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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 02, 2012
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| US 08276283 | Kopacz 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) | Stanley P. Kopacz (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania); Kimberly A. Griswold (Bloomfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A reticle which does not emit a retro-reflective signature detectable using standard field detection means at the standard distance of 10 miles, which reticle is formed of a precise series of about 10 micron wide lines etched within a physically light weight, single optical blank or glass lens, using a femtosecond near IR wavelength pulsed laser. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/762512 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276325 | Clifton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Clifton (Bloomfield, Indiana); Dean L. Jones (Bloomington, Indiana); Philip S. Mitchell (Springville, Indiana); David Myers (Bloomfield, Indiana); James M. Pruett (Montgomery, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle is disclosed having a mast assembly mounted to a sidewall of the vehicle. The mast is pivotally mounted and can be held in a first stowed position by way of a first clamp member. The mast is pivotal relative to the sidewall, to an essentially vertical and erect position, and held in the second position by way of a second clamp. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696856 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276362 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Steven J. Sirica (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine includes a plurality of variable fan inlet guide vanes. Where the turbine engine is a tip turbine engine, the variable fan inlet guide vanes permit the ability to control engine stability even though the fan-turbine rotor assembly is directly coupled to the axial compressor at a fixed rate. The fan inlet guide vanes may be actuated from an inner diameter of the fan inlet guide vanes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/022456 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276431 | Latimer 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) | Paul J. Latimer (Lynchburg, Virginia); Albert S. Birks (Corinth, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining time a single transit of an acoustic wave through a test material using a calibration material having known acoustic velocity characteristics and an acoustic pitch-catch system with a signal recorder for recording a received signal as a function of time. The system includes a first configuration for transmission of acoustic shear waves and a second configuration for transmission of acoustic longitudinal waves. In the first configuration, a first acoustic zero is determined when the acoustic shear waves are applied to the calibration material. In its second configuration, a second acoustic zero is determined when the acoustic longitudinal waves are applied to the calibration material. Each configuration is coupled to a test material with the respective first and second acoustic zeroes identified on the recorder. The signal recorder determines a single transit time for the acoustic waves through the test material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228320 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.860 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276433 | Kupnik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Kupnik (Mountain View, California); Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device that measures at least one property of the liquid or gas, where the invention is a CMUT sensor that includes a substrate, a first layer disposed on the substrate, where the first layer includes a cavity, and a compound plate, where the compound plated includes a bottom plate, an intermediate plate and a top plate. According to the invention, the intermediate plate has at least one sample inlet, a sample cavity and at least one sample outlet, where the bottom plate is disposed on the first layer, and the cavity in the first layer is sealed by the compound plate. The cavity in the first layer can be a vacuum or contain a gas. The CMUT sensor can be disposed in an array of two or more sensors and connected electrically in parallel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800635 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276495 | Chiu 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) | Peter Chiu (New York, New York); Hansen Lukman (Parsippany, New Jersey); Laurie A. Florio (West Orange, New Jersey); Brent Donahue (Newton, New Jersey); Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey); Eddy K. Tsui (Parsippany, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A kit of modular explosive ordnance disposal components may include five components. The five components may be assembled in various configurations to fire solid slugs, water shots, or fin-stabilized projectiles. Each assembled configuration may include a first component having a generally cylindrical shape, a through-bore, a muzzle end, and a breech end. The muzzle end of the first component may include external threads. The breech end of the first component may include an internally-threaded portion for receiving a .50 caliber breech plug. A .50 caliber cartridge chamber may be formed adjacent the internally-threaded portion. A bore of about one inch in diameter may extend from the .50 caliber cartridge chamber to the muzzle end of the first component. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854225 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276501 | Sukurlu |
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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) | John C. Sukurlu (Springfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A recoil dissipation apparatus may include a linear roller rail and a roller block that is translatable on the linear roller rail with only one degree of freedom. A gear rack may be located adjacent the linear roller rail. A barrel clamp may be fixed to the roller block. A pinion gear may engage the gear rack. The pinion gear may be fixed on a shaft. The shaft may have a rotary viscous damper fixed at one end. The recoil force from a barrel fixed in the barrel clamp may cause translation of the roller block and dissipation of the recoil force by the rotary viscous damper. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851694 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276515 | Robinson 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) | Charles H. Robinson (Potomac, Maryland); Robert H. Wood (Laurel, Maryland); Mark R. Gelak (Columbia, Maryland); Thinh Q. Hoang (Beltsville, Maryland); Gabriel L. Smith (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A ultra-miniature, electro-mechanical, MEMS type safe and arming (S&A) device for medium- or large-artillery rounds, including, three sequenced S&A interlocks: a setback slider, which is positioned partially within and partially extending from an arming slider, such that, upon firing acceleration, the setback slider will compress into a channel within the arming slider (unlocking the 1st interlock); freeing the arming slider to move toward its arming position under urging of the round's spin; a stop and release mechanism formed by a flexible latch arm which impacts upon a safety catch located within the frame in which the arming slider is mounted, such that the arming slider is stopped until a release command signal is initiated by the fuze circuit, triggering a spot charge which generates an expanding gas wave that flexes the latch arm from contact with the safety catch (unlocking the 2nd interlock), thereby freeing the arming slider to continue its motion into an arming position (unlocking the 3rd interlock) and aligning the parts of the firetrain within the device, such that upon signal from the fuze circuit an output charge from the device will ignite the acceptor charge within the round. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434093 |
| 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 12/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276516 | Nance et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reynolds Systems, Inc. (Middletown, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Nance (Middletown, California); John Yelverton (Fort Walton Beach, Florida); Charles Hart (Hidden Valley Lake, California); Michael Meadows (Kelseyville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detonating an initiation charge that is formed of a secondary explosive, such as triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB). The apparatus includes an exploding foil initiator, which can have a relatively small flyer that is suited to initiate a detonation event in the initiation charge. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590861 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/275.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276520 | Fong 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) | Richard Fong (Boonton Township, New Jersey); Peter Rottinger (Sussex, New Jersey); Henry Hsieh (Riverdale, New Jersey); Tom Blyskal (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fragmentation warhead comprising manual selection means for generating larger fragments versus smaller fragments upon detonation. The warhead includes a generally cylindrically shaped fragmenting metal outer warhead within which lies a generally cylindrically shaped explosive charge. Cylindrically arranged ring mechanisms within the warhead may be rotated to select desired fragmentation patterns. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779384 |
| 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 12/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276760 | Lean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Ashutosh Kole (Sunnyvale, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved technique for particle separation is provided. A serpentine structure is utilized in a continuous fluid flow environment to allow for suitable separation of particles to occur in a manner that does not require external application of forces to initiate the separation. The geometry of the serpentine structure and associated forces generated in connection with fluid flow therein suffice. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606458 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276795 | Dean 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) | Glenn Dean (Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey); Eugene Michael Ivankoe (Chatham, New Jersey); Margaret Berkowitz (Wharton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Flexible restraint devices (MARS units) are provided for holding ammunition and ammunition packaging containers, mounted through wall mounting rails onto the interior of an ambush protected vehicle, or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777477 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Package and article carriers 224/543 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276851 | McKeon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverley J. McKeon (Tujunga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing dynamic control to a vehicle in a dynamic fluid. The systems and methods of the invention relate to one or more morphable surfaces that can be controlled by a controller and an actuator in an active manner to provide asperities that interact with a fluid moving across the morphable surfaces. By controlling the size, shape and location of the asperities, one can exert control authority over the motion of the vehicle relative to the fluid, including a speed, a direction and an attitude of the vehicle. Examples of materials that provide suitable morphable surfaces include ionic polymer metal composites and shape memory polymers, both of which types of material are commercially available. Useful morphable surface systems have been examined and are described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117959 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277141 | Labar 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) | John R. Labar (Bangor, Pennsylvania); William F. Seppelt (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An indirect fire weapon may include a base cap with a ball end. The ball end may be inserted in or removed from a socket cap in a base plate at only a single combination of a traverse angle and an elevation angle of the weapon. The indirect fire weapon may rotate 360 degrees in the socket cap and may be elevated from the vertical down to a set declivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984194 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277169 | Riahi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ardeshir Riahi (Scottsdale, Arizona); Frederick G. Borns (Chandler, Arizona); Vivek Agarwal (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a disk coverplate for a turbine rotor, the disk coverplate comprising a plurality of cooling holes, wherein the distance between the centers of any two adjacent cooling holes is greater than twice the average diameter of the two adjacent cooling holes. A method to control turbine cooling air flow is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155399 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277193 | Brostmeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D Brostmeyer (Jupiter, Florida); William L Plank (Tequesta, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin wall turbine blade used in a gas turbine engine, in which the blade is cast in conventional grain from a super alloy using the lost wax process as a single piece, and then the blade walls are machined to remove enough material to leave a thin wall. The blade is cast with a wall thickness greater than the designed for thin wall in order that any core shifting during the casting process will be accounted for in the machining process. prior to machining, a scanning process is used to measure the actual wall thickness on all portions of the blade wall in order to determine how much material must be removed to leave the blade wall with the proper thinness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/957488 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/223.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277385 | Berka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Berka (Carlsbad, California); Daniel J. Levendowski (Carlsbad, California); Djordje Popovic (La Jolla, California); Philip R. Westbrook (Fallbrook, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for assessment of hemodynamic and functional state of the brain is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus includes non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure, assessment of the brain's electrical activity, and measurement of cerebral blood flow. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus include measuring the volume change in the intracranial vessels with a near-infrared spectroscopy or other optical method, measuring the volume change in the intracranial vessels with rheoencephalography or other electrical method, and measuring the brain's electrical activity using electroencephalography. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700619 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277496 | Grahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Grahn (Palo Alto, California); H. Craig Heller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for manipulating the thermoregulatory status of a mammal are provided. In the subject methods, thermal energy is transferred between the environment and both of the thoracic/abdominal core body and head of the mammal. In general, thermal energy transfer between thoracic/abdominal core body and the environment occurs under negative pressure conditions. The subject methods and devices can be used to increase the thoracic/abdominal core body temperature of a mammal, in which case thermal energy is introduced into the thoracic/abdominal core body of the mammal and removed from the head of the mammal or cold is merely applied thereto. The subject methods and devices can also be used to reduce the thoracic/abdominal core body temperature of a mammal, in which case thermal energy is removed from the thoracic/abdominal core body of the mammal and introduced into the head of the mammal or heat is merely applied thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657188 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277534 | Keller 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) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of: providing a mixture of a polymer or a resin and a transition metal compound, producing a fiber from the mixture, and heating the fiber under conditions effective to form a carbon nanotube-containing carbonaceous fiber. The polymer or resin is an aromatic polymer or a precursor thereof and the mixture is a neat mixture or is combined with a solvent. Also disclosed are a carbonaceous fiber or carbonaceous nanofiber sheet having at least 15 wt. % carbon nanotubes, a fiber or nanofiber sheet having the a polymer or a resin and the transition metal compound, and a fiber or nanofiber sheet having an aromatic polymer and metal nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020887 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277583 | Shortridge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Shortridge (Bloomington, Indiana); Christina M. Yamamoto (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Perchlorate-free flare compositions are disclosed which, when burned, produce red smoke and flames. Methods of producing the compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334103 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277585 | Yalamanchili 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) | Rao Yalamanchili (Flanders, New Jersey); John Hirlinger (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Christopher Csernica (Port Murray, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved electric primer compositions, structures, and methods that are compatible with existing munitions and in particular an exemplary electric primer composition including carbon nanotubes along with energetic primer mixture(s) and an exemplary primer structure including layers of energetic materials wherein a layer exhibiting the most energetic character is positioned proximate to a primer button. Alternative embodiments include both conductive and non-conductive layers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/983970 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277657 | Lovley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Sarah Strycharz (Alexandria, Virginia); Frank Loeffler (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In preferred embodiments, bioremediation systems are provided that comprise electricigenic microbes that use electrons provided directly from the anode of an electrical bioremediation system to carry out reductive dehalogenation of halogenated hydrocarbon contaminants, including chlorinated solvents. The present invention also provides methods of performing in situ bioremediation of halogenated solvents in groundwater or soil through the use of the provided systems. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538744 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277671 | Everson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Everson (State College, Pennsylvania); David Snyder (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard Gamble (State College, Pennsylvania); Volker D. Heydemann (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polishing mixture and related method of polishing a material wafer surface, such as silicon carbide, are disclosed. The polishing mixture comprises; an abrasive and an oxidizer mixed in an acidic solution. Alumina may be used as the abrasive and the polishing mixture may have a pH less than or equal to seven (7). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856810 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277677 | Kanatzidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Illinois); Joseph R. Sootsman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermoelectric eutectic and off-eutectic compositions comprising a minor phase in a thermoelectric matrix phase are provided. These compositions include eutectic and near eutectic compositions where the matrix phase is a chalcogenide (S, Se, Te) of Ge, Sn, or Pb or an appropriate alloy of these compounds and at least one of Ge, Ge1−xSix, Si, ZnTe, and Co are precipitated as the minor phase within the matrix. Methods of making and using the compositions are also provided. The thermoelectric and mechanical properties of the compositions make them well-suited for use in thermoelectric applications. Controlled doping of eutectic compositions and hypereutectic compositions can yield large power factors. By optimizing both the thermal conductivities and power factors of the present compositions, ZT values greater than 1 can be obtained at 700K. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487893 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.3T0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277688 | Matzdorf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Matzdorf (California, Maryland); William Nickerson (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to galvanic aluminum alloy powder-pigments coated with a semi-conducting corrosion inhibiting oxide and the process for preparing said coated powder-pigments in combination with film-forming binders for coating metal substrates to inhibit corrosion. The coated aluminum alloy powder-pigments are electrically active and prevent corrosion of metals which are more cathodic (electropositive) than the aluminum alloy pigments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/192158 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/387 |
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| US 08277819 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Norovirus capsid protein monomers having only the P domain, and not the hinge or S domain, can assemble spontaneously into an icosahedral form herein called the P-particle. Factors affecting the formation and stability of the P-particle, as well as providing methods for diagnosing and treating Norovirus-infected individuals and creating a vaccine for prevention of Norovirus infection are presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917862 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/216.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277872 | Al-Haik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marwan S. Al-Haik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Claudia Luhrs (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Mahmoud Reda Taha (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of manufacturing a carbon structure including exposing a carbon fiber substrate to oxygen at a first predetermined temperature and activating the carbon fiber substrate by exposure to oxygen at a second predetermined temperature. A catalyst including palladium is deposited on the activated carbon fiber substrate. The deposited catalyst on the carbon fiber structure is exposed to a hydrocarbon at a third predetermined temperature to grow carbon structures thereon. The carbon structures grown can be multimodal in nature with structures that are nano-scale and/or submicron-scale. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617617 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277878 | Sanghera 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) | Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Bryan Sadowski (Falls Church, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A transparent polycrystalline ceramic having scattering and absorption loss less than 0.2/cm over a region comprising more than 95% of the originally densified shape and a process for fabricating the same by hot pressing. The ceramic can be any suitable ceramic such as yttria (Y2O3) or scandia (Sc2O3) and can have a doping level of from 0 to 20% and a grain size of greater than 30 μm, although the grains can also be smaller than 30 μm. Ceramic nanoparticles can be coated with a sintering aid to minimize direct contact of adjacent ceramic powder particles and then baked at high temperatures to remove impurities from the coated particles. The thus-coated particles can then be densified by hot pressing into the final ceramic product. The invention further provides a transparent polycrystalline ceramic solid-state laser material and a laser using the hot pressed polycrystalline ceramic. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349609 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277933 | Vaidya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uday Vaidya (Birmingham, Alabama); J. Barry Andrews (Birmingham, Alabama); Selvum Pillay (Birmingham, Alabama); Haibin Ning (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Baseplates and methods of manufacture are provided. In this regard, a representative baseplate is operative to mount a missile aeroshell, the baseplate being formed of a long fiber thermoplastic composite and exhibiting a wall thickness of no greater than approximately 0.070″. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761835 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
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| US 08277942 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sungjee Kim (Pasadena, California); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal heterostructure has a core of a first semiconductor material surrounded by an overcoating of a second semiconductor material. Upon excitation, one carrier can be substantially confined to the core and the other carrier can be substantially confined to the overcoating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/888161 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278040 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Ankit Agarwal (Madison, Wisconsin); Santanu K. Pal (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Colloidal liquid crystal gels (CLCGs), sensors incorporating the CLCGs, culture substrates made from the CLCGs, and patterned films and molded articles made from the CLCGs are provided. The CLCGs are composite liquid crystal materials comprising networks of particles having liquid crystal domains dispersed therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512362 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278072 | Matta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khushi L. Matta (Williamsville, New York); Edaya V. Chandrasekaran (Northbrook, Illinois); Sriram Neelamegham (Getzville, New York); Jun Xue (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing sialylated molecules based on reverse sialylation that catalytically transfers the sialic acid moiety of sialylated donors to nucleotide monophosphates or transfer sialic acid moieties from sialylated donors to acceptor glycoproteins or glycolipids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274142 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278278 | Malkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda H. Malkas (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert J. Hickey (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell-permeable caPCNA-derived peptides and their variants serve as therapeutic compositions to reduce the proliferation of cancerous cells and also augment cytotoxic effects of chemotherapeutics. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900202 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278341 | Jong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Jong (Sunnyvale, California); Faming Jiang (Mountain View, California); Gaoquan Li (Mountain View, California); Kristien Mortelmans (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds useful as antibacterial agents are provided. The compounds are analogs of indole-3-carbinol and have a backbone selected from dihydroindolo[2,3-b]carbazole, 2,2′-diindolylmethane, 2′,3-diindolylmethane, and 3,3′-diindolylmethane. The compounds are useful therapeutic and prophylactic treatment of bacterial infections in mammals. Methods of synthesis of the compounds are provided, as are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561656 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278400 | Chisholm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Philip Boudjouk (Fargo, North Dakota); Johnson Thomas (Aurora, Ohio); David Allen Christianson (Fargo, North Dakota); Shane Jeremy Stafslien (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyamine cross-linked polysiloxanes, such as functionalized polysiloxane cross-linked with a polyalkylenepolyamine are described herein. The polyamine cross-linked polysiloxanes may be used in an antifouling composition to prevent biological fouling in marine environments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763818 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278401 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henkel AG and Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengqian Kong (Edison, New Jersey); Sarah E. Grieshaber (Manville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to curable sealants that provide low moisture permeability and good adhesive strength after cure. The composition comprises an aromatic compound having meta-substituted reactive groups and a cationic or radical initiator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/280119 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278406 | Masters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristyn S. Masters (Madison, Wisconsin); Wendy C. Crone (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioactive and biocompatible polyurethane-butanediol-glycosaminoglycan copolymer for use in medical implant devices. The biocompatible urethane component being the reaction product of 4,4′-methylene-di-(p-phenyl isocyanate) and poly(tetramethylene oxide)n and further reacted with 1,4-butanediol, wherein n=10 to 40. The bioactive glycosaminoglycan being a salt of hyaluronic acid, such as a cetylpyridinium salt acid having 5 to 10,000 repeating units or a salt of heparin, such as a dimethyldioctadecylammonium salt of heparin has 5 to 65 repeating units or a suitable salt of dermatan sulfate. The weight content of the bioactive glycosaminoglycan is an amount sufficient to render the copolymer bioactive. The copolymers described herein have excellent hemocompatibility and biocompatibility. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110096 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278439 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); ZettaCore, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert S. Loewe (Morrisville, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Arounaguiry Ambroise (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a phosphono-substituted dipyrromethane comprises reacting an aldehyde or acetal having at least one phosphono group substituted thereon with pyrrole to produce a phosphono-substituted dipyrromethane; and wherein the phosphono is selected from the group consisting of dialkyl phosphono, diaryl phosphono, and dialkylaryl phosphono. Additional methods, intermediates and products are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299894 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278495 | Waysbort 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) | Daniel Waysbort (Ramat Gan, Israel); William R. Creasy (Havre de Grace, Maryland); H. Dupont Durst (Bel Air, Maryland); David J. McGarvey (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical warfare (CW) agent decontamination system and method for decontaminated surfaces contaminated by CW agents. The system includes both solid particles and liquid solution in admixture such that the solid particles absorb the liquid decontamination material. The method of decontaminating surfaces contaminated with CW agents includes contacting the CW agent with a sufficient amount of a solid-particle sorbent for a sufficient time and under conditions which are sufficient to produce a reaction product having less toxicity than the CW agent. CW agents to be decontaminated include the nerve agents VX and G-type agents, and mustard agent HD. The system is non-toxic and has a reduced environmental impact as compared to the previously available decontamination systems and solutions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024629 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278587 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Intelligent Systems, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuMing Zhang (Nicholasville, Kentucky); Jinsong Chen (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A welding system and method includes a main torch including a main electrode configured to form a first arc with a base metal; a first bypass torch including a first bypass electrode configured to form a second arc with the main electrode; and a second bypass torch including a second bypass electrode configured to form a third arc with the main electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661433 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278631 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N. Patel (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a device for monitoring one or more of integral value of time and temperature, UV light exposure and a pre-determined temperature of an item. The device is useful for monitoring items or materials which are sensitive to time-temperature, UV light and/or a pre-determined temperature. Radiation sensitive devices such as self-indicating instant radiation alert dosimeters (SIRAD) can be accidentally, inadvertently or intentionally over exposed to time-temperature, UV light and a pre-determined higher temperature. Such over exposure can provide a false positive or false negative signal. A device based on polymerization of diacetylenes and melting of partially polymerized diacetylenes, both of which are associated with color changes, are proposed as false positive, false negative, and tamper indicator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/293322 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/474.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278659 | Im 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) | James S. Im (New York, New York); Robert S. Sposili (New York, New York); Mark A. Crowder (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for processing an amorphous silicon thin film sample into a polycrystalline silicon thin film are disclosed. In one preferred arrangement, a method includes the steps of generating a sequence of excimer laser pulses, controllably modulating each excimer laser pulse in the sequence to a predetermined fluence, homogenizing each modulated laser pulse in the sequence in a predetermined plane, masking portions of each homogenized fluence controlled laser pulse in the sequence with a two dimensional pattern of slits to generate a sequence of fluence controlled pulses of line patterned beamlets, each slit in the pattern of slits being sufficiently narrow to prevent inducement of significant nucleation in region of a silicon thin film sample irradiated by a beamlet corresponding to the slit, irradiating an amorphous silicon thin film sample with the sequence of fluence controlled slit patterned beamlets to effect melting of portions thereof corresponding to each fluence controlled patterned beamlet pulse in the sequence of pulses of patterned beamlets, and controllably sequentially translating a relative position of the sample with respect to each of the fluence controlled pulse of slit patterned beamlets to thereby process the amorphous silicon thin film sample into a single or polycrystalline silicon thin film. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/567414 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/45 |
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| US 08278745 | Coteus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Shawn A. Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Rick A. Rand (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A package design is provided where a chip module is connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) via a land grid array (LGA) on the top surface of the PCB, and where a power supply is connected to the PCB via a second LGA on the bottom surface of the PCB. The stack of the chip module, power supply, and LGA is held in place and compressed with actuation hardware forming an adjustable frame. The package allows field replacibility of either the module, or the PS, and provides the shortest possible wiring distance from the PS to the module leading to higher performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543104 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
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| US 08278919 | Fischer 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) | Gregory Alexander Fischer (Laurel, Maryland); Jonathan Elliott Fine (Silver Spring, Maryland); Alan Shane Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device for sensing a magnetic field comprising: a base; a cantilever attached to the base structure at a first end and movable at a second end, the second end oscillating at a predetermined frequency upon application of a current; a magnetic sensor attached to the movable second end; at least one flux concentrator mounted on the base adapted to transfer magnetic flux to the sensor; whereby when the current is applied, the oscillation of the cantilever causes the sensor to oscillate between the lines of flux transferred from the at least one flux concentrator resulting in the shift of the frequency of the sensed magnetic field to the predetermined frequency. The invention further comprises a method of making the MEMS device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854321 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279091 | Tran 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) | Nghia Tran (San Diego, California); Sunny Fugate (Albequerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Ellen (San Diego, California); Lorraine Duffy (San Diego, California); Hoa Phan (Escondido, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a controller and an RFID sensor, an RFID sensor reader having a detection region, and a transceiver connected to the controller. The system may be secured to or contained within a wearable glove. The RFID sensor is configured to transmit an RFID sensor signal to the RFID sensor reader when the RFID sensor is within the detection region. The RFID sensor reader is configured to transmit an RFID sensor reader signal to the controller after receiving the RFID sensor signal. The controller is configured to transmit a signal to the transceiver after receiving the RFID sensor reader signal. The signal may include input from a motion sensor and/or an orientation sensor connected to the controller. The transceiver may transmit the signal to a remote processor via an antenna. The signal may be used for gesture recognition, information coding, and/or information processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611861 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279118 | Snow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Snow (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary aperiodic antenna array comprises a plurality of first elements radiating electromagnetic energy over a first bandwidth including a first frequency. Each of the first elements is spaced apart from a pattern center by an element distance and from the nearest first element by an element spacing in a regulated pattern. In the regulated pattern, the element spacing increases as the element distance increases. The plurality of first elements are configured to generate a first radiation pattern. The antenna array also comprises a second element positioned within a group of first elements from the plurality of first elements. Each element distance between the first elements in the group of first elements is greater than one-half of a first wavelength corresponding to the first frequency. The second element is configured to generate a second radiation pattern. The second radiation pattern combines with the first radiation pattern to form a composite radiation pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571175 |
| 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 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279128 | McQuaid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew M. McQuaid (Hudson, New Hampshire); Michael J. O'Brien (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, antennas and other embodiments associated with impedance matching an antenna feed slot are based on a fractal shape. A slot antenna includes a planar metal sheet. A feed slot opening is formed in the metal sheet. The feed slot has a first end and a second end. A tapered opening is formed in the metal sheet. Adjacent sides of the tapered opening touch the first end of the feed slot. An impedance matching fractal shaped opening is formed in the metal. The impedance matching fractal shaped opening touches the second end of the feed slot. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775894 |
| 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 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279129 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Lewis (Vista, California); Ralston S. Robertson (Northridge, California); William H. Henderson (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase shifter operable at microwave or millimeter-wave frequencies includes a dielectric substrate with a bottom surface having a conductive ground plane layer and a conductive patterned layer formed on a top surface to define a conductor pattern. A series of active tuning elements is mounted on the top surface and cascaded along a propagation direction in a spaced arrangement along a longitudinal extent. A housing structure includes a bottom housing structure with a planar conductive bottom surface for contacting the ground plane layer, and a top housing structure fabricated with a channel which extend along the longitudinal extent and provide clearance for the active tuning elements. A bias circuit is connected to the respective series of active tuning elements. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/004852 |
| 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 343/778 |
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| US 08279172 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Braun (Portland, Oregon); Kenneth M. Martin (Los Gatos, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid haptic feedback system in which a host computer and haptic feedback device share processing loads to various degrees in the output of haptic sensations, and features for efficient output of haptic sensations in such a system. A haptic feedback interface device in communication with a host computer includes a device microcontroller outputting force values to the actuator to control output forces. In various embodiments, the microcontroller can determine force values for one type of force effect while receiving force values computed by the host computer for a different type of force effect. For example, the microcontroller can determine closed loop effect values and receive computed open loop effect values from the host; or the microcontroller can determine high frequency open loop effect values and receive low frequency open loop effect values from the host. Various features allow the host to efficiently stream computed force values to the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070134 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279437 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Alexandre M. Bratkovski (Mountain View, California); Huel Pei Kuo (Cupertino, California); Jingjing Li (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); Fung Suong Ou (Palo Alto, California); Michael Josef Stuke (Palo Alto, California); Michael Renne Ty Tan (Menlo Park, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting at least one species using Raman light detection includes at least one laser source for illuminating a sample containing the at least one species. The apparatus also includes a modulating element for modulating a spatial relationship between the sample and the light beams to cause relative positions of the sample and the light beams to be oscillated, in which Raman light at differing intensity levels are configured to be emitted from the at least one species based upon the different wavelengths of the light beams illuminating the sample. The apparatus also includes a Raman light detector and a post-signal processing unit configured to detect the at least one species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836097 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 08279781 | Lucani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Lucani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milica Stojanovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new random linear network coding scheme for reliable communications for time division duplexing channels is proposed. The setup assumes a packet erasure channel and that nodes cannot transmit and receive information simultaneously. The sender transmits coded data packets back-to-back before stopping to wait for the receiver to acknowledge (ACK) the number of degrees of freedom, if any, that are required to decode correctly the information. Provided herein is an analysis of this problem to show that there is an optimal number of coded data packets, in terms of mean completion time, to be sent before stopping to listen. This number depends on the latency, probabilities of packet erasure and ACK erasure, and the number of degrees of freedom that the receiver requires to decode the data. This scheme is optimal in terms of the mean time to complete the transmission of a fixed number of data packets. It is shown that its performance is very close to that of a full-duplex system, while transmitting a different number of coded packets can cause large degradation in performance, especially if latency is high. Also described herein is the throughput performance of the novel system and technique along with a comparison to existing half-duplex Go-back-N and Selective Repeat ARQ schemes. Numerical results, obtained for different latencies, show that the novel system and technique described herein has similar performance to the Selective Repeat in most cases and considerable performance gain when latency and packet error probability is high. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549725 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279865 | Giacomoni et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Giacomoni (Longmont, Colorado); Manish Vachharajani (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A systems and methods are disclosed that provide an efficient parallel pipeline for data processing using a multi-core processor. Embodiments allocate a shared memory portion of the memory that is accessible from more than one context of execution and/or process a frame in a plurality of processing stages processed by a context of execution. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of processing stages may be bound to a processing core of the multi-core processor. In other embodiments include one or more processing stages with a point-to-point communication mechanism that operates in shared memory. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106684 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280251 | Koka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for transmitting data, including: a transmitter node having a setup path packet and multiple data packets; a receiver node connected to the transmitter node by a first optical channel (OC); and a first intermediate node having a first forwarding module and connected to the transmitter node by a second OC and to the receiver node by a third OC, where the transmitter node transmits the setup path packet and a first subset of the multiple data packets to the first intermediate node using the second OC, where the first forwarding module relays, in response to receiving the setup packet, the first subset to the receiver node by switching the first subset from the second OC to the third OC, and where the receiver node receives a second subset of the multiple data packets from the transmitter node using the first OC. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426844 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick L. Thompson (Amherst, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuzzy logic is utilized to control an RF amplifier and associated tuner for continuous self-optimization and automatic load matching to at least double the battery life of a battery-powered transmitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973951 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280674 | Schwerer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Schwerer (Plano, Texas); William C. Strauss (Flower Mound, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a temperature sensing apparatus includes two temperature sensors that are disposed at differing depths from a surface and a measurement circuit that is coupled to the temperature sensors. The measurement circuit is operable to calculate the temperature of the surface based on a first temperature of one temperature sensor with a second temperature of the other temperature sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019502 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Stuart H. Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for inductive and analogical reasoning provide capabilities for generalization, creative reasoning, possibilistic analysis, massive parallelism, and distributed processing. The system and method involve using matched cases/generalizations/analog inferences from a case base or generalization/analog base to provide output inferences based upon a user-supplied context. A user then provides feedback to indicate that the output inference is either correct or incorrect. If the user indicates that the output is incorrect, new rules may be computer-generated during runtime by performing, for example, an analogical contextual transformation. If the user indicates that the output is correct, the matched case/generalization/analog may be moved to the head of its respective base. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683655 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08281075 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Brian Mitchell Bass (Apex, North Carolina); David Wayne Cummings (Round Rock, Texas); Bernard Charles Drerup (Austin, Texas); Guy Lynn Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Ronald Nick Kalla (Round Rock, Texas); Hugh Shen (Round Rock, Texas); Michael Steven Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William John Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek Edward Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for triggering a system bus write command with user code includes identifying a specific store-type instruction in a user instruction sequence. The specific store-type instruction is converted into a specific request-type command, which is configured to include core permission controls (that are stored in core configuration registers of a processor core by a trusted kernel) and user created data (stored in a cache memory). Slave devices are configured through register space (that is only accessible by the trusted kernel) with respective slave permission controls. The specific request-type command is then transmitted from the cache memory, via a system bus. In this case, the slave devices that receive the specific request-type command process the specific request-type command when the core permission controls are the same as the respective slave permission controls. The trusted kernel may be included in a hypervisor or an operating system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423355 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43710 | Spear et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Spear (Manchester, Connecticut); Dennis N. Kantor, legal representative (East Hartford, Connecticut); Bruce P. Biederman (West Hartford, Connecticut); John A. Orosa (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A swept turbomachinery blade for use in a cascade of such blades is disclosed. The blade (12) has an airfoil (22) uniquely swept so that an endwall shock (64) of limited radial extent and a passage shock (66) are coincident and a working medium (48) flowing through interblade passages (50) is subjected to a single coincident shock rather than the individual shocks. In one embodiment of the invention the forwardmost extremity of the airfoil defines an inner transition point (40) located at an inner transition radius rt-inner. The sweep angle of the airfoil is nondecreasing with increasing radius from the inner transition radius to an outer transition radius rt-outer, radially inward of the airfoil tip (26), and is nonincreasing with increasing radius between the outer transition radius and the airfoil tip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/874931 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald N. Miles (Newark Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a miniature, surface micromachined, differential microphone, comprising depositing a sacrificial layer on a surface of a silicon wafer; depositing a diaphragm material on a surface of the sacrificial layer; etching the diaphragm material layer to isolate a diaphragm; and removing a portion of the sacrificial layer beneath the defined diaphragm. A diaphragm formed in the diaphragm material layer is supported by a hinge and otherwise isolated from a remaining portion of the diaphragm material layer by a slit adjacent a perimeter of the diaphragm. An enclosed back volume beneath the diaphragm has a depth defined by a thickness of the sacrificial layer, and communicates with an external region via the slit. A transducer may be provided for producing an electrical signal responsive to a displacement of the diaphragm. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162992 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/594 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277371 | Zangen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brainsway, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Zangen (Jerusalem, Israel); Yiftach Roth (Efrayim, Israel); Pedro C. Miranda (Lisbon, Portugal); David Hazani (Efrayim, Israel); Mark Hallet (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for transcranial magnetic stimulation, the system including a helmet, a positioning portion, a stimulator and a cooling system, are disclosed. The helmet includes a coil for deep brain magnetic stimulation. The coil has a base portion, and return portions, which may include a protruding return portion and a contacting return portion. The coil is designed to minimize unintended stimulation of portions of the brain, while reducing accumulation of surface charges. The coil is stimulated at several locations and/or at different times so as to focus the electrical field on a specific deep neuronal structure. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/179525 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277628 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (Los Altos Hills, California); Tarun Khurana (Stanford, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method and apparatus that use an electric field for improved biological assays. The electric field is applied across a device having wells, which receive reactants, which carry a charge. The device thus uses a controllable voltage source between the first and second electrodes, which is controllable to provide a positive charge and a negative charge to a given electrode. By controlled use of the electric field charged species in a fluid in a fluid channel are directed into or out of the well by an electric field between the electrodes. The present method involves the transport of fluids, as in a microfluidic device, and the electric field-induced movement of reactive species according to various assay procedures, such as DNA sequencing, synthesis or the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170941 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277659 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuefei Sun (Richland, Washington); Ryan T. Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Microchip capillary electrophoresis (CE) utilizing a sample injector based on a mechanical valve rather than electrokinetic injection can provide improved sample injections, enhanced capabilities, and can eliminate the need for changing the electric field in the separation channel to induce sample injection. In one instance CE electrodes continuously apply an electric field for CE separation along a separation channel. A sample channel is connected to the separation channel at an intersection and has a sample pressure that is greater than that which is present in the separation channel near the intersection. The sample channel does not have electrodes that apply voltages for electrokinetic injection. A sample injector in the sample channel or at the intersection comprises a mechanical valve to control sample injection from the sample channel to the separation channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889108 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277775 | Bittman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bittman (Roslyn Heights, New York); Zaiguo Li (Little Neck, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to FTY720 analogs bearing a boron dipyrromethene difluoro (BODIPY) fluorophore in the alkyl side chain and methods of preparation. The compounds of the present invention can be used in fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy and in chromatography using fluorescence detection. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673799 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277797 | Portnoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Portnoy (Albany, California); Anat A. Herskovits (Morgan Hill, California); Gregory Crimmins (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutant Listeria bacteria that modulate interferon-β production are provided. The subject bacteria are characterized by having a mutation in a gene chosen from a TetR gene, a LadR gene, a VirR gene, a MarR gene a MdrL gene, a MdrT gene and a MdrM gene. The subject bacteria find use in a variety of applications, where representative applications of interest include, but are not limited to: (a) use of the subject bacteria as adjuvants; (b) use of the subject bacteria as delivery vectors for introducing macromolecules into a cell; (c) use of the subject bacteria as vaccines for eliciting or boosting a cellular immune response; etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514787 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277800 | Lobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Lobel (Highland Park, New Jersey); David Sleat (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating a patient having disorder characterized by a deficient amount of functional CLN2 protein in the affected cells, which comprises administering to the patient an amount of CLN2 protein effective to reduce or eliminate the symptoms caused by the deficiency in CLN2 protein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/220572 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277812 | Iannacone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matteo Iannacone (Boston, Massachusetts); Frank Alexis (Brighton, Massachusetts); Pamela Basto (Somerville, Massachusetts); Elliott Ashley Moseman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Jinjun Shi (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Ulrich von Andrian (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Elena Tonti (Riccione, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and systems for delivery of nanocarriers to cells of the immune system. The invention provides synthetic nanocarriers capable of eliciting an immune system response in the form of antibody production, wherein the nanocarriers lack any T cell antigens. In some embodiments, the invention provides nanocarriers that comprise an immunofeature surface, which provides high avidity binding of the nanocarriers to antigen presenting cells. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive nanocarriers. The present invention provides methods of designing, manufacturing, and using inventive nanocarriers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428408 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277819 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Norovirus capsid protein monomers having only the P domain, and not the hinge or S domain, can assemble spontaneously into an icosahedral form herein called the P-particle. Factors affecting the formation and stability of the P-particle, as well as providing methods for diagnosing and treating Norovirus-infected individuals and creating a vaccine for prevention of Norovirus infection are presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917862 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/216.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277832 | Detamore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Detamore (Lawrence, Kansas); Milind Singh (Mission, Kansas); Aaron M. Scurto (Oskaloosa, Kansas); Cory Berkland (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A tissue engineering scaffold for growing cells can include a plurality of biocompatible microspheres linked together to form a three-dimensional matrix. The matrix can include a plurality of pores for growing cells. The biocompatible microspheres can include first and second sets of microspheres. The first set of microspheres can have a first characteristic, and a first predetermined spatial distribution with respect to the three-dimensional matrix. The second set of microspheres can have a second characteristic that is different from the first characteristic, and a second predetermined spatial distribution that is different from the first predetermined spatial distribution with respect to the three-dimensional matrix. The first and second characteristics can selected a composition, polymer, particle size, particle size distribution, type of bioactive agent, type of bioactive agent combination, bioactive agent concentration, amount of bioactive agent, rate of bioactive agent release, mechanical strength, flexibility, rigidity, color, radiotranslucency, radiopaqueness, or the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248530 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278036 | Kariko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katalin Kariko (Rydal, Pennsylvania); Drew Weissman (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules comprising pseudouridine or a modified nucleoside, gene therapy vectors comprising same, methods of synthesizing same, and methods for gene replacement, gene therapy, gene transcription silencing, and the delivery of therapeutic proteins to tissue in vivo, comprising the molecules. The present invention also provides methods of reducing the immunogenicity of RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/990646 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278053 | Glazer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary M. Glazer (Los Altos, California); Samira Guccione (Hillsborough, California); Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Stanford, California); Aloma L. D'Souza (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of studying (e.g., detecting, localizing, and/or quantifying) biomarker(s) and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467586 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Jack Longley (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject contact dermatitis which comprises administering to the subject an amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the stem cell factor signaling pathway effective to prevent or treating contact dermatitis so as to thereby prevent or treat contact dermatitis in the subject. This invention also provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject hyperpigmentation, asthma, cutaneous inflammation, anaphylaxis and bronchospasm, mastocytosis, tumors which express activated kit, and conception. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/048622 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278071 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California); The United States Department of Health and Human Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Brown (Clifton, Virginia); Jonathan E. Silver (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising subjecting one or more sample portion(s) to a single amplification step, thereby amplifying a single molecule in the sample portion to a detectable level, and, in some embodiments, then determining whether the sample portion contains at least one molecule of the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the sample portion is in a porous sample structure, or in a sample chamber which comprises means for minimizing diffusion of the sample portion, or in a sample chamber which is inside a microcapillary device, or in a sample retaining means. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837656 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278072 | Matta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khushi L. Matta (Williamsville, New York); Edaya V. Chandrasekaran (Northbrook, Illinois); Sriram Neelamegham (Getzville, New York); Jun Xue (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing sialylated molecules based on reverse sialylation that catalytically transfers the sialic acid moiety of sialylated donors to nucleotide monophosphates or transfer sialic acid moieties from sialylated donors to acceptor glycoproteins or glycolipids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274142 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278083 | Raviv 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); University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yossef Raviv (Rockville, Maryland); Mathias Viard (Frederick, Maryland); Robert Blumenthal (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert J. Hogan (Athens, Georgia); Stephen Mark Tompkins (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions of inactivated influenza virus that can be used as vaccines and immunological compositions useful for inhibiting, preventing and treating influenza. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/225551 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.300 |
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| US 08278084 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Fengtian Xue (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor compounds comprising bi-terminal aromatic ring moieties, and related methods of NOS inhibition. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704205 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/184 |
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| US 08278100 | Pommier 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) | Yves Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland); Yongwei Zhang (Germantown, Maryland); Arun K. Ghosh (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards lasonolide derivatives, methods of inducing premature chromosome condensation using lasonolide derivatives, and methods of treating disorders, such as cancer, in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a lasonolide derivative. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462005 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278101 | Navran, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synthecon, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Navran, Jr. (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A stem cell niche for expanding stem cells in culture is described. The stem cell niche includes a scaffold, a plurality of stromal mesenchymal stem cells, and a plurality of umbilical cord blood stem cells grown in a rotating culture chamber. One embodiment of the rotating culture chamber has a fluid-filled compartment in which the umbilical cord blood stem cells are grown in the presence of the mesenchymal stem cells seeded on the scaffold. The culture chamber has a dual flow valving member at each end, wherein a first flow path passes under a molecular cut-off membrane covering a central core that transverses the culture chamber and a second flow path flows through the culture chamber and allows cells to be harvested while in suspension. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928116 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/373 |
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| US 08278105 | Pera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Pera (Los Angeles, California); Tracy L. Zinberg (Long Beach, California); Kouichi Hasegawa (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of induction and isolation of progenitor cells from stem cell cultures, specifically liver progenitor cells from human embryonic stem cell cultures. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of inducing hepatocyte-like progenitor cells by placing a quantity of human embryonic stem cells in a medium supplemented with an inhibitor of the MAPK/MEK/ERK signaling pathway, FGFR, GSK3 and/or BMP. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556478 |
| 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 |
| US 08278107 | Rigby |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. C. Rigby (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for regulating CD154 gene expression are provided that rely on the interaction of hnRNP L with the CA-dinucleotide rich sequence of the 3′-untranslated region of CD154. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699180 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278111 | Laurence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Ann Stowell Laurence (Lawrence, Kansas); Anthony Andrew Vartia (Lawrence, Kansas); Mary Elizabeth Krause (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising a tripeptide having the sequence XC1C2; wherein X is any amino acid such that XC1C2 is capable of binding a metal in a square planar orientation or square pyramidal orientation or both; and wherein C1 and C2 are the same or different; and wherein C1 and C2 individually are chosen from a cysteine and a cysteine-like nonnatural amino acid, as well as metal-XC1C2 complexes and methods for forming such complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/341223 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278115 | Coon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gheorghe Craciun (Madison, Wisconsin); Shane Lauson Hubler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Various mass spectroscopy-based methods are provided to improve protein sequencing by detecting z-type product ions generated from the protein. A polypeptide is introduced to a mass spectrometer, and in particular c- and z-type product ions that are generated by selectively fragmenting the polypeptide. The z-type product ions are distinguished from the c-type product ions and the mass-to-charge ratio of at least a portion of the z-type product ions are determined. From the mass of the z-type product ions, a putative chemical composition is identified for at least a portion of the z-type product ions, c-type product ions, or both, which is used to determine polypeptide compositions. Further provided are various methods for reducing spectral noise, instrument calibration and database searching and verification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323766 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278266 | Sandell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Sandell (St. Louis, Missouri); Zhepeng Wang (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides combinations and methods for inducing cell death, inhibiting angiogenesis, and inhibiting cell migration. In particular, the present invention provides methods for inducing cell death in a cell expressing an αvβ3 and/or an αvβ5 integrin. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836832 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278271 | Sigalov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander B. Sigalov (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptides consisting of L- and/or D-amino acids and combinations thereof, which affect platelets by action on the collagen receptor, glycoprotein VI (GPVI). More specifically, however, the peptides act on the GPVI-FcRγ signaling complex. The invention also provides lipid and sugar conjugated peptides comprising L- or D-amino acids. The invention still further provides a method of designing of the peptides and lipid- and/or sugar-conjugated peptides comprising L- or D-amino acids. The present invention further relates to the therapy of various disease states involving the use of these peptides and compounds. Specifically, the peptides and compounds are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of a disease or condition involving platelet activation and aggregation, and more particularly, collagen-induced platelet activation and aggregation. They also are useful in the production of medical devices comprising peptide matrices (i.e., for example, cardiovascular stents). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/001258 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9.700 |
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| US 08278272 | Greig 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) | Nigel Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Josephine Egan (Baltimore, Maryland); Maire Doyle (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Tracy Ann Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel polypeptide analogues of GLP-1 and exendin-4. The polypeptide, in a preferred embodiment, is insulinotropic and long-acting. Preferably, the polypeptide's insulinotropic effect is comparable to or exceeds the effect of an equimolar amount of GLP-1 or exendin-4. The invention also relates to a method of treating a subject with diabetes, comprising administering to the subject the polypeptide of the invention in an amount that has an insulinotropic effect. The invention also relates to methods of using GLP-1, exendin-4, and polypeptide analogues thereof for neuroprotective and neurotrophic effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317042 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278278 | Malkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda H. Malkas (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert J. Hickey (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell-permeable caPCNA-derived peptides and their variants serve as therapeutic compositions to reduce the proliferation of cancerous cells and also augment cytotoxic effects of chemotherapeutics. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900202 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278293 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaomeng Wang (Saline, Michigan); Yuefeng Peng (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Haiying Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qian Cai (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jianfeng Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Su Qiu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to diazo bicyclic mimetics of Smac which function as inhibitors of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins. The invention also relates to the use of these mimetics for inducing apoptotic cell death and for sensitizing cells to inducers of apoptosis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/159249 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278296 | Undieh |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ashiwel S. Undieh (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein methods of screening for potential antidepressant compounds effective to increase production of cellular CDP-diacylglycerol and synthesis of inositol phospholipid in depression-related areas of the brain. Also, provided are methods of diagnosing and treating depressive or mood disorders in a subject by administering these screened antidepressant compounds. Further provided is a method of determining the therapeutic efficacy of an antidepressant drug regimen by comparing the ratio of CDP-diacylglycerol/inositol phosphate after treatment to a basal ratio in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804534 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278305 | Watterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Martin Watterson (Douglas, Michigan); Linda J. Van Eldik (Lexington, Kentucky); Heather Behanna (Chicago, Illinois); Hantamalala Ralay Ranaivo (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Pyridazinyl compounds, compositions and related methods of use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786676 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278309 | DeGrado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PolyMedix, Inc. (Radnor, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania); Dahui Liu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Richard W. Scott (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Yongjiang Xu (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Haizhong Tang (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Bozena Korczak (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides arylamide compounds and methods of making and using them as antibiotics. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605584 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278321 | Haslam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Haslam (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure characterizes the activity of Golgicide A (GCA), as a potent, specific and reversible small molecule inhibitor of Golgi BFA resistance factor 1 (GBF1) function. A mutant GBF1 gene that is resistant to GCA is also described. Methods of using GCA and the GCA-resistant GBF1 gene are described including methods for modulating GBF1 activity for research and therapeutic purposes. Also described are compositions incorporating a GCA-resistant GBF1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645094 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278326 | Nekhai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Howard University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei Nekhai (McLean, Virginia); Dmytro Borysovich Kovalskyy (Kiev, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of Protein Phosphatase-1 have been shown to slow replication of HIV-1. Inhibitors of PP 1 and their use for treatment or prevention of HIV-1 infections are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424243 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278342 | Ricciardi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Ricciardi (East Marlborough, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of inhibiting replication of a poxvirus by contacting a poxvirus with a compound having formula XVII which in turn reduce, inhibit, or abrogate poxvirus DNA polymerase activity and/or its interaction with its processivity factor. Formula XVII can be utilized to treat humans and animals suffering from a poxvirus infection. Pharmaceutical compositions for treating poxvirus infected subjects are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537083 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/418 |
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| US 08278344 | Cuny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory D. Cuny (Somerville, Massachusetts); Xin Teng (Framingham, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexei Degterev (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a series of heterocyclic derivatives that inhibit tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) induced necroptosis. The heterocyclic compounds of the invention are described by Formulas (I) and (Ia)-(Ie) and are shown to inhibit TNF-α induced necroptosis in FADD-deficient variant of human Jurkat T cells. The invention further features pharmaceutical compositions featuring the compounds of the invention. The compounds and compositions of the invention may also be used to treat disorders where necroptosis is likely to play a substantial role. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859997 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/423 |
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| US 08278348 | Boyd 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) | Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama); Kirk R. Gustafson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a substantially purified compound of the formula: in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909979 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
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| US 08278406 | Masters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristyn S. Masters (Madison, Wisconsin); Wendy C. Crone (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioactive and biocompatible polyurethane-butanediol-glycosaminoglycan copolymer for use in medical implant devices. The biocompatible urethane component being the reaction product of 4,4′-methylene-di-(p-phenyl isocyanate) and poly(tetramethylene oxide)n and further reacted with 1,4-butanediol, wherein n=10 to 40. The bioactive glycosaminoglycan being a salt of hyaluronic acid, such as a cetylpyridinium salt acid having 5 to 10,000 repeating units or a salt of heparin, such as a dimethyldioctadecylammonium salt of heparin has 5 to 65 repeating units or a suitable salt of dermatan sulfate. The weight content of the bioactive glycosaminoglycan is an amount sufficient to render the copolymer bioactive. The copolymers described herein have excellent hemocompatibility and biocompatibility. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110096 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/300 |
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| US 08278436 | Thorson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Shannon C. Timmons (Southfield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a set of glycosylated warfarin analogs which are useful as anti-tumor or anti-metastatic agents and as reagents for studying sugar uptake in cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512696 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/29.100 |
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| US 08278458 | Bergeron, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); The United States of America as Represented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds represented by structural formulas described herein, such as Structural Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are useful in treating conditions such as metal overload, oxidative stress, and neoplastic and preneoplastic conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973001 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/201 |
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| US 08278925 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Zhe Sun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Sorensen (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A volumetric APT imaging sequence is provided that acquires multi-slice images immediately after a single long continuous wave (CW) RF irradiation, wherein the relaxation-induced loss of CEST contrast is compensated for during post-processing. Thus, a fast volumetric pH-weighted APT imaging technique is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412132 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279329 | Shroff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sapna Shroff (Rochester, New York); David R. Williams (Rochester, New York); James Fienup (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An object to be imaged is illuminated with a structured (e.g., sinusoidal) illumination at a plurality of phase shifts to allow lateral superresolution and axial sectioning in images. When an object is to be imaged in vitro or in another situation in which the phase shifts cannot be accurately determined a priori, the images are taken, and the phase shifts are estimated a posteriori from peaks in the Fourier transforms. The technique is extended to the imaging of fluorescent and non-fluorescent objects as well as stationary and non-stationary objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100723 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/370 |
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| US 08279781 | Lucani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Lucani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milica Stojanovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new random linear network coding scheme for reliable communications for time division duplexing channels is proposed. The setup assumes a packet erasure channel and that nodes cannot transmit and receive information simultaneously. The sender transmits coded data packets back-to-back before stopping to wait for the receiver to acknowledge (ACK) the number of degrees of freedom, if any, that are required to decode correctly the information. Provided herein is an analysis of this problem to show that there is an optimal number of coded data packets, in terms of mean completion time, to be sent before stopping to listen. This number depends on the latency, probabilities of packet erasure and ACK erasure, and the number of degrees of freedom that the receiver requires to decode the data. This scheme is optimal in terms of the mean time to complete the transmission of a fixed number of data packets. It is shown that its performance is very close to that of a full-duplex system, while transmitting a different number of coded packets can cause large degradation in performance, especially if latency is high. Also described herein is the throughput performance of the novel system and technique along with a comparison to existing half-duplex Go-back-N and Selective Repeat ARQ schemes. Numerical results, obtained for different latencies, show that the novel system and technique described herein has similar performance to the Selective Repeat in most cases and considerable performance gain when latency and packet error probability is high. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549725 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/276 |
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| US 08280087 | Bacon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sid P. Bacon (Phoenix, Arizona); Christopher A. Brown (Tempe, Arizona); Frederic Apoux (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatus, and techniques are described to perform operations including receiving speech that includes audio signals from a talker. A fundamental frequency, unique to the talker, is extracted from the audio signals. A tone in frequency with the extracted fundamental frequency of the received speech is modulated and the modulated tone is delivered to an audio transducing device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433851 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/316 |
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| US 08280482 | Rusinek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Rusinek (Great Neck, New York); Mony J. De Leon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring atrophy in a brain region occupied by the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. In one example, MRI scans and a computational formula are used to measure the medial-temporal lobe region of the brain over a time interval. This region contains the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, structures allied with learning and memory. Each year this region of the brain shrank in people who developed memory problems up to six years after their first MRI scan. The method is also applicable for measuring the progression rate of atrophy in the region in an instance where the onset of Alzheimer's disease has already been established. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109340 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280643 | Hook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Hook (Houston, Texas); Ya-Ping Ko (Houston, Texas); Emanuel Smeds (Houston, Texas); Vannakambadi K. Ganesh (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for determining the structure of a microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecule in complex with fibrinogen, by providing a ClfA complexed with a fibrinogen gamma-peptide; determining a ClfA binding region of the fibrinogen gamma-peptide; determining one or more critical amino acid residues in the ClfA binding region of a native fibrinogen gamma-peptide that is critical for a ClfA:fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction; determining one or more amino acid residues of the ClfA that binds to the ClfA binding region of the native fibrinogen gamma-peptide; modeling the structure of the ClfA binding region; determining the structure of the ClfA in complex with the :fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction; and identifying one or more potential agent(s) that inhibit the ClfA:fibrinogen gamma-peptide interaction without affecting binding of other proteins to the fibrinogen gamma-peptide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/459327 |
| 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 08280710 | Persikov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton V. Persikov (Highland Park, New Jersey); John A. M. Ramshaw (Pascoe Vale, Australia); Barbara M. Brodsky (Kendall Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for determining the thermal stability of a collagen peptide, collagen-like peptide or triple-helix construct with the repeating peptide unit Gly-Xaa1-Xaa2. The instant method accounts for the destabilizing effect of peptide repeats which do not conform to the highly stable Gly-Pro-Hyp peptide and for the interaction between triplets. The instant method finds use in mutant analysis of collagen peptides, collagen-like peptides or triple-helix constructs and engineering of collagen peptides, collagen-like peptides or triple-helix constructs. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814607 |
| 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 RE43712 | Rasenick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Uniersity of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Rasenick (Chicago, Illinois); Robert J. Donati (Chicago, Illinois); Sadamu Toki (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to methods for assaying for agents that modify the association of Gsα with components of the plasma membrane or cytoskeleton of cells. The present invention also relates generally to methods of assaying for agents having antidepressant activity via analysis of the association of Gsα with components of the plasma membrane or cytoskeleton of cells using a fluorescent analog of Gsα and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/939550 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Abdul Rafey Khan (Greenville, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection nozzle includes a body member having an upstream wall opposing a downstream wall, and an internal wall disposed between the upstream wall and the downstream wall, a first chamber partially defined by the an inner surface of the upstream wall and a surface of the internal wall, a second chamber partially defined by an inner surface of the downstream wall and a surface of the internal wall a first gas inlet communicative with the first chamber operative to emit a first gas into the first chamber, a second gas inlet communicative with the second chamber operative to emit a second gas into the second chamber, and a plurality of mixing tubes, each of the mixing tubes having a tube inner surface, a tube outer surface, a first inlet communicative with an aperture in the upstream wall operative to receive a third gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575929 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276411 | Thomas, II |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick A. Thomas, II (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for securing a closure such as door or a window that opens and closes by movement relative to a fixed structure such as a wall or a floor. Many embodiments provide a device for relocating a padlock from its normal location where it secures a fastener (such as a hasp) to a location for the padlock that is more accessible for locking and unlocking the padlock. Typically an extender is provided, where the extender has a hook at a first end that is disposed through the eye of the staple of the hasp, and at an opposing second end the extender has an annulus, such as a hole in the extender or a loop or ring affixed to the extender. The shackle of the padlock may be disposed through the annulus and may be disposed through the eye of a second staple to secure the door or window in a closed or open position. Some embodiments employ a rigid sheath to enclose at least a portion of the extender. Typically the rigid sheath has an open state where the hook is exposed outside the sheath and a closed state where the hook is disposed within the sheath. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935590 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Locks 070/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276661 | Costello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Costello (Katy, Texas); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of heating a portion of a subsurface formation includes drawing fuel on a fuel carrier through an opening formed in the formation. Oxidant is supplied to the fuel at one or more locations in the opening. The fuel is combusted with the oxidant to provide heat to the formation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250393 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277659 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuefei Sun (Richland, Washington); Ryan T. Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Microchip capillary electrophoresis (CE) utilizing a sample injector based on a mechanical valve rather than electrokinetic injection can provide improved sample injections, enhanced capabilities, and can eliminate the need for changing the electric field in the separation channel to induce sample injection. In one instance CE electrodes continuously apply an electric field for CE separation along a separation channel. A sample channel is connected to the separation channel at an intersection and has a sample pressure that is greater than that which is present in the separation channel near the intersection. The sample channel does not have electrodes that apply voltages for electrokinetic injection. A sample injector in the sample channel or at the intersection comprises a mechanical valve to control sample injection from the sample channel to the separation channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889108 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277683 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haixia Deng (Woodridge, Illinois); Ilias Belharouak (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-sized structured dense and spherical layered positive active materials provide high energy density and high rate capability electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. Such materials are spherical second particles made from agglomerated primary particles that are Li1+α(NixCoyMnz)1−tMtO2−dRd, where M is selected from can be Al, Mg, Fe, Cu, Zn, Cr, Ag, Ca, Na, K, In, Ga, Ge, V, Mo, Nb, Si, Ti, Zr, or a mixture of any two or more thereof, R is selected from F, Cl, Br, I, H, S, N, or a mixture of any two or more thereof, and 0≦α≦0.50; 0<x≦1; 0≦y≦1; 0<z≦1; 0≦t≦1; and 0≦d≦0.5. Methods of preparing such materials and their use in electrochemical devices are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454748 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ada Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Lu (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to composite electrodes for electrochemical devices, particularly to carbon nanotube composite electrodes for high performance electrochemical devices, such as ultracapacitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435992 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277932 | Ho |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes, methods of making membranes, and methods of separating gases using membranes are provided. The membranes can include at least one hydrophilic polymer, at least one cross-linking agent, at least one base, and at least one amino compound. The methods of separating gases using membranes can include contacting a gas stream containing at least one of CO2, H2S, and HCl with one side of a nonporous and at least one of CO2, H2S, and HCl selectively permeable membrane such that at least one of CO2, H2S, and HCl is selectively transported through the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164022 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278011 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yimin Zhu (Fremont, California); Jay L. Goldman (Mountain View, California); Baixin Qian (Sunnyvale, California); Ionel C. Stefan (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to SiC nanostructures, including SiC nanopowder, SiC nanowires, and composites of SiC nanopowder and nanowires, which can be used as catalyst supports in membrane electrode assemblies and in fuel cells. The present invention also relates to composite catalyst supports comprising nanopowder and one or more inorganic nanowires for a membrane electrode assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391057 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278079 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl6, and the corresponding BGL6 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL6, recombinant BGL6 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506745 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278124 | Sutter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eli Anguelova Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York); Peter Werner Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments of the invention, encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials are described. In certain embodiments the nanostructures described are semiconducting nanomaterials encapsulated with ordered carbon shells. In some aspects a method for producing encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials is disclosed. In some embodiments applications of encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/658810 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278380 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongmei Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Qingwen Li (Jiangsu, China PRC); Eve Bauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony Keiran Burrell (Los Alamso, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotubes were prepared by coating a substrate with a coating solution including a suitable solvent, a soluble polymer, a metal precursor having a first metal selected from iron, nickel, cobalt, and molybdenum, and optionally a second metal selected from aluminum and magnesium, and also a binding agent that forms a complex with the first metal and a complex with the second metal. The coated substrate was exposed to a reducing atmosphere at elevated temperature, and then to a hydrocarbon in the reducing atmosphere. The result was decomposition of the polymer and formation of carbon nanotubes on the substrate. The carbon nanotubes were often in the form of an array on the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646140 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278500 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanqi Wu (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Charles M. Taliaferro (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of switchgrass ‘Cimarron’ (SL93 2001-1) having increased biomass yield is provided. The switchgrass comprises all the morphological and physiological properties of the cultivar grown from a seed deposited under American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) No. PTA-10116. The invention also provides seeds, progeny, parts and methods of use of Cimarron, such as for the production of biofuels. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466605 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278507 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes, A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789259 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278850 | Gallegos-Lopez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Gallegos-Lopez (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, system and apparatus are provided for increasing voltage utilization in a five-phase vector controlled machine drive system that employs third harmonic current injection to increase torque and power output by a five-phase machine. To do so, a fundamental current angle of a fundamental current vector is optimized for each particular torque-speed of operating point of the five-phase machine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720338 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279435 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsing-Lin Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Wenguang Li (North Andover, Massachusetts); James A. Bailey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yuan Gao (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal-polyaniline (PANI) composites are provided together with a process of preparing such composites by an electrodeless process. The metal of the composite can have nanoscale structural features and the composites can be used in applications such as catalysis for hydrogenation reactions and for analytical detection methods employing SERS. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619328 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279620 | Herron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Hayden Herron (Redondo Beach, California); Brooks S. Mann (Redondo Beach, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California); Cindy Chou (Lakewood, California); David Tang (Fontana, California); Douglas S. Carlson (Hawthorne, California); Alan L. Barry (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power electronics assembly is provided. A first support member includes a first plurality of conductors. A first plurality of power switching devices are coupled to the first support member. A first capacitor is coupled to the first support member. A second support member includes a second plurality of conductors. A second plurality of power switching devices are coupled to the second support member. A second capacitor is coupled to the second support member. The first and second pluralities of conductors, the first and second pluralities of power switching devices, and the first and second capacitors are electrically connected such that the first plurality of power switching devices is connected in parallel with the first capacitor and the second capacitor and the second plurality of power switching devices is connected in parallel with the second capacitor and the first capacitor. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/632067 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/803 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279993 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California); Tak Pui Lou (Berkeley, California); William A. Barletta (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cylindrical gamma generator includes a coaxial RF-driven plasma ion source and target. A hydrogen plasma is produced by RF excitation in a cylindrical plasma ion generator using an RF antenna. A cylindrical gamma generating target is coaxial with the ion generator, separated by plasma and extraction electrodes which has many openings. The plasma generator emanates ions radially over 360° and the cylindrical target is thus irradiated by ions over its entire circumference. The plasma generator and target may be as long as desired. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541423 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279994 | Kotschenreuther et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Kotschenreuther (Austin, Texas); Swadesh M. Mahajan (Austin, Texas); Prashant M. Valanju (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a tokamak reactor. The reactor includes a first toroidal chamber, current carrying conductors, at least one divertor plate within the first toroidal chamber and a second chamber adjacent to the first toroidal chamber surrounded by a section that insulates the reactor from neutrons. The current carrying conductors are configured to confine a core plasma within enclosed walls of the first toroidal chamber such that the core plasma has an elongation of 1.5 to 4 and produce within the first toroidal chamber at least one stagnation point at a perpendicular distance from an equatorial plane through the core plasma that is greater than the plasma minor radius. The at least one divertor plate and current carrying conductors are configured relative to one another such that the current carrying conductors expand the open magnetic field lines at the divertor plate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249303 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/173 |
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| US 08280214 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (El Cerrito, California); Matt Law (Boulder, Colorado); Donald J. Sirbuly (Livermore, California); Justin C. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Richard Saykally (Piedmont, California); Rong Fan (Pasadena, California); Andrea Tao (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoribbons and nanowires having diameters less than the wavelength of light are used in the formation and operation of optical circuits and devices. Such nanostructures function as subwavelength optical waveguides which form a fundamental building block for optical integration. The extraordinary length, flexibility and strength of these structures enable their manipulation on surfaces, including the precise positioning and optical linking of nanoribbon/wire waveguides and other nanoribbon/wire elements to form optical networks and devices. In addition, such structures provide for waveguiding in liquids, enabling them to further be used in other applications such as optical probes and sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559244 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280467 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Yuan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); James Maguire (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling system includes a first section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a first flow of coolant and to permit the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a second section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a second flow of coolant and to permit the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a cable joint configured to couple the first section of HTS cable and the second section of HTS cable. The cable joint may be in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module and may include at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between said cable joint and said at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from said first and second sections of HTS cable. Other embodiments and implementations are also within the scope of the present disclosure. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245138 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280652 | Syracuse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promethean Devices LLC (Fort Mill, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Syracuse (Charlotte, North Carolina); Roy Clark (Thousand Oaks, California); Peter G. Halverson (Temple City, California); Frederick M. Tesche (Saluda, North Carolina); Charles V. Barlow (Matthews, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, method, and system for measuring the magnetic field produced by phase conductors in multi-phase power lines. The magnetic field measurements are used to determine the current load on the conductors. The magnetic fields are sensed by coils placed sufficiently proximate the lines to measure the voltage induced in the coils by the field without touching the lines. The x and y components of the magnetic fields are used to calculate the conductor sag, and then the sag data, along with the field strength data, can be used to calculate the current load on the line and the phase of the current. The sag calculations of this invention are independent of line voltage and line current measurements. The system applies a computerized fitter routine to measured and sampled voltages on the coils to accurately determine the values of parameters associated with the overhead phase conductors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/396756 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280887 | Stork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Stork (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Luke N. Brewer (Marina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Large data sets are analyzed by hierarchical clustering using correlation as a similarity measure. This provides results that are superior to those obtained using a Euclidean distance similarity measure. A spatial continuity constraint may be applied in hierarchical clustering analysis of images. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042053 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280944 | Laadan 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) | Oren Laadan (New York, New York); Jason Nieh (New York, New York); Dan Phung (Montclair, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes running one or more processes associated with the distributed application in virtualized operating system environments on a plurality of digital processing devices, suspending the one or more processes, and saving network state information relating to network connections among the one or more processes. The method further include storing process information relating to the one or more processes, recreating the network connections using the saved network state information, and restarting the one or more processes using the stored process information. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584313 |
| ART UNIT | 2468 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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08277643 — Catalytic pyrolysis of solid biomass and related biofuels, aromatic, and olefin compounds
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Huber (Amherst, Massachusetts); Yu-Ting Cheng (Amherst, Massachusetts); Torren Carlson (Hadley, Massachusetts); Tushar Vispute (Amherst, Massachusetts); Jungho Jae (Amherst, Massachusetts); Geoff Tompsett (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for fluid hydrocarbon product, and more specifically, to compositions and methods for fluid hydrocarbon product via catalytic pyrolysis. Some embodiments relate to methods for the production of specific aromatic products (e.g., benzene, toluene, naphthalene, xylene, etc.) via catalytic pyrolysis. Some such methods may involve the use of a composition comprising a mixture of a solid hydrocarbonaceous material and a heterogeneous pyrolytic catalyst component. In some embodiments, the mixture may be pyrolyzed at high temperatures (e.g., between 500° C. and 1000° C.). The pyrolysis may be conducted for an amount of time at least partially sufficient for production of discrete, identifiable biofuel compounds. Some embodiments involve heating the mixture of catalyst and hydrocarbonaceous material at high rates (e.g., from about 50° C. per second to about 1000° C. per second). The methods described herein may also involve the use of specialized catalysts. For example, in some cases, zeolite catalysts may be used; optionally, the catalysts used herein may have high silica to alumina molar ratios. In some instances, the composition fed to the pyrolysis reactor may have a relatively high catalyst to hydrocarbonaceous material mass ratio (e.g., from about 5:1 to about 20:1). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397303 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277664 | Frechet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Frechet (Oakland, California); Emine Boz (Los Angeles, California); Mamadou Diallo (Pasadena, California); Yonggui Chi (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | Hyperbranched macromolecules and methods are described for selectively filtering contaminants such as anions from water and non-aqueous solutions, particularly in the presence of competing contaminants including other anions. The hyperbranched macromolecules may contain alkyl, 2-hydroxyalkyl, 2-methyl-2-hydroxylalkyl, 2-hydroxy-2-phenylalkyl, and other groups, which may be hydrophilic or hydrophobic. The molecules may preferentially bind to the contaminant at interest at low pH, and release the contaminant at a pH of about 9. The molecules may be used to filter contaminants including perchlorate and nitrate even in the presence of high sulfate concentrations. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573708 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/683 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277829 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Jain (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ana C. Marques (Portela, Portugal); Rui M. Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | A biocompatible inorganic porous material having a three-dimensional coexistent network of interconnected macro-pores and nanopores produced by the steps of mixing an organic water-soluble polymer (e.g., polyethylene oxide or a block copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide), an alkoxysilane, and an inorganic water-soluble calcium salt in an aqueous acid solution, such that a sol-gel process of hydrolysis and polycondensation is initiated and thereby producing a gel; drying the gel to remove solvent by evaporation; and heating the gel to remove the polymer by thermal decomposition, thereby forming an inorganic porous material, which may be suitable for use as a bone tissue scaffold. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/377699 |
| 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 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbial fuel cell configuration of the invention includes a substrate particularly formulated for a microbial fuel cell configured to produce electricity and/or a modified microbial fuel cell configured to produce hydrogen. A substrate formulation according to one embodiment includes a solid biodegradable organic material in a package porous to bacteria. A microbial fuel cell provided according to embodiments of the present invention includes an anode, a cathode, an electrically conductive connector connecting the anode and the cathode, a housing for an aqueous medium, the aqueous medium in contact with the anode, and a solid form of a biodegradable organic substrate disposed in the aqueous medium, the solid form of a biodegradable organic substrate formulated to support electron generation and transfer to the anode by anodophilic bacteria over a selected minimum period of time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799149 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278040 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Ankit Agarwal (Madison, Wisconsin); Santanu K. Pal (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Colloidal liquid crystal gels (CLCGs), sensors incorporating the CLCGs, culture substrates made from the CLCGs, and patterned films and molded articles made from the CLCGs are provided. The CLCGs are composite liquid crystal materials comprising networks of particles having liquid crystal domains dispersed therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512362 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278191 | Hildreth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Owen Hildreth (Pacific Grove, California); Ching Ping Wong (Berkeley Lake, Georgia); Yonghao Xiu (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are various embodiments related to metal-assisted chemical etching of substrates on the micron, sub-micron and nano scales. In one embodiment, among others, a method for metal-assisted chemical etching includes providing a substrate; depositing a non-spherical metal catalyst on a surface of the substrate; etching the substrate by exposing the non-spherical metal catalyst and the substrate to an etchant solution including a composition of a fluoride etchant and an oxidizing agent; and removing the etched substrate from the etchant solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751080 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278239 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); Zengquan Qin (Copley, Ohio); Claire Tova Cohen (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(propylene carbonates) are prepared from propylene oxide and CO2 with less than 10% cyclic propylene carbonate by product using cobalt based catalysts of structure preferably in combination with salt cocatalyst, very preferably cocatalyst where the cation is PPN+ and the anion is Cl− or OBzF5−. Novel products include poly(propylene carbonates) having a stereoregularity greater than 90% and/or a regioregularity of greater than 90%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/768355 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278406 | Masters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristyn S. Masters (Madison, Wisconsin); Wendy C. Crone (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioactive and biocompatible polyurethane-butanediol-glycosaminoglycan copolymer for use in medical implant devices. The biocompatible urethane component being the reaction product of 4,4′-methylene-di-(p-phenyl isocyanate) and poly(tetramethylene oxide)n and further reacted with 1,4-butanediol, wherein n=10 to 40. The bioactive glycosaminoglycan being a salt of hyaluronic acid, such as a cetylpyridinium salt acid having 5 to 10,000 repeating units or a salt of heparin, such as a dimethyldioctadecylammonium salt of heparin has 5 to 65 repeating units or a suitable salt of dermatan sulfate. The weight content of the bioactive glycosaminoglycan is an amount sufficient to render the copolymer bioactive. The copolymers described herein have excellent hemocompatibility and biocompatibility. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110096 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/300 |
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| US 08278456 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory H. Robinson (Athens, Georgia); Yuzhong Wang (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the synthesis and stabilization of neutral molecules containing homonuclear single or multiple bonds, methods of preparation, and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487424 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/110 |
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| US 08278757 | Crain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, Maryland); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Crain (Washington, District of Columbia); John S. Lettow (Washington, District of Columbia); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Sibel A. Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Katherine S. Chiang (Princeton, New Jersey); Chuan-hua Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Printed electronic device comprising a substrate onto at least one surface of which has been applied a layer of an electrically conductive ink comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. A method of preparing printed electronic devices is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866079 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279122 | Landon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Glen Landon (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cynthia Furse (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system can include polarization agile antennas to enable adaptation to the polarization characteristics of a changing propagation channel. In one embodiment, a mobile terminal can include one or more polarization-agile antennas, and can select polarization orientations that are preferentially propagated through the changing propagation channel. In another embodiment, a mobile terminal having two polarization-agile antennas can provide spatial diversity, polarization diversity, or combinations of both. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems can include polarization-agile antennas to allow for switching between spatial and polarization diversity, combined spatial and polarization diversity, and various Eigen channel decompositions using spatial, polarization, and combined spatial and polarization dimensions. An extended polar normalization provides enhanced fidelity for methods of communications system modeling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/431761 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279446 | Ignatovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumetrics, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Filipp V Ignatovich (Rochester, New York); Todd Blalock (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring a layered object comprising a low coherence light source, a coherent light source, and an interferometer including a reference arm and a measurement arm. The reference arm is comprised of a first section of polarization maintaining optical fiber engaged with a first fiber stretcher. The measurement arm is comprised of a second section of polarization maintaining optical fiber engaged with a second fiber stretcher. The first and second fiber stretchers are driven so as to alternatingly vary the lengths of the first section of polarization maintaining optical fiber and the second section of polarization maintaining optical fiber, thereby causing interference signals with the low coherence light when the length of the reference arm is equal to the length of the measurement arm including the distance from the second section of polarization maintaining optical fiber to any of the surfaces of the layers of the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/185554 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08279511 | Quetschke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainseville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker M. Quetschke (Brownsville, Texas); Wan Wu (Yorktown, Virginia); Luke Williams (Gainesville, Florida); Muzammil A. Arain (Gainesville, Florida); Rodica Martin (Gainesville, Florida); David Reitze (Gainesville, Florida); David B. Tanner (Gainesville, Florida); Guido Mueller (Newberry, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for producing polarized light, having a modulator crystal, where the modulator crystal incorporates a birefringent electro- optic material. The modulator crystal has an optic axis, a first polarization axis, and a second polarization axis, where the first polarization axis and second polarization axis are each perpendicular to the optic axis and perpendicular to each other. The apparatus can also include an electrode pair, where application of an electric field modulates light passing through the modulator crystal that is polarized along the first polarization axis. Embodiments pertain to a method and apparatus for modulating light. The apparatus incorporates a modulator crystal having an electro-optic material. The device also has at least two electrode pairs, where each electrode pair that modulates light passing through the modulator crystal that has a direction of travel that has a component parallel to the optic axis. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/996695 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/254 |
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| US 08279781 | Lucani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Lucani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milica Stojanovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new random linear network coding scheme for reliable communications for time division duplexing channels is proposed. The setup assumes a packet erasure channel and that nodes cannot transmit and receive information simultaneously. The sender transmits coded data packets back-to-back before stopping to wait for the receiver to acknowledge (ACK) the number of degrees of freedom, if any, that are required to decode correctly the information. Provided herein is an analysis of this problem to show that there is an optimal number of coded data packets, in terms of mean completion time, to be sent before stopping to listen. This number depends on the latency, probabilities of packet erasure and ACK erasure, and the number of degrees of freedom that the receiver requires to decode the data. This scheme is optimal in terms of the mean time to complete the transmission of a fixed number of data packets. It is shown that its performance is very close to that of a full-duplex system, while transmitting a different number of coded packets can cause large degradation in performance, especially if latency is high. Also described herein is the throughput performance of the novel system and technique along with a comparison to existing half-duplex Go-back-N and Selective Repeat ARQ schemes. Numerical results, obtained for different latencies, show that the novel system and technique described herein has similar performance to the Selective Repeat in most cases and considerable performance gain when latency and packet error probability is high. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549725 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280214 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (El Cerrito, California); Matt Law (Boulder, Colorado); Donald J. Sirbuly (Livermore, California); Justin C. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Richard Saykally (Piedmont, California); Rong Fan (Pasadena, California); Andrea Tao (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoribbons and nanowires having diameters less than the wavelength of light are used in the formation and operation of optical circuits and devices. Such nanostructures function as subwavelength optical waveguides which form a fundamental building block for optical integration. The extraordinary length, flexibility and strength of these structures enable their manipulation on surfaces, including the precise positioning and optical linking of nanoribbon/wire waveguides and other nanoribbon/wire elements to form optical networks and devices. In addition, such structures provide for waveguiding in liquids, enabling them to further be used in other applications such as optical probes and sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559244 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
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| US 08280944 | Laadan 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) | Oren Laadan (New York, New York); Jason Nieh (New York, New York); Dan Phung (Montclair, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes running one or more processes associated with the distributed application in virtualized operating system environments on a plurality of digital processing devices, suspending the one or more processes, and saving network state information relating to network connections among the one or more processes. The method further include storing process information relating to the one or more processes, recreating the network connections using the saved network state information, and restarting the one or more processes using the stored process information. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584313 |
| ART UNIT | 2468 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280976 | Gopalan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik Gopalan (Vestal, New York); Michael Hines (Endicott, New York); Jian Wang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local disk. A distributed network-based virtual memory scheme is provided which treats remote memory as another level in the memory hierarchy between very fast local memory and very slow local disks. Performance over gigabit Ethernet shows significant performance gains over local disk. Large memory applications may access potentially unlimited network memory resources without requiring any application or operating system code modifications, relinking or recompilation. A preferred embodiment employs kernel-level driver software. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276380 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08281299 | Siskind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Mark Siskind (West Lafayette, Indiana); Barak Avrum Pearlmutter (Dublin, Iran) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed system provides a functional programming construct that allows convenient modular run-time nonstandard interpretation via reflection on closure environments. This construct encompasses both the ability to examine the contents of a closure environment and to construct a new closure with a modified environment. Examples of this powerful and useful construct support such tasks as tracing, security logging, sandboxing, error checking, profiling, code instrumentation and metering, run-time code patching, and resource monitoring. It is a non-referentially-transparent mechanism that reifies the closure environments that are only implicit in higher-order programs. A further example provides a novel functional-programming language that supports forward automatic differentiation (AD). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939357 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane J. Garbe (Mendon, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal protection system and a method of manufacturing are disclosed. The thermal protection system may be configured to protect a movable joint, for example, a flexible bearing of a rocket motor nozzle. The thermal protection system includes a series of annular shims separated by a plurality of discrete spacers. Each shim of the series of annular shims may have a larger diameter than the previous shim, and the shims may nest. The shims may comprise a thermally stable material, and the discrete spacers may comprise an elastomer. Optionally, an annular bearing protector may separate the annular shims from the flexible bearing. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/763280 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08276958 | Ihrke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris A. Ihrke (Hartland, Michigan); Douglas Martin Linn (White Lake, Michigan); Lyndon Bridgwater (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bidirectional tendon terminator that has particular application for terminating a tendon that actuates a finger in a robotic arm. The tendon terminator includes a cylindrical member having an internal channel through which a single continuous piece of the tendon extends. The internal channel of the tendon terminator includes a widened portion. A ball is placed in the tendon strands, which causes the tendon to expand, and the ball is positioned within the widened portion of the channel. Pulling on the tendon operates to either open or close the finger of the robotic arm depending on which direction the tendon is pulled. In one specific embodiment, the cylinder includes two cylindrical pieces that are coupled together so that the ball can be positioned within the channel and the cylindrical member has an entire circumference of material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269579 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278050 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Bailey (Severance, Colorado); F. Andrew Ray (Fort Collins, Colorado); Edwin H. Goodwin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Joel S. Bedford (Fort Collins, Colorado); Michael N. Cornforth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the identification of chromosomal inversions is described. Single-stranded sister chromatids are generated, for example by CO-FISH. A plurality of non-repetitive, labeled probes of relatively small size are hybridized to portions of only one of a pair of single-stranded sister chromatids. If no inversion exists, all of the probes will hybridize to a first chromatid. If an inversion has occurred, these marker probes will be detected on the sister chromatid at the same location as the inversion on the first chromatid. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/375816 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278757 | Crain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, Maryland); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Crain (Washington, District of Columbia); John S. Lettow (Washington, District of Columbia); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Sibel A. Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Katherine S. Chiang (Princeton, New Jersey); Chuan-hua Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Printed electronic device comprising a substrate onto at least one surface of which has been applied a layer of an electrically conductive ink comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. A method of preparing printed electronic devices is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866079 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280837 | Platt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United State of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Frank Noble Permenter (Webster, Texas); Craig M. Corcoran (Bellaire, Texas); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying the location, orientation and shape of an object that a robot hand touches that includes using a particle filter. The method includes defining an appropriate motion model and a measurement model. The motion model characterizes the motion of the robot hand as it moves relative to the object. The measurement model estimates the likelihood of an observation of contact position, velocity and tactile sensor information given hand-object states. The measurement model is approximated analytically based on a geometric model or based on a corpus of training data. In either case, the measurement model distribution is encoded as a Gaussian or using radial basis functions. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474068 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08276314 | Duehl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian J. Duehl (Gainesville, Florida); Lee W. Cohnstaedt (Corvallis, Oregon); Richard T. Arbogast (Gainesville, Florida); Peter E. A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The arthropod trap has a base with a plurality of sides that angle upwardly and inwardly toward a capture area in the center of the base. Multiple outwardly-projecting fins are disposed on or adjacent to the sides of the base. The fins also angle upwardly toward the capture area so that the fins guide arthropods into the capture area. The capture area includes a pitfall so that the arthropods topple through a pitfall opening and are retained in the pitfall. A trap cover fits over and at least partially conceals the capture area. In one embodiment, the trap cover provides a platform for the placement of light emitting diodes that emit light in a wavelength that appeals to the positive phototaxis instincts of the target arthropods. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790342 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277984 | Logan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbial fuel cell configuration of the invention includes a substrate particularly formulated for a microbial fuel cell configured to produce electricity and/or a modified microbial fuel cell configured to produce hydrogen. A substrate formulation according to one embodiment includes a solid biodegradable organic material in a package porous to bacteria. A microbial fuel cell provided according to embodiments of the present invention includes an anode, a cathode, an electrically conductive connector connecting the anode and the cathode, a housing for an aqueous medium, the aqueous medium in contact with the anode, and a solid form of a biodegradable organic substrate disposed in the aqueous medium, the solid form of a biodegradable organic substrate formulated to support electron generation and transfer to the anode by anodophilic bacteria over a selected minimum period of time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799149 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278246 | Slininger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia J. Slininger (Metamora, Illinois); David A. Schisler (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Bacterial compositions effective for inhibiting fungal diseases of potatoes and/or potato sprouting are produced by co-culture of two or more of Pseudomonas fluorescens (NRRL B-21133), Pseudomonas fluorescens biovar (NRRL B-21053), Pseudomonas fluorescens (NRRL B-21102) and Enterobacter cloacae (NRRL B-21050). Compositions produced by co-culture of these bacteria together in the same culture medium are significantly more effective for inhibiting fungi-induced diseases of potatoes and/or inhibiting sprouting of potatoes, than blends or mixtures of the same bacteria cultured separately. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569306 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant protecting and regulating compositions 54/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278500 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanqi Wu (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Charles M. Taliaferro (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of switchgrass ‘Cimarron’ (SL93 2001-1) having increased biomass yield is provided. The switchgrass comprises all the morphological and physiological properties of the cultivar grown from a seed deposited under American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) No. PTA-10116. The invention also provides seeds, progeny, parts and methods of use of Cimarron, such as for the production of biofuels. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466605 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08277753 | Hasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leila Hasan (Boston, Massachusetts); John Linton (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Colin J. H. Brenan (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid dispenser for a microfluidic assay system is described. The dispenser includes at least one transfer pin for transferring a microfluidic sample of liquid to a target receptacle. A pin tip at one end of the transfer pin is structured to cooperate with an opening in the target receptacle. The tip uses a high voltage potential to transfer the sample from the pin to the receptacle. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227179 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278090 | Im et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Soon Im (Palo Alto, California); Diana Vincent (San Jose, California); Rika Regentin (Hayward, California); Anna Coragliotti (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses novel methods of producing hydrocarbons through heterotrophic cultivation of Botryococcus braunii. Also provided are novel hydrocarbon compositions. A preferred species for engineering is the microalgae species Botryococcus braunii. Additional methods of cultivation include providing certain nutrient sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497257 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08281351 | Sharpe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall B. Sharpe (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer readable medium operable to move a video delay from a network video queue to a decoder video queue by discarding at least one video frame in a network video queue, thus moving video frames deeper in the queue forward in time. As such, rapid channel changing is provided without continuous unicasting, or temporarily transmitting at faster than the nominal rate, thereby alleviating strain on the network. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315551 |
| ART UNIT | 2425 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Interactive video distribution systems 725/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08276516 | Nance et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reynolds Systems, Inc. (Middletown, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Nance (Middletown, California); John Yelverton (Fort Walton Beach, Florida); Charles Hart (Hidden Valley Lake, California); Michael Meadows (Kelseyville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detonating an initiation charge that is formed of a secondary explosive, such as triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB). The apparatus includes an exploding foil initiator, which can have a relatively small flyer that is suited to initiate a detonation event in the initiation charge. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590861 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/275.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08277385 | Berka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Berka (Carlsbad, California); Daniel J. Levendowski (Carlsbad, California); Djordje Popovic (La Jolla, California); Philip R. Westbrook (Fallbrook, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for assessment of hemodynamic and functional state of the brain is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus includes non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure, assessment of the brain's electrical activity, and measurement of cerebral blood flow. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus include measuring the volume change in the intracranial vessels with a near-infrared spectroscopy or other optical method, measuring the volume change in the intracranial vessels with rheoencephalography or other electrical method, and measuring the brain's electrical activity using electroencephalography. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700619 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278101 | Navran, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synthecon, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Navran, Jr. (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A stem cell niche for expanding stem cells in culture is described. The stem cell niche includes a scaffold, a plurality of stromal mesenchymal stem cells, and a plurality of umbilical cord blood stem cells grown in a rotating culture chamber. One embodiment of the rotating culture chamber has a fluid-filled compartment in which the umbilical cord blood stem cells are grown in the presence of the mesenchymal stem cells seeded on the scaffold. The culture chamber has a dual flow valving member at each end, wherein a first flow path passes under a molecular cut-off membrane covering a central core that transverses the culture chamber and a second flow path flows through the culture chamber and allows cells to be harvested while in suspension. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928116 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08276329 | Lenox |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl J. S. Lenox (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fire resistant PV shingle assembly includes a PV assembly, including PV body, a fire shield and a connection member connecting the fire shield below the PV body, and a support and inter-engagement assembly. The support and inter-engagement assembly is mounted to the PV assembly and comprises a vertical support element, supporting the PV assembly above a support surface, an upper interlock element, positioned towards the upper PV edge, and a lower interlock element, positioned towards the lower PV edge. The upper interlock element of one PV shingle assembly is inter-engageable with the lower interlock element of an adjacent PV shingle assembly. In some embodiments the PV shingle assembly may comprise a ventilation path below the PV body. The PV body may be slidably mounted to the connection member to facilitate removal of the PV body. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140261 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08278587 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Intelligent Systems, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuMing Zhang (Nicholasville, Kentucky); Jinsong Chen (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A welding system and method includes a main torch including a main electrode configured to form a first arc with a base metal; a first bypass torch including a first bypass electrode configured to form a second arc with the main electrode; and a second bypass torch including a second bypass electrode configured to form a third arc with the main electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661433 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08280976 | Gopalan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik Gopalan (Vestal, New York); Michael Hines (Endicott, New York); Jian Wang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local disk. A distributed network-based virtual memory scheme is provided which treats remote memory as another level in the memory hierarchy between very fast local memory and very slow local disks. Performance over gigabit Ethernet shows significant performance gains over local disk. Large memory applications may access potentially unlimited network memory resources without requiring any application or operating system code modifications, relinking or recompilation. A preferred embodiment employs kernel-level driver software. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276380 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08278631 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N. Patel (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a device for monitoring one or more of integral value of time and temperature, UV light exposure and a pre-determined temperature of an item. The device is useful for monitoring items or materials which are sensitive to time-temperature, UV light and/or a pre-determined temperature. Radiation sensitive devices such as self-indicating instant radiation alert dosimeters (SIRAD) can be accidentally, inadvertently or intentionally over exposed to time-temperature, UV light and a pre-determined higher temperature. Such over exposure can provide a false positive or false negative signal. A device based on polymerization of diacetylenes and melting of partially polymerized diacetylenes, both of which are associated with color changes, are proposed as false positive, false negative, and tamper indicator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/293322 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/474.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08280685 | Mian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corporation (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Jeremy C. Mullaney (Troy, New York); Ryk E. Spoor (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved solution for performing an inspection is provided, in which a user can use a handheld computing device to obtain and/or record the set of attributes required for the inspection. In particular, an inspection schedule can be initiated on the handheld computing device and the user can be prompted for the various attributes based on the inspection schedule. Various solutions can be incorporated for receiving the attributes on the handheld computing device, including manual entry, audible entry and/or one or more data sensing devices. Subsequently, the set of attributes can be communicated to a base station for further processing and/or more permanent storage. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261581 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08277496 | Grahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Grahn (Palo Alto, California); H. Craig Heller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for manipulating the thermoregulatory status of a mammal are provided. In the subject methods, thermal energy is transferred between the environment and both of the thoracic/abdominal core body and head of the mammal. In general, thermal energy transfer between thoracic/abdominal core body and the environment occurs under negative pressure conditions. The subject methods and devices can be used to increase the thoracic/abdominal core body temperature of a mammal, in which case thermal energy is introduced into the thoracic/abdominal core body of the mammal and removed from the head of the mammal or cold is merely applied thereto. The subject methods and devices can also be used to reduce the thoracic/abdominal core body temperature of a mammal, in which case thermal energy is removed from the thoracic/abdominal core body of the mammal and introduced into the head of the mammal or heat is merely applied thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657188 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08278587 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Intelligent Systems, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuMing Zhang (Nicholasville, Kentucky); Jinsong Chen (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A welding system and method includes a main torch including a main electrode configured to form a first arc with a base metal; a first bypass torch including a first bypass electrode configured to form a second arc with the main electrode; and a second bypass torch including a second bypass electrode configured to form a third arc with the main electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661433 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08280745 | Snapp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); Michael C. Garner (Collierville, Tennessee); Edgar H. Gillock, II (Memphis, Tennessee); James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for determining secondary address information. In one implementation, a method is provided that uses a data processing apparatus. According to the method, a code word is created for a business name and a building default extended delivery code. A data table is searched using the code word and secondary address information is revealed when a match is found between the code word and data stored in the data table. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223027 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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