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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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| US 08230564 | Reid, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Robert Reid, Jr. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A millimeter wave transmission line filter having a plurality of filter pole determining coupled cavities fabricated with a multiple lithographic layer micromachining process. The filter cavities are oriented perpendicular to an underlying substrate element in order to achieve micromachining, fabrication and accuracy advantages. Multiple filters can be used in a frequency multiplex arrangement as in a duplexer. Radio frequencies in the 15 to 300 gigahertz range are contemplated. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696161 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230612 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jarrod Williams (Bellevue, Nebraska); Robert Posey (Haughton, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for assessing the straightness of a flight control rod installed in an aircraft. The apparatus including a solid straight bar with a first end and a second end and two rod fixtures. The bar removably attachable to the rod fixtures that are in turn removably attachable to a flight control rod. The flight control rod may be removably inserted into rod fixture rod slots such that there is a measurable gap between the bar attached to the rod fixtures and the flight control rod to which they are attached. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074264 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230616 | McLaren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483055 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230682 | Sanford 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 J. Sanford (Bel Alton, Maryland); Victoria L. Beam (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermally activated initiator assembly uses a first bar that experiences a change in length as a function of temperature. The first bar is coupled to a first support. A second support is pivotally coupled to the first support and to the first bar so that the second support may move relative to the first support when the first bar experiences the change in length. An initiator is coupled to the second support adjacent to the high side of a ramp on the second support. A second bar is rigidly coupled to the first support. The second bar rests on the low side of the ramp prior to the first bar experiencing the change in length. When the first bar experiences the change in length, the second support moves relative to the first support causing the second bar to slide along the ramp until it falls off the ramp's high side to strike the initiator. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587315 |
| ART UNIT | 4128 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230770 | Renn |
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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) | Philip Alan Renn (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to remove, energetically, a ballistic tolerant window. The elements include a ballistic tolerant fillet, which extends from the periphery of the ballistic tolerant window. Proximate to a perimeter of the fillet is a plurality of apertures that match up with holes on a tubular frame. The frame and fillet are joined using fastening elements, which are fitted in the holes and apertures. The tubular frame is a polygonal tube having sides useful for mounting the frame to an airframe and for mounting an expanding energetic element with a detonating cord. The energetic element is mounted on the frame adjacent to the fastening elements. When the energetic element is detonated, the explosive force is sufficient to cause the window to separate, energetically, from the tubular frame. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587318 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230835 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Gibson (Tempe, Arizona); John Hogan (Gilbert, Arizona); John D. Robinson (Scottsdale, Arizona); Mike O'Brien (Goodyear, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Emergency lubrication systems and methods for an engine are provided. One system includes a primary lubrication system including a de-aeration oil tank configured to store de-aerated oil until the oil is de-aerated, a first oil supply line configured to provide de-aerated oil to the engine, and a first valve configured to control the flow of oil through the primary lubrication system. The system further includes a secondary lubrication system including a second valve coupled to the de-aeration oil tank and configured to control the flow of oil through the secondary lubrication system, and a second oil supply line coupled to the engine and to the de-aeration oil tank via the second valve. One method includes the steps of detecting a predetermined event in the engine, preventing the aerated oil from entering the primary lubrication system, and using the aerated oil in the secondary lubrication system to lubricate the engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401017 |
| ART UNIT | 3783 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/196.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231013 | 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 Hsiao (Setauket, New York); Kyunghwan Yoon (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles comprising a fibrous support of nanofibers and an interfacially polymerized polymer layer disposed on a surface of the fibrous support are useful, e.g., as fluid separation membranes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951248 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231085 | Cherepinsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control system includes a controller which defines a controller displacement and a control surface which defines a control surface authority. A module operable to provide a displacement feel to the controller in response to a remaining portion of the controller displacement being greater than a remaining portion of the control surface authority and the module operable to re-reference a center of the controller displacement to equate the remaining portion of the controller displacement with the remaining portion of the control surface authority in response to the remaining portion of the controller displacement being less than the remaining portion of the control surface authority. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756997 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231158 | Dollar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Dollar (New Haven, Connecticut); Robert Howe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-fingered underactuated mechanical grasping system driven by a single actuator, yet can grasp objects spanning a wide range of size, shape, and mass. A member for moving a link relative to a base acts in parallel to a direction of compliance of a joint between the link and the base. The joint has a plurality of degrees of freedom. The number of members for moving links in the grasping system is less than the number of degrees of freedom in the grasping system. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447939 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231284 | Doany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuad Doany (Katonah, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel parallel optical module having combined optical signal transmit and receive function for high-speed performance. The optical module includes a plurality, e.g., sixteen 10-Gb/s transmitter and receiver channels for a 160-Gb/s bidirectional aggregate data rate. The module utilizes a single-chip CMOS optical transceiver containing both transmitter and receiver circuits. 16-channel high-speed photodiode (PD) and VCSEL arrays are flip-chip attached to the low-power CMOS IC. The substrate emitting/illuminated VCSEL and PD arrays operate at 985 nm and include collimating lenses integrated into the backside of the substrate. The IC-OE assembly is then flip-chip attached to a high density organic package forming the transceiver optical module. The exclusive use of flip-chip packaging for both the IC-to-optoelectronic (OE) devices and for the IC-to-organic package minimizes the module footprint and associated packaging parasitics. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691303 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231688 | Fairbanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Berkeley Bionics (Berkeley, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Oakland, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Lafayette, California); Miclas Schwartz (Hamburg, Germany); Nathan Harding (Oakland, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Berkeley, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semi-actuated above knee prosthetic system, which is mostly passive in nature and includes a shank link coupled to an artificial foot, a knee mechanism connected to the shank link and a thigh link attached to an above-knee remaining lower limb of an amputee, is operable in either an actuated mode or an un-actuated mode controlled by a signal processor linked to various prosthetic mounted sensors which may include combinations of knee angle, stance, thigh angle and shank angle sensors. Power is delivered through an electric motor connected to a battery source and employed to drive a hydraulic pump which is part of an overall hydraulic power unit including the torque generator. A signal processor selects a swing state from at least forward, combination forward and descent, combination forward and ascent, reverse, combination reverse and descent, and combination reverse and ascent swing states. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/457573 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231746 | Bellitto |
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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) | Victor J. Bellitto (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting a nitroaromatic explosive via an exothermic chemical reaction of the nitroaromatic explosive with a polyamine or polyamine functional group is accomplished by depositing a polyamine or polyamine-functionalized coating on a microelectrode array and a semiconductor substrate, introducing a nitroaromatic explosive to an exposed surface of the polyamine or polyamine-functionalized coating, and measuring changes in electrical properties of the polyamine or polyamine-functionalized coating associated with the introducing of the nitroaromatic explosive. The nitroaromatic explosive detector comprises a microelectrode array formed on a semiconductor substrate, a polyamine or polyamine-functionalized coating deposited on and contiguous with the microelectrode array and the semiconductor substrate, and a measuring device for measuring any of resistance, conductance, and capacitance across the microelectrode array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214295 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231748 | Higa |
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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) | Kelvin T. Higa (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A large-scale synthetic method that enables the preparation of nanoenergetic composites in kilogram scales which forms superior materials as compared to the ultra-sonicated nanoenergetic composites and at a lower cost for use in explosive, pyrotechnic, agent defeat, ammunition primers, and propellant applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/212358 |
| 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 08231941 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel methods for the formation of redox-active polymers attached to surfaces. In certain embodiments, the methods involve providing redox-active molecules bearing at least a first reactive site or group and a second reactive site or group; and contacting the surface with the redox-active molecules where the contacting is under conditions that result in attachment of said redox-active molecules to said surface via the first reactive site or group and attachment of redox-active molecules via the second reactive site or group, to the redox-active molecules attached to the surface thereby forming a polymer attached to said surface where the polymers comprise at least two of said redox-active molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/265990 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231970 | Walters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Walters (Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania); John R. Schneider (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Coating compositions are disclosed that include corrosion resisting particles such that the coating composition can exhibit corrosion resistance properties. Also disclosed are substrates at least partially coated with a coating deposited from such a composition and multi-component composite coatings, wherein at least one coating later is deposited from such a coating composition. Methods and apparatus for making ultrafine solid particles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/956542 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232091 | Maltezos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); Matthew Johnston (Woodbridge, California); David Goodwin (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Christopher I. Walker (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system for performing PCR, and real time PCR in particular with great speed and specificity. The system employs a heat block containing a liquid composition to rapidly transfer heat to and from reaction vessels. The system makes use of the reflective properties of the liquid metal to reflect signal from the PCR into the vessel and out the top. In this way, the signal can be measured by an optical assembly in real time without removing the vessels from the heat block. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/750326 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232136 | Bulovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jennifer J. Yu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for micro-patterning organic layers of OLEDs. The disclosed methods do not require applying pressure to the film, nor do they require heat treatment, surface treatment or fast release rate of a stamp from the substrate. The disclosed methods are particularly advantageous over the conventional shadow masking techniques for providing large array fabrication with small features. In one embodiment of the disclosure, one or more organic films are selected for the OLED as a function of their individual or combined sublimation temperature. The material is selected in view of the depth and shape of the features that are to be formed in the organic layer. The disclosed embodiments can provide minimum feature size of 13 μm which is suitable for high resolution OLED displays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537424 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232171 | Engelmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian Ulrich Engelmann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Nicholas C. M. Fuller (Yorktown Heights, New York); Eric Andrew Joseph (Yorktown Heights, New York); Isaac Lauer (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ryan M. Martin (Yorktown Heights, New York); James Vichiconti (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A trench is formed by an anisotropic etch in a semiconductor material layer employing a masking layer, which can be gate spacers. In one embodiment, an adsorbed fluorine layer is provided at a cryogenic temperature only on vertical sidewalls of the semiconductor structure including the sidewalls of the trench. The adsorbed fluorine layer removes a controlled amount of the underlying semiconductor material once the temperature is raised above the cryogenic temperature. The trench can be filled with another semiconductor material to generate stress in the semiconductor material layer. In another embodiment, the semiconductor material is laterally etched by a plasma-based etch at a controlled rate while a horizontal portion of a contiguous oxide liner prevents etch of the semiconductor material from the bottom surface of the trench. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561704 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232182 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Il-Doo Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Harry L. Tuller (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Yong Woo Choi (Lexington, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A transfer layer includes a transparent substrate. A buffer layer is formed on the transparent substrate that comprises PbO, GaN, PbTiO3, La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSCO), or LaxPb1-xCoO3 (LPCO) so that separation between the buffer layer and the transparent substrate occurs at substantially high temperatures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221325 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232255 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals S.A. (Rixensart, Belgium); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Hoffman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ruobing Wang (Potomac, Maryland); Judith E. Epstein (Kensington, Maryland); Joseph D. Cohen (Brussels, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to methods for protecting against malaria infection by vaccination. The method of the invention involves priming an anti-malaria immune response with a DNA-based vaccine and boosting that response with a protein-based a vaccine. The method of the invention also relates to broadening the resulting immune response by boosting with a protein-based vaccine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/532081 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232320 | Baker, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tarek Hamouda (Milan, Michigan); Amy Shih (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrzej Myc (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for decreasing the infectivity, morbidity, and rate of mortality associated with a variety of pathogenic organisms and viruses. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for decontaminating areas colonized or otherwise infected by pathogenic organisms and viruses. Moreover, the present invention relates to methods and compositions for decreasing the infectivity of pathogenic organisms in foodstuffs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/928427 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232584 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Fernando Patolsky (Rehovot, Israel); Gengfeng Zheng (Dorchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects of the invention relate to nanoscale wire devices and methods of use for detecting analytes. In one aspect, the invention relates to a nanoscale electrical sensor array device, comprising at least one n-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire and at least one p-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire, each having a reaction entity immobilized thereon. Binding of an analyte to the immobilized reaction entity causes a detectable change in the electrical property of the nanoscale wire. In some embodiments, the reaction entity can be a nucleic acid that may interact with other nucleic acids, proteins, etc. In a specific embodiment, the nucleic acid may interact with an enzyme such as telomerase, which can extend the nucleic acid. In other embodiments, the analyte to be detected can be a toxin, virus or small molecule. Systems and methods of using such nanoscale devices are also disclosed, for example, within a microarray. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536269 |
| 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 | Active solid-state devices 257/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232617 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Hao-Chih Yuan (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Flexible lateral p-i-n (“PIN”) diodes, arrays of flexible PIN diodes and imaging devices incorporating arrays of PIN diodes are provided. The flexible lateral PIN diodes are fabricated from thin, flexible layers of single-crystalline semiconductor. A plurality of the PIN diodes can be patterned into a single semiconductor layer to provide a flexible photodetector array that can be formed into a three-dimensional imaging device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478369 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232722 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jean-Michel Caruge (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexi Arango (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a charge transporting layer that includes an inorganic material. The charge transporting layer can be a hole or electron transporting layer. The inorganic material can be an inorganic semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354185 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232761 | Thivierge 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) | Daniel P. Thivierge (Warren, Rhode Island); Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-stage voltage step-up converter and energy storage system is utilized for harvesting trickling electrons from benthic microbe habitats. A relatively random low voltage from the microbial fuel cell (less than about 0.8 VDC) is provided to the first stage step-up converter, which stores power in a first output storage device. A first comparator circuit turns on the second stage step-up converter to transfer energy from the first output storage device to a second output storage device. A second comparator circuit intermittently connects the load to the second output storage device. After initial start-up, the system is self-powered utilizing the first and second output devices but may use a battery for the initial start-up, after which an automatic switch can switch the battery out of the circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587323 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232831 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard T. Chan (Merrimack, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple input and/or gain stage Gilbert cell mixer designs are disclosed. The designs allow one input to be turned on at a time, and are suitable, for example, for use in receiver and transmitter applications. In addition, the designs allow for the inputs of the multi-input Gilbert cell mixer to be connected together, thereby allowing for switching of gain states within the Gilbert cell mixer. The mixer design may include, for example, a Gilbert cell mixer stage, and a plurality of input/gain stages. Each input/gain stage has its output connected to the input of the mixer stage, and is configured for receiving an input signal and applying a gain factor to that input signal to provide a signal for mixing with the LO. Each input/gain stage is configured with stage select circuitry for enabling or disabling that stage, so that only one input/gain stage is active at a time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625097 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard N. Pedersen (Toms River, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system provide for confirmation of friendly aircraft as a backup to conventional IFF (identification, friend or foe) telecommunication systems and methods. An IFF secondary radar signal is generated and directed to an aircraft. When no confirming response is received within a pre-determined time period, the invention provides for generating and transmitting a pre-arranged modulated signal to the aircraft. In response to receiving the pre-arranged modulated signal, the aircraft notifies the aircrew to execute a pre-arranged kinematic maneuver that is detected by the systems using radar means to confirm that the aircraft is a friendly aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570281 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233115 | Hadlich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Hadlich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric Irving (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mike Thorson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flat panel display assembly and a method for constructing a flat panel display assembly are provided. The flat panel display assembly includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting components mounted to the substrate, at least one diffusion component having concave and convex opposing surfaces. Each of the diffusion components is coupled to the substrate such that the concave surface thereof is between at least some of the plurality of light emitting components and the convex surface thereof. The at least one diffusion component is configured to diffuse light emitted from the at least some of the plurality of light emitting components as the light propagates therethough. A diffusion layer is coupled to the substrate such that the convex surface of each of the at least one diffusion component is between the concave surface thereof and the diffusion layer and configured to further diffuse the light that propagates through the at least one diffusion component. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180109 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233148 | Bodkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Bodkin (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Andrew I. Sheinis (Madison, Wisconsin); Adam Norton (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hyperspectral imaging systems that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions with no moving parts are disclosed. A lenslet array and/or a pinhole array may be used to reimage and divide the field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral datacube is collected simultaneously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758986 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233206 | Kramer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zebra Imaging, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwindla H. Kramer (Venice, California); John S. Underkoffler (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Klug (Austin, Texas); Mark E. Holzbach (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | User input is facilitated through gestural inputs with displayed two and three-dimensional objects using a holographic device and film that displays a static, digitally generated, three-dimensional, autostereoscopic, full-parallax, real image and a digital projector that displays dynamic images. A system includes computer-detectable tags mounted on a user-wearable glove, and on a base plate that holds the holographic device. The system determines the locations of the tags, and calculates a location of a feature of the image based on the locations of the tags. The system also determines the location, pose, and gestural motion of the input device based on the location of the tags. The system further calculates a distance and direction between the input device and the feature of the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050527 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233558 | Sirkeci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Birsen Sirkeci (San Jose, California); Anna Scaglione (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for space-time coding for distributed cooperative communication. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/301248 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233871 | Keehr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Keehr (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An incompressible receiver for minimizing undesired higher-order nonlinear distortion products includes a first receiver path configured to receive an input signal having at least one non-baseband frequency. A second receiver path is also configured to receive the input signal. The second receiver path includes at least one odd-order nonlinear distortion reference component and at least one even-order nonlinear distortion reference component. The distortion reference components are configured to be in an “on” state or in an “off” state. A combining element is configured to combine input signals from the first and second receiver paths such that the higher-order nonlinear distortion signals are substantially attenuated at an output of the combining element. An incompressible receiver that has an odd-order nonlinear distortion reference generator including a cubic term and at least one additional term of order greater than 3 and an incompressible receiver front end amplifier (IRFEA) are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817109 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234082 | Bridge 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) | Ralph J. Bridge (La Plata, Maryland); Gary L. Biggs (Sliver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for data smoothing raw data such as stress data. The present invention may utilize various techniques to smooth data such as dropping data using a stress threshold, dropping data by resample (or decimation), and smoothing by dynamic binning. Additionally, the present invention may utilize a transform function to estimate stress from a stress sensor to areas of peak stress. In an exemplary application, the present invention can be utilized to reduce stress data collected by a plurality of embedded stress sensors in a rocket motor for purposes of computing service life of the motor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583570 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234106 | Marcu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California); Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Los Angeles, California); Philipp Koehn (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine translation system may use non-parallel monolingual corpora to generate a translation lexicon. The system may identify identically spelled words in the two corpora, and use them as a seed lexicon. The system may use various clues, e.g., context and frequency, to identify and score other possible translation pairs, using the seed lexicon as a basis. An alternative system may use a small bilingual lexicon in addition to non-parallel corpora to learn translations of unknown words and to generate a parallel corpus. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576110 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234260 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuguang Wu (Santa Clara, California); Christopher A. Vick (San Jose, California); Michael H. Paleczny (San Jose, California); Olaf Manczak (Hayward, California); Jay R. Freeman (Palo Alto, California); Phyllis E. Gustafson (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for metadata management for scalable processes, involving creating a process by a first home processor, wherein the process is associated with a process identification (ID), storing the processor ID and information identifying the first home processor in a global process look-up data structure (GPLD), requesting metadata associated with the process, searching the GPLD to obtain the first home processor of the process using the process ID, and retrieving the metadata associated with the process from the first home processor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158750 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234522 | Baker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Baker (Austin, Texas); Marian Nodine (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for network fault diagnosis in a network having network elements is presented. The method comprises creating a network causality model, generating Boolean expressions from the network causality model, converting the Boolean expressions into SAT sets, receiving network monitoring results, correlating these monitoring results with the SAT sets, and enumerating all possible diagnostic explanations of potential faults, properly annotated. Creating a network causality model can comprise creating, for each network element, an element-specific causality model, stitching together all network elements using the element-specific causality models and a network topology, retrieving monitoring state and propagation information, and generating the network causality model using the stitched together network elements and the monitoring state and propagation information. Stitching together network elements can comprise adding causes and implies dependency between appropriate network elements and/or adding and connecting reachable and not-reachable states. The network causality model can comprise network element states. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554016 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234580 | Bell 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) | Blaine A Bell (New York, New York); Steven A. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for space management of a workspace provided on a display includes defining a first data structure of full-space rectangles present on the workspace, wherein at least a portion of the full-space rectangles are permitted to overlap. A second data structure of largest empty-space rectangles available on the workspace is also defined to complete the representation of the workspace. The methods include performing an operation on at least one full-space rectangle on the workspace and redefining the first data structure and the second data structure in accordance with the workspace resulting from the operation performed. The operations can include adding a new full-space rectangle, moving an existing full-space rectangle and deleting an existing full full-space rectangle from the workspace. Generally, the workspace is a display device coupled to an electronic device such as a personal computer, personal digital assistant, electronic book viewer and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124797 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234652 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for performing setup operations for receiving a different amount of data while processors are performing message passing interface (MPI) tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors are provided so us to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. An MPI load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. As a result, setup operations may be performed while processors are performing MPI tasks to prepare for receiving different sized portions of data in a subsequent computation cycle based on the history. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846154 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234689 | Jelavic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jelavic (East Northport, New York); Eric Hansen (Babylon, New York); Jack L. Gold (East Meadow, New York); Surendra Seobarrat (Huntington Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating target area information. The system comprises a first processor effective to receive first information of a first classification level and a second processor effective to receive second information of a second classification level distinct from the first classification level. A cross domain processor is in communication with the first and second processors. The second processor is effective to receive a request from a requesting entity about a region of interest and interrogate a first sensor regarding the request. The second processor is further effective to receive first information from the first sensor and send the request through the cross domain processor to the first processor. The first processor is effective to interrogate a second sensor regarding the request and receive second information from the second sensor. The first processor is further effective to filter the second information based on the first and second classification levels to produce filtered information and send the filtered information through the cross domain processor to the second processor. The second processor is further effective to integrate the first information and the filtered information to produce integrated information and send the integrated information to the requesting entity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565329 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483055 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231636 | Fitzpatrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael Fitzpatrick (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert F. Labadie (Nashville, Tennessee); Jason E. Mitchell (Greenbrier, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A surgical instrument for securing an anchor in a target area of the skull of a patient, wherein the anchor has a shaped surface, a top and a base. In one embodiment, the surgical instrument includes a driver having a first end, an opposite, second end, and a body portion defined therebetween forming a bore therein along a longitudinal axis, where the bore is configured to allow the anchor to be received therein, a first inner surface formed inside the bore proximate to the first end, wherein the first inner surface is formed with a shape that is complimentary to the shaped surface of the anchor, and a second inner surface formed inside the bore and between the first inner surface and the second end, wherein the second inner surface is formed with a shape that is different from that of the first inner surface. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185434 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231861 | Saluja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok Saluja (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Rifat Sharif (Worcester, Massachusetts); Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones (Belmont, Massachusetts); Robert W. Finberg (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of identifying candidate therapeutic agents for use in the treatment of acute pancreatitis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579865 |
| 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 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231862 | Kahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara B. Kahn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qin Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Tim Graham (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Odile Peroni (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for screening molecules that modulate the activity of Retinol Binding Protein 4 (RBP4) and their use in treatment of insulin resistance are described. Also described are methods of diagnosing insulin resistance and related conditions by detecting modulation of RBP4 activity. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455324 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232049 | Nilsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy W. Nilsen (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Patricia A. Maroney (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Sangpen Chamnongpol (Streetsboro, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting small oligonucleotides includes providing a biological isolate containing at least one small oligonucleotide. The biological isolate may be contacted with at least one detection oligonucleotide having a label moiety and at least one bridge oligonucleotide under conditions such that the at least one small oligonucleotide and the at least one detection oligonucleotide are preferentially added to the bridge oligonucleotide to produce at least one labeled small oligonucleotide. At least one ligating reagent may be added to preferentially join the at least one small oligonucleotide and the at least one detection oligonucleotide. The at least one labeled small oligonucleotide may then be detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862272 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret M. DeAngelis (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for determining whether a subject is at risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, for example, the wet or neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration. The method involves determining whether the subject has a protective variant and/or a risk variant at a polymorphic site in the HTRA1 gene. In addition, the invention provides a method of treating or slowing the progression of age-related macular degeneration by reducing the expression of the HTRA1 gene, or reducing the biological activity of the HTRA1 gene product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/115912 |
| 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 08232063 | Jorgensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik M. Jorgensen (Salt Lake City, Utah); Asim A. Beg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Paola Nix (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an isolated or recombinant Na+/H+ exchanger comprising an isolated or recombinant Na+/H+ exchanger, particularly to the PBO-4 Na+/H+ exchanger. Also disclosed is an isolated or recombinant protein component of an H+-gated channel which can be affected by extracellular Ca2+ concentration. In particular, the invention relates to PBO-5 and/or PBO-8 and/or a H+-gated channel composed of PBO-5 and PBO-8. The invention relates to compounds isolated from a vertebrate organism, wherein said compounds comprise at least a part of a H+-gated channel or Na+/H+ exchanger. The invention also relates to a method for identifying a component of a H+-gated channel in a vertebrate organism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211898 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232067 | Blumberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Blumberg (Waltham, Massachusetts); Timothy T. C. Kuo (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are, inter alia, methods for identifying a candidate compound for treating the toxic effects of compounds or molecules that bind to albumin in a subject. The methods include identifying test compounds that inhibit the binding between FcRn and albumin. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/322983 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 08232071 | Weissman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California); Naoki Hosen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AMLSC) are identified. The cells can be prospectively isolated or identified from patient samples, and are shown to possess the unique properties of cancer stem cells in functional assays for cancer stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, and in cancer diagnosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817105 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232072 | Kalnik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Kalnik (Bethesda, Maryland); Matthew Hohenboken (Potomac, Maryland); Paul Kessler (Hagerstown, Maryland); Ali Fattom (Rockville, Maryland); Raafat Fahim (Boca Raton, Florida); Leslie Hudson (Bend, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are smoking cessation devices and kits for determining an advantageous time for a subject to quit smoking, and/or for extending the duration of smoking abstinence, based on serum levels of anti-nicotine antibodies. Related methods are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481420 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 08232091 | Maltezos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); Matthew Johnston (Woodbridge, California); David Goodwin (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Christopher I. Walker (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system for performing PCR, and real time PCR in particular with great speed and specificity. The system employs a heat block containing a liquid composition to rapidly transfer heat to and from reaction vessels. The system makes use of the reflective properties of the liquid metal to reflect signal from the PCR into the vessel and out the top. In this way, the signal can be measured by an optical assembly in real time without removing the vessels from the heat block. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/750326 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
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| US 08232098 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne Y. Wei (Little Rock, Arkansas); Xiaomin Zhang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated p49/STRAP protein, and isolated nucleic acids encoding a p49/STRAP protein. The inventors have discovered a new protein, named p49/STRAP that is expressed in cardiac tissue and other tissues in mammals. The p49/STRAP protein binds to serum response factor (SRF) and regulates transcription of SRF-responsive genes in the heart. p49/STRAP is also discovered to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, and thus the invention provides a method of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation by contacting the cells with p49/STRAP. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283347 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08232107 | Bateman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall John Bateman (Grover, Missouri); David Michael Holtzman (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of diagnosing, monitoring, and assessing treatment effects for neurological and neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, such as Alzheimer's Disease, early in the course of clinical disease or prior to the onset of brain damage and clinical symptoms. Methods of measuring the in vivo metabolism of biomolecules produced in the CNS in a subject are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/005233 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 08232240 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Cunningham (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kartik Chandran (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to treatment of infection by enveloped viruses through the use of papain-like cysteine protease inhibitors and kits thereof. Specifically, methods for treatment of filoviruses as well as other enveloped viruses such as Nipah, in particular using cathepsin inhibitors are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/884901 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08232241 | Larusso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas F. Larusso (Rochester, Minnesota); Tetyana V. Masyuk (Rochester, Minnesota); Melissa Muff-Luett (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to treating liver conditions. For example, the methods and materials relating to the use of cAMP inhibitors to treat liver conditions are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/915107 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08232244 | Das Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Iowa); Craig Beattie (Chicago, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Lombard, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods and materials for delivering a cargo compound into a cancer cell. Delivery of the cargo compound is accomplished by the use of protein transduction domains derived from cupredoxins. The cargo compound may be a nucleic acid and specifically a DNA, RNA or anti-sense. The invention further discloses methods for treating cancer and diagnosing cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028683 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 08232247 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yin Xu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Qin Yu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to Angiopoietin-3 (Ang-3) and Angiopoietin-4 (Ang-4). The present invention also relates to methods of modulating an activity of Ang-3 or Ang-4. The present invention further relates to methods of treating cancer, diabetes, and arthritis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/558539 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 08232254 | Thorson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ahmed Aqeel (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Colchicine neoglycosides, method for their synthesis and methods for their use are disclosed. The invention provides analogs of colchicine glycosylated to include a sugar moiety on a colchicine scaffold that is generally unglycosylated in nature. The colchicine neoglycosides disclosed herein are shown to have cytotoxic effects equivalent to at least the known cytotoxins paclitaxel and doxorubicin. Further, the neoglycosides disclosed according to the invention have physiologic effects not previously recognized in the alkaloid family that includes colchicine but recognized in other cytotoxic drug families such as the taxanes which act by stabilizing tubulin formation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/868737 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/42 |
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| US 08232257 | McCaffrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton P. McCaffrey (Iowa City, Iowa); Thomas J. Cradick (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for targeted inactivation of viral genomes. In one embodiment, zinc-finger proteins in which DNA binding sites are altered such that they recognize and bind different, desired DNA sequences contained in hepatitis B virus (HBV) and that include nuclease domains are used for inactivation. Other embodiments for targeted inactivation of viral genomes use small nucleic acid molecules, such as short micro-RNA molecules or short hairpin RNA molecules capable of mediating RNA interference (RNAi) against the hepatitis B virus. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531752 |
| 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 08232259 | 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 (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Ken Ishii (Columbia, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions including multiple oligodeoxynucleotides with a CpG motif are disclosed herein. The compositions can include either D or K type oligodeoxynucleotides. These compositions are of use in inducing an immune response in a large percentage of the individuals in a population. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026032 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08232260 | Zamore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts); Juanita McLachlan (Worcester, Massachusetts); Gyorgy Hutvagner (Worcester, Massachusetts); Alla Grishok (New York, New York); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides engineered RNA precursors that when expressed in a cell are processed by the cell to produce targeted small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that selectively silence targeted genes (by cleaving specific mRNAs) using the cell's own RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. By introducing nucleic acid molecules that encode these engineered RNA precursors into cells in vitro with appropriate regulatory sequences, expression of the engineered RNA precursors can be selectively controlled both temporally and spatially, i.e., at particular times and/or in particular tissues, organs, or cells. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031522 |
| 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 08232262 | Morgan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKK-TEC, Inc. (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee Roy Morgan (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to salts and compositions of isophosphoramide mustard and isophosphoramide mustard analogs. In one embodiment the salts can be represented by the formula wherein A+ represents an ammonium species selected from the protonated (conjugate acid) or quaternary forms of aliphatic amines and aromatic amines, including basic amino acids, heterocyclic amines, substituted and unsubstituted pyridines, guanidines and amidines; and X and Y independently represent leaving groups. Also disclosed herein are methods for making such compounds and formulating pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Methods for administering the disclosed compounds to subjects, particularly to treat hyperproliferative disorders, also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/666215 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/118 |
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| US 08232266 | Guzman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Esther A. Guzman (Fort Pierce, Florida); Jacob D. Johnson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Amy E. Wright (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Manzamine compounds have been discovered to decrease cell dissociation and cell migration associated with the metastatic potential of cancer cells and a restoration of cancer cell susceptibility to agents, such as TRAIL, which can induce apoptosis. Specifically, Manzamine A has a formerly unrecognized utility in both blocking tumor cell invasion and tumor metastasis as well in restoring cancer cell susceptibility to standard chemotherapeutic agents which induce apoptosis and, therefore, has utility in treating cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708767 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 08232267 | Groves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Groves (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a novel class of substituted macrocyclic porphyrin compounds. The compounds are useful as peroxynitrite decomposition catalysts. Pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of making and using the compounds, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or prodrug thereof are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311640 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
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| US 08232275 | Zemlicka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiri Zemlicka (Warren, Michigan); Shaoman Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds which are active against viruses have the following formulas: wherein B is a purine or pyrimidine heterocyclic ring or base. In a preferred embodiment, the purine include 6-aminopurine (adenine), 6-hydroxypurine (hypoxanthine), 2-amino-6-hydroxypurine (guanine), 2,6-diamino-purine, 2-amino-6-azidopurine, 2-amino-6-halo substituted purines such as 2-amino-6-chloropurine, 2-amino-6-fluoropurine, 2-amino-6-alkoxypurines such as 2-amino-6-methoxypurine, 2-amino-6-cyclopropylaminopurine, 2-amino-6-alkylamino or 2-amino-6-dialkylamino substituted purines, 2-amino-6-thiopurine, 2-amino-6-alkylthio substituted purines, 3-deazapurines, 7-deazapurines and 8-azapurines. The pyrimidine incorporates cytosine, uracil and thymine, 5-halo substituted cytosines and uracils, 5-alkyl substituted cytosines and uracils including derivatives with a saturated or unsaturated alkyl group and 6-azapyrimidines. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/183722 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/242 |
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| US 08232310 | Toretsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Toretsky (Silverspring, Maryland); Aykut Üren (Rockville, Maryland); Milton Lang Brown (Brookville, Maryland); Yali Kong (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides and compounds are provided that function as EWS-FLI1 protein inhibitors. The peptides and compounds have utility in the treatment of Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors. Also provided are methods of preparing the compounds and assays for identifying inhibitors of EWS-FLI1 protein. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494191 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
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| US 08232313 | Munn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Health Sciences University (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Munn (Augusta, Georgia); Andrew Mellor (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions containing 1-methyl-D-tryptophan and its utility to enhance rejection of tumor or virus-infected cells or to delay the progression of tumor growth. The present invention shows that pharmaceutical compositions containing 1-methyl-D-tryptophan enhance the efficacy of alternative antitumor or antiviral treatments such as chemotherapy, vaccination or cytokine therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175538 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/419 |
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| US 08232314 | Ou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry C. Ou (Seattle, Washington); Felipe Santos (Seattle, Washington); Edwin W. Rubel (Seattle, Washington); David W. Raible (Seattle, Washington); Julian A. Simon (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of identifying compounds that protect against ototoxicity induced by one or more noxious stimuli, and methods of treating an individual with compounds identified using the present screening methods. Also provided are compounds demonstrated to have otoprotective effects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014470 |
| 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 514/443 |
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| US 08232360 | Sampson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of N.Y. (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole S. Sampson (Setauket, New York); Kathlyn A. Parker (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to stereoregular ROMP polymers, the monomers used to make them, and the processes used to convert the monomers to the polymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/309503 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/171 |
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| US 08232379 | Chang |
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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. 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 | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508946 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
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| US 08232448 | Varki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Anna Maria Hedlund (San Diego, California); Dzung Nguyen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application is in the field of sialic acid chemistry, metabolism, antigenicity, and the production of transgenic non-human mammals with altered sialic acid production. More particularly, this application relates to N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) being an immunogen in humans, and the production of Neu5Gc-free mammalian products for laboratory and human use. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/600378 |
| 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 8/18 |
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| US 08232584 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Fernando Patolsky (Rehovot, Israel); Gengfeng Zheng (Dorchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects of the invention relate to nanoscale wire devices and methods of use for detecting analytes. In one aspect, the invention relates to a nanoscale electrical sensor array device, comprising at least one n-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire and at least one p-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire, each having a reaction entity immobilized thereon. Binding of an analyte to the immobilized reaction entity causes a detectable change in the electrical property of the nanoscale wire. In some embodiments, the reaction entity can be a nucleic acid that may interact with other nucleic acids, proteins, etc. In a specific embodiment, the nucleic acid may interact with an enzyme such as telomerase, which can extend the nucleic acid. In other embodiments, the analyte to be detected can be a toxin, virus or small molecule. Systems and methods of using such nanoscale devices are also disclosed, for example, within a microarray. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536269 |
| 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 | Active solid-state devices 257/253 |
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| US 08233681 | Aylward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Aylward (Carrboro, North Carolina); Elizabeth Bullitt (Durham, North Carolina); Julien Jomier (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for hierarchical registration (102) between a blood vessel and tissue surface model (100) for a subject and a blood vessel and tissue surface image for the subject are disclosed. According to one method, hierarchical registration of a vascular model to a vascular image is provided. According to the method, a vascular model is mapped to a target image using a global rigid transformation to produce a global-rigid-transformed model. Piecewise rigid transformations are applied in a hierarchical manner to each vessel tree in the global-rigid-transformed model to perform a piecewise-rigid-transformed model. Piecewise deformable transformations are applied to branches in the vascular tree in the piecewise-transformed-model to produce a piecewise-deformable-transformed model. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663661 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08233686 | Lee et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Junghoon Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Jerry L. Prince (Lutherville, Maryland); Christian Labat (Montreuill, France); Everette C. Burdette (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing image data from an imaging system for locating a plurality N of objects embedded in a body includes receiving data for a first two-dimensional image of a region of interest of the body containing the plurality N of objects, the first two-dimensional image being obtained from a first imaging setting of the imaging system relative to the region of interest; receiving data for a second two-dimensional image of a region of interest of the body containing the plurality N of objects, the second two-dimensional image being obtained from a second imaging setting of the imaging system relative to the region of interest; and receiving data for a third two-dimensional image of a region of interest of the body containing the plurality N of objects, the third two-dimensional image being obtained from a third imaging setting of said imaging system relative to said region of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171034 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08233690 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Tomography, LLC (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Ng (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Peter A. Ringer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dynamically reconstructing three dimensional (3D) tomographic images from a set of projection images is disclosed. The method includes the steps of loading a set of projection images into a memory device, determining a reconstruction method for the set of projection images, reconstructing a 3D tomographic image from the set of projection images to be displayed to a user; and performing any post reconstruction processing on the 3D tomographic image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323889 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 08233701 | Frakes et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Frakes (Scottsdale, Arizona); Joseph Monaco (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark Smith (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ajit Yoganathan (Tucker, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Approaches to three-dimensional (3D) data reconstruction are presented. The 3D data comprises 2D images. In some embodiments, the 2D images are directionally interpolated to generate directionally-interpolated 3D data. The directionally-interpolated 3D data are then segmented to generate segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data. The segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data is then meshed. In other embodiments, a 3D data set, which includes 2D flow images, is accessed. The accessed 2D flow images are then directionally interpolated to generate 2D intermediate flow images. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/878366 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234078 | Mycek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary-Ann Mycek (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Malavika Chandra (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); James Scheiman (Sup Township, Michigan); Robert H. Wilson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Diane Simeone (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Barbara McKenna (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Julianne Purdy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jeremy Taylor (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Oliver Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal optical spectroscopy systems and methods produce a spectroscopic event to obtain spectroscopic response data from biological tissue and compare the response data with an empirical equation configured to correlate the measured response data and the most probable attributes of the tissue, thus facilitating classification of the tissue based on those attributes for subsequent biopsy or remedial measures as necessary. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882131 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234580 | Bell 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) | Blaine A Bell (New York, New York); Steven A. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for space management of a workspace provided on a display includes defining a first data structure of full-space rectangles present on the workspace, wherein at least a portion of the full-space rectangles are permitted to overlap. A second data structure of largest empty-space rectangles available on the workspace is also defined to complete the representation of the workspace. The methods include performing an operation on at least one full-space rectangle on the workspace and redefining the first data structure and the second data structure in accordance with the workspace resulting from the operation performed. The operations can include adding a new full-space rectangle, moving an existing full-space rectangle and deleting an existing full full-space rectangle from the workspace. Generally, the workspace is a display device coupled to an electronic device such as a personal computer, personal digital assistant, electronic book viewer and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124797 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector tube includes a one piece, unitary, polygonal tube having an inlet end and an outlet end. The fuel injector tube further includes a fuel passage extending from the inlet end to the outlet end along a longitudinal axis of the polygonal tube, a plurality of air passages extending from the inlet end to the outlet end and surrounding the fuel passage, and a plurality of fuel holes. Each fuel hole connects an air passage with the fuel passage. The inlet end of the polygonal tube is formed into a fuel tube. A fuel injector includes a plurality of fuel injector tubes and a plate. The plurality of fuel tubes are connected to the plate adjacent the inlet ends of the plurality of fuel injector tubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/202791 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/740 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230713 | Krajewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | USAMP (Southfield, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Edward Krajewski (Troy, Michigan); Richard Harry Hammar (Shelby Township, Michigan); Dajun Zuo (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Peter A. Friedman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); S. George Luckey, Jr. (Dearborn, Michigan); Dennis Cedar (Rochester, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An elevated temperature forming die apparatus comprising a lower die part having a first upper surface positioned to engage a lower surface of a first region of such a workpiece, an upper die part supported for reciprocal motion relative to the lower die part, the upper die part having a lower surface that engages an upper surface of a second region of a sheet material workpiece, heaters in thermal communication with the die parts, and a third die part having an upper surface that engages a lower surface of the second region of a sheet material workpiece whose first portion is positioned between the upper and lower die parts, the third die part being supported for reciprocal motion relative to the upper die part such that closure of the upper die part along the first stroke portion against the third die part will clamp the first portion of the workpiece between the upper and third die parts, and the third die part being supported for reciprocal motion relative to the lower die part such that, once the first portion of a workpiece has been clamped between the upper and third die parts a draw region of the workpiece extending adjacent an interface between the first and second portions of the workpiece can be drawn by displacing the lower die part relative to the clamped-together upper and third die parts along a second portion of the die set stroke. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/346312 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/342.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230722 | Thornberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Thornberg (Peralta, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for testing the hermeticity of a package, such as a microelectromechanical systems package containing a sealed gas volume, with a sampling device that has the capability to isolate the package and breach the gas seal connected to a pulse valve that can controllably transmit small volumes down to 2 nanoliters to a gas chamber for analysis using gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy diagnostics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724476 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/49.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230748 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Jy-an Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ken C. Liu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Zhili Feng (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A stress-strain testing apparatus imposes a stress-strain on a specimen while disposed in a controlled environment. Each end of the specimen is fastened to an end cap and a strain gage is attached to the specimen. An adjusting mechanism and a compression element are disposed between the end caps forming a frame for applying forces to the end caps and thereby stress-straining the specimen. The adjusting mechanism may be extended or retracted to increase or decrease the imposed stress-strain on the specimen, and the stress-strain is measured by the strain gage on the specimen while the apparatus is exposed to an environment such as high pressure hydrogen. Strain gages may be placed on the frame to measure stress-strains in the frame that may be caused by the environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/498877 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/856 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230797 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwai S. Chan (San Antonio, Texas); Narayana Sastry Cheruvu (San Antonio, Texas); Wuwei Liang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to corrosion resistance coatings suitable for elevated temperature applications, which employ compositions of iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni) and/or aluminum (Al). The compositions may be configured to regulate the diffusion of metals between a coating and a substrate, which may then influence coating performance, via the formation of an inter-diffusion barrier layer. The inter-diffusion barrier layer may comprise a face-centered cubic phase. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325836 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnaces 110/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230927 | Fairbanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael David Fairbanks (Katy, Texas); Thomas Joseph Keltner (Spring, Texas); Billy John McKinzie, II (Houston, Texas); Stephen Palmer Hirshblond (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system configured to heat a portion of a formation includes a plurality of heat sources. At least one production well is in the formation. A bottom portion of the production well is a sump in an underburden of the formation below the heated portion of the formation. Fluids from the heated portion of the formation are allowed to flow into the sump. A pump system has an inlet in the sump. A production conduit is coupled to the pump system. The production conduit is configured to transport fluids in the sump out of the formation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108650 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230937 | Asay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blaine W. Asay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven F. Son (West Lafayette, Indiana); V. Eric Sanders (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Timothy Foley (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alan M. Novak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James R. Busse (South Fork, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for altering the course of a conflagration involving firing a projectile comprising a powder mixture of oxidant powder and nanosized reductant powder at velocity sufficient for a violent reaction between the oxidant powder and the nanosized reductant powder upon impact of the projectile, and causing impact of the projectile at a location chosen to draw a main fire to a spot fire at such location and thereby change the course of the conflagration, whereby the air near the chosen location is heated to a temperature sufficient to cause a spot fire at such location. The invention also includes a projectile useful for such method and said mixture preferably comprises a metastable intermolecular composite. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561311 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire extinguishers 169/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231354 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian X. Campbell (Oviedo, Florida); Allister W. James (Chuluota, Florida); Jay A. Morrison (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil (22A) is formed by a first process using a first material. A platform (30A) is formed by a second process using a second material that may be different from the first material. The platform (30A) is assembled around a shank (23A) of the airfoil. One or more pins (36A) extend from the platform into holes (28) in the shank (23A). The platform may be formed in two portions (32A, 34A) and placed around the shank, enclosing it. The two platform portions may be bonded to each other. Alternately, the platform (30B) may be cast around the shank (23B) using a metal alloy with better castability than that of the blade and shank, which may be specialized for thermal tolerance. The pins (36A-36D) or holes for them do not extend to an outer surface (31) of the platform, avoiding stress concentrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/638034 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/193.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231703 | Seals et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of materials wherein nanostructures and/or nanotubes are incorporated into a multi-component material arrangement, such as a metallic or ceramic alloy or composite/aggregate, producing a new material or metallic/ceramic alloy. The new material has significantly increased strength, up to several thousands of times normal and perhaps substantially more, as well as significantly decreased weight. The new materials may be manufactured into a component where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the bulk and/or matrix material, or as a coating where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the coating or surface of a “normal” substrate material. The nanostructures are incorporated into the material structure either randomly or aligned, within grains, or along or across grain boundaries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136878 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231707 | Sinha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for separating a chosen gas from a mixture of gases having no moving parts and utilizing no chemical processing is described. The separation of particulates from fluid carriers thereof has been observed using ultrasound. In a similar manner, molecular species may be separated from carrier species. It is also known that light-induced drift may separate light-absorbing species from carrier species. Therefore, the combination of temporally pulsed absorption of light with ultrasonic concentration is expected to significantly increase the efficiency of separation by ultrasonic concentration alone. Additionally, breaking the spatial symmetry of a cylindrical acoustic concentrator decreases the spatial distribution of the concentrated particles, and increases the concentration efficiency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242185 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231770 | Biener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juergen Biener (San Leandro, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, California); Lihua Shao (Karlsruhe, Germany); Joerg Weissmueller (Stutensee, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemically driveable actuator according to one embodiment includes a nanoporous carbon aerogel composition capable of exhibiting charge-induced reversible strain when wetted by an electrolyte and a voltage is applied thereto. An electrochemically driven actuator according to another embodiment includes a nanoporous carbon aerogel composition wetted by an electrolyte; and a mechanism for causing charge-induced reversible strain of the composition. A method for electrochemically actuating an object according to one embodiment includes causing charge-induced reversible strain of a nanoporous carbon aerogel composition wetted with an electrolyte to actuate the object by the strain. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723215 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231857 | Cortright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Nicholas W. Vollendorf (New Berlin, Wisconsin); Charles C. Hornemann (Madison, Wisconsin); Shawn P. McMahon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are catalysts and methods that can reform aqueous solutions of oxygenated compounds such as ethylene glycol, glycerol, sugar alcohols, and sugars to generate products such as hydrogen and alkanes. In some embodiments, aqueous solutions containing at least 20 wt % of the oxygenated compounds can be reformed over a catalyst comprising a Group VIII transition metal and a Group VIIB transition metal, preferably supported on an activated carbon-supported catalyst. In other embodiments, catalysts are provided for the production of hydrogen or alkanes at reaction temperatures less than 300° C. |
| FILED | Monday, December 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158635 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231963 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. Chu (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas M. Lillo (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin M. McHugh (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor system and method involves providing a core material and a stream of atomized coating material that comprises a liquid fraction and a solid fraction. An initial layer is deposited on the core material by positioning the core material in the stream of atomized coating material wherein the solid fraction of the stream of atomized coating material is less than the liquid fraction of the stream of atomized coating material on a weight basis. An outer layer is then deposited on the initial layer by positioning the core material in the stream of atomized coating material wherein the solid fraction of the stream of atomized coating material is greater than the liquid fraction of the stream of atomized coating material on a weight basis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893173 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232017 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Stefan M. Maczynski (Canandaigua, New York); Peter E. Hendler (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell stack is disclosed including a non-fuel cell cassette having temperature sensing elements disposed therein. The temperature sensing elements are disposed in one or more void spaces in the non-fuel cell cassette, which void spaces are connected to openings in the side of the non-fuel cell cassette for lead wires to communicate information from the temperature sensing elements to components outside of the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/788946 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232058 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary McBride (Brentwood, California); Thomas Slezak (Livermore, California); James M. Birch (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are kits and methods useful for detection of respiratory pathogens (influenza A (including subtyping capability for H1, H3, H5 and H7 subtypes) influenza B, parainfluenza (type 2), respiratory syncytial virus, and adenovirus) in a sample. Genomic sequence information from the respiratory pathogens was analyzed to identify signature sequences, e.g., polynucleotide sequences useful for confirming the presence or absence of a pathogen in a sample. Primer and probe sets were designed and optimized for use in a PCR based, multiplexed Luminex assay to successfully identify the presence or absence of pathogens in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/161291 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232080 | Day et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Day (San Francisco, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Paulien Neefe (Zoetermeer, Netherlands); Mats Sandgren (Uppsala, Sweden); Andrew Shaw (San Francisco, California); Jerry Stahlberg (Uppsala, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are variants of H. jecorina CBH I, a Cel7 enzyme. The present invention provides novel cellobiohydrolases that have improved thermostability and reversibility. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107702 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232470 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rosestreet Labs Energy, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) is provided including a p-n junction based on dilute III-V nitride materials and a pair of contact blocking layers positioned on opposite surfaces of the p-n junction for electrically isolating the intermediate band of the p-n junction by blocking the charge transport in the intermediate band without affecting the electron and hole collection efficiency of the p-n junction, thereby increasing open circuit voltage (VOC) of the IBSC and increasing the photocurrent by utilizing the intermediate band to absorb photons with energy below the band gap of the absorber layers of the IBSC. Hence, the overall power conversion efficiency of a IBSC will be much higher than an conventional single junction solar cell. The p-n junction absorber layers of the IBSC may further have compositionally graded nitrogen concentrations to provide an electric field for more efficient charge collection. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558446 |
| 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 136/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232858 | Garcia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest J. Garcia (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clay W. G. Fulcher (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Microelectromechanical (MEM) buckling beam thermal actuators are disclosed wherein the buckling direction of a beam is constrained to a desired direction of actuation, which can be in-plane or out-of-plane with respect to a support substrate. The actuators comprise as-fabricated, linear beams of uniform cross section supported above the substrate by supports which rigidly attach a beam to the substrate. The beams can be heated by methods including the passage of an electrical current through them. The buckling direction of an initially straight beam upon heating and expansion is controlled by incorporating one or more directional constraints attached to the substrate and proximal to the mid-point of the beam. In the event that the beam initially buckles in an undesired direction, deformation of the beam induced by contact with a directional constraint generates an opposing force to re-direct the buckling beam into the desired direction. The displacement and force generated by the movement of the buckling beam can be harnessed to perform useful work, such as closing contacts in an electrical switch. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/033995 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrothermally or thermally actuated switches 337/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233157 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OG Technologies, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Shuh Chang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hsun-Hau Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable imaging-based measurement device is developed to perform 2D projection based measurements on an object that is difficult or dangerous to access. This device is equipped with self calibration capability and built-in operating procedures to ensure proper imaging based measurement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891881 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233295 | Ransom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California); Gabriel Gallegos-Lopez (Torrance, California); Michael H. Kinoshita (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, system and apparatus are provided for quickly approximating a peak summed magnitude (A) of a phase voltage (Vph) waveform in a multi-phase system that implements third harmonic injection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720393 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08233349 — System for generating a beam of acoustic energy from a borehole, and applications thereof
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kurt T. Nihei (Oakland, California); Denis P. Schmitt (Katy, Texas); Christopher Skelt (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some aspects of the invention, a device, positioned within a well bore, configured to generate and direct an acoustic beam into a rock formation around a borehole is disclosed. The device comprises a source configured to generate a first signal at a first frequency and a second signal at a second frequency; a transducer configured to receive the generated first and the second signals and produce acoustic waves at the first frequency and the second frequency; and a non-linear material, coupled to the transducer, configured to generate a collimated beam with a frequency equal to the difference between the first frequency and the second frequency by a non-linear mixing process, wherein the non-linear material includes one or more of a mixture of liquids, a solid, a granular material, embedded microspheres, or an emulsion. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870440 |
| 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 367/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233511 | Bayramian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high average power laser system with modulated gain suppression includes an input aperture associated with a first laser beam extraction path and an output aperture associated with the first laser beam extraction path. The system also includes a pinhole creation laser having an optical output directed along a pinhole creation path and an absorbing material positioned along both the first laser beam extraction path and the pinhole creation path. The system further includes a mechanism operable to translate the absorbing material in a direction crossing the first laser beam extraction laser path and a controller operable to modulate the second laser beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782534 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233782 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); William George Coit (Bellaire, Texas); Peter Terry Griffin (Brixham, United Kingdom); Paul Taylor Hamilton (Houston, Texas); Chia-Fu Hsu (Granada Hills, California); Stanley Leroy Mason (Allen, Texas); Allan James Samuel (Kular Lumpar, Mali); Ronnie Wade Watkins (Cypress, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation is described. The system includes two or more groups of elongated heaters. The group includes two or more heaters placed in two or more openings in the formation. The heaters in the group are electrically coupled below the surface of the formation. The openings include at least partially uncased wellbores in a hydrocarbon layer of the formation. The groups are electrically configured such that current flow through the formation between at least two groups is inhibited. The heaters are configured to provide heat to the formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893642 |
| 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 08230990 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Lynch (Chicago, Illinois); Paul Umbanhowar (Evantston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for imparting movement to one or more articles includes placing the one or more articles on a surface of a support member and imparting vibratory motion to the support member by vibrating actutators connected to the support member wherein the vibratory motion includes at least a rotational vibratory component about one or more axes out-of-alignment with the gravity vector to produce effective force fields on the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724607 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/752.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231688 | Fairbanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Berkeley Bionics (Berkeley, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Oakland, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Lafayette, California); Miclas Schwartz (Hamburg, Germany); Nathan Harding (Oakland, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Berkeley, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semi-actuated above knee prosthetic system, which is mostly passive in nature and includes a shank link coupled to an artificial foot, a knee mechanism connected to the shank link and a thigh link attached to an above-knee remaining lower limb of an amputee, is operable in either an actuated mode or an un-actuated mode controlled by a signal processor linked to various prosthetic mounted sensors which may include combinations of knee angle, stance, thigh angle and shank angle sensors. Power is delivered through an electric motor connected to a battery source and employed to drive a hydraulic pump which is part of an overall hydraulic power unit including the torque generator. A signal processor selects a swing state from at least forward, combination forward and descent, combination forward and ascent, reverse, combination reverse and descent, and combination reverse and ascent swing states. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/457573 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231948 | Sawyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainsville, Florida); Tony L. Schmitz (Gainsville, Florida); John C. Ziegert (Gainsville, Florida); Jeffrey Alan Bardt (Gainsville, Florida); Gerald R. Bourne (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming integral articles having non-line-of-site contours includes the steps of providing a plurality of molds, the molds having at least one mold channel therethrough. The plurality of molds are stacked on one another to form a mold stack, wherein at least one portion of the mold stack provides a non-line of sight multi-level channel through at least partial overlap of the mold channels between adjacent ones of the plurality of molds. A flowable material is applied to the mold stack. The flowable material is pressed to fill the mold channels in each of the plurality of molds to form an integral article comprising a plurality of stacked integrally connected levels of the material, wherein through interconnection of the integrally connected levels the integral article provides at least one non-line of sight contour traversing in its thickness direction. The mold stack is then separated or removed to free the integral article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063959 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231998 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann M. Sastry (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fabio Albano (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery includes a first portion including a substrate having formed thereon a current collector and an anode electrode material. A second portion is formed on a substrate and includes a current collector and a cathode electrode material. The first portion is joined to the second portion and a separator is disposed between the first portion and the second portion as joined to separate the anode electrode material from the cathode electrode material. An electrolyte is placed in contact with the anode electrode material, the cathode electrode material and the separator. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059366 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232089 | Urano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Urano (Englewood, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant microorganisms comprising isobutanol producing metabolic pathway with at least one isobutanol pathway enzyme localized in the cytosol, wherein said recombinant microorganism is selected to produce isobutanol from a carbon source. Methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce isobutanol are also provided. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically active isobutanol pathway enzymes. In some embodiments, the invention provides mutated, modified, and/or chimeric isobutanol pathway enzymes with cytosolic activity. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855276 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232136 | Bulovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jennifer J. Yu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for micro-patterning organic layers of OLEDs. The disclosed methods do not require applying pressure to the film, nor do they require heat treatment, surface treatment or fast release rate of a stamp from the substrate. The disclosed methods are particularly advantageous over the conventional shadow masking techniques for providing large array fabrication with small features. In one embodiment of the disclosure, one or more organic films are selected for the OLED as a function of their individual or combined sublimation temperature. The material is selected in view of the depth and shape of the features that are to be formed in the organic layer. The disclosed embodiments can provide minimum feature size of 13 μm which is suitable for high resolution OLED displays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537424 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232617 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Hao-Chih Yuan (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Flexible lateral p-i-n (“PIN”) diodes, arrays of flexible PIN diodes and imaging devices incorporating arrays of PIN diodes are provided. The flexible lateral PIN diodes are fabricated from thin, flexible layers of single-crystalline semiconductor. A plurality of the PIN diodes can be patterned into a single semiconductor layer to provide a flexible photodetector array that can be formed into a three-dimensional imaging device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478369 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232722 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jean-Michel Caruge (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexi Arango (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a charge transporting layer that includes an inorganic material. The charge transporting layer can be a hole or electron transporting layer. The inorganic material can be an inorganic semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354185 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232993 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Sun (Orlando, Florida); Amar Mukherjee (Maitland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer readable medium configured to approximate the integral of the product of a plurality of functions includes logic configured to factor the plurality of functions into a set of fixed functions and one varying function, logic configured to determine a first vector that represents the product of the fixed functions in the wavelet domain, logic configured to determine a second vector that represents the one varying function in the wavelet domain, and logic configured to determine an inner product of the first vector and the second vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/680885 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233493 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yadi Ma (Madison, Wisconsin); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Cristian Estan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for classifying received packets using a hardware cache of evolving rules and a software cache having an original rule set. The method including receiving a packet, processing the received packet through a hardware-based packet classifier having at least one evolving rule to identify at least one cache miss packet, and processing the cache miss packet through a software based packet classifier including an original rule set. Processing the cache miss packet includes determining whether to expand at least one of the at least one evolving rules in the hardware-based packet classifier based on the cache miss packet. The determination includes determining whether an evolving rule has both the same action and lies entirely within one of the rule of the original rule set. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555462 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233558 | Sirkeci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Birsen Sirkeci (San Jose, California); Anna Scaglione (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for space-time coding for distributed cooperative communication. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/301248 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233873 | Principe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Rati Agrawal (Dallas, Texas); Puskal P. Pokharel (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing device is provided, the device having a signal input for receiving a signal conveyed over a channel and defining a received signal. The device further includes one or more filters for generating a signal response based upon the received signal. The signal response includes an estimated value of a correntropy statistic. Additionally, the device includes a decision module connected to at least one of the filters for probabilistically deciding whether the received signal contains an information signal component based upon the estimated value of the correntropy statistic. The device further includes a signal output to convey a signal output indicating the received signal corresponds to a known signal template if the decision module decides that the received signal contains the information signal component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/065588 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234074 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Lopez (Philadephia, Pennsylvania); Steven O. Nielsen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Preston B. Moore (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael L. Klein (Ocean City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A coarse grain model that mimics a lipid molecule, such as dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), is used to simulate self-assembly of a lamellar bilayer starting from a disordered configuration. The coarse grain model is orders of magnitude less demanding of CPU time compared to all-atom models. An initial bilayer-like structure is generated from a disordered configuration of the coarse grain models using a Monte Carlo simulation. The initial bilayer-like structure is refined using a molecular dynamics simulation. For relatively small systems, the molecular dynamics simulation can be performed under constant volume or constant pressure conditions. For larger systems, the molecular dynamics simulation is preferably performed under constant pressure conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459698 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234295 | Haas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Jay Haas (San Jose, California); Ravindranath Jampani (Gainesville, Florida); Chistopher Matthew Jermaine (Ocala, Florida); Luis Leopoldo Perez (Gainesville, Florida); Mingxi Wu (Belmont, California); Fei Xu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing uncertain data is provided. The method includes specifying data uncertainty using at least one variable generation (VG) function, wherein the VG function generates pseudorandom samples of uncertain data values. A random database based on the VG function is specified. and multiple Monte Carlo instantiations of the random database are generated. Using a Monte Carlo method, a query is repeatedly executed over the multiple Monte Carlo instantiations to output a Monte Carlo method result and associated query-results. The Monte Carlo method result may then be used to estimate statistical properties of a probability distribution of the query-result. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477856 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08230672 | Mungas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Firestar Engineering, LLC (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Stuart Mungas (Broomfield, Colorado); David James Fisher (Broomfield, Colorado); Christopher Mungas (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | High performance propellants flow through specialized mechanical hardware that allows for effective and safe thermal decomposition and/or combustion of the propellants. By integrating a sintered metal component between a propellant feed source and the combustion chamber, an effective and reliable fuel injector head may be implemented. Additionally the fuel injector head design integrates a spark ignition mechanism that withstands extremely hot running conditions without noticeable spark mechanism degradation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950174 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08230673 | Mungas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Firestar Engineering, LLC (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Mungas (Mojave, California); David J. Fisher (Tehachapi, California); Christopher Mungas (Plymouth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Propellants flow through specialized mechanical hardware that is designed for effective and safe ignition and sustained combustion of the propellants. By integrating a micro-fluidic porous media element between a propellant feed source and the combustion chamber, an effective and reliable propellant injector head may be implemented that is capable of withstanding transient combustion and detonation waves that commonly occur during an ignition event. The micro-fluidic porous media element is of specified porosity or porosity gradient selected to be appropriate for a given propellant. Additionally the propellant injector head design integrates a spark ignition mechanism that withstands extremely hot running conditions without noticeable spark mechanism degradation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613188 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08231712 | Wójtowicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek A. Wójtowicz (East Hartford, Connecticut); Eric Rubenstein (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Michael A. Serio (Sturbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The method enables control over carbon pore structure to provide sorbents that are particularly advantageous for the adsorption of specific gases. It involves preparation of a sorbent precursor material, carbonization of the precursor material, and, usually, activation of the carbonized material. The resultant material is subjected to heat treatment and/or to surface conditioning by a reducing gas at elevated temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655212 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232095 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Ming Ho (Brentwood, California); Pak Kin Wong (Tucson, Arizona); Ren Sun (Pacific Palisades, California); Fuqu Yu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides systems and methods for manipulating, e.g., optimizing and controlling, biological systems, e.g., for eliciting a more desired biological response of biological sample, such as a tissue, organ, and/or a cell. In one aspect, systems and methods of the invention operate by efficiently searching through a large parametric space of stimuli and system parameters to manipulate, control, and optimize the response of biological samples sustained in the system, e.g., a bioreactor. In alternative aspects, systems include a device for sustaining cells or tissue samples, one or more actuators for stimulating the samples via biochemical, electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical, and/or optical stimulation, one or more sensors for measuring a biological response signal of the samples resulting from the stimulation of the sample. In one aspect, the systems and methods of the invention use at least one optimization algorithm to modify the actuator's control inputs for stimulation, responsive to the sensor's output of response signals. The compositions and methods of the invention can be used, e.g., to for systems optimization of any biological manufacturing or experimental system, e.g., bioreactors for proteins, e.g., therapeutic proteins, polypeptides or peptides for vaccines, and the like, small molecules (e.g., antibiotics), polysaccharides, lipids, and the like. Another use of the apparatus and methods includes combination drug therapy, e.g. optimal drug cocktail, directed cell proliferations and differentiations, e.g. in tissue engineering, e.g. neural progenitor cells differentiation, and discovery of key parameters in complex biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/719749 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08232866 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. McGrath (Monrovia, California); Ashit Talukder (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for remote, long standoff biometric identification using microwave cardiac signals are provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method for remote biometric identification using microwave cardiac signals, the method including generating and directing first microwave energy in a direction of a person, receiving microwave energy reflected from the person, the reflected microwave energy indicative of cardiac characteristics of the person, segmenting a signal indicative of the reflected microwave energy into a waveform including a plurality of heart beats, identifying patterns in the microwave heart beats waveform, and identifying the person based on the identified patterns and a stored microwave heart beats waveform. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/977740 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/5.820 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08230616 | McLaren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483055 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233157 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OG Technologies, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Shuh Chang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hsun-Hau Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable imaging-based measurement device is developed to perform 2D projection based measurements on an object that is difficult or dangerous to access. This device is equipped with self calibration capability and built-in operating procedures to ensure proper imaging based measurement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891881 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08233690 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Tomography, LLC (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Ng (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Peter A. Ringer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dynamically reconstructing three dimensional (3D) tomographic images from a set of projection images is disclosed. The method includes the steps of loading a set of projection images into a memory device, determining a reconstruction method for the set of projection images, reconstructing a 3D tomographic image from the set of projection images to be displayed to a user; and performing any post reconstruction processing on the 3D tomographic image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323889 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Nicholas W. Vollendorf (New Berlin, Wisconsin); Charles C. Hornemann (Madison, Wisconsin); Shawn P. McMahon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are catalysts and methods that can reform aqueous solutions of oxygenated compounds such as ethylene glycol, glycerol, sugar alcohols, and sugars to generate products such as hydrogen and alkanes. In some embodiments, aqueous solutions containing at least 20 wt % of the oxygenated compounds can be reformed over a catalyst comprising a Group VIII transition metal and a Group VIIB transition metal, preferably supported on an activated carbon-supported catalyst. In other embodiments, catalysts are provided for the production of hydrogen or alkanes at reaction temperatures less than 300° C. |
| FILED | Monday, December 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158635 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08232098 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne Y. Wei (Little Rock, Arkansas); Xiaomin Zhang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated p49/STRAP protein, and isolated nucleic acids encoding a p49/STRAP protein. The inventors have discovered a new protein, named p49/STRAP that is expressed in cardiac tissue and other tissues in mammals. The p49/STRAP protein binds to serum response factor (SRF) and regulates transcription of SRF-responsive genes in the heart. p49/STRAP is also discovered to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, and thus the invention provides a method of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation by contacting the cells with p49/STRAP. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283347 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 08234515 | Collier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Accenture Global Services Limited (Dublin, Ireland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Collier (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Sandro Lorenzotti (Chicago, Illinois); Gaurang Patel (Woodstock, Georgia); Jay Corn (Greenwood Village, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfiguration manager is operable to reconfigure a repurposable recovery environment between a recovery environment for a production environment and a second environment different from the recovery environment. A storage system in the repurposable recovery environment periodically saves production information from the production environment while the repurposable recovery environment is operating as the second environment. The production information in the storage system is used to reconfigure the repurposable recovery environment from the second environment to the recovery environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/752310 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08232089 | Urano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Urano (Englewood, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant microorganisms comprising isobutanol producing metabolic pathway with at least one isobutanol pathway enzyme localized in the cytosol, wherein said recombinant microorganism is selected to produce isobutanol from a carbon source. Methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce isobutanol are also provided. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically active isobutanol pathway enzymes. In some embodiments, the invention provides mutated, modified, and/or chimeric isobutanol pathway enzymes with cytosolic activity. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855276 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08233148 | Bodkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Bodkin (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Andrew I. Sheinis (Madison, Wisconsin); Adam Norton (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hyperspectral imaging systems that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions with no moving parts are disclosed. A lenslet array and/or a pinhole array may be used to reimage and divide the field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral datacube is collected simultaneously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758986 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08233397 | Bhandari |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Bhandari (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of minimally incrementing and decrementing the weights of a minimal number of links in a network to cause a link/node that is not in the shortest path in the network to be in the shortest path by determining the shortest path with link/node, identifying links in this path that are not in the shortest path without link/node, decrementing identified links to make the path the shortest path, identifying a link in the shortest path without link/node not in the path with link/node, incrementing the link, redoing these steps to determine a number of links and modifications to links that would cause the link/node to appear in the shortest path, identifying the set of links and modifications with the fewest links, and modifying the network in accordance with the identified set. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/803045 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08234069 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Ding (Woodbridge, Virginia); Damon M. Manz (Alexandria, Virginia); Donald L. Mallonee, Jr. (Huntingtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments consistent with the invention are an apparatus for and method of generating data on current utilization of powered industrial vehicles, generating preferred routing assignments for powered industrial drivers, and presenting preferred routing assignments for powered industrial vehicle drivers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/379049 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08234012 | Kelekar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for preparing a chemical delivery line for delivery. In one implementation, the method may include starting a flow of a semiconductor solution from a vessel into the chemical delivery line coupled to the vessel, measuring a volume of the semiconductor solution flowing through the chemical delivery line, and performing a subsequent process when the volume of the semiconductor solution is equal to or greater than the volume of the chemical delivery line. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239567 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234491 | Troxel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Donald Troxel (Stow, Massachusetts); Walter C. Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed technology provides a system and method of securely communicating data. An encryptor located at a transmitter can provide encrypted data to the transmitter. The transmitter can maintain a packet number indicating a particular packet for carrying the encrypted data and a sub-packet number indicating a position within the packet where the encrypted data is to be stored. The encryptor can produce the encrypted data using an encryptor seed generated based on the packet number and sub-packet number. A receiver can maintain a receiver packet number indicating a number of previously received packets and can compute a receiver sub-packet number. The receiver can receive a packet containing encrypted data and can decrypt the encrypted data using a decryptor seed generated based on the receiver packet number and sub-packet number. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908208 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 31, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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