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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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| US 08261668 | Weinbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheldon Weinbaum (Brooklyn, New York); Yiannis Andreopoulus (Orangeburg, New York); Parisa Mirbod (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle track including a soft porous material and a vehicle which rides on the track by skiing cm the soft porous material. The vehicle has a large ski surface that rides on the soft porous material, supporting the weight of the vehicle at high speeds. Air within the soft porous material supplies most of the lift needed to support the train, Only a small amount of the support is provided by the structure of the porous material itself when the vehicle is in motion. As a result, the friction between the soft porous material and the ski surface may also be exceedingly small. To increase the amount of lift provided by the soft porous material it can be contained within a channel having impermeable sides and bottom. If the ski surface is substantially the same width as the channel, the impermeable sides prevent the air from escaping on either side of die ski surface. Accordingly, the trapped air contributes to greatly enhanced lift force. At lower speeds the vehicle can use wheels to support some or all of its weight. These wheels can ride on rails that are part of the track. The vehicle includes a propulsion system that is independent of the wheels so that it may travel over the soft porous material without running on the wheels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/001997 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Railways 14/23.200 |
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| US 08262579 | Parlikar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts); Roger G. Mark (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for prediction and detection of circulatory shock using estimates or measurements of arterial blood pressure, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, cardiac ejection fraction, cardiac contractility and ventricular end-diastolic volume are provided. These estimates and measurements are used to determine a type of circulatory shock. In some embodiments, the type of circulatory shock is determined to be one of septic shock, hypovolemic shock, anaphylactic shock, hemorrhagic shock, and cardiogenic shock. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122247 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
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| US 08262892 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Planet Strategies, L.L.C. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell which utilizes an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system that manipulates cathode particulates motion. A separate system circulates the liquid undergoing modification through the electrolytic cell. An unidirectional current driving system drives unidirectional electric current supported by the liquid streams from the anode through the anolyte and the separator and into the catholyte and to the cathode particulates and to the current feeder device during the contact between the cathode particulates and the current feeder device. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020447 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263043 | Ahrens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric T. Ahrens (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mangala Srinivas (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, in part, a method for quantifying cell numbers in vivo. The disclosure comprises a method of quantifying labeled cells by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques and a computer method for the same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787521 |
| 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 424/9.340 |
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| US 08263060 | Uhrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (Plainfield, New Jersey); Young Mi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polyanhydrides that degrade in less than 60 hours following topical administration to deliver biologically active compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/915284 |
| 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 424/78.80 |
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| US 08263068 | Skinner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Skinner (Pullman, Washington); Jaideep Chaudhary (Atlanta, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to modified cells carrying a heterologous gene sequence encoding a protein, such as an Inhibitor of differentiation (Id) gene sequence that binds a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein to inhibit cell growth, differentiation and/or tumorigenesis of the modified cells. The modified cells are differentiated, proliferate and do not become tumorigenic when grafted into a recipient subject. Additionally, the modified cells produce a factor or factors that enhance the viability of co-grafted organs, tissues or cells. Thus, the modified cells are useful for testing agents for effects on the cells, for co-grafting with transplant organs, tissues or cells. The modified cells are also useful for enhancing the viability of thawing cells that have been cryo-preserved. In one embodiment, the modified cells are modified Sertoli cells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/587888 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 08263085 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Silverman (Beachwood, Ohio); Eric A. Klein (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Graham Casey (Pasadena, California); Joseph DeRisi (San Francisco, California); Don Ganem (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding viruses; isolated polypeptides comprising amino acid sequences of the virus; vectors comprising the viral nucleic acid sequences; cells comprising the vectors; antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof which have binding specificity for the virus; methods of detecting or screening for the virus (e.g., in an individual); methods of identifying agents that inhibit the virus; methods of inducing an immune response to the virus; methods of treating disease associated with the presence of XMRV in an individual (e.g., cancer such as prostate cancer); methods of detecting asymptomatic cancer (e.g., prostate cancer); methods of identifying an individual at risk for developing cancer (e.g., prostate cancer); and kits for detecting the virus. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903756 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/207.100 |
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| US 08263087 | Vilalta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Margalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for systemic immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from herpes simplex virus. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604694 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/231.100 |
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| US 08263091 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed herein for increasing an immune response to an opportunistic infection in an immunocompromised subject. In one embodiment, the subject is infected with a lentivirus. The method includes increasing an immune response to a pathogen using D oligodeoxynucleotides including a CpG motif. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666022 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/278.100 |
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| US 08263104 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Ho (Chicago, Illinois); Mark Chen (Chicago, Illinois); Erik Pierstorff (Highland Park, Illinois); Houjin Huang (Evanston, Illinois); Edward K Chow (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Genhong Cheng (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are nanofilm coatings for implantable medical devices comprising a diblock or triblock copolymer (PEO-PMMA or PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA, respectively). Such nanofilms, may be used, for example, as amphiphilic supports for therapeutic agents. These materials are conducive towards the formation of active substrates for a suite of biological and medical applications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135640 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
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| US 08263108 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Durect Corporation (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Gibson (Springville, Alabama); Arthur J. Tipton (Homewood, Alabama); Richard J. Holl (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Stacey Meador (Vance, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial implant has been developed using entirely biodegradable polymeric materials. As referred to herein, a coaxial implant is a device having a core containing drug, surrounded by a semi-permeable membrane that controls the rate of release of material from the core. The device is formed by extrusion, using a pre-milling and extruding step to maximize uniformity of drug dispersion within the polymeric material. In one embodiment, the polymer is processed to yield a semi-crystalline polymer, rather than an amorphous polymer. The core containing the drug and the polymer membrane(s) can be the same or different polymer. The polymer can be the same or different composition (i.e., both polycaprolactone, or both poly(lactide-co-glycolide) of different monomer ratios, or polycaprolactone outside of a core of poly(lactide)), of the same or different molecular weights, and of the same or different chemical structure (i.e., crystalline, semi-crystalline or amorphous). The core acts as a reservoir of drug, which partitions from the core polymer to form a saturated solution of at least 10% drug at the polymer membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177997 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/426 |
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| US 08263127 | Alferiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Alferiev (Clementon, New Jersey); Ilia Fishbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael Chorny (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Benjamin Yellen (Durham, Pennsylvania); Darryl Williams (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A water-soluble photo-activatable polymer including: a photo-activatable group adapted to be activated by an irradiation source and to form a covalent bond between the water-soluble photo-activatable polymer and a matrix having at least one carbon; a reactive group adapted to covalently react with a biomaterial for subsequent delivery of the biomaterial to a cell; a hydrophilic group; and a polymer precursor. A composition including a monomolecular layer of the water-soluble photo-activatable polymer and a matrix having at least one carbon, wherein the monomolecular layer is covalently attached to the matrix by a covalent bond between the photo-activatable group and the at least one carbon. The composition further includes a biomaterial having a plurality of active groups, wherein the biomaterial is covalently attached to the monomolecular layer by covalent bonding between the active groups and reactive groups. Also provided is a method for delivery of a biomaterial to a cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633593 |
| 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 424/484 |
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| US 08263329 | Gollin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susanne M. Gollin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rahul Atul Parikh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xin Huang (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery that, in human cancer, an 11q deletion of ATM together with an increase in ATR and CHEK1 expression correlates with resistance to ionizing radiation which could be overcome by inhibition of the ATR/CHEK1 pathway. It provides for methods of identifying patients unlikely to exhibit an adequate response to radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy who may benefit from ATR/CHEK1 pathway inhibition, as well as methods of treating said patients. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079900 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08263332 | Tsai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun Tsai (Stanford, California); Seonhi Kim (Menlo Park, California); Gilbert Chu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mismatched end DNA ligase is provided, which ligates two single strands to each other at a high efficiency, even if the other two single strands are not compatible. In one embodiment, the polypeptides of the ligase are Ku, Cernunnos, and XRCC4/Ligase4 (XL). This association can ligate DNA ends with a 3′ overhang to a recessed 5′ end, to a blunt end, or to a compatible end. In another embodiment, the proteins are Ku, Cernunnos, XRCC4/Ligase4 (XL) and DNA-PK. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871023 |
| 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 |
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| US 08263337 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); D. Kay Phillips (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes method of determining if a subject has a genetic predisposition to clinically diagnosed schizophrenia (SZ), schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), and/or schizoaffective disorder (SD). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282857 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08263339 | Hanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RiboMed Biotechnologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle M. Hanna (Carlsbad, California); David McCarthy (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for detecting biomarkers based on Abscription®, abortive transcription technology. Particularly, the present invention provides bisulfate free methods for detecting methylation of CpG islands from small samples of DNA. The methods are suitable for multiplexing and can be used to analyze multiple CpG islands from a single sample in a short time. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724416 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
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| US 08263349 | Spiegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sankyo Company, Limited (Tokyo, Japan); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Spiegel (McLean, Virginia); Takafumi Kohama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies which are specific for a mammalian sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform protein and methods for detecting the presence of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform using the antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804664 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08263350 | Koide et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois); Jin Huang (Beijing, China PRC); Akiko Koide (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a molecular affinity clamp. The architecture of the affinity clamp is modular with two biorecognition modules, each capable of binding a target motif. The first biorecognition module has a recognition domain that possesses inherent or natural specificity for the target motif. The second biorecognition module also has a recognition domain that binds the motif. The two biorecognition modules are tethered together either directly, e.g., via a peptide bond between the two modules, or indirectly, e.g., via a linker moiety or linker. The invention further provides a novel affinity ligand which is specifically bound by the molecular affinity clamps of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826322 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08263356 | Bowen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Bowen (Victor, New York); Anne Vacca Smith (Rochester, New York); Robert Berkowitz (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies, binding portions thereof, or probes that bind specifically to glucosyltransferase enzymes, and uses of these agents for detecting glucosyltransferase enzyme(s) in a sample and for diagnosing predisposition of a human child to early childhood caries. The present invention also relates to a kit for detecting a glucosyltransferase enzyme in an oral sample from an animal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/464378 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
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| US 08263360 | Mossoba 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) | Magdi Mossoba (Great Falls, Virginia); Suflan Al-Khaldi (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features hydrophilic IR-transparent porous membranes, particularly hydrophilic IR-transparent porous polyethylene membranes and methods of preparing the hydrophilic membranes by treatment of hydrophobic IR-transparent porous membranes with plasma. The present invention further features spectroscopic sample holders which incorporate the hydrophilic IR-transparent porous membranes and methods of identifying bacteria and other microorganisms in samples by infrared spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150048 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
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| US 08263396 | Xiao |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Weidong Xiao (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of a replication-deficient recombinant virus vector is disclosed. The replication-deficient recombinant virus vector has a recombinant virus genome with one or more defective viral genes. The method comprises infecting a host cell with a carrier virus having a carrier virus genome encoding one or more trans factors or variants thereof, incubating the infected host cell for a desired period of time, and isolating the replication-deficient recombinant virus vector. The carrier virus is a cytoplasmic virus that retains the carrier virus genome in the cytoplasm of the host cell. The host cell contains the recombinant viral genome and retains the recombinant viral genome in a nucleus of the host cell. Also disclosed is a carrier virus for the production of a replication-deficient recombinant virus vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/662165 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08263397 | Benes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen Benes (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an insect expression system that may be used to provide biological control of pest insects and control transmission of infectious diseases transmitted to the human population by insects. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/722968 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08263401 | Vatner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Vatner (Barnegat Light, New Jersey); Dorothy E. Vatner (Barnegat Light, New Jersey); Junichi Sadoshima (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Jayashree Pain (Livingston, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating cardiac conditions and neurodegenerative diseases using antibodies which specifically recognize and bind to the adenylyl cyclase 5 isoform in the heart and brain. These antibodies demonstrate high specificity to the AC5 isoform and do not cross react to any other AC5 isoform. The invention further relates to methods of delivery of drugs to the site of injured tissue using the antibodies of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/597065 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/326 |
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| US 08263406 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Neeta Singh Roy (New York, New York); Takahiro Nakano (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of isolating an enriched or purified population of motor neurons from a population of embryonic stem cells. This method involves providing a population of embryonic stem cells and selecting a promoter or enhancer which functions only in the motor neurons selected. A nucleic acid molecule encoding a marker protein under control of the promoter or enhancer is introduced into the induced population of embryonic stem cells. The motor neurons are allowed to express the marker protein and, the cells expressed in the marker protein are separated from the population of embryonic stem cells. The population of embryonic stem cells can be induced to produce a mixed population of cells comprising motor neurons before or after a nucleic acid molecule encoding the marker protein under control of the promoter enhancer is introduced into the population of embryonic stem cells. As a result, an enriched or purified population of motor neurons is isolated. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865637 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 08263411 | Levicky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of NYU (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rastislav Levicky (Irvington, New York); Napoleon Tercero (New York, New York); Kang Wang (Staten Island, New York); Ping Gong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to monitor the progress of hybridization between nucleic acid strands in solution and Morpholino strands immobilized on a solid support such as a working electrode in-situ, in real-time, and using label-free electrochemical measurements sensitive to hybridization-induced changes in the near-surface dielectric constant and charge organization. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362071 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263417 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianghong Rao (Palo Alto, California); Min-kyung So (Stanford, California); Chenjie Xu (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Andreas M. Loening (Stanford, California); Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally, conjugate systems, self-illuminating quantum dot conjugates, methods of detecting a target in a host, methods of treating a disease in a host, and the like, are described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/159150 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263556 | Du Clos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry W. Du Clos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carolyn Mold (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of suppressive macrophage or dendritic cells (activated with C-reactive protein or CRP-related compounds), for the treatment of various disease states and conditions associated with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and/or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including lupus of the skin (discoid), systemic lupus of the joints, lungs and kidneys, hematological conditions including hemolytic anemia and low lymphocyte counts, lymphadenopathy and CNS effects, including memory loss, seizures and psychosis, among numerous others as otherwise disclosed herein. In another aspect of the invention, the reduction in the likelihood that a patient who is at risk for an outbreak of a disease state or condition associated with systemic lupus erythematosus or ITP will have an outbreak is an additional aspect of the present invention. In the case of ITP, methods of the present invention are used to increase platelet counts in the treated patient. In addition, in the case of ITP, the present invention relates to the use of CRP or a CRP-related compound in the absence of suppressive macrophages for the treatment of ITP. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312090 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263560 | Strome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott E. Strome (Reisterstown, Maryland); Esteban Celis (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to Trojan antigens, and immunogenic compositions comprising the Trojan antigens. The present invention also relates to methods of generating an immune response in a subject using the Trojan antigens or immunogenic compositions. The present invention further relates to methods of treating squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) using the Trojan antigens and immunogenic compositions of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837737 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263563 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robert E. Smith (Cominskey, Indiana); Judith Smith (Comiskey, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Smith (Livermore, California); Judith Smith, legal representative (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors for the endoprotease furin are provided for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and study of human and animal pathologies, which involve furin activity. These pathologies include infections caused by bacteria and virus that exploit host furin activity. These pathologies also include diseases that involve the expression of host proproteins that are processed by furin as a part of growth, development, and maintenance of the host organism including certain cancers of the head and neck. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/572399 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263576 | Pagano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Pagano (Rochester, Minnesota); Robert Bittman (Roslyn Heights, New York); David L. Marks (Rochester, Minnesota); Hirohito Kita (Rochester, Minnesota); Ramandeep S. Takhter (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a composition useful for inhibiting caveolar endocytosis, plasma membrane microdomain formation, virus binding and infection, transmembrane signaling, and integrin function in cells. The composition is composed of non-natural analogs of sphingolipids, and may have applications in the treatment or amelioration of diseases associated with caveolar endocytosis, plasma membrane microdomain formation, transmembrane signaling, and integrin function. Methods for making and using the described composition are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839024 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263640 | Dirusso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Concetta Dirusso (Lincoln, Nebraska); Paul Black (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes inhibitors of fatty acid uptake and methods of using such inhibitors. Specifically, the present disclosure describes inhibitors with specificity for FATP2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791323 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263642 | Skaar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Skaar (Nashville, Tennessee); Devin Stauff (Nashville, Tennessee); Olusegun O. Aranmolate (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds and methods useful for activating heme sensor systems; for decreasing virulence of bacteria, for example, Staphylococcus aureus; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating microbial-related disorders. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/491988 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263651 | Hammock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Ahmet Bora Inceoglu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the discovery that cis-epoxyeicosatraenoic acids (EETs) bind to and act as agonists of peripheral benzodiazepine receptor and the cannabinoid CB2 receptor. The invention provides methods of reducing symptoms of conditions whose activity is mediated by these receptors, including inhibiting anxiety, inhibiting the growth of cancer cells expressing peripheral benzodiazepine receptors, and reducing oxygen radical damage to cells, by contacting the cells with a cis-epoxyeicosantrienoic acid, an inhibitor of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), or both. The invention further provides methods of inhibiting irritable bowel syndrome by administering to individuals with inhibiting irritable bowel syndrome a cis-epoxyeicosantrienoic acid, an inhibitor of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), or both. In some embodiments, the method comprises administering to the individual a nucleic acid which inhibits expression of sEH. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518549 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263664 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongin Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zhonggao Gao (Salt Lake City, Utah); Eun Seong Lee (Salt Lake City, Utah); You Han Bae (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed micelles containing poly(L-histidine-co-phenylalanine)-poly(ethylene glycol) block copolymer and poly(L-lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) block copolymer are a pH-sensitive drug carrier that release the drug in an acidic microenvironment, but not in the blood. Since the microenvironment of solid tumors is acidic, these mixed micelles are useful for treating cancer, including those cancers exhibiting multidrug resistance. Targeting ligands, such as folate, can also be attached to the mixed micelles for enhancing drug delivery into cells. Methods of treating a warm-blooded animal with such a drug are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487574 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263738 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhao Yi Wang (Bellevue, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO:20, wherein the polypeptide has ER-α36 activity. The invention further provides methods for identifying agents that bind to such polypeptides, methods for detecting such polypeptides, and methods for altering the activity of such polypeptides. Also provided are antibodies that specifically bind to an amino acid sequence depicted at SEQ ID NO:1, or an immunogenic fragment thereof, and methods for making and using such antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/177523 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263741 | Koide |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shohei Koide (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fibronectin type III (Fn3) molecule, wherein the Fn3 contains a stabilizing mutation. The present invention also provides Fn3 polypeptide monobodies, nucleic acid molecules encoding monobodies, and variegated nucleic acid libraries encoding such monobodies. Also provided are methods of preparing a Fn3 polypeptide monobody, and kits to perform the methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903412 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263742 | Dunn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Dunn (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for enriching methyl-CpG sequences from a DNA sample. The method makes use of conversion of cytosine residues to uracil under conditions in which methyl-cytosine residues are preserved. Additional methods of the invention enable to preservation of the context of me-CpG dinucleotides. The invention also provides a recombinant, full length and substantially pure McrA protein (rMcrA) for binding and isolation of DNA fragments containing the sequence 5′-CMeCpGG-3′. Methods for making and using the rMcrA protein, and derivatives thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085219 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/358 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263754 | Gellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Pil Seok Chae (Madison, Wisconsin); Philip D. Laible (Villa Park, Illinois); Marc J. Wander (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides amphiphiles for manipulating membrane proteins. The amphiphiles can feature carbohydrate-derived hydrophilic groups and branchpoints in the hydrophilic moiety and/or in a lipophilic moiety. Such amphiphiles are useful as detergents for solubilization and stabilization of membrane proteins, including photosynthetic protein superassemblies obtained from bacterial membranes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420701 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263759 | Khan 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) | Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Markus Ringner (Lund, Sweden); Carsten Peterson (Lund, Sweden); Paul Meltzer (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of diagnosing a disease that includes obtaining experimental data on gene selections. The gene selection functions to characterize a cancer when the expression of that gene selection is compared to the identical selection from a noncancerous cell or a different type of cancer cell. The invention also includes a method of targeting at least one product of a gene that includes administration of a therapeutic agent. The invention also includes the use of a gene selection for diagnosing a cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981502 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263762 | Beauglehole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dogwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony R. Beauglehole (Charlottesville, Virginia); Frank W. Schmidtmann (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Robert Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are alkoxy-carbonyl-amino-alkynyl-adenosine compounds and derivatives thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same that are selective agonists of A2A adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827932 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/27.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263774 | Sigman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Scott Sigman (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian William Michel (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A quinoline-oxazoline compound having the formula: where one of X1 and X2 is N and the other is C and one of R1, R2 and R3 is Z wherein Z is an oxazoline radical having the formula such that when X1 is N R2 is Z and R1 is absent, and when X2 is N either R1 or R3 is Z and R2 is absent. R1 and R3 through R12 are independently H or a pendant moiety which does not interfere with coordination of either N in the quinoline compound with a coordination center. These compounds can be complexed with a suitable coordination center such as catalytically active palladium and can be highly useful in catalytically oxidizing alkenes with high regioselectivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553352 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263807 | Wentland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Wentland (Menands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formulas: are disclosed. The compounds are useful for ameliorating the side effects of therapeutic opiates. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188814 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264683 | Matula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Matula (Kirkland, Washington); Jarred Swalwell (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Flow cytometry concepts are modified to enable dynamic characterizations of particles to be obtained using optical scattering data. Particles in flow will be introduced into a sample volume. Light scattered by a particle in the sample volume is collected and analyzed. What differentiates the concepts disclosed herein from conventional flow cytometry is the use of an acoustic source that is disposed to direct acoustic energy into the sample volume. As the particle passes through the sample volume, it responds to the acoustic energy, causing changes in the light scattered by the particle. Those changes, which are not measured during conventional flow cytometry, can be analyzed to determine additional physical properties of the particle. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497281 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264687 | Lundquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Lundquist (San Jose, California); Denis Zaccarin (San Jose, California); Yves Lacroix (San Jose, California); Mark Maxham (Redwood City, California); Mathieu Foquet (Redwood City, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the signals onto detector arrays, from which such signals may be subjected to additional processing. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/102551 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265360 | Sornborger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Sornborger (Athens, Georgia); James D. Lauderdale (Statham, Georgia); Charles H. Keith (Bluffton, South Carolina); Josef M. Broder (Ithaca, New York); Jeremy L. Praissman (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for analyzing ratiometric data, e.g., ratiometric image data such as fluorescent image data, may generate a correlation matrix for the ratiometric data, generate a plurality of eigenvalues and a plurality of eigenvectors based on the correlation matrix, select a set of eigenvectors from the plurality of eigenvectors, and reconstruct a set of enhanced ratiometric data for use in analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200046 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265728 | MacMahon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heber MacMahon (Chicago, Illinois); Samuel G. Armato, III (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, method and computer program product for performing computer aided diagnosis on temporal subtraction images of objects. A mode of a gray-level histogram is identified, and a gray-level threshold is established at a predefined fraction of this modal value. All pixels with gray levels below this threshold that lie within the lung regions of the temporal subtraction image remain “on,” while all other pixels are set to zero. Area and circularity requirements are imposed to eliminate false-positive regions. Areas of pathologic change identified in this manner may be presented as outlines in the subtraction image or as highlighted regions in the original radiographic image so that, in effect, temporal subtraction becomes a “background” process for computer-aided diagnosis. The present invention is also directed to method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing temporal subtraction on energy subtraction images, with or without subsequent computer aided diagnosis, of objects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721827 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265730 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene J. Alexander (San Francisco, California); Thomas P. Andriacchi (Los Altos Hills, California); Philipp Lang (San Francisco, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/882363 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265742 | Nikitin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C. (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei V. Nikitin (Lawrence, Kansas); Mark G. Frei (Oviedo, Florida); Naresh C. Bhavaraju (Lawrence, Kansas); Ivan Osoria (Leawood, Kansas); Ruslan Davidchak (Wigston, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer program, and system for real-time signal analysis providing characterization of temporally-evolving densities and distributions of signal features of arbitrary-type signals in a moving time window by tracking output of order statistic filters (also known as percentile, quantile, or rank-order filters). Given a raw input signal of arbitrary type, origin, or scale, the present invention enables automated quantification and detection of changes in the distribution of any set of quantifiable features of that signal as they occur in time. Furthermore, the present invention's ability to rapidly and accurately detect changes in certain features of an input signal can also enable prediction in cases where the detected changes associated with an increased likelihood of future signal changes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724738 |
| 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 | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08262031 | Zha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gecheng Zha (Miami, Florida); Sebastian Aspe (Madrid, Spain); Joseph John Dussling (Westlake, Ohio); Nicholas Ramsay Heinz (Freeport, Maine); Daniel J. Martinez (Miami Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an aircraft having one or more fixed wings in a flying wing configuration, where the aircraft further includes a high performance co-flow jet (CFJ) circulating about at least a portion of an aircraft surface to produce both lift and thrust. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119193 |
| 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 244/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262938 | Matzdorf 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) | Craig Matzdorf (California, Maryland); William Nickerson (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Chromate-free corrosion-inhibiting coating compositions comprising film-forming binders and galvanic aluminum alloy powders prepared in an oxygen (oxidizing), nitrogen (inert) or nitrogen-hydrogen (reducing) atmosphere having particle sizes ranging up to 100 microns. The aluminum alloy powders having the formula: aluminum-zinc-X (AlZnX) wherein X is an element selected from the group consisting of indium, gallium, tin and bismuth. Improvement in corrosion protection is obtained by the addition of chemical inhibitors such as an azole or talcite clay to the coating which further inhibits the self-corrosion of the aluminum alloy and extends the corrosion protection of the metal substrate being protected. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010830 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/387 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262978 | Wapner 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) | Phillip G. Wapner (Palmdale, California); Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In the present invention, a technique is described for manufacturing microtube devices which have peripheral geometries that are not uniform along the tube or device axis. These geometries may exist in only one location on the periphery of the microtube device or geometries may be repeated either uniformly or non-uniformly with micron or sub-micron precision along the tube or device axis. The preferred manufacturing process involves forming a complex mandrel, ie., (one, for example, that can not be formed by extrusion or pultrusion under constant processing conditions) and giving it at least one metallic and/or nonmetallic coating by any of a variety of techniques. The complex mandrel can then be removed by appropriate chemical or physical means that do not adversely affect the coating(s) desired for the wall. The result is a microtube structure having an axial profile duplicating that on the mandrel from which it was formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174223 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263129 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Benjamin W. Maynor (Durham, North Carolina); Larken E. Euliss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Ansley E Dennis (Augusta, Georgia); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter describes the use of fluorinated elastomer-based materials, in particular perfluoropolyether (PFPE)-based materials, in high-resolution soft or imprint lithographic applications, such as micro- and nanoscale replica molding, and the first nano-contact molding of organic materials to generate high fidelity features using an elastomeric mold. Accordingly, the presently disclosed subject matter describes a method for producing free-standing, isolated nanostructures of any shape using soft or imprint lithography techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/583570 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263192 | Koberstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Peng Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Feng Pan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods for coating monolayer films of surface-active polymers onto substrates of arbitrary shape, and molecular-based methods and processes to control the chemical and physical nature of surfaces and interfaces. The invention is also directed to methods for modifying a surface of a monolayer comprising a) coating a monolayer on a substrate, wherein the monolayer is formed by self-assembly of end-surfactant molecules, thereby positioning a photoactive functional group at the air-monolayer interface; and b) exposing the monolayer to radiation, wherein each organic group of the monolayer contains a first functionality that is not converted to a second functionality upon exposure to acid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454652 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263349 | Spiegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sankyo Company, Limited (Tokyo, Japan); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Spiegel (McLean, Virginia); Takafumi Kohama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies which are specific for a mammalian sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform protein and methods for detecting the presence of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform using the antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804664 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263515 | Dogan |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Fatih Dogan (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A high energy density multilayer ceramic capacitor, having at least two electrode layers and at least one substantially dense polycrystalline dielectric layer positioned therebetween. The at polycrystalline dielectric layer has an average grain size of less than about 300 nanometers, a particle size distribution of between about 150 nanometers and about 3 micrometers, and a maximum porosity of about 1 percent. The dielectric layer is selected from the group including TiO2, BaTiO3, Al2O3, ZrO2, lead zirconium titanate, and combinations thereof and has a breakdown strength of at least about 1100 kV per centimeter. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550373 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263639 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Stewart (Washington, District of Columbia); Kimihiro Susumu (Alexandria, Virginia); Bing C. Mei (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hedi M Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are the compounds shown below and methods of their synthesis. The value m is a positive integer. R comprises an alkyl chain or an alkoxy chain. Each X comprises a metal binding group. Each E is a methoxy group or comprises a biomolecule reactive group or a residue thereof. E optionally comprises a protecting group. The value n is a positive integer. The value p is zero or one. Y is OCH3, OH, NH2, or COOH. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/764366 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263727 | Kolel-Veetil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula below. Each R is methyl or phenyl; R2 comprises one or more of silane, siloxane, and aromatic groups; n is a nonnegative integer; and m is 1 or 2. The dashed bond is a single bond and the double dashed bond is a double bond, or the dashed bond is a double bond and the double dashed bond is a triple bond. A polymer made by a hydrosilation reaction of a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane having pendant siloxane groups with an acetylene- and silicon-containing compound having at least two vinyl or ethynyl groups, and a crosslinked polymer thereof. The reaction occurs between the pendant siloxane groups and the vinyl or ethynyl groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479386 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263747 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Peter Amersdorfer (Graz, Austria); Ali Razai (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to and neutralize botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353237 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263853 | Varghese |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tansen Varghese (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a plurality of discrete, interconnected solar cells mounted on a carrier by providing a first semiconductor substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell structure; forming a metal back contact layer over the solar cell structure; mounting a carrier on top of the metal back contact; removing the first substrate; and lithographically patterning and etching the solar cell structure to form a plurality of discrete solar cells mounted on the carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187477 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263856 | Cornfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Jacqueline Diaz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a solar cell by providing a first substrate; depositing sequentially on the first substrate a plurality of semiconductor layers, the plurality of semiconductor layers comprising a first layer and a last layer in the direction of deposition; forming a backside contact layer on the last semiconductor layer; forming on the last semiconductor layer a back cathode contact isolated from at least a first portion of the backside contact layer, the first portion forming the anode contact; attaching a second substrate on the backside contact layer and removing the first substrate to expose the first semiconductor layer and to define a front surface and an opposite back surface of a solar cell; forming a front cathode contact on the front surface of the solar cell; etching a first trench through the plurality of semiconductor layers to define an active portion of the solar cell with a first mesa structure including the front cathode contact and the anode contact and being surrounded by the first trench, the first mesa having a first sidewall in the first trench and a lateral peripheral region beyond the sidewall, and forming in the lateral peripheral region an electrically conductive layer extending from the front surface where it is electrically connected to the front cathode contact along the first sidewall of the first trench to be electrically connected to the back cathode contact. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537361 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263879 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Hougham (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gerard McVicker (Yorktown Heights, New York); Xiaoxiong Gu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sung K. Kang (Yorktown Heights, New York); Frank R. Libsch (Yorktown Heights, New York); Xiao H. Liu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact structure and assembly and a method for manufacturing the same for a microelectronics device includes first and second electrically conductive contacts being helically shaped. A carrier element is attached to and positioned between the first and second contacts. The first and second contacts are in electrical communication with each other, and the first and second contacts are in a mirror image relationship with each other. A pair of insulating substrates each include electrically conductive members. A contact point on each of the first and second contacts is attached and electrically communicating to respective electrically conductive members such that the first and second electrically conductive contacts between the pair of insulating substrates form an electrically conductive package. A metal layer on the carrier element provides electrical conductivity through a first opening defined by the carrier element between the first and second portions of the helix shaped contact. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614224 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264058 | Santi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrico Santi (Columbia, South Carolina); Zhiyang Chen (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Grekov (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A MOSFET driver compatible JFET device is disclosed. The JFET device can include a gate contact, a drain contact, and a source contact. The JFET device can further include a first gate region of semiconductor material adjacent the gate contact and a second region of semiconductor material adjacent the first gate region. The first gate region and the second gate region can form a first p-n junction between the first gate region and the second gate region. The JFET device can further include a channel region of semiconductor material adjacent the source contact. The channel region and the second gate region can form a second p-n junction between the second gate region and the channel region. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704631 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264397 | Paek 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) | Eung Gi Paek (Germantown, Maryland); Joon Y Choe (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A Time Transfer Time Reverse Mirror (TT TRM) method and system includes a radio transceiver for transmitting a series of short pulses repeatedly at a period T and for receiving from a remote node a return signal that is a retransmission of the original signal at the same period T: a clock circuit for inputting a clock signal to the transceiver: and a computer for (i) computing and generating an imaginary time-reversed signal version of the original signal, (ii) comparing the return signal with the imaginary version, (iii) computing a delay between the return signal and the imaginary version that is substantially equal to twice the time difference between the two nodes, and (iv) applying the computed delay to a clock input calibration for a desired signal. The system includes time transfer using the ionospheric reflection (refraction), producing precise synchronization among remote nodes beyond the line-of-sight and thus without necessitating GPS or communication satellites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911817 |
| 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 342/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264409 | Miller |
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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) | Gerald F. Miller (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic radiation source locating system including an electromagnetic radiation sensor including an antenna configured to detect a radiant energy transmission. A position detector is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the position of the antenna relative to a reference coordinate system, while an orientation sensor is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the orientation of the antenna and provide an orientation signal to the controller. A range sensor is configured to detect the distance to an aligned object in the path of a directional vector and provide a distance signal indicative thereof to the controller. An aerial vehicle may be in communication with the controller and configured to drop a marker for guiding navigators to the source of the radiant energy transmission. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/363365 |
| 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 342/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264417 | Snow 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. Snow (Bloomington, Indiana); Thomas Ball (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna structure and a method of propagating an electromagnetic (EM) wave with the antenna structure. The antenna structure comprises a first aperture antenna element and a second element inside the first element adapted to strengthen the directivity of the wave. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540114 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/786 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264486 | 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 Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana); Matthew Juhl (Springville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-speed modeling system and a method of constructing a model are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system comprises first and second cameras, a control portion to synchronize the first and second cameras, and a projector of electromagnetic patterns. The first and second cameras are synchronized by the control portion to generate second frames a time interval after first frames are generated to thereby obtain a high frame-rate which is higher than the frame-rate of the first camera. Multiple imaging stations comprising first and second cameras may be directed to the path traveled by a mass at a high speed, in a prescribed arrangement, to model the mass with the high frame-rate system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509428 |
| 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 08264490 | Debevec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California); Abhijeet Ghosh (Playa del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for modeling layered facial reflectance consisting of specular reflectance, single scattering, and shallow and deep subsurface scattering. Parameters of appropriate reflectance models can be estimated for each of these layers, e.g., from just 20 photographs recorded in a few seconds from a single view-point. Spatially-varying specular reflectance and single-scattering parameters can be extracted from polarization-difference images under spherical and point source illumination. Direct-indirect separation can be employed to decompose the remaining multiple scattering observed under cross-polarization into shallow and deep scattering components to model the light transport through multiple layers of skin. Appropriate diffusion models can be matched to the extracted shallow and deep scattering components for different regions on the face. The techniques were validated by comparing renderings of subjects to reference photographs recorded from novel viewpoints and under novel illumination conditions. Related geometry acquisition systems and software products are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364370 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264681 | Misra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anupam Kumar Misra (Honolulu, Hawaii); Shiv Kumar Sharma (Honolulu, Hawaii); Paul Grandmont Lucey (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | An spectrometer including Raman and LIBS spectroscopy capabilities is disclosed. The spectrometer includes a laser source configurable to produce a lased light directable towards a target substance, the laser source having a single wavelength and having sufficient power to cause a portion of the target to emit Raman scattering and sufficient to ablate a portion of the target substance to produce a plasma plume. A separate remote light collector is optically configurable to collect light emitted from the portion of the target emitting Raman scattering and from the portion of the target producing the plasma plume. A filter is optically coupled to the remote light collector to remove reflected light and Rayleigh-scattered light, and a spectroscope is optically coupled to the filter and configured to separate the collected and filtered light into a frequency spectrum comprising a Raman spectrum and a laser-induced breakdown spectrum. Finally, an electronic light sensor is used to record the frequency spectrum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639393 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264909 | Russo 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) | Donato M. Russo (Hollywood, Maryland); Ronald Buratti (Drayden, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for making an accurate estimate of the activation depth for an impulse acoustic source includes recording sounds produced by the activation of the underwater impulse acoustic source over a time period sufficient to capture reverberation, performing a cepstral scan of the recording to determine a quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source and deriving a depth estimate from the quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698679 |
| 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 367/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265085 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockstar Bidco LP (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); Richard Vickers (Kanata, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | In a communication network comprising nodes and links between the nodes, a controller node disseminates link state information. A nodal routing table exists at each node comprising routes between pairs of nodes. The nodal routing table is either populated by the given node based on network information received from the controlling node or populated at the controlling node and received by the given node. Each node receives heartbeat signals from its neighboring nodes. An unexpected delay between heartbeat signals may be perceived as a failure of a link. The perceived failure of that link is reported by the perceiving node to the controlling node. Upon receiving link failure information from a node, the controlling node may determine a subset of nodes in the network influenced by the link failure and indicate the link failure to the determined subset of influenced nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208056 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265107 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AdValue Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Luo (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser glass fiber with a core of the fiber comprising a silicate glass host, one or more glass network modifiers, one or more glass network intermediators, and Thulium ions, Holmium ions, or a combination of Thulium ions and Holmium ions. The fiber emits laser light from 1.7 micron to 2.2 micron. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/364009 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265280 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nucrypt LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kim Lee (Houghton, Michigan); Gregory S. Kanter (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus and method for producing entangled photon pairs via four-wave mixing in optical fiber. The source of entangled photons is designed to be stable with no manual alignment. This is accomplished with proper system design using polarization maintaining fibers or polarization controllers with feedback control. The source may contain a method of switching the output from an unpolarized entangled state to a polarized state, where the polarized state can be used to more easily align subsequent photon measurement systems to the proper configuration for measuring the unpolarized entangled state. The invention further provides a means to engineer the apparatus, including the use of a periodic filter common to both entangled pairs, such that the wavelength spacing between the pairs can be optimized such that multiple pairs can be generated with reduced adverse influence from Raman scattering. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372213 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265291 | Bridger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Active Signal Technologies, Inc. (Linthicum, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Bridger (Washington, District of Columbia); Arthur V. Cooke (Baltimore, Maryland); Dennis J. Kohlhafer (Ellicott City, Maryland); Joseph J. Lutian (Arnold, Maryland); John M. Sewell (Glen Rock, Pennsylvania); Richard E. Strite (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A physiological sensing stethoscope suitable for use in high-noise environments is disclosed. The stethoscope is designed to be substantially matched to the mechanical impedance of monitored physiological activity and substantially mismatched to the mechanical impedance of air-coupled acoustic activity. One embodiment of the stethoscope utilizes a passive acoustic system. Another embodiment utilizes an active Doppler system. The passive and active systems can be combined in one stethoscope enabling switching from a passive mode to an active mode suitable for use in very high-noise environments. The stethoscope is suitable for use in environments having an ambient background noise of 100 dBA and higher. The passive includes a head having a housing, a flexural disc mounted with the housing, and an electromechanical stack positioned between the housing and the flexural disc in contact with the skin of a patient. The active system detects Doppler shifts using a high-frequency transmitter and receiver. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599833 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265375 | Shirley |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle G. Shirley (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods to extract information about the size and shape of an object by observing variations of the radiation pattern caused by illuminating the object with coherent radiation sources and changing the wavelengths of the source. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are described for recovering the image of an object utilizing projected and transparent reference points and radiation sources such as tunable lasers. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are also described for rapid sensing of such radiation patterns. A computational system and method is also described for sensing and reconstructing the image from its autocorrelation. This computational approach uses the fact that the autocorrelation is the weighted sum of shifted copies of an image, where the shifts are obtained by sequentially placing each individual scattering cell of the object at the origin of the autocorrelation space. This computational approach reconstructs the image by eliminating all but one of these copies. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764196 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265432 | Doany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical module. The optical module includes an opto-chip. The opto-chip includes an integrated circuit with optical windows and a plurality of optoelectronic devices positioned in alignment with the optical windows. The plurality of optoelectronic devices are flip chip attached to the integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045186 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265433 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Jin Yao (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical switch is described that includes two optical waveguides, which are defined in a semiconductor layer, positioned proximate to an intermediate component, such as a micro-resonator or a directional coupler. Material underneath a portion of either or both optical waveguides is removed so that the portion of either or both optical waveguides is free standing, and a group of electrodes is proximate to the free-standing portion of either or both optical waveguides. During operation of the optical switch, a spacing-control circuit applies an electrical signal to the group of electrodes. An electrostatic force associated with the electrical signal modifies a spacing between the free-standing portion of either or both optical waveguides and the intermediate component, thereby substantially increasing optical coupling between either or both optical waveguides and the intermediate component to convey a broadband optical signal between the optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759781 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265743 | Aguilar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Aguilar (Jacksonville, Alabama); Aaron Hawkins (Raleigh, North Carolina); Patrick Connolly (Durham, North Carolina); Ming Qian (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixation-locked measurement of brain activity generates time-coded cues indicative of whether an operator exhibited a significant cognitive response to task-relevant stimuli. The free-viewing environment is one in which the presentation of stimuli is natural to the task encompassing both pre- and post-fixation stimuli and the operator is allowed to move his or her eyes naturally to perform the task. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645663 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265818 | Allport |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Defense Technologies, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Samuel Allport (Hanover, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A command and control system is provided including a core unit, with a processor and a map display engine. The core unit is configured to exchange information with a multi-domain heterogeneous unmanned vehicle command and control module, a multi-sensor command and control module, and an asset tracking module. The asset tracking module estimates a location of an indeterminate object. A control unit exchanges information with an input device. A detecting unit detects modules that are associated with the core unit. A subscription unit logs parameters associated with the detected modules and determines types of data to send to the detected units based on the parameters. A script unit receives and implements command and control scripts for the detected modules. A display output provides display information of a combined representation of information from the detected modules and map information, including locations of the vehicles and sensors under control and the estimated location of the indeterminate object. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478080 |
| 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 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265878 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Bioscience, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for detecting and identifying unknown bioagents, including bacteria, viruses and the like, by a combination of nucleic acid amplification and molecular weight determination using primers which hybridize to conserved sequence regions of nucleic acids derived from a bioagent and which bracket variable sequence regions that uniquely identify the bioagent. The result is a “base composition signature” (BCS) which is then matched against a database of base composition signatures, by which the bioagent is identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930017 |
| 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 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Yuseok Kim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for concurrently emulating multiple channel impairments. The systems and methods may include storing a plurality of channel impairment profiles, where each channel impairment profile corresponds to a respective channel impairment type; receiving a selection of two or more of the plurality of channel profiles; generating a composite impairment profile by combining the selected two or more channel profiles, the composite profile specifying time-variant impairments, the composite profile reflecting a combination of the respective impairment types of the selected channel profiles; and applying the time-variant impairments specified by the composite profile to an input real-time data stream to generate an impaired real-time data stream, where a timing of the application of the time-variant impairments is based at least in part upon timing data from a real-time clock. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712764 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266079 | Regli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Regli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ali Shokoufandeh (New Hope, Pennsylvania); Dmitriy Bespalov (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A scale-Space feature extraction technique is based on recursive decomposition of polyhedral surfaces into surface patches. The experimental results show that this technique can be used to perform matching based on local model structure. Scale-space techniques can be parameterized to generate decompositions that correspond to manufacturing, assembly or surface features relevant to mechanical design. One application of these techniques is to support matching and content-based retrieval of solid models. Scale-space technique can extract features that are invariant with respect to the global structure of the model as well as small perturbations that 3D laser scanning may introduce. A new distance function defined on triangles instead of points is introduced. This technique offers a new way to control the feature decomposition process, which results in extraction of features that are more meaningful from an engineering viewpoint. The technique is computationally practical for use in indexing large models. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/185532 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266085 | 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); Gert Cauwenberghs (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A network of coupled neurons for implementing Non-Lipschitz dynamics for modeling nonlinear processes or conditions comprising: a plurality of neurons, each being configurable in attractor and repulsion modes of operation, and programmable by an external signal; a plurality of synaptic connections for connecting at least a portion of the plurality of neurons for passage of data from one neuron to another; feedback circuitry for incrementing and decrementing an analog voltage output depending upon the output of the synaptic connection; whereby by the circuit solves Non-Lipschitz problems by programmably controlling the attractor and repulsion modes. A method of programming a network for solving Non-Lipschitz problems comprising providing a plurality of neurons, each programmable into a plurality of modes including repulsion and attraction modes; interconnecting the plurality of neurons using synaptic connections; providing feedback to at least one of the neurons; whereby by programming the neurons Non-Lipschitz terminal dynamics can be achieved. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366568 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew T. Presley (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method are provided for making modifications to runtime coding of object-oriented software that enables distributed execution by automatically modifying object class definitions as the objects are loaded into the executing process. The code modifications cause instances of the classes to interact with a distributed runtime system that allows all objects to be transparently migrated between processes, thereby permitting load balancing and periodic maintenance, without manual recoding of the application source code and without need for a priori knowledge of the program flow. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/749278 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266320 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Brian Bell (San Antonio, Texas); Scott Cruickshanks Kennedy (San Diego, California); Carleton Royse Ayers, II (San Diego, California); Brian Whyte (San Diego, California); Kay Myers (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Training defense of a computer network. The system includes an enterprise asset subsystem to be defended. The enterprise asset subsystem runs operating system, support services, and application programs. The system also includes a neutral subsystem that is in communication with the enterprise asset subsystem and is used to set up and run at least one exercise scenario, and score performance of enterprise asset defenders in defending the system against exploits. Exploits are launched by an exploitation subsystem communication with the enterprise asset subsystem. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340726 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266381 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Gheorghe C. Cascaval (Carmel, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one embodiment, a processor detects during execution of program code whether a load instruction within the program code is associated with a hint. In response to detecting that the load instruction is not associated with a hint, the processor retrieves a full cache line of data from the memory hierarchy into the processor in response to the load instruction. In response to detecting that the load instruction is associated with a hint, a processor retrieves a partial cache line of data into the processor from the memory hierarchy in response to the load instruction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024170 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266394 | Michael et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged M. Michael (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijay Anand Saraswat (Mahopac, New York); Martin Vechev (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods for single-owner multi-consumer work queues for repeatable tasks. A method includes permitting a single owner thread of a single owner, multi-consumer, work queue to access the work queue using atomic instructions limited to only a single access and using non-atomic operations. The method further includes restricting the single owner thread from accessing the work queue using atomic instructions involving more than one access. The method also includes synchronizing amongst other threads with respect to their respective accesses to the work queue. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172577 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266504 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for processing streaming data at high sustained data rates. These mechanisms receive a plurality of data elements over a plurality of non-sequential communication channels and write the plurality of data elements directly to the file system of the data processing system in an unassembled manner. The mechanisms determining whether to perform a data scrubbing operation or not based on history information indicative of whether data elements in the plurality of data elements are being received in a substantially sequential manner. The mechanisms perform a data scrubbing operation, in response to a determination to perform data scrubbing, to identify any missing data elements in the plurality of data elements written to the file system and assemble the plurality of data elements into a plurality of data streams in response to results of the data scrubbing indicating that there are no missing data elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423677 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266560 | McIlrath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | R3 Logic, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa G. McIlrath (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for generating and verifying circuit layouts from computer-aided design tools for vertically integrated, three-dimensional integrated circuits are disclosed. In one instance, a 3-D technology file of these teachings is obtained by providing an identifier for two or more circuit levels, providing for each one of the two or more circuit levels an identifier for a 2-D technology file corresponding to each of the one or more circuit levels and providing a file structure including the two or more circuit levels and each identifier, corresponding to each one of the one or more circuit levels, for the 2-D technology file corresponding to each one of the two or more circuit levels. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/218581 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266636 | Kharat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satish Narayan Kharat (Bangalore, India); Rajeev Mishra (Bangalore, India); Lance Warren Russell (Rosanky, Texas); Suresh Sabarathinam (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Migrating a workload partition (WPAR) is provided. Responsive to receiving a request to checkpoint the WPAR, a list of virtual identifiers used by the WPAR to refer to IPC objects is generated and stored. Each virtual identifier corresponds to an IPC object and to a real identifier used by a kernel that corresponds to the IPC object. IPC object data and control information is collected and stored. Each process in the WPAR stores per process data. Responsive to receiving a request to restart the WPAR, the virtual identifier that the WPAR wants to be used is registered. A new IPC object is created by a kernel. The kernel maps a real identifier used by the kernel for the new IPC object to the registered virtual identifier. The restart process retrieves IPC data and control information and overlays it on the new IPC object. The per process data is restored. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242156 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266697 | Coffman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 21st Century Technologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thayne Richard Coffman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for detecting and mapping activity occurring at and between devices on a computer network for utilization within an intrusion detection mechanism. An enhanced graph matching intrusion detection system (eGMIDS) utility executing on a control server provides data collection functions and data fusion techniques. The eGMIDS comprises multiple sensors and associated unique adaptors that are located at different remote devices of the network and utilized to detect specific types of activity occurring at the respective devices relevant to eGMIDS processing. The sensors convert the data into eGMIDS format and encapsulate the data in a special transmission packet that is transmitted to the control server. The eGMIDS utility converts the activity data within these packets into eGMIDS-usable format and then processes the converted data via a data fusion technique to generate a graphical representation of the network (devices) and the activity occurring at/amongst the various devices. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/367944 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43658 | Guthery |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Momin Development Fund LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott B. Guthery (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for binding a computer program to an analog physical signature device to form an interactive system for controlling the use of the computer program, the method comprising the steps of providing instructions comprising the computer program, the instructions implementing an intended functionality, providing the analog physical signature device to which the computer program is to be bound, the analog physical signature device being operative, in response to an analog input, to transform the analog input into a consequent, dependent analog output, and replacing at least one code segment of the instructions representing a program expression, with an alternative code segment, the alternative code segment defining a predetermined digital input that is causally related to a predetermined analog input by means of the interactive system, the alternative code segment being operative, when encountered during execution of the instructions comprising the computer program, to cause the predetermined analog input to be communicated to the bound analog physical signature device by means of the interactive system, the bound analog physical signature device being operative to transform the predetermined analog input to a consequent, dependent analog output that is causally related to a consequent, dependent digital output by means of the interactive system, the alternative code segment being operative to perform program functionality dependent upon the predetermined digital input and the consequent, dependent digital output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985302 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Kwanwoo Kim (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbomachine includes a compressor, a combustor operatively connected to the compressor, an end cover mounted to the combustor, and an injection nozzle assembly operatively connected to the combustor. The injection nozzle assembly includes a first end portion that extends to a second end portion, and a plurality of tube elements provided at the second end portion. Each of the plurality of tube elements defining a fluid passage includes a body having a first end section that extends to a second end section. The second end section projects beyond the second end portion of the injection nozzle assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832330 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262280 | Hallman, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell L. Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Paul D. Vanatta (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing an adjustable blend of fluids to an application process is disclosed. The system uses a source of a first fluid flowing through at least one tube that is permeable to a second fluid and that is disposed in a source of the second fluid to provide the adjustable blend. The temperature of the second fluid is not regulated, and at least one calibration curve is used to predict the volumetric mixture ratio of the second fluid with the first fluid from the permeable tube. The system typically includes a differential pressure valve and a backpressure control valve to set the flow rate through the system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188665 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/152.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262348 | Diakunchak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ihor S. Diakunchak (Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade sealing system for reducing a gap between a tip of a turbine blade and a stationary shroud of a turbine engine. The sealing system includes a plurality of flexible seal strips extending from a pressure side of a turbine blade generally orthogonal to the turbine blade. During operation of the turbine engine, the flexible seal strips flex radially outward extending towards the stationary shroud of the turbine engine, thereby reducing the leakage of air past the turbine blades and increasing the efficiency of the turbine engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099406 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262755 | Repasky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Repasky (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); VanEric Edward Stein (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Christopher Ming-Poh Chen (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion transport membrane oxidation system comprising (a) two or more membrane oxidation stages, each stage comprising a reactant zone, an oxidant zone, one or more ion transport membranes separating the reactant zone from the oxidant zone, a reactant gas inlet region, a reactant gas outlet region, an oxidant gas inlet region, and an oxidant gas outlet region; (b) an interstage reactant gas flow path disposed between each pair of membrane oxidation stages and adapted to place the reactant gas outlet region of a first stage of the pair in flow communication with the reactant gas inlet region of a second stage of the pair; and (c) one or more reactant interstage feed gas lines, each line being in flow communication with any interstage reactant gas flow path or with the reactant zone of any membrane oxidation stage receiving interstage reactant gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758231 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/127.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262775 | Farha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are tetratopic carboxylic acid phenyl for use in metal-organic framework compounds. These compounds are useful in catalysis, gas storage, sensing, biological imaging, drug delivery and gas adsorption separation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578357 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262812 | Helmick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Andrew Helmick (Fountain Inn, South Carolina); Dennis William Cavanaugh (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Ganjiang Feng (Greenville, South Carolina); David Vincent Bucci (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method for forming an article with a diffusion portion comprises: forming a slurry comprising chromium and silicon, applying the slurry to the article, and heating the article to a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient period of time to diffuse chromium and silicon into the article and form a diffusion portion comprising silicon and a microstructure comprising α-chromium. In one embodiment, a gas turbine component comprises: a superalloy and a diffusion portion having a depth of less than or equal to 60 μm measured from the superalloy surface into the gas turbine component. The diffusion portion has a diffusion surface having a microstructure comprising greater than or equal to 40% by volume α-chromium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/696385 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262950 | Nenoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tina M. Nenoff (Sandia Park, New Mexico); James L. Krumhansl (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Terry J. Garino (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan W. Ockwig (Spicer, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods of making low-sintering-temperature glass waste forms that sequester radioactive iodine in a strong and durable structure. First, the iodine is captured by an adsorbant, which forms an iodine-loaded material, e.g., AgI, AgI-zeolite, AgI-mordenite, Ag-silica aerogel, ZnI2, CuI, or Bi5O7I. Next, particles of the iodine-loaded material are mixed with powdered frits of low-sintering-temperature glasses (comprising various oxides of Si, B, Bi, Pb, and Zn), and then sintered at a relatively low temperature, ranging from 425° C. to 550° C. The sintering converts the mixed powders into a solid block of a glassy waste form, having low iodine leaching rates. The vitrified glassy waste form can contain as much as 60 wt % AgI. A preferred glass, having a sintering temperature of 500° C. (below the silver iodide sublimation temperature of 500° C.) was identified that contains oxides of boron, bismuth, and zinc, while containing essentially no lead or silicon. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727353 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/625 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263030 | Jones 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) | Jeffrey Donald Jones (Shelley, Idaho); Kirk John Dooley (Shelley, Idaho); David Donald Tolman (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the controllable dissolution of one or more alkali metals from a vessel containing a one or more alkali metals and/or one or more partially passivated alkali metals. The vessel preferably comprising a sodium, NaK or other alkali metal-cooled nuclear reactor that has been used. The alkali metal, preferably sodium, potassium or a combination thereof, in the vessel is exposed to a treatment liquid, preferably an acidic liquid, more preferably citric acid. Preferably, the treatment liquid is maintained in continuous motion relative to any surface of unreacted alkali metal with which the treatment liquid is in contact. The treatment liquid is preferably pumped into the vessel containing the one or more alkali metals and the resulting fluid is extracted and optionally further processed. Preferably, the resulting off-gases are processed by an off-gas treatment system and the resulting liquids are processed by a liquid disposal system. In one preferred embodiment, an inert gas is pumped into the vessel along with the treatment liquid. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041765 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263407 | Goddard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Russ Goddard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gregory Kaduchak (Eugene, Oregon); James Hubert Jett (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven Wayde Graves (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for uniformly spacing particles in a flowing system comprising suspending particles in an elongated fluid filled cavity; exposing said cavity to an axial acoustic standing wave field, wherein said axial acoustic standing wave field drives said particles to nodal and anti-nodal positions along the center axis of said cavity to result in uniformly spaced particles; and focusing said particles to the center axis of said cavity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288896 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263524 | Skandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEI, Corp. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ganesh Skandan (Easton, Pennsylvania); Mohit Jain (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of carbon-based sorbents for vapor-phase mercury removal is disclosed in this invention. The optimum structure of the sorbent particles, and a method to produce the sorbent, are described. The sorbent is based on carbon particles with a metal-oxide coating on the surface. The thin metal-oxide layer acts as a barrier for the adsorption of Air Entrainment Admixture (AEA), the component used to stabilize bubbles in cement), thereby enhancing its concrete friendliness. The metal-oxide is coated on the surface of carbon, using a solution-based method. The metal-oxide coated carbon was further modified with sulfur molecules, to increase its mercury removal capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776577 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263525 | Skandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEI Corporation (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ganesh Skandan (Easton, Pennsylvania); Mohit Jain (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of sorbents for the removal of mercury from contaminated water. The optimum structure of the sorbent particles and a method to produce the same is described. The newly developed carbon-based particles are differentiated from other sorbent particles by their high accessible surface area and high affinity towards mercury ions that leads to faster and higher mercury adsorption. The sorbent is based on carbon particles with a metal-oxide coating on the surface. The metal-oxide is coated on the surface of carbon, using a solution-based method. The metal-oxide coated carbon was further modified with sulfur molecules, to increase its mercury removal capacity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787749 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Dunn (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for enriching methyl-CpG sequences from a DNA sample. The method makes use of conversion of cytosine residues to uracil under conditions in which methyl-cytosine residues are preserved. Additional methods of the invention enable to preservation of the context of me-CpG dinucleotides. The invention also provides a recombinant, full length and substantially pure McrA protein (rMcrA) for binding and isolation of DNA fragments containing the sequence 5′-CMeCpGG-3′. Methods for making and using the rMcrA protein, and derivatives thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085219 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/358 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263754 | Gellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Pil Seok Chae (Madison, Wisconsin); Philip D. Laible (Villa Park, Illinois); Marc J. Wander (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides amphiphiles for manipulating membrane proteins. The amphiphiles can feature carbohydrate-derived hydrophilic groups and branchpoints in the hydrophilic moiety and/or in a lipophilic moiety. Such amphiphiles are useful as detergents for solubilization and stabilization of membrane proteins, including photosynthetic protein superassemblies obtained from bacterial membranes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420701 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263815 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Ramin Daniels (San Jose, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer H. Ly (San Jose, California); Franklin R. Alvarez (Cincinnati, Ohio); Leland M. Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for removing water from organic solvents, such as ethanol. The processes include distillation to form a rectified overhead vapor, compression of the rectified vapor, and treatment of the compressed vapor by two sequential membrane separation steps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674808 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/917 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263899 | Harley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, California); Thomas Pass (San Jose, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California); John Viatella (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell is formed using a solar cell ablation system. The ablation system includes a single laser source and several laser scanners. The laser scanners include a master laser scanner, with the rest of the laser scanners being slaved to the master laser scanner. A laser beam from the laser source is split into several laser beams, with the laser beams being scanned onto corresponding wafers using the laser scanners in accordance with one or more patterns. The laser beams may be scanned on the wafers using the same or different power levels of the laser source. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829275 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263930 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Alexandre A. Shvartsburg (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential ion mobility spectrometry or field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) platform is disclosed that utilizes both gas flow and electric field, consecutively or simultaneously, to move ions through the analytical gap. The consecutive combination of flow and field enables rapid and flexible switching of the FAIMS stage “on” (for ion separation) and “off” (for high non-selective transmission) with no hardware modifications. This capability is needed for effective use of multidimensional instrument systems that couple FAIMS to mass spectrometry and/or conventional ion mobility spectrometry. The joint application of flow and field allows controlling the discrimination against high-mobility ions, maximizing it to remove the chemical noise or minimizing it to make the analyses of complex samples more predictable and uniform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690818 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264120 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet-less synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic revolving field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor is disposed within the magnetic revolving field and spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor pole stacks having an inner periphery biased by single polarity of a north-pole field and a south-pole field, respectively. The outer periphery of each of the rotor pole stacks are biased by an alternating polarity. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274895 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Freeman Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrostatic generators/motors designs are provided that include a stator fixedly connected to a first central support centered about a central axis. The stator elements are attached to the first central support. Similarly, a second stator is connected to a central support centered about the central axis, and the second stator has stator elements attached to the second central support. A rotor is located between the first stator and the second stator and includes an outer support, where the rotor is rotatably centered about the central axis, the rotor having elements in contact with the outer support, each rotor element having an extending rotor portion that extends radially from the outer support toward the axis of rotation. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894612 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265870 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung D. Nguyen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark W. Koch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Casey Giron (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel M. Rondeau (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John L. Russell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for establishing a detection map of a dynamically configurable sensor network. This method determines an appropriate set of locations for a plurality of sensor units of a sensor network and establishes a detection map for the network of sensors while the network is being set up; the detection map includes the effects of the local terrain and individual sensor performance. Sensor performance is characterized during the placement of the sensor units, which enables dynamic adjustment or reconfiguration of the placement of individual elements of the sensor network during network set-up to accommodate variations in local terrain and individual sensor performance. The reconfiguration of the network during initial set-up to accommodate deviations from idealized individual sensor detection zones improves the effectiveness of the sensor network in detecting activities at a detection perimeter and can provide the desired sensor coverage of an area while minimizing unintentional gaps in coverage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690630 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 71/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266197 | Van Benthem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Van Benthem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul G. Kotula (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael R. Keenan (Wolcott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The method of the present invention provides a fast, robust, and automated multivariate statistical analysis of gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) data sets. The method can involve systematic elimination of undesired, saturated peak masses to yield data that follow a linear, additive model. The cleaned data can then be subjected to a combination of PCA and orthogonal factor rotation followed by refinement with MCR-ALS to yield highly interpretable results. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/754041 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266718 | Lai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keji Lai (Menlo Park, California); Michael Kelly (Portola Valley, California); Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microwave microscope including a probe tip electrode vertically positionable over a sample and projecting downwardly from the end of a cantilever. A transmission line connecting the tip electrode to the electronic control system extends along the cantilever and is separated from a ground plane at the bottom of the cantilever by a dielectric layer. The probe tip may be vertically tapped near or at the sample surface at a low frequency and the microwave signal reflected from the tip/sample interaction is demodulated at the low frequency. Alternatively, a low-frequency electrical signal is also a non-linear electrical element associated with the probe tip to non-linearly interact with the applied microwave signal and the reflected non-linear microwave signal is detected at the low frequency. The non-linear element may be semiconductor junction formed near the apex of the probe tip or be an FET formed at the base of a semiconducting tip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706190 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Semprius, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are an optimized tool apparatus and methods for dry transfer printing of semiconductor elements with high yield and good placement accuracy. The tool apparatus comprises a vacuum coupled fast peel apparatus that provides high pickup yield of the semiconductor elements. In an aspect, this vacuum coupled apparatus provides high pickup rates during pickup of the semiconductor elements from a donor/source wafer. Provided is a tool apparatus for dry transfer printing with a reinforced composite stamp having a thin glass-backing. The tool apparatus also comprises a pressure regulated micro-chamber which provides precise control of a composite stamp lamination and de-lamination. In an aspect, the micro-chamber has an internal cavity volume that is variably controlled, thereby providing precise control of the force on the stamp, and corresponding separation velocity, and improved semiconductor element pick-up and/or placement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507262 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Printing 11/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08261668 | Weinbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheldon Weinbaum (Brooklyn, New York); Yiannis Andreopoulus (Orangeburg, New York); Parisa Mirbod (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle track including a soft porous material and a vehicle which rides on the track by skiing cm the soft porous material. The vehicle has a large ski surface that rides on the soft porous material, supporting the weight of the vehicle at high speeds. Air within the soft porous material supplies most of the lift needed to support the train, Only a small amount of the support is provided by the structure of the porous material itself when the vehicle is in motion. As a result, the friction between the soft porous material and the ski surface may also be exceedingly small. To increase the amount of lift provided by the soft porous material it can be contained within a channel having impermeable sides and bottom. If the ski surface is substantially the same width as the channel, the impermeable sides prevent the air from escaping on either side of die ski surface. Accordingly, the trapped air contributes to greatly enhanced lift force. At lower speeds the vehicle can use wheels to support some or all of its weight. These wheels can ride on rails that are part of the track. The vehicle includes a propulsion system that is independent of the wheels so that it may travel over the soft porous material without running on the wheels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/001997 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Railways 14/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262645 | Bagwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger B. Bagwell (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Paul L. Frankhouser (Miami Beach, Florida); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Josue R. Crespo (University Park, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Dana B. Mallen (State College, Pennsylvania); Gabriela Hernandez Meza (State College, Pennsylvania); Debora L. Demers (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for the effective clearing of artificial tubes, especially in-situ clearing of artificial tubes in a living being are covered in this disclosure. The devices and methods provide an elongated clearing member having a first end that is coupled to a driving mechanism and having a second working end that is subjected to repetitive motion for clearing blockages within the artificial tube. The elongated clearing member includes either a fixed or an adjustable element that selectively defines the portion of the elongated clearing member that is insertable within the artificial tube. The proximal end of the clearing member is releasably secured to the driving mechanism and the driving mechanisms may comprise a wide variety of repetitive motion drivers such as voice coil motors, piezoelectric actuators, pneumatic actuators, DC motors, etc. These devices/methods may comprise a free-standing console for hands-free operation or may comprise hand-held versions. The distal working end of the clearing member may comprise tips of differing functions, including an irrigation/aspiration feature. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964252 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08262885 | Hunt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Hunt (Portland, Oregon); Robert Westervelt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ania Bleszynski (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectrophoretic (DEP) tweezers apparatus and methods for various applications, including particle trapping. Two electrodes are disposed on or otherwise constitute an elongated object forming a tip. A voltage is applied across these electrodes to produce a non-uniform electromagnetic field proximate to the tip thereby creating a dielectrophoretic trap. Once trapped, a particle may be moved to desired locations via manipulation of the elongated object or the medium in which the particle is located. Multiple DEP tweezers apparatus may be arranged to form arrays of tips capable of respectively generating local electromagnetic fields confined to the tips. Such DEP arrays may be employed in nanofabrication processes involving nanolithography or nano-manipulation, as well as data storage and retrieval applications. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/085193 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263029 | Jakli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antal Jakli (Kent, Ohio); Stefanie Taushanoff (Kent, Ohio); Mátyás Molnár (Torbágy, Hungary); Attila Bóta (Nánási, Hungary); Erika Kalman (Csákó, Hungary); Peter Palinkás, legal representative (Budapest, Hungary); Andrea Palinkás, legal representative (Budapest, Hungary); Zoltan Varga (Lövöház, Hungary) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a simple and cost-effective method for preparing particles such as anisotropic semiconductor nanoparticles (e.g. CdS) and devices thereof. The method comprises (i) dispersing at least part of particle-forming reactants in a self-organized medium such as surfactant-aqueous solution system, and (ii) conducting a particle-forming reaction using the particle-forming reactants dispersed in the self-organized medium under shear condition to form the particles. The anisotropic property of the particles is controlled at least partially by the shear condition. The invention may be used to prepare quantum dots in a liquid crystal, and various devices such as nonlinear optics, optoelectronic devices, and solar cells, among others. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546986 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263129 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Benjamin W. Maynor (Durham, North Carolina); Larken E. Euliss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Ansley E Dennis (Augusta, Georgia); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter describes the use of fluorinated elastomer-based materials, in particular perfluoropolyether (PFPE)-based materials, in high-resolution soft or imprint lithographic applications, such as micro- and nanoscale replica molding, and the first nano-contact molding of organic materials to generate high fidelity features using an elastomeric mold. Accordingly, the presently disclosed subject matter describes a method for producing free-standing, isolated nanostructures of any shape using soft or imprint lithography techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/583570 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263192 | Koberstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Peng Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Feng Pan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods for coating monolayer films of surface-active polymers onto substrates of arbitrary shape, and molecular-based methods and processes to control the chemical and physical nature of surfaces and interfaces. The invention is also directed to methods for modifying a surface of a monolayer comprising a) coating a monolayer on a substrate, wherein the monolayer is formed by self-assembly of end-surfactant molecules, thereby positioning a photoactive functional group at the air-monolayer interface; and b) exposing the monolayer to radiation, wherein each organic group of the monolayer contains a first functionality that is not converted to a second functionality upon exposure to acid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454652 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263392 | Gale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Kent Gale (Taylorsville, Utah); Niel Davenport Crews (Ruston, Louisiana); Carl Thomas Wittwer (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and a method for amplification and detection of nucleic acid sequences based on continuous flow thermal gradient PCR. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514671 |
| 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 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263412 | Wachter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon, Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rebekka M. Wachter (Creswell, Oregon); James S. Remington (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered fluorescent proteins, nucleic acids encoding them and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011432 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Fatih Dogan (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A high energy density multilayer ceramic capacitor, having at least two electrode layers and at least one substantially dense polycrystalline dielectric layer positioned therebetween. The at polycrystalline dielectric layer has an average grain size of less than about 300 nanometers, a particle size distribution of between about 150 nanometers and about 3 micrometers, and a maximum porosity of about 1 percent. The dielectric layer is selected from the group including TiO2, BaTiO3, Al2O3, ZrO2, lead zirconium titanate, and combinations thereof and has a breakdown strength of at least about 1100 kV per centimeter. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550373 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263715 | Fukushima et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazuki Fukushima (San Jose, California); James L. Hedrick (San Jose, California); Sung-Ho Kim (Livermore, California); Robert M. Waymouth (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A block copolymer includes a hydrophobic block and a hydrophilic block, wherein the hydrophobic block and the hydrophilic block include repeating units derived from ring opening polymerization of one or more cyclic carbonate monomers. The one or more cyclic carbonate monomers are independently selected from compounds of the general formula (II): wherein each Q′ and Qa group independently represents a hydrogen, an alkyl group, a halide, a carboxy group, an ester group, an amide group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or a foregoing Q′ or Qa group substituted with a carboxy group or an ester group, at least one Q′ and Qa group includes an ester group; each Y independently represents O, S, NH, or NQ″; n is an integer from 0 to 6, wherein when n is 0, carbons labeled 4 and 6 are linked together by a single bond; each Q″ group independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a foregoing Q″ group substituted with a carboxy group, or an ester group. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549667 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263774 | Sigman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Scott Sigman (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian William Michel (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A quinoline-oxazoline compound having the formula: where one of X1 and X2 is N and the other is C and one of R1, R2 and R3 is Z wherein Z is an oxazoline radical having the formula such that when X1 is N R2 is Z and R1 is absent, and when X2 is N either R1 or R3 is Z and R2 is absent. R1 and R3 through R12 are independently H or a pendant moiety which does not interfere with coordination of either N in the quinoline compound with a coordination center. These compounds can be complexed with a suitable coordination center such as catalytically active palladium and can be highly useful in catalytically oxidizing alkenes with high regioselectivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553352 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264307 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Micro Technology (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Foster (Santa Barbara, California); Alok Paranjypye (Santa Barbara, California); Paul J. Rubel (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for forming an electrostatic MEMS plate switch include forming a deformable plate on a first substrate, forming the electrical contacts on a second substrate, and coupling the two substrates using a hermetic seal. The deformable plate may have at least one shunt bar located at a nodal line of a vibrational mode of the deformable plate, so that the shunt bar remains relatively stationary when the plate is vibrating in that vibrational mode. A hermetic seal may be made around the device with a larger, secondary enclosure. Electrical access to the deformable plate may be accomplished by an electrical path which is independent of the seal. The electrical path may include a via through the first substrate or the second substrate, or a flash deposited on an external region of the switch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/929259 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264693 | Stoica et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir A. Stoica (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Roy Clarke (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring at least one property including a magnetic property of target material is provided. A pump pulse train having one or more pump pulses is generated. The target material is irradiated with at least a portion of the one or more pump pulses so as to cause transient perturbation in the target material. At least one probe pulse train is generated having one or more probe pulses. The target material is irradiated with at least a portion of the one or more probe pulses to obtain one or more reflected probe pulses which are modulated based on the transient perturbation. A time interval between a time at which the target material is irradiated by each of the pump pulses and a time at which the target material is irradiated by each of its corresponding probe pulses is controlled. Each modulated probe pulse is detected. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315906 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266079 | Regli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Regli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ali Shokoufandeh (New Hope, Pennsylvania); Dmitriy Bespalov (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A scale-Space feature extraction technique is based on recursive decomposition of polyhedral surfaces into surface patches. The experimental results show that this technique can be used to perform matching based on local model structure. Scale-space techniques can be parameterized to generate decompositions that correspond to manufacturing, assembly or surface features relevant to mechanical design. One application of these techniques is to support matching and content-based retrieval of solid models. Scale-space technique can extract features that are invariant with respect to the global structure of the model as well as small perturbations that 3D laser scanning may introduce. A new distance function defined on triangles instead of points is introduced. This technique offers a new way to control the feature decomposition process, which results in extraction of features that are more meaningful from an engineering viewpoint. The technique is computationally practical for use in indexing large models. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/185532 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266413 | Hwu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen-Mel W. Hwu (Champaign, Illinois); Ronald Barnes (South Riding, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor triggers a first advanced execution processing pass to an instruction sequence in response to a first stalled instruction and initiates execution of a further instruction in the instruction sequence that stalls during the performance of the first advanced execution processing pass. A second advanced execution pass is performed through the instruction sequence in which the further instruction is processed again to provide a valid result after stalling. In one form, the first instruction is performed while the processor operates in a normal execution mode and the first and second advanced execution processing passes are performed while the processor operates in an advance execution mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724034 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08266718 | Lai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keji Lai (Menlo Park, California); Michael Kelly (Portola Valley, California); Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microwave microscope including a probe tip electrode vertically positionable over a sample and projecting downwardly from the end of a cantilever. A transmission line connecting the tip electrode to the electronic control system extends along the cantilever and is separated from a ground plane at the bottom of the cantilever by a dielectric layer. The probe tip may be vertically tapped near or at the sample surface at a low frequency and the microwave signal reflected from the tip/sample interaction is demodulated at the low frequency. Alternatively, a low-frequency electrical signal is also a non-linear electrical element associated with the probe tip to non-linearly interact with the applied microwave signal and the reflected non-linear microwave signal is detected at the low frequency. The non-linear element may be semiconductor junction formed near the apex of the probe tip or be an FET formed at the base of a semiconducting tip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706190 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08262479 | Bandera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pablo Bandera (Goodyear, Arizona); Paul Buchele (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotational joint assembly and a method for constructing a rotational joint assembly are provided. The rotational joint assembly includes a first rotational component, a second rotational component coupled to the first rotational component such that the second rotational component is rotatable relative to the first rotational component in first and second rotational directions about an axis, and a flexure member, being deflectable in first and second deflection directions, coupled to at least one of the first and second rotational components such that when the second rotational component is rotated relative to the first rotational component in each of the first and second rotational directions about the axis, the flexure member is deflected in the first deflection direction and exerts a force on the second rotational component opposing the rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141566 |
| ART UNIT | 3716 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 463/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264134 | Tuma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret L. Tuma (Strongsville, Ohio); Joseph S. Collura (Lakewood, Ohio); Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); Michael D. Pocha (Livermore, California); Glenn A. Meyer (Danville, California); Charles F. McConaghy (Livermore, California); Barry L. Olsen (Oakdale, California); William W Hansen (Lakewood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultraminiature light source using a double-spiral shaped tungsten filament includes end contact portions which are separated to allow for radial and length-wise unwinding of the spiral. The double-spiral filament is spaced relatively far apart at the end portions thereof so that contact between portions of the filament upon expansion is avoided. The light source is made by fabricating a double-spiral ultraminiature tungsten filament from tungsten foil and housing the filament in a ceramic package having a reflective bottom and a well wherein the filament is suspended. A vacuum furnace brazing process attaches the filament to contacts of the ceramic package. Finally, a cover with a transparent window is attached onto the top of the ceramic package by solder reflow in a second vacuum furnace process to form a complete hermetically sealed package. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795356 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265175 | Barsoum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged F. Barsoum (Irvine, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/650532 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265792 | Wampler, II 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) | Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Robert J. Platt, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic system includes a dexterous robot having robotic joints, angle sensors adapted for measuring joint angles at a corresponding one of the joints, load cells for measuring a set of strain values imparted to a corresponding one of the load cells during a predetermined pose of the robot, and a host machine. The host machine is electrically connected to the load cells and angle sensors, and receives the joint angle values and strain values during the predetermined pose. The robot presses together mating pairs of load cells to form the poses. The host machine executes an algorithm to process the joint angles and strain values, and from the set of all calibration matrices that minimize error in force balance equations, selects the set of calibration matrices that is closest in a value to a pre-specified value. A method for calibrating the load cells via the algorithm is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760954 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08262892 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Planet Strategies, L.L.C. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell which utilizes an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system that manipulates cathode particulates motion. A separate system circulates the liquid undergoing modification through the electrolytic cell. An unidirectional current driving system drives unidirectional electric current supported by the liquid streams from the anode through the anolyte and the separator and into the catholyte and to the cathode particulates and to the current feeder device during the contact between the cathode particulates and the current feeder device. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020447 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264307 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Micro Technology (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Foster (Santa Barbara, California); Alok Paranjypye (Santa Barbara, California); Paul J. Rubel (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for forming an electrostatic MEMS plate switch include forming a deformable plate on a first substrate, forming the electrical contacts on a second substrate, and coupling the two substrates using a hermetic seal. The deformable plate may have at least one shunt bar located at a nodal line of a vibrational mode of the deformable plate, so that the shunt bar remains relatively stationary when the plate is vibrating in that vibrational mode. A hermetic seal may be made around the device with a larger, secondary enclosure. Electrical access to the deformable plate may be accomplished by an electrical path which is independent of the seal. The electrical path may include a via through the first substrate or the second substrate, or a flash deposited on an external region of the switch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/929259 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43658 | Guthery |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Momin Development Fund LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott B. Guthery (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for binding a computer program to an analog physical signature device to form an interactive system for controlling the use of the computer program, the method comprising the steps of providing instructions comprising the computer program, the instructions implementing an intended functionality, providing the analog physical signature device to which the computer program is to be bound, the analog physical signature device being operative, in response to an analog input, to transform the analog input into a consequent, dependent analog output, and replacing at least one code segment of the instructions representing a program expression, with an alternative code segment, the alternative code segment defining a predetermined digital input that is causally related to a predetermined analog input by means of the interactive system, the alternative code segment being operative, when encountered during execution of the instructions comprising the computer program, to cause the predetermined analog input to be communicated to the bound analog physical signature device by means of the interactive system, the bound analog physical signature device being operative to transform the predetermined analog input to a consequent, dependent analog output that is causally related to a consequent, dependent digital output by means of the interactive system, the alternative code segment being operative to perform program functionality dependent upon the predetermined digital input and the consequent, dependent digital output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985302 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08262853 | Holtzapple et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Thomas Holtzapple (College Station, Texas); Richard Read Davison (Bryan, Texas); Lee Leon Lowery, Jr. (Bryan, Texas); Cesar Benigno Granda (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for processing biomass includes a water-impermeable bottom liner, a gravel layer supported by the bottom liner, a drain pipe disposed within the gravel layer, a biomass input device operable to deliver biomass over the gravel layer to form a biomass pile, a lime input device operable to deliver lime to the biomass for pretreating the biomass, a distribution pipe elevated above the gravel layer, and a pump operable to circulate water through the biomass pile by delivering water to the distribution pipe and receiving water from the drain pipe after it has traveled through the biomass pile. According to another embodiment, a method for biomass pretreatment with alkali, conducted at ambient pressure for approximately 4-16 weeks at temperatures ranging from approximately 25° C. to 95° C. Biomass may be lignocellulosic biomass and may be rendered suitable for enzymatic digestion or pulp production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850497 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263526 | Dunlap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Dunlap (Dunlap, Illinois); Mark A. Jackson (Peoria, Illinois); Maureen S. Wright (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The combination of keratin hydrolysate with viable cells or infectious propagules of a fungal biological control agent such as Paecilomyces species, Metarhizium species, Beauveria species, and/or Verticillium species, provides effective control of soil-dwelling or subterranean insects, including termites, and particularly those belonging to the family Rhinotermitidae, such as the Formosan subterranean termite and native North American subterranean termites. In use, a foam-forming composition comprising the keratin hydrolysate and an insecticidally effective amount of the fungus are applied to the insects, the locus of the insects, to material susceptible to infestation by said insects, or to the locus of material susceptible to infestation by said insects. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497072 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant protecting and regulating compositions 54/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08266197 | Van Benthem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Van Benthem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul G. Kotula (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael R. Keenan (Wolcott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The method of the present invention provides a fast, robust, and automated multivariate statistical analysis of gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) data sets. The method can involve systematic elimination of undesired, saturated peak masses to yield data that follow a linear, additive model. The cleaned data can then be subjected to a combination of PCA and orthogonal factor rotation followed by refinement with MCR-ALS to yield highly interpretable results. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/754041 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08264458 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rory A. Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Donald Spaeth (Freeport, Pennsylvania); Songfeng Guo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides variable compliance joysticks with mechanical and software customization, and with an integrated control capability, and a method of systematically determining the best mechanical settings and compensatory algorithms to embed in the joysticks to offer an individual with substantial upper extremity motor impairments a personal fit and maximum function. The joysticks may include components for varying the compliance and dampening of the joystick shaft. The method may include providing the user access to operate the joysticks, operatively connecting the joysticks to a driving simulator, displaying an icon on the driving simulator, controlling movement of the icon by the joysticks, evaluating performance of the user based upon the user's ability to control movement of the icon, and modifying hardware settings and software algorithms for the joysticks based upon the evaluation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353248 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08265743 | Aguilar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Aguilar (Jacksonville, Alabama); Aaron Hawkins (Raleigh, North Carolina); Patrick Connolly (Durham, North Carolina); Ming Qian (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixation-locked measurement of brain activity generates time-coded cues indicative of whether an operator exhibited a significant cognitive response to task-relevant stimuli. The free-viewing environment is one in which the presentation of stimuli is natural to the task encompassing both pre- and post-fixation stimuli and the operator is allowed to move his or her eyes naturally to perform the task. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645663 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08263815 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Ramin Daniels (San Jose, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer H. Ly (San Jose, California); Franklin R. Alvarez (Cincinnati, Ohio); Leland M. Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for removing water from organic solvents, such as ethanol. The processes include distillation to form a rectified overhead vapor, compression of the rectified vapor, and treatment of the compressed vapor by two sequential membrane separation steps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674808 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/917 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
General Services Administration (GSA)
| US 08266320 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Brian Bell (San Antonio, Texas); Scott Cruickshanks Kennedy (San Diego, California); Carleton Royse Ayers, II (San Diego, California); Brian Whyte (San Diego, California); Kay Myers (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Training defense of a computer network. The system includes an enterprise asset subsystem to be defended. The enterprise asset subsystem runs operating system, support services, and application programs. The system also includes a neutral subsystem that is in communication with the enterprise asset subsystem and is used to set up and run at least one exercise scenario, and score performance of enterprise asset defenders in defending the system against exploits. Exploits are launched by an exploitation subsystem communication with the enterprise asset subsystem. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340726 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Library of Congress (LOC)
| US 08266079 | Regli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Regli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ali Shokoufandeh (New Hope, Pennsylvania); Dmitriy Bespalov (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A scale-Space feature extraction technique is based on recursive decomposition of polyhedral surfaces into surface patches. The experimental results show that this technique can be used to perform matching based on local model structure. Scale-space techniques can be parameterized to generate decompositions that correspond to manufacturing, assembly or surface features relevant to mechanical design. One application of these techniques is to support matching and content-based retrieval of solid models. Scale-space technique can extract features that are invariant with respect to the global structure of the model as well as small perturbations that 3D laser scanning may introduce. A new distance function defined on triangles instead of points is introduced. This technique offers a new way to control the feature decomposition process, which results in extraction of features that are more meaningful from an engineering viewpoint. The technique is computationally practical for use in indexing large models. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/185532 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08264973 | Vasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arunchandar Vasan (Chennai, India); Ajjampur Udaya Shankar (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for analytically simulating the state of a 802.11 WLAN network having a plurality of stations at discreet timesteps, including analytically generating a plurality of sample paths of a network state, including obtaining probability distribution values for aspects of the network. The probability distributions may be precomputed and stored in a cache to be accessed during a simulation of a network. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433306 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08263337 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); D. Kay Phillips (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes method of determining if a subject has a genetic predisposition to clinically diagnosed schizophrenia (SZ), schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), and/or schizoaffective disorder (SD). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282857 |
| 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 |
U.S. State Government
| US 08263412 | Wachter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon, Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rebekka M. Wachter (Creswell, Oregon); James S. Remington (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered fluorescent proteins, nucleic acids encoding them and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011432 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08265947 | Kuebert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/333072 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08262344 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Alexander (San Diego, California); Mark N. Shatz′ (San Diego, California); Gordon F. Jewess (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal management system and method for a miniature gas turbine engine includes a forward cover having a filter portion along an axis of rotation of a gas turbine engine, a first lubrication passage and a second lubrication passage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061053 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/121.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263078 | Rachamim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nurit Rachamim (Rishon-Le-Tzion, Israel); Andrew L. Salzman (Herzliya, Israel); Kanneganti Murthy (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel class of monoclonal antibodies which have a high affinity, broad spectrum neutralizing reactivity to flagellin from various Gram-negative bacteria including, but not limited to, E. coli, Salmonella, Serratia, Proteus, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Campylobacter and Pseudomonas. The present invention further provides methods of treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and methods of treating enterobacterial infections using anti-flagellin antibodies in humans, other animals and birds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231797 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/142.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08263661 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (San Francisco, California); Martin J. Kelly (Portland, Oregon); Jian Qiu (Portland, Oregon); Sandra Tobias (San Francisco, California); Oline K. Ronnekleiv (Portland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a new class of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). The disclosure also includes the identification of a previously unknown membrane associated estrogen receptor. Methods for making and using the disclosed SERMs are disclosed, including pharmaceutical formulations of the disclosed novel compounds in useful compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882861 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08264868 | Ribeiro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California); Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory array with Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) switching devices includes a set of row lines intersecting a set of column lines and a memory element disposed at an intersection between one of the row lines and one of the column lines. The memory element includes a switching layer in series with an MIT material. A method of accessing a target memory element within a memory array includes applying half of an access voltage to a row line connected to the target memory element, the target memory element comprising a switching layer in series with an MIT material, and applying an inverted half of the access voltage to a column line connected to the target memory element. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911283 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08265800 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy D. Smith (Annandale, Virginia); Christopher J. Hecht (Fairfax, Virginia); Jorgen D. Pedersen (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Davison (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an unmanned vehicle message conversion system generally includes a message interpreter that is coupled between a first unmanned vehicle control interface and a second unmanned vehicle control interface. The second unmanned vehicle control interface is configured to transmit and receive messages with a messaging protocol that is different than the first unmanned vehicle control interface. The message interpreter is operable to receive a first message from the unmanned vehicle control system, convert the first message to a second message having the second protocol, and transmit the second message to the unmanned vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/841447 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 11, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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