ratio of signal output from the polarized detector to the total scatter detector, a threshold level can be established to determine the presence of particles traversing the two beams. The particles are time stamped as they traverse the two beams and the time difference between the pulses can be used to measure the velocity of the particles. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554567 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213184 | Knickerbocker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of testing integrated circuit chips. The method includes: attaching integrated circuit chips to an interposer of a temporary carrier, the carrier comprising: a substrate, a first interconnects on a bottom surface and a second array of interconnects on a top surface of the substrate, corresponding first and second interconnects electrically connected by wires in the substrate; the interposer, first pads on a top surface and a second pads on a bottom surface of the interposer, corresponding first and second pads electrically connected by wires in the interposer, and the second pads in physical and electrical contact with corresponding second interconnects; and the interposer including an interposer substrate comprising a same material as a substrate of the integrated circuit chip; connecting interconnects of the first array of interconnects to a tester; and testing the one or more integrated circuit chips. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/195515 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213431 | Fleischman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Fleischman (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for communicating real time information using a wide area network protocol and communications protocol that mitigates against potentially significant packet loss rates caused by events such as signal blockage occurring at the underlying wireless transmission (e.g., radio) links. In one implementation the method involves creating a first data packet having a first segment of information, and a first identification (ID) code. The first data packet is then transmitted. A second data packet is then created having information forming the first data packet and also a second segment of information identified by a second code. The second packet is then transmitted. Subsequently formed data packets may include all of the information from previously created data packets until a maximum packet depth is reached, and then each subsequently created new data packet drops off the oldest packet information from the previously created packet while including new information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016616 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213547 | Sisley 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) | Brandon M. Sisley (Liberty Township, Ohio); Brad Prichard (Bloomington, Indiana); Douglas N. Morgan (Bloomington, Indiana); Craig A. Rouland (Solsberry, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to detect a signal of interest. In one embodiment, the system comprises a memory including a first parameter value, a second parameter value, a third parameter value and a program to identify active video values and null values in a first plurality of signals including the signal of interest. The system includes an interface portion adapted to receive a second plurality of signals based upon power levels of a first plurality of signals. The signal of interest is detectable based on the first, second and third parameter values. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334112 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213740 | Rikoski |
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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) | Richard Rikoski (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for coherent image correlation are provided. The systems include sonars with overlapping frequencies that observe terrain from overlapping aspects to form sonar images. First and second sonar images are formed and are grazing angle compensated. The first image is formed using the open or closed aperture theorem. Forming the second image using the open or closed aperture theorem constraint is optional. If the first and second images are not aligned, a range of possible rotations can be defined and image pairs can be created for a sampling of rotational angles. In addition, the images can be aspect compensated to remove windowing and beam pattern effects, if necessary. Once both images are grazing angle compensated and aligned, values are calculated for each possible image shift. To obtain a correlation image, the correlation coefficient for each possible image shift is calculated. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454485 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214154 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | “The present invention provides systems for: identifying pathogens in biological samples from humans and animals, resolving a plurality of etiologic agents present in samples obtained from humans and animals, determining detailed genetic information about such pathogens or etiologic agents, and rapid detection and identification of bioagents from environmental, clinical or other samples.” |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929910 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214177 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renbin Peng (Syracuse, New York); Hao Chen (Syracuse, New York); Pramod K. Varshney (Fayetteville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for detecting micro-calcifications in mammograms using novel algorithms and stochastic resonance noise is provided, where a suitable dose of noise is added to the abnormal mammograms such that the performance of a suboptimal lesion detector is improved without altering the detector's parameters. A stochastic resonance noise-based detection approach is presented to improve suboptimal detectors which suffer from model mismatch due to the Gaussian assumption. Furthermore, a stochastic resonance noise-based detection enhancement framework is presented to deal with more general model mismatch cases. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710143 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214196 | Yamada et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenji Yamada (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A statistical translation model (TM) may receive a parse tree in a source language as an input and separately output a string in a target language. The TM may perform channel operations on the parse tree using model parameters stored in probability tables. The channel operations may include reordering child nodes, inserting extra words at each node (e.g., NULL words) translating leaf words, and reading off leaf words to generate the string in the target language. The TM may assign a translation probability to the string in the target language. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190298 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214424 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system is programmed to provide a method for enabling user-level one-to-all message/messaging (OTAM) broadcast within a distributed parallel computing environment in which multiple threads of a single job execute on different processing nodes across a network. The method comprises: generating one or more messages for transmission to at least one other processing node accessible via a network, where the messages are generated by/for a first thread executing at the data processing system (first processing node) and the other processing node executes one or more second threads of a same parallel job as the first thread. An OTAM broadcast is transmitting via a host fabric interface (HFI) of the data processing system as a one-to-all broadcast on the network, whereby the messages are transmitted to a cluster of processing nodes across the network that execute threads of the same parallel job as the first thread. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424837 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08214603 — Method and apparatus for handling multiple memory requests within a multiprocessor system
| US 08214603 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for handling multiple memory requests within a multi-processor system is disclosed. A lock control section is initially assigned to a data block within a system memory. In response to a request for accessing the data block by a processing unit, a determination is made whether or not the lock control section of the data block has been set. If the lock control section has been set, another determination is made whether or not the requesting processing unit is located beyond a predetermined distance from a memory controller. If the requesting processing unit is located beyond a predetermined distance from the memory controller, the requesting processing unit is invited to perform other functions; otherwise, the number of the requesting processing unit is placed in a queue table. However, if the lock control section has not been set, the lock control section of the data block is set, and the access request is allowed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024181 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214604 | Armilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Armilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and data processing system for performing fence operations within a global shared memory (GSM) environment having a local task executing on a processor and providing GSM commands for processing by a host fabric interface (HFI) window that is allocated to the task. The HFI window has one or more registers for use during local fence operations. A first register tracks a first count of task-issued GSM commands, and a second register tracks a second count of GSM operations being processed by the HFI. The processing logic detects a locally-issued fence operation, and responds by performing a series of operations, including: automatically stopping the task from issuing additional GSM commands; monitoring for completion of all the task-issued GSM commands at the HFI; and triggering a resumption of issuance of GSM commands by the task when the completion of all previous task-issued GSM commands is registered by the HFI. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024367 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
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| US 08214658 | Casey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon A. Casey (Poughkeepsie, New York); Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Soraya Ghiasi (Boulder, Colorado); Kenneth C. Marston (Poughquag, New York); Jennifer V. Muncy (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Malcolm S. Ware (Austin, Texas); Roger D. Weekly (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Mitigating effects of delamination of components in the data processing system is provided. A signal is received from one or more sensors in the data processing system. A determination is made as to whether the signal indicates that one threshold in a plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded. Responsive to the signal indicating that one threshold in the plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded, a determination is made as to whether the one threshold is a low temperature threshold or a high temperature threshold. Responsive to the one threshold being a low temperature threshold, one of a plurality of actions is initiated to increase a temperature of the data processing system thereby mitigating effects of delamination of the components in the data processing system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194620 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214663 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas); Malcolm S. Ware (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for using a power proxy unit combined with on-chip actuators to meet a defined power target value identifying a target power consumption of a component of a data processing system. A power manager in the data processing system identifies a proxy power threshold value, for the defined power target value, identifying a maximum power usage for the component, and a power usage estimate value identifying a current power usage estimate for the component. The power manager sends a set of signals to one or more on-chip actuators in the power proxy unit associated with the component in response to the power usage estimate value being greater than the power proxy threshold value. The one or more on-chip actuators adjusts a set of operational parameters associated with the component in order to meet the defined power target value. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424158 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214918 | Amos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nissim Amos (Moreno Valley, California); Sakhrat Khizroev (Riverside, California); Rabee Ikkawi (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Robert Haddon (Riverside, California); Robert Fernandez (Brawley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) probe tips that provide enhanced spatial resolution and methods of manufacture are provided. In one aspect, two or more magnetically-decoupled layers may be deposited on an AFM probe in order to create an active magnetic region at about the apex of the probe tip with dimensions less than about 10 nanometers. In another aspect, nanoscale patterning techniques may be employed to fabricate probe tips that possess plateau features. These plateau features may serve as substrates for the deposition of magnetic films having properties similar to magnetic recording media. Machining techniques, such as Focused Ion Beam (FIB) may be further employed to reduce the size of the magnetic materials deposited upon the substrate. Beneficially, because the plateaus of the substrate are substantially flat and of known geometry, and the magnetic properties of magnetic films deposited on flat surfaces are similar to those deposited upon the plateau, the magnetization of the MFM probe tips may be determined to high accuracy. In this manner, fine control over the magnetic properties of MFM probe tips may be achieved, providing enhanced MFM resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623329 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43498 | Bekey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Bekey (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive reflector antenna includes an adaptive reflector and a mechanism for simultaneously effecting feed rotation and shape change for the adaptive reflector so as to maintain antenna performance with large scan angles while simultaneously reducing weight, complexity, and cost. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/797368 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/912 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08211171 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | June-Hong Kim (Busan, South Korea); Robert J. Lederman (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ozgur Kocaturk (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective device or bridge (20) comprising a central arch (24) is suitable to be placed between an annuplasty device placed in the coronary sinus and an underlying coronary artery to inhibit transmission of compressive force on the coronary artery by the annuplasty device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514990 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/2.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211361 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuyu Sun (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Jie Luo (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Zhaobin Chen (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, articles, methods controlling microbial contamination of a surface by functionalizing a surface of an object and binding one or more acyclic-amine structures to the surface. The one or more acyclic-amine structures are halogenated to form one or more acyclic N-halamine structures. The one or more acyclic N-halamine structures modulate the formation of a biofilm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056124 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211422 | Eshhar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zelig Eshhar (Rehovot, Israel); Daniel Schindler (Rehovot, Israel); Tova Waks (Petach Tikva, Israel); Gideon Gross (Hevel KoraZim, Israel); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Patrick Hwu (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric receptor genes suitable for endowing lymphocytes with antibody-type specificity include a first gene segment encoding a single-chain Fv domain of a specific antibody and a second gene segment encoding all or part of the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains, and optionally the extracellular domain, of an immune cell-triggering molecule. The chimeric receptor gene, when transfected to immune cells, expresses the antibody-recognition site and the immune cell-triggering moiety into one continuous chain. The transformed lymphocytes are useful in therapeutic treatment methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/547263 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211432 | Höök et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada); Universita' Degli Studi di Pavia (Pavia, Italy); Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Höök (Houston, Texas); Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Karen L. House-Pompeo (Valdusta, Georgia); Pietro Speziale (Pavia, Italy); Danny Joh (Houston, Texas); Martin J. McGavin (Etobicoke, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are antibodies that block the binding of fibronectin protein to fibronectin. Also disclosed are site specifically-mutated and truncated peptide epitopes derived from the fnbA and fnbB genes of Staphylococcus aureus, the fnbA and fnbB genes of Streptococcus dysgalactiae, and the sfb gene of Streptococcus pyogenes, and nucleic acid segments encoding these peptides and epitopes. The anti-(fibronectin binding site) antibodies, peptides and epitopes that give rise to antibodies that block the binding of fibronectin binding proteins to fibronectin, and DNA segments encoding these proteins and are of use in various screening, diagnostic and therapeutic applications including active and passive immunization and methods for the prevention of streptococcal and staphylococcal colonization in animals or humans. These. DNA segments and the peptides derived therefrom are proposed to be of use directly in the preparation of vaccines and also for use as carrier proteins in vaccine formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/589760 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211436 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry Kao (St. Louis, Missouri); Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jarrod A. Marto (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for vaccinating a patient against a malignancy comprising introducing a protein or peptide comprising of all or an immunogenic fragment of a cyclin protein into the patient. The invention further provides a method of identifying tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698822 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211445 | Otto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Otto (Washington, District of Columbia); Rong Wang (Hamilton, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for the treatment and inhibition of infectious disease, particularly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus. In certain embodiments, the disclosure concerns immunogenic peptides, for instance PSM peptides, which can be used to induce protective immunity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus. Also disclosed are methods of detecting methicillin-resistant staphylococcus in a sample, and methods of diagnosing methicillin-resistant staphylococcus in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631253 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211634 | DePinho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. DePinho (Houaton, Texas); Kenneth C. Anderson (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Ruben D. Carrasco (Brookline, Massachusetts); Giovanni Tonon (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy); Cameron W. Brennan (Haworth, New Jersey); John D. Shaughnessy, Jr. (Roland, Arkansas); Lynda Chin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for detecting, characterizing, preventing, and treating human cancer. A variety of chromosomal regions (MCRs) and markers corresponding thereto, are provided, wherein alterations in the copy number of one or more of the MCRs and/or alterations in the amount, structure, and/or activity of one or more of the markers is correlated with the presence of cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706155 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08211635 | Barton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Barton (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of screening for modulators of TRIM24 (also known as TIF1-ALPHA) expression and/or biological activity are described. In particular, methods of screening of screening for modulators of TRIM24 E3 ligase activity, and specifically an E3 ligase activity directed at p53 as the target polypeptide are also described. Modulators of TRIM24 expression and activity are provided and their use in treatment of cancer, particularly in breast, colon, prostate, renal cancers and in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Suitable modulators of TRIM24 expression include siRNA and shRNA and can be used in the treatment of cancer and for targeting cancer stem cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/667314 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211645 | Tomlins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/650164 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211646 | Nanjundan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meera Nanjundan (Tampa, Florida); Gordon Mills (Houston, Texas); Dawn Smith (Polk City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Genomic analysis of ovarian cancers demonstrated a regional chromosomal increase in expression and gene duplication. TGF-β stimulation indicated a link between SnoN RNA and TGF-β. In TIOSE, SnoN protein levels were reduced 15 min post TGF-β-stimulation, likely by proteosome-mediated degradation. SnoN inhibition decreased cell growth between 20 and 50% concurrent with increased p21 levels. Stable expression of SnoN led to growth arrest through induction of senescence. Collectively, these results implicate SnoN levels in multiple roles during ovarian carcinogenesis: promoting cellular proliferation in ovarian cancer cells and as a positive mediator of cell cycle arrest and senescence in non-transformed ovarian epithelial cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619345 |
| 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 435/6.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211654 | Thorson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); John R. Fitzgibbon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a rapid, quantitative assay to directly assess the impact of a diverse range of sugars upon the sugar-mediated uptake of corresponding sugar-conjugates into various cell types. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322388 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211660 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P. Lin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Xunbin Wei (Quincy, Massachusetts); Dorothy Sipkins (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for performing in vivo flow cytometry. In one embodiments, selected circulating cells of interest of a subject are labeled with fluorescent probe molecules. The labeled cells are irradiated in-vivo so as to excite the fluorescent probes, and the radiation emitted by the excited probes is detected, preferably confocally. The detected radiation is then analyzed to derive desired information, such as relative cell count, of the cells of interest. In some embodiments, the circulating cells comprise apoptotic cells whose detection can allow, e.g., non-invasive monitoring of the efficacy of a cancer treatment, such as an anti-tumor or an anti-angiogenic therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785833 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211699 | Robins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Robins (Athens, Georgia); Thomas C. Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838054 |
| 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 435/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211700 | Longo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valter Longo (Playa del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods of inducing differential stress resistance in a subject with cancer by starving the subject for a short term, administering a cell growth inhibitor to the subject, or reducing the caloric or glucose intake by the subject. The induced differential stress resistance results in improved resistance to cytotoxicity in normal cells, which, in turn, reduces cytotoxic side-effects due to chemotherapy, as well as improved effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/058600 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/384 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211709 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Ivar Meyvantsson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jay W. Warwick (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Toepke (Normal, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided of controlling communication between multiple ports in a microfluidic device. The method includes the step of providing a channel network in a microfluidic device. The channel network including a first channel having a first input port and an output port. The first channel is filled with a fluid and a first output droplet is deposited on the output port. The first output droplet has a radius of curvature. The first output droplet flows toward the first input port in response to placement of a first input droplet having a radius of curvature greater than the radius of curvature of the first output droplet on the first input port. The first input droplet flows toward the output port in response to the first input droplet having a radius of curvature less than the radius of curvature of first output droplet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843291 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
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| US 08211858 | Jankun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerzy Jankun (Sylvania, Ohio); Ewa Skrzypczak-Jankun (Sylvania, Ohio); Steven H. Selman (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a modified plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) molecule that displays an increased in vivo half-life of the active form of PAI-1, but is deficient in one or more functional activities as compared to the wild-type PAI-1 protein. The modified PAI-1 molecule that displays an increased half-life further displays at least one of the following functional characteristics: (i) decreased binding activity to at least one of the following molecules: urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and vitronectin (Vn); and (ii) decreased specific activity against at least one of the following molecules: uPA, tPA and Vn. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising modified PAI-1 molecules and methods of using these pharmaceutical compositions for treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597686 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211879 | Savage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah); Donald Leung (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for decreasing or inhibiting herpesviridae (HV) infection or pathogenesis of a cell in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo, a symptom or pathology associated with a herpesviridae (HV) infection or pathogenesis in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo, or an adverse side effect of herpesviridae (HV) infection or pathogenesis in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo. In one embodiment, a method of the invention includes treating a subject with an invention compound (e.g., cationic steroid antimicrobial or CSA). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876993 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211883 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Cooper (Moreland Hills, Ohio); Nancy L. Oleinick (University Heights, Ohio); Malcolm E. Kenney (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Thomas S. McCormick (Orange Village, Ohio); Jeffrey C. Berlin (Clayville, New York); Elma D. Baron (Concord, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to topical pharmaceutical compositions comprising a phthalocyanine, wherein a diamagnetic metal ion moiety is either coordinated or covalently bound to the phthalocyanine core. The invention also relates to methods for destroying cancer tissue, precancerous cells, photo-aged cells, damaged cells, or otherwise pathologic cells, or activated cells, such as lymphocytes or other cells of the immune system, or activated or inflamed tissue cells comprising topically administering to the cancer tissue or surrounding tissue an effective amount of a phthalocyanine composition. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/599433 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211893 | Antonetti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Antonetti (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey M. Sundstrom (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Charles D. Smith (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating or preventing a disease or disorder in a subject are provided by the present invention which include administering a composition including a therapeutically effective amount of a protein kinase C (PKC) zeta inhibitor. A disease or disorder treated or prevented by administration of a PKC zeta inhibitor is characterized by abnormal vascular permeability. Diseases or disorders treated or prevented by administration of a composition including a therapeutically effective amount of a PKC zeta inhibitor include cancer, an ischemic condition and microvascular complications of a systemic or local condition in the subject, such as diabetes and/or diabetic macular edema. Additionally, methods of inhibiting PKC zeta are provided which include incubating PKC zeta in vivo, in vitro and/or in silico with a PKC zeta inhibitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542977 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.130 |
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| US 08211991 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois); Cheuk-Wai Kan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds and related methods and apparatus, as can be used in a wide range of RNA and DNA separations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699294 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/303.100 |
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| US 08212007 | Hooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lora V. Hooper (Dallas, Texas); Heather L. Cash (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Cecilia V. Whitham (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of compositions comprising RegIII and HIP/PAP proteins, including the use of such proteins as diagnostic and therapeutic targets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085093 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 08212009 | Kipps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Kipps (San Diego, California); Tetsuya Fukuda (Yokohama, Japan); Tomoyuki Endo (San Diego, California); Suping Zhang (San Diego, California); Liguang Chen (San Diego, California); H. Elizabeth Broome (Lakeside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising a purified and/or isolated antibody, humanized antibodies, precipitates and anti-sera that specifically bind to or are otherwise directed against ROR1 protein. The compositions may be used for detecting ROR1 in a sample from a subject that is suspected or known to contain cancer cells. The ROR1 antibodies are especially useful in identifying and treating lymphomas and ademocarcinomas. Vaccines and related methods for protecting a subject against diseases that involve expression of ROR1 are also provided, as are human anti-sera effective in abrogating interactions between Wnt5a protein and ROR1 that contribute to the survival of certain cancer cells, such as CLL cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545731 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novobiocin analogues and pharmaceutical composition containing such compounds useful for the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune disorders, as well as cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390011 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/13 |
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| US 08212012 | Blagg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. J. Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novobiocin analogues useful as Hsp90 inhibitors in the treatment of cancer, neuroprotection, and autoimmune disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390175 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/13 |
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| US 08212018 | Pancer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeev Pancer (Baltimore, Maryland); Max D. Cooper (Birmingham, Alabama); Chris Amemiya (Seattle, Washington); G. Larry Gartland (Birmingham, Alabama); Goetz R. A. Ehrhardt (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229020 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 08212019 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne B. Lawrence (Mapleville, Rhode Island); Lisa L. Hall (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features compositions and methods for introducing, into cells, nucleic acids whose expression results in chromosomal silencing. The nucleic acids are targeted to specific chromosomal regions where they subsequently reduce the expression of deleterious genes, or cause the death of deleterious cells. Where the nucleic acid sequence is a silencing sequence, it may encode an Xist RNA or other non-coding, silencing RNA. Accordingly, the present invention features, inter alia, nucleic acid constructs that include a transgene (e.g., a silencing sequence encoding an Xist RNA or other non-coding RNA that silences a segment of a chromosome); first and second sequences that direct insertion of the silencing sequence into a targeted chromosome; and, optionally, a selectable marker. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512964 |
| 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 08212023 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a porphyrin is carried out by: (a) condensing (i) a 1,9-bis(N,N-)dialkylaminomethyl)dipyrromethane of Formula II: with (ii) a dipyrromethane to produce a reaction product; then (b) oxidizing the reaction product; and then (c) optionally demetallating said reaction product to produce the porphyrin. The reaction is particularly useful for making substituted porphyrins with a wide range of substituents at the A and/or B (the 5 and/or 15) positions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014914 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212055 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Doyoung Ra (Taejon, South Korea); Guoning Mo (Ontario, Canada); Thiagarajan Balasubramanian (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making chlorins comprises the steps of reacting (e.g. condensing) a dipyrrin western half intermediate with an eastern half intermediate to form a tetrahydrobilene, and then cyclizing the tetrahydrobilene to form a chlorin. Intermediates including tetrahydrobilenes useful in such reactions are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693069 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212560 | Moeller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steen Moeller (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Curtis A Corum (Shoreview, Minnesota); Djaudat S. Idiyatullin (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discloses, among other things, a method for removing a bullseye artifact from a radial image generated using magnetic resonance and using a swept frequency pulse. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384888 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 08212561 | Nielsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Krishna S. Nayak (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Referenceless techniques for flow imaging are described that exploit a refocusing property of balanced steady state free precession (“SSFP”) magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”), and achieve up to approximately a 50% reduction in total scan time. With the echo time set to one half of the sequence repetition time (TE=TR/2), non-flow-related image phase tends to vary smoothly across the field-of-view, and can be estimated from static tissue regions to produce a phase reference for nearby voxels containing flowing blood. These approaches produce accurate in vivo one-dimensional velocity estimates in half the scan time compared with conventional balanced SSFP phase-contrast methods. The feasibility of referenceless time-resolved 3D flow imaging (called “7D” flow) is demonstrated for a carotid bifurcation application from just three acquisitions. Related systems are also described. Other attributes such as blood acceleration can also be imaged with such techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582437 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 08213008 | Momtahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid Momtahan (Foothill Ranch, California); Chao Ray Hsieh (Atlanta, Georgia); Ali Adibi (Suwanee, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing spectral-spatial mapping in (one and two dimensions) and coded spectroscopy are described. At least one embodiment includes a system for performing spectral-spatial mapping and coded spectroscopy comprising a cylindrical beam volume hologram (CBVH), the CBVH configured to receive input beams and generate diffracted beams in a first direction to perform spectral-spatial mapping, the CBVH further configured to allow input beams to pass in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction unaffected. The system further comprises a first lens configured to receive the diffracted beams and perform a Fourier transform on the input beams in the first direction, a second lens configured to receive the diffracted beams and focus the beams in the second direction to generate output beams, and a charged coupled device (CCD) configured to receive the outputs beams, the output beams used to provide spectral analysis of the input beams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/671166 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr. (Niskayuna, New York); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A protection system for a pre-mixing apparatus for a turbine engine, includes: a main body having an inlet portion, an outlet portion and an exterior wall that collectively establish a fuel delivery plenum; and a plurality of fuel mixing tubes that extend through at least a portion of the fuel delivery plenum, each of the plurality of fuel mixing tubes including at least one fuel feed opening fluidly connected to the fuel delivery plenum; at least one thermal fuse disposed on an exterior surface of at least one tube, the at least one thermal fuse including a material that will melt upon ignition of fuel within the at least one tube and cause a diversion of fuel from the fuel feed opening to at least one bypass opening. A method and a turbine engine in accordance with the protection system are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/260451 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
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| US 08210360 | Routkevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synkera Technologies, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Routkevitch (Longmont, Colorado); Oleg G. Polyakov (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite membranes that are adapted for separation, purification, filtration, analysis, reaction and sensing. The composite membranes can include a porous support structure having elongate pore channels extending through the support structure. The composite membrane also includes an active layer comprising an active layer material, where the active layer material is completely disposed within the pore channels between the surfaces of the support structure. The active layer is intimately integrated within the support structure, thus enabling great robustness, reliability, resistance to mechanical stress and thermal cycling, and high selectivity. Methods for the fabrication of composite membranes are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745449 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
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| US 08210420 | Blue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a composite sheet includes the steps of: providing a first sheet having a surface and including a metal or alloy, the first sheet having a given strength characteristic; providing a second sheet having a surface and a strength characteristic that is superior to the given strength characteristic of the first sheet; disposing the first sheet and the second sheet in an aligned opposing position with at least a portion of the surface of the first sheet touching the surface of the first sheet to form a contact area; and bonding the first sheet to the second sheet at least in part by applying an oscillating ultrasonic force to at least one of the first sheet and the second sheet to form a composite sheet, the first sheet having a cube texture characterized by a φ-scan having a FWHM of no more than 15° in all directions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020032 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/110.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210767 | Swahlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Swahlan (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jason Wilke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An access delay vehicle barrier for stopping unauthorized entry into secure areas by a vehicle ramming attack includes access delay features for preventing and/or delaying an adversary from defeating or compromising the barrier. A horizontally deployed barrier member can include an exterior steel casing, an interior steel reinforcing member and access delay members disposed within the casing and between the casing and the interior reinforcing member. Access delay members can include wooden structural lumber, concrete and/or polymeric members that in combination with the exterior casing and interior reinforcing member act cooperatively to impair an adversarial attach by thermal, mechanical and/or explosive tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559594 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211307 | Chew et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Streamline Automation, LLC (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Chew (Huntsville, Alabama); Alton J. Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); H. Waite H. Dykes, Jr. (Huntsville, Alabama); Roberto Di Salvo (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for processing algae are described in which a hydrophilic ionic liquid is used to lyse algae cells. The lysate separates into at least two layers including a lipid-containing hydrophobic layer and an ionic liquid-containing hydrophilic layer. A salt or salt solution may be used to remove water from the ionic liquid-containing layer before the ionic liquid is reused. The used salt may also be dried and/or concentrated and reused. The method can operate at relatively low lysis, processing, and recycling temperatures, which minimizes the environmental impact of algae processing while providing reusable biofuels and other useful products. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083844 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211388 | Woodfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian F. Woodfield (Provo, Utah); Shengfeng Liu (Provo, Utah); Juliana Boerio-Goates (Orem, Utah); Qingyuan Liu (Provo, Utah); Stacey Janel Smith (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | In preferred embodiments, metal nanoparticles, mixed-metal (alloy) nanoparticles, metal oxide nanoparticles and mixed-metal oxide nanoparticles are provided. According to embodiments, the nanoparticles may possess narrow size distributions and high purities. In certain preferred embodiments, methods of preparing metal nanoparticles, mixed-metal nanoparticles, metal oxide nanoparticles and mixed-metal nanoparticles are provided. These methods may provide tight control of particle size, size distribution, and oxidation state. Other preferred embodiments relate to a precursor material that may be used to form nanoparticles. In addition, products prepared from such nanoparticles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707840 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211400 | Nolas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George S. Nolas (Tampa, Florida); Sarath Witanachchi (Tampa, Florida); Pritish Mukherjee (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises new materials, material structures, and processes of fabrication of such that may be used in technologies involving the conversion of light to electricity and/or heat to electricity, and in optoelectronics technologies. The present invention provide for the fabrication of a clathrate compound comprising a type II clathrate lattice with atoms of silicon and germanium as a main framework forming lattice spacings within the framework, wherein the clathrate lattice follows the general formula Si136−yGey, where y indicates the number of Ge atoms present in the main framework and 136−y indicates the number of Si atoms present in the main framework, and wherein y>0. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428822 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211499 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. O'Brien (San Ramon, California); Stephan A. Letts (San Ramon, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Jeffrey D. Morse (Pleasant Hill, California); Steven R. Buckley (Modesto, California); Larry E. Fischer (Los Gatos, California); Keith B. Wilson (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of fabricating a composite membrane from a membrane substrate using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization. A first monomer and a second monomer are directed into a mixing chamber in a deposition chamber. The first monomer and the second monomer are mixed in the mixing chamber providing a mixed first monomer and second monomer. The mixed first monomer and second monomer are solvent-less vapor deposited onto the membrane substrate in the deposition chamber. The membrane substrate and the mixed first monomer and second monomer are heated to produce in-situ polymerization and provide the composite membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633860 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
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| US 08211587 | Ruka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roswell J. Ruka (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); George R. Folser (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania); Srikanth Gopalan (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasma sprayed ceramic-metal fuel electrode is provided. The fuel electrode has particular application in connection with a solid oxide fuel cell used within a power generation system. The fuel cell advantageously comprises an air electrode, an electrolyte formed on at least a portion of the air electrode, a plasma sprayed ceramic-metal fuel electrode formed on at least a portion of the electrolyte, and an interconnect layer to connect adjacent cells in a generator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663949 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/486 |
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| US 08211646 | Nanjundan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meera Nanjundan (Tampa, Florida); Gordon Mills (Houston, Texas); Dawn Smith (Polk City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Genomic analysis of ovarian cancers demonstrated a regional chromosomal increase in expression and gene duplication. TGF-β stimulation indicated a link between SnoN RNA and TGF-β. In TIOSE, SnoN protein levels were reduced 15 min post TGF-β-stimulation, likely by proteosome-mediated degradation. SnoN inhibition decreased cell growth between 20 and 50% concurrent with increased p21 levels. Stable expression of SnoN led to growth arrest through induction of senescence. Collectively, these results implicate SnoN levels in multiple roles during ovarian carcinogenesis: promoting cellular proliferation in ovarian cancer cells and as a positive mediator of cell cycle arrest and senescence in non-transformed ovarian epithelial cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619345 |
| 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 435/6.140 |
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| US 08211665 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Hanshu Ding (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893575 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 08211681 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Heng Percival Zhang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jonathan Mielenz (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises an in vitro enzymatic process that effectively converts renewable polysaccharides into high yields of hydrogen at mild conditions, using only enzymes and water. The process comprises a number of enzymes: (1) phosphorylases, (2) phosphoglucomutases, (3) hydrogenases, and (4) enzymes involved in the pentose-phosphate pathway. Preferred embodiments of the process produce only hydrogen and carbon dioxide as net products, translating into an inexpensive method of generating hydrogen in very large quantities from low-cost feedstocks. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747496 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/166 |
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| US 08211687 | Riha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Riha (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A thixotropic gel suitable for use in subsurface bioremediation is provided along with a process of using the gel. The thixotropic gel provides a non-migrating injectable substrate that can provide below ground barrier properties. In addition, the gel components provide for a favorable environment in which certain contaminants are preferentially sequestered in the gel and subsequently remediated by either indigenous or introduced microorganisms. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802985 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211731 | Harley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, California); Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric film stack of a solar cell is ablated using a laser. The dielectric film stack includes a layer that is absorptive in a wavelength of operation of the laser source. The laser source, which fires laser pulses at a pulse repetition rate, is configured to ablate the film stack to expose an underlying layer of material. The laser source may be configured to fire a burst of two laser pulses or a single temporally asymmetric laser pulse within a single pulse repetition to achieve complete ablation in a single step. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795526 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211737 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanopatterned surface is prepared by forming a block copolymer film on a miscut crystalline substrate, annealing the block copolymer film, then reconstructing the surface of the annealed block copolymer film. The method creates a well-ordered array of voids in the block copolymer film that is maintained over a large area. The nanopatterned block copolymer films can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553401 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212027 | Woo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee Keith Woo (Ames, Iowa); Robert J. Angelici (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Converting cyclic amines to lactams using gold supported catalysts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/095523 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212456 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger H. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Hutchinson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ted V. Montoya (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas L. Spindle, Jr. (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing ceramic articles with multiple distinct regions of density by blending pore formers of different types or amounts with ceramic particles to create multiple pore former/ceramic particle mixtures. The mixtures are placed in a divided die cavity, divider removed and subjected to compaction under pressure to produce a compacted billet. The compacted billet is thermally processed to volatilize organics from the billet and sinter the billet, creating a cohesive billet of ceramic having two or more regions of density. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543540 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/358 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212556 | Schwindt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Schwindt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cort N. Johnson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic magnetometer is disclosed which uses a pump light beam at a D1 or D2 transition of an alkali metal vapor to magnetically polarize the vapor in a heated cell, and a probe light beam at a different D2 or D1 transition to sense the magnetic field via a polarization rotation of the probe light beam. The pump and probe light beams are both directed along substantially the same optical path through an optical waveplate and through the heated cell to an optical filter which blocks the pump light beam while transmitting the probe light beam to one or more photodetectors which generate electrical signals to sense the magnetic field. The optical waveplate functions as a quarter waveplate to circularly polarize the pump light beam, and as a half waveplate to maintain the probe light beam linearly polarized. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686109 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212684 | Cordaro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph V. Cordaro (Martinez, Georgia); Michael B. Wood (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrometer for use in measuring current is provided. The electrometer includes an enclosure capable of containing various components of the electrometer. A pre-amplifier is present and is one of the components of the electrometer. The pre-amplifier is contained by the enclosure. The pre-amplifier has a pre-amplifier enclosure that contains the pre-amplifier and provides radio frequency shielding and magnetic shielding to the pre-amplifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311718 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/664 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212714 | Doerry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jay D. Jordan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Theodore J. Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A yaw angle error of a motion measurement system carried on an aircraft for navigation is estimated from Doppler radar images captured using the aircraft. At least two radar pulses aimed at respectively different physical locations in a targeted area are transmitted from a radar antenna carried on the aircraft. At least two Doppler radar images that respectively correspond to the at least two transmitted radar pulses are produced. These images are used to produce an estimate of the yaw angle error. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550873 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213070 | Koplow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Koplow (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, an optical filter device includes an input polarizer for selectively transmitting an input signal. The device includes a wave-plate structure positioned to receive the input signal, which includes first and second substantially zero-order, zero-wave plates arranged in series with and oriented at an angle relative to each other. The first and second zero-wave plates are configured to alter a polarization state of the input signal passing in a manner that depends on the power of the input signal. Each zero-wave plate includes an entry and exit wave plate each having a fast axis, with the fast axes oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. Each entry wave plate is oriented relative to a transmission axis of the input polarizer at a respective angle. An output polarizer is positioned to receive a signal output from the wave-plate structure and selectively transmits the signal based on the polarization state. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/767327 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213476 | Wanke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher D. Nordquist (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the integration of a quantum cascade laser with a hollow waveguide on a chip to improve both the beam pattern and manufacturability. By coupling the QCL output into a single-mode rectangular waveguide the radiation mode structure can be known and the propagation, manipulation, and broadcast of the QCL radiation can then be entirely controlled by well-established rectangular waveguide techniques. By controlling the impedance of the interface, enhanced functions, such as creating amplifiers, efficient coupling to external cavities, and increasing power output from metal-metal THz QCLs, are also enabled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/868440 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214298 | McCown |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RFinity Corporation (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Harvey McCown (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A secure computing module (SCM) is configured for connection with a host device. The SCM includes a processor for performing secure processing operations, a host interface for coupling the processor to the host device, and a memory connected to the processor wherein the processor logically isolates at least some of the memory from access by the host device. The SCM also includes a proximate-field wireless communicator connected to the processor to communicate with another SCM associated with another host device. The SCM generates a secure digital signature for a financial transaction package and communicates the package and the signature to the other SCM using the proximate-field wireless communicator. Financial transactions are performed from person to person using the secure digital signature of each person's SCM and possibly message encryption. The digital signatures and transaction details are communicated to appropriate financial organizations to authenticate the transaction parties and complete the transaction. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196806 |
| ART UNIT | 3621 — 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 75/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43499 | Kieper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Arthur Kieper (Seattle, Washington); Stanislaw Majewski (Morgantown, West Virginia); Benjamin L. Welch (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for enhancing the contrast between background and lesion areas of a breast undergoing dual-head scintimammographic examination comprising: 1) acquiring a pair of digital images from a pair of small FOV or mini gamma cameras compressing the breast under examination from opposing sides; 2) inverting one of the pair of images to align or co-register with the other of the images to obtain co-registered pixel values; 3) normalizing the pair of images pixel-by-pixel by dividing pixel values from each of the two acquired images and the co-registered image by the average count per pixel in the entire breast area of the corresponding detector; and 4) multiplying the number of counts in each pixel by the value obtained in step 3 to produce a normalization enhanced two dimensional contrast map. This enhanced (increased contrast) contrast map enhances the visibility of minor local increases (uptakes) of activity over the background and therefore improves lesion detection sensitivity, especially of small lesions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/913372 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08209974 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and systems for the storage and recovery of energy using open-air hydraulic-pneumatic accumulator and intensifier arrangements that combine at least one accumulator and at least one intensifier in communication with a high-pressure gas storage reservoir on a gas-side of the circuits and a combination fluid motor/pump, coupled to a combination electric generator/motor on the fluid side of the circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/012323 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210360 | Routkevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synkera Technologies, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Routkevitch (Longmont, Colorado); Oleg G. Polyakov (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite membranes that are adapted for separation, purification, filtration, analysis, reaction and sensing. The composite membranes can include a porous support structure having elongate pore channels extending through the support structure. The composite membrane also includes an active layer comprising an active layer material, where the active layer material is completely disposed within the pore channels between the surfaces of the support structure. The active layer is intimately integrated within the support structure, thus enabling great robustness, reliability, resistance to mechanical stress and thermal cycling, and high selectivity. Methods for the fabrication of composite membranes are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745449 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210680 | Tanguay, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armand R. Tanguay, Jr. (Yorba Linda, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system for examining the interior structure of the eye at high-resolution under ambient light without the need for chemical dilation of the pupil. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429964 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211015 | Euliano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Convergent Engineering, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Y. Euliano (Gainesville, Florida); Neil Russell Euliano, II (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Dorothee Marossero (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing a short-acting analgesic agent in the management of pain during labor, wherein the system enables efficient, real-time prediction of contractions for the coordinated administration of analgesia such that the peak effectiveness of the analgesic coincides with the intermittent pain of labor. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986520 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211625 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical structure is provided. The optical structure includes a substrate structure. A photosensitive material layer is positioned on said substrate structure. The photosensitive material layer having uniform periodic geometry and a period length throughout associated with a 2D periodic pattern. The 2D periodic pattern includes a period length greater than the exposing light wavelength and spatial variation in the duty cycle of the features of a mask layer used in the formation of said 2D periodic pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/266869 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211712 | Cho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nam-Joon Cho (Stanford, California); Curtis W. Frank (Cupertino, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Kwang Ho Cheong (Giheung-Gu, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing a planar lipid bilayer on a solid support. With this method, a solution of lipid vesicles is first deposited on the solid support. Next, the lipid vesicles are destabilized by adding an amphipathic peptide solution to the lipid vesicle solution. This destabilization leads to production of a planar lipid bilayer on the solid support. The present invention also provides a supported planar lipid bilayer, where the planar lipid bilayer is made of naturally occurring lipids and the solid support is made of unmodified gold or titanium oxide. Preferably, the supported planar lipid bilayer is continuous. The planar lipid bilayer may be made of any naturally occurring lipid or mixture of lipids, including, but not limited to phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinsitol, cardiolipin, cholesterol, and sphingomyelin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/887669 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211737 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanopatterned surface is prepared by forming a block copolymer film on a miscut crystalline substrate, annealing the block copolymer film, then reconstructing the surface of the annealed block copolymer film. The method creates a well-ordered array of voids in the block copolymer film that is maintained over a large area. The nanopatterned block copolymer films can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553401 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211765 | Somu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivasubramanian Somu (Boston, Massachusetts); Ahmed Busnaina (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicol McGruer (Dover, Massachusetts); Peter Ryan (Waltham, Massachusetts); George G. Adams (West Newton, Massachusetts); Xugang Xiong (Boston, Massachusetts); Taehoon Kim (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-volatile bistable nano-electromechanical switch is provided for use in memory devices and microprocessors. The switch employs carbon nanotubes as the actuation element. A method has been developed for fabricating nanoswitches having one single-walled carbon nanotube as the actuator. The actuation of two different states can be achieved using the same low voltage for each state. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228701 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211958 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York); Hongyang Ma (Setauket, New York); Nobuyuki Taniguchi (Shiga, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides polyolefin blends and nanocomposites and methods for their production. In embodiments, a blend or nanocomposite of the present disclosure may include at least one polyolefin and at least one ionic liquid and/or one modified carbon nanofiller. In embodiments, the at least one modified carbon nanotube may be treated with at least one ionic compound. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/745925 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211969 | Zou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Qun Huo (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A dispersion includes non-chemically modified carbon nanotubes, a soluble block copolymer providing at least one block of a conjugated polymer and at least one block of a non-conjugated polymer, and at least one solvent. At 25° C. exclusive of any mechanical force and after one hour, at least 90% of the carbon nanotubes exist in the dispersion as isolated carbon nanotubes. The components of the dispersion can be combined with a polymer miscible with the block copolymer to form a carbon nanotube polymer composite upon removal of the solvent. The dispersion can be cast on a substrate and then dried to form a coating, including forming a superhydrophobic coating on the substrate. The non-conjugated polymer of the block copolymer or another miscible conjugated polymer including a copolymer can include functionalities that non-covalently attach to the carbon nanotube surface, such as for enhanced solubility or enhanced biocompatibility. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249859 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211991 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois); Cheuk-Wai Kan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds and related methods and apparatus, as can be used in a wide range of RNA and DNA separations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699294 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/303.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212018 | Pancer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeev Pancer (Baltimore, Maryland); Max D. Cooper (Birmingham, Alabama); Chris Amemiya (Seattle, Washington); G. Larry Gartland (Birmingham, Alabama); Goetz R. A. Ehrhardt (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229020 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212552 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Scott Green (Davison, Michigan); Mark Thomas Richardson (St. Joseph, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A stent and a magnetoelastic resonant sensor are provided for sensor a physical characteristic in a bodily vessel or cavity. External coils interact with the sensor to induce a resonance that is responsive to the physical characteristic, such that the device may wirelessly measure physical characteristics such as mass loading effects and viscosity changes due to progression of pathology in implanted stents and stent grafts. The sensor may be fashioned from a magnetoelastic material and may be integrated near the inner sidewall of the stent. The sensor may take on a complex patterned shape to enhance the sensitivity and flexibility of the sensor structure. When the sensor is interrogated with a time-varying magnetic field, the sensor will mechanically vibrate and generate a magnetic flux which is maximum at a resonant characteristic determined by the mass load on the sensor and the viscosity of the fluid surrounding the sensor. By correlating the measured resonant characteristic to the mass load and viscosity, the pathological state in and around the stent can be determined. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476218 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213084 | Kimble |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Jeff Kimble (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometry is thermal noise that drives fluctuations in the positions of the surfaces of the interferometer's mirrors, and thereby in the phase of the intracavity field. A scheme for substantially reducing this thermally driven phase noise is provided in which the strain-induced phase shift from a mirror's optical coating cancels that due to the concomitant motion of the substrate's surface. As such, although the position of the physical surface may fluctuate, the optical phase upon reflection can be largely insensitive to this motion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080355 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213157 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bingqing Wei (Newark, Delaware); Charan Masarapu (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A supercapacitor comprising a cathode, an anode, a first single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) film electrode adjacent the cathode, a second SWNT film electrode adjacent the anode, and separator disposed between the first and second electrodes. The SWNT film electrodes may be manufactured by a non-filtration process comprising depositing the SWNT film on a foil via CVD; separating the SWNT film from the foil; heating the SWNT film; treating the SWNT film with an acid solution; washing the SWNT film; and excising the electrodes from the SWNT film. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/762788 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213695 | Zouridakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas); Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Zouridakis (Houston, Texas); Xiaojing Yuan (Pearland, Texas); Ji Chen (Pearland, Texas); Eric Stotzer (Houston, Texas); Yanmin Wu (Sugarland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides devices for screening the skin of an individual in real time using a region-fusion based segmentation with narrow band graph partitioning algorithm to analyze and classify a region of interest of the skin as benign or malignant. Also, provided is a method for screening the skin of an individual using the devices described herein. In addition the present invention provides a digital processor-implemented system for classifying a region of interest on the skin and a processor readable medium having processor-executable instructions to perform skin cancer detection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075026 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214367 | Baratto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricardo Baratto (San Jose, California); Oren Laadan (New York, New York); Dan Phung (Montclair, New Jersey); Shaya Joseph Potter (New York, New York); Jason Nieh (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for recording, searching, and outputting display information are provided. In some embodiments, systems for recording display information are provided. The systems include a virtual display that: intercepts display-changes describing changes to be made to a state of a display; sends the display-changes to a client for display; records the display-changes; and a context recorder that records context information describing a state of the display derived from a source independently of the display changes and independently of screen-images. In some embodiments, the systems further include a display system that generates an output screen-image based at least in part on at least one of the display-changes and in response to a search of the context information. In some embodiments, the virtual display further records screen-images; and the display system further generates the output screen-image based at least in part on a recorded-screen-image of the recorded screen-images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038515 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/739 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214901 | Porras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Porras (Cupertino, California); Linda Briesemeister (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for combating malicious code. In one embodiment, a method for combating malicious code in a network includes implementing a resource-limiting technique to slow a propagation of the malicious code and implementing a leap-ahead technique in parallel with the resource-limiting technique to defend against the malicious code reaching a full saturation potential in the network. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230419 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214918 | Amos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nissim Amos (Moreno Valley, California); Sakhrat Khizroev (Riverside, California); Rabee Ikkawi (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Robert Haddon (Riverside, California); Robert Fernandez (Brawley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) probe tips that provide enhanced spatial resolution and methods of manufacture are provided. In one aspect, two or more magnetically-decoupled layers may be deposited on an AFM probe in order to create an active magnetic region at about the apex of the probe tip with dimensions less than about 10 nanometers. In another aspect, nanoscale patterning techniques may be employed to fabricate probe tips that possess plateau features. These plateau features may serve as substrates for the deposition of magnetic films having properties similar to magnetic recording media. Machining techniques, such as Focused Ion Beam (FIB) may be further employed to reduce the size of the magnetic materials deposited upon the substrate. Beneficially, because the plateaus of the substrate are substantially flat and of known geometry, and the magnetic properties of magnetic films deposited on flat surfaces are similar to those deposited upon the plateau, the magnetization of the MFM probe tips may be determined to high accuracy. In this manner, fine control over the magnetic properties of MFM probe tips may be achieved, providing enhanced MFM resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623329 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08209976 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajan Vaidyanathan (Oviedo, Florida); Daniel W. Snyder (Melbourne, Florida); David K. Schoenwald (Douglasville, Georgia); Nhin S. Lam (Orlando, Florida); Daniel S. Watson (Orlando, Florida); Vinu B. Krishnan (Hallandale, Florida); Ronald D. Noebe (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | SM-based actuators (110) and release mechanisms (100) therefrom and systems (500) including one or more release mechanisms (100). The actuators (110) comprise a SM member (118) and a deformable member (140) mechanically coupled to the SM member (118) which deforms upon a shape change of the SM member triggered by a phase transition of the SM member. A retaining element (160) is mechanically coupled to the deformable member (140), wherein the retaining element (160) moves upon the shape change. Release mechanism (100) include an actuator, a rotatable mechanism (120) including at least one restraining feature (178) for restraining rotational movement of the retaining element (160) before the shape change, and at least one spring (315) that provides at least one locked spring-loaded position when the retaining element is in the restraining feature and at least one released position that is reached when the retaining element is in a position beyond the restraining feature (178). The rotatable mechanism (120) includes at least one load-bearing protrusion (310). A hitch (400) is for mechanically coupling to the load, wherein the hitch is supported on the load bearing protrusion (310) when the rotatable mechanism is in the locked spring-loaded position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323091 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/528 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210044 | Maleki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Nan Yu (Arcadia, California); Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Anatoliy Savchenkov (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Designs of single-beam laser vibrometry systems and methods. For example, a method for detecting vibrations of a target based on optical sensing is provided to include operating a laser to produce a laser probe beam at a laser frequency and modulated at a modulation frequency onto a target; collecting light at or near the laser to collect light from the target while the target is being illuminated by the laser probe beam through an optical receiver aperture; using a narrow-band optical filter centered at the laser frequency to filter light collected from the optical receiver aperture to transmit light at the laser frequency while blocking light at other frequencies; using an optical detector to convert filtered light from the narrow-band optical filter to produce a receiver electrical signal; using a lock-in amplifier to detect and amplify the receiver electrical signal at the modulation frequency while rejecting signal components at other frequencies to produce an amplified receiver electrical signal; processing the amplified receiver electrical signal to extract information on vibrations of the target carried by reflected laser probe beam in the collected light; and controlling optical power of the laser probe beam at the target to follow optical power of background illumination at the target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288011 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08210803 | Schaff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery R. Schaff (Vernon, Connecticut); Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vane has an airfoil shell and a spar within the shell. The vane has an outboard shroud at an outboard end of the shell and an inboard platform at an inboard end of the shell. The shell includes a region having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) varying with depth. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824173 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211712 | Cho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nam-Joon Cho (Stanford, California); Curtis W. Frank (Cupertino, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Kwang Ho Cheong (Giheung-Gu, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing a planar lipid bilayer on a solid support. With this method, a solution of lipid vesicles is first deposited on the solid support. Next, the lipid vesicles are destabilized by adding an amphipathic peptide solution to the lipid vesicle solution. This destabilization leads to production of a planar lipid bilayer on the solid support. The present invention also provides a supported planar lipid bilayer, where the planar lipid bilayer is made of naturally occurring lipids and the solid support is made of unmodified gold or titanium oxide. Preferably, the supported planar lipid bilayer is continuous. The planar lipid bilayer may be made of any naturally occurring lipid or mixture of lipids, including, but not limited to phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinsitol, cardiolipin, cholesterol, and sphingomyelin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/887669 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212138 | Landis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey A Landis (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protecting the photovoltaic cells in a photovoltaic (PV) array from reverse bias damage by utilizing a rechargeable battery for bypassing current from a shaded photovoltaic cell or group of cells, avoiding the need for a bypass diode. Further, the method mitigates the voltage degradation of a PV array caused by shaded cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/696441 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214153 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technology Licensing Co. LLC (Palm Harbor, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Fox (Houston, Texas); Richard C. Willson, III (Houston, Texas); Zhengdong Zhang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Selecting which sub-sequences in a database of nucleic acid such as 16S rRNA are highly characteristic of particular groupings of bacteria, microorganisms, fungi, etc. on a substantially phylogenetic tree. Also applicable to viruses comprising viral genomic RNA or DNA. A catalogue of highly characteristic sequences identified by this method is assembled to establish the genetic identity of an unknown organism. The characteristic sequences are used to design nucleic acid hybridization probes that include the characteristic sequence or its complement, or are derived from one or more characteristic sequences. A plurality of these characteristic sequences is used in hybridization to determine the phylogenetic tree position of the organism(s) in a sample. Those target organisms represented in the original sequence database and sufficient characteristic sequences can identify to the species or subspecies level. Oligonucleotide arrays of many probes are especially preferred. A hybridization signal can comprise fluorescence, chemiluminescence, or isotopic labeling, etc.; or sequences in a sample can be detected by direct means, e.g. mass spectrometry. The method's characteristic sequences can also be used to design specific PCR primers. The method uniquely identifies the phylogenetic affinity of an unknown organism without requiring prior knowledge of what is present in the sample. Even if the organism has not been previously encountered, the method still provides useful information about which phylogenetic tree bifurcation nodes encompass the organism. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057270 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214317 | Aguilar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Aguilar (West Hills, Nevada); Zhaofeng Huang (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process includes determining a probability of a failure mode of a system being analyzed reaching a failure limit as a function of time to failure limit, determining a probability of a mitigation of the failure mode as a function of a time to failure limit, and quantifying a risk reduction based on the probability of the failure mode reaching the failure limit and the probability of the mitigation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542241 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08212436 | Nair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oscilla Power, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balakrishnan Nair (Sandy, Utah); Jesse Alan Nachlas (Salt Lake City, Utah); Andrew Joseph Gill (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zachary Murphree (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for harvesting electrical power from mechanical energy is described. The apparatus includes: a flux path. The flux path includes: a magnetic material having a magnetic property that is a function of stress on the magnetic material; a first magnetically conductive material proximate the magnetic material; a magnet in the flux path, wherein a magnetomotive force of the magnet causes magnetic flux; and a component configured to transfer changes in load caused by an external source to the magnetic material. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/016895 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214219 | Prieto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Volkswagen of America, Inc. (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Prieto (Mountain View, California); Rohit Mishra (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A speech communications system for a vehicle includes a microphone system provided in the vehicle interior in order to detect audio information. An interaction manager provides grammar information to a speech recognizer. The speech recognizer provides speech recognition results to the interaction manager. An acoustic echo canceller eliminates portions of the audio information detected by the microphone system. A sound localizer determines a sound source location in the vehicle interior. A method of operating a speech communications system in a vehicle is also provided. An interruptible text-to-speech operation provides a speech output to a user. Voice information is requested from the user for a maximum number of times if insufficient voice information or no voice information is provided in response to the speech output provided by the interruptible text-to-speech operation. The dialog context of an unfinished speech interaction is saved. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521929 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08213184 | Knickerbocker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of testing integrated circuit chips. The method includes: attaching integrated circuit chips to an interposer of a temporary carrier, the carrier comprising: a substrate, a first interconnects on a bottom surface and a second array of interconnects on a top surface of the substrate, corresponding first and second interconnects electrically connected by wires in the substrate; the interposer, first pads on a top surface and a second pads on a bottom surface of the interposer, corresponding first and second pads electrically connected by wires in the interposer, and the second pads in physical and electrical contact with corresponding second interconnects; and the interposer including an interposer substrate comprising a same material as a substrate of the integrated circuit chip; connecting interconnects of the first array of interconnects to a tester; and testing the one or more integrated circuit chips. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/195515 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D662894 | Lassen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lassen (Arnold, Maryland) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 29/349153 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for production, distribution, or transformation of energy D13/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08210360 | Routkevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synkera Technologies, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Routkevitch (Longmont, Colorado); Oleg G. Polyakov (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite membranes that are adapted for separation, purification, filtration, analysis, reaction and sensing. The composite membranes can include a porous support structure having elongate pore channels extending through the support structure. The composite membrane also includes an active layer comprising an active layer material, where the active layer material is completely disposed within the pore channels between the surfaces of the support structure. The active layer is intimately integrated within the support structure, thus enabling great robustness, reliability, resistance to mechanical stress and thermal cycling, and high selectivity. Methods for the fabrication of composite membranes are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745449 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212206 | Patterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth E. Patterson (Brookston, Indiana); James Mitchell Wells (Lafayette, Indiana); Brent Rardin (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | In one implementation, an analysis device operational method includes providing a plurality of levels of programming abstraction corresponding to programming of an analysis device configured to analyze a sample, receiving input data corresponding to one of the levels of programming abstraction, processing the input data to generate analysis control data, and implementing an operation with respect to analysis of the sample using the analysis control data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570707 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08212225 | Hutchison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Gregory J. Kearns (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon grids with electron-transparent SiO2 windows for use as substrates for high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of chemically-modified SiO2 surfaces are fabricated by forming an oxide layer on a silicon substrate. An aperture is defined in the silicon substrate by etching the substrate to the oxide layer. A single substrate can include a plurality of apertures that are in respective frame regions that are defined by one or more channels in the substrate. Structural or chemical functionalizations can be provided, and surface interactions observed via TEM. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600764 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/440.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08212412 | Benedict et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems Utility Scale, Inc. (Barre, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Benedict (Middlesex, Vermont); Nicholas P. Borland (Montpelier, Vermont); Magdelena Dale (Montpelier, Vermont); Belvin Freeman (Asheville, North Carolina); Kim A. Kite (Burlington, Vermont); Jeffrey K. Petter (Williston, Vermont); Brendan F. Taylor (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system for connecting a variable voltage power source, such as a power controller, with a plurality of energy storage devices, at least two of which have a different initial voltage than the output voltage of the variable voltage power source. The power system includes a controller that increases the output voltage of the variable voltage power source. When such output voltage is substantially equal to the initial voltage of a first one of the energy storage devices, the controller sends a signal that causes a switch to connect the variable voltage power source with the first one of the energy storage devices. The controller then causes the output voltage of the variable voltage power source to continue increasing. When the output voltage is substantially equal to the initial voltage of a second one of the energy storage devices, the controller sends a signal that causes a switch to connect the variable voltage power source with the second one of the energy storage devices. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325814 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08211657 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanbin Li (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Yongcheng Liu (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to satisfying the need to detect microbial contamination of food products. The described bioseparator/bioreactor coupled with an optical/electrochemical biosensor was able to specifically detect E. coli O157:H7 from 8.8×101 to 8.8×106 CFU/ml in 2.5 hours without any enrichment. Using this invention, concentrations of S. Typhimurium ranging from 8.6×102 to 8.6×106 CFU/ml in pure culture were detected in 2 hours without any enrichment. The invention may also be used for the detection of S. Seftenberg, which has the same sensitivity as S. Typhimurium. Other pathogens such as L. monocytogenes and S. Heidleberg did not interfere with the detection. The optimum inner diameter of the 25 cm long column for the detection of E. coli O157:H7 is 250 μm. The detection limit for other microbial pathogens may be controlled by changing the length of capillary columns, using higher concentration of the labeled antibodies, altering the flow rate and concentration of the substrate, and increasing the reaction temperature to 37° C. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966340 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08212996 | Bhargava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anuradha Bhargava (Reading, Massachusetts); Harold T. Wright (Pelham, New Hampshire); Kazimierz T. Grzeslak (Bedford, New Hampshire); Arnold Kravitz (Moorestown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A centroiding method is provided for an optical tracking system including a laser used for countermeasuring purposes in which a pencil thin laser beam is accurately positioned onto a target through the use of centroiding techniques for ascertaining the position not only of the target but also the laser beam, with the centroiding techniques resulting in a sub-pixel level resolution. The sub-pixel resolution permits utilization of smaller cost-effective focal plane arrays by giving the small focal plane array a resolution associated with much larger focal plane arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/277640 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08211628 | Thatte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hemant Thatte (Medfield, Massachusetts); Patrick Treanor (Dedham, Massachusetts); Shukri F. Khuri (Needham, Massachusetts); Randa Khuri, legal representative (Needham, Massachusetts); Laki Rousou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for resuscitating, storing, and preserving functional integrity of organs and tissues. Metabolic function is maintained by sustaining ATP levels, mitochondrial function, cardiomyocyte contractility, prevention of acidosis, inhibition of induction of apoptosis, maintaining ionontrophy and lusiotrophy by regulating calcium, sodium, potassium and chloride ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527119 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08214302 | Bonnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia); Ronald Garey (Mitchellville, Maryland); Bradley Reck (Sterling, Virginia); Gregory Crabb (Broadlands, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for authenticating a physical address submitted in an online communication is disclosed. An online communication comprising a physical address to be verified is received. A verification identification (VID) is requested and received. A transaction verification document (TVD) comprising an indicia indicative of the VID is generated. An electronic copy of the TVD is transmitted. Verification data produced in response to dispatch of a physical embodiment of the TVD is received, wherein the physical embodiment is generated from the electronic copy. The physical address is authenticated based at least in part on the verification data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016865 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08209962 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Detroit Diesel Corporation (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Sun (Windsor, Canada); Houshun Zhang (Canton, Michigan); Zornitza Pavlinova Pavlova-MacKinnon (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Kevin Dean Sisken (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine senses differential pressure across the diesel particulate filter to monitor at least one of soot cake permeability and filter wall permeability as a function of exhaust temperature and mass flow velocity. The system and method preferably respond to both porous wall and soot cake permeabilities to determine when the soot level matches a threshold at which an operator may be warned, or at which a remedial operation may be triggered, or at which a more protective action taken by the engine control module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237464 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08211951 | Lloyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Lloyd (Austin, Texas); Caleb V. Funk (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods comprising mixing at least one nano-porous particle into a homogeneous solution of a polymer and a diluent at an elevated temperature to form a mixture; and cooling the mixture to solidify the polymer. Membranes comprising at least one nano-porous particle; and a polymer; wherein the at least one nano-porous particle comprises pores ranging from about 0.1 nanometers to about 10,000 nanometers in size. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558650 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08213782 | Jelinek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan E. Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing a predictive autofocus prior to capturing an image of an iris of a subject. A sequence of images of the subject may be taken with a visible light sensitive camera. A speed and/or location of the subject may be estimated from the images. An encounter may be when the subject is within focus of the camera or, in other words, a focus distance and subject distance coincide. The focus may be determined in accordance with an intensity variance determination of the subject in the image, and more particularly of a subject's eye within a window of an image. Upon an encounter, an image of the iris of the eye may be captured with an infrared sensitive camera. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188043 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photography 396/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08214310 | Naphade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind R. Naphade (Fishkill, New York); Rong Yan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross descriptor learning system, method and program product therefor. The system extracts descriptors from unlabeled exemplars. For each unlabeled exemplar, a cross predictor uses each descriptor to generate labels for other descriptor. An automatic label generator also generates labels for the same unlabeled exemplars or, optionally, for labeled exemplars. A label predictor results for each descriptor by combining labels from the cross predictor with labels from the automatic label generator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/131608 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
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, July 03, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2012/fedinvent-patents-20120703.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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