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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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| US 08220317 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NanoInk, Inc. (Skokie, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Berkeley, California); Yuhuang Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph S. Fragala (San Jose, California); Raymond R. Shile (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Massive parallel printing of structures and nanostructures at high speed with high resolution and high quality using two dimensional arrays comprising cantilevers and tip-based transfer of material to a surface. The array is designed so only tips touch the surface. This can be accomplished by long tips and bent cantilevers and alignment. An article comprising: a two-dimensional array of a plurality of cantilevers, wherein the array comprises a plurality of base rows, each base row comprising a plurality of cantilevers, wherein each of the cantilevers comprise tips at the cantilever end away from the base, wherein the number of cantilevers is greater than 250, and wherein the tips have an apex height relative to the cantilever of at least four microns, and a support for the array. Combinatorial arrays and bioarrays can be prepared. The arrays can be manufactured by micromachining methods. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690738 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220378 | Gamache et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Specialty Products, Inc. (Lakewood, Washington); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond M. Gamache (King George, Virginia); Irvin Daniel Helton (Des Moines, Washington); Michael S. Cork (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite armor panel and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of ceramic spheres are positioned in contact with an armor substrate. A polyurea layer is interposed between the plurality of ceramic spheres such that the polyurea layer partially encapsulates the plurality of ceramic spheres and bonds the plurality of ceramic spheres to the armor substrate. The plurality of ceramic spheres are partially exposed and oriented in a direction of anticipated impact. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/157751 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220392 | Maldonado 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) | Edgardo Maldonado (Orlando, Florida); Daniel J. Hartman (Orlando, Florida); Noel Gonzalez (Oviedo, Florida); William G. Rouse (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A launchable grenade system is backwards compatible with conventional launch platforms and is capable of launching a variety of payloads at greater range and increased launch velocity, and with significantly improved targeting accuracy. The grenade is pre-packaged in a disposable launch canister that effectively confines launch ejection gases behind the projectile until it exits the canister. Additional enhancements in one or more embodiments, include collapsible aerodynamic stabilizers that are folded inside the launch canister prior to firing and deploy in flight to improve projectile stability and ballistic performance; electronic fuzing for improved repeatability and targeting precision, next-generation digital capabilities that include electronic device identification, failsafe and device monitoring; and momentum arresting forward expulsion of the payload to reduce blunt trauma hazard from projectile hardware and to provide for short distance targeting at significantly greater speed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193988 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220395 | Gorman 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) | Ryan Gorman (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Philip Magnotti (Westfield, New Jersey); James Grassi (Rockaway, New Jersey); Matthew Millar (Union, New Jersey); James Hamfeldt (Hopatcong, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) bomblet may be converted into a gun-launched grenade. The bomblet may include a fuze, a shaped-charge liner, a casing, and explosive material disposed between the shaped-charge liner and the casing. An ogive may be attached to an open end of the bomblet. A generally cup-shaped pusher may be placed over the fuze and attached to the bomblet casing. A conventional cartridge case assembly may be fixed to a fuze end of the bomblet. When the gun-launched grenade impacts a target, the casing may shatter to form shrapnel and a shaped-charge jet may be formed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975697 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/482 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220494 | Studer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Studer (Paris, France); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Sebastian J. Maerkl (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using basic physical arguments, a design and method for the fabrication of microfluidic valves using multilayer soft lithography is presented. Embodiments of valves in accordance with the present invention feature elastomer membrane portions of substantially constant thickness, allowing the membranes to experience similar resistance to an applied pressure across their entire width. Such on-off valves fabricated with upwardly- or downwardly-deflectable membranes can have extremely low actuation pressures, and can be used to implement active functions such as pumps and mixers in integrated microfluidic chips. Valve performance was characterized by measuring both the actuation pressure and flow resistance over a wide range of design parameters, and comparing them to both finite element simulations and alternative valve geometries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915960 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/833 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220530 | Cola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baratunde A. Cola (West Lafayette, Indiana); Timothy S. Fisher (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Vertically oriented carbon nanotubes (CNT) arrays have been simultaneously synthesized at relatively low growth temperatures (i.e., <700° C.) on both sides of aluminum foil via plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The resulting CNT arrays were highly dense, and the average CNT diameter in the arrays was approximately 10 nm, A CNT TIM that consist of CNT arrays directly and simultaneously synthesized on both sides of aluminum foil has been fabricated. The TIM is insertable and allows temperature sensitive and/or rough substrates to be interfaced by highly conductive and conformable CNT arrays. The use of metallic foil is economical and may prove favorable in manufacturing due to its wide use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873952 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221098 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Yang (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Alex Gu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A radial turbomolecular pump comprising an electrostatically levitated rotor with a high compression ratio and pump speed at a chip-scale level. The levitated rotor can be sandwiched between a stator plate and a driver and multiple concentric rings of microblades can be fabricated on the rotor plate and the stator plate. The center portions of the driver and the base plate include concentric ring electrodes for rotor levitation by electrostatic forces. The space between two concentric rings of microblades forms a groove that is wide enough to receive the microblades from the opposing disk. The stator disk can be fixed and the rotor disk spins such that the rotor microblades move tangentially relative to the stator microblades. The microblades can be tilted at an angle from the tangent, facilitating momentum transfer to gas molecules in the radial direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425197 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/423.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221129 | Parry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Techline Technologies, Inc. (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Parry (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Daniel Parry (Dublin, Pennsylvania); Daniel Pipito (Feasterville, Pennsylvania); Brian Letizia (Brick, New Jersey); Morris Ravich (Beckley, West Virginia); Daniel Smith (Hatboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A wearable wound simulant including a skin replica having the appearance of a particular region of the human body, examples including but not limited to a leg, arm, torso, or stomach, and a wound disposed along the skin replica is described. The skin replica includes a plurality of bendable layers arranged to replicate the visual and tactile properties of human tissues and at least one tear resistant layer comprised of a fabric material disposed between two bendable layers. The tear resistant layers are less stretchable than the bendable layers so as to prevent the bendable layers from stretching beyond their failure threshold. Design elements of the present invention facilitate the visual, tactile, and functional aspects of a battlefield wound so as to allow for the diagnosis of injuries associated therewith. Furthermore, the present invention allows for the insertion of a needle or the like, the probing and/or packing of wounds, the compression of vascular simulants to stop or limit blood loss, and the replacement of dislodged organs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131980 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221179 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Yong-In, South Korea); Clark J. Wagner (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The cavity 102 defines an empty volume formed in the insulator 108 has its walls defined by the insulator 108 and may extend through either (or both) the first electrode 106 or the second electrode 104, in which case the first electrode and/or second electrode also define the walls of the cavity 102. The cavity 102 is preferably cylindrical and has a diameter of 0.1 μm-1 mm. More preferably, the diameter ranges from 0.1 μm-500 μm, 1 μm-100 μm, or 100 μm-500 μm. The cavity 102 will be filled with a gas that contacts the cavity walls, fills the entire cavity 102 and is selected for its breakdown voltage or light emission properties at breakdown. Light is produced when the voltage difference between the first electrode 106 and the second electrode 104 creates an electric field sufficiently large to electrically break down the gas (nominally about 104 V-cm). This light escapes from the microcavity 102 through at least one end of the cavity 102. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981412 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221324 | Pedersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peder C. Pedersen (Sterling, Massachusetts); Philip Cordeiro (Providence, Rhode Island); Reginald James Duckworth (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An untethered ultrasound imaging system having selectable command control and wireless component connection and image transmission. Ultrasound data collected by the ultrasound system can be augmented with additional sensor data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299540 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221329 | Hartings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United State of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin M. Hartings (Clarksburg, Maryland); Chad J. Roy (Keedysville, Maryland); Gerald M. Liverette (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes but is not limited to at least one manifold; an inhalant dissemination device coupled to the at least one manifold; an inhalant characterization device coupled to the at least one manifold; and a control module operably coupled to the inhalant dissemination device and the inhalant characterization device, said control module configured to (a) determine an inhalant concentration in a manifold, and (b) calculate at least one of a retrospective and a prospective inhaled dose in response to the inhalant concentration, and (c) start and stop a flow through the manifold until the at least one of the retrospective and the prospective inhaled dose is greater than or equal to a specified dose. A method includes but is not limited to starting a flow of an inhalant through a manifold; determining an inhalant concentration of the inhalant in the manifold; and stopping the flow of the inhalant through the manifold when the inhalant concentration is in a first specified inhalant-concentration range. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364855 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221566 | Chapman |
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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) | Robert D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of making detonation products having an effect on biological agents, providing an effective amount of HNFX; combining HNFX with an additive; detonating the combination with a detonation device; creating detonation products from the combination; contacting the detonation products with the harmful agents; exposing the detonation products for about at least 2 seconds to harmful agents; and destroying the harmful agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615918 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221571 | Hong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Dongshun Bai (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Rama Puligadda (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | New compositions and methods of using those compositions as bonding compositions are provided. The compositions comprise a cycloolefin copolymer dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and can be used to bond an active wafer to a carrier wafer or substrate to assist in protecting the active wafer and its active sites during subsequent processing and handling. The compositions form bonding layers that are chemically and thermally resistant, but that can also be softened or dissolved to allow the wafers to slide or be pulled apart at the appropriate stage in the fabrication process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/969367 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221595 | Branton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jene A Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M King (Boulder, Colorado); Warren J MoberlyChan (Concord, Massachusetts); Gregor M Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing an ion beam at the selected regions, exposing the structure at the selected regions. A material layer is then deposited on top of the solid condensate layer and the exposed structure at the selected regions. Then the solid condensate layer and regions of the material layer that were deposited on the solid condensate layer are removed, leaving a patterned material layer on the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381502 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221605 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for manipulating droplets is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a substrate having electrodes and adjacent reference elements configured for manipulating a droplet on a surface of the substrate. Other embodiments having a top plate, a footprint, and a dielectric are also included. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/965152 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221741 | Marshall et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Vivienne S. Marshall (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Richard A. Banas (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Catherine J. Trumpower (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to novel methods for modulating inflammatory and/or immune responses. Such methods utilize compositions comprising extraembryonic cells (herein referred to as EE cells) including but not limited to extraembryonic HLA-G positive cells (herein referred to as EHP cells) and amnion-derived multipotent progenitor cells (herein referred to as AMP cells); compositions comprising expanded EE cell populations, and/or cell lysates and/or conditioned media derived therefrom, alone or in combination with each other and/or in combination with various extracellular matrices and/or devices and/or other suitable active agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/448903 |
| 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 08221764 | Guerry-Kopecko 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) | Patricia Guerry-Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Shahida Baqar (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an immunogenic composition composed of secreted polypeptides derived from Campylobacter jejuni non-flagellar proteins that are coordinately expressed with the flagellar regulon. The invention also relates to a method of inducing an immune response to the non-flagellar protein polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800955 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221887 | Bayya 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) | Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Geoffrey Chin (Alexandria, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a composite of AlON and a germanate glass, and to a process for bonding AlON to the glass. The composite includes AlON and glass bonded together and having transmission in the visible and mid-infrared wavelength region. The process includes the step of heating them together above the softening temperature of the glass, the composite having excellent, i.e., typically in excess of about 60%, transmission in the 0.4-5 wavelength region. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/046971 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222022 | Dmochowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Dmochowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Aru P. Hill (Oakland, California); Qian Wei (Delran, New Jersey); Jennifer M. Chambers (Ivanhoe, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to biosensors with improved solubility and affinity to a noble element. Specifically, the invention relates to methods and systems for the detection of target entities using the signal observed in a noble element complexed to the biosensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/498858 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222041 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) capable of performing as a CO2 or O2 sensor is disclosed, hi one implementation, a polymer solar cell can be connected to the HEMT for use in an infrared detection system. In a second implementation, a selective recognition layer can be provided on a gate region of the HEMT. For carbon dioxide sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, PEI/starch. For oxygen sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, indium zinc oxide (IZO). In one application, the HEMTs can be used for the detection of carbon dioxide and oxygen in exhaled breath or blood. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990377 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222052 | Svensson 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) | Stefan P. Svensson (Columbia, Maryland); John D. Demaree (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain desirable embodiments, the present invention relates to the use of 15N isotopes into GaAsN, InAsN or GaSbN films for ion beam analysis. A semiconductor-nitride assembly for growing and analyzing crystal growth in a group III-V semiconductor sample that includes: a substrate; a buffer layer deposited on the substrate, a nitrogen gas injector to incorporate enriched nitrogen gas and the nitrogen gas injector includes a concentration of enriched nitrogen gas, a thin film consisting of at least one group III element containing compound where at least one group III element is covalently bonded with the nitrogen in the presence of the same or different group V element of the buffer layer, and a proton beam to analyze the incorporation of the nitrogen gas in the thin film layer is described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628675 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222057 | Kryliouk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olga Kryliouk (Sunnyvale, California); Timothy J. Anderson (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an article comprising a substrate; an interlayer comprising aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, boron nitride, indium nitride or a solid solution of aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, boron nitride and/or indium nitride; the interlayer being directly disposed upon the substrate and in contact with the substrate; where the interlayer comprises a columnar film and/or nanorods and/or nanotubes; and a group-III nitride layer disposed upon the interlayer; where the group-III nitride layer completely covers a surface of the interlayer that is opposed to a surface in contact with the substrate; the group-III nitride layer being free from cracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861614 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222072 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of transferring a metal and/or organic layer from a patterned stamp, preferably a soft, elastomeric stamp, to a substrate are provided. The patterned metal or organic layer may be used for example, in a wide range of electronic devices. The present methods are particularly suitable for nanoscale patterning of organic electronic components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387925 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222166 | 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); Dufei Fang (East Setauket, New York); Kwang-Sok Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes suitable for microfiltration, ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF) filters are provided. Such membranes may include a nanofibrous scaffold, optionally in combination with a non-woven substrate and/or a coating of a polymer and a functionalized nanofiller. Suitable membranes may also include a coating of a polymer and a functionalized nanofiller on a substrate, which can include a non-woven membrane, a nanofibrous scaffold, or both. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/664650 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222214 | Peoples et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Peoples (San Antonio, Texas); Ponniah Sathibalan (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods to induce and maintain a protective cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response to a peptide of the HER2/neu oncogene, E75, with the effect of inducing and maintaining protective or therapeutic immunity against breast cancer in a patient in clinical remission. The methods comprise administering to the patient an effective amount of a vaccine composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, an adjuvant such as recombinant human GM-CSF, and the E75 peptide at an optimized dose and schedule. The methods further comprise administering an annual or semi-annual booster vaccine dose due to declining E75-specific T cell immunity. The invention also features vaccine compositions for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/602214 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222293 | Silva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Carolina (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alcino Silva (Sherman Oaks, California); Yijun Cui (Los Angeles, California); Weldong Li (Shanghai, China PRC); Steven A. Kushner (Rotterdam, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of treating cognitive disorders by administering a HMG CoA reductase inhibitor. Cognitive deficits treatable with the inhibitor compound include those associated with Angelman Syndrome, Neurofibromatosis-1, certain forms of X-linked mental retardation, tuberous sclerosis, Down Syndrome, autism, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569426 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222403 | Laskoski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are an oligomer and a phthalonitrile monomer having the formulas: M is a metal or H. The value n is an integer greater than or equal to 1 for the oligomer and greater than or equal to 0 for the phthalonitrile monomer. Ar1 and Ar2 are independently selected aromatic- or heterocyclic-containing groups. Ar1, Ar2, or both are heteroaromatic or heterocyclic groups containing a nitrogen, sulfur, or oxygen heteroatom. Also disclosed are thermosets and pyrolyzed materials made from the phthalonitrile monomer. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/616836 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222449 | Stewart 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) | Michael Stewart (Washington, District of Columbia); Kimihiro Susumu (Alexandria, Virginia); Dorothy Farrell (Alexandria, Virginia); Hedi M. Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formulas below. The values n and x are independently selected positive integers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962988 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/568 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222541 | Vander Ploeg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Jon Vander Ploeg (Kentwood, Michigan); Meredith Marie Steenwyk (Kentwood, Michigan); Danny Weldon Coxon (Conklin, Michigan); Paul James Horton (Rockford, Michigan); John Jay Streyle (Walker, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An avionics chassis comprises a composite housing, a radio wave shield, and a lightning strike conductive path, wherein the radio wave shield attenuates electromagnetic interference entering and leaving the housing, and the lightning strike conductive path directs the current from a lightning strike away from an interior of the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487784 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222582 | Anderson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Anderson (Mechanicsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for characterizing luminous celestial objects (e.g., stars) in celestial navigation of a missile system. The method includes segmenting, assigning, measuring, computing, ratioing, producing, scaling, and determining operations. Segmenting includes subdividing wavelength range into discrete contiguous bins. Assigning arranges each bin into a plurality of color bands. Establishing sets a transmissivity to each bin of each color band. Computing calculates broad-based fluxes for a reference value as a reference flux. Ratioing computes a ratio between the target flux to the library flux as a color scale for each band. Squaring determines the library flux for each band as a library flux squared. Producing sums a spectral scale over the color bands, a second multiplication of the color scale and the library flux squared as a first sum product, and sums over all the bands the library flux squared as a second sum product and dividing the sum products. Scaling factors each measured intensity of the measured intensities as a scaled intensity by multiplying each target intensity by the spectral scale for each bin. Determining sums a scaled broad-band flux for each band over the bins, a third multiplication of the transmissivity and the scaled intensity. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/584591 |
| 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 244/3.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222650 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina); Shiwen Liu (Acton, Massachusetts); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Timothy J. Bettles (Rexford, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures and devices based thereon include an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate and at least one layer epitaxially grown thereover. The epitaxial layer may comprise at least one of AlN, GaN, InN, or any binary or tertiary alloy combination thereof, and have an average dislocation density within the semiconductor heterostructure is less than about 106 cm−2. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617150 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222897 | Sheiretov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanko K. Sheiretov (Waltham, Massachusetts); Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Todd M. Dunford (Waltham, Massachusetts); Scott A. Denenberg (Somerville, Massachusetts); David C. Grundy (Reading, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Freeland, Michigan); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for the nondestructive measurement of materials that includes at least two layers of electrical conductors. Within each layer, a meandering primary winding is used to create a magnetic field for interrogating a test material while sense elements or conducting loops within each meander provide a directional measurement of the test material condition in different orientations without requiring movement of the test circuit or apparatus. In a bidirectional implementation the meanders are oriented 90° apart while in a quadridirectional implementation the meanders are orientated at −45, 0, 45, and 90°. Multidirectional permeability measurements are used to assess the stress or torque on a component. These measurements are combined in a manner that removes temperature effects and hysteresis on the property measurements. This can be accomplished through a correction factor that accounts for the temperature dependence. After the correction, the permeability measurement is then used to assess the local stresses and strains in the material of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157719 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222898 | Edelstein |
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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) | Alan Shane Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for modulating a magnetic field sensor device comprising: a base; a magnetic sensor comprising a plurality of magnetic components; at least one coil for creating a magnetic field around the magnetic sensor; the at least one coil adapted to be connected to an alternating current source that passes through the coil to modulate the magnetic field at the magnetic sensor and drive at least one of the magnetic components of the magnetic sensor into and out of its region of increased magnetic response while shifting the frequency of the magnetic field that is sensed by the magnetic sensors a higher frequency to thereby minimize 1/f-type noise, where f is the frequency of operation of the magnetic sensor. The method comprises forming at least one coil around the magnetic sensor; connecting the coil to an alternating current power source; and modulating the current from the power source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/236852 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222958 | Griffith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary M. Griffith (Thousand Oaks, California); Miguel E. Urteaga (Moorpark, California); Mark J. W. Rodwell (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to an operational amplifier. In one embodiment, the present invention is an operational amplifier including a transimpedance input stage, the transimpedance input stage including a first stage connected to a first resistor and a second resistor, and an output stage connected to the transimpedance input stage. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020689 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222988 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Braun (Savoy, Illinois); James J. Coleman (Monticello, Illinois); Victor C. Elarde (Evanston, Illinois); Erik C. Nelson (Urbana, Illinois); Varun B. Verma (Woodstock, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous device for optical and electronic applications comprises a single crystal substrate and a porous single crystal structure epitaxially disposed on the substrate, where the porous single crystal structure includes a three-dimensional arrangement of pores. The three-dimensional arrangement may also be a periodic arrangement. A method of fabricating such a device includes forming a scaffold comprising interconnected elements on a single crystal substrate, where the interconnected elements are separated by voids. A first material is grown epitaxially on the substrate and into the voids. The scaffold is then removed to obtain a porous single crystal structure epitaxially disposed on the substrate, where the single crystal structure comprises the first material and includes pores defined by the interconnected elements of the scaffold. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462297 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223052 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cathy (Xiangming) Kong (Thousand Oaks, California); Peter Petre (Oak Park, California); Roy M. Matic (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time encoding machine (TEM) for time encoding an input signal includes a hysteresis quantizer having a time encoded sequence output and a random sequence generator having a random signal output coupled to the hysteresis quantizer for randomizing switching times of the hysteresis quantizer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818993 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223339 | Fralick 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) | Mark Fralick (San Diego, California); Richard Waters (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing an optical signal comprising: directing the optical signal into a scanning spectrometer system comprising a variable-wavelength filter and a detector; continuously modulating the variable-wavelength filter at a given modulation frequency to produce a time-based waveform; measuring the time-based waveform with the detector; converting the time-based waveform into a frequency spectrum comprising harmonics of the modulation frequency; and comparing the harmonics of the modulation frequency to premeasured harmonic spectra in a reference database. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544071 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223422 | Goetz 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) | Peter G. Goetz (Springfield, Virginia); William S. Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic device with a doped semiconductor base and a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor base. Pixels include oppositely doped semiconductor layer and a top electrode formed on the oppositely doped semiconductor layer. The top electrode has a grid pattern with at least one busbar and a plurality of fingers extending from the busbar, and spacing between the fingers decreases with distance from the bondpad along the busbar. Each pixel can also include a multiple quantum well formed on the semiconductor base. The top electrode shape produces an approximately uniform lateral resistance in the pixel. An embodiment is a large area modulator for modulating retro-reflector systems, which typically use large area surface-normal modulators with large lateral current flow. Uniform resistance to each part of the modulator decreases location dependence of frequency response. A chirped grid electrode balances semiconductor sheet resistance and metal line resistance components of the series resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942063 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223590 | Jones 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) | Theodore G. Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Tsih C. Yang (Great Falls, Virginia); Steven L. Means (Owings, Maryland); Kwang B. Yoo (Silver Spring, Maryland); Edward R. Franchi (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for using acoustical pulses generated from an airborne laser source to locate objects under water. An array of acoustic sensors, such as passive sonobuoys at the ocean surface, is deployed in known or determinable locations by aircraft. Each area surrounded by acoustic sensors comprises a search cell, within which sonar scattering data can be used to locate objects. Following sonobuoy deployment, the aircraft uses the laser to rapidly generate many laser-acoustic pulse sources within each search cell, which in turn generate spherical acoustic pulses traveling through the water. The acoustic sensors receive the acoustic pulses, either on a direct path or on a scattered path after the pulse strikes an underwater object. The sensors record the acoustic signatures of the received pulses and transmit data of the recorded acoustic pulses to a processor such as processor on a nearby ship. The processor transforms the data of the acoustic signatures, together with data of the known locations of the acoustic sensors and the locations of the laser-acoustic pulse sources, into data of a location of the underwater objects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967088 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223809 | Nettleton 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) | John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dallas N. Barr (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser gain medium crystal comprising a square rod of laser gain medium material having top and bottom surfaces that are finely ground to introduce scattering surfaces to cancel parasitic lasing. The square rod of laser gain material has input and output faces and side surfaces, and portions of the side surfaces near the output face of the square rod are finely ground to introduce scattering surfaces to cancel parasitic lasing. The rest of the side surfaces of the square rod are polished. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782994 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223890 | Su |
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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) | Wei Su (Englishtown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying the modulation scheme of a software defined radio in real-time without pilot symbols between transmitters and receivers, includes providing a predetermined look-up table (LUT) in the software-defined radio wherein the LUT is prepared by pre-calculating discrete likelihood ratio test (DLRT) function values; storing the pre-calculated DLRT values in said LUT; and indexing the pre-calculated DLRT values by addresses. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590862 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224188 | Devgan 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) | Preetpaul S Devgan (Laurel, Maryland); Vincent J Urick (Alexandria, Virginia); Keith J Williams (Dunkirk, Maryland); John F. Diehl (Bowie, Maryland); Christopher E. Sunderman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for processing analog optical signals to produce a single RF output free from even-order harmonic distortion. Two analog optical signals of different wavelengths λ1, λ2 are input into a dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), where one wavelength input is high-biased and one wavelength is low-biased. The complementary high- and low-biased wavelengths are output from each arm of the MZM to a multiplexer, which filters out the unwanted high- or low-biased wavelengths from each MZM arm so that both wavelengths are low-biased or high-biased. The signals are passed to a pair of photodiodes, and the photocurrents from the photodiodes are differenced to produce the final RF output. Because of the complementary phase differences between the two low- or high-biased signals generating the photocurrent, all components of the photocurrent except the fundamental and odd-order harmonics cancel each other, resulting in a high-quality RF output free from harmonic distortion. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688062 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224552 | Van Vactor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Van Vactor (Liberty Township, Ohio); Steven E. Nolte (Harrison, Ohio); Bertram S. Noyes, Jr. (Newbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a gas turbine engine is described. The method includes coupling a first fuel system interface (FSI-1) to a second fuel system interface (FSI-2), and coupling one of the FSI-1 and the FSI-2 to the engine. The method includes coupling a first control system and a second control system to the FSI-1 and to the FSI-2. The first control system includes a first driver A and a second driver A, and the second control system includes a first driver B and a second driver B. The method includes configuring the first control system and the second control system to apply a first over-speed logic algorithm and a second over-speed logic algorithm to determine operation of the first driver A, the second driver A, the first driver B, and the second driver B. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171142 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224575 | Faulkner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENSCO, Inc. (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Todd Faulkner (Sylva, North Carolina); Stephen R. Chestnut (Arlington, Virginia); David W. A. Taylor (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing data in an inertial navigation system having a Kalman filter and computer-readable storage medium containing instructions to configure a processor to perform the same. The method produces more accurate estimates of the position, velocity and attitude of the inertial measurement unit. The method is fully automatic and enables zero-velocity updates and fixed-azimuth updates to be performed simultaneously. The method may also include a multi-stage filtering process to filter digital compass data when used in an environment with extraterrestrial magnetic field sources. The method may also include a fixed-lag smoother to improve estimates of the position, velocity and attitude of the inertial measurement unit. The method also may include processes to constrain altitude errors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/078911 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224581 | Wick 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 H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland); Michael F. Stanford (Conowingo, Maryland); Alan W. Zulich (Bel Air, Maryland); Samir V. Deshpande (Edgewood, Maryland); Rabih E. Jabbour (Bel Air, Maryland); Jacek P. Dworzanski (Bel Air, Maryland); Patrick E. McCubbin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided for identifying a cell type in a sample that includes identification of one or more peptide sequences in the sample. Each peptide sequence is assigned to a protein of known sequence. A matrix of assignments is generated for the presence or absence of each peptide in one or more cells. The matrix of assignments is rearranged according to cell classification. A cell type based on the most probable cell classification is identified. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570038 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224681 | Tambe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind Tambe (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Praveen Paruchuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fernando Ordóñez (Van Nuys, California); Sarit Kraus (Givat Shemuel, Israel); Jonathan Pearce (New York, New York); Janusz Marecki (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for Stackelberg games, in which one agent (the leader) must commit to a strategy that can be observed by other agents (the followers or adversaries) before they choose their own strategies, in which the leader is uncertain about the types of adversaries it may face. Such games are important in security domains, where, for example, a security agent (leader) must commit to a strategy of patrolling certain areas, and robbers (followers) have a chance to observe this strategy over time before choosing their own strategies of where to attack. An efficient exact algorithm is described for finding the optimal strategy for the leader to commit to in these games. This algorithm, Decomposed Optimal Bayesian Stackelberg Solver or “DOBSS,” is based on a novel and compact mixed-integer linear programming formulation. The algorithm can be implemented in a method, software, and/or system including computer or processor functionality. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253695 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08225045 | Guthrie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Alvan W. Ng (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing unit has a first processor core and associated first upper and first lower level caches, and the second processing unit has a second processor core and associated second upper and lower level caches. In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from the first lower level cache. The first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric a lateral castout (LCO) command that identifies the victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache and indicates that a lower level cache is an intended destination. In response to a coherence response indicating success of the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335975 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08225120 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Satya P. Sharma (Austin, Texas); Randal C. Swanberg (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Snoop response logic on a system bus is configured to detect on the system bus requests to access data at a target address with data exclusivity from at least one of a plurality of wake-and-go engines. The snoop response logic is further configured to determine a winning wake-and-go engine from the at least one wake-and-go engine that obtains a lock on the target address and generate a combined snoop response. The combined snoop response identifies the winning wake-and-go engine. The snoop response logic sends the combined snoop response to the at least one wake-and-go engine on the system bus. Each remaining wake-and-go engine within the at least one wake-and-go engine places an entry in its respective wake-and-go storage array to spin on a lock for the target address. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024479 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/323 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Honghui Xia (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Bin Rong (Melbourne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A failure recovery framework to be used in cooperative data stream processing is provided that can be used in a large-scale stream data analysis environment. Failure recovery supports a plurality of independent distributed sites, each having its own local administration and goals. The distributed sites cooperate in an inter-site back-up mechanism to provide for system recovery from a variety of failures within the system. Failure recovery is both automatic and timely through cooperation among sites. Back-up sites associated with a given primary site are identified. These sites are used to identify failures within the primary site including failures of applications running on the nodes of the primary site. The failed applications are reinstated on one or more nodes within the back-up sites using job management instances local to the back-up sites in combination with previously stored state information and data values for the failed applications. In additions to inter-site mechanisms, each one of the plurality of sites employs an intra-site back-up mechanism to handle failure recoveries within the site. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733732 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08225291 | Chung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | I-Hsin Chung (Yorktown Heights, New York); Guojing Cong (Ossining, New York); David Joseph Klepacki (New Paltz, New York); Simone Sbaraglia (Miami, Florida); Seetharami R. Seelam (Ossining, New York); Hui-Fang Wen (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting performance bottlenecks in a target application is provided. In response to receiving hotspot selections from a user interface, bottleneck rules are extracted from a database. A hotspot is a region of source code that exceeds a time threshold to execute in the target application. Metrics needed to evaluate the bottleneck rules extracted from the database are identified. The identified metrics are computed. It is determined whether each bottleneck rule extracted from the database is evaluated to true using the computed metrics for hotspots in the target application. In response to determining that a bottleneck rule is evaluated to true using an appropriate computed metric corresponding to the bottleneck rule, a bottleneck description is created for the bottleneck rule. Then, the bottleneck description is sent to the user interface. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969331 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08225372 | Desai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saurabh Desai (Austin, Texas); Murali Vaddagiri (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach is provided that uses policies to determine which parental privileges are inherited by the parent's child processes. A parent software process initializes a child software process, such as by executing the child process. The parent process is associated with a first set of privileges. The inheritance policies are retrieved that correspond to the parent process. A second set of privileges is identified based on the retrieved inheritance policies, and this second set of privileges is applied to the child software process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/145745 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NanoInk, Inc. (Skokie, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Berkeley, California); Yuhuang Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph S. Fragala (San Jose, California); Raymond R. Shile (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Massive parallel printing of structures and nanostructures at high speed with high resolution and high quality using two dimensional arrays comprising cantilevers and tip-based transfer of material to a surface. The array is designed so only tips touch the surface. This can be accomplished by long tips and bent cantilevers and alignment. An article comprising: a two-dimensional array of a plurality of cantilevers, wherein the array comprises a plurality of base rows, each base row comprising a plurality of cantilevers, wherein each of the cantilevers comprise tips at the cantilever end away from the base, wherein the number of cantilevers is greater than 250, and wherein the tips have an apex height relative to the cantilever of at least four microns, and a support for the array. Combinatorial arrays and bioarrays can be prepared. The arrays can be manufactured by micromachining methods. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690738 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220318 | Degertekin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for measuring a property of a sample includes an actuation device disposed on a substrate and includes a flexible surface spaced apart from the substrate and configured so as to allow placement of the sample thereupon. The actuation device also includes a vertical actuator that is configured to cause the flexible surface to achieve a predetermined displacement from the substrate when a corresponding potential is applied thereto. A sensing probe is disposed so as to be configured to interact with the sample thereby sensing the property of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777518 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220487 | Unger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Pasadena, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933998 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/614.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Czeslaw Golkowski (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A free radical decontamination method and system. The system is comprised of a chamber defining a region, and a generator for generating free radical reach effluent from a free radical electric generator and hydrogen peroxide solution with water. A closed loop circulating system is provided for supplying the mixture of free radicals from the electric generator mixed with the hydrogen peroxide solution in the form of the effluent to the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510341 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221740 | Chaudhry 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) | Hina W. Chaudhry (New York, New York); Debra J. Wolgemuth (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that side-population cells induce cardiac tissue repair of infarcted myocardium. Provided herein are methods directed to treatment of cardiac injury using side-population cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535444 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 08221762 | Poland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Poland (Rochester, Minnesota); Inna G. Ovsyannikova (Rochester, Minnesota); David C. Muddiman (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth L. Johnson (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A preparation of peptides eluted from class II HLA molecules is disclosed. Methods of decreasing measles infections comprising inoculating human patients with a vaccine comprising one or more of the peptides and methods of diagnosing measles infections or immunity comprising analyzing human patients for the presence of one or more of the peptides or antibodies to the peptide(s) are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507163 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08221763 | Duke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Duke (Denver, Colorado); Donald Bellgrau (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Alex Franzusoff (Denver, Colorado); Cara C. Wilson (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a vaccine that includes a dendritic cell loaded with a yeast vehicle and antigen. Also disclosed are methods of making the vaccine and using the vaccine to elicit cellular and humoral immune responses in a mammal. Additionally, a method to elicit an immune response by administration of a yeast vehicle and an antigen that is not complexed to the yeast vehicle is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539745 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gwong-Jen J. Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses isolated nucleic acids containing transcriptional units which encode a signal sequence of one flavivirus and an immunogenic flavivirus antigen of a second flavivirus or of a chimeric immunogenic flavivirus antigen comprising sequence from more than one flavivirus. The invention further encompasses a nucleic acid and protein vaccine and the use of the vaccine to immunize a subject against flavivirus infection. The invention also provides antigens encoded by nucleic acids of the invention, antibodies elicited in response to the antigens and use of the antigens and/or antibodies in detecting flavivirus or diagnosing flavivirus infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/580080 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221773 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel P. Schneider (Newark, Delaware); Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel hydrogels and methods of making and using such hydrogels. The present invention provides hydrogels that may be formed by the self-assembly of peptides in solution. Such self-assembly may be brought about by a change in one or more characteristics of the solution. Characteristics of the solution that may be changed include pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. In addition, hydrogels of the invention may be disassembled by changing one or more characteristic of the hydrogel such as pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/976184 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221973 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Konstantinos D. Potamousis (Madison, Wisconsin); Shiguo Zhou (Madison, Wisconsin); Steven J. Goldstein (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael A. Newton (Madison, Wisconsin); Rodney A. Runnheim (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel K. Forrest (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Christopher P. Churas (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for ascertaining the sequence of a genomic DNA sample by nicking the DNA sample with a restriction nicking enzyme, followed by nick translation with labeled nucleotides, such that the labeled nucleotides can be quantified and compared to a known, reference genome. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253625 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes methods and compositions for detecting and treating vimentin-associated neoplasia. Differential methylation of the vimentin nucleotide sequences has been observed in vimentin-associated neoplasia such as colon neoplasia. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105588 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221979 | Gelb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Gelb (New York, New York); Marco Tartaglia (Rome, Italy); Len Pennacchio (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic and therapeutic applications for Noonan Syndrome are described. The diagnostic and therapeutic applications are based on certain mutations in a RAS-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor gene SOS1 or its expression product. The diagnostic and therapeutic applications are also based on certain mutations in a serine/threonine protein kinase gene RAF1 or its expression product thereof. Also described are nucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, probes, and primers related to RAF1 or SOS1, and variants thereof, as well as host cells expressing such variants. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/443752 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221988 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Ma (Branford, Connecticut); Jack Elias (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for the treatment of Th1 and/or Th2 mediated inflammatory diseases, relating to inhibiting CCR5. This is because the present invention demonstrates, for the first time, that expression of IFN-γ, IL-13, and CCR5, mediates and/or is associated with Th1 and/or Th2 inflammatory diseases and that inhibiting CCR5 treats, and even prevents, the diseases. Thus, the invention relates to the novel discovery that inhibiting CCR5 treats and prevents Th1 and/or Th2 mediated inflammatory disease. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/084239 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08222022 | Dmochowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Dmochowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Aru P. Hill (Oakland, California); Qian Wei (Delran, New Jersey); Jennifer M. Chambers (Ivanhoe, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to biosensors with improved solubility and affinity to a noble element. Specifically, the invention relates to methods and systems for the detection of target entities using the signal observed in a noble element complexed to the biosensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/498858 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
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| US 08222023 | Battrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micronics, Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Frederick Battrell (Redmond, Washington); John Gerdes (Columbine Valley, Colorado); John R. Williford (Sammamish, Washington); Denise Maxine Hoekstra (Monroe, Washington); Wayne L. Breidford (Seattle, Washington); Stephen Mordue (Kirkland, Washington); John Clemmens (Redmond, Washington); Melud Nabavi (Seattle, Washington); Mark Kokoris (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated microfluidic cartridges for nucleic acid extraction, amplification, and detection from clinical samples are disclosed. The devices are single-entry, sanitary, and disposable. The devices enable simplex or multiplex nucleic acid target detection, as for example: assay panels for multiple infectious agents, or assay panels for cancerous cell types. Methods for use of microfluidic cartridges in a fully automated, pneumatically controlled apparatus are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207627 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
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| US 08222208 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Martin (Seattle, Washington); Bernd Wollscheid (Zurich, Switzerland); Rudolf H. Aebersold (Zurich, Switzerland); Julian Watts (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for preparing a peptide as an immunogen to generate an antibody specific for the deglycosylated form of a glycopolypeptide by preparing a peptide that includes an N-linked glycosylation site of said glycopolypeptide and identifying a peptide sequence that includes said glycosylated site and preparing said peptide wherein N of said site is converted to D. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/007393 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
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| US 08222213 | Artavanis-Tsakonas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Spyridon Artavanis-Tsakonas (Hamden, Connecticut); Huilin Qi (Branford, Connecticut); Matthew D. Rand (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for detecting or measuring Notch activation by observing or measuring the appearance of Notch on the cell surface or by observing or measuring Notch cleavage products that are indicative of Notch activation. The present invention is also directed to methods for detecting a molecule that modulates Notch activation by observing or measuring a change in the amount of Notch expressed on the cell surface or a change in the amount or pattern of Notch cleavage products. The present invention is also directed to a substantially purified activated heterodimeric form of Notch and components thereof and pharmaceutical compositions and kits thereof. The present invention is based, at least in part, on the discovery that Notch in its active form, i.e., the form that mediates signal transduction and that binds Notch ligands such as Delta, is a heterodimer of an about 180 kDa subunit (NEC) and an about 110 kDa subunit (NTM), which are tethered together through a reducing agent-sensitive linkage, in particular, a non-covalent, metal ion-dependent linkage. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789148 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.200 |
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| US 08222221 | Corey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Corey (Dallas, Texas); Scott T. Younger (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Gene expression can be selectively regulated by endogenous miRNAs that target promoters of genes. Altering of the activity of these promoter-targeting miRNAs with single-stranded complementary oligonucleotides that bind the miRNA causes modulation of expression of the target gene. Endogenous miRNAs that modulate expression of target genes can be identified by (a) evaluating an endogenous miRNA for complementarity to a target gene promoter; and (b) determining that the complementary miRNA modulates expression of the target gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455588 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08222225 | Klinman 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 (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Takashi Sato (Yokohama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for treating, preventing or reducing the risk of developing occupational lung diseases, such as pneumoconiosis. In several embodiments, the methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of the suppressive ODN to a subject having or at risk of developing a pneumoconiosis, thereby treating or inhibiting the pneumoconiosis. In several examples, thee subject can have or be at risk of developing silicosis, asbestosis or berryliosis. The method can include selecting a subject exposed to, or at risk of exposure to, inorganic particles, including, but not limited to silica, asbestos, berrylium, coal dust, or bauxite. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/993809 |
| 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 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08222226 | Rossi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Jiehua Zhou (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for delivery of siRNA to specific cells or tissue. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for cell type-specific delivery of anti-HIV siRNAs via fusion to an anti-gp120 aptamer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108136 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08222242 | Boss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerry R. Boss (La Jolla, California); Vijay Sharma (Encinitas, California); Kate E. Broderick (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising nitrosyl-cobinamide are provided. Also provided are methods for treating hypertension, which comprise administering therapeutically effective amounts of nitrosyl-cobinamide. Also provided are methods for producing nitrosyl-cobinamide. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/595799 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Hyunah Choo (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections and/or cell proliferation. The compounds provided herein are 5-phosphono-pent-2-en-1-yl nucleosides and esters thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/887502 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/256 |
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| US 08222279 | Pirrung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Pirrung (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formula I are described along with pharmaceutical formulations thereof, and methods of treating disorders such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases with such compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901707 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/339 |
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| US 08222288 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaomeng Wang (Saline, Michigan); Dongguang Qin (Auburn Hills, Michigan); Jianyong Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shanghai Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to small molecules which function as inhibitors of the interaction between p53 and MDM2. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds for inhibiting cell growth, inducing cell death, inducing cell cycle arrest and/or sensitizing cells to additional agent(s). |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815113 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/409 |
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| US 08222289 | Fenical et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Fenical (Del Mar, California); Paul Jensen (San Diego, California); Tracy Mincer (San Diego, California); Robert H. R. Feling (Wiesbaden, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the discovery that certain fermentation products of the marine actinomycete strains CNB392 and CNB476 are effective inhibitors of hyperproliferative mammalian cells. The CNB392 and CNB476 strains lie within the family Micromonosporaceae, and the generic epithet Salinospora has been proposed for this obligate marine group. The reaction products produced by this strain are classified as salinosporamides, and are particularly advantageous in treating neoplastic disorders due to their low molecular weight, low IC50 values, high pharmaceutical potency, and selectivity for cancer cells over fungi. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/638860 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/421 |
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| US 08222293 | Silva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Carolina (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alcino Silva (Sherman Oaks, California); Yijun Cui (Los Angeles, California); Weldong Li (Shanghai, China PRC); Steven A. Kushner (Rotterdam, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of treating cognitive disorders by administering a HMG CoA reductase inhibitor. Cognitive deficits treatable with the inhibitor compound include those associated with Angelman Syndrome, Neurofibromatosis-1, certain forms of X-linked mental retardation, tuberous sclerosis, Down Syndrome, autism, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569426 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/460 |
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| US 08222392 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Potomac, Maryland); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru M. Nakamura (Chicago, Illinois); Karen B. Chapman (Sausalito, California); Gregg B. Morin (Vancouver, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Murphys, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894600 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.330 |
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| US 08222434 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Peter Greenberg (Seattle, Washington); Josephine R. Chandler (Seattle, Washington); Breck Duerkop (Dallas, Texas); Patricia Silva Lima (Duque de Caxias, Brazil); Joshua Alan Blodgett (Boston, Massachusetts); Jon Clardy (Boston, Massachusetts); Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventions are directed to a novel bactobolin analog bactobolin D. The present inventions also are directed to a method of producing a composition comprising at least one bactobolin analog using a bacteria strain comprising a bacterial cell comprising the biosynthetic locus of the bactobolin analog in Burkholderia thailandensis (bta cluster) or a homolog structure (at least 95% sequence identity) thereof, and further isolation and purification of the bactobolin analog. For example, the bacterial strain can be a wild type bacterial strain such as a Burkholderia strain comprising a bta cluster (e.g. Burkholderia thailandensis (e.g. E264, Bt4, and TXDOH) and Burkholderia pseudomallei (e.g. K96243, 1106a, and 1106b). |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/754599 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/288 |
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08222456 — Facially amphiphilic polyaryl and polyarylalkynyl polymers and oligomers and uses thereof
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Moylan, Pennsylvania); Dahui Liu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Michael L. Klein (Ocean City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of use of facially amphiphilic polyaryl and polyarylalkynyl polymers and oligomers, including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical uses of the polymers and oligomers as antimicrobial agents and as antidotes for hemorrhagic complications associated with heparin therapy. The present invention also discloses novel facially amphiphilic polyaryl and polyarylalkynyl polymers and oligomers, compositions of the novel polymers and oligomers, including pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of designing and synthesizing the facially amphiphilic polyaryl and polyarylalkynyl polymers and oligomers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038787 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/374 |
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| US 08222478 | Porszasz-Reisz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science (Lynwood, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz (Lakewood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are novel nucleic acid sequences, vectors comprising such nucleic acid sequences, host cells comprising such vectors, and transgenic animals comprising such nucleic acid sequences, and related molecules and methods relating thereto. Such novel nucleic acid sequences, vectors comprising such nucleic acid sequences, host cells comprising such vectors, and transgenic animals comprising such nucleic acid sequences, and related molecules and methods provide conditional overexpression of genes, such as myostatin, and transgenic animals conditionally overexpression genes, such as myostatin. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398994 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
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| US 08222900 | Wilson et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Wilson (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Donglai Huo (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with robust GRAPPA (GeneRalized Auto-calibrating Partially Parallel Acquisitions) are described. One method embodiment includes acquiring k-space data from a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus having multiple coils and creating a set of over determined linear equations based on auto calibration signal (ACS) lines in the k-space data. The method embodiment includes calculating coil coefficients based on the set of ACS lines and then selectively manipulating a weight associated with an outlying data point to reduce the effect of the outlying data. The method embodiment includes calculating values for missing k-space data points, establishing a full k-space data set, and producing an image from the full k-space data set. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/703998 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 08223143 | Dastmalchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (Dublin, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahram Shawn Dastmalchi (San Ramon, California); Jochen Straub (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an OCT imaging system user interface for efficiently providing relevant image displays to the user. These displays are used during image acquisition to align patients and verify acquisition image quality. During image analysis, these displays indicate positional relationships between displayed data images, automatically display suspicious analysis, automatically display diagnostic data, simultaneously display similar data from multiple visits, improve access to archived data, and provide other improvements for efficient data presentation of relevant information. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978184 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/418 |
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| US 08224454 | McClure et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Pishoy Maksy (Sherman Oaks, California); Peter Meilstrup (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of neural stimulation and more specifically an improved method of providing flexible video/image possessing in a visual prosthesis by providing downloadable video filters. In a visual prosthesis, the input video image will, for the foreseeable future, be higher resolution than the output stimulation of the retina, optic nerve or visual cortex. This is due to limits of electrode array technology and the rapid advancement of video camera technology. It is therefore, advantageous to apply video processing algorithms (filters) to help provide the most useful information to the lower resolution electrode array. Different filters are more effective in different environments and for different subjects. Furthermore, filters will continue to improve over time. Examples of situation dependent filters include reverse image, contrast increasing, edge detection, segmentation using chromatic information and motion detection. Filters loaded in the video processing unit may be selected dynamically to suit the situation or the user's preference. It is therefore advantageous to provide flexibility in applying filters. However, it is also important to maintain the security necessary for a medical device. The present invention provides for an external (not implanted) video processing unit with downloadable video filters. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/523257 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Botkin (El Cerrito, California); Simon Graves (Berkeley, California); Carl J. S. Lenox (Oakland, California); Matthew Culligan (Berkeley, California); Matt Danning (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) module including a PV device and a frame. The PV device has a PV laminate defining a perimeter and a major plane. The frame is assembled to and encases the laminate perimeter, and includes leading, trailing, and side frame members, and an arm that forms a support face opposite the laminate. The support face is adapted for placement against a horizontal installation surface, to support and orient the laminate in a non-parallel or tilted arrangement. Upon final assembly, the laminate and the frame combine to define a unitary structure. The frame can orient the laminate at an angle in the range of 3°-7° from horizontal, and can be entirely formed of a polymeric material. Optionally, the arm incorporates integral feature(s) that facilitate interconnection with corresponding features of a second, identically formed PV module. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492802 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
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| US 08220270 | Bathina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahesh Bathina (Andhra Pradesh, India); Ramanand Singh (Uttar Pradesh, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a cross flow apparatus including a surface and at least one outlet located at the surface. The cross flow apparatus further includes at least one guide at the surface configured to direct an intersecting flow flowing across the surface and increase a velocity of a cross flow being expelled from the at least one outlet downstream from the at least one outlet. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262358 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
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| US 08221595 | Branton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jene A Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M King (Boulder, Colorado); Warren J MoberlyChan (Concord, Massachusetts); Gregor M Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing an ion beam at the selected regions, exposing the structure at the selected regions. A material layer is then deposited on top of the solid condensate layer and the exposed structure at the selected regions. Then the solid condensate layer and regions of the material layer that were deposited on the solid condensate layer are removed, leaving a patterned material layer on the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381502 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.340 |
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| US 08221600 | Ganti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kalyana Bhargava Ganti (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a substrate carrier for use in electroplating a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier includes a non-conductive carrier body on which the substrates are held, and conductive lines are embedded within the carrier body. A conductive bus bar is embedded into a top side of the carrier body and is conductively coupled to the conductive lines. A thermoplastic overmold covers a portion of the bus bar, and there is a plastic-to-plastic bond between the thermoplastic overmold and the non-conductive carrier body. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889228 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/297.60 |
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| US 08221601 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen-An Chen (Milpitas, California); Emmanuel Chua Abas (Laguna, Philippines); Edmundo Anida Divino (Cavite, Philippines); Jake Randal G. Ermita (Laguna, Philippines); Jose Francisco S. Capulong (Laguna, Philippines); Arnold Villamor Castillo (Batangas, Philippines); Diana Xiaobing Ma (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a substrate carrier for use in electroplating a plurality of substrates. The carrier includes a non-conductive carrier body on which the substrates are placed and conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. A plurality of conductive clip attachment parts are attached in a permanent manner to the conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. A plurality of contact clips are attached in a removable manner to the clip attachment parts. The contact clips hold the substrates in place and conductively connecting the substrates with the conductive lines. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889232 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/297.60 |
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| US 08221853 | Marcinek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Marcinek (Warszawa, Poland); Robert Kostecki (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a graphitic tin-carbon composite at low temperatures is described. The method involves using microwave radiation to produce a neutral gas plasma in a reactor cell. At least one organo tin precursor material in the reactor cell forms a tin-carbon film on a supporting substrate disposed in the cell under influence of the plasma. The three dimensional carbon matrix material with embedded tin nanoparticles can be used as an electrode in lithium-ion batteries. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549716 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/576 |
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| US 08221909 | Aytug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ozgur Polat (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic component that includes a substrate and a phase-separated layer supported on the substrate and a method of forming the same are disclosed. The phase-separated layer includes a first phase comprising lanthanum manganate (LMO) and a second phase selected from a metal oxide (MO), metal nitride (MN), a metal (Me), and combinations thereof. The phase-separated material can be an epitaxial layer and an upper surface of the phase-separated layer can include interfaces between the first phase and the second phase. The phase-separated layer can be supported on a buffer layer comprising a composition selected from the group consisting of IBAD MgO, LMO/IBAD-MgO, homoepi-IBAD MgO and LMO/homoepi-MgO. The electronic component can also include an electronically active layer supported on the phase-separated layer. The electronically active layer can be a superconducting material, a ferroelectric material, a multiferroic material, a magnetic material, a photovoltaic material, an electrical storage material, and a semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/947911 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
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| US 08221979 | Gelb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Gelb (New York, New York); Marco Tartaglia (Rome, Italy); Len Pennacchio (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic and therapeutic applications for Noonan Syndrome are described. The diagnostic and therapeutic applications are based on certain mutations in a RAS-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor gene SOS1 or its expression product. The diagnostic and therapeutic applications are also based on certain mutations in a serine/threonine protein kinase gene RAF1 or its expression product thereof. Also described are nucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, probes, and primers related to RAF1 or SOS1, and variants thereof, as well as host cells expressing such variants. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/443752 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08222123 | Spurgeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Spurgeon (Pasadena, California); Katherine E. Plass (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Harry A. Atwater (S. Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reusing a Si wafer for the formation of wire arrays by transferring the wire arrays to a polymer matrix, reusing a patterned oxide for several array growths, and finally polishing and reoxidizing the wafer surface and reapplying the patterned oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053090 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
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| US 08222179 | Matzger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam J. Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Antek G. Wong-Foy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyoungmoo Koh (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A coordination polymer includes a plurality of metal atoms or metal clusters linked together by a plurality of organic linking ligands. Each linking ligand comprises a residue of a negatively charged polydentate ligand. Characteristically, the plurality of multidentate ligands include a first linking ligand having first hydrocarbon backbone and a second ligand having a second hydrocarbon backbone. The first hydrocarbon backbone is different than the second hydrocarbon backbone. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848222 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
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| US 08222510 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arunava Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Moraga, California); Choongho Yu (College Station, Texas); Matthew L. Scullin (Berkeley, California); Mark Huijben (Enschede, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for a thermoelectric system comprising a substrate comprising a first complex oxide, wherein the substrate is optionally embedded with a second complex oxide. The thermoelectric system can be used for thermoelectric power generation or thermoelectric cooling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539135 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/201 |
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| US 08222512 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BSST, LLC (Irwindale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lon E. Bell (Altadena, California); Douglas Todd Crane (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Traditional power generation systems using thermoelectric power generators are designed to operate most efficiently for a single operating condition. The present invention provides a power generation system in which the characteristics of the thermoelectrics, the flow of the thermal power, and the operational characteristics of the power generator are monitored and controlled such that higher operation efficiencies and/or higher output powers can be maintained with variably thermal power input. Such a system is particularly beneficial in variable thermal power source systems, such as recovering power from the waste heat generated in the exhaust of combustion engines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476325 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/205 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bipolar solar cell includes a backside junction formed by an N-type silicon substrate and a P-type polysilicon emitter formed on the backside of the solar cell. An antireflection layer may be formed on a textured front surface of the silicon substrate. A negative polarity metal contact on the front side of the solar cell makes an electrical connection to the substrate, while a positive polarity metal contact on the backside of the solar cell makes an electrical connection to the polysilicon emitter. An external electrical circuit may be connected to the negative and positive metal contacts to be powered by the solar cell. The positive polarity metal contact may form an infrared reflecting layer with an underlying dielectric layer for increased solar radiation collection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070742 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222787 | El-Refaie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Patel Bhageerath Reddy (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An interior permanent magnet electric machine is disclosed. The interior permanent magnet electric machine comprises a rotor comprising a plurality of radially placed magnets each having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein each magnet comprises a plurality of magnetic segments and at least one magnetic segment towards the distal end comprises a high resistivity magnetic material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416220 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223031 | Allen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachery Warren Allen (Mandan, North Dakota); Gary Allen Zevenbergen (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for detecting ground potential rise (GPR) comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and a voltage attenuator. The first electrode and the second electrode are both electrically connected to the voltage attenuator. A means for determining the presence of a dangerous ground potential is connected to the voltage attenuator. The device and method further comprises a means for enabling one or more alarms upon the detection of the dangerous ground potential. Preferably, a first transmitter/receiver is connected to the means for enabling one or more alarms. Preferably, a second transmitter/receiver, comprising a button, is electromagnetically connected to the first transmitter/receiver. Preferably, the means for determining the presence of a dangerous ground potential comprises a means for determining the true RMS voltage at the output of the voltage attenuator, a transient detector connected to the output of the voltage attenuator, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/191725 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/662 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223472 | Dirk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitor having at least one electrode pair being separated by a dielectric component, with the dielectric component being made of a polymer such as a norbornylene-containing polymer with a dielectric constant greater than 3 and a dissipation factor less than 0.1 where the capacitor has an operating temperature greater than 100° C. and less than 170° C. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270879 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223921 | Makarov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicagoArgonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Makarov (Naperville, Illinois); Shenglan Xu (Darien, Illinois); Robert F. Fischetti (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensing methods and a compact, sample holding pin base sensor are provided for detecting if a sample pin is, for example, properly mounted on a goniometer used for automated, high throughput macromolecular crystallography. A first magnet is used for holding a magnetic base; a second magnet is disposed spaced apart from the first magnet. The first magnet and the second magnet have opposite orientation. A Hall-effect switch is located generally centrally between the first magnet and the second magnet. A state of the Hall-effect switch indicates if a sample pin is properly mounted on a mounting member, such as a goniometer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793961 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224165 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Christopher Kelvin Harris (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A heater is described. The heater includes a ferromagnetic conductor and an electrical conductor electrically coupled to the ferromagnetic conductor. The ferromagnetic conductor is positioned relative to the electrical conductor such that an electromagnetic field produced by time-varying current flow in the ferromagnetic conductor confines a majority of the flow of the electrical current to the electrical conductor at temperatures below or near a selected temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409565 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08220318 | Degertekin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for measuring a property of a sample includes an actuation device disposed on a substrate and includes a flexible surface spaced apart from the substrate and configured so as to allow placement of the sample thereupon. The actuation device also includes a vertical actuator that is configured to cause the flexible surface to achieve a predetermined displacement from the substrate when a corresponding potential is applied thereto. A sensing probe is disposed so as to be configured to interact with the sample thereby sensing the property of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777518 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220494 | Studer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Studer (Paris, France); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Sebastian J. Maerkl (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using basic physical arguments, a design and method for the fabrication of microfluidic valves using multilayer soft lithography is presented. Embodiments of valves in accordance with the present invention feature elastomer membrane portions of substantially constant thickness, allowing the membranes to experience similar resistance to an applied pressure across their entire width. Such on-off valves fabricated with upwardly- or downwardly-deflectable membranes can have extremely low actuation pressures, and can be used to implement active functions such as pumps and mixers in integrated microfluidic chips. Valve performance was characterized by measuring both the actuation pressure and flow resistance over a wide range of design parameters, and comparing them to both finite element simulations and alternative valve geometries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915960 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/833 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221679 | Golkowski |
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| ABSTRACT | A free radical decontamination method and system. The system is comprised of a chamber defining a region, and a generator for generating free radical reach effluent from a free radical electric generator and hydrogen peroxide solution with water. A closed loop circulating system is provided for supplying the mixture of free radicals from the electric generator mixed with the hydrogen peroxide solution in the form of the effluent to the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510341 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221884 | DeHeer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walt A. DeHeer (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of making graphite devices, a thin-film graphitic layer disposed against a preselected face of a substrate is created on the preselected face of the substrate. A preselected pattern is generated on the thin-film graphitic layer. At least one functionalizing molecule is attached to a portion of the graphitic layer. The molecule is capable of interacting with π bands in the graphitic layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/168279 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222041 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) capable of performing as a CO2 or O2 sensor is disclosed, hi one implementation, a polymer solar cell can be connected to the HEMT for use in an infrared detection system. In a second implementation, a selective recognition layer can be provided on a gate region of the HEMT. For carbon dioxide sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, PEI/starch. For oxygen sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, indium zinc oxide (IZO). In one application, the HEMTs can be used for the detection of carbon dioxide and oxygen in exhaled breath or blood. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990377 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222072 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of transferring a metal and/or organic layer from a patterned stamp, preferably a soft, elastomeric stamp, to a substrate are provided. The patterned metal or organic layer may be used for example, in a wide range of electronic devices. The present methods are particularly suitable for nanoscale patterning of organic electronic components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387925 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222190 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A lubricant composition having improved lubricant properties, comprising: (a) a lubricating fluid; and (b) nano graphene platelets (NGPs) dispersed in the fluid, wherein nano graphene platelets have a proportion of 0.001% to 60% by weight based on the total weight of the fluid and the graphene platelets combined. Preferably, the composition comprises at least a single-layer graphene sheet. Preferably, the lubricating fluid contains a petroleum oil or synthetic oil and a dispersant or surfactant. With the addition of a thickener or a desired amount of NGPs, the lubricant becomes a grease composition. Compared with graphite nano particle- or carbon nanotube-modified lubricants, NGP-modified lubricants have much better thermal conductivity, friction-reducing capability, anti-wear performance, and viscosity stability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583320 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222265 | McQuade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Tyler McQuade (Tallahassee, Florida); Jin Kyoon Park (Tallahassee, Florida); Matthew D. Rexford (Tallahassee, Florida); Hershel H. Lackey (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a catalyst complex or ligand, and compositions thereof, for use in a variety of organic reactions having high reactivity and enantioselectivity. The catalyst is a N-heterocyclic carbene having three fused rings with first and second rings being six-membered rings and the third being a five-membered ring. The first ring is fused to the second and has four substituents. The second ring has two nitrogens flanking a carbene atom with one nitrogen bound to a substituent. The carbene atom may optionally be bonded to a metal. The third ring is fused to the second ring and contains two nitrogens. The third ring of the catalyst has a double bond and two substituents on adjacent non-fused carbons. A non-fused nitrogen of the third ring is partially bonded to another substituent. Methods for the synthesis and use of the catalyst embodiments of the present invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870901 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222306 | Schlenoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described for producing an osmotically compacted polyelectrolyte complex having a first region and a second region, the first region having a greater modulus than the second region. The method comprises contacting an article comprising polyelectrolyte complex to a solution comprising a preferred osmolyte of concentration sufficient to compact said polyelectrolyte complex and terminating the compaction process before the entire article is osmotically compacted. A method is also described for producing a article comprising water and an intermolecular blend of at least one positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer and at least one negatively charged polymer, said article having a core region and a surface region, the surface region having at least twice the elastic modulus of the core region, the method comprising contacting a starting article comprising a blend of said polymers with a solution of osmolyte, wherein the osmolyte is excluded from said article. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/346287 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222469 | Schrock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts); Smaranda C. Marinescu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to catalysts and processes for the formation of terminal olefin(s) from internal olefin(s) via ethenolysis reactions. The ethenolysis reactions may proceed with high conversion, high turnover, and/or high selectivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/503608 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222740 | Narayan |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jagdish Narayan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A transparent, electrically conductive composite includes a layer of molybdenum oxide or nickel oxide deposited on a layer of zinc oxide layer. The molybdenum component exists in a mixed valence state in the molybdenum oxide. The nickel component exists in a mixed valence state in the nickel oxide. The composite may be utilized in various electronic devices, including optoelectronic devices. In particular, the composite may be utilized as a transparent conductive electrode. As compared to conventional transparent conduct oxides such as indium tin oxide, the composite exhibits superior properties, including a higher work function. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605013 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223330 | Natelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Natelson (Houston, Texas); Daniel Robert Ward (Houston, Texas); Zachary Kyle Keane (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing planar extended electrodes with nanoscale spacings that exhibit very large SERS signals, with each nanoscale gap having one well-defined hot spot. The resulting highly sensitive substrate has extended metal electrodes separated by a nanoscale gap. The electrodes act as optical antennas to enhance dramatically the local electromagnetic field for purposes of spectroscopy or nonlinear optics. SERS response is consistent with a very small number of molecules in the hotspot, showing blinking and wandering of Raman lines. Sensitivity is sufficiently high that SERS from physisorbed atmospheric contaminants may be detected after minutes of exposure to ambient conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029631 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida); Rod Waits (Sunnyvale, California); Roberto Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas); John R. Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alexander B. Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit assembly (34) affixed to a moving part (20) of a turbine for receiving information about a condition of the part and transmitting this information external to the engine. The circuit assembly includes a high-temperature resistant package (34A) that attaches to the part. A high temperature resistant PC board (42) supports both active and passive components of the circuit, wherein a first group of the passive components are fabricated with zero temperature coefficient of resistance and a second group of the passive components are fabricated with a positive temperature coefficient of resistance. The active components are fabricated with high temperature metallization. Connectors (40) attached to the PC board pass through a wall of the package (34A) for communication with sensors (30) on the part and with an antenna (26) for transmitting data about the condition of the part to outside the turbine. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192280 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222073 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S Ong (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating a thin film transistor comprising: (a) forming a gate dielectric; (b) forming a layer including a substance comprising a fluorocarbon structure; and (c) forming a semiconductor layer including a thiophene compound comprising one or more substituted thiophene units, one or more unsubstituted thiophene units, and optionally one or more divalent linkages, wherein the layer contacts the gate dielectric and is disposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate dielectric. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837016 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222172 | Gentleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Molly Maureen Gentleman (College Station, Texas); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Margaret Louise Blohm (Schenectady, New York); Mohan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials. The oxide materials described herein as a class typically contain europia (Eu2O3). The oxides may further contain other additives, such as oxides of gadolinium (Gd), samarium (Sm), dysprosium (Dy), or terbium (Tb). In certain embodiments the oxide, in addition to europia, further comprises ytterbia (Yb2O3), lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), or neodymium (Nd). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/118690 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222650 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina); Shiwen Liu (Acton, Massachusetts); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Timothy J. Bettles (Rexford, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures and devices based thereon include an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate and at least one layer epitaxially grown thereover. The epitaxial layer may comprise at least one of AlN, GaN, InN, or any binary or tertiary alloy combination thereof, and have an average dislocation density within the semiconductor heterostructure is less than about 106 cm−2. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617150 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223036 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida); Rod Waits (Sunnyvale, California); Roberto Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas); John R. Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alexander B. Lostetter (Fayetville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | In a telemetry system for use in an engine, a circuit structure (34) affixed to a moving part (20) of the engine is disposed for amplifying information sensed about a condition of the part and transmitting the sensed information to a receiver external to the engine. The circuit structure is adapted for the high temperature environment of the engine and includes a differential amplifier (102, 111) having an input for receiving a signal from a sensor (101, 110) disposed on the part. A voltage controlled oscillator (104, 115) with an input coupled to the output of the amplifier produces an oscillatory signal having a frequency representative of the sensed condition. A buffer (105, 116) with an input coupled to the output of the oscillator buffers the oscillatory signal, which is then coupled to an antenna (26) for transmitting the information to the receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192324 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/870.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08223459 | Gage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Charles Gage (Mars, Pennsylvania); Michael Allen Seigler (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A recording head includes a magnetic write pole having an end positioned adjacent to an air bearing surface, a first waveguide having an end positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface, a laser, and a coupler for coupling light from the laser to the waveguide. The coupler can include a grating positioned in or adjacent to a lasing cavity of the laser. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137704 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/235.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08220408 | Stone et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Stone (Del Valle, Texas); Bartholomew P. Hogan (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater vehicle including an axi-symmetric framing system rotatable about a centerline to define a shell of revolution having a uniformly-convex outer boundary. A narrow-beam sonar array is mounted on the axi-symmetric framing system, and includes a multitude of simultaneously-fireable and/or asynchronously-fireable transducers distributed substantially evenly over a 4π-steradian viewing angle. The present invention provides the necessary configuration for a vehicle wherein an internal algorithm can compare a “new” geometry to an “old” geometry collected earlier to construct a best fit of the new world map with the old world map and locate the vehicle within the context of the new world map. This then provides a completely independent mechanism for correction of the gradual drift in x and y that is not dependent on any form of external navigation aid. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179362 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08220989 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Miller (Brecksville, Ohio); Maria A. Kuczmarski (Independence, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A hot plate method and apparatus for the measurement of thermal conductivity combines the following capabilities: 1) measurements of very small specimens; 2) measurements of specimens with thermal conductivity on the same order of that as air; and, 3) the ability to use air as a reference material. Care is taken to ensure that the heat flow through the test specimen is essentially one-dimensional. No attempt is made to use heated guards to minimize the flow of heat from the hot plate to the surroundings. Results indicate that since large correction factors must be applied to account for guard imperfections when specimen dimensions are small, simply measuring and correcting for heat from the heater disc that does not flow into the specimen is preferable. The invention is a hot plate method capable of using air as a standard reference material for the steady-state measurement of the thermal conductivity of very small test samples having thermal conductivity on the order of air. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571215 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222041 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) capable of performing as a CO2 or O2 sensor is disclosed, hi one implementation, a polymer solar cell can be connected to the HEMT for use in an infrared detection system. In a second implementation, a selective recognition layer can be provided on a gate region of the HEMT. For carbon dioxide sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, PEI/starch. For oxygen sensing, the selective recognition layer can be, in one example, indium zinc oxide (IZO). In one application, the HEMTs can be used for the detection of carbon dioxide and oxygen in exhaled breath or blood. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990377 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224472 | Maluf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by he United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Maluf (Mountain View, California); Chen-Jung Hsu (Fremont, California); Hemil N. Patel (Sunnyvale, California); Jairon C. Moh Hashim (Sunnyvale, California); Khai Peter B. Tran (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for managing a project that includes multiple tasks and a plurality of workers. Input information includes characterizations based upon a human model, a team model and a product model. Periodic reports, such as one or more of a monthly report, a task plan report, a schedule report, a budget report and a risk management report, are generated and made available for display or further analysis or collection into a customized report template. An extensible database allows searching for information based upon context and upon content. Seven different types of project risks are addressed, including non-availability of required skill mix of workers. The system can be configured to exchange data and results with corresponding portions of similar project analyses, and to provide user-specific access to specified information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/211439 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08222190 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A lubricant composition having improved lubricant properties, comprising: (a) a lubricating fluid; and (b) nano graphene platelets (NGPs) dispersed in the fluid, wherein nano graphene platelets have a proportion of 0.001% to 60% by weight based on the total weight of the fluid and the graphene platelets combined. Preferably, the composition comprises at least a single-layer graphene sheet. Preferably, the lubricating fluid contains a petroleum oil or synthetic oil and a dispersant or surfactant. With the addition of a thickener or a desired amount of NGPs, the lubricant becomes a grease composition. Compared with graphite nano particle- or carbon nanotube-modified lubricants, NGP-modified lubricants have much better thermal conductivity, friction-reducing capability, anti-wear performance, and viscosity stability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583320 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08222650 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina); Shiwen Liu (Acton, Massachusetts); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Timothy J. Bettles (Rexford, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures and devices based thereon include an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate and at least one layer epitaxially grown thereover. The epitaxial layer may comprise at least one of AlN, GaN, InN, or any binary or tertiary alloy combination thereof, and have an average dislocation density within the semiconductor heterostructure is less than about 106 cm−2. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617150 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08221885 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cool Options, Inc. a corporation of the State of New Hampshire (North Kingstown, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Miller (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An injection moldable, thermally conductive polymer composition that has ultra low CTE properties is provided. The composition is suitable both for substrate applications in high precision electronics assemblies as well as over molding applications in conjunction with ceramic substrates. The composition includes a base polymer matrix material loaded with thermally conductive filler, which imparts thermal conductivity to the polymer matrix while also maintaining or enhancing the dielectric properties of the base polymer. The resultant composition exhibits CTE properties in the range of between 9 ppm/° C. and 2 ppm/° C., exhibits an optical anisotropy of below 1.5, and a thermal conductivity of greater than 2 W/m° K. The composition is suitable for use in over molding applications in conjunction with virtually any suitable electronics substrate material without the introduction of mechanical stresses produced by large CTE differentials. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/138118 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D663734 | Radin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALESIS, L.P., a Limited Partnership of the State of Delaware (Cumberland, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel I. Radin (Boston, Massachusetts); Paul C. Williamson (Providence, Rhode Island) |
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| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 29/413078 |
| ART UNIT | 2916 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Recording, communication, or information retrieval equipment D14/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08224064 | Hassebrook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Henry G. Dietz (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A biometrics system captures and processes a handprint image using a structured light illumination to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. The biometrics system includes an enclosure with a scan volume for placement of the hand. A reference plane with a backdrop pattern forms one side of the scan volume. The backdrop pattern is preferably a random noise pattern and the coordinates of the backdrop pattern are predetermined at system provisioning. The biometrics system further includes at least one projection unit for projecting a structured light pattern onto a hand positioned in the scan volume on or in front of the backdrop pattern and at least two cameras for capturing a plurality of images of the hand, wherein each of the plurality of images includes at least a portion of the hand and the backdrop pattern. A processing unit calculates 3D coordinates of the hand from the plurality of images using the predetermined coordinates of the backdrop pattern to align the plurality of images and mapping the 3D coordinates to a 2D flat surface to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. The processing unit can also adjust calibration parameters for each hand scan from calculating coordinates of the portion of backdrop pattern in the at least one image and comparing with the predetermined coordinates of the backdrop pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586473 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08225129 | Douglis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Honghui Xia (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Bin Rong (Melbourne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A failure recovery framework to be used in cooperative data stream processing is provided that can be used in a large-scale stream data analysis environment. Failure recovery supports a plurality of independent distributed sites, each having its own local administration and goals. The distributed sites cooperate in an inter-site back-up mechanism to provide for system recovery from a variety of failures within the system. Failure recovery is both automatic and timely through cooperation among sites. Back-up sites associated with a given primary site are identified. These sites are used to identify failures within the primary site including failures of applications running on the nodes of the primary site. The failed applications are reinstated on one or more nodes within the back-up sites using job management instances local to the back-up sites in combination with previously stored state information and data values for the failed applications. In additions to inter-site mechanisms, each one of the plurality of sites employs an intra-site back-up mechanism to handle failure recoveries within the site. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733732 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08220502 | Kelekar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Gaurav Verma (Sunnyvale, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure gauge may be coupled to a vessel into which a liquid chemical is to be dispensed. The volume of the vessel may be known and a control device may determine an initial pressure of the vessel using the pressure gauge. A volume of liquid chemical may be dispensed into the vessel which may cause the pressure within the vessel to increase to a second pressure. The control device may determine the second pressure using the pressure gauge may calculate the volume of liquid chemical dispensed into the vessel using the volume of the vessel, the initial pressure of the vessel, and the second pressure of the vessel. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/966654 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08221804 | Stock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Signum Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey); Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Haoming Gu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Gregory B Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Zhu Li (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Michael Wolanin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses novel compositions containing a methylation modifying compound isolated from botanical raw materials, including a fruit of the genus Coffea, and microbial raw materials, methods of making such compositions, and methods of treating or preventing human disease using such compositions. The methylation modifying compound in botanical extracts of the present invention can dramatically increase the level of methylation of PP2A, thus increasing cognitive function, particularly in persons suffering from or prone to developing Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346706 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08224765 | Khalak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asif Khalak (Phoenix, Arizona); C. Arthur Dins (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Bradley John Barton (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Michael Kolbet (Scottsdale, Arizona); Qingqiu Ginger Shao (Oro Valley, Arizona); Randy Magnuson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining relative likelihood of a failure mode is provided. The method comprises receiving evidence observations of a monitored system from monitors connected in a many-to-many relationship to the failure modes, generating a fault condition including states of all failure modes that are connected to the monitors, and computing a relative probability of failure for each failure mode. The fault condition is generated for a reference model of the monitored system and is based on the received evidence observations. The relative probability of failure for each failure mode is based on a false alarm probability, a detection probability, and a ratio of prior probabilities of a candidate hypothesis to a null hypothesis of no active failure mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366475 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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 17, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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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)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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