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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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| US 08240052 | Waits 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) | Christopher Michael Waits (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bruce Robert Geil (Baltimore, Maryland); Nicholas Robert Jankowski (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for forming an integrated multiplex electrospray includes forming multiple holes in a ring extractor substrate to create a ring extractor. A nozzle array having multiple nozzles each nozzle defining a central axis is provided. A spacer layer is bonded to either the ring extractor or the nozzle array to form a bonded stack. The bonded stack is then aligned with remaining layer to align each of the multiple nozzles with one of the plurality of holes to less than 10 microns from concentric and the spacer layer then bonded intermediate between the ring extractor and the nozzle array layer. The spacer layer is then etched to provide fluid communication between multiple nozzles and the multiple holes of the ring extractor and form the spacer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199032 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/890.143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240121 | Hazzard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Hazzard (Windsor, Connecticut); Joel H. Wagner (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Edward M. Henrahan (South Windsor, Connecticut); Ryan Shepard Levy (Middletown, Connecticut); Takao Fukuda (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Eric A. Grover (Tolland, Connecticut); Paul Smith (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A dirt separator may be retrofit into existing gas turbine engines since it is formed of circumferentially separate pieces which may be assembled together in the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942962 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240189 | Myrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Myrick (Irmo, South Carolina); David L. Perkins (Irmo, South Carolina); Ryan J. Priore (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using photoacoustic spectroscopy to determine chemical information about an analyte includes the steps of emitting a light ray for interaction with a sample of an analyte; transmitting the light ray through a fill fluid disposed in a detection cell, the fill fluid having molecules substantially similar to molecules of the analyte to absorb the light ray; producing a thermal wave and oscillation in the fill fluid proportional to an intensity of the light ray; including a pressure oscillation in the fill fluid by the thermal wave; and detecting the pressure oscillation by a microphone to determine information about the analyte sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576359 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240215 | Holt et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Glynn Holt (Natick, Massachusetts); Todd William Murray (Golden, Colorado); Jonathan Robert Sukovich (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for measuring pressure of a material directs one or more laser beams at the material (e.g., a pressurized fluid) to create a distribution of electromagnetic field intensity which varies over an intensity range and induces dielectric breakdown in the material. An emission pattern of broadband light from the dielectric breakdown is detected, and a value of a characteristic of the emission pattern (e.g., location of a threshold intensity or of a peak intensity) is processed (e.g., by a computer or similar electronic processor) to generate a pressure measurement signal representing a pressure of the material. Processing typically employs a pre-established calibration function which associates a set of stored values of the characteristic with corresponding known pressures of the material, obtained for example by preceding similar measurements of the same material under conditions of known pressures. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781262 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240336 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve apparatus includes a substrate, a main flow channel formed in the substrate, a control channel formed in the substrate such that the main flow channel and the control channel meet at a junction, a bi-phase material within the control channel, a heating element adjacent the control channel and the junction, the heating element being controllable to generate sufficient energy to cause the bi-phase material to transition from a solid phase to a liquid phase, and a pumping mechanism for forcing the bi-phase material either into or out of the junction when the bi-phase material is in the liquid phase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759493 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240520 | Scheid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); Larry Boivin (Fayetteville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for extruding viscous materials is provided. A dispenser comprises a control mechanism(s), a material containing structure and ports adapted to be coupled to a portable high-pressure gas source. A user controls a flow of the high-pressure gas with a control mechanism such as a trigger. The gas moves a piston inside the material containing structure and displaces viscous materials, such as an explosive, out of the structure through an output port or an output port coupled to a nozzle. A transparent materials tube may be provided to facilitate visual monitoring of the material flow. Localized and system wide pressure is controlled by structural design, material application on a structural component or control mechanisms to mitigate or eliminate a possibility of unintended effects from extrusion of the material including explosion due to overly high pressures between components of the extruder system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061228 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing 222/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240597 | Entsminger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Entsminger (Blacksburg, Virginia); Bruce Dan Bouldin (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A ducted fan air-vehicle having a duct lip shape is described. The duct lip has an internal duct lip portion and an external duct lip portion, both of which are substantially curvature continuous around the circumference of the air duct. The duct has a plurality of cross-sections along its circumference and at least some of the plurality of cross-sections have a different shape. Further, each cross-section around the circumference of the duct has an a/b ratio and the a/b ratio for each cross-section is substantially the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187172 |
| 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 244/23.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240602 | Lloyd 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) | Jeffrey M. Lloyd (San Diego, California); Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, California); Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California); Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California); Rosteslaw M. Husar (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lighter than air (LTA) balloon and payload for the LTA balloon are stored on or in an underwater launcher. The launcher provides a source for a supply of a lighter than air gas, which is operatively connected to the LTA balloon until release. On deployment, the lighter than air gas is generated. The LTA balloon is deployed by activating the launcher to fill the LTA balloon and then releases the LTA balloon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835435 |
| 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 244/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240613 | Ritter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | First and second portions of a docking system are releasably connected with one another using at least one latch mechanism that can be reusably released either from the first portion of the docking system or from the second portion of the docking system. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409468 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240648 | Pluymers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Pluymers (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Khanh Nguyen (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An arrangement for clamping a flat plate to a flat surface includes juxtaposing the plate to the flat surface. An axially-movable wedging element defining a surface fitted with wedges is fixed against motion in other than a direction of elongation, and is forced to move in the direction of elongation. The wedges are forced against a first spring beam to impart forces thereto. The forces are coupled from the first spring beam to a second spring beam by intermediary supports. The second spring beam bears against a surface of the flat plate to force the plate against the flat surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892321 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Work holders 269/254.CS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240981 | Spangler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Corneil S. Paauwe (Manchester, Connecticut); Christopher J. Lehane (South Windsor, Connecticut); Anita L. Tracy (Middletown, Connecticut); John D. Wiedemer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Scott D. Hjelm (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Convective cooling of gas turbine engine airfoil platforms is enhanced by grooving the interface of the platforms with corresponding platform-to-platform seals, thereby accelerating cooling airflow over the platform surfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982578 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240987 | Spangler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Jeffrey S. Beattie (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems involving baffle assemblies are provided. In this regard, a representative baffle assembly for a gas turbine engine includes: a cooling plenum defining a cooling air path; and a baffle sized and shaped to extend between surfaces of the cooling plenum such that a cooling air path of reduced cross-section is formed between the baffle and the surfaces, the baffle being operative to increase a flow rate of cooling air as the cooling air directed to the cooling air path is redirected through the cooling air path of reduced cross-section. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192362 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241476 | Malik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdul Malik (Tampa, Florida); Wen Li (Tampa, Florida); David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel on-line method is presented for the extraction and preconcentration of amino acids using a sol-gel coated column coupled to a conventional UV/vis detector. Extraction, stacking and focusing techniques are used in the preconcentration procedures. Sol-gel coatings are created by using N-Octadecyldimethyl[3(trimethoxysilyl)proply]ammonium chloride (C18-TMS) in the coating sol solutions. The resulting sol-gel coating carries a positive charge. For extraction, the pH of the samples is properly adjusted to impart a net negative charge to amino acids. A long plug of the sample is then passed through the sol-gel coated capillary to facilitate extraction via electrostatic interaction between the positively charged sol-gel coating and the negatively charged amino acid molecules. The focusing of the extracted amino acids is accomplished through desorption of the extracted amino acid molecules carried out by local pH change. The described procedure provides 150,000-fold enrichment effect for alanine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120380 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241517 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Fuchs (Reno, Nevada); Faramarz Gordaninejad (Reno, Nevada); Hatice Gecol (Reno, Nevada); Ben Hu (Reno, Nevada); Beril Kavlicoglu (Reno, Nevada); Joko Sutrisno (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetorheological materials having a supramolecular polymer gel as a component of the carrier are disclosed. Useful supramolecular polymers for gels include those having bipyridine or terpyridine ligands which can participate in metal coordination bonding. The magnetizable particles of magnetorheological materials can have supramolecular surfactant-polymer coatings. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015222 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241519 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, Pennsylvania); Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Luo (State College, Pennsylvania); Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Shujun Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard J. Meyer, Jr. (State College, Pennsylvania); Thomas R. Shrout (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania); Nevin P. Sherlock (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A <110> domain engineered relaxor-PT single crystals having a dielectric loss of about 0.2%, a high electromechanical coupling factor greater than about 85%, and high mechanical quality factor greater than about 500 is disclosed. In one embodiment, the relaxor-PT material has the general formula, Pb(B1B2)O3—Pb(B3)O3, where B1 may be one ion or combination of Mg2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, Sc3+, In3+, Yb3+, B2 may be one ion or combination of Nb5+, Ta5+, W6+, and B3 may be Ti4+ or combination of Ti4+ with Zr4+ and/or Hf4+. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724832 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.9PZ |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241547 | Scherer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for adhering two layers of materials is described. An additional layer of material deposited on one of the layers is used. The additional layer of material is perforated and undercut by etching away one of the layers thereby generating anchor shaped holes. The other layer is then deposited on the additional layer filling the anchor shaped holes therefore, providing adhesion. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572036 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241637 | Reisfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph A. Reisfeld (LaJolla, California); Andreas G. Niethammer (Heidelberg, Germany); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting endothelial cell proliferation in a mammal is provided. The method comprises the step of administering to the mammal an effective immunological response eliciting amount of a DNA composition comprising a DNA construct operably encoding a VEGF receptor polypeptide and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor, whereby said mammal exhibits an immune response elicited by vaccine and specific to proliferating endothelial cells. The methods of this invention inhibit vascular endothelial cell proliferation in the tumor micro-environment. Angiogenesis inhibition and subsequent decrease in tumor growth and dissemination is achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/280855 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241638 | Simmons 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) | Monika Simmons (Germantown, Maryland); Kevin R. Porter (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for the induction of an immune response to dengue virus. The method of inducing an immune response against dengue virus comprises administration of a non-replicating immunogen followed by a boost with a tetravalent live attenuated viral vaccine. Another aspect of the inventive subject matter is a method of inducing an immune response against dengue virus using a heterologous prime-boost regimen with the priming immunogen comprising a DNA expression system, an adenovirus expression vector or a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon system and the boosting immunogen comprising the same without the DNA expression system. Each expression system contains DNA sequences encoding dengue viral proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982488 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241995 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuan-Neng Chen (White Plains, New York); Bruce K. Furman (Poughquag, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Yorktown Heights, New York); David L. Rath (Stormville, New York); Anna W. Topol (Wappingers Falls, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Bonding of substrates including metal-dielectric patterns on a surface with the metal raised above the dielectric is disclosed. One method includes providing a first substrate having a metal-dielectric pattern on a surface thereof; providing a second substrate having a metal-dielectric pattern on a surface thereof; performing a process resulting in the metal being raised above the dielectric; cleaning the metal; and bonding the first substrate to the second substrate. A related structure is also disclosed. The bonding of raised metal provides a strong bonding medium, and good electrical and thermal connections enabling creation of three dimensional integrated structures with enhanced functionality. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532599 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242003 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darin Leonhardt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide methods of forming semiconductor devices, by which defects formed upon nucleation and coalescence of semiconductor islands can be reduced or eliminated. In one embodiment, an annealing process can be performed prior to coalescence of the semiconductor islands into a continuous semiconductor layer. In another embodiment, high-quality Group III-V materials can be formed on the continuous semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/087240 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242165 | Dash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alekha K. Dash (Omaha, Nebraska); William J. Trickler (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition which includes nanoparticles. The nanoparticles include a glyceryl monooleate or monolinoleate (or other mono fatty acid ester); a chitosan; and a cancer therapeutic agent, such as gemcitabine, taxanes, and hydrophobic cancer therapeutic agents). Also disclosed are methods for preparing such nanoparticles and pharmaceutical compositions, as well as methods for treating breast, pancreatic, colon, prostate, and other cancers by parenterally, intravenously, or otherwise administering such nanoparticles and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311479 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242319 | Harvey 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) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California); Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process from converting alcohol feedstock to diesel/turbine fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/095201 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242423 | Geswender et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris E. Geswender (Green Valley, Arizona); Matthew W. Cribb (Tucson, Arizona); Clyde R. Hanson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A missile has a pair of systems to provide acceleration information during flight. The primary system is a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial measurement unit (IMU) that provides accurate rate sensor output, such as providing pitch and yaw rates, at low cost, over a wide range of conditions. However MEMS IMUs are susceptible to temporary incorrect responses when subjected to shocks, such as acoustic-range shocks, for instance in the range of 10-20 kHz. The missile includes a secondary system to temporarily provide acceleration data during the periods following shocks, when the MEMS IMU does not provide valid (reliable or usable) rate sensor output, for use in estimating pseudo pitch and yaw rates. The secondary system may be an accelerometer that does not provide navigation-quality acceleration data, but does provide a sufficiently accurate response in order to maintain stable flight during the post-shock period. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476486 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242427 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Digital Fusion, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dane J. Phillips (Athens, Alabama); Michael W. Jones (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of the present disclosure has an optical element having a plurality of contiguous lenses, a detecting device having a plurality of light-sensitive pixels, the optical element having a lens in the plurality of lenses associated with each of the plurality of light-sensitive pixels, and intermediate imaging optics for receiving light indicative of an image and focusing the light onto the plurality of contiguous lenses such that the image is divided on each of the associated light-sensitive pixels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190447 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242428 | Meyers 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) | Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith Scott Deacon (Coumbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for at least three dimensional imaging comprising a processor for processing information; at least one photon light source generating a beam of light; a modulator for modulating the light of the at least one photon light source; a plurality of first receivers operative to detect the influence of a subject on the beam; the plurality of first receivers being operatively connected to the processor and operating to transmit nonspatial information to the processor; the plurality of first receivers being spaced at known, different distances from the subject, whereby comparison of each of the outputs of the plurality of first receivers provides three dimensional information concerning the subject; the processor operating to correlate the outputs of the plurality of first receivers with spatial information derived from the modulated light at correlating intervals of time to create a three dimensional image of the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819602 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242429 | Sarpeshkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts); Maziar Tavakoli Dastjerdi (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy-efficient photoreceptor apparatus and a transimpedance amplifier apparatus having high energy-efficiency and low power consumption of which are achieved through multiple distributed gain amplification stages, adaptive loop gain control circuitry and unilateralization, thereby enabling fast and precise performance over a wide range of input-current levels. The high-energy efficiency, robust feedback stability and performance of the present invention can be utilized to achieve sub-milliwatt pulse oximeters and may be employed in other current-to-voltage amplification and conversion applications. The use of analog processing on the outputs of the photoreceptor apparatus also helps lower the overall power of pulse oximeters. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903571 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242623 | Lucero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Lucero (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel Ross Collette (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Axtman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural ring interconnect printed circuit board assembly for a ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle that comprises a printed circuit board attached to a core vehicle body, wherein the printed circuit board conforms to the shape of the core vehicle body's airframe skirt, and wherein the printed circuit board provides structural integrity to the core vehicle body. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270196 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242626 | Tonn |
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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) | David A. Tonn (Charlestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A remote power delivery system includes an electrically-conductive plate disposed adjacent to a sensor system of an underwater vehicle's hull. At least one toroidal coil is disposed between the plate and the face of the sensor system exposed to water. An AC voltage is applied to the plate so that a time-harmonic voltage is induced in each toroidal coil. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781187 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242818 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen H. Kim (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Matthew D. Cross (Bedford, Massachusetts); Merlin R. Green (Salem, Massachusetts); Daniel D. Santiago (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a frequency synthesizer having a wide output frequency range and small frequency tuning steps. In-band spurious components are maintained at low levels and phase noise is significantly reduced. The frequency synthesizer can be fabricated as an integrated circuit device having a small area and low power dissipation. The frequency synthesizer can be used in wideband frequency systems to reduce cost and size by replacing multiple frequency synthesizers each devoted to a portion of the overall system frequency range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645434 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242851 | Youngner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Son T. Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to construct a chip-scale atomic clock is provided. The method comprises providing a scaffolding for components in a chip-scale atomic clock. The components include a laser and at least one other component. The method also includes operationally positioning the components on the scaffolding so that an emitting surface of the laser is non-parallel to partially reflective surfaces of the at least one other component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887259 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242952 | Barr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Allan Barr (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented is a system and method for eliminating spurious data in radar cross section (RCS) data. The system and method receives RCS data, and determines an expected number of scattering centers for an object of interest in said RCS data. The RCS data is processed to remove a plurality of frequency components in said RCS data based at least in part upon said expected number of scattering centers, and the RCS data is reconstructed without said plurality of frequency components to produce a reconstructed RCS data for the object of interest. In an embodiment, the TLS-Prony transform is used to transform the RCS data into a set of damped frequency components and coefficients, which are then constrained to the expected number of scattering centers in the known object using a TLS-Prong linear prediction order, and the order of the frequency components is varied until the order yields a least-error approximation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/694721 |
| 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 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243098 | Benito et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mitre Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Patrick Benito (Tampa, Florida); Brian Michael Shade (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Stephen Kwokwai Lau (Marlboro, New Jersey); George Vinansky, Jr. (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Justin Matthew Gray (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Satish Dattatraya Paranjpe (Kendall Park, New Jersey); Marshall Wayne Huss (Riverview, Florida); Michael Dane Bonastia (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of rendering an authoritative image on a graphical display that is part of a critical system wherein image data is received from a source and the image data is stored in a storage module. The plurality of partial images are then generated from a subset of the image data, the partial images can include an indicator. The plurality of images are then combined to form the image, and the image is presented in a single graphical display. The image can then be evaluated by an operator for validity and correctness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485494 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/629 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243270 | Kuo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huei Pei Kuo (Cupertino, California); Michael J. Stuke (Palo Alto, California); Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Fung Suong Ou (Palo Alto, California); Shih-Yuan (SY) Wang (Palo Alto, California); Alexandre M. Bratkovski (Mountain View, California); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibrating tip surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) apparatus, system and method employ a nano-needle configured to vibrate. The apparatus includes the nano-needle with a substantially sharp tip at a free end opposite an end attached to a substrate. The tip is configured to adsorb an analyte. The apparatus further includes a vibration source configured to provide an alternating current (AC) electric field that induces a vibration of the free end and the tip of the nano-needle. Vibration of the nano-needle under the influence of the AC electric field facilitates detection of a Raman scattering signal from the analyte adsorbed on the nano-needle tip. The system further includes a synchronous detector configured to be gated cooperatively with the vibration of the nano-needle. The method includes inducing the vibration, illuminating the vibrating tip to produce a Raman signal, and detecting the Raman signal using the detector. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697156 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243353 | Gutin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Science Innovations, Inc. (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Gutin (Albany, New York); Xu-Ming Wang (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and related method for coded aperture sensing, comprising: passing at least one scene wavefront from a target scene through at least one original coded aperture mask onto a focal plane array, producing a diffracted projection of the target scene; and processing the diffracted projection into a representation of the target scene by correlating a function of the diffracted projection with a function of a known array pattern of the at least one original coded aperture mask and by using at least one reconstructing wavefront for holographic reconstructing. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418654 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243551 | Gendron 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) | Marlin L Gendron (Long Beach, Mississippi); Maura C Lohrenz (Marion, Massachusetts); Lancelot M Riedlinger (Lacombe, Louisiana); James A. Hammack (Long Beach, Mississippi); Charles B Martin (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based system and method for determining if a change detection sonar contact in change detection side scan sonar imagery matches a historical contact of the same geospatial location. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112103 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243779 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna Balachandran (Morganville, New Jersey); Joseph H Kang (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In a wireless communications system which hops from frequency to frequency, rather than hopping according to a fixed dwell interval and a pre-determined pseudo-random hop sequence, a quality-based frequency hopping methodology is defined in which a new frequency is hopped to when the channel quality on the current frequency degrades based on the measured value or values of one or more predetermined metrics that are associated with channel quality. When triggered to hop to a next frequency, the hop-to-frequency may be the next frequency in the pseudo-random hop sequence known to both the transmitter and receiver or, in order to improve the reliability of communications, may be determined based on channel quality measurements on different potential hop-to-frequencies. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118816 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243847 | 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 | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571582 |
| 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 08243991 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhodev Das (Princeton, New Jersey); Yi Tan (Bordentown, New Jersey); Ming-Yee Chiu (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Andrew Coppock (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Feng Han (Melville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting a target in imagery is disclosed. At least one image region exhibiting changes in at least intensity is detected from among at least a pair of aligned images. A distribution of changes in at least intensity inside the at least one image region is determined using an unsupervised learning method. The distribution of changes in at least intensity is used to identify pixels experiencing changes of interest. At least one target from the identified pixels is identified using a supervised learning method. The distribution of changes in at least intensity is a joint hue and intensity histogram when the pair of images pertain to color imagery. The distribution of changes in at least intensity is an intensity histogram when the pair of images pertain to grey-level imagery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486316 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244066 | Ives et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil A. Ives (Hawthorne, California); Chia-Hsin Suen (San Francisco, California); Martin S. Leung (Redondo Beach, California); Nicholas J. Marechal (Tarzana, California); Ivan Bekey (Annandale, Virginia); David C. Straw (Washington, District of Columbia); Maribeth Mason (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method determines the shape of a surface that preferably is a deployed space-based adaptive flexible membrane antenna, using patterned projections, image capturing, and membrane shape processing for producing membrane shape data describing the contour of the surface of the membrane with the membrane shape data then preferably used as inputs for a feedback control actuation system for deforming the membrane to a desired shaped so as to maintain the three-dimensional shape of the membrane in the desired shape. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077986 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244268 | Brown 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) | Christopher A. Brown (Bloomington, Indiana); Andrew Figg (Bloomfield, Indiana); John F. Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system and method provides data and voice communication from a base unit to a plurality of mobile command units and a plurality of remote units located at different locations across a geographical area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571315 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/452.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244455 | Case et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy John Case (Marriottsville, Maryland); John B. Mckitterick (Columbia, Maryland); Randy Black (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a position of a vehicle with respect to a terrain. The method comprises accumulating data received from at least one sensor device regarding the occupancy of a spatial region between the vehicle and a first geographic region of the terrain, generating an evidence grid that describes the occupancy of the spatial region, identifying the position of the first geographic region of the terrain based on the evidence grid and previously compiled reference data, and determining the position of the vehicle based on the position of the first geographic region of the terrain with respect to the previously compiled reference data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207097 |
| ART UNIT | 3625 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244458 | Blackburn |
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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 R. Blackburn (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quantifying a host vehicle's collision risk with a foreign object includes the steps of collecting and preserving a short-term history of range and azimuth data on the object and identifying leading edges of the foreign object. The leading edges are linked to previous detected leading edges in the short term history storage data to define a trajectory for the object, and to calculate range and azimuth velocities and accelerations of leading edges of the foreign object based on the leading edge trajectory. A collision risk P is then calculated for the foreign object using the range and azimuth velocities and accelerations according to a predetermined formula. If the collision risk P falls below a pre-set value, the methods of the present invention calculate an evasive maneuver for the host vehicle based on a vector sum of high risk leading edge risks and locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/145670 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244461 | Durrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Durrett (Austin, Texas); Keith D. Jamison (Austin, Texas); Mark A. Schulze (Austin, Texas); Daniel Shedd (N Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A display system for a parachutist is provided based on navigation data and calculations of locations where the parachutist should steer the parachute to increase likelihood of reaching a target. A two-dimensional representation of a navigation funnel is displayed. The display may increase situational awareness by use of color to indicate preferred positions in the navigation funnel. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367773 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244475 | Aguilar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Aguilar (Cary, North Carolina); Ming Qian (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The human neural response is coupled with computer pattern analysis for robust single-event detection of significant non-stationary brain responses triggered upon occurrence of a task-relevant stimulus. Classifier performance is enhanced fusing together the outputs of multiple different classifiers albeit multiple spatial classifiers to extract a temporal pattern as the brain response evolves, time and frequency-based spatio-temporal classifiers, and/or EEG and pupillary classifiers. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/965325 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244485 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069996 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244503 | Repperger 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) | Daniel W. Repperger (Dayton, Ohio); Rodney G. Roberts (Tallahassee, Florida); Corbin G. Koepke (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for determining the complexity of a system. The method includes creating a response matrix for the system, creating a contingency matrix, Cn, from the response matrix, and calculating the complexity of the system from the formula: Complexity=[α/det(CnTCn)]*Log2([(H(x)/H(y))]) wherein H(x) is the input information quantity, H(y) is the output information quantity, and α is a dimensionless system constant. The method also includes displaying the complexity of the system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900137 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244783 | Boersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany); Son Dao Trong (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A floating point processor unit includes a shift amount calculation circuit within a normalizer portion of the floating point unit, wherein the shift amount calculation circuit is utilized to compute the normalizer shift amount for a log estimate instruction that runs as a pipelinable instruction. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208439 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244932 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa D. Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anshul Sehgal (New York, New York); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for dynamically stabilizing a stream processing system. The method includes receiving at least one computing resource allocation target. The method further includes determining that an input data flow rate of at least one upstream processing element varies. The computing resource is dynamically allocated to the upstream processing element in response to the input rate of the upstream processing element varying. Data flow is dynamically controlled between the upstream processing element and at least one downstream processing element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536102 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08245004 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a set of architected registers within which the processor places state and other information to communicate with the asynchronous memory mover in order to initiate and control an AMM operation. The asynchronous memory mover performs an asynchronous memory move (AMM) operation in response to receiving a set of parameters within the architected registers, which parameters are associated with an AMM store instruction executed by the processor to initiates a move of data in virtual space before placing the information in the architected registers. The architected registers are processor architected registers, defined on a per thread basis by a compiler, or memory mapped architected registers allocated for communicating with the asynchronous memory mover during a bind and subsequent execution of an application. The architected registers are also utilized to store state information to enable a restore to a point before execution of the AMM operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024560 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08245105 | Dell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Dell (Colchester, Vermont); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas); Michael R. Trombley (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A hub device, memory system, and method for providing a cascade interconnect memory system with enhanced reliability. The hub device includes an interface to a high-speed bus for communicating with a memory controller. The memory controller and the hub device are included in a cascade interconnect memory system and the high-speed bus includes bit lanes and one or more clock lanes. The hub device also includes a bi-directional fault signal line in communication with the memory controller and readable by a service interface. The hub device also includes a fault isolation register (FIR) for storing information about failures detected at the hub device, the information including severity levels of the detected failures. In addition, the hub device includes error recovery logic for responding to a failure detected at the hub device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166235 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Altanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Wimer (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel E. Welcome (Morgantown, West Virginia); Christopher Warren (Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. McDowell (Fairmont, West Virginia); Ren G. Dong (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A handle assembly mounted to a dynamometer measuring device including a base mounted to an input location of the measuring device. A plurality of arms extend in a lineal direction from the base and are arranged in spaced and gap defining fashion. The arms deflect inward relative to one another upon being exerted by a compressing force and concurrent with outputting a signal through at least one strain gauge wire extending from an interior of each arm to the measuring device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/773420 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/379.30 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sonicom, Inc. (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas H. Keefe (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A test battery method and system (10, 100, 200, 225) for use in assessing auditory function (e.g., the screening or diagnosis of impairments, fitting of hearing aids, etc.) is provided which performs one or more auditory tests including, for example, an acoustic reflectance test. Such an acoustic reflectance test may be a reflectance tympanometry test that includes a feedback system to control (426) static pressure in the ear canal. Such acoustic reflectance tests may be used alone or in combination with one or more other auditory tests. Further, for example, such a battery of tests may include middle-ear muscle reflex tests in combination with one or more other auditory or hearing tests. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/885919 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241393 | Raghuraman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kannan Raghuraman (Columbia, Missouri); Kattesh K. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Kavita K. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Henry W. White (Columbia, Missouri); Cathy S. Cutler (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An example embodiment of a method for making gold nanoparticles includes steps of reacting a gold salt with a phosphino amino acid. Example phosphino amino acids include trimers, with a particular example being a trimeric amino acid conjugate containing one phosphino group. In an example method of the invention, the gold nanoparticles may be produced in timer periods of less than about 3 minutes, and at temperatures of less than about 30° C. Other methods of the invention are directed to methods for stabilizing gold nanoparticles, and to methods for making gold nanochains. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/219497 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241569 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadephia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Huidong Li (Marlton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to lead-free piezoelectric ceramic films and a method of making thereof. Specifically, the invention is directed to a method for fabricating lead-free piezoelectric free standing films having enhanced piezoelectric properties. The films may be used for a number of applications including incorporation in microelectronic devices such as energy harvesting devices and sensor technologies. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/741790 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241607 | Heaney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Heaney (Los Angeles, California); Hongxiang Hui (Los Angeles, California); Alan Waxman (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions, methods utilizing fructose and other monosaccharides for the diagnosis of cancer. Cancer cells have shown a higher level of fructose utilization as compared to glucose. Further, cancer cells have shown a preferential use of fructose for nucleic acid synthesis. The present invention takes advantage of these features and provides for fructose or fructose-based compositions for the diagnosis of cancer using imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/064496 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241622 | Englehardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Englehardt (Iowa City, Iowa); Ziying Yan (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides recombinant AAV vectors, at least one of which has heterologous terminal palindromic sequences, and methods of using those vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/837029 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241637 | Reisfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph A. Reisfeld (LaJolla, California); Andreas G. Niethammer (Heidelberg, Germany); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting endothelial cell proliferation in a mammal is provided. The method comprises the step of administering to the mammal an effective immunological response eliciting amount of a DNA composition comprising a DNA construct operably encoding a VEGF receptor polypeptide and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor, whereby said mammal exhibits an immune response elicited by vaccine and specific to proliferating endothelial cells. The methods of this invention inhibit vascular endothelial cell proliferation in the tumor micro-environment. Angiogenesis inhibition and subsequent decrease in tumor growth and dissemination is achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/280855 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241843 | Krishna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neel K. Krishna (Norfolk, Virginia); Kenji Cunnion (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for modulating the complement cascade by depleting the plasma of the functional activity of complement proteins and thereby reducing or eliminating complement-mediated cell lysis. The invention provides a method for the therapeutic use of coat proteins and derivatives thereof from the Astroviradae family of viruses in the treatment of complement-mediated cell lysis and peptide mediators of inflammation. The invention provides a method for the therapeutic use of coat proteins and derivatives thereof from the Astroviradae family of viruses in the treatment of complement-mediated diseases. Methods are described herein where complement cascade, triggered by either the classical or alternative complement pathways, is prevented from effecting cell lysis and inflammation due to inhibition or depletion of one or more complement components in the serum following administration of astrovirus coat proteins or derivatives. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304717 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241851 | Benkovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Benkovic (State College, Pennsylvania); Frank Salinas (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for replicating and amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence is described. A method of the invention involves the formation of a recombination intermediate without the prior denaturing of a nucleic acid duplex through the use of a recombination factor. The recombination intermediate is treated with a high fidelity polymerase to permit the replication and amplification of the target nucleic acid sequence. In preferred embodiments, the polymerase comprises a polymerase holoenzyme. In further preferred embodiments, the recombination factor is bacteriophage T4 UvsX protein or homologs from other species, and the polymerase holoenzyme comprises a polymerase enzyme, a clamp protein and a clamp loader protein, derived from viral, bacteriophage, prokaryotic, archaebacterial, or eukaryotic systems. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786002 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241853 | Lindstrom 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Lindstrom (Doraville, Georgia); Alexander Klimov (Atlanta, Georgia); Nancy Cox (Atlanta, Georgia); Lamorris Loftin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of detecting influenza, including differentiating between type and subtype are disclosed, for example to detect, type, and/or subtype an influenza infection. A sample suspected of containing a nucleic acid of an influenza virus, is screened for the presence or absence of that nucleic acid. The presence of the influenza virus nucleic acid indicates the presence of influenza virus. Determining whether the influenza virus nucleic acid is present in the sample can be accomplished by detecting hybridization between an influenza specific probe, influenza type specific probe, and/or subtype specific probe and an influenza nucleic acid. Probes and primers for the detection, typing and/or subtyping of influenza virus are also disclosed. Kits and arrays that contain the disclosed probes and/or primers also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191186 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241854 | Yin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Yin (Pasadena, California); Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to methods and compositions for triggering RNAi. Triggered RNAi is highly versatile because the silencing targets are independent of the detection targets. In some embodiments, methods of silencing or modulating the expression of a marker gene are provided. The methods generally comprise providing an initiator to a cell comprising a detection target and a silencing target gene, wherein the detection target is different from the silencing target gene, wherein binding of the detection target to the initiator initiates formation of an inactivator double-stranded RNA (inactivator dsRNA). The inactivator dsRNA can silence the silencing target gene to modulate the expression of a marker gene. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454743 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241860 | Ghosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents of Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Indraneel Ghosh (Tucson, Arizona); Cliff I. Stains (Melrose, Massachusetts); Jason R. Porter (Tucson, Arizona); Benjamin Jester (Tucson, Arizona); Jennifer Furman (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are rapid and sensitive cell-free assay methods for detecting and/or measuring specific bimolecular or higher order interactions via reassembly of a split monomeric reporter protein, and methods of detecting or identifying modulators of such interactions by the effect on the signal provided by the reassembled split reporter protein. This methodology is adaptable to protein-protein, protein-peptide, protein-nucleic acid, protein-methylated or nonmethylated nucleic acid and other small or large molecule ligands and binding proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290778 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241861 | Heinecke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Insilicos, LLC (Seattle, Washington); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Heinecke (Seattle, Washington); Tomas Vaisar (Bellevue, Washington); Bryan Prazen (Seattle, Washington); Erik Nilsson (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of screening a mammalian subject to determine if the subject is at risk to develop or is suffering from, cardiovascular disease. In one embodiment, the method comprises detecting a measurable feature of at least two biomarkers in an HDL subfraction, or in a complex containing apoA-I or apoA-II isolated from a biological sample obtained from the subject, wherein the at least two biomarkers are selected from the group consisting of apoA-I, apoA-II, apoB-100, Lp(a), apoC-I, and apoC-III, combinations or portions and/or derivatives thereof, and comparing the measurable features of the at least two biomarkers from the biological sample to a reference standard, wherein a difference in the measurable features of the at least two biomarkers from the biological sample and the reference standard is indicative of the presence or risk of cardiovascular disease in the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/499711 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241862 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sui Huang (Chicago, Illinois); Rajesh V. Kamath (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); David L. Spector (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Ann D. Thor (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Chen Wang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics, prognostics and predictions, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides perinucleolar compartments and their resident molecules as cancer markers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559634 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241863 | Pascual et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Pascual (San Diego, California); Christopher K. Glass (San Diego, California); Michael G. Rosenfeld (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of screening for a compound that regulate SUMOylation of the nuclear receptor proteins comprising contacting the compound of interest to the nuclear receptor protein, and detecting SUMOylation of the nuclear receptor protein, thereby screening for a compound that regulates SUMOylation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/886057 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241898 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wuyi Kong (San Jose, California); Shaowei Li (Mountain View, California); Peter Lorenz (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for the isolation, culture and use of highly regenerative somatic mammalian cells. The cells are very small, and have an undefined nuclear structure. The cells may be isolated from fetal or adult tissues, and are found in tissue including, without limitation, fetal dermal tissue, blood, and bone marrow. The cells are characterized as expressing one or more markers selected from E-cadherin, integrin β1, CXCR4, CD90 and CD34, and may be selected on the basis of such expression patterns. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316332 |
| 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 435/325 |
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| US 08242058 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeet Kalia (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and reagents for site-selective functionalization of peptides and proteins. The methods most generally involve the reaction of a thioester with hydrazine. Reagents include bifunctional reagents of formula: H2N—NH—CH2-M-L-FG and salts thereof where M is a single bond or a chemical group carrying a non-bonding electron pair, such as —C(O)NR′—, where R′ is H, or an alkyl or aryl group; L is an optional linker group as described above; and FG is a functional group having reactivity that is orthongonal to that of the hydrazine group. FG can, among others, be an azide, alkenyl, alkynyl, nitrile (—CN) or triazole group and is preferably an azide group (—N3). Methods and reagents can, for example, be combined with intein-mediated protein splicing to link proteins or fragments thereof to various chemical species or to a surface. Surface immobilization of proteins via the methods herein results in immobilized proteins which substantially retain biological activity and is thus useful for the generation of peptide or protein microarrays. Kits for functionalization and/or immobilization of peptides and proteins are provided as well as microarrays of peptides, proteins or both. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781838 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242080 | Kuriyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kuriyan (Berkeley, California); Xuewu Zhang (Berkeley, California); Philip Cole (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the modulation of EGFR activity. In particular, inhibition of EGFR activation through an allosteric mechanism is discloses, as is a method for targeted drug discovery and design based on models of the three dimensional structure of the kinase domains of the protein dimers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444914 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242086 | Boustany |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rose-Mary N. Boustany (Beirut, Lebanon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating a disorder associated with a deficiency in a gene product of a CLN gene in a subject (e.g., neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL)), comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a sphingolipid (e.g., galactosylceramide, ceramide, lysophosphatidic acid, sulfatide and any combination thereof), thereby treating the disorder in the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617318 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 08242120 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Chu (Statham, Georgia); Jagadeeshwar Rao (Mohali, India) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of carbodine and 5-F carbodine and analogs thereof for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of influenza, in particular the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza A virus or “bird flu” strain of influenza as well as the treatment or prophylaxis of Venezuela equine encephalitis virus or VEE. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/450531 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242160 | Weissman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan M. Weissman (Bethesda, Maryland); Yili Yang (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Jane P. Jensen (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features pyrazolidinyl compounds, pharmaceutical compositions of substituted pyrazolidinyl compounds and methods of treating a patient suffering from cancer or viral infection, the method comprising administering to a patient one or more pyrazolidinyl compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/842346 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242165 | Dash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alekha K. Dash (Omaha, Nebraska); William J. Trickler (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition which includes nanoparticles. The nanoparticles include a glyceryl monooleate or monolinoleate (or other mono fatty acid ester); a chitosan; and a cancer therapeutic agent, such as gemcitabine, taxanes, and hydrophobic cancer therapeutic agents). Also disclosed are methods for preparing such nanoparticles and pharmaceutical compositions, as well as methods for treating breast, pancreatic, colon, prostate, and other cancers by parenterally, intravenously, or otherwise administering such nanoparticles and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311479 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/449 |
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| US 08242167 | Lampidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore J. Lampidis (Miami, Florida); Metin Kurtoglu (Miami, Florida); Johnathan C. Maher (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating cancer by killing selected tumor cells such as human breast, non-small cell lung cancer cells, pancreatic cancer cells, osteosarcoma cancer cells, and glioblastoma cells, includes administering to a patient in need of treatment, an effective amount of at least one mannose analog such as 2-DG or 2-FM or 2-CM. The killing is believed to be due to an interference with glycosylation. A theranostic method includes determining whether a patient. cancer tumor sample comprises cells sensitive to killing to at least one mannose analog due to an interference with glycosylation. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/280541 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242171 | Sinclair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sinclair (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Maria Alexander-Bridges (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and compositions for modulating the activity or level of a sirtuin, thereby treating or preventing obesity or an insulin resistance disorder, such as diabetes in a subject. Exemplary methods comprise contacting a cell with a sirtuin activating compound or an inhibitory compound to thereby increase or decrease fat accumulation, respectively. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683998 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/546 |
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| US 08242174 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PanThera Biopharma LLC (Aiea, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Guan-Sheng Jiao (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formula wherein the symbols have the meaning described in the specification are hydroxamic acid derivatives of aniline and capable of inhibiting the lethal effects of infection by anthrax bacteria and are useful in the treatment of poisoning by anthrax. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011790 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242178 | Nagarkatti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash S. Nagarkatti (Columbia, South Carolina); Mitzi Nagarkatti (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating autoimmune hepatitis are provided. The methods include injecting cannabidiol into the subject, where the cannabidiol is synthetic cannabidiol or natural cannabidiol isolated from other natural cannabinoids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141634 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/733 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242203 | Bakker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bakker (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yu Qin (Beijing, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a pH indicator, a polymerizable group, and a spacer therebetween. The polymerizable group can be acrylate or methacrylate and the spacer can be an oxyalkayl group, an oxypropyl group, or an oxybenzoyl group. The composition can be polymerized to copolymers to form indicating polymers and optodes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/558633 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242240 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. May (North Haven, Connecticut); Sankar Ghosh (Madison, Connecticut); Mark A. Findeis (Belmont, Massachusetts); Kathryn Phillips (Boston, Massachusetts); Gerhard Hannig (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating inflammatory disorders. The present invention also provides methods of identifying anti-inflammatory compounds and methods of inhibiting NF-κB-dependent target gene expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/869962 |
| 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 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242241 | Daggett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie Daggett (Woodinville, Washington); Peter Law (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for designing inhibitors of amyloidosis in humans, domesticated animals, and wild animals as well as inhibitors of amyloidosis designed by the methods and systems. Methods and systems for designing inhibitors of amyloidosis are largely computational, in nature, and are directed to designing various types of polymers, small-molecule organic compounds, organometallic compounds, or non-chemical physical processes that can target the extended-α-strand and α-sheet regions of amyloidogenic protein and polypeptide intermediates in order to prevent aggregation of those intermediates into protofibrils and fibrils that, in turn, recruit additional native-conformation proteins and polypeptides into amyloidogenic intermediates and that additionally aggregate to form higher-order structures, such as plaques observed in the brains of patients suffering from the various spongiform encephalopathies. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079947 |
| 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 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242244 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798979 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242246 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); David A. Williams (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric peptides or fusion proteins are disclosed that include a RhoGAP activity domain and at least one specificity domain that targets a specific Rho protein. The fusion proteins can be used to inhibit any GTPase activity within a cell. The fusion proteins are particularly advantageous for the treatment of cancer. The present invention generally relates to chimeric peptides capable of regulating GTPases, and more particularly, to methods of targeting individual GTPases by using GTPase-activating proteins. Such proteins may be used for the treatment of cancers and other GTPase-related diseases. This invention relates to nucleic acid molecules and the encoded GTPase activating proteins, and variants thereof, and to the use of these molecules in the characterization, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cell signaling, immune, and cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancer. Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for regulating transcription of a selected gene. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/036964 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242254 | Sampath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Lawrence Blyn (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, kits and methods for rapid identification and quantification of bacteria by molecular mass and base composition analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683311 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242778 | Subramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankaran Subramanian (Rockville, Maryland); Nallathamby Devasahayam (Germantown, Maryland); Janusz Koscielniak (Frederick, Maryland); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali K. Cherukuri (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron paramagnetic resonance imaging system that includes means for continuously irradiating a sample with RF irradiation; means for imposing on the sample a sinusoidally varying magnetic field along with rotating gradients for spatial encoding; means for directly detecting signal data from the sample, without using field modulation, while irradiating the sample with RF radiation continuously, the means for directly detecting having means for sweeping the sinusoidally varying magnetic field; and means for transmitting, receiving and processing the signal data, using means including a digital signal processor. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794695 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08244334 — Methods and systems for blood flow measurement using doppler optical coherence tomography
| US 08244334 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Huang (South Pasadena, California); Yimin Wang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for non-invasive, real-time measuring and/or monitoring of local blood flow in a subject. Methods of the invention generally include the steps of obtaining Doppler shift images of at least two planes intersecting blood vessels at the scanned location; determining Doppler angles using the Doppler shift images; and then using the Doppler angles thus determined together with the Doppler shift signals to arrive at a measure of the volumetric blood flow. Also provided are systems and software for performing the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/101006 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244363 | 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 retinal stimulation system. The retinal stimulation system comprises 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. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875742 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244364 | Horsager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Matthew Horsager (Los Angeles, California); Scott H. Greenwald (Seattle, Washington); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Ione Fine (Seattle, Washington); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Geoffrey M. Boynton (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for retinal stimulation are shown. The method comprises varied parameters, including frequency, pulse width, and pattern of pulse trains to determine a stimulation pattern and visual perception threshold. |
| FILED | Sunday, October 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926054 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244504 | Jacobs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Jacobs (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented system and method analyzes the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of a molecule or collection of molecules within a chemical environment under given thermodynamic conditions. The system is based on user-defined rules for a free energy decomposition and its reconstitution, explicit solute and implicit solvent specifications, and a selection of thermodynamic conditions. One template structure or multiple template structures define an explicit solute specification. Each template structure consists of a list of atoms and their coordinates. Input data is processed to produce a flexibility and stability test and return global thermodynamic properties, such as free energy, enthalpy, entropy and heat capacity as a function of temperature. Implemented via pebble game theory, global mechanical properties are determined based on the statistics of rigid and flexible regions that thermally fluctuate over ensembles of accessible states consistent with selected order parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344192 |
| 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: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43586 | Israeli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ron S. Israeli (Staten Island, New York); Warren D. W. Heston (Cleveland, Ohio); William R. Fair (New York, New York); Maryann Fair, legal representative (Longboat, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides purified antibodies to the outer membrane domain of prostate-specific membrane (PSM) antigen, compositions of matter comprising PSM antigen antibodies conjugated to a radioisotope or a toxin, and a method of imaging prostate cancer by using PSM antigen antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283636 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Michael Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Jeffrey Modderno (Andover, Massachusetts); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, motor-pump efficiency is increased by limiting the fluid pressure communicated to the motor-pump to a range smaller than that communicated by other components of an energy storage and/or recovery system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221559 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240150 | Varatharajan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balachandar Varatharajan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Willy S. Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); John Lipinski (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gilbert O. Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Niskayuna, New York); Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for a gas turbine combustor includes a first radially outer tube defining a first passage having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet adapted to supply air to a reaction zone of the combustor. A center body is located within the first radially outer tube, the center body including a second radially intermediate tube for supplying fuel to the reaction zone and a third radially inner tube for supplying air to the reaction zone. The second intermediate tube has a first outlet end closed by a first end wall that is formed with a plurality of substantially parallel, axially-oriented air outlet passages for the additional air in the third radially inner tube, each air outlet passage having a respective plurality of associated fuel outlet passages in the first end wall for the fuel in the second radially intermediate tube. The respective plurality of associated fuel outlet passages have non-parallel center axes that intersect a center axis of the respective air outlet passage to locally mix fuel and air exiting said center body. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/222423 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240234 | Woody et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina); Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bethany A. Woody (Charlotte, North Carolina); Kevin Scott Smith (Huntersville, North Carolina); David J. Adams (Keene, New Hampshire); William E. Barkman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edwin F. Babelay, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for chip breaking, controlling cutting tool wear, and the like in turning, boring, and other applications, including: engaging a workpiece with a cutting tool in a feed direction along a toolpath, superimposing an oscillation in the feed direction on the toolpath, and dynamically or non-dynamically varying the oscillation superimposed in the feed direction on the toolpath such that interrupted cuts and chips of a predetermined length or less are produced. These systems take full advantage of computer numerical control (CNC) methodologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251247 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240401 | Wassell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ellsworth Wassell (Kingswood, Texas); William Evans Turner (Durham, Connecticut); Daniel E. Burgess (Middletown, Connecticut); Carl Allison Perry (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a valve assembly having a supply of a fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil or a valve for varying a resistance of the fluid to flow between the first and second chambers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/206445 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240774 | Vinegar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a nahcolite containing subsurface formation includes solution mining a first nahcolite bed above a hydrocarbon containing layer using a plurality of first solution mining wells. A second nahcolite bed is solution mined below the hydrocarbon containing layer using a plurality of second solution mining wells. At least one of the first solution mining wells is converted into a production well. The hydrocarbon containing layer is heated using a plurality of heaters. Formation fluid is produced from at least one converted first solution mining well. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250373 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material 299/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08240911 | Pfeifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent B. Pfeifer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Arthur N. Rumpf (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless passive temperature sensor comprising a surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line is constructed on a piezoelectric substrate having a thermal coefficient of frequency. An array of addressable, wireless passive temperature sensors can be used to monitor an array of temperature points on a structure using a wireless reader. Each sensor can be monitored by measuring the frequency of maximum reflection in their respective bands. A wireless passive heat flux gauge uses two temperature sensors with different frequency and/or time delay responses to measure that temperature differential across a thermal conductor that has a well characterized thermal conductivity and thickness. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871602 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allister W. James (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A stationary turbine engine component, such as a turbine vane, includes a internal spar and an external skin. The internal spar is made of a plurality of spar laminates, and the external skin is made of a plurality of skin laminates. The plurality of skin laminates interlockingly engage the plurality of spar laminates such that the external skin is located and held in place. This arrangement allows alternative high temperature materials to be used on turbine engine components in areas where their properties are needed without having to make the entire component out of such material. Thus, the manufacturing difficulties associated with making an entire component of such a material and the attendant high costs are avoided. The skin laminates can be made of advanced generation single crystal superalloys, intermetallics and refractory alloys. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/204138 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241508 | D'Urso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R D'Urso (Clinton, Tennessee); John T Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a composite material having sharp surface features includes the steps of: making a composite body comprised of a recessive phase and a protrusive phase, the recessive phase having a higher susceptibility to a preselected etchant than the protrusive phase; and treating a surface of the composite body with the preselected etchant so that the protrusive phase protrudes from the surface to form a sharp surface feature, and the recessive phase defines a recessed surface area between the surface features. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463940 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241532 | Schulte |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLc (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis D. Schulte (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Neutron source comprising a composite, said composite comprising crystals comprising BeO and AmBe13, and an excess of beryllium, wherein the crystals have an average size of less than 2 microns; the size distribution of the crystals is less than 2 microns; and the beryllium is present in a 7-fold to a 75-fold excess by weight of the amount of AmBe13; and methods of making thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/868963 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241562 | Betty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rita G. Betty (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Bruce L. Levin (Tijeras, New Mexico); Mark D. Tucker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jonathan Leonard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John E. Brockmann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel A. Lucero (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for knockdown and neutralization of toxic clouds of aerosolized chemical or biological warfare (CBW) agents and toxic industrial chemicals using a non-toxic, non-corrosive aqueous decontamination formulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196508 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241600 | Berry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dushyant Shekhawat (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel Haynes (Morgantown, West Virginia); Mark Smith (Morgantown, West Virginia); James J. Spivey (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of catalytically reforming a reactant gas mixture using a pyrochlore catalyst material comprised of one or more pyrochlores having the composition A2B2-y-zB′yB″zO7-Δ, where y>0 and z≧0. Distribution of catalytically active metals throughout the structure at the B site creates an active and well dispersed metal locked into place in the crystal structure. This greatly reduces the metal sintering that typically occurs on supported catalysts used in reforming reactions, and reduces deactivation by sulfur and carbon. Further, oxygen mobility may also be enhanced by elemental exchange of promoters at sites in the pyrochlore. The pyrochlore catalyst material may be utilized in catalytic reforming reactions for the conversion of hydrocarbon fuels into synthesis gas (H2+CO) for fuel cells, among other uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/222297 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/418.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241603 | Basu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arunabha Basu (Aurora, Illinois); Howard S. Meyer (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Scott Lynn (Pleasant Hill, California); Dennis Leppin (Chicago, Illinois); James R. Wangerow (Medinah, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-stage UCSRP process and system for removal of sulfur from a gaseous stream in which the gaseous stream, which contains a first amount of H2S, is provided to a first stage UCSRP reactor vessel operating in an excess SO2 mode at a first amount of SO2, producing an effluent gas having a reduced amount of SO2, and in which the effluent gas is provided to a second stage UCSRP reactor vessel operating in an excess H2S mode, producing a product gas having an amount of H2S less than said first amount of H2S. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053551 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241605 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Elliott (Richland, Washington); Robert Scott Butner (Richland, Washington); Gary G. Neuenschwander (Burbank, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Pasco, Washington); Todd R. Hart (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Continuous processing of wet biomass feedstock by catalytic hydrothermal gasification must address catalyst fouling and poisoning. One solution can involve heating the wet biomass with a heating unit to a temperature sufficient for organic constituents in the feedstock to decompose, for precipitates of inorganic wastes to form, for preheating the wet feedstock in preparation for subsequent separation of sulfur contaminants, or combinations thereof. Treatment further includes separating the precipitates out of the wet feedstock, removing sulfur contaminants, or both using a solids separation unit and a sulfur separation unit, respectively. Having removed much of the inorganic wastes and the sulfur that can cause poisoning and fouling, the wet biomass feedstock can be exposed to the heterogeneous catalyst for gasification. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/339876 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/650 |
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| US 08241789 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); William Douglas Moorehead (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage device includes a first electrode comprising a first material and a second electrode comprising a second material, at least a portion of the first and second materials forming an interpenetrating network when dispersed in an electrolyte, the electrolyte, the first material and the second material are selected so that the first and second materials exert a repelling force on each other when combined. An electrochemical device, includes a first electrode in electrical communication with a first current collector; a second electrode in electrical communication with a second current collector; and an ionically conductive medium in ionic contact with said first and second electrodes, wherein at least a portion of the first and second electrodes form an interpenetrating network and wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes comprises an electrode structure providing two or more pathways to its current collector. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891637 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/221 |
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| US 08241817 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington); Jeffry W. Stevenson (Richland, Washington); Guan-Guang Xia (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a material and a method for its creation and use wherein a reactive element, preferably a rare earth element, is included in an oxide coating material. The inclusion of this material modifies the growth and structure of the scale beneath the coating on metal substrate and improves the scale adherence to the metal substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353816 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/522 |
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| US 08241887 | Studier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. William Studier (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bacterial growth medium for promoting auto-induction of transcription of cloned DNA in cultures of bacterial cells grown batchwise is disclosed. The transcription is under the control of a lac repressor. Also disclosed is a bacterial growth medium for improving the production of a selenomethionine-containing protein or polypeptide in a bacterial cell, the protein or polypeptide being produced by recombinant DNA techniques from a lac or T7lac promoter, the bacterial cell encoding a vitamin B12-dependent homocysteine methylase. Finally, disclosed is a bacterial growth medium for suppressing auto-induction of expression in cultures of bacterial cells grown batchwise, said transcription being under the control of lac repressor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062575 |
| 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 435/252.100 |
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| US 08241920 | Schabron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one embodiment, the inventive technology relates to in-vessel generation of a material from a solution of interest as part of a processing and/or analysis operation. Preferred embodiments of the in-vessel material generation (e.g., in-vessel solid material generation) include precipitation; in certain embodiments, analysis and/or processing of the solution of interest may include dissolution of the material, perhaps as part of a successive dissolution protocol using solvents of increasing ability to dissolve. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970535 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/181 |
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| US 08242006 | Weaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanton Earl Weaver (Northville, New York); Stacey Joy Kennerly (Albany, New York); Marco Francesco Aimi (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A smooth electrode is provided. The smooth electrode includes at least one metal layer having thickness greater than about 1 micron; wherein an average surface roughness of the smooth electrode is less than about 10 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962494 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/578 |
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| US 08242045 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand A. Kulkarni (Orlando, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Stephen M. Sabol (Venetia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A wash-coat (16) for use as a support for an active catalyst species (18) and a catalytic combustor component (10) incorporating such wash-coat. The wash-coat is a solid solution of alumina or alumina-based material (Al2O3-0-3 wt % La2O3) and a further oxide exhibiting a coefficient of thermal expansion that is lower than that exhibited by alumina. The further oxide may be silicon dioxide (2-30 wt % SiO2), zirconia silicate (2-30 wt % ZrSiO4), neodymium oxide (0-4 wt %), titania (Al2O3-3-40% TiO2) or alumina-based magnesium aluminate spinel (Al2O3-25 wt % MgO) in various embodiments. The active catalyst species may be palladium and a second metal in a concentration of 10-50% of the concentration of the palladium. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330555 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/303 |
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| US 08242244 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798979 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08242284 | Gakh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei A. Gakh (Bethesda, Maryland); Mykhaylo V. Vovk (Kyiv, Ukraine); Nina V. Mel'nychenko (Kyiv, Ukraine); Volodymyr A. Sukach (Brovary, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to novel compounds having the structural Formulas (1a,1b), stereoisomers, tautomers, racemics, prodrugs, metabolites thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof as chemotherapy agents for treating of cancer, particularly androgen-independent prostate cancer. The disclosure also relates to methods for preparing said compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862168 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/306.400 |
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| US 08242328 | Duan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC); Jason Quinlan (Albany, California); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/430387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
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| US 08242329 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Christian Isak Jorgensen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434108 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
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| US 08242350 | Cashion et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Cashion (San Diego, California); Michael R. Bowser (Los Angeles, California); Mark B. Farrelly (Carlsbad, California); Braden E. Hines (Pasadena, California); Howard C. Holmes (Boulder Creek, California); Richard L. Johnson, Jr. (Suffolk, Virginia); Richard J. Russell (La Crescenta, California); Michael F. Turk (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to photovoltaic power systems, photovoltaic concentrator modules, and related methods. In particular, the present invention features concentrator modules having interior points of attachment for an articulating mechanism and/or an articulating mechanism that has a unique arrangement of chassis members so as to isolate bending, etc. from being transferred among the chassis members. The present invention also features adjustable solar panel mounting features and/or mounting features with two or more degrees of freedom. The present invention also features a mechanical fastener for secondary optics in a concentrator module. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454321 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Smith (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell includes abutting P-type and N-type doped regions in a contiguous portion of a polysilicon layer. The polysilicon layer may be formed on a thin dielectric layer, which is formed on a backside of a solar cell substrate (e.g., silicon wafer). The polysilicon layer has a relatively large average grain size to reduce or eliminate recombination in a space charge region between the P-type and N-type doped regions, thereby increasing efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626483 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242452 | Shah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanai S. Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); William M. Higgins (Westborough, Massachusetts); Edgar V. Van Loef (Allston, Massachusetts); Jaroslaw Glodo (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to scintillator compositions and related devices and methods. The scintillator may include, for example, a mixed halide scintillator composition including at least two different CsNaLa halide compounds and a dopant. Related radiation detection devices and methods are further included. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405155 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
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| US 08242493 | Rand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Rand (Leuven, Belgium); Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kristin L. Mutolo (Hollywood, California); Elizabeth Mayo (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device includes an anode, a cathode, and a donor-acceptor heterojunction between the anode and the cathode, the heterojunction including a donor-like material and an acceptor-like material, wherein at least one of the donor-like material and the acceptor-like material includes a subphthalocyanine, a subporphyrin, and/or a subporphyrazine compound, wherein the subporphyrin or subporphyrazine compound includes boron. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/150594 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 08242515 | Kahen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith B. Kahen (Rochester, New York); Xiaofan Ren (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic device including two spaced apart electrodes; and at least one layer containing ternary core/shell nanocrystals disposed between the spaced electrodes and having ternary semiconductor cores containing a gradient in alloy composition and wherein the ternary core/shell nanocrystals exhibit single molecule non-blinking behavior characterized by on times greater than one minute or radiative lifetimes less than 10 ns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791173 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
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| US 08243362 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the field of quasicrystalline structures. In preferred embodiments, the structure is heterostructure comprising dielectric materials arranged in two-dimensional space such that the overall structure is more rotationally symmetric than periodic structures. Symmetry may be five-fold or greater than six-fold. Such higher rotational symmetries provide stopgaps in nearly all directions. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of quasicrystalline structures for optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic purposes. In some embodiments, the invention relates to manipulating, controlling, modulating and directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271969 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
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| US 08243999 | Tobin, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth William Tobin, Jr. (Harriman, Tennessee); Thomas P. Karnowski (Knoxville, Tennessee); Edward Chaum (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for diagnosing diseases having retinal manifestations including retinal pathologies includes the steps of providing a CBIR system including an archive of stored digital retinal photography images and diagnosed patient data corresponding to the retinal photography images, the stored images each indexed in a CBIR database using a plurality of feature vectors, the feature vectors corresponding to distinct descriptive characteristics of the stored images. A query image of the retina of a patient is obtained. Using image processing, regions or structures in the query image are identified. The regions or structures are then described using the plurality of feature vectors. At least one relevant stored image from the archive based on similarity to the regions or structures is retrieved, and an eye disease or a disease having retinal manifestations in the patient is diagnosed based on the diagnosed patient data associated with the relevant stored image(s). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416834 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/115 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Michael Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Jeffrey Modderno (Andover, Massachusetts); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, motor-pump efficiency is increased by limiting the fluid pressure communicated to the motor-pump to a range smaller than that communicated by other components of an energy storage and/or recovery system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221559 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/327 |
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| US 08240146 | Bollinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding gas in a cylinder. The cylinder is used in a staged hydraulic-pneumatic energy conversion system and includes a gas chamber (pneumatic side) and a fluid chamber (hydraulic side) and a piston or other mechanism that separates the gas chamber and fluid chamber while allowing the transfer of force/pressure between each opposing chamber. The gas chamber of the cylinder includes ports that are coupled to a heat transfer subassembly that circulates gas from the pneumatic side and exchanges its heat with a counter flow of ambient temperature fluid from a reservoir or other source. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870307 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/508 |
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| US 08240190 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junhong Chen (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Ganhua Lu (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel method for the fabrication of nanomaterials, especially nanostructures arranged on a substrate with nanoparticles deposited thereon. The methods of the present invention can be used to fabricate a novel ambient-temperature gas sensor that is capable of detecting a variety of specific gasses over a range of concentrations. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199891 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.60 |
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| US 08241698 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Cohen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Prem V. Pavoor (Somerville, Massachusetts); Anuj Bellare (Brighton, Massachusetts); Brian P. Gearing (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to an implantable medical device comprising a surface coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer, wherein said surface is glass, metal, plastic, polymer, or fiberglass. Another aspect of the present invention involves a method of preparing a PEM-coated implantable medical device, comprising the step of applying a film to a surface of an implantable medical device, wherein said film comprises a polyelectrolyte multilayer and said surface is glass, metal, plastic, polymer, or fiberglass. Another aspect of the present invention involves a method of reducing the wear between two contacting materials, comprising the step of moving a first material in contact with a second material in an environment, wherein a first surface of said first material is in contact with a second surface of said second material, wherein said first surface, said second surface, or both is coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer, thereby decreasing the wear of said first material, said second material, or both compared to the wear in the absence of said polyelectrolyte multilayer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834256 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.260 |
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| US 08241706 | Shang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Ku Shang (Champaign, Illinois); Rongcai Xie (Urbana, Illinois); Zhongren Yue (Urbana, Illinois); James Economy (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a ceramic coated fiber comprises heat treating an activated carbon coated fiber containing a ceramic precursor, to form a ceramic coated fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876011 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/376.100 |
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| US 08241922 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine J. Murphy (Columbia, South Carolina); Tapan K. Sau (Chandigarh, India); Christopher J. Orendorff (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anand M. Gole (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold substrates is presented for SAMs onto which gold nanoparticles of various shapes have been electrostatically immobilized. SERS spectra of 4-MBA SAMs are enhanced in the presence of immobilized gold nanocrystals by a factor of 107-109 relative to 4-MBA in solution. Large enhancement factors are a likely result of plasmon coupling between the nanoparticles (localized surface plasmon) and the smooth gold substrate (surface plasmon polariton), creating large localized electromagnetic fields at their interface, where 4-MBA molecules reside in this sandwich architecture. Moreover, enhancement factors depend on nanoparticle shape, and vary by a factor of 102. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026929 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
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| US 08242003 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darin Leonhardt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide methods of forming semiconductor devices, by which defects formed upon nucleation and coalescence of semiconductor islands can be reduced or eliminated. In one embodiment, an annealing process can be performed prior to coalescence of the semiconductor islands into a continuous semiconductor layer. In another embodiment, high-quality Group III-V materials can be formed on the continuous semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/087240 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
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| US 08242203 | Bakker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bakker (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yu Qin (Beijing, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a pH indicator, a polymerizable group, and a spacer therebetween. The polymerizable group can be acrylate or methacrylate and the spacer can be an oxyalkayl group, an oxypropyl group, or an oxybenzoyl group. The composition can be polymerized to copolymers to form indicating polymers and optodes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/558633 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/560 |
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| US 08242448 | Prater et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anasys Instruments Corporation (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Lo (Santa Barbara, California); Doug Gotthard (Carpinteria, California); Anthony Kurtz (Ventura, California); Kevin Kjoller (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic IR radiation power control, beam steering and focus adjustment for use in a nanoscale IR spectroscopy system based on an Atomic Force Microscope. During illumination with a beam from an IR source, an AFM probe tip interaction with a sample due to local IR sample absorption is monitored. The power of the illumination at the sample is dynamically decreased to minimize sample overheating in locations/wavelengths where absorption is high and increased in locations/wavelengths where absorption is low to maintain signal to noise. Beam alignment and focus optimization as a function of wavelength are automatically performed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927248 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242880 | Ghovanloo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Atlanta, Georgia); Xueliang Huo (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of tracking movement, position, or both of a tongue of a subject. The method includes positioning a tracer unit on the tongue of the subject in a non-obstructively manner; positioning a sensor system in proximity to the tongue carrying the tracer unit; calibrating the sensor system relative to the tracer unit; and detecting the position of the tracer unit. An assistive system/apparatus can track movement, position, or both of the tongue. The system/apparatus includes the tracer unit; the sensor system for detecting position of the tracer unit and adapted for non-obstructive placement proximal the sensor system; and a control system for transmitting to a processing system. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474891 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/4.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243068 | Varshney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amitabh Varshney (Ellicot City, Maryland); Youngmin Kim (College Park, Maryland); Cheuk Yiu Ip (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and apparatus for determining and modifying saliency of a visual medium are provided. The method, system and apparatus may obtain saliency values for a visual medium based on a plurality of visual channels. The saliency values may be obtained based on at least one of computer-generated modeling, user-specified input and eye-tracking. The method, system and apparatus may aggregate the obtained saliency values and classify regions of the visual medium based on the aggregated saliency values. The visual channels may include one or more of absolute mean curvature, a gradient of mean curvature, a gradient of color intensity, color luminance, color opponency, color saturation, lighting and focus. When calculating mean curvature, the method, system and apparatus may calculate a change in mean curvature for a plurality of vertices around a region and displace the vertices in accordance with the calculated change in mean curvature to change a saliency of the region. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/153394 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243157 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Ren Ng (San Mateo, California); Patrick M. Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California); Mark A. Horowitz (Menlo Park, California); Marc S. Levoy (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital images are computed using an approach for correcting lens aberration. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a digital imaging arrangement implements microlenses to direct light to photosensors that detect the light and generate data corresponding to the detected light. The generated data is used to compute an output image, where each output image pixel value corresponds to a selective weighting and summation of a subset of the detected photosensor values. The weighting is a function of characteristics of the imaging arrangement. In some applications, the weighting reduces the contribution of data from photosensors that contribute higher amounts of optical aberration to the corresponding output image pixel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/278708 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/222.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243362 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the field of quasicrystalline structures. In preferred embodiments, the structure is heterostructure comprising dielectric materials arranged in two-dimensional space such that the overall structure is more rotationally symmetric than periodic structures. Symmetry may be five-fold or greater than six-fold. Such higher rotational symmetries provide stopgaps in nearly all directions. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of quasicrystalline structures for optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic purposes. In some embodiments, the invention relates to manipulating, controlling, modulating and directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271969 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243875 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education (Eugene, Oregon); Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Xu (Eugene, Oregon); Oleg Tischenko (München, Germany); Christoph Hoeschen (Hebertshausen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging method for imaging a region of investigation of an object, comprises the step of irradiating the region of investigation with at least one energy input beam along a plurality of projection directions, wherein the at least one energy input beam comprises a plurality of individual energy input beam components, wherein the energy input beam is shaped such that at least two of the energy input beam components have different cross-sections and groups of parallel energy input beam components being parallel to one of the projection directions provide a continuous irradiation of the region of investigation. Furthermore, a device for imaging the object is described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920941 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244327 | Fichtinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Bethesda, Maryland); Ergin Atalar (Columbia, Maryland); Louis L. Whitcomb (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert C. Susil (Baltimore, Maryland); Attila Tanacs (Zakanyszek, Hungary); Axel Krieger (Affalterback, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The end-effector (150) includes a sheath (152) and a medical device or needle carrier (154) that is disposed within the interior compartment (160) of the sheath. Aperture (162) is located in a portion of the sheath proximal a distal end of the sheath that is inserted into a natural or artificial cavity. This device is guided by a real-time imager. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512150 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244485 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069996 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244787 | Principe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Puskal P. Pokharel (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing method is provided. The method includes receiving a signal input, and filtering the signal input using a nonlinear correntropy filter. The method additionally includes generating an output based upon the filtering of the signal input. The nonlinear correntropy filter can be configured as a nonlinear Wiener filter. Alternatively, the nonlinear correntropy filter can be configured as a correntropy least mean square (LMS) filter, or a correntropy Newton/LMS filter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092234 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08240201 | Tissandier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Tissandier (Alto Loma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An air monitoring device (100) includes an outer casing (101) configured to receive an airflow (102) comprising particulate; a bore (103) located inside the outer casing (101); and a collection probe (104) located inside the outer casing (101), the collection probe (104) being configured such that there is a gap (105) between an exit of the bore (103) and an entrance of the collection probe (104), such that particulate in the airflow (102) having a diameter larger than a threshold flows through an interior of the collection probe (104). |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709739 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242162 | Meador et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); Daniel S. Tyson (Amherst, Ohio); Ulvi F. Ilan (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic molecules that can be used as sensors are described. The aromatic sensors include a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon core with a five-membered imide rings fused to the core and at least two pendant aryl groups. The aromatic sensor molecules can detect target analytes or molecular strain as a result of changes in their fluorescence, in many cases with on-off behavior. Aromatic molecules that fluoresce at various frequencies can be prepared by altering the structure of the aromatic core or the substituents attached to it. The aromatic molecules can be used as sensors for various applications such as, for example, the detection of dangerous chemicals, biomedical diagnosis, and the detection of damage or strain in composite materials. Methods of preparing aromatic sensor molecules are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/956848 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243614 | Driscoll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Driscoll (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Brendan Hall (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Michael Paulitsch (Columbia Heights, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication device comprises first and second circuits to implement a plurality of ports via which the communicative device is operable to communicate over a plurality of communication channels. For each of the plurality of ports, the communication device comprises: command hardware that includes a first transmitter to transmit data over a respective one of the plurality of channels and a first receiver to receive data from the respective one of the plurality of channels; and monitor hardware that includes a second receiver coupled to the first transmitter and a third receiver coupled to the respective one of the plurality of channels. The first circuit comprises the command hardware for a first subset of the plurality of ports. The second circuit comprises the monitor hardware for the first subset of the plurality of ports and the command hardware for a second subset of the plurality of ports. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/044808 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244402 | Wells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Wells (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Neil David Mc Kay (Chelsea, Michigan); Suhas E. Chelian (Los Angeles, California); Douglas Martin Linn (White Lake, Michigan); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Lyndon Bridgwater (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic system includes a humanoid robot with robotic joints each moveable using an actuator(s), and a distributed controller for controlling the movement of each of the robotic joints. The controller includes a visual perception module (VPM) for visually identifying and tracking an object in the field of view of the robot under threshold lighting conditions. The VPM includes optical devices for collecting an image of the object, a positional extraction device, and a host machine having an algorithm for processing the image and positional information. The algorithm visually identifies and tracks the object, and automatically adapts an exposure time of the optical devices to prevent feature data loss of the image under the threshold lighting conditions. A method of identifying and tracking the object includes collecting the image, extracting positional information of the object, and automatically adapting the exposure time to thereby prevent feature data loss of the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564074 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244477 | Embaye 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 (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia); SETI Institute (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsegereda N. Embaye (Boulder Creek, California); Jonathan D. Trent (La Selva Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for estimating a growth stage of an alga in an ambient fluid. Measured light beam absorption or reflection values through or from the alga and through an ambient fluid, in each of two or more wavelength sub-ranges, are compared with reference light beam absorption values for corresponding wavelength sub-ranges for in each alga growth stage to determine (1) which alga growth stage, if any, is more likely and (2) whether estimated lipid content of the alga is increasing or has peaked. Alga growth is preferably terminated when lipid content has approximately reached a maximum value. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478667 |
| 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 |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08243847 | 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 | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571582 |
| 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 08243997 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Herbert Davis (Columbia, Missouri); Brian Christopher Claywell (Columbia, Missouri); James Michael Keller (Columbia, Missouri); Matthew Nicholas Klaric (Columbia, Missouri); Grant Jason Scott (Columbia, Missouri); Chi-Ren Shyu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and medium are provided for detecting change in a geographic area. One embodiment includes receiving a set of remotely sensed imagery that depicts the geographic area, automatically identifying changes in physical features of the geographic area by comparing, without user intervention, the set of remotely sensed imagery to a dataset of previously stored remotely sensed imagery that also depicts the geographic area, and deriving a change-quality measurement associated with the set of remotely sensed imagery, wherein the change-quality measurement quantifies a suitability of comparison of the set of remotely sensed imagery to the previously stored remotely sensed imagery. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254588 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244485 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069996 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08244706 | Christensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Christensen (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Stephen E. Levy (Honolulu, Hawaii); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Jamie C. Rasmussen (Somerville, Massachusetts); Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based method and system for just-in-time semantic information retrieval is disclosed. A user interface detects user interaction with a displayed semantic entity. In response, a search member uses semantic information about the displayed entity and automatically searches for information about the subject entity. The search employs system and/or external knowledge bases and returns highly relevant results and information with increased specificity due to the semantic basis. A sidebar unobtrusively displays to the user the search results initially obtained without user request or demand, i.e., on the user's behalf. The sidebar enables the user to dismiss the search results and to effectively copy or export the search results as desired. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/642372 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08244932 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa D. Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anshul Sehgal (New York, New York); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for dynamically stabilizing a stream processing system. The method includes receiving at least one computing resource allocation target. The method further includes determining that an input data flow rate of at least one upstream processing element varies. The computing resource is dynamically allocated to the upstream processing element in response to the input rate of the upstream processing element varying. Data flow is dynamically controlled between the upstream processing element and at least one downstream processing element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536102 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08245087 | Abts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin); Michael Higgins (Eau Claire, Wisconsin); Van L. Snyder (Blaine, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments include fault tolerant memory apparatus, methods, and systems, including an apparatus comprising a memory device including a plurality of addressable memory locations, and a memory manager coupled to the memory device, the memory manager including a scheduling unit operable to detect a multi-bit error in data read from the memory device, and to retry the read operation in order to distinguish between an intermittent error and a persistent error. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693572 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08241766 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Lu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ganping Ju (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a plurality of bilayer structures positioned adjacent to each other, each of the bilayer structures including a first layer of magnetic material having a first Curie temperature and a second layer of magnetic material positioned adjacent to the first layer, wherein the second layer has a second Curie temperature that is lower than the first Curie temperature, and magnetic grains of the first layer are unstable when the second layer of magnetic material is heated above the second Curie temperature. The recording temperature is reduced due to the smaller switching volume achieved by using vertically decoupled laminations at elevated temperatures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835476 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/828.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08242448 | Prater et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anasys Instruments Corporation (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Lo (Santa Barbara, California); Doug Gotthard (Carpinteria, California); Anthony Kurtz (Ventura, California); Kevin Kjoller (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic IR radiation power control, beam steering and focus adjustment for use in a nanoscale IR spectroscopy system based on an Atomic Force Microscope. During illumination with a beam from an IR source, an AFM probe tip interaction with a sample due to local IR sample absorption is monitored. The power of the illumination at the sample is dynamically decreased to minimize sample overheating in locations/wavelengths where absorption is high and increased in locations/wavelengths where absorption is low to maintain signal to noise. Beam alignment and focus optimization as a function of wavelength are automatically performed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927248 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08242003 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darin Leonhardt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide methods of forming semiconductor devices, by which defects formed upon nucleation and coalescence of semiconductor islands can be reduced or eliminated. In one embodiment, an annealing process can be performed prior to coalescence of the semiconductor islands into a continuous semiconductor layer. In another embodiment, high-quality Group III-V materials can be formed on the continuous semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/087240 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08243875 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education (Eugene, Oregon); Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Xu (Eugene, Oregon); Oleg Tischenko (München, Germany); Christoph Hoeschen (Hebertshausen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging method for imaging a region of investigation of an object, comprises the step of irradiating the region of investigation with at least one energy input beam along a plurality of projection directions, wherein the at least one energy input beam comprises a plurality of individual energy input beam components, wherein the energy input beam is shaped such that at least two of the energy input beam components have different cross-sections and groups of parallel energy input beam components being parallel to one of the projection directions provide a continuous irradiation of the region of investigation. Furthermore, a device for imaging the object is described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920941 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08241847 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Matthew M. Erdman (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide of a protective antigenic determinant (PAD polypeptide) of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide. The PAD polypeptide and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide are useful in the development of antibodies directed to PAD, vaccines effective in providing protection against PRRSV infection, and diagnostic assays detecting the presence of PAD antibodies generated by a PAD-specific vaccine. The invention also discloses methods of generating antibodies to PAD, for vaccinating a pig to provide protection from PRRSV infections, a method of preparing the vaccine, a method of treating PRRSV infections in a pig, and a method of detecting antibodies to PAD of PRRSV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782030 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08242904 | Brosius |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SkyBitz, Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Brosius (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-mode asset tracking and monitoring system and method is provided that enables comprehensive reporting of asset position, status, and alerts. In one embodiment, the multi-mode system and method is based on the addition of a local network monitoring system to a wide area satellite network monitoring system. In this example, the local network monitoring system would add container presence and status monitoring in crowded environments (e.g., within a port facility, on-board a ship, etc.), while the wide area satellite network monitoring system would provide tracking and monitoring coverage when the container is in dispersed environments. Both the local and wide area monitoring systems work together to provide end-to-end container tracking and monitoring to thereby ensure continuous container tracking and monitoring from container loading to container unloading. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031497 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08242284 | Gakh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei A. Gakh (Bethesda, Maryland); Mykhaylo V. Vovk (Kyiv, Ukraine); Nina V. Mel'nychenko (Kyiv, Ukraine); Volodymyr A. Sukach (Brovary, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to novel compounds having the structural Formulas (1a,1b), stereoisomers, tautomers, racemics, prodrugs, metabolites thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof as chemotherapy agents for treating of cancer, particularly androgen-independent prostate cancer. The disclosure also relates to methods for preparing said compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862168 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/306.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08242448 | Prater et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anasys Instruments Corporation (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Lo (Santa Barbara, California); Doug Gotthard (Carpinteria, California); Anthony Kurtz (Ventura, California); Kevin Kjoller (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic IR radiation power control, beam steering and focus adjustment for use in a nanoscale IR spectroscopy system based on an Atomic Force Microscope. During illumination with a beam from an IR source, an AFM probe tip interaction with a sample due to local IR sample absorption is monitored. The power of the illumination at the sample is dynamically decreased to minimize sample overheating in locations/wavelengths where absorption is high and increased in locations/wavelengths where absorption is low to maintain signal to noise. Beam alignment and focus optimization as a function of wavelength are automatically performed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927248 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08244809 | Krause et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Krause (Severna, Maryland); Wayne H. Orbke (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic message identification method and system is provided for identifying and managing electronic messages. The electronic message identification method and system may be used for sending an electronic file to a customer by receiving an approval from the customer indicating acceptable content for electronic files that are sent to the customer; receiving the electronic file from a sender, the electronic file including file content and a message content identifier corresponding to the file content; comparing the message content identifier to the approval from the customer; and delivering the file content to an electronic mailbox of the customer, if the message content identifier is consistent with the approval from the customer indicating acceptable content. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/311743 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08240941 | Kibel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmond Kibel (Placitas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexure for tilting having a neck which lies between a pair of cylindrical openings, each of which has a cross-sectional shape which is curved and elongated. A gimbal capable of tilting around mutually perpendicular axes which incorporates the flexure. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210457 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08241889 | Schisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of State (Washington, District of Columbia); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schisler (Morton, Illinois); Michael J. Boehm (Worthington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Strains of Cryptococcus flavescens which are superior antagonists of F. graminearum for suppression and control of FHB in cereals, particularly in wheat and barley, are described. The strains are prothioconazole tolerant variants of previously described C. flavescens OH 182.9 (NRRL Y-30216). Moreover, these prothioconazole tolerant variants exhibit significantly increased efficacy against F. graminearum in comparison to the parent strain OH 182.9. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511275 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/255.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 14, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2012/fedinvent-patents-20120814.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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