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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 07, 2012
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| US 08235910 | Parlikar et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramakrisna Mukkamala (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and systems for estimating cardiac ejection fraction, cardiac contractility, and ventricular end-diastolic volume on a beat-by-beat basis include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine ventricular compliances for a pressure-volume loop in the ventricle. Uncalibrated or calibrated cardiac ejection fraction may be calculated from estimates of stroke volume and the ventricular compliances. Cardiac contractility may be calculated from estimates of a ventricular compliance. Uncalibrated or calibrated ventricular end-diastolic volume may also be calculated from estimates of stroke volume and the ventricular compliances. A set of calibration parameters for calibrating cardiac ejection fraction or ventricular end-diastolic volume may be estimated in a least-squares manner. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/121878 |
| 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 | Surgery 6/485 |
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| US 08235989 | Palanker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California); Alexander B. Vankov (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the non-thermal, electrically-induced temporary or permanent closure of blood vessels. Methods and devices employ pulsed electrical energy according to a defined regime to effect controlled occlusion of targeted blood vessels without heating the vessel and with minimal damage to adjacent tissue. The extent of vessel closure, i.e., temporary (vasoconstriction) or permanent (thrombosis), is controlled based on the manipulation of various parameters of the electrical stimulation regime as well as the configuration of the electrodes used to apply the regime. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/341845 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/41 |
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| US 08236259 | Gracias et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Barjor Gimi (Irving, Texas); Zaver M Bhujwalla (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nanoscale or microscale container for encapsulation and delivery of materials or substances, including, but not limited to, cells, drugs, tissue, gels and polymers contained within the container, with subsequent release of the therapeutic materials in situ, methods of fabricating the container by folding a 2D precursor into the 3D container, and the use of the container in in-vivo or in-vitro applications. The container can be in any polyhedral shape and its surfaces can have either no perforations or nano/microscale perforations. The container is coated with a biocompatible metal, e.g. gold, or polymer, e.g. parylene, layer and the surfaces and hinges of the container are made of any metal or polymer combinations. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491829 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/547 |
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| US 08236296 | Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R Rosen (New York, New York); Peter R. Brink (Setauket, New York); Ira S. Cohen (Stony Brook, New York); Richard B Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey); Peter Danilo, Jr. (Hopewell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a bypass bridge comprising a tract of gap junction-coupled cells having a first end and a second end, both ends capable of being attached to two selected sites in a heart so as to allow the conduction of a pacemaker and/or electrical signal/current across the tract between the two sites, wherein the cells functionally express a sodium channel. The invention also provides related methods of making the bypass bridge, methods of implanting same in a heart, and methods of treating a disorder associated with an impaired conduction in a subject's heart. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490760 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 08236299 | Johe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NeuralStem, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl K. Johe (Potomac, Maryland); Thomas G. Hazel (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating neurodegenerative conditions is provided. Neural stem cells may be implanted at and/or remote from a region of neuron degeneration. The methods can include isolating neural stem cells from regions where specific types of neurons corresponding to the neurons to be replaced are generated. The methods can include isolating neural stem cells secreting growth factors affecting the growth and/or regeneration of specific types of neuron. In this invention, we disclose a method of treating such disorders, including several neurodegenerative disorders arising from the lack of cells that produce particular neurotransmitters in neural circuitry by transplanting exogenously cultured and expanded neural progenitors which, upon transplantation into a neural tissue, differentiate into neurons capable of integrating and producing neurotransmitters in sufficient quantities and in a sufficient manner to overcome the symptoms associated with the neurodegeneration. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710097 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.600 |
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| US 08236301 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Stone (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of reducing formation of atheromas and methods of treating atherosclerotic lesions and/or atherosclerosis by reducing the amount of lumican proteglycan in the intima or an artery or in the lesion. The invention also relates to methods of identifying subjects having or at risk of having atherosclerosis comprising detecting an increased amount of lumican proteoglycan in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/918621 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
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| US 08236313 | Isenberg 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); Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Isenberg (Catonsville, Maryland); David D. Roberts (Bethesda, Maryland); William A. Frazier (Rock Hill, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for preventing, ameliorating, and/or reducing tissue ischemia and/or tissue damage due to ischemia, increasing blood vessel diameter, blood flow and tissue perfusion in the presence of vascular disease including peripheral vascular disease, atherosclerotic vascular disease, coronary artery disease, stroke and influencing other conditions, by suppressing CD47 and/or blocking TSP1 and/or CD47 activity or interaction. Influencing the interaction of CD47-TSP1 in blood vessels allows for control of blood vessel diameter and blood flow, and permits modification of blood pressure and cardiac function. Under conditions of decreased blood flow, for instance through injury or atherosclerosis, blocking TSP1-CD47 interaction allows blood vessels to dilate and increases blood flow, tissue perfusion and tissue survival. This in turn reduces or prevents tissue necrosis and death. The therapeutics identified herein allow for precise regulation of blood flow to tissues and organs which need it, while substantially avoiding systemic complications. Methods and compositions described herein can be used to increase tissue survival under conditions of trauma and surgery, as well as conditions of chronic vascular disease. Also disclosed are methods for the treatment of elderly subjects using agents that affect TSP1 and CD47 and thereby affect tissue perfusion. Additionally, provided herein are compositions and methods for influencing blood coagulation, allowing for controlled increased or decreased blood clotting. Additionally, provided herein are compositions and methods for decreasing blood flow, as in the case of cancer through mimicking the effects of TSP1 and CD47 on blood vessel diameter and blood flow. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444364 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
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| US 08236320 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyung L. Kim (Amherst, New York); Yanping Wang (Williamsville, New York); Xiang-Yang Wang (Williamsville, New York); John R. Subjeck (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for stimulating an immune response to an antigen by administering a composition to an individual in an amount effective to stimulate an immune response to the antigen. The stimulated immune response to the antigen is greater than the immune response stimulated by the antigen in the absence of CA9 protein. The compositions provided contain a complex that includes an antigen and an isolated CA9 protein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263756 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
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| US 08236329 | Kwon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen S. Kwon (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides active agents, such as paclitaxel, rapamycin, or 17-AAG, encapsulated by safe poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(lactic acid) (“PEG-b-PLA”) micelles. The compositions provide effective solubilization of drug combinations, such as paclitaxel, rapamycin, and 17-AAG, as well as others described herein. A significant advantage of PEG-b-PLA as a carrier is that it is less toxic than Cremophor® EL or DMSO, which are used in currently known compositions. Additionally, PEG-b-PLA micelles are easier to handle than DMSO and they do not possess a foul odor, which is a problem with formulations currently in clinical trials. Accordingly, the invention provides stable and biocompatible drug formulations that improve bioavailabilty without causing toxicity. It was also found that larger doses of individual drugs in micelle formulations can be administered compared to non-micelle formulations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/890450 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
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| US 08236344 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Daniel M. Schwartz (San Francisco, California); Paul J. Nowatzki (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides engineered proteins and biomedical products made from the engineered proteins. The biomedical products include lenses useful for ophthalmic purposes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757990 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/427 |
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| US 08236497 | Doria et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Ospedale Casa Sollievo Della (, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Doria (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vincenzo Trischitta (Rome, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for diagnosing increased risk of cardiovascular disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/066473 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08236500 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry Leonard (Denver, Colorado); Robert Freedman (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions related to α7 acetylcholine nicotinic receptor genes, in particular, the human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene. The human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene is associated with the pathophysiological aspects of the disease schizophrenia. The present invention further provides methods and compositions to screen populations for abnormal α7 alleles, as well as methods and compositions for development of therapeutics. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474402 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08236518 | Parhami-Seren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agriculture College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behnaz Parhami-Seren (Ventura, California); Kenneth G. Mann (Grand Isle, Vermont); David N. Fass (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are antibodies that selectively bind to blood coagulation factor FVIII, and highly sensitive immunological assays comprising these antibodies. Preferred assays can detect FVIII at about 3500-fold below the normal physiological levels, and have a wide array of applications including accurate monitoring of FVIII concentration in pharmaceutical products for treatment of blood coagulation disorders, and determination of FVIII levels in plasma of human patients, including those with blood coagulation disorders such as hemophilia. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/988518 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/13 |
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| US 08236523 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Lisa Marie DiPilato (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | cAMP reporters useful for obtaining measurements of cAMP levels with high spatial and temporal resolution and in high throughput assays. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586707 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08236532 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego, California); Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining nucleic acid sequence information including the steps of (a) providing a first sequencing reagent to a target nucleic acid in the presence of a polymerase, wherein the first sequencing reagent includes at least two different nucleotide monomers and no more than three nucleotide monomers, wherein the nucleotide monomers are simultaneously in the presence of the target nucleic acid, (b) providing a second sequencing reagent to the target nucleic acid, wherein the second sequencing reagent comprises one or more nucleotide monomers, at least one of the one or more nucleotide monomers being different from the nucleotide monomers present in the first sequencing reagent, and wherein the second sequencing reagent is provided subsequent to providing the first sequencing reagent, and optionally (c) repeating (a) and (b) for said target nucleic acid, whereby sequence information for at least a portion of the target nucleic acid is obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641104 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 08236548 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Ying Chen (Foster City, California); Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations for use in administering to a subject, wherein the minicircle nucleic acid vectors include a polynucleotide of interest, a product hybrid sequence of a unidirectional site-specific recombinase, and are devoid of plasmid backbone bacterial DNA sequences. Also provided are methods of producing the subject formulations as well as methods for administering the minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations to a subject. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including both research and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497396 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
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| US 08236557 | Dongsheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duan Dongsheng (Columbia, Missouri); Arkasubhra Ghosh (Singapore, Singapore); Yongping Yue (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybrid adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector systems able to efficiently express therapeutic target genes larger than may be carried in a single AAV vector are provided, wherein a highly recombinogenic foreign DNA sequence is incorporated into two or more ITR-mediated AAV vectors. In one aspect of one embodiment, the novel hybrid AAV vector system is a hybrid dual AAV (hdAAV) vector system. In another aspect of one embodiment, the novel hybrid AAV vector system is a hybrid tri AAV (htAAV) vector system. A method of treating a clinical disease caused at least in part by a defective gene is provided, and comprises (1) providing a hybrid AAV vector system capable of expressing a therapeutic target gene, wherein the therapeutic target gene is capable of replacing, restoring or counteracting the effects of the defective gene; and (2) administering a therapeutic amount of said vector system to a subject wherein said therapeutic target gene is expressed at levels having a therapeutic effect. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473651 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08236563 | Lipton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart A Lipton (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Shu-ichi Okamoto (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of differentiating progenitor cells to produce a population containing protected neuronal cells. A method of the invention includes the steps of contacting the progenitor cells with a differentiating agent; and introducing into the progenitor cells a nucleic acid molecule encoding a MEF2 polypeptide or an active fragment thereof, thereby differentiating the progenitor cells to produce a population containing protected neuronal cells. In one embodiment, the MEF2 polypeptide is human MEF2C or an active fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/077752 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 08236572 | van Zijl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. M. van Zijl (Ellicott City, Maryland); Assaf A. Gilad (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeff Bulte (Fulton, Maryland); Michael T. Mcmahon (Baltimore, Maryland); Raman Venu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Paul T. Winnard, Jr. (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured are a new class of reporter genes including reporter compositions as well as methods, MRI systems and MRI imaging kits related thereto. The genes according to the present invention provide MR contrast when the sample/subject is irradiated at a specific off-resonance radio-frequency (RF frequency), where the contrast mechanism utilizes chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) technique for imaging. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883533 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
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| US 08236751 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present relates to use of follistatin-like related gene (FLRG) to increase muscle mass in a subject. As such, methods of ameliorating the severity of a pathologic condition characterized, at least in part, by a decreased amount, development or metabolic activity of muscle are provided. In addition transgenic non-human mammals expressing FLRG and having increased muscle mass as compared to a corresponding mammal having a myostatin-null mutation or a decreased level of myostatin are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/529179 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 08236753 | Blacklow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Blacklow (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Carl Fisher (Watertown, Massachusetts); Kristine Estrada (Chino Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to stabilized RAP variants and methods of use thereof. Conjugates of stabilized RAP variants to therapeutic compounds and stabilized RAP fusion proteins comprising therapeutic polypeptides are also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/747354 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.200 |
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| US 08236754 | Fogelman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the unexpected finding that vessels smaller than even the smallest arteries (i.e. arterioles) thicken, become dysfunctional and cause end organ damage to tissues as diverse as the brain and the kidney. Methods are provided to improve the structure and function of arterioles and to preserve the function of end organs such as the brain and kidney. In various embodiments the methods involve administering to a mammal in need thereof “D” or “L” class A amphipathic helical peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478593 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.900 |
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| US 08236764 | Camire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Camire (Sicklerville, New Jersey); Valder R. Arruda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the treatment of coagulation disorders using Factor V/Va variants are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162935 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 08236765 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Yu (North Augusta, South Carolina); Seigo Usuki (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in a subject that involves neutralizing specific pathogenic anti-glycolipid antibodies in the circulation of the subject. This can involve administering to the subject a molecular mimic of a ganglioside that serves as a specific competitive inhibitor for anti-ganglioside antibodies in the circulation. Also disclosed is an animal model of GBS having anti-ganglioside antibodies in the circulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789193 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.200 |
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| US 08236772 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Cooke (Palo Alto, California); Martin Ng (Sydney, Australia); Jenny C. Wu (Cupertino, California); Edwin Chang (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of modulating angiogenesis in an individual, as well as methods of identifying a candidate agent that modulates angiogenesis, where such methods involve modulating and identifying agents that modulate expression of gene products of a subset of genes concordantly-regulated by agonists of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), bFGF receptor, and VEGF receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521787 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236774 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Boulder, Colorado); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru Nakamura (Boulder, Colorado); Karen B. Chapman (Sausalito, California); Gregg B. Morin (Vancouver, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Murphys, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545774 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236791 | Bresnick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne Reba Bresnick (Pelham, New York); Sarah Claire Garrett (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of determining whether a compound is an inhibitor of an S100 protein. The methods utilize a biosensor that comprises the S100 protein that has a covalently bound fluorescent dye at an amino acid residue of the S100 protein that becomes less exposed to the aqueous solution upon activation of the S100 protein, where the fluorescent dye has decreased fluorescence when exposed to the aqueous solution than when protected from exposure to the aqueous solution. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having metastatic cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989901 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236800 | DeGrado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Moylan, Pennsylvania); Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Michael L. Klein (Ocean City, New Jersey); Dahui Liu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jing Yuan (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Sungwook Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of use of facially amphiphilic polymers and oligomers, including pharmaceutical uses of the polymers and oligomers as antimicrobial agents and antidotes for hemorrhagic complications associated with heparin therapy. The present invention also discloses novel facially amphiphilic polymers and oligomers and their compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions. The present invention further discloses the design and synthesis of facially amphiphilic polymers and oligomers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/980785 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236855 | Noy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noa Noy (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of increasing the insulin sensitivity of insulin resistant cells includes administering to the cells an amount of all-trans-retinoic acid effective to activate transcription factor perosixome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) β/δ of the cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122976 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236925 | Wagner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carston R. Wagner (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides protein nanorings. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511186 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236926 | Thorson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Byron R. Griffith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to methods and compositions for generating vancomycin analogs. Specifically the invention relates to generating a vancomycin library through chemoselective ligation of a sugar moiety with a vancomycin aglycon. In particular, the present invention provides a library of vancomycin analogs, where the member of the library comprises at least one vancomycin analog selected from 2′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 3′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 4′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 6′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 2′-N-acylbiphenyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 3′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 4′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside and 6′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850877 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236932 | Sass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morphotek, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M. Sass (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Nicholas C. Nicolaides (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Luigi Grasso (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Marc Berger (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Tao Sai (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind and neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. In addition, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, and cells that express such antibodies are provided. Also provided are methods for treating diseases mediated by, and for neutralizing Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969097 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236934 | Banchereau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylore Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); SangKon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland); Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Dapeng Li (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for making and using anti DC-ASGPR antibodies that can, e.g., activate DCs and other cells. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025010 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236941 | Yao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Yao (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed oncolytic Herpes simplex-1 viruses whose replication is controlled using a tetracycline operator/repressor system. The invention also includes DNA sequences used in making the viruses and methods in which these viruses are used in the treatment of cancer patients with solid tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553051 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236949 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Michael Fox (Wilmington, Delaware); Melissa Blackman (Elkton, Maryland); Maksim Royzen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ni Yan (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Coupling reactions, suitable for use in organic or aqueous media, are performed by contacting a 1,2,4,5-tetrazine with a dienophile. The dienophile may be covalently bonded to a protein, and the coupling reaction may be performed in biological media such as those containing cells or cell lysates. The reactions may be performed in the presence of primary amines, thiols, acetylenes, azides, phosphines, and products of Staudinger and/or Sharpless-Huisgen reactions Novel 3-substituted cyclopropene compounds and trans-cyclooctenes are exemplary dienophiles for these reactions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174913 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236976 | Walsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Walsh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alice E. Lurain (Brooklyn, New York); Ann R. Kelly (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania); Aaron G. Maestri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive subject matter relates to novel processes for making an epoxy alcohol from an aldehyde, comprising the steps of: (a) adding (i) an organozinc compound or (ii) divinylzinc compound and an diorganozinc compound to said aldehyde in the presence of a first catalyst to form an allylic alkoxide compound; and (b) epoxidizing said allylic alkoxide compound in the presence of an oxidant and a second catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/592075 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236987 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (Portland, Oregon); Toru Iijima (Saitama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a new class of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). The disclosure also includes the identification of a previously unknown membrane associated estrogen receptor. Methods for making and using the disclosed SERMs are disclosed, including pharmaceutical formulations of the disclosed novel compounds in useful compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938129 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237439 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung-Kyun Lee (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus having a static magnetic field source, a plurality of radio frequency magnetic field sources and a plurality of gradient magnetic field sources for generating a gradient magnetic field is provided. The static magnetic field source generates a static magnetic field for aligning a spin vector of an object in a direction of the magnetic field and plurality of radio frequency magnetic field sources generate a radio frequency magnetic field for rotating the spin vector by an angle. The apparatus further includes a processor for generating a plurality of radio frequency excitation pulses for the plurality of radio frequency magnetic field sources and a plurality of gradient excitation pulses for the plurality of gradient magnetic field sources. The second half of each of the plurality of radio frequency excitation pulses comprises a time-reversed first half of a respective one of the plurality of radio frequency excitation pulses and the second half of each of the plurality of gradient excitation comprises a time-reversed and sign-reversed first half of a respective one of the plurality of gradient excitation pulses. The average value of each of the plurality of gradient excitation pulses is zero. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540411 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237835 | Muller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aeon Imaging, LLC (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Stefan Muller (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital imaging device comprising a light source, a pixel array detector having a rolling shutter functionality, a spatial light modulator configured to produce one or more modulation patterns during a frame exposure of the pixel array detector, and at least one timing signal configured to control a spatial-temporal relationship between a rolling shutter of the pixel array detector and the one or more modulation patterns provided by the spatial light modulator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302814 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238634 | Meyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig H. Meyer (Charlottesville, Virginia); Weitian Chen (Union City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Automatic off-resonance correction for spiral MR imaging is performed in two stages. In the first stage, we acquire a low resolution map using two single shot spirals instead of estimating it using an automatic method. In the second stage, we developed a modified version of automatic off-resonance correction with a frequency constraint from the first stage map. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036693 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239006 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quing Zhu (Mansfield Center, Connecticut); Baohong Yuan (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for medical imaging using diffusive optical tomography and fluorescent diffusive optical tomography are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for medical imaging comprises, scanning a tissue volume with near-infrared light to obtain structural parameters, wherein the tissue volume includes a biological entity, scanning the tissue volume with near-infrared light to obtain optical and fluorescence measurements of the scanned volume, segmenting the scanned volume into a first region and a second region, and reconstructing an optical image and a fluorescence image of at least a portion of the scanned volume from the structural parameters and the optical and fluorescence measurements. In another embodiment an apparatus for medical imaging is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774243 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08239031 — Mimicking neural coding in retinal ganglion cells with short pulse electrical stimulation
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelley Fried (Berkeley, California); Frank Werblin (Berkeley, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, device and system for stimulating visual tissue, typically in the retina or visual cortex, to achieve an artificial percept of light or image. The method includes providing stimulating electrodes suitable for placement in proximity to the visual tissue and generating a series of short-duration stimulation signals having a duration of less than about 0.5 milliseconds each. The short-duration stimulation signals are applied through the stimulating electrodes with varying frequencies that are substantially matched to a spiking range of frequencies of at least one ganglion cell for perceiving brightness or image. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506388 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239033 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for stimulating a subject's retina. The method comprising selecting at least a first and a second electrode each configured to apply current to a subject's retina, determining impedance for the at least first electrode and second electrode, and applying current to the subject's retina through the at least first and second electrode, wherein current to be applied by the first electrode and the second electrode is configured to be higher for the first electrode when the first electrode has an impedance lower than a second electrode's impedance. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875724 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239034 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to provide visual current feedback of a retinal stimulation system. The method comprising: providing a retinal stimulation system configured to stimulate neural tissue in a subject's eye, the retinal stimulation system comprising: an electronics package; and at least a first and a second electrode, each associated with the electronics package and configured to apply current to a subject's retina; wherein current to be applied by the first electrode and the second electrode is configured to be higher for the first electrode when the first electrode has an impedance lower than a second electrode's impedance; and providing a visual interface configured to show impedance of at least one of the electrodes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875760 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239035 | Roy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Stimulation inputs are provided to a visual prosthesis implant. The images captured by a video decoder are received and digitized to provide a plurality of video frames; integrity of the video frames is checked, the checked video frames are filtered, and the filtered video frames are converted to stimulation inputs. A similar system is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114557 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239036 | Shah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samip Shah (Lake Forest, California); Amy Chu Peishuan Hines (Monterey Park, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A critical element of a retinal prosthesis is the stimulating electrode array, which is placed in close proximity to the retina. It is via this interface that a retinal prosthesis electrically stimulates nerve cells to produce the perception of light. The impedance load seen by the current driver consists of the tissue resistance and the complex electrode impedance. The results show that the tissue resistance of the retina is significantly greater than that of the vitreous humor in the eye. Circuit models of the electrode-retina interface are used to parameterize the different contributors to the overall impedance. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/179186 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239139 | 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) |
| 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 preset criteria 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 | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/479600 |
| 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 08239968 | Torun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamdi Torun (Atlanta, Georgia); Fahrettin L. Degertekin (Atlanta, Georgia); Ofer Finkler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic force microscopy system includes an imaging probe having a first thermal displacement constant and a sample placement surface. At least a portion of the sample placement surface has a second thermal displacement constant. The sample placement surface is spaced apart from the imaging probe at a predetermined displacement. The sample placement surface is configured so that the second thermal displacement constant matches the first thermal displacement constant so that when the imaging probe and the sample placement surface are subject to a predetermined temperature, both the portion of the sample placement surface and the imaging prove are displaced by a same distance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830989 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P. (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Cook (China Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hinge assembly may be provided to hingeably couple two substrates together to allow one of the substrates to pivot about the center plane of the other substrate. The hinge assembly may include two separable hinge components that are manufactured from lightweight materials and that are configured to provide up to about 180 degrees of swing for a door or other hingeably-coupled substrate. Polymer bushings may be employed to preclude the need for lubrication of the hinge assembly, and a spring loaded tab may be provided on a hinge pin of the hinge assembly to provide for ease of installation, removal or replacement of a hingeably coupled substrate. Flow channels with injection ports may be defined within each of the separable hinge components of the hinge assembly, and configured to evenly distribute injected bonding material around the components of the hinge assembly while they are positioned within respective substrate cavities. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290025 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous hardware 016/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234773 | Bedair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah S. Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland); Brian Morgan (Ellicott City, Maryland); Christopher D. Meyer (Coral Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming at least one electronic device on a substrate comprising creating a depository and an attached capillary; providing a liquid containing particles in the range 1 nanometer to 1 millimeter for deposit into the depository; the liquid flowing into the at least one capillary by capillary action; evaporating the liquid such that the particles form an agglomerate beginning at the end of the at least one capillary with a substantially uniform distribution of the particles within the agglomerate; whereby the agglomerate is used to form a part of the at least one electronic device. An microelectronic integrated circuit device comprising a substrate; a depository coupled to said substrate formed by at least one wall, a capillary channel coupled to said depository adapted to be filled with liquid comprising nanoparticles by capillary action, whereby as the liquid evaporates, an agglomerate forms in the capillary channel having a substantially uniform distribution of the particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751308 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234924 | Saxena et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Indu Saxena (Torrance, California); Lothar Kempen (Redondo Beach, California); Chai Tea (El Monte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for testing composite structures in which ultrasonic waves are used to detect disbonds in the structures are described. The apparatus comprises a flexible structure carrying acousto-optical transducers such as fiber Bragg gratings. During use, the apparatus is mechanically and conformally coupled to the structure under test. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/504595 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234964 | Wynne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul C. Wynne (Little Rock, Arkansas); Dale Michael McClellan (Bryant, Arkansas); Brad R. Branson (Pine Bluff, Arkansas); Joe T. Green (Rison, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to mechanical devices and methods allowing the safe removal of heavy, difficult to handle fragments from an explosive destruction system (EDS). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755728 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234978 | Bond 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) | Thomas L. Bond (Washington, Indiana); Jerry Shrum (Gosport, Indiana); Barbara Robinson (Bloomington, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is disclosed to initiate detonation. The apparatus includes a first hollow cylinder, a second hollow cylinder laterally spaced from the first hollow cylinder, each of the first and second hollow cylinders having an inner surface and an outer surface, and extending longitudinally between a first end and a second end. A spring is disposed in each of the first and second cylinders, and a firing pin is disposed in each of the first and second cylinders, wherein the spring is positioned between the first end of each of the first and second cylinders and the firing pin. A sear lever is in communication with each of the firing pins, and bushings are disposed between the sear lever and each of the first and second hollow cylinders, positioned so that the sear lever is insulated from contact of the outer surface of the hollow cylinders. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/983115 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/275.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234998 | Krogman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. Krogman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paula T. Hammond (Newton, Massachusetts); Nicole S. Zacharia (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises an automated apparatus capable of spray depositing polyelectrolytes via the LbL mechanism with minimal or no human interaction. In certain embodiments, the apparatus sprays atomized polyelectrolytes onto a vertically oriented substrate. To counteract the effects of irregular spray patterns, the substrate is preferably slowly rotated about a central axis. In certain embodiments, the apparatus also includes a forced pathway for the droplets, such as a pathway created by using a vacuum. In this way, a thicker or three-dimensional substrate can be coated. In certain embodiments, the apparatus is designed so as to be scalable. Thus, through the use of multiple instantiations of the apparatus, a large or irregularly shaped substrate can be coated. Rolls of textile can therefore be coated using the apparatus. Additionally, the present invention includes a method to uniformly coat a substrate, such as a hydrophobic textile material, using aqueous solutions of polyelectrolytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/310805 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235072 | Roy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subrata Roy (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasma actuator incorporates a power source, a first electrode in contact with a first dielectric layer, a second electrode in contact with a second dielectric layer, and a ground electrode. The power source drives the first electrode with a first ac voltage pattern with respect to the ground electrode to produce a first plasma discharge, and a first electric field pattern in the flow region, and drives the second electrode with a second ac voltage pattern with respect to the ground electrode to produce a second plasma discharge in the flow region and a second electric field pattern in the flow region. The first and second electrodes are offset along the direction of flow and the first voltage pattern and the second voltage pattern have a phase difference such that the first and second electric fields drive flow in different portions of the flow region at different times. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598993 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235096 | Mahefkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. Mahefkey (Flowery Branch, Georgia); Louis Chow (Orlando, Florida); Ming Su (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat pipe includes a sealed thermally conductive casing having a length that has a first end for coupling to a heat source to be cooled and a second end for coupling to a heat sink opposite the first end. The casing has an inside surface that defines a thermal control volume above. The thermal control volume includes (i) a plurality of hydrophilic particles or clusters of hydrophilic particles in a size range from nano size to micron size attached as a hydrophilic film to the inside surface or to a wick on the inside surface, wherein the plurality of hydrophilic particles occupy only a portion of an area of the inside surface or an internal pore space of the wick or a surface area of the wick, (ii) a vapor cavity above the hydrophilic film or the wick, and (iii) a heat transfer working fluid contained as a liquid on the hydrophilic film or the wick, and as a vapor in the vapor cavity. The plurality of hydrophilic particles or clusters of hydrophilic particles provide a solid-liquid contact angle for the working fluid when in a liquid state of <30 degrees, typically <10 degrees. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755797 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235324 | Birch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Birch (Paineville, Ohio); Zak Sowle (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A helicopter uses multiple redundant harmonic drive motors on the rotor head to actuate the angle of attack of rotor blades at the rotor blade roots, providing collective control that, in combination with a system for providing cyclic control on the rotor blades, eliminates the need for a swashplate, thereby advantageously reducing the weight and maintenance cost of the helicopter, increasing its reliability, and reducing its vulnerability to ballistic attack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715927 |
| 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 244/17.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235345 | Sadil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Claude I. Barnett, Jr. (Lebanon, Connecticut); Ricky A. Daigle (Barkhamsted, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems and related methods involving thermally isolated retention are provided. In this regard, a representative method for attaching a gas turbine engine component includes using a fastener, varying in diameter along a length thereof, to prevent a portion of a component from being crimped between surfaces to which the component is attached such that the component moves relative to the surfaces responsive to thermal cycling of a gas turbine engine of which the surfaces and the component are constituent parts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/112470 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235351 | Van Lear |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Van Lear (Hastings, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock load isolation mounting system that incorporates a dashpot into each shock load isolation mount to provide damping. Each shock load isolation mount includes a shock mount portion having a first end fixed to the object to be isolated from shock loads, a second end, and an intermediate section between the first end and the second end. Each isolation mount also includes a dashpot mounted in series with the shock mount portion. The dashpot includes a moveable piston and a cylinder that receives the piston therein. The piston is fixed to the second end of the shock mount portion, and the cylinder is fixed to a support that is fixed relative to the object so that the dashpot provides damping in directions parallel to compression and tension directions of the shock mount portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548852 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235537 | Glembocki 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) | Orest J Glembocki (Alexandria, Virginia); Francis J Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Sharka M Prokes (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An article having: a retroreflective optical element and a plasmonic material on the optical element. A method of: performing an optical measurement on a substrate having a plurality of the articles. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199824 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235924 | Bachmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Bachmann (Cleveland, Ohio); Ronald Triolo (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Arkady Polinkovsky (Cleveland, Ohio); Nicole Kern (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Roger D. Quinn (Akron, Ohio); Rudolf Kobetic (Rocky River, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An orthotic brace (30) for a joint includes a bracing device (40) having first and second portions (42, 44) movable relative to one another and a mechanism (100) for placing the bracing device (40) in a first condition in which the first portion (42) has a first resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44) and a second condition in which the first portion (42) has a second, different resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44). The mechanism (100) is capable of placing the bracing device (40) in a third condition in which the first portion (42) has a third resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44) that is between the first and second resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761945 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236102 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solid State Scientific Corporation (Hollis, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Buguo Wang (Burlington, Massachusetts); David F. Bliss (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael J. Callahan (Hanson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of hydrothermally synthesizing sapphire single crystals doped with trivalent metal ions in a crystal-growth autoclave including a crystal-growth zone and nutrient-dissolution zone in fluid communication with the crystal-growth zone is provided. Implementations of the method including situating within the crystal-growth zone at least one sapphire-based seed crystal and situating within the nutrient-dissolution zone an aluminum-containing material to serve as nutrient. An acidic, trivalent-metal-ion-containing growth solution is introduced into the cavity in a quantity sufficient, at least when heated to a predetermined average temperature, to immerse the at least one seed crystal and the nutrient in the growth solution. The growth solution is selected such that sapphire exhibits retrograde solubility therein and the growth process is carried out while maintaining an interior-cavity pressure within a range between and including each of 3.5 kilopounds per square inch and 25 kilopounds per square inch and while maintaining a temperature differential between the crystal-growth and nutrient-dissolution zones such that the average temperature within the crystal-growth zone is higher than the average temperature within the nutrient-dissolution zone. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321763 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236115 | Jamil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holdings S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahid Jamil (Chatham, United Kingdom); Joachim Vendulet (Niederkirchen, Germany); Jean-Pierre Winandy (Arlon, Belgium); Joachim R Kiefer (Losheim am See, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for enshrouding an actuator for use in a fuel injector, comprising the steps of providing an actuator having a body section, a first end piece and a second end piece; providing a shroud having first and second ends; applying a sealant material to at least one portion of an exterior surface of the end pieces, and/or to at least one part of the shroud; and enshrouding the actuator with the shroud, such that the sealant material provides an intermediate layer between the end pieces and the shroud and forms a fluid-tight seal between them. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226946 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236124 | Wegner 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) | Peter M. Wegner (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jeffrey M. Ganley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brice A. Johnson (Federal Way, Washington); Barry P. Van West (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a grid-stiffened structure from fiber-reinforced composite materials. A skin is applied to a smooth, hard base tool. Ribs comprised of carbon-fiber tows are formed on the skin, and shallow cavities are formed between the ribs and the skin. An expansion block is placed in each of the cavities, and is held in place by an elastomeric contact adhesive having adhesive properties that are substantially diminished when the adhesive is heated to an elevated curing temperature. The assembly is then autoclave cured. After cooling, the formed structure is separated from the base tool and the expansion blocks are removed from the cavities. A grid-stiffened sandwich structure is formed by applying an outer skin over the ribs and expansion blocks, before curing the assembly. After cooling, the outer skin is removed to allow extraction of the blocks, and subsequently bonded to the ribs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967366 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236203 | Hihara et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd H. Hihara (Mililani, Hawaii); Atul Tiwari (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A corrosion protection composition includes a mixture of three different silanes selected to interact and form a coating on metal substrates that has improved adhesion and durability as well as UV protection properties. Methods of manufacturing the corrosion protection composition include mixing the silanes together and further combining the silane mixture with other mixtures to arrive at the corrosion protection composition. Sonication may be a preferred manner of mixing together the various components of the mixtures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683940 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/389.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236237 | Elson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fiore Industries, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Todd Elson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David E. Lane (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for inactivating infectious biological or chemical agents using microwave-activated diazoluminomelanin (DALM). The agents are typically vacuumed into a load cavity, which is at least partially filled with DALM. The load is irradiated with microwaves via a cylindrical waveguide disposed under the load cavity, thereby inactivating or destroying the agents. The system is preferably temperature controlled and operation is preferably automated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828320 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236335 | 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 | 11/928447 |
| 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 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236600 | Cornfeld |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a solar cell by providing a first semiconductor substrate and depositing a first sequence of layers of semiconductor material to form a first solar subcell, including a first bond layer disposed on the top of the first sequence of layers. A second semiconductor substrate is provided, and on the top surface of the second substrate a second sequence of layers of semiconductor material is deposited forming at least a second solar subcell. A second bond layer is disposed on the top of said second sequence of layers. The first solar subcell is mounted on top of the second solar subcell by joining the first bond layer to the second bond layer in an ultra high vacuum chamber, and the first semiconductor substrate is removed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267812 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236626 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongie Dai (Cupertino, California); Liying Jiao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for making graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) by controlled unzipping of structures such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by etching (e.g., argon plasma etching) of nanotubes partly embedded in a polymer film. The GNRs have smooth edges and a narrow width distribution (2-20 nm). Raman spectroscopy and electrical transport measurements reveal the high quality of the GNRs. Such a method of unzipping CNTs with well-defined structures in an array will allow the production of GNRs with controlled widths, edge structures, placement and alignment in a scalable fashion for device integration. GNRs may be formed from nanostructures in a controlled array to form arrays of parallel or overlapping structures. Also disclosed is a method in which the CNTs are in a predetermined pattern that is carried over and transferred to a substrate for forming into a semiconductor device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760998 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236669 | Hong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Sunil K. Pillalamarri (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | New compositions and methods of using those compositions as bonding compositions are provided. The compositions are preferably thermoplastic and comprise imides, amideimides, and/or amideimide-siloxanes (either in polymeric or oligomeric form) dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and can be used to bond an active wafer to a carrier wafer or substrate to assist in protecting the active wafer and its active sites during subsequent processing and handling. The compositions form bonding layers that are chemically and thermally resistant, but that can also be softened to allow the wafers to slide apart at the appropriate stage in the fabrication process. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/949019 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236680 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Norma E. S. Cortes (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture comprising a nanowire and methods of making the same. In one embodiment, the nanowire includes a Ga-doped trace formed on a surface of an indium oxide layer having a thickness in nano-scale, and wherein the Ga-doped trace is formed with a dimension that has a depth is less than a quarter of the thickness of the indium oxide layer. In one embodiment, the indium oxide layer, which is optically transparent and electrically insulating, comprises an In2O3 film, and the thickness of the indium oxide layer is about 40 nm, and the depth of the nanowire is less than 10 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488931 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/608 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237129 | Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, Inc. (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); Anton Tremsin (Lafayette, California); Philippe de Rouffignac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Kourosh Saadatmand (Merrimac, Massachusetts); Steve Bachman (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Ken Stenton (Saint James, New York); Dmitry Gorelikov (Ashland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel plate for detecting neutrons includes a hydrogen-rich polymer substrate that defines a plurality of channels extending from a top surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the substrate, where neutrons interact with the plurality of channels to generate at least one secondary electron. A top electrode is positioned on the top surface of the substrate and a bottom electrode is positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate. A resistive layer is formed over an outer surface of the plurality of channels that provides ohmic conduction with a resistivity that is substantially constant. An emissive layer is formed over the resistive layer. Neutron interaction products interact with the plurality of channels defined by the substrate and the emissive films to generate secondary electrons that cascade within the plurality of channels to provide an amplified signal related to the detection of neutrons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392064 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237152 | Mastro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Mastro (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-efficiency white-light-emitting device that includes a polariton light emitter that emits UV or blue light to a down-converting material that converts the polariton emissions to white light. The polariton light emitter includes an active region situated within a resonant optical cavity formed on a substrate. The down-converting material can comprise a luminophoric phosphor or other material. The polariton light and down-converting material can be arranged in a single apparatus to provide a white-light-emitting device that can be used for lighting and instrumentation. The device can also be configured for high-frequency modulation to provide optical signals for communications and control systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476691 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237161 | Caruso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Dakota State University Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony N. Caruso (Overland Park, Kansas); Joseph A. Sandstrom (Moorhead, Minnesota); David A. Bunzow (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Amorphous semiconductor films with enhanced charged carrier transport are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating and treating the film to produce the enhanced transport. Also disclosed are semiconductor p-n junctions fabricated with the films which demonstrate the enhanced transport. The films are amorphous and include boron, carbon, and hydrogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853857 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237175 | Moustakas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore D. Moustakas (Dover, Massachusetts); Jasper S. Cabalu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor sensor, solar cell or emitter, or a precursor therefor, has a substrate and one or more textured semiconductor layers deposited onto the substrate. The textured layers enhance light extraction or absorption. Texturing in the region of multiple quantum wells greatly enhances internal quantum efficiency if the semiconductor is polar and the quantum wells are grown along the polar direction. Electroluminescence of LEDs of the invention is dichromatic, and results in variable color LEDs, including white LEDs, without the use of phosphor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242700 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237433 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jentek Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Ian C. Shay (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); David C. Grundy (Reading, Massachusetts); Robert J. Lyons (Boston, Massachusetts); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for monitoring of stresses and other material properties. These methods use measurements of effective electrical properties, such as magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity, to infer the state of the test material, such as the stress, temperature, or overload condition. The sensors, which can be single element sensors or sensor arrays, can be used to periodically inspect selected locations, mounted to the test material, or scanned over the test material to generate two-dimensional images of the material properties. Magnetic field or eddy current based inductive and giant magnetoresistive sensors may be used on magnetizable and/or conducting materials, while capacitive sensors can be used for dielectric materials. Methods are also described for the use of state-sensitive layers to determine the state of materials of interest. These methods allow the weight of articles, such as aircraft, to be determined. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/009370 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Smith (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS contact acceleration switch may include a first non-conductive layer; a second, conductive layer next to the first layer; and a third, conductive layer next to the second layer. The third layer may include a generally circular, annular mass and a center anchor post disposed interior of the annular mass. At least one spiral spring may connect the annular mass to the center anchor post. The third layer may include an x-y plane detection electrode separated from the annular mass by a gap. A fourth conductive layer may be disposed next to the third layer. A fifth layer may be disposed next to the fourth layer and may include a z-axis detection electrode. A second z-axis detection electrode may be disposed on the first layer. A plurality of conductive vias may extend through the first layer and be in electrical communication with the detection electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964131 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237538 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Braun (Savoy, Illinois); Hui Gang Zhang (Shaanxi Province, China PRC); Xindi Yu (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous battery electrode for a rechargeable battery includes a monolithic porous structure having a porosity in the range of from about 74% to about 99% and comprising a conductive material. An active material layer is deposited on the monolithic porous structure. The pores of the monolithic porous structure have a size in the range of from about 0.2 micron to about 10 microns. A method of making the porous battery electrode is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575197 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237588 | Fowler, IV 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) | Robert J. Fowler, IV (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Pauline Cheneé Tillett (King George, Virginia); Jeffrey M. Pardee (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A stowage magazine is provided for securing a can of ammunition rounds. The magazine includes a frame having lateral sides that define a space for the can; a hinge mechanism connecting to the lateral sides; and a door connecting to the mechanism. The door provides and restricts access to the space in respective open and closed positions. The door is openable along an axial direction to provide an operational surface. The mechanism avoids lateral obstruction beyond the door's surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/068909 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/902 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237605 | Abatzoglou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The target detection from a slow moving radar platform technology includes a system. The system includes a radar power determination module configured to determine a clutter power based on radar information associated with a radar signal. The system further includes a maximum likelihood determination module configured to determine a plurality of maximum likelihoods from the radar signal within a plurality of substantially equally spaced frequencies and based on the clutter power. The system further includes a maximum threshold determination module configured to determine a maximum threshold from the plurality of maximum likelihoods and based on the clutter power. The system further includes a target detection module configured to detect the target based on the maximum threshold and a target detection threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887047 |
| 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 342/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237927 | Reeve et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arkansas State University Jonesboro (State University, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott W. Reeve (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Susan Davis Allen (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-color cavity ringdown based spectrometer system is housed in a light tight enclosure to detect the presence of trace quantities of gas phase molecules emanating from a subject, explosives, drugs, or hazardous materials. A method is also disclosed for simultaneous real time detection of gas phase molecules emanating from explosives, drugs, hazardous materials, a subject's breath skin or bodily fluid. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848816 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238402 | Dokania et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev K. Dokania (Ithaca, New York); Xiao Y. Wang (Ithaca, New York); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a communications system, node and method of operation for forming a wireless network from independently operating nodes that have the ability to self-synchronize with each other, independently determine master and slave modes of operation to cooperate as a network, and independently vary those functions to adjust to changes in the network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141832 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238457 | Dasgupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soura Dasgupta (Coralville, Iowa); Manish Vemulapalli (Iowa City, Iowa); Ashish Pandharipande (Suwon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method and system for determining the number of bits to assign to a frequency range in a signal. The present invention is capable of bit allocation, with B total bits, among a plurality of N frequency ranges in time a time O(N log N), which is independent of the size of B. Embodiments of the present invention have many practical applications, including allocating bits among sub-channels in a multi-carrier communication system, and allocating bits among sub-bands in a signal representing digital multimedia, such as in JPEG or MPEG compressed files. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423229 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238467 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/491033 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238470 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090507 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238658 | Blain 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) | Cheryl A. Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Carolus M. Cobb (Slidell, Louisiana); Alan Weidemann (Carriere, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for creating an ordered set of shoreline boundary points by transforming data from remotely sensed imagery of shorelines is provided. A water data set and an edge data set are transformed into a set of 3-point boundary segments having a specific head and tail point and the segments are ordered from tail to head in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner relative to the water. Once the 3-point segments are created they are easily linked together into larger segments. These large multi-point segments in turn are linked together to create the shorelines for rivers or coastal areas. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688011 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238702 | Flammer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. David Flammer (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hybrid dielectric/SPP waveguide that can form either a single mode, single polarization waveguide, or a multi-mode waveguide. When multi-mode, this invention effectively transfers energy back and forth between the dielectric waveguide and metal surface. This improves on standard SPP modes, yielding longer range propagation along with high intensity near the metal surface at decisive locations. When single-mode, this hybrid waveguide allows for control of propagation and confinement for applications such as telecommunications optics integrated on silicon microchips. Gratings may be patterned in the metal for coupling light into and out of the modes or for use as mirrors in the mode. For areas where very long ranges are required, a metal grating may be used to couple light into the mode, but then the metal may be removed in other regions and make the range of the mode virtually infinite (limited by surface roughness). |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455710 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238761 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frankie Y. Liu (Palo Alto, California); Dinesh D. Patil (Fremont, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Elad Alon (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical receiver is described. This optical receiver includes a digital feedback circuit that biases a front-end circuit, which receives an optical signal, so that an analog electrical signal output by the front-end circuit is calibrated relative to a reference voltage corresponding to a decision threshold of a digital slicer in the optical receiver. In particular, during a calibration mode the feedback circuit may determine and store a calibration value that calibrates the analog electrical signal relative to the reference voltage. Then, during a normal operating mode, the feedback circuit may output a current corresponding to the stored calibration value that specifies a bias point of the front-end circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633934 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238924 | Eberhart 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) | Russell C. Eberhart (Indianapolis, Indiana); Xiaohui Hu (Indianapolis, Indiana); Patrick J. Shaffer (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system and a method for assigning a plurality of resources to a plurality of targets in near real-time are described herein. An evolutionary algorithm such as a particle swarm algorithm iteratively evaluates a predetermined fitness function characteristic of a system including the plurality of resources to find solutions containing optimal resource assignments. Resource parameters are changed based on the assignments to operate on the targets. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771912 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239006 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quing Zhu (Mansfield Center, Connecticut); Baohong Yuan (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for medical imaging using diffusive optical tomography and fluorescent diffusive optical tomography are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for medical imaging comprises, scanning a tissue volume with near-infrared light to obtain structural parameters, wherein the tissue volume includes a biological entity, scanning the tissue volume with near-infrared light to obtain optical and fluorescence measurements of the scanned volume, segmenting the scanned volume into a first region and a second region, and reconstructing an optical image and a fluorescence image of at least a portion of the scanned volume from the structural parameters and the optical and fluorescence measurements. In another embodiment an apparatus for medical imaging is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774243 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239342 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method providing on-demand extension of ontology in an ontology use process. A support module responds to a creation event in the ontology use process. The support module defines ontology specification for a newly created item, in the creation event, in a manner substantially free of disruption or interruption to the ontology use process. An ontology manager incorporates the defined ontology specification into the ontology during the ontology use process such that an on-demand extension of the ontology results. One example ontology use process is semantic modeling of situations, organizations, or objects of interest. Modeling and ontology specification take place hand in hand, and the ontology is extended on an as-needed and on-demand fashion during the course of modeling. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867890 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239524 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi Kumar Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Claude Basso (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jean L. Calvignac (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for operating a high performance computing (HPC) cluster includes monitoring workloads of multiple processors included in the HPC cluster. The HPC cluster includes multiple nodes that each include two or more of the multiple processors. One or more threads assigned to one or more of the multiple processors are moved to a different one of the multiple processors based on the workloads of the multiple processors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336256 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239687 | Stolfo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for tracing the origin of network transmissions. Connection records are maintained at computer system for storing source and destination addresses. The connection records also maintain a statistical distribution of data corresponding to the data payload being transmitted. The statistical distribution can be compared to that of the connection records in order to identify the sender. The location of the sender can subsequently be determined from the source address stored in the connection record. The process can be repeated multiple times until the location of the original sender has been traced. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986467 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239836 | Franz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Franz (Irvine, California); Andreas Gal (Irvine, California); Babak Salamat (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, computer program products, apparatus and systems for controlling operation of a program code in a digital processor, a computer or a computer system, including techniques for generating program variants, monitoring execution of a program and variants of the program, and detecting functional differences between the multiple executions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075127 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239879 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Gheorghe C. Cascaval (Carmel, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing global notification of completion of a global shared memory (GSM) operation during processing by a target task executing at a target node of a distributed system. The distributed system has at least one other node on which an initiating task that generated the GSM operation is homed. The target task receives the GSM operation from the initiating task, via a host fabric interface (HFI) window assigned to the target task. The task initiates execution of the GSM operation on the target node. The task detects completion of the execution of the GSM operation on the target node, and issues a global notification to at least the initiating task. The global notification indicates the completion of the execution of the GSM operation to one or more tasks of a single job distributed across multiple processing nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024651 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Botkin (El Cerrito, California); Simon Graves (Berkeley, California); Matt Danning (Oakland, California); Matthew Culligan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) module assembly including a PV module, a deflector, and a clip. The PV module includes a PV device and a frame. A PV laminate is assembled to the frame, and the frame includes a support arm forming a seat. The deflector defines a front face and a rear face, with the clip extending from either the trailing frame member or the rear face of the deflector. In a mounted state, the deflector is nested within the seat and is releasably mounted to the trailing frame member via the clip. In some embodiments, the support arm forms a second seat, with the PV module assembly providing a second mounted state in which the deflector is in a differing orientation/slope, nested within the second seat and releasably mounted to the trailing frame member via the clip. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492729 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234863 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems compressing and expanding gas is improved via heat exchange between the gas and a heat-transfer fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105988 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236072 | Hobbs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Public Service Company (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Hobbs (Avondale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for producing substitute natural gas and electricity, while mitigating production of any greenhouse gasses. The system includes a hydrogasification reactor, to form a gas stream including natural gas and a char stream, and an oxygen burner to combust the char material to form carbon oxides. The system also includes an algae farm to convert the carbon oxides to hydrocarbon material and oxygen. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672699 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236181 | Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enid J. Sullivan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Bryan J. Carlson (Ojo Caliente, New Mexico); Robert M. Wingo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas W. Robison (Stilwell, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The amount of silica in cooling tower water is reduced by passing cooling tower water through a column of silica gel. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/772672 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/668 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236196 | Fliermans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microbes Unlimited, LLC (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl B. Fliermans (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Some or all of the needs above can be addressed by embodiments of the invention. According to embodiments of the invention, systems and methods for facilitating hydrogen storage using naturally occurring nanostructure assemblies can be implemented. In one embodiment, a method for storing hydrogen can be provided. The method can include providing diatoms comprising diatomaceous earth or diatoms from a predefined culture. In addition, the method can include heating the diatoms in a sealed environment in the presence of at least one of titanium, a transition metal, or a noble metal to provide a porous hydrogen storage medium. Furthermore, the method can include exposing the porous hydrogen storage medium to hydrogen. In addition, the method can include storing at least a portion of the hydrogen in the porous hydrogen storage medium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/408400 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/188.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236207 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kwan-Soo Lee (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Tommy Q. T. Rockward (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, and methods of making thereof, comprising from about 1% to about 5% of a perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomer or a hydrocarbon-based ionomer; and from about 95% to about 99% of a solvent, said solvent consisting essentially of a polyol; wherein said composition is substantially free of water and wherein said ionomer is uniformly dispersed in said solvent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938087 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/519.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236211 | Coker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Coker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing an asymmetric porous material by depositing a porous material film on a flexible substrate, and applying an anisotropic stress to the porous media on the flexible substrate, where the anisotropic stress results from a stress such as an applied mechanical force, a thermal gradient, and an applied voltage, to form an asymmetric porous material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511095 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236261 | Ragle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christie Susan Ragle (Havana, Illinois); Ronald G. Silver (Peoria, Illinois); Svetlana Mikhailovna Zemskova (Edelstein, Illinois); Colleen J. Eckstein (Metamora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing an exhaust treatment device is disclosed. The method includes applying a catalyst including gold and a platinum group metal to a particulate filter. The concentration of the gold and the platinum group metal is sufficient to enable oxidation of carbon monoxide and nitric oxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/267237 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/213.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236446 | Lu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Lu (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to lithium-ion batteries in general and more particularly to lithium-ion batteries based on aligned graphene ribbon anodes, V2O5 graphene ribbon composite cathodes, and ionic liquid electrolytes. The lithium-ion batteries have excellent performance metrics of cell voltages, energy densities, and power densities. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412047 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236542 | Cascao-Pereira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis G. Cascao-Pereira (Redwood City, California); Thijs Kaper (Palo Alto, California); Bradley R Kelemen (Menlo Park, California); Amy D. Liu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to cellulase variants. In particular the present disclosure relates to cellulase variants having reduced binding to non-cellulosic materials. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the cellulase, compositions comprising said cellulase, methods of identifying cellulose variants and methods of using the compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477887 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236546 | Goedegebuur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Edmund Larenas (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are variants of Humicola grisea Cel7A (CBH1.1), H. jecorina CBH1 variant or S. thermophilium CBH1, nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092086 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236564 | Pauli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam T. Pauli (Cheyenne, Wyoming); Raymond E. Robertson (Laramie, Wyoming); Jan F. Branthaver (Chatham, Illinois); John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining parameters and compatibility of a substance such as an asphalt or other petroleum substance uses titration to highly accurately determine one or more flocculation occurrences and is especially applicable to the determination or use of Heithaus parameters and optimal mixing of various asphalt stocks. In a preferred embodiment, automated titration in an oxygen gas exclusive system and further using spectrophotometric analysis (2-8) of solution turbidity is presented. A reversible titration technique enabling in-situ titration measurement of various solution concentrations is also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816278 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236611 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona); Randy J. Shul (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peggy J. Clews (Tijeras, New Mexico); Michael S. Baker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maarten P. De Boer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for singulating die from a substrate having a sacrificial layer and one or more device layers, with a retainer being formed in the device layer(s) and anchored to the substrate. Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) etching of a trench through the substrate from the bottom side defines a shape for each die. A handle wafer is then attached to the bottom side of the substrate, and the sacrificial layer is etched to singulate the die and to form a frame from the retainer and the substrate. The frame and handle wafer, which retain the singulated die in place, can be attached together with a clamp or a clip and to form a package for the singulated die. One or more stops can be formed from the device layer(s) to limit a sliding motion of the singulated die. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758833 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236907 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Brandon A. Rodriguez (Evanston, Illinois); Massimiliano Delferro (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst composition comprising a neutral bimetallic diphenoxydiiminate complex of group 10 metals or Ni, Pd or Pt is disclosed. The compositions can be used for the preparation of homo- and co-polymers of olefinic monomer compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574397 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236973 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Liu (Richland, Washington); John E. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington); Feng Zheng (Richland, Washington); Heather M. Brown (Kennewick, Washington); Alan R. Cooper (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Presently disclosed are methods and apparatus for separation of reaction products from reaction mixtures in an ionic liquid catalysis process, particularly in conversion of biomass, cellulose, and sugars into chemical intermediates such as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). In one embodiment an ion exclusion adsorption mechanism is used for the separation process. The process comprises (i) mixing the ionic liquid-containing reaction mixture with de-ionized water, (ii) flowing the water solution mixture into an adsorption column, (iii) eluting the column with a water- and/or alcohol-based fluid, and (iv) collecting separated fractions at different elution times. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756916 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237014 | Blaylock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Edenspace Systems Corporation (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Blaylock (Purcellville, Virginia); Bruce W. Ferguson (Great Falls, Virginia); David A. Lee (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to improved systems and methods for reducing costs and increasing yields of cellulosic ethanol. In particular, the present invention provides plants genetically transformed for increased biomass, expression of lignocellulolytic enzymes, and simplification of harvesting and downstream processing. Also provided are methods for using these transgenic plants in the production of clean, marketable feedstocks for production of renewable fuels and chemicals and in other applications including phytoremediation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712593 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237130 | Mascarenhas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas C Mascarenhas (Livermore, California); James S. Brennan (Rodeo, California); Charles H. Greenberg (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument that will directly image the fast fission neutrons from a special nuclear material source wherein the neutron detection efficiency is increased has been described. Instead of the previous technique that uses a time-of-flight (TOF) between 2 widely spaced fixed planes of detectors to measure scatter neutron kinetic energy, we now use the recoil proton energy deposited in the second of the 2 scatter planes which can now be repositioned much closer together. Allowing the 2 planes to be placed closer together has been shown to provide up to about a ˜170% improvement in detection efficiency without adding additional detectors and ancillary electronics. The distance between planes also may be dynamically changed using a suitable common technique such as a gear- or motor-drive to toggle between the various positions. The angular resolution of this new configuration is diminished but this loss of resolution may be acceptable for those applications where only modest directionality is sufficient to identify a threat. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701669 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237175 | Moustakas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore D. Moustakas (Dover, Massachusetts); Jasper S. Cabalu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor sensor, solar cell or emitter, or a precursor therefor, has a substrate and one or more textured semiconductor layers deposited onto the substrate. The textured layers enhance light extraction or absorption. Texturing in the region of multiple quantum wells greatly enhances internal quantum efficiency if the semiconductor is polar and the quantum wells are grown along the polar direction. Electroluminescence of LEDs of the invention is dichromatic, and results in variable color LEDs, including white LEDs, without the use of phosphor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242700 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237538 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Braun (Savoy, Illinois); Hui Gang Zhang (Shaanxi Province, China PRC); Xindi Yu (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous battery electrode for a rechargeable battery includes a monolithic porous structure having a porosity in the range of from about 74% to about 99% and comprising a conductive material. An active material layer is deposited on the monolithic porous structure. The pores of the monolithic porous structure have a size in the range of from about 0.2 micron to about 10 microns. A method of making the porous battery electrode is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575197 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238026 | Kemme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanalyn A. Kemme (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alvaro A. Cruz-Cabrera (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarization-sensitive infrared image sensor (also termed a snapshot polarimeter) utilizing a 2-D array of polarizers to filter infrared light from a scene according to polarization, and a 2-D array of photodetectors (i.e. a focal plane array) to detect the filtered infrared light and generate polarization information which can be used to form a polarization-sensitive image of the scene. By forming each polarizer on an optical fiber in a fiber optic faceplate, the polarizers can be located facing a 2-D array of retarders to minimize diffraction effects of the infrared light. The optical fibers also guide the filtered infrared light to the photodetectors to reduce cross-talk in the polarization information. The polarizers can be formed as wire grid polarizers; and the retarders can be formed as subwavelength surface-relief gratings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364537 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/489.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238509 | Moen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan Craig Moen (Wilmington, North Carolina); Craig Glenn Meyers (Salem, Virginia); John Alexander Petzen (Roanoke, Virginia); Adam Muhling Foard (Christianburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of calibrating a nuclear instrument using a gamma thermometer may include: measuring, in the instrument, local neutron flux; generating, from the instrument, a first signal proportional to the neutron flux; measuring, in the gamma thermometer, local gamma flux; generating, from the gamma thermometer, a second signal proportional to the gamma flux; compensating the second signal; and calibrating a gain of the instrument based on the compensated second signal. Compensating the second signal may include: calculating selected yield fractions for specific groups of delayed gamma sources; calculating time constants for the specific groups; calculating a third signal that corresponds to delayed local gamma flux based on the selected yield fractions and time constants; and calculating the compensated second signal by subtracting the third signal from the second signal. The specific groups may have decay time constants greater than 5×10−1 seconds and less than 5×105 seconds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557631 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239165 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Young (Golden, Colorado); Brian Egaas (Golden, Colorado); Pauls Stradins (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring quantum efficiency (QE) of solar cells. The apparatus includes a light source including an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that each emit light corresponding to a differing portion of a test spectrum and each LED is driven by a sinusoidal power supply that operates at a unique frequency. The light source includes an optical coupling focusing the LED light into a test beam targeted on a solar cell, and a signal conditioner converts analog current signals generated by the solar cell into digital voltage signals. A QE measurement module determines a QE value corresponding to each of the LEDs based on the digital voltage signals using a Fast Fourier Transform module that processes the digital voltage signals to generate values for each operating frequency. The QE measurement module determines the QE values by applying a conversion factor to these values. Since all the LEDs can be power-modulated simultaneously and the corresponding cell responses to each of the LEDS can be analyzed simultaneously, the QE spectrum measurement time is greatly shortened as compared to conventional methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237452 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239425 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Bell (Richland, Washington); Shawn J. Bohn (Richland, Washington); Andrew J. Cowell (Kennewick, Washington); Michelle L. Gregory (Richland, Washington); Eric J. Marshall (Corvallis, Oregon); Deborah A. Payne (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Desired content, metadata, or both can be isolated from the full content of social media websites having content-rich pages. Achieving this can include obtaining from the content-rich pages a language-independent representation having a hierarchical structure of nodes and then generating a node representation for each node. Feature vectors for the nodes are generated and a label is assigned to each node representation according to a schema. Assignment can occur by executing a trained classification algorithm on the feature vectors. The schema has schema elements and each schema element corresponds to a label. For each schema element, all node representations having matching labels are gathered and then one node representation is elected from among those with matching labels to be assigned to a schema element field in a template. The template can be applied to extract desired content, metadata, or both according to the schema from all the content-rich pages. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/036776 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/807 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Michael Izenson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Weibo Chen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods including an energy conversion system for storage and recovery of energy using compressed gas, a source of recovered thermal energy, and a heat-exchange subsystem in fluid communication with the energy conversion system and the source of recovered thermal energy. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108325 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234863 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems compressing and expanding gas is improved via heat exchange between the gas and a heat-transfer fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105988 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Michael Schaefer (Port Orchard, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, systems for providing a constant electrical output from a compressed gas energy storage and recovery system include a hydraulic-pneumatic energy storage and recovery system configured to provide a varying pressure profile at least at one outlet, a hydraulic motor-pump in fluid communication with the outlet, and a control system for enabling the constant electrical output by controlling at least one of pressure, piston position, power, flow rate, torque, RPM, current, voltage, frequency, or displacement per revolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/109716 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/682 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235071 | Prakash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manu Prakash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for implementing a logic operation employs an all fluid-based no-moving part micro-mechanical logic family of microfluidic bubble logic devices that are constructed from complex sequences of microfluidic channels, microfluidic bubble modulators for programming the devices, and microfluidic droplet/bubble memory elements for chemical storage and retrieval. The input is a sequence of bubbles/droplets encoding information, with the output being another sequence of bubbles/droplets. For performing a set of reactions/tasks, the modulators program the device by producing a precisely timed sequence of bubbles/droplets, resulting in a cascade of logic operations within the microfluidic channel sequence, utilizing the generated bubbles as a control. The devices are based on the principle of minimum energy interfaces formed between the two fluid phases enclosed inside precise channel geometries. Various devices, including logic gates, non-volatile bistable memory, shift registers, multiplexers, and ring oscillators have been designed and fabricated. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871861 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236344 | Tirrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tirrell (Pasadena, California); Daniel M. Schwartz (San Francisco, California); Paul J. Nowatzki (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides engineered proteins and biomedical products made from the engineered proteins. The biomedical products include lenses useful for ophthalmic purposes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757990 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236446 | Lu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Lu (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to lithium-ion batteries in general and more particularly to lithium-ion batteries based on aligned graphene ribbon anodes, V2O5 graphene ribbon composite cathodes, and ionic liquid electrolytes. The lithium-ion batteries have excellent performance metrics of cell voltages, energy densities, and power densities. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412047 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236508 | Mutharasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Leversense, LLC (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajakkannu Mutharasan (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Peter A. Nagy (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Sen Xu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Extremely minute amounts of live pathogens are rapidly detected using a piezoelectric cantilever sensor. A single pathogen is detectable in about 30 minutes. Pathogen-specific antibodies are immobilized on the sensor surface. The sensor is exposed to a medium that potentially contains the target pathogen. When target pathogens are contained in the medium, both dead and live pathogen cells bind to the immobilized antibody on the sensor surface. The attached target pathogen cells are exposed to a pathogen discriminator capable of discriminating between live cells and dead cells by increasing the mass of live cells. Example pathogens include Escherichia coli, Listeri monocytogene, and Salmonella enteritidis. Example antibodies include those that bind to the pathogenic bacteria designated as ATCC 43251, ATCC 700375, and ATCC 31194. Example pathogen discriminators include intracellular pH indicating molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361922 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236525 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Thomas Bryce Causey (Ipswich, Massachusetts); Matthew Sing Wong (Houston, Texas); Steven Wu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing biological products using bacteria with an inactivated ptsHI and wild type err and no added glucose transport activity and which consumes nearly all glucose in the media is described. The ΔptsHI bacteria produce large quantities of recombinant protein without producing significant amounts of acetate. The bacteria grow well on standard LB broth without additional supplementation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/596399 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236599 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon); Wei Wang (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed embodiments provide a solution-based process for producing useful materials, such as semiconductor materials. One disclosed embodiment comprises providing at least a first reactant and a second reactant in solution and applying the solution to a substrate. The as-deposited material is thermally annealed to form desired compounds. Thermal annealing may be conducted under vacuum; under an inert atmosphere; or under a reducing environment. The method may involve using metal and chalcogen precursor compounds. One example of a metal precursor compound is a metal halide. Examples of suitable chalcogen precursor compounds include a chalcogen powder, a chalcogen halide, a chalcogen oxide, a chalcogen urea, a chalcogen or dichalcogen comprising organic ligands, or combinations thereof. Certain disclosed embodiments concern a method for making a solar cell from I-III-VI semiconductors. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798755 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236680 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Norma E. S. Cortes (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture comprising a nanowire and methods of making the same. In one embodiment, the nanowire includes a Ga-doped trace formed on a surface of an indium oxide layer having a thickness in nano-scale, and wherein the Ga-doped trace is formed with a dimension that has a depth is less than a quarter of the thickness of the indium oxide layer. In one embodiment, the indium oxide layer, which is optically transparent and electrically insulating, comprises an In2O3 film, and the thickness of the indium oxide layer is about 40 nm, and the depth of the nanowire is less than 10 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488931 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/608 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236907 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Brandon A. Rodriguez (Evanston, Illinois); Massimiliano Delferro (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst composition comprising a neutral bimetallic diphenoxydiiminate complex of group 10 metals or Ni, Pd or Pt is disclosed. The compositions can be used for the preparation of homo- and co-polymers of olefinic monomer compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574397 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236976 | Walsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Walsh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alice E. Lurain (Brooklyn, New York); Ann R. Kelly (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania); Aaron G. Maestri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive subject matter relates to novel processes for making an epoxy alcohol from an aldehyde, comprising the steps of: (a) adding (i) an organozinc compound or (ii) divinylzinc compound and an diorganozinc compound to said aldehyde in the presence of a first catalyst to form an allylic alkoxide compound; and (b) epoxidizing said allylic alkoxide compound in the presence of an oxidant and a second catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/592075 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237155 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotube electronic devices exhibit selective affinity to disparate nanotube types. According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor device exhibits a treated substrate that selectively interacts (e.g., chemically) with nanotubes of a first type, relative to nanotubes of a second type, the respective types including semiconducting-type and metallic-type nanotubes. The selective interaction is used to set device configuration characteristics based upon the nanotube type. This selective-interaction approach can be used to set the type, and/or characteristics of nanotubes in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492829 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238457 | Dasgupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soura Dasgupta (Coralville, Iowa); Manish Vemulapalli (Iowa City, Iowa); Ashish Pandharipande (Suwon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method and system for determining the number of bits to assign to a frequency range in a signal. The present invention is capable of bit allocation, with B total bits, among a plurality of N frequency ranges in time a time O(N log N), which is independent of the size of B. Embodiments of the present invention have many practical applications, including allocating bits among sub-channels in a multi-carrier communication system, and allocating bits among sub-bands in a signal representing digital multimedia, such as in JPEG or MPEG compressed files. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423229 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238702 | Flammer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. David Flammer (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hybrid dielectric/SPP waveguide that can form either a single mode, single polarization waveguide, or a multi-mode waveguide. When multi-mode, this invention effectively transfers energy back and forth between the dielectric waveguide and metal surface. This improves on standard SPP modes, yielding longer range propagation along with high intensity near the metal surface at decisive locations. When single-mode, this hybrid waveguide allows for control of propagation and confinement for applications such as telecommunications optics integrated on silicon microchips. Gratings may be patterned in the metal for coupling light into and out of the modes or for use as mirrors in the mode. For areas where very long ranges are required, a metal grating may be used to couple light into the mode, but then the metal may be removed in other regions and make the range of the mode virtually infinite (limited by surface roughness). |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455710 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239633 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Wood (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark D. Hill (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael M. Swift (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael R. Marty (Madison, Wisconsin); Luke Yen (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Kevin E. Moore (Mill Valley, California); Jayaram Bobba (Madison, Wisconsin); Haris Volos (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A coherence controller in hardware of an apparatus in an example detects conflicts on coherence requests through direct, non-broadcast employment of signatures that: summarize read-sets and write-sets of memory transactions; and provide false positives but no false negatives for the conflicts on the coherence requests. The signatures comprise fixed-size representations of a substantially arbitrary set of addresses for the read-sets and the write-sets of the memory transactions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/217811 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239706 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing K. Yang (Saunderstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed of maintaining data. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of data storage mediums, each comprising a parity bit that provides an indication of the parity of the data in each respective data storage medium, at least one of the data storage mediums providing an exclusive OR function of a parity output bit of the at least one of the plurality of data storage mediums; encoding data provided by the exclusive OR functionality of the parity output bit to provide encoded data; time stamping the encoded data with a time stamp circuit that is coupled to the encoded data to provide time stamped encoded data; and providing the time stamped encoded data to a time-retrieval data storage medium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763591 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/6.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08234835 | Dye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quest Product Development Corporation (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Dye (Morrison, Colorado); Gary L. Mills (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A multilayer insulation with an array of posts is provided. In particular, the posts are comprised of multiple post or support elements that are interconnected to radiation shields or sheets comprising the layers of the integrated multi-layer insulation (IMLI) structure. The support elements maintain spacing between adjacent sheets, thus maintaining a volume between the sheets. The support elements can each feature a plurality of support arms. The support elements can each additionally include a support beam that defines a minimum spacing between sheets when the IMLI structure is under a compressive load. Neighboring support elements can be interconnected to one another by beams. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493852 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/783.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08234950 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Min Shen (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Robert M. Kovac (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Designs of single-end-operative reconfigurable genderless connectors that include a base, a plurality of movable jaws that are formed on the base and can engage to the jaws of another connector, and an actuator that is mounted on the base and can engage and move the jaws of the reconfigurable connector to connect the reconfigurable connector with another connector. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/368292 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/490.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235309 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tian-Bing Xu (Hampton, Virginia); Xiaoning Jiang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ji Su (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a high performance, horizontal, zero-net mass-flux, synthetic jet actuator for active control of viscous, separated flow on subsonic and supersonic vehicles. The present invention is a horizontal piezoelectric hybrid zero-net mass-flux actuator, in which all the walls of the chamber are electrically controlled synergistically to reduce or enlarge the volume of the synthetic jet actuator chamber in three dimensions simultaneously and to reduce or enlarge the diameter of orifice of the synthetic jet actuator simultaneously with the reduction or enlargement of the volume of the chamber. The present invention is capable of installation in the wing surface as well as embedding in the wetted surfaces of a supersonic inlet. The jet velocity and mass flow rate for the SJA-H will be several times higher than conventional piezoelectric actuators. |
| FILED | Sunday, January 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355782 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/102.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235577 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for coating particulate material are provided. The apparatus includes a vessel having a top and a bottom, a vertically extending conduit having an inlet in the vessel and an outlet outside of the vessel, a first fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a transfer fluid, a second fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a coating fluid, and a fluid outlet from the vessel. The method includes steps of agitating a material, contacting the material with a coating material, and drying the coating material to produce a coated material. The invention may be adapted to coat aerogel beads, among other materials. A coated aerogel bead and an aerogel-based insulation material are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940118 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08235910 | Parlikar et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramakrisna Mukkamala (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and systems for estimating cardiac ejection fraction, cardiac contractility, and ventricular end-diastolic volume on a beat-by-beat basis include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine ventricular compliances for a pressure-volume loop in the ventricle. Uncalibrated or calibrated cardiac ejection fraction may be calculated from estimates of stroke volume and the ventricular compliances. Cardiac contractility may be calculated from estimates of a ventricular compliance. Uncalibrated or calibrated ventricular end-diastolic volume may also be calculated from estimates of stroke volume and the ventricular compliances. A set of calibration parameters for calibrating cardiac ejection fraction or ventricular end-diastolic volume may be estimated in a least-squares manner. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/121878 |
| 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 | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236413 | Rivers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Kevin Rivers (Hampton, Virginia); Stephen J. Scotti (Grafton, Virginia); Lynn M. Bowman (Chesapeake, Virginia); Max L. Blosser (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination structural support and thermal protection system is provided. A cured preceramic polymer matrix reinforced with carbon fibers can be used alone or in a multiple component system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166852 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/297.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236491 | Silberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Silberg (Houston, Texas); Peter Q. Nguyen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A protein fragment complementation assay for thermophiles is provided wherein a thermophilic bacteria having a temperature-sensitive adenylate kinase is transformed with one or more vectors having sequences encoding a first test peptide operatively fused to a first portion of a thermostable adenylate and a second test peptide operatively fused to a second portion of the thermostable adenylate kinase. Association of the first and second test peptides allows association of the first and second portions of the thermostable adenylate kinase and growth of the thermophilic bacteria at a temperature greater than 70° C. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889157 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239746 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Samuel J. Dolinar, Jr. (Sunland, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital communication coding methods are shown, which generate certain types of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes built from protographs. A first method creates protographs having the linear minimum distance property and comprising at least one variable node with degree less than 3. A second method creates families of protographs of different rates, all structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of certain variable nodes as transmitted or non-transmitted. A third method creates families of protographs of different rates, all structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of the status of certain variable nodes as non-transmitted or set to zero. LDPC codes built from the protographs created by these methods can simultaneously have low error floors and low iterative decoding thresholds. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/341648 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08236102 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solid State Scientific Corporation (Hollis, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Buguo Wang (Burlington, Massachusetts); David F. Bliss (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael J. Callahan (Hanson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of hydrothermally synthesizing sapphire single crystals doped with trivalent metal ions in a crystal-growth autoclave including a crystal-growth zone and nutrient-dissolution zone in fluid communication with the crystal-growth zone is provided. Implementations of the method including situating within the crystal-growth zone at least one sapphire-based seed crystal and situating within the nutrient-dissolution zone an aluminum-containing material to serve as nutrient. An acidic, trivalent-metal-ion-containing growth solution is introduced into the cavity in a quantity sufficient, at least when heated to a predetermined average temperature, to immerse the at least one seed crystal and the nutrient in the growth solution. The growth solution is selected such that sapphire exhibits retrograde solubility therein and the growth process is carried out while maintaining an interior-cavity pressure within a range between and including each of 3.5 kilopounds per square inch and 25 kilopounds per square inch and while maintaining a temperature differential between the crystal-growth and nutrient-dissolution zones such that the average temperature within the crystal-growth zone is higher than the average temperature within the nutrient-dissolution zone. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321763 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08237155 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotube electronic devices exhibit selective affinity to disparate nanotube types. According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor device exhibits a treated substrate that selectively interacts (e.g., chemically) with nanotubes of a first type, relative to nanotubes of a second type, the respective types including semiconducting-type and metallic-type nanotubes. The selective interaction is used to set device configuration characteristics based upon the nanotube type. This selective-interaction approach can be used to set the type, and/or characteristics of nanotubes in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492829 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238467 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/491033 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238470 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090507 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Bachmann (Cleveland, Ohio); Ronald Triolo (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Arkady Polinkovsky (Cleveland, Ohio); Nicole Kern (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Roger D. Quinn (Akron, Ohio); Rudolf Kobetic (Rocky River, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An orthotic brace (30) for a joint includes a bracing device (40) having first and second portions (42, 44) movable relative to one another and a mechanism (100) for placing the bracing device (40) in a first condition in which the first portion (42) has a first resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44) and a second condition in which the first portion (42) has a second, different resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44). The mechanism (100) is capable of placing the bracing device (40) in a third condition in which the first portion (42) has a third resistance to movement relative to the second portion (44) that is between the first and second resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761945 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236500 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry Leonard (Denver, Colorado); Robert Freedman (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions related to α7 acetylcholine nicotinic receptor genes, in particular, the human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene. The human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene is associated with the pathophysiological aspects of the disease schizophrenia. The present invention further provides methods and compositions to screen populations for abnormal α7 alleles, as well as methods and compositions for development of therapeutics. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474402 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08239342 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method providing on-demand extension of ontology in an ontology use process. A support module responds to a creation event in the ontology use process. The support module defines ontology specification for a newly created item, in the creation event, in a manner substantially free of disruption or interruption to the ontology use process. An ontology manager incorporates the defined ontology specification into the ontology during the ontology use process such that an on-demand extension of the ontology results. One example ontology use process is semantic modeling of situations, organizations, or objects of interest. Modeling and ontology specification take place hand in hand, and the ontology is extended on an as-needed and on-demand fashion during the course of modeling. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867890 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08239704 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Scott (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin); Aaron F. Godfrey (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of maintaining a global clock within a multiprocessor system having a plurality of nodes that are connected in a network via links. A virtual spanning tree is mapped onto the network and the nodes and the links are configured such that each node is in a parent-child relationship with one or more other nodes in the virtual spanning tree. A global clock is generated in a root of the virtual spanning tree and global clock signals are communicated down the virtual spanning tree to each of the nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483886 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08235577 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for coating particulate material are provided. The apparatus includes a vessel having a top and a bottom, a vertically extending conduit having an inlet in the vessel and an outlet outside of the vessel, a first fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a transfer fluid, a second fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a coating fluid, and a fluid outlet from the vessel. The method includes steps of agitating a material, contacting the material with a coating material, and drying the coating material to produce a coated material. The invention may be adapted to coat aerogel beads, among other materials. A coated aerogel bead and an aerogel-based insulation material are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940118 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236599 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon); Wei Wang (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed embodiments provide a solution-based process for producing useful materials, such as semiconductor materials. One disclosed embodiment comprises providing at least a first reactant and a second reactant in solution and applying the solution to a substrate. The as-deposited material is thermally annealed to form desired compounds. Thermal annealing may be conducted under vacuum; under an inert atmosphere; or under a reducing environment. The method may involve using metal and chalcogen precursor compounds. One example of a metal precursor compound is a metal halide. Examples of suitable chalcogen precursor compounds include a chalcogen powder, a chalcogen halide, a chalcogen oxide, a chalcogen urea, a chalcogen or dichalcogen comprising organic ligands, or combinations thereof. Certain disclosed embodiments concern a method for making a solar cell from I-III-VI semiconductors. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798755 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08236929 | Cheryan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Munir Cheryan (Urbana, Illinois); Aniket V. Kale (Champaign, Illinois); Fangyi Zhu (Urbana, Illinois); Philip L. Shane (Hudson, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for obtaining zein and/or xanthophylls in highly pure form. Zein is first extracted from corn using aqueous ethanol. Suspended corn solids are separated, and the resulting extract is purified in a single size-exclusion chromatography step to separate impurities and produce substantially purified zein. The chromatography step may simultaneously produce substantially purified xanthophylls. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/990471 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08236480 | Locascio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commere, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie E. Locascio (North Potomac, Maryland); Francisco Javier Atencia-Fernandez (Bethesda, Maryland); Susan Barnes (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jack F. Douglas (Poolesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for microfabrication of a microfluidic device having sub-millimeter three dimensional relief structures is disclosed. In this method, homogeneous surfaces, which do not exhibit apparent pixel geometry, emerge from the interaction of the overlapping of diffracted light under opaque pixels and the nonlinear polymerization properties of the photoresist material. The method requires a single photolithographic step and allows for the fabrication of microstructures over large areas (centimeters) with topographic modulation of features smaller than 100 micrometers. The method generates topography that is useful in a broad range of microfluidic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127352 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08235577 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for coating particulate material are provided. The apparatus includes a vessel having a top and a bottom, a vertically extending conduit having an inlet in the vessel and an outlet outside of the vessel, a first fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a transfer fluid, a second fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel for introducing a coating fluid, and a fluid outlet from the vessel. The method includes steps of agitating a material, contacting the material with a coating material, and drying the coating material to produce a coated material. The invention may be adapted to coat aerogel beads, among other materials. A coated aerogel bead and an aerogel-based insulation material are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940118 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08238638 | Mueller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri); Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Richmond, Virginia); Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio); Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Lee Mueller (Kansas City, Missouri); Thomas Edwin Schaadt (Westerville, Ohio); Benjamin T. Breeden, Jr. (Eldersburg, Maryland); V. Srinivas Nori (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficiently assessing the quality of an electronic check image by determining whether the check image is suitable for image quality analysis prior to performing the image quality analysis. A check processing module of a check processor can determine whether the check image is suitable for image quality analysis by validating certain tags in the image. For example, such validation can include determining whether the check image includes certain mandatory tags and whether any optional tags present in the image are valid. The check processing module can determine that the check image is not suitable for image quality analysis if it does not include the mandatory tags or if it includes any invalid optional tags. The check processing module can assign a failure value to any check image that is not suitable for image quality analysis. The failure value can indicate a reason for the unsuitability of the check image. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012079 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 08239836 | Franz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Franz (Irvine, California); Andreas Gal (Irvine, California); Babak Salamat (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, computer program products, apparatus and systems for controlling operation of a program code in a digital processor, a computer or a computer system, including techniques for generating program variants, monitoring execution of a program and variants of the program, and detecting functional differences between the multiple executions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075127 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08235324 | Birch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Birch (Paineville, Ohio); Zak Sowle (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A helicopter uses multiple redundant harmonic drive motors on the rotor head to actuate the angle of attack of rotor blades at the rotor blade roots, providing collective control that, in combination with a system for providing cyclic control on the rotor blades, eliminates the need for a swashplate, thereby advantageously reducing the weight and maintenance cost of the helicopter, increasing its reliability, and reducing its vulnerability to ballistic attack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715927 |
| 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 244/17.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08236284 | Perez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida); Santimukul Santra (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nanoparticles having a metallic core consisting essentially of superparamagnetic iron oxide; a polymeric coat surrounding said core, the coat having a matrix of polyacrylic acid and forming an outer periphery of said nanoparticle; a plurality of hydrophobic pockets formed by the polymeric coat; a plurality of carboxylic groups along an outer periphery of the polymeric coat and effective to conjugate with a predetermined targeting ligand which functionalizes the nanoparticle; a lipophylic fluorescent dye encapsulated in the plurality of hydrophobic pockets; and a drug encapsulated in the plurality of hydrophobic pockets. Associated methods of making the nanoparticles and of treatments using the nanoparticles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416993 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08236493 | Lockhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Lockhart (Del Mar, California); Mark S. Chee (Del Mar, California); Martin Digglemann (Nierdedorf, Switzerland); Dirk Vetter (Weimar-Gaberndorf, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for discriminating between fully complementary hybrids and those that differ by one or more base pairs and libraries of unimolecular, double-stranded oligonucleotides on a solid support. In one embodiment, the present invention provides methods of using nuclease treatment to improve the quality of hybridization signals on high density oligonucleotide arrays. In another embodiment, the present invention provides methods of using ligation reactions to improve the quality of hybridization signals on high density oligonucleotide arrays. In yet another embodiment, the present invention provides libraries of unimolecular or intermolecular, double-stranded oligonucleotides on a solid support. These libraries are useful in pharmaceutical discovery for the screening of numerous biological samples for specific interactions between the double-stranded oligonucleotides, and peptides, proteins, drugs and RNA. In a related aspect, the present invention provides libraries of conformationally restricted probes on a solid support. The probes are restricted in their movement and flexibility using double-stranded oligonucleotides as scaffolding. The probes are also useful in various screening procedures associated with drug discovery and diagnosis. The present invention further provides methods for the preparation and screening of the above libraries. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187503 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08238346 | Howe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne R. Howe (Irvine, California); Muhammad Akber Qureshi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A node in a mobile ad-hoc network or other network classifies packets (a) in accordance with a first set of priority levels based on urgency and (b) within each priority level of the first set, in accordance with a second set of priority levels based on importance. The node: (a) queues packets classified at highest priority levels of the first and/or second sets in high-priority output queues; (b) queues packets classified at medium priority levels of the first set in medium-priority output queue(s); and (3) queues packets classified at low priority levels of the first and/or second set in low-priority output queue(s). Using an output priority scheduler, the node serves the packets in order of the priorities of the output queues. In such manner, orthogonal aspects of DiffServ and MLPP can be resolved in a MANET or other network. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500049 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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