FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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| US 08272219 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Wesley Johnson (Cincinnati, Ohio); David Louis Burrus (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine combuslor has a trapped dual vortex cavity defined between aft, forward, and bottom walls. Air injection first holes are positioned in the forward wall. Air injection second holes are positioned in the aft walls. Fuel injection holes in the forward wall are located between the bottom wall and a cavity opening located at a top of the cavity. First angled film cooling apertures are disposed through the bottom wall. Second angled film cooling apertures are located in the forward wall between the fuel injection holes and the bottom wall. Third angled film cooling apertures are located in the forward wall between the fuel injection holes and the cavity opening. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/706427 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272307 | Holmes 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) | Edward W. Holmes (Valley Falls, New York); Wayland P. Barber (Mechanicville, New York); Leslie C. Blahut (Westfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A breech-loaded weapon may include a carrier at its breech end. The carrier may include a breech block support. A screw block may be rotatable on the breech block support of the carrier. The carrier may include a supporting protuberance and the screw block may include a supporting projection having an undercut portion. A spring-loaded plunger may be disposed on the carrier and a plunger recess may be defined in the screw block. In a retained position of the screw block, the undercut portion of the supporting projection may engage the supporting protuberance of the carrier and the spring-loaded plunger may engage the plunger recess. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/950082 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272308 | Lukman 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) | Hansen Lukman (Parsippany, New Jersey); Adam M. Jacob (Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania); Curtis D. Johnson (Montrose, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A feed disengage mechanism for a weapon with a sprocket-type feed system may include a sprocket rotatably fixed to the receiver. A forward pawl may be selectably engageable with a forward end of the sprocket. The forward pawl may include a flange and be biased for engagement with the sprocket. An anti-backup pawl may be selectably engageable with a rear end of the sprocket. The anti-backup pawl may include a cam path and be biased for engagement with the sprocket. A feed cover may include a feed slide assembly that may be translatable in a slot in the feed cover. The feed slide assembly may include a front pin engageable with the flange of the forward pawl and a rear pin engageable with the cam path of the anti-backup pawl. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/764235 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/33.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272311 | Cannon |
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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) | Joseph P. Cannon (Lenox, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive armor that includes a casing having a plurality of walls, a back, and a cavity formed therebetween; a cover that closes the cavity and forms a strike face; a filler placed within the cavity, the filler comprising a disruptive material; and an explosive. To defeat projectile or projectile related threats, the reactive armor substantially, but not necessarily wholly, implements laterally oriented force mechanisms, erosion mechanisms, and bulking mechanisms, e.g., explosive forces, with respect to the strike face. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948250 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272314 | Gould |
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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) | Jeffrey Hayes Gould (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An auto-loading firearm may obtain improved firing precision by using stored energy to cycle the firearm. The firearm may be partially cycled when the trigger is pulled. The firearm may be completely cycled only when the trigger is released. Sound suppression and/or sound reduction may be obtained by limiting the amount of gas escaping the breech during extraction as well as separating the noise of the firing event from the noise of the action cycling. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838606 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/191.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272327 | Machina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Machina (Leesburg, Virginia); Michael Raleigh (Alexandria, Virginia); Kristopher P. Mount (Falls Church, Virginia); Kenneth W. Mitchell (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael A. Bohnet (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for firing multiple projectiles in a parallel or diverging manner is provided. The system can comprise tail-end portions of projectiles that add structure to a cartridge, provide for efficient combustion, allow projectiles to transition from a straight configuration in the cartridge to a splayed configuration in a chamber, and ensure complete evacuation of the chamber. The system can include a tail-end portion of a particular projectile with openings that distribute energy from combustion of an ignition charge, facilitating firing of multiple projectiles. A tail-end portion of a projectile can include a ball joint upon which the body portion of the projectile moves causing an angle between the body portion and the tail-end portion. A space can exist in the body portion adjacent to the ball joint to allow off-center shifting of the body portion with respect to the ball joint. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604018 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272328 | Gorman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Gorman (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of converting a bomblet into a hand-thrown grenade may include providing a bomblet having a fuze, a shaped-charge liner, a casing, and explosive material disposed between the shaped-charge liner and the casing. The fuze may be removed from the bomblet. A housing may be attached a fuze end of the bomblet. The housing may adjoin the casing. A cavity that abuts and is exterior to the shaped-charge liner may be filled with a filler material, such as pellets. A hand-grenade fuze may be attached to the fuze end of the bomblet. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966095 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/482 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272329 | Hsieh 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) | Henry Hsieh (Riverdale, New Jersey); Peter Rottinger (Vernon, New Jersey); Richard Fong (Boonton Township, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The dynamically configurable controlled fragmentation insert mechanism of this invention includes an assembly of three or more sleeves with differing through hole patterns thereon, that fit inside the shell casing. The individual sleeves can move independently of one another and a simple pinning mechanism holds the parts in place for a selected configuration. The warfighter can realign the insert sleeves by to create different geometric patterns of holes, each designed to engage a different target set with optimally sized fragments. The aligned patterns of holes creates individual geometric shapes that focus high-velocity jets to cut into the steel shell casing to correlate to the through-holes in the aligned patterned sleeves. Realigning the insert sleeves changes the through-hole pattern to produce different fragment sizes and mass distributions. To defeat light armored vehicles for instance, a warfighter can deploy a sleeve hole pattern to produce larger fragments with greater penetrating power, while to engage enemy troops for instance, a warfighter can “dial in” another hole pattern through the fuze assembly to otherwise produce a much larger number of smaller, lighter fragments. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/192588 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272330 | Gold 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) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Jeffrey R. Kraft (Newton, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fragmentation warhead includes a cylindrical body, a pair of concentric cylindrical liners made of plastic, and an explosive charge disposed within the innermost liner. The innermost liner includes patterns formed thereon of recessed areas and solid liner elements. The outermost liner's interior surface includes patterns formed thereon of raised areas and solid liner elements. The outermost cylindrical liner is arranged to be adjustable relative to the innermost liner through rotation or translation. The explosive charge is disposed adjacent to the interior of the innermost cylindrical liner. Upon detonation of the explosive charge and because of the random dampening and temporal delay in transmitting the detonation energy through various locations of the randomly aligned cylindrical liners, the warhead body is caused to shear and break into fragments with different sizes. It can be understood that adjustment of the outermost cylindrical liner can be used to influence the size of fragments ultimately generated when the warhead breaks apart through detonation. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709534 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272424 | Short |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Edison Welding Institute, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Short (Grove City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasonic welding assembly, comprising a sonotrode, wherein the sonotrode further includes at least one welding region and at least one node adjacent to the welding region; a mount for supporting the sonotrode, wherein the mount further includes a force application region; at least one ultrasonic transducer connected to the sonotrode for transmitting acoustic vibrations to the at least one welding region; at least one roller connected to the sonotrode in a flexible manner for permitting rotation of the sonotrode about its axis; a device for maintaining axial alignment of the sonotrode relative to a target welding area; and a low-friction bearing in contact with the at least one node for the application of force thereto, wherein the at least one low-friction bearing is connected to the mount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302505 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/580.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272576 | Doak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bruce Doak (Tempe, Arizona); John C. H. Spence (Tempe, Arizona); Uwe Weierstall (Phoenix, Arizona); Daniel DePonte (Tempe, Arizona); Dmitri Starodub (Sunnyvale, California); Jared Scott Warner (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for producing a single-file stream of droplets of a fluid, methods using the nozzle, and an injector, comprising the nozzle of the invention, for providing the single-file stream of droplets of a fluid to a high-vacuum system are described. The nozzle comprises two concentric tubes wherein the outer tube comprises a smoothly converging-diverging exit channel and the outlet end of the first tube is positioned within the converging section of the exit channel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/664437 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272618 | Kilwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Kilwin (St. Peters, Missouri); Ronald J. Newcomer (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A minimum bond assurance feature for a pi-joint assembly is provided. The pi-joint assembly includes a substructure, a member coupled to the substructure. The substructure includes one or more standoff extending above one of the lower side, the front side and the back side of the substructure. The standoff includes a space location control surface. The member includes a base, a pair of axially elongated leg extending from the base to define a channel therebetween. The channel of the member has a first channel side, a channel floor and a second channel side, wherein the space location control surface may contact the member maintaining a standoff distance between the one of the lower side, the front side and the back side of the substructure and corresponding one of the channel floor, the first channel side and the second channel side of the member. A method of assembling a pi-joint assembly of the present invention is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904801 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273035 | Russo 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) | Michael B. Russo (Honolulu, Hawaii); Alexander H. Vo (Houston, Texas); Daniel P. Redmond (Silver Spring, Maryland); Robert Conlan (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the detection of human biovibrations using a digital signal processing (DSP) actigraph worn by the individual, and in at least one method using any noise existing in the signals. Human biovibrations result from the human body having reverberations and oscillations from bodily functioning. The DSP actigraph has been shown to be able to identify heart beat and breathing of an individual. The invention includes a method comprising: recording movement data of an individual that includes biovibrations data, determining when the movement data substantially falls within a predetermined threshold representative of death, and providing a notification. The invention in at least one embodiment includes a method comprising: monitoring activity counts for zero crossing mode, above threshold mode, and proportional integrative mode, providing a notification when all three activity counts are within a respective predetermined range for a period of time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242540 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273194 | Shaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University the Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Shaw (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David S. Grummon (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses a method, using pure niobium as a transient liquid reactive braze material, for fabrication of cellular or honeycomb structures, wire space-frames or other sparse builtup structures or discrete articles using Nitinol (near-equiatomic titanium-nickel alloy) and related shape-memory and superelastic alloys. Nitinol shape memory alloys (SMAs), acquired in a form such as corrugated sheet, discrete tubes or wires, may be joined together using the newly discovered joining technique. Pure niobium when brought into contact with nitinol at elevated temperature, liquefies at temperatures below the melting point and flows readily into capillary spaces between the elements to be joined, thus forming a strong joint. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852457 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/563 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273222 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronghua Wei (San Antonio, Texas); Sabrina L. Lee (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for depositing coatings on the surface of a workpiece with sputtering material in an ion plasma environment. The apparatus may include a magnetron including a core cooling system surrounded by a magnet assembly and target material having a surface capable of providing a source of sputtering material. An RF plasma generation assembly is also provided in the apparatus including an RF antenna capable of providing an RF plasma and drawing ions to one or both of the workpiece surface and target material surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749739 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273257 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for processing a nanotube, a vapor is condensed to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the nanotube and then at least one selected region of the condensate layer is locally removed by directing a beam of energy at the selected region. The nanotube can be processed with at least a portion of the solid condensate layer maintained on the nanotube surface and thereafter the solid condensate layer removed. Nanotube processing can include, e.g., depositing a material layer on an exposed nanotube surface region where the condensate layer was removed. After forming a solid condensate layer, an electron beam can be directed at a selected region along a nanotube length corresponding to a location for cutting the nanotube, to locally remove the condensate layer at the region, and an ion beam can be directed at the selected region to cut the nanotube at the selected region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409580 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273319 | Kim 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) | Sang N. Kim (Dayton, Ohio); Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio); James G. Grote (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Barry L. Farmer (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for enriched chirality of single wall carbon nanotubes is described. Genomic DNA, particularly salmon DNA (SaDNA) is shown to sort out single wall carbon nanotubes of specific chirality by a process of solubilization (dissolving in solution) and separation (such as centrifuging), without requiring more complex processes such as anion exchange chromatography. A possible reason for enhanced chirality separation using DNA may be attributed to its lowered GC (guanine-cytosine) content. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/843182 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273477 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Jean-Philippe Belieres (Renton, Washington); Dominic Francis-Gervasio (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cell designs and techniques for converting chemical energy into electrical energy uses a fuel cell are disclosed. The designs and techniques include an anode to receive fuel, a cathode to receive oxygen, and an electrolyte chamber in the fuel cell, including an electrolyte medium, where the electrolyte medium includes an inorganic salt mixture in the fuel cell. The salt mixture includes pre-determined quantities of at least two salts chosen from a group consisting of ammonium trifluoromethanesulfonate, ammonium trifluoroacetate, and ammonium nitrate, to conduct charge from the anode to the cathode. The fuel cell includes an electrical circuit operatively coupled to the fuel cell to transport electrons from the cathode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513148 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273599 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Alan J. Heeger (Santa Barbara, California); Daniel Moses (Santa Barbara, California); Jeffrey Peet (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved processing methods for enhanced properties of conjugated polymer films are disclosed, as well as the enhanced conjugated polymer films produced thereby. Addition of low molecular weight alkyl-containing molecules to solutions used to form conjugated polymer films leads to improved photoconductivity and improvements in other electronic properties. The enhanced conjugated polymer films can be used in a variety of electronic devices, such as solar cells and photodiodes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949713 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273698 | Arafat |
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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) | El Sayed Arafat (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to siloxane compositions having a VOC of about 19 g/l, a flash point above 140° F., and a vapor pressure of less than seven millimeters of mercury (7 mm Hg). The siloxane compositions consist essentially of unsubstituted and/or alkylated cyclicsiloxanes having 5 or 6 silicon atoms, an alkylated cyclicsiloxane having 3 or 4 silicon atoms, a linear alkylated siloxane fluid, at least one alkylene glycol alkylether and an alkylene glycol having at least six carbon atoms. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/456464 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273702 | Van Dyke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Van Dyke (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are keratin preparations for use in medical applications. Methods of treating wounds are provided, wherein keratin preparations are applied to the wound in a treatment effective amount. Methods of treating burn wounds are also provided. Surgical or paramedic aids are provided, comprising a substrate with keratin preparations provided thereon. Kits comprising keratin derivatives packaged in sterile form are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/104682 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273705 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Xiao-kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Bin Guo (Fargo, North Dakota); Bingzhen Lin (La Jolla, California); Siva Kumar Kolluri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that modulate the function of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL are identified. These compounds have the ability to convert the activity of Bcl-2-family member proteins from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic. Methods for inducing apoptosis are described, together with methods for identifying molecules that induce apoptosis through interaction with Bcl-2-family members. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364415 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273750 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Osaka, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Li (New York, New York); Haiyan Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel 7,8-dihydro-imidazo[1,2-α]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4-one compounds and 7,8,9-trihydro-[1H or 2/f]-pyrimido[1,2-a]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4(5H)-one compounds, substituted at the 1 or 2 position with C2-g allcyl, C3-9 cycloalkyl, heteroarylalkyl, or substituted arylalkyl, in free, salt or prodrug form, processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals, particularly as PDE1 inhibitors, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/916761 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273751 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Chuo-Ku, Osaka, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 1- or 2-substituted (6aR,9aS)-3-(phenylamino)-5-6a,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro-5-methyl-cyclopent[4,5]imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4(1H or, 2H)-one compounds of Formula (I), processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/746236 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273848 | Tsui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas T. Tsui (Arlington, Virginia); Edwin L. Thomas (Natick, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polymeric materials having enhanced properties. In some cases, the materials may comprise polymers having shape-persistent portions which may enhance the mechanical properties of the material. The materials may exhibit higher stiffness or strength and ductility values, resulting in higher energy absorption and enhanced protection, as well as, longer lifetimes for product usage. In some cases, the materials may be optically transparent and lightweight, making them suitable for various applications including protective materials. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/529939 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273877 | Stern 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) | Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Patrick A. Caruana (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted tetraazapentalenes have two benzenoid rings and eight substitutable positions. Substitutions are made of hydrogen or C—H groups in favor of amino groups, nitro groups or nitrogen atoms. The tetraazapentalenes are synthesized through an intermediate azo, which is made from a 1:1:1 molar ratio of a nitroaniline, sodium nitrite and an amine. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373540 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273886 | Afzali-Ardakani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Afzali-Ardakani (Ossining, New York); Cherie R. Kagan (Ossining, New York); Laura L. Kosbar (Mohegan Lake, New York); Sally A. Swanson (San Jose, California); Charan Srinivasan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a radiation sensitive compound comprising a surface binding group proximate to one end of the compound for attachment to a substrate, and a metal binding group proximate to an opposite end of the compound. The metal binding group is not radiation sensitive. The radiation sensitive compound also includes a body portion disposed between the surface binding group and the metal binding group, and a radiation sensitive group positioned in the body portion or adjacent to the metal binding group. The surface binding group is capable of attaching to a substrate selected from a metal, a metal oxide, or a semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199607 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274021 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Wang (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an integrated temperature regulator that can be fabricated using conventional semiconductor processing technology. The integrated temperature regulator can include a reaction chamber, for example fabricated from PDMS, in which chemical or biochemical reactions of interest can be carried out. The temperature regular can also be used to regulate the temperature of some circuits, e.g. an effective-inductance-change based magnetic particle sensor, to achieve a stable operation performance, such as an improved sensitivity. The integrated temperature regulator includes as subcomponents a temperature sensing circuit that receives a thermal signal from the vicinity of the reaction chamber, a temperature reference circuit, and a temperature control circuit that controls a heater based at least in part on the difference between the sensed temperature and the reference temperature. The various subcomponents can be programmable. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399320 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274024 | Russom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery D. Russom (Chesterfield, Missouri); Lawrence R. White (Florissant, Missouri); James Greenwood (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Control surface assemblies have a torque tube base. In one embodiment, a method includes moving an aerospace vehicle through a medium; and moving at least a portion of a control surface assembly to generate a force for controlling the vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/018406 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274059 | Blick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Blick (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An active detector and methods for detecting molecules, including large molecules such as proteins and oligonucleotides, at or near room temperature based on the generation of electrons via field emission (FE) and/or secondary electron emission (SEE). The detector comprises a semiconductor membrane having an external surface that is contacted by one or more molecules, and an internal surface having a thin metallic layer or other type of electron emitting layer. The kinetic energy of molecules contacting the semiconductor membrane is transferred through the membrane and induces the emission of electrons from the emitting layer. An electron detector, which optionally includes means for electron amplification, is positioned to detect the emitted electrons. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489037 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274075 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Zhiming Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Hyuk-Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea); Nae-Jeong Suh, legal representative (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Solution-processable dielectric materials are provided, along with precursor compositions and processes for preparing the same. Composites and electronic devices including the dielectric materials also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763495 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274096 | Wicks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Wicks (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a semiconductor device that includes at least one p-n junction including a p-type material, an n-type material, and a depletion region. The at least one p-n junction is configured to generate bulk photocurrent in response to incident light. The at least one p-n junction is characterized by a conduction band energy level, a valence band energy level and a surface Fermi energy level. The surface Fermi energy level is pinned either near or above the conduction band energy level or near or below the valence band energy level. A unipolar barrier structure is disposed in a predetermined region within the at least one p-n junction. The unipolar barrier is configured to raise the conduction band energy level if the surface Fermi energy level is pinned near or above the conduction band energy level or lower the valence band energy level if the surface Fermi energy level is pinned near or below the valence band energy level such that the unipolar barrier is configured to propagate the bulk photocurrent and substantially block surface leakage current. The at least one p-n junction and the unipolar barrier are integrally formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706016 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274167 | Hughes |
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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) | Derke R. Hughes (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is an underwater based electric energy production system. A cable having a piezoelectric core is attached on one end thereof to a floating buoy and on the other end thereof to an anchor. The system is deployed in the water such that the cable extends vertically through a water column. Movement of the cable due to water current generates electric power that can be harvested and stored. The floating buoy can be at or near the water's surface and the anchor can but need not rest on the sea floor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683503 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274278 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Walker (Delray Beach, Florida); Stephen E Saddow (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated, non-destructive anhysteretic magnetization characterization method for studying and modeling soft magnetic materials. This measurement method employs a “reading-waveform” that allows multiple points of reference to be established in tracing out the B waveform. In using the reference values from this waveform, the components of B that cannot be measured directly may be calculated with precision. In turn, the initial magnitude of the B waveform is identified as the unknown component of the anhysteretic state. The processes can be repeated for different values of static fields as well as a function of temperature to produce a family of anhysteretic magnetization curves. The core characterization was performed without physically altering the core, so that the true anhysteretic magnetization curve, and the true B-H loop under applied bias H, is measured. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635012 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274306 | Garcia |
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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) | Joseph P. Garcia (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A physically unclonable function (PUF) device, with corresponding method, is provided for characterizing an integrated circuit. The PUF device includes a digital clock manager (DCM), a Butterfly circuit incorporated within the integrated circuit, and a shift register. The DCM receives a clock input signal (CLK) and imposes a temporal offset to produce a phase-shift signal (PS). The Butterfly circuit receives a first excite signal as said CLK and a second excite signal as said PS. In response, the Butterfly circuit produces an output that shifts state in response to a non-concurrent change in the CLK and PS. The shift register increments a shift count in response to the output. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/066229 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274312 | Pino 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) | Robinson E. Pino (Rome, New York); James W. Bohl (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus which provides a self-reconfigurable analog resonant computer employing a fixed electronic circuit schematic which performs computing logic operations (for example OR, AND, NOR, and XOR Boolean logic) without physical re-wiring and whose components only include passive circuit elements such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, and memristor devices. The computational logic self-reconfiguration process in the circuit takes place as training input signals, which are input causing the impedance state of the memristor device to change. Once the training process is completed, the circuit is probed to determine whether the desired logic operation has been programmed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134482 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274386 | Dea 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) | Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California); Daniel Tam (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for detection of an electric field generated by the human/animal body can include providing a passive antenna system for detecting changes in the ambient electric field due to interaction of the ambient with the charges generated by the human/animal body, and a high impedance sensor that is fixed to the encapsulated wire antenna. The result is a passive human/animal detection system without any moving parts. The antenna can be an encapsulated wire, and the wire length can be chosen according the desired application. For systems that are intended to detect the presence of a human being or animal, the encapsulated wire can have a length of one hundred feet or more, and a grid of wires can be used for detection within an Area of Interest (AOI). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180934 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274439 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Miller (Auburn, Washington); William O. Price (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna may include an enclosure formed by a front wall and a back wall opposite to the front wall, and a front face and a back face opposite to the front face. Both the front face and the back face extend between the front wall and the back wall to form a cavity within the enclosure. The enclosure further includes a slot formed in the front face to form a cavity backed slot. A radio frequency (RF) connector is mounted in the front wall. A shaped feed line is mounted within the cavity and is electrically connected to the RF connector to transmit and receive RF energy. The shaped feed line extends across the slot to couple the RF energy between the slot and the shaped feed line. The shaped feed line has a predetermined structure to substantially reduce an electric field strength to improve power handing of the antenna. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569470 |
| 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 343/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274446 | Maxhimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle W. Maxhimer (Hermosa Beach, California); David T. Winslow (Culver City, California); Larry L. Lai (Walnut, California); Derek Pruden (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to lightweight antenna arrays and more particularly to an attachment mechanism for attaching a lightweight antenna array to a structure. In one embodiment, an antenna structure includes a platform having a first coefficient of thermal expansion; an antenna panel having a second coefficient of thermal expansion different from the first coefficient, and having first and second opposite ends; and a support structure mounting the panel to the platform. The support structure includes a first spacer element with a first height at the first end of the panel, and a second spacer element with a second height less than the first height between the first and second ends of the panel; a first adhesive layer adhering each spacer element to the platform; and a second adhesive layer adhering each spacer element to the antenna panel. A yield strength of the adhesive layers is less than a yield strength of the spacer elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793448 |
| 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 343/878 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274643 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Gaurav Abbi (San Jose, California); Boyce E. Collins (San Diego, California); Keiki-Pua S. Dancil (Makawao, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for simultaneously detecting and separating a target analyte such as a protein or other macromolecule that includes providing a porous silicon matrix on the silicon substrate, exposing the porous silicon matrix to an environment suspect of containing the target analyte, observing optical reflectivity of the porous silicon matrix; and correlating the changes in the silicon substrate to the target analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/546522 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Herzog (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Particle detection systems configured to identify a particle in a bulk sample volume are less efficient than those configured to measure a single particle. A particle detection system according to an inventive embodiment can identify a particle in a fluid stream. The detection system may employ one or more heating stations. Each heating station may be set to a distinct temperature. The heating stations may include a light source and a light detector, such that once a particle traverses a beam provided by the light source, the light detector may measure resultant optical scattering. Based on the optical scattering with respect to temperature or temperature variation, an identification of the single particle may be obtained, thereby eliminating measurement inaccuracies associated with bulk sample volumes. The particle detection system may detect organic particles among inorganic particles in various fluid flow environments, such as for safety or quality purposes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697399 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274659 | Qiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Arizona); Lee K. Strandjord (Tonka Bay, Minnesota); Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator fiber optic gyroscope (RFOG) is disclosed that reduces rotation rate error instability. In one embodiment, the RFOG comprises a resonator optical ring cavity, a first light source in optical communication with the ring cavity and configured to generate a clockwise optical signal, and a second light source in optical communication with the ring cavity and configured to generate a counter-clockwise optical signal. The RFOG also includes a first optical component in optical communication with the first light source and the ring cavity. The first optical component is configured to prevent the clockwise optical signal from being back-reflected to the first light source. A second optical component is in optical communication with the second light source and the ring cavity. The second optical component is configured to prevent the counter-clockwise optical signal from being back-reflected to the second light source. In addition, a first optical detector and a second optical detector are optically coupled to the ring cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871518 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274813 | Pickett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); Julien Borghetti (Mountain View, California); Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memristive Negative Differential Resistance (NDR) device includes a first electrode adjacent to a memristive matrix, the memristive matrix including an intrinsic semiconducting region and a highly doped secondary region, a Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) material in series with the memristive matrix, and a second electrode adjacent to the MIT material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837903 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274861 | Marn 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) | William H. Marn (San Diego, California); James Ben Penney (San Diego, California); Lonnie Allen Hamme (Jamul, California); Christopher Lawson Fletcher (San Diego, California); Robert Kevin Creber (San Diego, California); James Gabriel Buescher (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater wireless network can include plurality of nodes, each node having a cylindrical housing, a repeater, a transducer and a buoy. The housing defines a void and encloses the repeater. The transducer can be tethered to the housing and a buoy can be tethered to said transducer. Each node also includes at least two hemi-cylindrical flukes that can be pivotably attached to the housing. The housing can further be formed with at least two flood ports, and corresponding plugs are inserted into a respective fill port. Lanyards interconnect each flukes with a respective plug. During transport, the flukes can surround the transducer and the void is empty, which renders the node neutrally buoyant for ease of transport. For deployment, the flukes are pivoted away from each other to tighten the lanyards, which pull the plugs out of the flood ports, to further flood the void and deploy the node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/632866 |
| 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 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275260 | Luss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hanan Luss (Marlboro, New Jersey); Martin Eiger (Montville, New Jersey); David Shallcross (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The design of telecommunication networks is such that there is provision of end-to-end path protection to multiple demands under a single link or node failure in the networks. Restoration routes are provided on Preconfigured Virtual Cycles (PVC's), where each demand is assigned one restoration route and specific restoration wavelengths on a segment of one cycle. Multiple demands may share restoration wavelengths, and the number of restoration wavelengths may vary among the PVC links. First, a plurality of candidate PVC's are generated where each demand may be assigned to multiple candidates. Assignment of demands with common failure scenarios are allowed, under certain conditions, to the same PVC. Next, a set of PVC's is selected from among the candidates, while minimizing total reserved restoration capacity and ensuring that all demands are protected. Next duplicate assignments are eliminated. Finally, conflicts of wavelength assignments are resolved. The invention focuses primarily on optical networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388981 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275313 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Distributed Sensor Systems (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Myers (Littleton, Colorado); Leo John Staarmann (Boulder, Colorado); David Jansen (Louisville, Colorado); Patrick French (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a first sensor node 100 includes a radio to effect wireless communications; a sensor module 204 to sense a selected parameter; and a scheduler 228 that selects a listen time for the first sensor node, such that, during the listen time, the radio is activated and able to receive wireless signals and, during a time other than the listen time, the radio is deactivated and unable to receive wireless signals, and causes transmission to a second sensor node a first message. The first message includes a time offset from a transmission time of the first message, the time offset indicating a timing of a first listen time for the first sensor node. In response, the node 100 receives, from the second sensor node, a second message, with the time selected by the second sensor node to transmit the second message to the first sensor node being based on the time offset. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014509 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275318 | Hoyt 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) | Reed W. Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts); John F. Lanza (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic induction data transmission network comprising a master hub, at least one sensor node communicatively coupled to the master hub and a magnetic induction coil preferably adapted to be worn about a body part of a subject such as an individual's waist or neck. In at least one embodiment of the invention, the magnetic induction coil preferably includes a connector which serves as an intermediary between the coil and the hub to allow data communication. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/028696 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275572 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Burns (North Hollywood, California); Donald Elliot Harrington (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for detecting objects. A first plurality of electromagnetic signals having a first frequency and a second plurality of electromagnetic signals having a second frequency are transmitted. At least one of the first frequency and the second frequency is changed through a range of frequencies. A delayed difference frequency signal substantially equal to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency is monitored for. The delayed difference frequency signal is generated by an object having non-linear electrical characteristics in response to the object receiving the first plurality of electromagnetic signals and the second plurality of electromagnetic signals. A range measurement is generated for the object by comparing the delayed difference frequency signal and an undelayed difference frequency signal. The undelayed difference frequency signal is substantially equal to the difference between the first frequency and the second frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481941 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275582 | Vidmar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Vidmar (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Daniel P. Bergen (Belford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for estimating the inception of gimbal motion of an inertial measurement unit (IMU), includes independently filtering, in a computer process, three-axis angular orientation rate information or data from component gyroscopes in the IMU, to provide a first output; adaptively detecting, in another computer process, discontinuities in the first output; estimating a regularity of gimbal motion to provide a second output; and comparing the discontinuities detected in the first output to the estimated regularity of gimbal motion provided in the second output, in another computer process, to determine which of the discontinuities detected in the first output are true discontinuities and which of the discontinuities in the first output that are false discontinuities, and to identify other discontinuities which have been missed in the first output. The true and missed discontinuities are estimates of the inception of gimbal motion of the IMU. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511467 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275728 | Pino |
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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) | Robinson E. Pino (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A neuromorphic computing device utilizing electronics to perform the function of neurons and synaptic connections. The invention provides variable resistance circuits to represent interconnection strength between neurons and a positive and negative output circuit to represent excitatory and inhibitory responses, respectively. The invention provides advantages over software-based neuromorphic computing methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590306 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275947 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and data processing system for tracking global shared memory (GSM) operations to and from a local node configured with a host fabric interface (HFI) coupled to a network fabric. During task/job initialization, the system OS assigns HFI window(s) to handle the GSM packet generation and GSM packet receipt and processing for each local task. HFI processing logic automatically tags each GSM packet generated by the HFI window with a global job identifier (ID) of the job to which the local task is affiliated. The job ID is embedded within each GSM packet placed on the network fabric. On receipt of a GSM packet from the network fabric, the HFI logic retrieves the embedded job ID and compares the embedded job ID with the ID within the HFI window(s). GSM packets are forwarded to an HFI window only when the embedded job ID matches the HFI window's job ID. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024410 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275963 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed data processing system includes: (1) a first node with a processor, a first memory, and asynchronous memory mover logic; and connection mechanism that connects (2) a second node having a second memory. The processor includes processing logic for completing a cross-node asynchronous memory move (AMM) operation, wherein the processor performs a move of data in virtual address space from a first effective address to a second effective address, and the asynchronous memory mover logic completes a physical move of the data from a first memory location in the first memory having a first real address to a second memory location in the second memory having a second real address. The data is transmitted via the connection mechanism connecting the two nodes independent of the processor. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024486 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276167 | Challenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Plug-in configurable middleware is provided for managing distributed applications. The middleware includes at least one core runtime engine configured as a plurality of concurrent instantiations on one or more hosts within a distributed architecture. These hosts can represent separate nodes or a single node within the architecture. Each core runtime engine instance provides the minimum amount of functionality required to support the instantiation of one or more plug-ins within that core runtime engine instance. Each core runtime engine instance is in communication with other concurrent core runtime engine instances and can share the functionality of plug-in instances with the other core runtime engine instances, for example through the use of proxies. A plurality of personalities representing pre-defined functions is defined and one of more of these personalities is associated with each core runtime engine instance. A plurality of pre-defined plug-ins are defined and associated with the personalities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689010 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276192 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Schwendimann Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Genady Ya. Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Paul Ashley Karger (Chappaqua, New York); Marc Lelarge (Plessis-Robinson, France); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton Viktorovich Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Grant Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for security planning with hard security constraints includes: receiving security-related requirements of a network to be developed using system inputs and processing components; and generating the network according to the security-related requirements, wherein the network satisfies hard security constraints. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130243 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276200 | Branson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for securely processing sensitive streams in a mixed infrastructure includes analyzing a stream to determine data sensitivity. A likelihood that processing elements employed to process the stream would result in a risk to sensitive information is determined. At least a portion of the data stream having sensitive information is transferred to a secure processing environment to ensure security of the data stream during processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971315 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin G. Pomper (Baltimore, Maryland); Chetan Bettegowda (Charlotte, North Carolina); Catherine Foss (Baltimore, Maryland); Shibin Zhou (Owings Mills, Maryland); Kenneth Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention provides a method for diagnosing an infection in a subject by administering to the subject a compound suitable for imaging which binds to a thymidine kinase present in the infecting organism, and obtaining an image of the subject to determine the presence and location of the compound, wherein a localization of the compound is indicative that the subject has an infection. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629607 |
| 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 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273345 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pin Wang (Arcadia, California); Lili Yang (Pasadena, California); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for delivery of a polynucleotide encoding a gene of interest, typically an antigen, to a dendritic cell (DC). The virus envelope comprises a DC-SIGN specific targeting molecule. The methods and related compositions can be used to treat patients suffering from a wide range of conditions, including infection, such as HIV/AIDS, and various types of cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301545 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273357 | Hacohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nir Hacohen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eddie Adams (Brighton, Massachusetts); Peter Seeberger (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising antigen-carbohydrate conjugates and methods of immune modulation featuring these reagents. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/632442 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273361 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infectious Disease Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington); Darrick Carter (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods, including vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions for inducing or enhancing an immune response are disclosed based on the discovery of useful immunological adjuvant properties in a synthetic, glucopyranosyl lipid adjuvant (GLA) that is provided in substantially homogeneous form. Chemically defined, synthetic GLA offers a consistent vaccine component from lot to lot without the fluctuations in contaminants or activity that compromise natural-product adjuvants. Also provided are vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions that include GLA and one or more of an antigen, a Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonist, a co-adjuvant and a carrier such as a pharmaceutical carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862122 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/282.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273532 | Gershow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc H. Gershow (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a molecular analysis system, there is provided a structure including a nanopore and first and second fluidic reservoirs. The two reservoirs are fluidically connected via the nanopore. A detector is connected to detect molecular species translocation of the nanopore, from one of the two fluidic reservoirs to the other of the two fluidic reservoirs. A controller is connected to generate a control signal to produce conditions at the nanopore to induce the molecular species to re-translocate the nanopore at least once after translocating the nanopore. This enables a method for molecular analysis in which a molecular species is translocated a plurality of times through a nanopore in a structure between two fluidic reservoirs separated by the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286787 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273538 | Rappaport et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Rappaport (Somers Point, New Jersey); Tracy Fischer-Smith (Horsham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for detecting CD163+/CD16+ cell population in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in a biological sample from a subject infected with HIV-1 which comprises contacting the biological sample with an anti-CD163 antibody, so that levels of CD163+/CD16+ peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the biological sample can be quantified. The method of the present invention is particularly useful for monitoring the course of HIV-1 infection and/or HIV Encephalopathy |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/301796 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08273543 | Tanzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolph E. Tanzi (Hull, Massachusetts); Giuseppina Tesco (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and products for diagnosing, preventing, and treating Alzheimer's disease and abnormal production of amyloid β. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861912 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273549 | Gladyshev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Gladyshev (Lincoln, Nebraska); Sergey Novoselov (Puschino, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleic acid constructs for the efficient expression of eukaryotic selenoproteins and related methods for production of recombinant selenoproteins are provided. The nucleic acid constructs comprise novel selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) elements. Certain novel SECIS elements of the invention contain non-canonical quartet sequences. Other novel SECIS elements provided by the invention are chimeric SECIS elements comprising a canonical SECIS element that contains a non-canonical quartet sequence and chimeric SECIS elements comprising a non-canonical SECIS element that contains a canonical quartet sequence. The novel SECIS elements of the invention facilitate the insertion of selenocysteine residues into recombinant polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428007 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273569 | Thomson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified preparation of primate embryonic stem cells is disclosed. This preparation is characterized by the following cell surface markers: SSEA-1 (−); SSEA-4 (+); TRA-1-60 (+); TRA-1-81 (+); and alkaline phosphatase (+). In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the cells of the preparation are human embryonic stem cells, have normal karyotypes, and continue to proliferate in an undifferentiated state after continuous culture for eleven months. The embryonic stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to form trophoblast and to differentiate into all tissues derived from all three embryonic germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). A method for isolating a primate embryonic stem cell line is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/822004 |
| 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 435/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273574 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Mark A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic devices and methods for using the same. In particular, microfluidic devices of the present invention are useful in conducting a variety of assays and high throughput screening. Microfluidic devices of the present invention include elastomeric components and comprise a main flow channel; a plurality of branch flow channels; a plurality of control channels; and a plurality of valves. Preferably, each of the valves comprises one of the control channels and an elastomeric segment that is deflectable into or retractable from the main or branch flow channel upon which the valve operates in response to an actuation force applied to the control channel. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026587 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — 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 08273578 | Levicky et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rastislav Levicky (Irvington, New York); Napoleon Tercero (New York, New York); Kang Wong (Staten Island, New York); Ping Gong (Elmhurst, New York); Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Use of Morpholinos, a class of uncharged DNA analogues, for surface-hybridization applications. Monolayers of Morpholino probes on gold supports are fabricated with methods similar to those employed with DNA, and are used to hybridize efficiently and sequence-specifically with target strands. Hybridization-induced changes in the interfacial charge organization are analyzed with electrochemical methods and compared for Morpholino and DNA probe monolayers. Molecular mechanisms connecting surface hybridization state to the interfacial capacitance are identified and interpreted through comparison to numerical Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. Positive as well as negative capacitive responses (contrast inversion) to hybridization are possible, depending on surface populations of mobile ions as controlled by the applied potential. Quantitative comparison of surface capacitance with target coverage (targets/area) reveals a near-linear relationship, and demonstrates sensitivities (limits of quantification) in the pg mm−2 range. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423228 |
| 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 08273700 | Vij et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neeraj Vij (Baltimore, Maryland); Pamela L. Zeitlin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods of inhibiting p97/valosin-containing protein and compounds and methods of inhibiting gp78, the compounds and methods being useful for the treatment of a disorder comprising a IκB/NFκB mediated chronic inflammatory response component, for example cystic fibrosis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992799 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273701 | Robbins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Robbins (Hanover, New Hampshire); Ziqiang Yuan (Burlington, Vermont); John A. Goetz (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the constitutive activity of the Hedgehog pathway in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). A method for diagnosing NSCLC by detecting the level of a component of the Hedgehog pathway is provided, as is a method for identifying subjects that will respond positively to treatment with a Hedgehog pathway antagonist. Methods for treating subjects with cancer or cancers resistant to Hedgehog pathway antagonists are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063781 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 08273705 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Xiao-kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Bin Guo (Fargo, North Dakota); Bingzhen Lin (La Jolla, California); Siva Kumar Kolluri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that modulate the function of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL are identified. These compounds have the ability to convert the activity of Bcl-2-family member proteins from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic. Methods for inducing apoptosis are described, together with methods for identifying molecules that induce apoptosis through interaction with Bcl-2-family members. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364415 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273714 | Ginsburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ginsburg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gallia Levy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Han-Mou Tsai (Manhasset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a disintegrin and metalloproteinase containing thrombospondin 1-like domains (ADAMTS) and in particular to a novel ADAMTS13 protease and to nucleic acids encoding ADAMTS13 proteases. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of ADAMTS13, as well as mutant and variant forms including fragments, some of which posses altered characteristics relative to the wild-type ADAMTS13. The present invention also relates to methods of using ADAMTS13, including for treatment of TTP. The present invention also relates to methods for screening for the presence of TTP. The present invention further relates to methods for developing anticoagulant drugs based upon ADAMTS13. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422809 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273724 | Kawakami 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) | Yutaka Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated or purified immunogenic peptide comprising 8-15 contiguous amino acids of gp100 (SEQ ID NO: 121) and related nucleic acids, expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and methods of use. The invention further provides immunogenic peptides derived from gp100 which have been modified to enhance their immunogenicity and related nucleic acids, expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and methods of use. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/192804 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273746 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satish K. Srivastava (Galveston, Texas); Kota V. Ramana (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention include methods and compositions involving aldose reductase inhibitors for the treatment of inflammation, including uveitis and asthma. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/532553 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273750 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Osaka, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Li (New York, New York); Haiyan Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel 7,8-dihydro-imidazo[1,2-α]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4-one compounds and 7,8,9-trihydro-[1H or 2/f]-pyrimido[1,2-a]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4(5H)-one compounds, substituted at the 1 or 2 position with C2-g allcyl, C3-9 cycloalkyl, heteroarylalkyl, or substituted arylalkyl, in free, salt or prodrug form, processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals, particularly as PDE1 inhibitors, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/916761 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/257 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Chuo-Ku, Osaka, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 1- or 2-substituted (6aR,9aS)-3-(phenylamino)-5-6a,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro-5-methyl-cyclopent[4,5]imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4(1H or, 2H)-one compounds of Formula (I), processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/746236 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273756 | Sugaya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Willow Springs, Illinois); Tingyu Qu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides cells and methods for stimulating proliferation and migration of endogenous and exogenous mammalian stem cells in vivo and in vitro. The invention provides reagents and methods for efficiently proliferating mammalian stem cells in an animal in need thereof and producing stem cells that can be re-introduced into an animal in need thereof to alleviate neurological and corporal disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/028325 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/265.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273778 | Kiessling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Lee Kiessling (Madison, Wisconsin); Emily Carla Dykhuizen (Woodside, California); John F. May (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds which inhibit microbial growth or attenuate the virulence of pathogen microorganisms. Compounds of the invention inhibit UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM) and have activity as inhibitors of microbial growth of microorganisms which contain this enzyme and particularly those microorganisms in which this enzyme is responsible for the incorporation of galactofuranose residues, particularly for uridine 5′-diphosphate (UDP) galactopyranose mutase. Compounds of the invention inhibit UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM) and have activity to attenuate virulence of pathogenic microorganisms, including mycobacteria. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430610 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273792 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | (Neuro)protectin D1 (1OR,17S-dihydroxy-docosa-4Z,7Z,11E,13E,15Z,19Z-hexaenoic acid) and 15,16-dehydro-PD1 and their derivatives are useful in the treatment of airway inflammation, especially asthma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/089141 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273797 | Mertins 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) | Susan D. Mertins (Bethesda, Maryland); Susan E. Bates (Bethesda, Maryland); David G. Covell (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Geoffrey W. Patton (Wheaton, Maryland); Melinda G. Hollingshead (Frederick, Maryland); Rao Vishnuvajjalla (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of treating a mammalian subject having renal cancer by administration of 4-[bis[2-[(methylsulfonyl)oxy]ethyl]amino]-benzaldehyde. The present invention further features administration protocols and dosing schedules for methods of treating patients having renal cancer and pharmaceutical compositions suitable for use in the treatment methods provided herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/176129 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/646 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Variant costimulatory polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, and methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids to enhance a T cell response are provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228893 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273867 | Dowdy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven F. Dowdy (La Jolla, California); Jehangir S. Wadia (San Diego, California); Bryan Meade (San Diego, California); Akiko Eguchi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides fusion polypeptides and constructs useful in delivering anionically charged nucleic acid molecules including diagnostics and therapeutics to a cell or subject. The fusion constructs include a protein transduction domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, or a protein transduction domain and a nucleic acid that is coated with one or more nucleic acid binding domains sufficient to neutralize an anionic charge on the nucleic acid. Also provided are methods of treating disease and disorders such as cell proliferative disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/278739 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273875 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana); Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley Smith (Granger, Indiana); Arunkumar Easwaran (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to the field of chemistry and biochemistry, and, more specifically, to novel near-infrared dyes that are photostable and resistant to quenching. The dyes belong to a novel family of squaraine rotaxanes, and they are particularly well-suited for use in biological applications. Also disclosed are methods of synthesizing the dyes and methods of using the dyes. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619536 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274054 | Pratx et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillem Pratx (Stanford, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for determining a sequence of energy interactions in a detector. A plurality of discrete energy interactions is received in a plurality of detector voxels. A plurality of possible sequences of interaction is formed based on the received plurality of discrete energy interactions. For each of the plurality of possible sequences of interaction, an a posteriori probability is computed, where the a posteriori probability is based on a likelihood that the possible sequence of interaction is consistent with the received plurality of discrete energy interactions. Additionally or alternatively, the a posteriori probability may be based on an a priori probability. One of the formed plurality of possible sequences of interaction is selected based on the computed a posteriori probability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607853 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274286 | Koch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford, Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin M. Koch (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Kevin F. King (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin); Graeme C. McKinnon (Hartland, Wisconsin); Brian Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for multi-spectral MR imaging near metal include a computer programmed to calculate an MR pulse sequence comprising a plurality of RF pulses configured to excite spins in an imaging object and comprising a plurality of volume selection gradients and determine a plurality of distinct offset frequency values. For each respective determined offset frequency value, the computer is programmed to execute the MR pulse sequence having a central transmit frequency and a central receive frequency of the MR pulse sequence set to the respective determined offset frequency value. The computer is also programmed to acquire a three-dimensional (3D) MR data set for each MR pulse sequence execution and generate a composite image based on data from each of the acquired 3D MR data sets. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/860272 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275182 | Badiei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of British Columbia University-Industry Liaison Office (Vancouver, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sara Badiei (Vancouver, Canada); Septimiu Edmund Salcudean (Vancouver, Canada); Seyedeh Sara Mahdavi (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for delineating the contour of an object in captured medical images by first transforming the shape of the object into a simple geometric shape that is more computationally tractable than the shape of the object. After the contour of the transformed shape is detected, the inverse of the transformation is applied to the contour such that it represents the contour of the object in the captured medical image. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240878 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275594 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia-Ying Lin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Frank LaMarca (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stephen E. Feinberg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); James R. Adox (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Scott J. Hollister (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the engineering and preparation of intervertebral disc repair scaffolds and articulating joint repair scaffolds are disclosed. The methodology utilizes either magnetic resonance images or combined magnetic resonance and computed tomography images as a template for creating either the intervertebral scaffold or the joint repair scaffold (e.g., osteochondral scaffold) with fixation to the underlying bone. The disc scaffold design may include an outer annulus that may contain desired structures and a central nucleus pulposus region that could either contain a designed microstructure or a contained hydrogel. The osteochondral scaffold may include a bone compartment interface with a cartilage compartment. The bone compartment may interface with a cutout portion of the bone through fixation components. Different microstructure designs may be created for the bone and cartilage compartment to represent desired mechanical and mass transport properties. The scaffolds are designed with a microstructure that controls elastic and permeability property distribution within the scaffold. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927281 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275595 | Reinherz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ellis L. Reinherz (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Mikyung Kim (Boston, Massachusetts); Pedro Reche (Boston, Massachusetts); Jiahuai Wang (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a method of generating an immunogenic compound with the ability to induce an immune response to a molecule produced by a pathogenic agent, e.g., a infectious agent or a tumor cell. Also included in the invention are an immunogenic compound generated by the method of the invention and a method of inducing an immune response in a mammal that involves administering the immunogenic compound to the mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/486278 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275631 | Ram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IDX Systems Corporation (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhu Ram (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Berg (Bellingham, Washington); John M. Thrun (Renton, Washington); Bing Wu (Seattle, Washington); Chandresh Taunk (Bellevue, Washington); Robert M. Abarbanel (Bainbridge Island, Washington); James Guy Mansfield (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A clinical practice guideline can be implemented using a guideline execution engine. The engine can interpret the clinical practice guideline, obtain medical data stored in a clinical information system (CIS), and implement an action in response to execution of the clinical practice guideline based on medical data for a patient obtained from the CIS. The use of the CIS medical data in guideline execution beneficially allows the guideline to be tightly integrated into the real-time workflow of a clinician in a clinical setting and to provide patient-specific guideline recommendations. A VMR/actions interface facilitates communications between a guideline execution system and a CIS by processing a request for medical data from the guideline execution engine and implementing actions on the CIS requested by the guideline execution engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942285 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — 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 75/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43688 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jogeshwar Mukherjee (Irvine, California); Neil Saigal (Fresno, California); Harsh Saigal, legal representative (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contemplated substituted arylpiperazinyl compounds, and most preferably 18F-Mefway, exhibit desirable in vitro and in vivo binding characteristics to the 5-HT1A receptor. Among other advantageous parameters, contemplated compounds retain high binding affinity, display optimal lipophilicity, and are radiolabeled efficiently with 18F-fluorine in a single step. Still further, contemplated compounds exhibit high target to non-target ratios in receptor-rich regions both in vitro and in vivo, and selected compounds can be effectively and sensitively displaced by serotonin, thus providing a quantitative tool for measuring 5-HT1A receptors and serotonin concentration changes in the living brain. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/187728 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Fox (Hamilton, Canada); Reinhard Schilp (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle for delivery of fuel to a gas turbine engine. The fuel nozzle includes an outer nozzle wall and a center body located centrally within the nozzle wall. A gap is defined between an inner wall surface of the nozzle wall and an outer body surface of the center body for providing fuel flow in a longitudinal direction from an inlet end to an outlet end of the fuel nozzle. A turbulating feature is defined on at least one of the central body and the inner wall for causing at least a portion of the fuel flow in the gap to flow transverse to the longitudinal direction. The gap is effective to provide a substantially uniform temperature distribution along the nozzle wall in the circumferential direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236667 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/742 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272431 | Campagna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Campagna (Chillicothe, Illinois); James John Callas (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger may have an inlet configured to receive a first fluid and an outlet configured to discharge the first fluid. The heat exchanger may further have at least one passageway configured to conduct the first fluid from the inlet to the outlet. The at least one passageway may be composed of a graphite foam and a layer of graphite material on the exterior of the graphite foam. The layer of graphite material may form at least a partial barrier between the first fluid and a second fluid external to the at least one passageway. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/896396 |
| ART UNIT | 3785 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272455 | Guimerans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosalvina Ramona Guimerans (The Woodlands, Texas); Arthur James Mansure (Alburquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a wellbore in a heated formation includes flowing liquid cooling fluid to a bottom hole assembly in a wellbore in a heated formation. At least a portion of the liquid cooling fluid is vaporized at or near a region to be cooled. Vaporizing the liquid cooling fluid absorbs heat from the region to be cooled. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250288 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273257 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for processing a nanotube, a vapor is condensed to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the nanotube and then at least one selected region of the condensate layer is locally removed by directing a beam of energy at the selected region. The nanotube can be processed with at least a portion of the solid condensate layer maintained on the nanotube surface and thereafter the solid condensate layer removed. Nanotube processing can include, e.g., depositing a material layer on an exposed nanotube surface region where the condensate layer was removed. After forming a solid condensate layer, an electron beam can be directed at a selected region along a nanotube length corresponding to a location for cutting the nanotube, to locally remove the condensate layer at the region, and an ion beam can be directed at the selected region to cut the nanotube at the selected region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409580 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273495 | Schick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Andrew Schick (Delmar, New York); Cara Suzanne Libby (Alameda, California); John Henry Bowen (Greenfield Center, New York); Richard Scott Bourgeois (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical cell structure is provided which includes an anode, a cathode spaced apart from said anode, an electrolyte in ionic communication with each of said anode and said cathode and a nonconductive frame. The nonconductive frame includes at least two components that support each of said anode, said cathode and said electrolyte and define at least one flowpath for working fluids and for products of electrochemical reaction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739264 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273525 | Ryu 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) | Sunmin Ryu (Hwaseong, South Korea); Louis E. Brus (Hastings, New York); Michael L. Steigerwald (Martinsville, New Jersey); Haitao Liu (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed herein for forming defects on graphitic materials. The methods for forming defects include applying a radiation reactive material on a graphitic material, irradiating the applied radiation reactive material to produce a reactive species, and permitting the reactive species to react with the graphitic material to form defects. Additionally, disclosed are methods for removing defects on graphitic materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/770242 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
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| US 08273549 | Gladyshev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Gladyshev (Lincoln, Nebraska); Sergey Novoselov (Puschino, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleic acid constructs for the efficient expression of eukaryotic selenoproteins and related methods for production of recombinant selenoproteins are provided. The nucleic acid constructs comprise novel selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) elements. Certain novel SECIS elements of the invention contain non-canonical quartet sequences. Other novel SECIS elements provided by the invention are chimeric SECIS elements comprising a canonical SECIS element that contains a non-canonical quartet sequence and chimeric SECIS elements comprising a non-canonical SECIS element that contains a canonical quartet sequence. The novel SECIS elements of the invention facilitate the insertion of selenocysteine residues into recombinant polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428007 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273581 | Schabron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one embodiment, the inventive technology relates to in-vessel generation of a material from a solution of interest as part of a processing and/or analysis operation. Preferred embodiments of the in-vessel material generation (e.g., in-vessel solid material generation) include precipitation; in certain embodiments, analysis and/or processing of the solution of interest may include dissolution of the material, perhaps as part of a successive dissolution protocol using solvents of increasing ability to dissolve. Applications include, but are by no means limited to estimation of a coking onset and solution (e.g., oil) fractionating. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/243782 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273599 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Alan J. Heeger (Santa Barbara, California); Daniel Moses (Santa Barbara, California); Jeffrey Peet (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved processing methods for enhanced properties of conjugated polymer films are disclosed, as well as the enhanced conjugated polymer films produced thereby. Addition of low molecular weight alkyl-containing molecules to solutions used to form conjugated polymer films leads to improved photoconductivity and improvements in other electronic properties. The enhanced conjugated polymer films can be used in a variety of electronic devices, such as solar cells and photodiodes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949713 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273926 | Bergman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Bergman (Kensington, California); Jonathan A. Ellman (Oakland, California); Elena Arceo Rebollo (Oakland, California); Peter C. Marsden (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing an olefin comprising: reacting a polyol in the presence of a carboxylic acid, such that an olefin is produced by the deoxygenation of the polyol. The reacting step can comprise (a) providing a composition comprising the polyol, (b) heating the composition, and (c) introducing the carboxylic acid to the composition wherein the introducing step occurs prior to, at the same time as, or subsequent to the heating step. In one embodiment, the polyol is glycerol, the carboxylic acid is formic acid, and the olefin is allyl alcohol, which is produced at a yield of about 80% or greater. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509985 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/909.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274056 | Akers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas W. Akers (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark W. Drigert (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, method, and system relating to radiation detection of low-energy beta particles are disclosed. An embodiment includes a radiation detector with a first scintillator and a second scintillator operably coupled to each other. The first scintillator and the second scintillator are each structured to generate a light pulse responsive to interaction with beta particles. The first scintillator is structured to experience full energy deposition of low-energy beta particles, and permit a higher-energy beta particle to pass therethrough and interact with the second scintillator. The radiation detector further includes a light-to-electrical converter operably coupled to the second scintillator and configured to convert light pulses generated by the first scintillator and the second scintillator into electrical signals. The first scintillator and the second scintillator have at least one mutually different characteristic to enable an electronic system to determine whether a given light pulse is generated in the first scintillator or the second scintillator. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683904 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274058 | Wanke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher D. Nordquist (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael J. Cich (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterodyne terahertz transceiver comprises a quantum cascade laser that is integrated on-chip with a Schottky diode mixer. A terahertz signal can be received by an antenna connected to the mixer, an end facet or sidewall of the laser, or through a separate active section that can amplify the incident signal. The quantum cascade laser couples terahertz local oscillator power to the Schottky diode to mix with the received terahertz signal to provide an intermediate frequency output signal. The fully integrated transceiver optimizes power efficiency, sensitivity, compactness, and reliability. The transceiver can be used in compact, fieldable systems covering a wide variety of deployable applications not possible with existing technology. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488612 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274512 | Mayo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackson R. Mayo (Livermore, California); David C. Thompson (Livermore, California); Philippe P. Pebay (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for partitioning an input polytope into a conformal set of polytopes according to a subdivision pattern specified on lower-dimensional boundaries of the input polytope. A feature of this method is that it is applicable to any dimension. For input polytopes that are hexahedra isomorphic to a 3-dimensional cube, all members of the conforming partition will be hexahedra isomorphic to a 3-dimensional cube. A further feature of the invention is that it preserves convexity; a convex input polytope will result in a conformal partition comprising convex polytopes. Finally, the method may be used to process large conformal meshes of input polytopes in parallel and produce a globally conformal partition without the requirement of communication between processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476335 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275334 | Judd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Judd (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Clifford M. Fortgang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David C. Guenther (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for detecting solid-state electronic devices are described. Non-linear junction detection techniques are combined with spread-spectrum encoding and cross correlation to increase the range and sensitivity of the non-linear junction detection and to permit the determination of the distances of the detected electronics. Nonlinear elements are detected by transmitting a signal at a chosen frequency and detecting higher harmonic signals that are returned from responding devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421623 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275527 | Hebbale |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumaraswamy V. Hebbale (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission modeling system includes an in-gear module that determines an in-gear acceleration when a vehicle is in gear. A shift module determines a shift acceleration based on a clutch torque when the vehicle is shifting between gears. A shaft acceleration determination module determines a shaft acceleration based on at least one of the in-gear acceleration and the shift acceleration. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254199 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275954 | Gara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for copying performance counter data includes hardware path that connects a direct memory access (DMA) unit to a plurality of hardware performance counters and a memory device. Software prepares an injection packet for the DMA unit to perform copying, while the software can perform other tasks. In one aspect, the software that prepares the injection packet runs on a processing core other than the core that gathers the hardware performance counter data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684367 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275964 | Gara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Hardware support for collecting performance counters directly to memory, in one aspect, may include a plurality of performance counters operable to collect one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A first storage element may be operable to store an address of a memory location. A second storage element may be operable to store a value indicating whether the hardware should begin copying. A state machine may be operable to detect the value in the second storage element and trigger hardware copying of data in selected one or more of the plurality of performance counters to the memory location whose address is stored in the first storage element. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684172 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43688 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jogeshwar Mukherjee (Irvine, California); Neil Saigal (Fresno, California); Harsh Saigal, legal representative (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contemplated substituted arylpiperazinyl compounds, and most preferably 18F-Mefway, exhibit desirable in vitro and in vivo binding characteristics to the 5-HT1A receptor. Among other advantageous parameters, contemplated compounds retain high binding affinity, display optimal lipophilicity, and are radiolabeled efficiently with 18F-fluorine in a single step. Still further, contemplated compounds exhibit high target to non-target ratios in receptor-rich regions both in vitro and in vivo, and selected compounds can be effectively and sensitively displaced by serotonin, thus providing a quantitative tool for measuring 5-HT1A receptors and serotonin concentration changes in the living brain. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/187728 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald E. Loeb (South Pasadena, California); Nicholas Wettels (Los Angeles, California); Jeremy Fishel (Long Beach, California); Chia Hsien (Gary) Lin (Los Angeles, California); Veronica J. Santos (Tempe, Arizona); Raymond Peck (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Tactile sensors are disclosed that mimic the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. The deformable properties of the finger pad can be used as part of a transduction process. Multiple electrodes can be mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies are described for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. Controlling grip force in a prosthetic having sensory feedback information is described. Techniques are described for enhancing the useful force range for impedance sensors by internally texturing the elastomeric skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417535 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08272576 | Doak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bruce Doak (Tempe, Arizona); John C. H. Spence (Tempe, Arizona); Uwe Weierstall (Phoenix, Arizona); Daniel DePonte (Tempe, Arizona); Dmitri Starodub (Sunnyvale, California); Jared Scott Warner (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for producing a single-file stream of droplets of a fluid, methods using the nozzle, and an injector, comprising the nozzle of the invention, for providing the single-file stream of droplets of a fluid to a high-vacuum system are described. The nozzle comprises two concentric tubes wherein the outer tube comprises a smoothly converging-diverging exit channel and the outlet end of the first tube is positioned within the converging section of the exit channel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/664437 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273528 | Martienssen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Martienssen (Cold Springs Harbor, New York); Eric J. Richards (St. Louis, Missouri); Zachary Lippmann (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Vincent Colot (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for determining the methylation profile of individuals and using the profiles to identify clones with desired traits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654058 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273557 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. Some embodiments relate to a method of producing ethanol using the cell wall degradative systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519104 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273565 | Dundon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Lynne Albert (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to recombinant microorganisms comprising one or more dihydroxyacid dehydratase (DHAD)-requiring biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce beneficial metabolites derived from said DHAD-requiring biosynthetic pathways. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may be engineered to overexpress one or more polynucleotides encoding one or more Aft proteins or homologs thereof. In some embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically localized DHAD enzyme. In additional embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a mitochondrially localized DHAD enzyme. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246693 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274075 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Zhiming Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Hyuk-Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea); Nae-Jeong Suh, legal representative (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Solution-processable dielectric materials are provided, along with precursor compositions and processes for preparing the same. Composites and electronic devices including the dielectric materials also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763495 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274096 | Wicks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Wicks (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a semiconductor device that includes at least one p-n junction including a p-type material, an n-type material, and a depletion region. The at least one p-n junction is configured to generate bulk photocurrent in response to incident light. The at least one p-n junction is characterized by a conduction band energy level, a valence band energy level and a surface Fermi energy level. The surface Fermi energy level is pinned either near or above the conduction band energy level or near or below the valence band energy level. A unipolar barrier structure is disposed in a predetermined region within the at least one p-n junction. The unipolar barrier is configured to raise the conduction band energy level if the surface Fermi energy level is pinned near or above the conduction band energy level or lower the valence band energy level if the surface Fermi energy level is pinned near or below the valence band energy level such that the unipolar barrier is configured to propagate the bulk photocurrent and substantially block surface leakage current. The at least one p-n junction and the unipolar barrier are integrally formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706016 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274423 | Venkatachalam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrasekaran Venkatachalam (Fort Collins, Colorado); Cuong M. Nguyen (Fort Collins, Colorado); Nitin Bharadwaj (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensitivity is a critical aspect of weather radar systems. Such systems not only detect atmospheric patterns but often need to precisely measure weak precipitation echoes. Embodiments of the invention use pulse compression techniques to increase the sensitivity of weather radar systems. These techniques can include sending two waveforms into a region of interest, where the second waveform is designed based on knowledge about the first waveform. Such systems can enhance the sensitivity of weather radars about 10 dB. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908657 |
| 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 342/26.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274988 | Rojas-Cessa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Rojas-Cessa (Brooklyn, New York); Ziqian Dong (Kearny, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples are disclosed for forwarding data partitioned into one or more cells through at least a portion of a three-stage memory-memory-memory (MMM) input-queued Clos-network (IQC) packet switch. In some examples, each module of the three-stage MMM IQC packet switch includes a virtual queue and a manager that are configured in cooperation with one another to forward cells through at least a portion of the switch. The cells may have been partitioned and stored at an input port for the switch and destined for an output port for the switch. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511814 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275451 | Marossero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida); Convergent Engineering, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dorothee Marossero (Gainesville, Florida); Tammy Y. Euliano (Gainesville, Florida); Neil Russell Euliano, II (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A maternal-fetal monitoring system for use during all stages of pregnancy, including antepartum and intrapartum stages. The maternal-fetal monitoring system of the subject invention comprises (1) a set of sensors; (2) an amplifying/filtering means; (3) a computing means; and (4) a graphical user interface. Accurate clinical data, which can be extracted and provided to the user in real-time using the system of the invention, include without limitation, maternal electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, maternal uterine activity signals (EHG), maternal heart rate, fetal ECG signals, and fetal heart rate. In a preferred embodiment, the maternal-fetal monitoring system of the invention includes an intelligence means, such as a neural network system, to analyze and interpret clinical data for use in clinical diagnosis antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum, as well as delivery strategy. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140057 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazim Z. Muradov (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatuses and chemical compositions are provided for producing high purity hydrogen from water. Metals or alloys capable of reacting with water and producing hydrogen in aqueous solutions at ambient conditions are reacted with one or more inorganic hydrides capable of releasing hydrogen in aqueous solutions at ambient conditions, one or more transition metal compounds are used to catalyze the reaction and, optionally, one or more alkali metal-based compounds. The metal or alloy is preferably aluminum. The inorganic hydride is from a family of complex inorganic hydrides; most preferably, NaBH4. The transition metal catalyst is from the groups VIII and IB; preferably, Cu and Fe. The alkali metal-based compounds are preferably NaOH, KOH, and the like. Hydrogen generated has a purity of at least 99.99 vol. % (dry basis), and is used without further purification in all types of fuel cells, including the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813059 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/127.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273477 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Jean-Philippe Belieres (Renton, Washington); Dominic Francis-Gervasio (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cell designs and techniques for converting chemical energy into electrical energy uses a fuel cell are disclosed. The designs and techniques include an anode to receive fuel, a cathode to receive oxygen, and an electrolyte chamber in the fuel cell, including an electrolyte medium, where the electrolyte medium includes an inorganic salt mixture in the fuel cell. The salt mixture includes pre-determined quantities of at least two salts chosen from a group consisting of ammonium trifluoromethanesulfonate, ammonium trifluoroacetate, and ammonium nitrate, to conduct charge from the anode to the cathode. The fuel cell includes an electrical circuit operatively coupled to the fuel cell to transport electrons from the cathode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513148 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274075 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Zhiming Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Hyuk-Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea); Nae-Jeong Suh, legal representative (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Solution-processable dielectric materials are provided, along with precursor compositions and processes for preparing the same. Composites and electronic devices including the dielectric materials also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763495 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08274726 | Dean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland); Jeffrey Scott Smith (Baltimore, Maryland); David L. Aronstein (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for simulating propagation of an electromagnetic field, performing phase retrieval, or sampling a band-limited function. A system practicing the method generates transformed data using a discrete Fourier transform which samples a band-limited function f(x) without interpolating or modifying received data associated with the function f(x), wherein an interval between repeated copies in a periodic extension of the function f(x) obtained from the discrete Fourier transform is associated with a sampling ratio Q, defined as a ratio of a sampling frequency to a band-limited frequency, and wherein Q is assigned a value between 1 and 2 such that substantially no aliasing occurs in the transformed data, and retrieves a phase in the received data based on the transformed data, wherein the phase is used as feedback to an optical system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/839171 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275015 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven X. Li (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems and methods for generating a side-pumped passively Q-switched non-planar ring oscillator. The method introduces a laser into a cavity of a crystal, the cavity having a round-trip path formed by a reflection at a dielectrically coated front surface, a first internal reflection at a first side surface of the crystal at a non-orthogonal angle with the front, a second internal reflection at a top surface of the crystal, and a third internal reflection at a second side surface of the crystal at a non-orthogonal angle with the front. The method side pumps the laser at the top or bottom surface with a side pump diode array beam and generates an output laser emanating at a location on the front surface. The design can include additional internal reflections to increase interaction with the side pump. Waste heat may be removed by mounting the crystal to a heatsink. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551212 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275193 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | America GNC Corporation (Simi Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Fang Lin (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention documents the efforts on the research and development of a miniaturized GPS/MEMS IMU integrated navigation system. A miniaturized GPS/MEMS IMU integrated navigation system is presented; Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI) based alignment algorithm for space applications is discussed. Two navigation cameras are also included to measure the range and range rate which can be integrated into the GPS/MEMS IMU system to enhance the navigation solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008205 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275724 | Hinchey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); Emil I. Vassev (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A biologically-inspired system and method is provided for self-adapting behavior of swarm-based exploration missions, whereby individual components, for example, spacecraft, in the system can sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the entire system. The swarm-based system can exhibit emergent self-adapting behavior. Each component can be configured to exhibit self-sacrifice behavior based on Autonomic System Specification Language (ASSL). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569422 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275725 | Hinchey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); Roy Sterritt (Northern Ireland, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments an autonomic unit transmits an otoacoustic signal to counteract a potentially harmful incoming signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230920 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08275077 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Nelson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to demodulation of GMSK signals by estimating a carrier frequency of the signal having a carrier residual, basebanding the signal, tracking the signal's carrier frequency, removing the carrier residual, detecting a data burst, generating a bank of poly-bit matched filters, applying the bank of poly-bit matched filters to the signal, determining a magnitude and phase of the output of each poly-bit filter of the bank of poly-bit matched filters, determining a maximum magnitude, determining the location of a baud center, generating a plurality of correlation signals by applying the bank of poly-bit matched filters at the baud center, estimating a carrier phase, removing the estimated carrier phase, applying a Viterbi decoding algorithm to the signal, and estimating the transmitted data sequence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/925395 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275957 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta (New York, New York); John Davis Palmer (San Jose, California); Elizabeth Suzanne Richards (Columbia, Maryland); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); William Harold Tetzlaff (Mount Kisco, New York); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York); Philip Shi-lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and system) of storing data in a value-based storage system, includes optimizing a value of data stored in the value-based storage system. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061879 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276167 | Challenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Plug-in configurable middleware is provided for managing distributed applications. The middleware includes at least one core runtime engine configured as a plurality of concurrent instantiations on one or more hosts within a distributed architecture. These hosts can represent separate nodes or a single node within the architecture. Each core runtime engine instance provides the minimum amount of functionality required to support the instantiation of one or more plug-ins within that core runtime engine instance. Each core runtime engine instance is in communication with other concurrent core runtime engine instances and can share the functionality of plug-in instances with the other core runtime engine instances, for example through the use of proxies. A plurality of personalities representing pre-defined functions is defined and one of more of these personalities is associated with each core runtime engine instance. A plurality of pre-defined plug-ins are defined and associated with the personalities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689010 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276192 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Schwendimann Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Genady Ya. Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Paul Ashley Karger (Chappaqua, New York); Marc Lelarge (Plessis-Robinson, France); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton Viktorovich Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Grant Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for security planning with hard security constraints includes: receiving security-related requirements of a network to be developed using system inputs and processing components; and generating the network according to the security-related requirements, wherein the network satisfies hard security constraints. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130243 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276200 | Branson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for securely processing sensitive streams in a mixed infrastructure includes analyzing a stream to determine data sensitivity. A likelihood that processing elements employed to process the stream would result in a risk to sensitive information is determined. At least a portion of the data stream having sensitive information is transferred to a secure processing environment to ensure security of the data stream during processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971315 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08273557 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. Some embodiments relate to a method of producing ethanol using the cell wall degradative systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519104 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275554 | Knapp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Knapp (Palo Alto, California); Jill M. Baker (Redwood City, California); Andrea W. Chow (Los Altos, California); Anne R. Kopf-Sill (Portola Valley, California); Michael A. Spaid (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for differentiating the lengths of nucleic acids of interest in a sample are provided. The system includes a microfluidic device, a detector, and a software system. The microfluidic device includes an amplification microchannel or microchamber containing a reaction mixture under conditions that provide one or more amplicons of the nucleic acid of interest. The detector is integral with or proximal to the microfluidic device and is configured to detect the amplicons as one or more signals from a homogenous mixture. The software system interprets one or more coincidentally detected signals to indicate lengths of one or more individual nucleic acid molecules of interest, thereby differentiating the lengths of the nucleic acids of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684601 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275631 | Ram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IDX Systems Corporation (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhu Ram (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Berg (Bellingham, Washington); John M. Thrun (Renton, Washington); Bing Wu (Seattle, Washington); Chandresh Taunk (Bellevue, Washington); Robert M. Abarbanel (Bainbridge Island, Washington); James Guy Mansfield (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A clinical practice guideline can be implemented using a guideline execution engine. The engine can interpret the clinical practice guideline, obtain medical data stored in a clinical information system (CIS), and implement an action in response to execution of the clinical practice guideline based on medical data for a patient obtained from the CIS. The use of the CIS medical data in guideline execution beneficially allows the guideline to be tightly integrated into the real-time workflow of a clinician in a clinical setting and to provide patient-specific guideline recommendations. A VMR/actions interface facilitates communications between a guideline execution system and a CIS by processing a request for medical data from the guideline execution engine and implementing actions on the CIS requested by the guideline execution engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942285 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — 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 75/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08273340 | Vandermeer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); BioGuard Research and Development, Inc. (Kennewick, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K Vandermeer (Newberry, Florida); Richard J. Brenner (Severna Park, Maryland); Domonic A. Cataldo (Kennewick, Washington); Peter Van Voris (Daniel Island, South Carolina); Edward S. Lipinsky (Fairview, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for attracting cockroaches to an object or area, involving treating said object or area with a cockroach attracting composition containing a cockroach attractant effective amount of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, propyl, or butyl esters of C3-7 saturated or unsaturated carboxylic acids and mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier material or carrier. A method for repelling cockroaches from an object or area, involving treating said object or area with a cockroach repelling composition containing a cockroach repelling effective amount of at least one compound selected from methyl, ethyl, propyl, or butyl esters of C3-7 saturated or unsaturated carboxylic acids or mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier material or carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221344 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273571 | Robl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Robl (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Jose Cibelli (East Lansing, Michigan); Amy Burnside (Florence, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining pluripotent (embryonic stem) cells from parthenogenetic embryos, especially primates, are provided. These cells are useful for producing differentiated cells, tissues and organs, especially human and non-human primate cells, tissues and organs. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117184 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08272356 | Haugen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable displacement engine comprises two engine modules fed from a common fuel source, each engine module having an individual crankshaft. The first engine module has a high compression ratio (e.g., greater than 13:1), while the second module has a typical compression ratio for a gasoline engine (e.g., between 9:1 and 11:1). In one embodiment, the first engine module operates through high efficiency optimized alcohol fuel combustion when the fuel content exceeds a minimum alcohol content. In an alternative embodiment, the first engine module operates at high efficiency through gasoline HCCI combustion when conditions permit. When operating conditions do not permit the first engine module to operate at high efficiency, the second engine module operates as the primary engine module, with the first engine module available to provide supplemental power (at less than optimal efficiency) if needed to meet driver demand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827378 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/53.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08273565 | Dundon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Lynne Albert (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to recombinant microorganisms comprising one or more dihydroxyacid dehydratase (DHAD)-requiring biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce beneficial metabolites derived from said DHAD-requiring biosynthetic pathways. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may be engineered to overexpress one or more polynucleotides encoding one or more Aft proteins or homologs thereof. In some embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically localized DHAD enzyme. In additional embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a mitochondrially localized DHAD enzyme. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246693 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08272343 | Weaver et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Weaver (Lookout, West Virginia); Mason Hines (Oak Hill, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for developing latent fingerprints having a heat source and sublimation system wherein the sublimation system is in communication with the heat source. Upon activating the heat source, the heat transforms a cyanoacrylate and a sublimation dye of the sublimation system into vapor. The vapor contacts an object to reveal any latent fingerprints on the object. A light source excites the sublimation dye causing photoluminescent emissions which are viewed through filter goggles. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350811 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/31.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08274439 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Miller (Auburn, Washington); William O. Price (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna may include an enclosure formed by a front wall and a back wall opposite to the front wall, and a front face and a back face opposite to the front face. Both the front face and the back face extend between the front wall and the back wall to form a cavity within the enclosure. The enclosure further includes a slot formed in the front face to form a cavity backed slot. A radio frequency (RF) connector is mounted in the front wall. A shaped feed line is mounted within the cavity and is electrically connected to the RF connector to transmit and receive RF energy. The shaped feed line extends across the slot to couple the RF energy between the slot and the shaped feed line. The shaped feed line has a predetermined structure to substantially reduce an electric field strength to improve power handing of the antenna. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569470 |
| 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 343/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08273245 | Jovanovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Goran Nadezda Jovanovic (Corvallis, Oregon); Sundar V. Atre (New York, New York); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Vincent Thomas Remcho (Corvallis, Oregon); Chih-hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes devices useful for microscale fluid purification, separation, and synthesis. Such devices generally comprise a fluid membrane that separates two or more fluids flowing through plural microchannels operatively associated with the membrane. Often, the membrane is a semipermeable membrane, such as might be used with a filtration device, such as a dialyzer. Devices of the present invention can be combined with other microscale devices to make systems. For example, the devices may be coupled with one or more microchemical microfactories, one or more micromixers, one or more microheaters, etc. Examples of devices made according to the present invention included an oxygenator, a dialyzer, microheat exchangers, etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292903 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ray Elgersma (Plymouth, Minnesota); Saad J. Bedros (West St. Paul, Minnesota); Michael Janssen (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ben Miller (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system having an approach for prioritizing targets for an order of capturing the targets photographically or otherwise. Prioritizing is based on cost of obtaining or capturing the target for viewing or photographing in high resolution. One acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a wide field of view of a scene of targets and another acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a narrow field of view of a target for capture. The cost for prioritizing is based on the time that the narrow field of view acquisition mechanism takes to pan and tilt to get a close-up image of a target divided by the width of the target. The targets may be faces of people. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495557 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08275493 | Ruffa |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for launching and recovering an unmanned, water-born vehicle (UWBV) from a mother ship. The UWBV mimics the behavior of dolphins and is positioned ahead of the ship in preparation for bow riding. The UWBV uses a guidance system to position and keep in the bow wave. A high-frequency (HF) sonar transceiver array aboard the ship computes and sends course corrections to maintain the UWBV within the bow wave. The frequency range of the HF array can be 100 kHz or higher due to the short distance between the ship and the UWBV. Accordingly, the HF array can have a small aperture allowing for accurate bearing resolution. Course corrections can be sent on a near-continuous basis such that changes in thrust and rudder angle can be minimized to allow for accurate control of the UWBV. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462106 |
| 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 71/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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