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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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| US 08296989 | Hawthorne 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) | Anthony Hawthorne (Vernon, New Jersey); Kenneth R. Jones (Wayne, New Jersey); Richard A. Beckman (Randolph, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A rifle barrel adapter that ensures adequate mounting overlap for muzzle mounted grenades for proper firing alignment is described, which adapter is formed of only four parts: (1) an elongated unitary body with a narrowed cylindrical front section upon which the muzzle mounted grenade is mounted, which elongated unitary body has an enlarged rear section that is mounted about the muzzle end of the rifle barrel over the flash suppressor; (2) a unitary locking mechanism to secure the elongated unitary body to the muzzle end of the rifle; (3) a bias spring to maintain the unitary locking mechanism in place, and (4) a locking pin to hold the unitary locking mechanism in place within the unitary body. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699960 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297058 | Leland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley C. Leland (Burleson, Texas); John D. Klinge (Fort Worth, Texas); Brian F. Lundy (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A diverterless hypersonic inlet (DHI) for a high speed, air-breathing propulsion system reduces the ingested boundary layer flow, drag, and weight, and maintains a high capture area for hypersonic applications. The design enables high vehicle fineness ratios, low-observable features, and enhances ramjet operability limits. The DHI is optimized for a particular design flight Mach number. A forebody segment generates and focuses a system of multiple upstream shock waves at desired strengths and angles to facilitate required inlet and engine airflow conditions. The forebody contour diverts boundary layer flow to the inlet sides, effectively reducing the thickness of the boundary layer that is ingested by the inlet, while maintaining the capture area required by the hypersonic propulsion system. The cowl assembly is shaped to integrate with the forebody shock system and the thinned boundary layer region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336389 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297130 | Wheeler, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Wheeler, IV (Hilliard, Ohio); Paul A. Shade (Gallaway, Ohio); Michael D. Uchic (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a microtesting rig for measuring mechanical properties of small specimens. The rig includes a microsized specimen positioned on a mounting block, an interchangeable contact tip connected with an actuator and configured for contact with the microsized specimen, and a magnifying imaging system for imaging the microsized specimen. The contact tip may be a fiber platen for compression testing or a fiber grip for tension testing. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617655 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297165 | Travis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt H. Travis (Fall City, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, vehicles, and methods to reduce loads applied to a store when the store is launched from the vehicle are disclosed. A particular apparatus includes a launch chamber and a flap. The launch chamber has a first portion configured to receive a store. A second portion is configured to be positioned over an opening in a hull of a vehicle. The chamber has a forward end and an aft end. The flap is positioned a distance from the aft end of the launch chamber. The flap has a first end rotatably mounted proximate to the first portion of the launch chamber and has a second end extending toward the second portion of the launch chamber. The flap is configured to rotate about the first end when the store impacts the flap due to the forces applied to the store by the fluid when the store is launched. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011721 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297167 | Hoffman |
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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) | Brian Hoffman (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reciprocally-cycled, externally-powered weapon may include a rotative driver connected via a crank and connecting rod to the operating group of the weapon. The connecting rod may be connected to a pinion that meshes with a translating rack and a stationary rack. The translating rack may be connected to the operating group, and the stationary rack may be fixed to the receiver of the weapon. The energy needed to fire the weapon may be supplied by an energy generator. The minimum amount of energy supplied by the energy generator may be independent of the speed of translation of the operating group and may be sufficient to reliably result in cartridge ignition, thereby providing an infinitely adjustable firing rate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607393 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297174 | Russell 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) | Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey); Eric Binter (Sussex, New Jersey); Adam Jacob (Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania); Hansen Lukman (Parsippany, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A weapon may include a translatable recoil mass and two translatable counterweights disposed on opposite sides of the recoil mass. Each counterweight may have a mass that is substantially one-half a mass of the recoil mass. A pair of racks may be fixed to respective ones of the counterweights and a second pair of racks may be fixed to opposites sides of the recoil mass. Pinions may engage the counterweight and recoil mass racks. A receiver may be fixed with respect to the recoil mass and the pair of counterweights. The directions of translation of the recoil mass are substantially opposite directions of translation of the two counterweights. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607164 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/42.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297191 | Schaefer 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) | Alan R. Schaefer (Bloomington, Indiana); Daniel Neff (Jasper, Indiana); Donald P. Luse (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal is provided that restricts movement of adjacent parts when in a high pressure environment while allowing relative movement of adjacent parts when in non-high pressure environment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533760 |
| 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 12/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297192 | Hays 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) | Brian Vance Hays (Ridgecrest, California); Lee Hardt (Ridgecrest, California); Donald Burnett (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A venting system for a casing containing an explosive material includes a base plug having one or more venting ports. A ring-shaped failure mechanism mounted to the base plug seals the venting ports. The failure mechanism has a selected melting temperature such that raising the temperature of the failure mechanism to its melting temperature causes the failure mechanism to unseal the venting port to allow controlled burning of the explosive material. An insert ring formed of a durable material to protect the failure mechanism from being damaged may be mounted on an outer surface of the failure mechanism. An adhesive may be used to seal gaps between the failure mechanism, the insert ring and the base plug. The failure mechanism may have a peripheral tab formed to fit within a corresponding groove in the base plug to mount the failure mechanism securely to the base plug. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143969 |
| 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 12/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297626 | Schaefer 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) | Alan R. Schaefer (Bloomington, Indiana); Daniel Neff (Jasper, Indiana); Donald P. Luse (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal is provided that restricts movement of adjacent parts when in a high pressure environment while allowing relative movement of adjacent parts when in non-high pressure environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/603697 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/648 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08297935 | Mitlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bob Mitlin (Scottsdale, Arizona); Mark C. Morris (Phoenix, Arizona); Steve Halfmann (Chandler, Arizona); Ardeshir Riahi (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Turbine blades and methods of forming modified turbine blades and turbine rotors for use in an engine are provided. In an embodiment, by way of example only, a turbine blade includes a platform and an airfoil. The platform includes a surface configured to define a portion of a flowpath, and the surface includes an initial contour configured to plastically deform into an intended final contour after an initial exposure of the blade to an operation of the engine. The airfoil extends from the platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/273108 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298353 | Saha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Saha (Portland, Oregon); Gregory B. Olson (Riverwoods, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A transformation toughened, high-strength steel alloy useful in plate steel applications achieves extreme fracture toughness (Cv > 80 ft-lbs corresponding to KId=200 ksi.in ½) at strength levels of 150-180 ksi yield strength, is weldable and formable. The alloy is characterized by dispersed austenite stabilization for transformation toughening to a weldable, bainitic plate steel and is strengthened by precipitation of M2C carbides in combination with copper and nickel. The desired microstructure is a matrix containing a bainite-martensite mix, BCC copper and M2C carbide particles for strengthening with a fine dispersion of optimum stability austenite for transformation toughening. The bainite-martensite mix is formed by air-cooling from solution treatment temperature and subsequent aging at secondary hardening temperatures to precipitate the toughening and strengthening dispersions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134965 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298358 | Coffey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Coffey (Oviedo, Florida); Edward Dein (Saint Cloud, Florida); Bo Yao (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) and methods for forming the same includes a first material and a second material having an interfacial region therebetween. The first and second material are capable of an exothermic chemical reaction with one another to form at least one product and are in sufficiently close physical proximity to one another so that upon initiation the exothermic reaction develops into a self initiating reaction. At least one of said first and second materials include a metal that is reactive with water vapor at room temperature. The interfacial region averages <2 nm thick, such as <1 nm thick. In one embodiment, the first material is Al and the second material is CuOx. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398228 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298499 | Wilhite et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin A. Wilhite (Storrs, Connecticut); Angela M. Moreno (Coventry, Connecticut); Daejin Kim (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for a chemical reactor which includes elongate chambers defining an arrangement and including first, second, and third elongate chambers adapted to support respective distinct first, second, and third reactor functions associated with respective first, second, and third process feeds, and a distributor arranged in fluidic communication with each of the elongate chambers and for connecting the elongate chambers to at least one fluid source. The distributor is dimensioned to produce a two-dimensional radial distribution of fluidic flow through the first, second, and third elongate chambers with respect to the first, second, and third process feeds. The chemical reactor may further include a monolith catalyst support including an N×M array of channels including the elongated chambers. The elongate chambers and the distributor may manifest an interchangeable cartridge-based system wherein the arrangement of the elongate chambers is selectably detachable from the distributor and replaceable. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263637 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298542 | Johnston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Johnston (Dallas, Texas); Katherine Stemke-Hale (Houston, Texas); Kathryn F. Sykes (Dallas, Texas); Bernhard Kaltenboeck (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention relates to antigens and nucleic acids encoding such antigens obtainable by screening a Chlamydia genome. In more specific aspects, the invention relates to methods of isolating such antigens and nucleic acids and to methods of using such isolated antigens for producing immune responses. The ability of an antigen to produce an immune response may be employed in vaccination or antibody preparation techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848535 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 08298546 | Lyon 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) | Jeffrey A. Lyon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Evelina Angov (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) MSP-142. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein which retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant MSP-142 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569062 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298760 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Bioscience, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of investigational bioinformatics and more particularly to secondary structure defining databases. The present invention further relates to methods for interrogating a database as a source of molecular masses of known bioagents for comparing against the molecular mass of an unknown or selected bioagent to determine either the identity of the selected bioagent, and/or to determine the origin of the selected bioagent. The identification of the bioagent is important for determining a proper course of treatment and/or irradication of the bioagent in such cases as biological warfare. Furthermore, the determination of the geographic origin of a selected bioagent will facilitate the identification of potential criminal identity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674538 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298823 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Robert Parkhill (Orlando, Florida); Michael N. Nguyen (Orlando, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Donald Drake, III (Orlando, Florida); Anatoly Kachurin (Orlando, Florida); David Moe (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730899 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298824 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlanda, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell G. Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric M. Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael D. Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts); Santosh Pawar (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/237593 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298830 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aimee Rose (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Conor Francis Madigan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to polymers with lasing characteristics that allow the polymers to be useful in detecting analytes. In one aspect, the polymer, upon an interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in a lasing characteristic that can be determined in some fashion. For example, interaction of an analyte with the polymer may affect the ability of the polymer to reach an excited state that allows stimulated emission of photons to occur, which may be determined, thereby determining the analyte. In another aspect, the polymer, upon interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in stimulated emission that is at least 10 times greater with respect to a change in the spontaneous emission of the polymer upon interaction with the analyte. The polymer may be a conjugated polymer in some cases. In one set of embodiments, the polymer includes one or more hydrocarbon side chains, which may be parallel to the polymer backbone in some instances. In another set of embodiments, the polymer may include one or more pendant aromatic rings. In yet another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially encapsulated in a hydrocarbon. In still another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially resistant to photobleaching. In certain aspects, the polymer may be useful in the detection of explosive agents, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT). |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795279 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298834 | Glezer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Meso Scale Technologies, L.L.C. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eli N. Glezer (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bandele Jeffrey-Coker (Darnestown, Maryland); Jeff D. Debad (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sudeep M. Kumar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); George Sigal (Rockville, Maryland); Gisbert Spieles (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Tsionsky (Derwood, Maryland); Michael Warnock (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We describe assay modules (e.g., assay plates, cartridges, multi-well assay plates, reaction vessels, etc.), processes for their preparation, and method of their use for conducting assays. Reagents may be present in free form or supported on solid phases including the surfaces of compartments (e.g., chambers, channels, flow cells, wells, etc.) in the assay modules or the surface of colloids, beads, or other particulate supports. In particular, dry reagents can be incorporated into the compartments of these assay modules and reconstituted prior to their use in accordance with the assay methods. A desiccant material may be used to maintain and stabilize these reagents in a dry state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871946 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298835 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming Chen Liu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury, organ injury, and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137156 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298879 | Ye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Ye (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to thin film transistors (TFTs) and methods of making TFTs. The active channel of the TFT may comprise one or more metals selected from the group consisting of zinc, gallium, tin, indium, and cadmium. The active channel may also comprise nitrogen and oxygen. To protect the active channel during source-drain electrode patterning, an etch stop layer may be deposited over the active layer. The etch stop layer prevents the active channel from being exposed to the plasma used to define the source and drain electrodes. The etch stop layer and the source and drain electrodes may be used as a mask when wet etching the active material layer that is used for the active channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/183347 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298914 | Farooq et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mukta G. Farooq (Hopewell Junction, New York); Robert Hannon (Wappingers Falls, New York); Subramanian S. Iyer (Mount Kisco, New York); Steven J. Koester (Ossining, New York); Fei Liu (Mount Kisco, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Yorktown Heights, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Roy R. Yu (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for fabricating a 3D integrated circuit structure. Provided are an interface wafer including a first wiring layer and through-silicon vias, and a first active circuitry layer wafer including active circuitry. The first active circuitry layer wafer is bonded to the interface wafer. Then, a first portion of the first active circuitry layer wafer is removed such that a second portion remains attached to the interface wafer. A stack structure including the interface wafer and the second portion of the first active circuitry layer wafer is bonded to a base wafer. Next, the interface wafer is thinned so as to form an interface layer, and metallizations coupled through the through-silicon vias in the interface layer to the first wiring layer are formed on the interface layer. Also provided is a tangible computer readable medium encoded with a program that comprises instructions for performing such a method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194198 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298976 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075029 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299013 | Van Dyke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Van Dyke (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are optimized keratin preparations for use in medical applications. Methods to produce optimized keratin preparations are provided for use in biomedical applications, particularly for the treatment of bleeding, and for the treatment of wounds. Also disclosed are surgical or paramedic aids comprising a substrate with keratin preparations provided thereon, and kits comprising keratin derivatives packaged in sterile form. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676072 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299187 | Ramotowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An epoxy and rubber microcomposite is formed by adding a carboxy-terminated or amine-terminated rubber component having a glass transition temperature less than zero degrees centigrade to a bisphenol A based epoxy resin component; heating the mixture to 150 degrees centigrade; cooling and curing with a suitable curing agent. A phase segregation occurs between the epoxy resin component and the rubber component to form discrete, spherical rubbery domains with the epoxy compound. Because the glass transition temperature of the rubbery domains is below zero degrees centigrade; the rubbery domains act as acoustic windows within the high-modulus epoxy compound. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813868 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299200 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Abdullah Ekin (Imperial, Pennsylvania); Stacy Sommer (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymeric material, prepared by reacting a mixture comprising a polyorganosiloxane having one or more isocyanate-reactive functional groups, polyisocyanate, and polyol, is provided. The isocyanate-reactive functional groups, typically one or two, are attached to only a single end of the polyorganosiloxane chains. The polymeric material may be used to form coatings on a substrate and to inhibit fouling on surfaces exposed to aqueous conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/663334 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299218 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Ali Razai (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to and neutralize botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468526 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299229 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Manassas, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yucheng Tang (San Diego, California); Albert Deisseroth (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are expression vectors for generating an immune response to a mucin. The vectors comprise a transcription unit encoding a secretable polypeptide, the polypeptide comprising a secretory signal, a mucin antigen and CD40 ligand. Also provided are methods of generating an immune response against cells expressing a mucin by administering an effective amount of the vector. Further provided are methods of generating an immune response against cancer cells expressing a mucin in an individual by administering an effective amount of the vector. Still further provided are methods of overcoming anergy to a mucin self antigen by administering an effective amount of the vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997055 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299276 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul G. Clark (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | [c2] daisy chain macromers, dimers and polymers and related compositions, materials, methods and systems are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711247 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299286 | Gardiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin A. Gardiner (Strasslach, Germany); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Douglas Cameron Gordon (Durango, Colorado); Connie L. Gordon, legal representative (Durango, Colorado); Timothy E. Glassman (Portland, Oregon); Sofia Pombrik (Bethel, Connecticut); Brian A. Vaartstra (Nampa, Idaho); Peter S. Kirlin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A β-diketonate alkoxide metal compound and a source reagent composition are provided. The β-diketonate alkoxide metal compound may include a metal M selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, Pr, V, Nb, Ta, Nd, Cr, W, Pm, Mn, Re, Sm, Fe, Ru, Eu, Co, Rh, Ir, Gd, Ni, Tb, Cu, Dy, Ho, Al, Tl, Er, Sn, Pb, Tm, Bi, Lu, Th, Pd, Pt, Ga, In, Au, Ag, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Mo, and Yb. The metal may be complexed to at least one alkoxide ligand and one β-diketonate ligand. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949871 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299419 | Vestergaard Hau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lene Vestergaard Hau (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and apparatus for generating atomic traps, and for storing, controlling and transferring information between first and second spatially separated phase-coherent objects, or using a single phase-coherent object. For plural objects, both phase-coherent objects have a macroscopic occupation of a particular quantum state by identical bosons or identical BCS-paired fermions. The information may be optical information, and the phase-coherent object(s) may be Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, or superconductors. The information is stored in the first phase-coherent object at a first storage time and recovered from the second phase-coherent object, or the same first phase-coherent object, at a second revival time. In one example, an integrated silicon wafer-based optical buffer includes an electrolytic atom source to provide the phase-coherent object(s), a nanoscale atomic trap for the phase-coherent object(s), and semiconductor-based optical sources to cool the phase-coherent object(s) and provide coupling fields for storage and transfer of optical information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449141 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299435 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Pengyu Han (Troy, New York); Yuting W. Chen (Hyde Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband anti-reflection apparatus for use with terahertz radiation includes a layer having an outer surface comprising a plurality of pyramid structures having about a 30 μm to about a 110 μm period, and wherein reflectance of the terahertz radiation is reduced compared to a layer comprising a planar outer surface. Also disclosed is a method for modifying terahertz radiation which includes receiving terahertz radiation on a device having an anti-reflection layer having an outer surface comprising a plurality of pyramid structures having about a 30 μm to a 110 μm period, and modifying the terahertz radiation passing through the device or processing the terahertz radiation in the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855332 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299645 | Muchow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Skybuilt Power (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Muchow (Arlington, Virginia); Hugh Jones (Canastota, New York); Albert Nunez (Takoma Park, Maryland); Sara V. Zulkosky (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A trailer includes a frame defining a body of the trailer. The trailer also includes a power system stored in the body of the trailer. At least a portion of the power system is integral to the body of the trailer. The power system includes at least one power generating device stored in the body and removable from the body. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/219689 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299860 | Youngner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Son T. Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating vapor cells comprises forming a plurality of vapor cell dies in a first wafer having an interior surface region and a perimeter, and forming a plurality of interconnected vent channels in the first wafer. The vent channels provide at least one pathway for gas from each vapor cell die to travel outside of the perimeter of the first wafer. The method further comprises anodically bonding a second wafer to one side of the first wafer, and anodically bonding a third wafer to an opposing side of the first wafer. The vent channels allow gas toward the interior surface region of the first wafer to be in substantially continuous pressure-equilibrium with gas outside of the perimeter of the first wafer during the anodic bonding of the second and third wafers to the first wafer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879394 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300303 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretaryof the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustically-focused optical lens is provided that uses acoustic transducers arranged in diametrically-opposed pairs around an exterior surface of a cylindrical tube in order to concentrate (heavier-than-water metallic) particles suspended in water within the interior of the tube to be along a central axis of the tube. The transducers are activated in accordance with higher order (and odd order) Bessel functions to create an asymmetric mode in order to create the central axis node. Distortions in the optical lens can be further reduced by arranging two or more of the tubes in series with their central axes aligned. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683687 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300497 | Keith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Kimberly M. Cipolla (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing noise in a towed acoustic array includes providing a towed array having a length, diameter, frequency range and tow speed. The relationship between tension in the towed array and wall pressure fluctuation spectral levels is determined. Wall pressure fluctuation spectral levels are related to the noise in the array. An optimal towed array tension is calculated using the determined relationship. Tension is increased to the optimal towed array tension by either provided additional towed array hose or a drogue at the end of the towed array. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728454 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300639 | Bisdikian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chatschik Bisdikian (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A routing element and method for forwarding multicast traffic in a network includes grouping a collection of path-related multicast information flows from a source and associating each information flow of the collection with a multicast address from a set of multicast addresses. Forwarding information is placed in routers within the network between the sources and destinations wherein the forwarding information includes a single entry in a forwarding table using an identifier, e.g., a representative address, for the collection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543120 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/390 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300788 | Millen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Millen (Concord, Massachusetts); Joshua Guttman (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); John Ramsdell (Andover, Massachusetts); Justin Sheehy (Waltham, Massachusetts); Brian Sniffen (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product are provided for selecting a service to provide a service operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/808921 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/201.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300990 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Jin Yao (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide is described. This optical waveguide may be defined in a semiconductor layer, and may include a vertical slot that includes an electro-optic material having an electric-field-dependent index of refraction, and the electro-optic material may be other than a semiconductor in the semiconductor layer. Alternatively, the optical waveguide may include a vertical stack with two semiconductor layers that surround and partially overlap an intermediate layer, which includes the electro-optic material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759964 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
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| US 08301026 | Eiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin I. Eiger (Montville, New Jersey); Hanan Luss (Marlboro, New Jersey); David F. Shallcross (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The design of optical telecommunication networks is such that there is provision of end-to-end path restoration to specified demands under up to two links or nodes failures. Restoration routes are provided on Path Protecting Preconfigured Cycles (PP-PCs), where each demand is assigned one or two restoration routes and restoration wavelengths on a segment of one cycle. Splitting of demand across multiple restoration routes is not allowed. All restoration routes and restoration wavelengths are predetermined where multiple demands may share restoration wavelengths without resorting to intermediate switching or wavelength conversions along restoration routes. First, numerous candidate PP-PCs are generated. Assignment of demands with common failure scenarios are allowed, under certain conditions, to the same PP-PC. Next, a set of PP-PCs is selected from among the candidates, while minimizing total reserved restoration wavelengths cost and ensuring that all demands are protected as required. Finally, conflicts of wavelength assignments are resolved. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557837 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301027 | Shaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Shaw (Westford, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An Agile-Beam Laser Array Transmitter (ABLAT) uses an array of emitters and an array of lenses to project electromagnetic beams over a wide angular coverage area in the far field. Differences in the separation pitches of the two arrays allows the ABLAT to project beams to contiguous and/or overlapping positions, depending on the ratio of the separation pitches and the lens focal length. Compared to other beam steering technology, the ABLAT is a smaller, lighter, and more efficient means of projecting beams over wider angular coverage areas. Various embodiments can be used in any beam steering application, including, but not limited to: free-space optical communications; light detection and ranging (lidar); optical scanning (e.g., retinal or bar-code scanning); display projection; image capture; optical character recognition; scanning laser microscopy; non-destructive testing; printing; facsimiles; map making; web inspection; color print processing; phototypesetting and platemaking; laser marking; material processing; DNA analysis; and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316828 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301219 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Chen (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry Wu (Brighton, Massachusetts); Pei-Lan Hsu (Lakewood, California); Brad Stronger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hongshen Ma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert L. Sheridan (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems and methods are provided for monitoring patient physiological data without the need for adhesives or wires to be connected to a patient. The system is also fully functional without the need for manipulation or intervention by a care provider or medical personnel. In particular, the system can include a pad having a plurality of electrical contacts or electrodes formed thereon in a predetermined pattern. The electrodes can be configured to sense electrical signals produced by a patient's body. A controller in communication with the electrodes can be configured to select and process signals from the electrodes and send the information derived from the electrical signals to an output device for displaying resulting physiological data so that the patient can be monitored. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500031 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301390 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumara Sastry (Hillsboro, Oregon); Duane D. Johnson (Champaign, Illinois); Alexis L. Thompson (Champaign, Illinois); Todd J. Martinez (Champaign, Illinois); David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide, among other things, methods, apparatus, and systems for tuning a semiempirical process for predicting energy for different molecular configurations. In an example method, an energy value and an energy gradient are determined for each of a plurality of molecular configurations using an accurate method. A functional form of the semiempirical process is optimized using the determined energy values and energy gradients via multiobjective optimization. The functional form relates one or more parameters to energy values and energy gradients. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012502 |
| 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 08302109 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Claude Basso (Raleigh, North Carolina); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York); Bernard C. Drerup (Austin, Texas); Jody B. Joyner (Austin, Texas); Jan-Bernd Themann (Tuebingen, Germany); Christoph Raisch (Gerlingen, Germany); Colin B. Verrilli (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A synchronization optimized queuing method and device to minimize software/hardware interaction in network interface hardware during an end-of-initiative process, including network adapter queue implementations for network interface hardware for optimized communication in a computer system. An end-of-initiative procedure to ensure that the network interface hardware has received an interrupt enable and to recheck the interrupt queue is unnecessary in the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391373 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Roland Martin (Bethesda, Maryland); Henry McFarland (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bibiana Bielekova (Kensington, Maryland); Thomas Waldmann (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of administering an interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) antagonist to a subject to treat an autoimmune disease. In particular embodiments, the IL-2R antagonist is an anti-IL-2R monoclonal antibody specific for one or more chains of the IL-2R, such as the alpha-chain, for example daclizumab. In other particular embodiments the autoimmune disease is multiple sclerosis. In certain embodiments administration of interferon-beta is combined with administration of an antagonist of the IL-2R to provide significant clinical improvement in a subject with an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401543 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298541 | Whitehead 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) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard S. Bennett (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to vaccine compositions including CEV serogroup immunogens, attenuated and inactivated viruses of the CEV serogroup and chimeric Bunyaviridae. Also disclosed are methods of treating or preventing CEV serogroup infection in a mammalian host, methods of producing a subunit vaccine composition or an immunogenic composition, isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a CEV serogroup immunogen, methods for detecting La Crosse virus (LACV) infection in a biological sample and infectious chimeric Bunyaviridae. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/593818 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08298545 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aimee S. Payne (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); John R. Stanley (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Donald L. Siegel (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for the use of anti-autoimmune reagents that specifically bind to anti-desmoglein antibodies, which are responsible for both pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus. In addition, the invention relates to methods and compositions for inhibiting the expression or function of a variable region of an anti-desmoglein (anti-Dsg) pathogenic autoantibody. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525269 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298549 | Balint et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Etubics Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Balint (Seattle, Washington); Frank R. Jones (Ellensburg, Washington); Richard B. Gayle, III (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating immune responses using adenovirus vectors that allow multiple vaccinations with the same adenovirus vector and vaccinations in individuals with preexisting immunity to adenovirus are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/651836 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/233.100 |
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| US 08298606 | Healy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin E. Healy (Moraga, California); Samuel Thomas Wall (Oslo, Norway); Mark Ratcliffe (Piedmont, California); Julius Guccione (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides materials and methods that can serve as a prosthetic and/or, for tissue engineer applications, as a supporting matrix in the stabilization of the myocardium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986525 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298657 | Bonner et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Garfield Bonner (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lawrence Udell (Needham, Massachusetts); David Wells Andrews (Amesbury, Massachusetts); Fu-Jya Daniel Tsai (Alpharetta, Georgia); Gaston De Los Reyes (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A functional, porous, interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) includes a first polymer network in the form of a porogenic support fabric (PSF) composed of linear polymers in the form of a pre-formed network comprising a fibrous composite and a second polymer network synthesized, gelated, and/or cross-linked in the presence of the first polymer network to form a system of polymers which have their respective chains held in place by means of permanent physical entanglements produced by the interweaving of the component polymer networks. The IPN is modified by dissolving and dispersing a portion of the PSF fibers, the dispersible fiber network (DFN) to form a pre-designed interconnected pore structure. The resultant porous, supported, second polymer network has convective flow, diffusive flow, and high capacity, and may include functional capture chemistries to provide an adsorptive media for chromatography and filtration of various compounds including biomolecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101194 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/314.200 |
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| US 08298677 | Wiesner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Hooisweng Ow (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel R. Larson (Long Island City, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to fluorescent nanoparticles and more specifically to silica-based fluorescent nanoparticles of less than 30 nm with covalently attached organic dyes. The invention provides a fluorescent monodisperse silica nanoparticle comprising fluorophore center core and a silica shell wherein the radiative properties of the nanoparticle are dependent upon the chemistry (composition) of the core and presence of the silica shell. In one aspect of the invention, the core-shell architecture provides an enhancement in fluorescence quantum efficiency. The invention generally provides control of photophysical properties of dye molecules encapsulated within silica particles with sizes down to 30 nm and below. This control is accomplished through changes in silica chemistry and particle architecture on the nanometer size scale and results in significant brightness enhancement compared to free dye. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/536569 |
| 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 | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298756 | Condeelis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Condeelis (City Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of isolating motile cells of interest from an animal tissue is provided. Also provided are methods of determining mRNA or protein expression of a gene in motile cells of interest from an animal tissue. Additionally, methods of determining whether a cancer in a tissue of a mammal is likely to metastasize are provided. Methods are also provided for inhibiting metastasis of a cancer in a tissue of a mammal. Further provided are methods of determining resistance of a motile cancer cell population in an animal tissue to a chemotherapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/659514 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298759 | Voloshin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustee of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei M. Voloshin (Newark, California); James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the in vitro synthesis of biological molecules in reaction mixtures comprising anti-foam agents. The reaction mix comprising antifoam agent may be a scaled up reaction, e.g. in reaction volume greater than at least about 15 μl. Reactions may be performed in various reactors, as known in the art, which include stirred reactors, bubble-column reactors; and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/599310 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298779 | Halperin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/206196 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298781 | Matsunami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroaki Matsunami (Durham, North Carolina); Andreas Keller (New York, New York); Hanyi Zhuang (Delray Beach, Florida); Qiuyi Chi (Durham, North Carolina); Leslie B. Vosshall (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the characterization of odorant receptors. In particular, the present invention relates to the OR7D4 proteins and nucleic acids encoding OR7D4 proteins and cell systems for screening for modulators of OR7D4 receptors. The present invention further provides assays for the detection of OR7D4 polymorphisms and mutations associated with altered olfactory sensation states, as well as methods of screening for therapeutic agents, ligands, and modulators of OR7D4 receptors. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598901 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298792 | Ju 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) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Dae Hyun Kim (New York, New York); Lanrong Bi (New York, New York); Qinglin Meng (New York, New York); Xiaoxu Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a process for sequencing single-stranded DNA employing modified nucleotides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023283 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298805 | Kawaoka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a packaging (incorporation) signal for influenza virus vectors, and methods of using the signal to transmit and maintain influenza viral and foreign nucleic acid in virus and cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470287 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298825 | Hochedlinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konrad Hochedlinger (Boston, Massachusetts); Matthias Stadtfeld (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, iPS cells are produced by delivery of stem cell-associated genes into adult somatic cells (e.g., fibroblasts). Described herein are methods for enhancing the efficiency and rate of induced pluripotent stem cell production by treating somatic cells with a transforming growth factor-beta receptor (TGFβR) inhibitor. Also described herein are iPS cell compositions made according to the methods described herein and iPS cell compositions comprising an iPS cell in an admixture with a TGFβR inhibitor. Further described herein are kits for producing iPS cells using a TGFβR inhibitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/547022 |
| 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 08298835 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming Chen Liu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury, organ injury, and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137156 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299016 | Suciu-Foca 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) | Nicole Suciu-Foca (New York, New York); George Vlad (Forest Hill, New York); Raffaello Cortesini (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for inhibiting the rejection of transplanted islet cells, comprising administering to the subject a polypeptide comprising all or a portion of the extracellular domain of ILT3, wherein the polypeptide is water soluble. This invention further provides a method of treating diabetes, by inhibiting the rejection of transplanted islet cells through the administration of the polypeptide to the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419824 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299033 | Priebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waldemar Priebe (Houston, Texas); Slawomir Szymanski (Houston, Texas); Izabela Fokt (Houston, Texas); Charles Conrad (Houston, Texas); Timothy Madden (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer are provided by the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a iodo-hexose compound to a subject in need thereof. The subject disclosure includes methods of treating glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a 2-deoxy-2-iodo-D-hexose compound including 2-deoxy-2-iodo-D-mannose, 2-deoxy-2-iodo-D-glucose, 2-deoxy-2-iodo-D-galactose, and/or 2-deoxy-2-iodo-D-talose to a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581550 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299040 | Mehta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kapil Mehta (Bellaire, Texas); Amit Verma (Haryana, India); Sushovan Guha (Missouri City, Texas); Jansina Fok (Houston, Texas); Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (Bellaire, Texas); Anil Sood (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating cancer comprising inhibiting transglutaminase activity is provided. Suitable cancer types for which the methods of the present disclosure can be used to treat include, but are not limited to, pancreatic, breast, and ovarian cancers and melanoma. The inhibition of transglutaminase activity may be performed by one or more techniques, including, but not limited to, downregulating transglutaminase expression, inhibiting TG2 translation, or blocking TG2 enzymatic activity, such as with a small molecule inhibitor or intracellular antibody (intrabody). |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867717 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299043 | Poeschla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric M. Poeschla (Rochester, Minnesota); Roman A. Barraza (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to treating glaucoma, ocular hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and renal diseases. For example, this document provides isolated nucleic acid molecules and viral vectors (e.g., lentiviral vectors) containing isolated nucleic acid molecules. Methods for reducing intraocular pressure as well as symptoms and progression of cardiovascular and renal diseases also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/298431 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299045 | Rossi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Nan-Sook Lee (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adenoviral VA1 Pol III expression system for RNAi expression is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/217518 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299046 | Sporn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire); Osteoscreen, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas); The Regents of the Universtiy of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Sporn (Tunbridge, Vermont); Karen T. Liby (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Gregory Mundy (San Antonio, Texas); Ross Garrett (Austin, Texas); Hari Reddi (El Macero, California); Gordon W. Gribble (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Takahiro Niikura (Kobe, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods for stimulating the growth and repair of bone and cartilage using synthetic triterpenoids and tricyclic-bis-enones. Examples of suitable triterpenoids include CDDO, CDDO-Me, CDDO-Im, and CDDO-Ethylamide. Examples of tricyclic-bis-enones include TBE-31 and TBE-34. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941723 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299050 | Nieman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Laboratoire HRA-Pharma (Paris, France); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lynnette Nieman (Bethesda, Maryland); André Ulmann (Paris, France); Diana Blithe (Silver Spring, Maryland); Erin Gainer (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for treating uterine fibroids, which method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof, an effective amount of 17α-acetoxy-11β-[4-N,N-dimethylamino-phenyl)-19-norpregna-4,9-diene-3,20-dione (ulipristal acetate) or any metabolite thereof. More particularly, the method is useful for reducing or stopping bleeding in a patient afflicted with uterine fibroids, and/or for reducing the size of uterine fibroids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021610 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299083 | Kass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kass (Columbia, Maryland); Eiki Takimoto (Baltimore, Maryland); Hunter Champion (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions featuring a PDE5 inhibitor for treating or preventing a cardiac indication in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/660440 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299097 | Boyce |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua A. Boyce (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein is based, in part, on the discovery that thieno[3,2-c] pyridine derivatives prevent inflammation in the setting of inflammatory disorders, such as asthma. Described herein are methods for treating inflammatory disorders including, for example asthma, by administering a thieno[3,2-c] pyridine derivative compound to an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557024 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/326 |
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| US 08299100 | 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 | Compounds and related compositions and methods as can be used to inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase and can be employed in the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases, such compounds of a formula |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693196 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299215 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Yong Hong Chen (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides targeting peptides and vectors containing a sequence that encodes targeting peptides that deliver agents to the brain. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172121 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299220 | Dalla-Favera |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riccardo Dalla-Favera (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule which encodes immunoglobulin receptor, Immunoglobulin superfamily Receptor Translocation Associated, IRTA, protein. Provided too, are the IRTA proteins encoded by the isolated nucleic acid molecules, IRTA1, IRTA2, IRTA3, IRTA4 or IRTA5 proteins, having the amino acid sequences set forth in any of FIG. 18A, 18B-1-18B-3, 18C-1-18C-2, 18D-1-18D-2 or 18E-1-18E-2. Oligonucleotides of the isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided. Antibodies directed to an epitope of a purified IRTA1, IRTA2, IRTA3, IRTA4 or IRTA5 proteins are also provided, as are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies or oligonucleotides. Methods for detecting a B cell malignancy in a sample from a subject; diagnosing B cell malignancy in a sample from a subject; detecting human IRTA protein in a sample; and treating a subject having a B cell cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/981400 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299222 | Owens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel M. Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Frank Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Abraham (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to hapten compounds comprising either (+) methamphetamine or (+) amphetamine conjugated to a linker. Generally speaking, hapten compounds of the invention may be used to elicit an immune response to one or more of (+) methamphetamine, (+) amphetamine, or (+) MDMA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611708 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299263 | Jung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung Woon Jung (Fullerton, California); Kyung Soo Yoo (Fullerton, California); Satoshi Sakaguchi (Hyogo, Japan); Chan Phil Park (Chunnam, South Korea); Justin O'Neill (Pasadena, California); Joo Ho Lee (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new N-heterocyclic catalyst system which contains N-heterocyclic carbene and amido as ligands, which are strongly bound to a palladium metal. Another heteroatom functionality can be used as a third ligand L. The NHC-amidate ligand system is unique in structure, and shows excellent reactivities in a number of chemical reactions. The chemical reactions include carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom (oxygen and nitrogen) bond formations, and oxidation reactions of saturated carbon chemicals via C—H activation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512747 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299268 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Joyant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gunnar Hanson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles Caldwell (Dallas, Texas); Patrick G. Harran (Los Angeles, California); Susan Harran (Dallas, Texas); Qi Wei (Dallas, Texas); Ming Zhou (Coppell, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to novel macrocyclic lactams intermediates useful for the preparation of diazonamide analogs. This invention also relates to a novel electrochemical oxidative cyclization for the preparation of such macrocyclic lactams, and their further elucidation to provide diazonamide analogs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/186175 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/236 |
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| US 08299791 | Morrell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Morrell (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are embodiments for slice-selective excitation for MRI that utilize multiple RF transmit coils, each of which are driven with a separate independent current waveform. These embodiments allow slice-selective excitation with slice profile and excitation time similar to other single-channel excitation, but with reduction in SAR caused by the transverse component of the RF field by a factor up to the number of excitation coils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/433214 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299793 | Riederer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota); Clifton R. Haider (Rochester, Minnesota); Phillip J. Rossman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a coil array for an MRI system that is designed to improve 2D accelerated imaging of an object having significantly different fields of view in two phase-encoding directions. This is achieved by having a first set of coil elements whose sizes are tuned to optimize acceleration along a first phase-encoding direction and a second set of coil elements whose sizes are tuned to optimize acceleration along a second-phase encoding direction. Images acquired in accordance with the present invention exhibit improved signal to noise ratio at a given acceleration factor when compared to images acquired using a traditional MR coil array. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685516 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300220 | Mahadevan-Jansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anita M. Mahadevan-Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee); David Dickensheets (Bozeman, Montana); Chad Lieber (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe using integrated confocal reflectance imaging, confocal Raman spectroscopy, and gross spatial imaging for non-invasiveIy evaluating a target of interest of a living subject. In one embodiment, the probe includes a casing with first and second ends, and first, second and third optical pons The firsi and second optical ports are located at the first end of the casing and the third optical port is located at the second end of the casing such that the first and third optical ports define a first optical path therebetween and the second and third optical ports define a second optical path therebetween, respectively. Each optical path has first and second portions, where the second portions of the first and second optical paths arc substantially overlapped and proximal to the third optical port. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713071 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300228 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel L. Marks (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph B. Geddes, III (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for selectively driving the vibrations of normal modes of a target molecule into coherence using stimulated Raman scattering. In concert, many vibrations produce a larger anti-Stokes signal than a single vibration. The same illumination does not drive other molecules to have coherent vibrations, so these molecules produce a weaker signal. Target and confounder molecules can be distinguished by pulses that drive many vibrations coherently, with applications in coherent Raman microspectroscopy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582168 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301216 | Durkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Durkin (Irvine, California); Sheng-hao Tseng (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe for obtaining quantitative optical properties and chromophore concentrations of tissue components in tissue in-vivo at superficial depths and at source-detector separations of 5 mm or less includes a source fiber providing light to expose the tissue, a diffuser layer into which light from the source fiber is directed and then from the diffuser layer to and/or into the tissue, and a detector fiber arranged relative to the diffuser layer for detecting backscattered and/or reflected light returned from the tissue without transmission through the diffuser layer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643789 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301257 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ambrose Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Murielle Aline Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); John Matthew Beggs (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying, suppressing, and reversing epileptogenesis, which is considered to be a learned response due to brain plasticity. The method includes identifying three epileptogenic conditions, neuronal hyperexcitability, spatial overconnectivity, and temporal overconnectivity. A treatment that accounts for each of these conditions is then be administered to the subject to reverse, or “unlearn,” epilepsy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426430 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301393 | Palsson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard O. Palsson (La Jolla, California); Neema Jamshidi (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the construction, analysis, and characterization of dynamical states of biological networks at the cellular level. Methods are provided for analyzing the dynamical states by constructing matrices using high-throughput data types, such as fluxomic, metabolomic, and proteomic data. Some embodiments relate to an individual, while others relate to a plurality of individuals. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/918317 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Glenville, New York); Patrick Benedict Melton (Horse Shoe, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbomachine includes a compressor, a combustor operatively connected to the compressor, and an injection nozzle operatively connected to the combustor. The injection nozzle includes a main body having a first end section that extends to a second end section to define an inner flow path. The injection nozzle further includes an outlet arranged at the second end section of the main body, at least one passage that extends within the main body and is fluidly connected to the outlet, and at least one conduit extending between the inner flow path and the at least one passage. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/357638 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Prior (Birmingham, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided that includes an engine, an exhaust system, and a thermoelectric generator (TEG) operatively connected to the exhaust system and configured to allow exhaust gas flow therethrough. A first radiator is operatively connected to the engine. An openable and closable engine valve is configured to open to permit coolant to circulate through the engine and the first radiator when coolant temperature is greater than a predetermined minimum coolant temperature. A first and a second valve are controllable to route cooling fluid from the TEG to the engine through coolant passages under a first set of operating conditions to establish a first cooling circuit, and from the TEG to a second radiator through at least some other coolant passages under a second set of operating conditions to establish a second cooling circuit. A method of controlling a cooling circuit is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753142 |
| ART UNIT | 3783 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/41.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298029 | Mulhollan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Mulhollan (Austin, Texas); John C. Bierman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method by which negative electron affinity photocathodes (201), single crystal, amorphous, or otherwise ordered, can be made to recover their quantum yield following exposure to an oxidizing gas has been discovered. Conventional recovery methods employ the use of cesium as a positive acting agent (104). In the improved recovery method, an electron beam (205), sufficiently energetic to generate a secondary electron cloud (207), is applied to the photocathode in need of recovery. The energetic beam, through the high secondary electron yield of the negative electron affinity surface (203), creates sufficient numbers of low energy electrons which act on the reduced-yield surface so as to negate the effects of absorbed oxidizing atoms thereby recovering the quantum yield to a pre-decay value. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/931839 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298406 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coates Engineering, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph L. Coates (Salt Lake City, Utah); L. Douglas Smoot (Provo, Utah); Kent E. Hatfield (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for achieving improved throughput capacity of indirectly heated rotary kilns used to produce pyrolysis products such as shale oils or coal oils that are susceptible to decomposition by high kiln wall temperatures is disclosed. High throughput is achieved by firing the kiln such that optimum wall temperatures are maintained beginning at the point where the materials enter the heating section of the kiln and extending to the point where the materials leave the heated section. Multiple high velocity burners are arranged such that combustion products directly impact on the area of the kiln wall covered internally by the solid material being heated. Firing rates for the burners are controlled to maintain optimum wall temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470423 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298488 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick R. Lewis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel E. Trudell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated TID comprises a microhotplate and a thermionic source disposed on the microhotplate. The microfabricated TID can provide high sensitivity and selectivity to nitrogen- and phosphorous-containing compounds and other compounds containing electronegative function groups. The microfabricated TID can be microfabricated with semiconductor-based materials. The microfabricated TID can be combined with a microfabricated separation column and used in microanalytical system for the rapid on-site detection of pesticides, chemical warfare agents, explosives, pharmaceuticals, and other organic compounds that contain nitrogen or phosphorus. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/981010 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298620 | Ilias et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shamsuddin Ilias (Greensboro, North Carolina); Mohammad A. Islam (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of controlling properties of a thin film applied to a substrate whereby the properties of the thin film may be controlled by the surface morphology of the substrate. Methods of increasing a deposition rate of an electroless plating process applied to a substrate, controlling the grain size distribution and/or grain size of a thin film applied to a substrate and maintaining a uniform overpotential of an electroless plating process on a substrate are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/464990 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Frederick Regan (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated real-time flow-through system capable of processing multiple samples in an asynchronous, simultaneous, and parallel fashion for nucleic acid extraction and purification, followed by assay assembly, genetic amplification, multiplex detection, analysis, and decontamination. The system is able to hold and access an unlimited number of fluorescent reagents that may be used to screen samples for the presence of specific sequences. The apparatus works by associating extracted and purified sample with a series of reagent plugs that have been formed in a flow channel and delivered to a flow-through real-time amplification detector that has a multiplicity of optical windows, to which the sample-reagent plugs are placed in an operative position. The diagnostic apparatus includes sample multi-position valves, a master sample multi-position valve, a master reagent multi-position valve, reagent multi-position valves, and an optical amplification/detection system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038109 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298802 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl3, and the corresponding BGL3 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL3, recombinant BGL3 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/102298 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298986 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Jones (Mableton, Georgia); Jason C. Hicks (Atlanta, Georgia); Daniel J. Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); McMahan Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include carbon dioxide (CO2) sorption structures, methods of making CO2 sorption structures, and methods of using CO2 sorption structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/637477 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299322 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Hanshu Ding (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase 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 | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479014 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299429 | Vertes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101518 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299443 | Shvartsburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre A. Shvartsburg (Richland, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrodynamic ion funnels confine, guide, or focus ions in gases using the Dehmelt potential of oscillatory electric field. New funnel designs operating at or close to atmospheric gas pressure are described. Effective ion focusing at such pressures is enabled by fields of extreme amplitude and frequency, allowed in microscopic gaps that have much higher electrical breakdown thresholds in any gas than the macroscopic gaps of present funnels. The new microscopic-gap funnels are useful for interfacing atmospheric-pressure ionization sources to mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility separation (IMS) stages including differential IMS or FAIMS, as well as IMS and MS stages in various configurations. In particular, “wedge” funnels comprising two planar surfaces positioned at an angle and wedge funnel traps derived therefrom can compress ion beams in one dimension, producing narrow belt-shaped beams and laterally elongated cuboid packets. This beam profile reduces the ion density and thus space-charge effects, mitigating the adverse impact thereof on the resolving power, measurement accuracy, and dynamic range of MS and IMS analyzers, while a greater overlap with coplanar light or particle beams can benefit spectroscopic methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/087100 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299497 | Klem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jin K. Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector is disclosed for the detection of near-infrared light with a wavelength in the range of about 0.9-1.7 microns. The photodetector, which can be formed as either an nBp device or a pBn device on an InP substrate, includes an InGaAs light-absorbing layer, an InAlGaAs graded layer, an InAlAs or InP barrier layer, and an InGaAs contact layer. The photodetector can detect near-infrared light with or without the use of an applied reverse-bias voltage and is useful as an individual photodetector, or to form a focal plane array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827587 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299966 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Smith (Loudon, Tennessee); James A. Moore (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; wherein each of the plurality of transmitters comprises a packet generator; and wherein the plurality of transmitters are locked to a common timing reference. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609554 |
| 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 342/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300113 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradly J. Cooke (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David C. Guenther (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Joe J. Tiee (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mervyn J. Kellum (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nicholas L. Olivas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nina R. Weisse-Bernstein (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen L. Judd (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas R. Braun (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and system for simultaneously acquiring and producing results for multiple image modes using a common sensor without optical filtering, scanning, or other moving parts. The system and method utilize the Walsh-Hadamard correlation detection process (e.g., functions/matrix) to provide an all-binary structure that permits seamless bridging between analog and digital domains. An embodiment may capture an incoming optical signal at an optical aperture, convert the optical signal to an electrical signal, pass the electrical signal through a Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) to create an LNA signal, pass the LNA signal through one or more correlators where each correlator has a corresponding Walsh-Hadamard (WH) binary basis function, calculate a correlation output coefficient for each correlator as a function of the corresponding WH binary basis function in accordance with Walsh-Hadamard mathematical principles, digitize each of the correlation output coefficient by passing each correlation output coefficient through an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), and performing image mode processing on the digitized correlation output coefficients as desired to produce one or more image modes. Some, but not all, potential image modes include: multi-channel access, temporal, range, three-dimensional, and synthetic aperture. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249763 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/222.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Barth (Nashville, Tennessee); Joel A. Willhite (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A high inertance liquid piston engine-compressor that is lightweight, portable and for use with pneumatically actuated devices that may have periods of inactivity between periods of pneumatic use. The engine-compressor provides a power generation system that is for use with mobile or portable devices which need a portable long lasting energy source. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753990 |
| ART UNIT | 3783 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298392 | Dorairaj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rathissh Dorairaj (Louisville, Kentucky); Robert S. Keynton (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas J. Roussel, Jr. (Louisville, Kentucky); Carolyn M. Klinge (Louisville, Kentucky); Wasana Sumanasekera (Louisville, Kentucky); Gamini Sumanasekera (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter provides microfluidic devices comprised of two or more carbon nanotube membranes disposed at predetermined intervals within a microchannel. Further provided are methods of using the same for the electrokinetic separation of one or more molecules of interest from a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/988713 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298445 | Fourkas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard A. Farrer (Pueblo, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructures, microdevices and related methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852831 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298499 | Wilhite et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin A. Wilhite (Storrs, Connecticut); Angela M. Moreno (Coventry, Connecticut); Daejin Kim (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for a chemical reactor which includes elongate chambers defining an arrangement and including first, second, and third elongate chambers adapted to support respective distinct first, second, and third reactor functions associated with respective first, second, and third process feeds, and a distributor arranged in fluidic communication with each of the elongate chambers and for connecting the elongate chambers to at least one fluid source. The distributor is dimensioned to produce a two-dimensional radial distribution of fluidic flow through the first, second, and third elongate chambers with respect to the first, second, and third process feeds. The chemical reactor may further include a monolith catalyst support including an N×M array of channels including the elongated chambers. The elongate chambers and the distributor may manifest an interchangeable cartridge-based system wherein the arrangement of the elongate chambers is selectably detachable from the distributor and replaceable. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263637 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298677 | Wiesner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Hooisweng Ow (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel R. Larson (Long Island City, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to fluorescent nanoparticles and more specifically to silica-based fluorescent nanoparticles of less than 30 nm with covalently attached organic dyes. The invention provides a fluorescent monodisperse silica nanoparticle comprising fluorophore center core and a silica shell wherein the radiative properties of the nanoparticle are dependent upon the chemistry (composition) of the core and presence of the silica shell. In one aspect of the invention, the core-shell architecture provides an enhancement in fluorescence quantum efficiency. The invention generally provides control of photophysical properties of dye molecules encapsulated within silica particles with sizes down to 30 nm and below. This control is accomplished through changes in silica chemistry and particle architecture on the nanometer size scale and results in significant brightness enhancement compared to free dye. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/536569 |
| 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 | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298727 | Grier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for selecting a specific fraction from a heterogeneous fluid-borne sample using optical gradient forces in a microfluidic or fluidic system are presented. Samples may range in size from a few nanometers to at least tens of micrometers, may be dispersed in any fluid medium, and may be sorted on the basis of size, shape, optical characteristics, charge, and other physical properties. The selection process involves passive transport through optical intensity field driven by flowing fluid, and so offers several advantages over competing techniques. These include continuous rather than batch-mode operation, continuous and dynamic tunability, operation over a wide range of samples, compactness, and low cost. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539510 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298831 | Nolte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Nolte (Lafayette, Indiana); Manoj Varma (West Lafayette, Indiana); Fred E. Regnier (West Lafayette, Indiana); Leilei Peng (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ming Zhao (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of probing a plurality of analyzer molecules distributed about a detection platform is disclosed. The method includes contacting a test sample to the plurality of analyzer molecules, scanning the plurality of analyzer molecules at a rate relating to a carrier frequency signal, and detecting the presence or absence of a biological molecule based at least in part upon the presence or absence of a signal substantially at a sideband of the carrier frequency signal. A molecule detection platform including a substrate and a plurality of targets positioned about the substrate is also disclosed. Specific analyzer molecules adapted to bind a specific analyte are immobilized about a first set of the targets. Nonspecific analyzer molecules are immobilized about a second set of the targets. The targets positioned about the substrate along at least a segment of a scanning pathway alternate between at least one of the first set and at least one of the second set. A method including providing a substrate for supporting biological analyzer molecules the substrate including at least one scanning pathway is also disclosed. The scanning pathway includes a plurality of scanning targets. Specific biological analyzer molecules adapted to detect a specific target analyte are distributed about a first set of the targets which alternate in groups of at least one with a second set of the targets the second set of the targets not including the specific biological analyzer molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466943 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299269 | Isaacs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle David Isaacs (Beltsville, Maryland); Wei-Hao Huang (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nor-seco-type cucurbit[n]uril compounds and methylene bridged glycoluril oligomers are produced by reacting glycoluril and formaldehyde in strong organic or mineral acid at a temperature adequate to condense the reactants. These compounds are characterized by lacking —CH2— groups rendering their internal cavities more open and, for example, more responsive to guest compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/224504 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/301.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299276 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul G. Clark (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | [c2] daisy chain macromers, dimers and polymers and related compositions, materials, methods and systems are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711247 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299341 | Greer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia R. Greer (Pasadena, California); Michael Burek (Waterloo, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid and hollow cylindrical nanopillars with nanoscale diameters are provided. Also provides is a method of making such nanopillars using electron beam lithography followed by the electroplating. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779780 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanotechnology 977/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299419 | Vestergaard Hau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lene Vestergaard Hau (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and apparatus for generating atomic traps, and for storing, controlling and transferring information between first and second spatially separated phase-coherent objects, or using a single phase-coherent object. For plural objects, both phase-coherent objects have a macroscopic occupation of a particular quantum state by identical bosons or identical BCS-paired fermions. The information may be optical information, and the phase-coherent object(s) may be Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, or superconductors. The information is stored in the first phase-coherent object at a first storage time and recovered from the second phase-coherent object, or the same first phase-coherent object, at a second revival time. In one example, an integrated silicon wafer-based optical buffer includes an electrolytic atom source to provide the phase-coherent object(s), a nanoscale atomic trap for the phase-coherent object(s), and semiconductor-based optical sources to cool the phase-coherent object(s) and provide coupling fields for storage and transfer of optical information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449141 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299429 | Vertes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101518 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301076 | Grandinetti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Grandinetti (Syracuse, New York); James Howison (Syracuse, New York); Ian Molloy (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Two or more wireless devices can be independently controlled by their respective users, a mixer component, or a leader wireless device to perform audio recording, convert the recorded audio into a standard or proprietary audio stream format, and transmit the audio stream to a server. The real-time clocks of two or more participating wireless devices can be synchronized. A wireless device can insert timestamps into the audio stream to facilitate the mixing operation. Mixing of the two or more audio streams recorded by wireless devices can be performed by a mixer component either in real time (contemporaneously with the recording) or asynchronously with respect to the recording. The mixing can be performed in a fully automated mode, and/or in an operator-assisted mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194205 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/3.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301387 | Hwa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence Tai-Li Hwa (La Jolla, California); Ulrich Gerland (Munich, Germany); Nicolas Buchler (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A scheme is provided for selecting the regulatory DNA sequences to exert combinatorial control of gene transcription in vivo by multiple regulatory proteins, i.e., transcription factors (TFs). The method provides the ability to implement a wide range of complex logic functions through the manipulation of the regulatory DNA sequences, typically several hundred bases in length. The method includes procedures for selecting the strengths of the binding sites of different TFs and their relative positioning in order to implement a plurality of different logic functions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537950 |
| 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 08301390 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumara Sastry (Hillsboro, Oregon); Duane D. Johnson (Champaign, Illinois); Alexis L. Thompson (Champaign, Illinois); Todd J. Martinez (Champaign, Illinois); David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide, among other things, methods, apparatus, and systems for tuning a semiempirical process for predicting energy for different molecular configurations. In an example method, an energy value and an energy gradient are determined for each of a plurality of molecular configurations using an accurate method. A functional form of the semiempirical process is optimized using the determined energy values and energy gradients via multiobjective optimization. The functional form relates one or more parameters to energy values and energy gradients. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012502 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08297468 | DeLay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. DeLay (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A storage tank is provided for storing liquefied natural gas on, for example, a motor vehicle such as a bus or truck. The storage tank includes a metal liner vessel encapsulated by a resin-fiber composite layer. A foam insulating layer, including an outer protective layer of epoxy or of a truck liner material, covers the composite layer. A non-conducting protective coating may be painted on the vessel between the composite layer and the vessel so as to inhibit galvanic corrosion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/857380 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/581 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298830 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aimee Rose (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Conor Francis Madigan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to polymers with lasing characteristics that allow the polymers to be useful in detecting analytes. In one aspect, the polymer, upon an interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in a lasing characteristic that can be determined in some fashion. For example, interaction of an analyte with the polymer may affect the ability of the polymer to reach an excited state that allows stimulated emission of photons to occur, which may be determined, thereby determining the analyte. In another aspect, the polymer, upon interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in stimulated emission that is at least 10 times greater with respect to a change in the spontaneous emission of the polymer upon interaction with the analyte. The polymer may be a conjugated polymer in some cases. In one set of embodiments, the polymer includes one or more hydrocarbon side chains, which may be parallel to the polymer backbone in some instances. In another set of embodiments, the polymer may include one or more pendant aromatic rings. In yet another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially encapsulated in a hydrocarbon. In still another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially resistant to photobleaching. In certain aspects, the polymer may be useful in the detection of explosive agents, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT). |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795279 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299419 | Vestergaard Hau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lene Vestergaard Hau (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and apparatus for generating atomic traps, and for storing, controlling and transferring information between first and second spatially separated phase-coherent objects, or using a single phase-coherent object. For plural objects, both phase-coherent objects have a macroscopic occupation of a particular quantum state by identical bosons or identical BCS-paired fermions. The information may be optical information, and the phase-coherent object(s) may be Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, or superconductors. The information is stored in the first phase-coherent object at a first storage time and recovered from the second phase-coherent object, or the same first phase-coherent object, at a second revival time. In one example, an integrated silicon wafer-based optical buffer includes an electrolytic atom source to provide the phase-coherent object(s), a nanoscale atomic trap for the phase-coherent object(s), and semiconductor-based optical sources to cool the phase-coherent object(s) and provide coupling fields for storage and transfer of optical information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449141 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299844 | Garverick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Garverick (Solon, Ohio); Xinyu Yu (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplifier system can include an input amplifier configured to receive an analog input signal and provide an amplified signal corresponding to the analog input signal. A tracking loop is configured to employ delta modulation for tracking the amplified signal, the tracking loop providing a corresponding output signal. A biasing circuit is configured to adjust a bias current to maintain stable transconductance over temperature variations, the biasing circuit providing at least one bias signal for biasing at least one of the input amplifier and the tracking loop, whereby the circuitry receiving the at least one bias signal exhibits stable performance over the temperature variations. In another embodiment the biasing circuit can be utilized in other applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407348 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300968 | Ortiz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EM Photonics, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fernando E. Ortiz (Newark, Delaware); Eric Kelmelis (New London, Pennsylvania); James P. Durbano (Newark, Delaware); Peterson F. Curt (Bear, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | An accelerator for the speckle atmospheric compensation algorithm may enable real-time speckle processing of video feeds that may enable the speckle algorithm to be applied in numerous real-time applications. The accelerator may be implemented in various forms, including hardware, software, and/or machine-readable media. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875298 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08301421 | Bacon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energid Technologies (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Bacon (Bourbonnais, Illinois); James D. English (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The specification and drawings present a new method, system and software product for and apparatus for generating a robotic validation system for a robot design. The robotic validation system for the robot design of a robotic system is automatically generated by converting a robot design into a generic robotic description using a predetermined format, then generating a control system from the generic robotic description and finally updating robot design parameters of the robotic system with an analysis tool using both the generic robot description and the control system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396272 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08298811 | Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Glycofi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing human-like glycoproteins by expressing a Class 2 α-mannosidase having a substrate specificity for Manα1,3 and Manα1,6 glycosidic linkages in a lower eukaryote is disclosed. Hydrolysis of these linkages on oligosaccharides produces substrates for further N-glycan processing in the secretory pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536911 |
| 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 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08299228 | Hamilton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Glycofi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing human-like glycoproteins by expressing a Class 2 α-mannosidase having a substrate specificity for Manα1,3 and Manα1,6 glycosidic linkages in a lower eukaryote is disclosed. Hydrolysis of these linkages on oligosaccharides produces substrates for further N-glycan processing in the secretory pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536812 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300687 | Eliezer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XW LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel and useful system and method for extracting timing, time and additional information from a broadcast received in a radio controlled clock (RCC) receiver. The RCC receiver extracts timing information represented by a known synchronization sequence that is used for acquisition and tracking purposes. The RCC receiver extracts time information as a merged 26-bit time information word linearly coded into 31 bits comprising the number of minutes (or hours) since the turn of the current century. A minute counter representing the 26 bits is converted into the date, hour, and minute. The RCC extracts additional information including the schedule for the next daylight saving time transition and for an imminent leap second. The communications protocol optionally employs error correcting codes to provide protection for data fields in the frame, which the RCC may use to enhance reception reliability in the presence of noise and interference. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424733 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300993 | Moll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MBio Diagnostics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Moll (Boulder, Colorado); Kurt R. Vogel (Boulder, Colorado); Marie J. Delaney (Boulder, Colorado); Michael J. Lochhead (Boulder, Colorado); Christopher J. Myatt (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample can be illuminated for analysis using apparatus including a light source, a planar waveguide, and a refractive volume. The light source provides light along a propagation vector. The planar waveguide is oriented such that the propagation vector is perpendicular to the normal vector of the planar waveguide and offset from the planar waveguide in a direction parallel to the normal vector of the planar waveguide. The refractive volume is positioned proximate to the planar waveguide and can optically coupling light provided by the light source to the planar waveguide. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617535 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08298029 | Mulhollan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Mulhollan (Austin, Texas); John C. Bierman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method by which negative electron affinity photocathodes (201), single crystal, amorphous, or otherwise ordered, can be made to recover their quantum yield following exposure to an oxidizing gas has been discovered. Conventional recovery methods employ the use of cesium as a positive acting agent (104). In the improved recovery method, an electron beam (205), sufficiently energetic to generate a secondary electron cloud (207), is applied to the photocathode in need of recovery. The energetic beam, through the high secondary electron yield of the negative electron affinity surface (203), creates sufficient numbers of low energy electrons which act on the reduced-yield surface so as to negate the effects of absorbed oxidizing atoms thereby recovering the quantum yield to a pre-decay value. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/931839 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298976 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075029 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300687 | Eliezer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XW LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel and useful system and method for extracting timing, time and additional information from a broadcast received in a radio controlled clock (RCC) receiver. The RCC receiver extracts timing information represented by a known synchronization sequence that is used for acquisition and tracking purposes. The RCC receiver extracts time information as a merged 26-bit time information word linearly coded into 31 bits comprising the number of minutes (or hours) since the turn of the current century. A minute counter representing the 26 bits is converted into the date, hour, and minute. The RCC extracts additional information including the schedule for the next daylight saving time transition and for an imminent leap second. The communications protocol optionally employs error correcting codes to provide protection for data fields in the frame, which the RCC may use to enhance reception reliability in the presence of noise and interference. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424733 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08298823 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Robert Parkhill (Orlando, Florida); Michael N. Nguyen (Orlando, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Donald Drake, III (Orlando, Florida); Anatoly Kachurin (Orlando, Florida); David Moe (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730899 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08298824 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlanda, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell G. Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric M. Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael D. Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts); Santosh Pawar (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/237593 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08297027 | Noble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Noble Environmental Technologies Corp. (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Noble (Encinitas, California); Hongmei Gu (Madison, California); Timothy L. Newburn (San Diego, California); James F. Mahoney (Encinitas, California); John F. Hunt (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiberboard panel is formed from at least one corrugated sheet of molded cellulose fiber material having alternating ribs and grooves. Spaced slits are cut through the ribs on one face of the sheet and terminate short of the opposite face so as to form at least one slotted portion of more flexibility which may be bent to form a curve. The corrugated sheet is sandwiched between two flat sheets of the same material to form a composite panel. The corrugated sheet or panel is formed by a wet processing method including successive cold and hot press steps in which a wet mat is pressed between an opposing perforated platen and non-perforated, elastomeric material platen of cross-sectional shape substantially matching the desired panel shape and dimensions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412554 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/783.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08297198 | Read |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Read (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydraulic energy storage system (comprising a hydraulic pump/motor, a high pressure hydraulic accumulator, a low pressure hydraulic accumulator/reservoir, and interconnecting hydraulic lines) is incorporated into a EV, HEV, or PHEV to provide hydraulic regenerative braking and propulsive assistance for the vehicle. Implementation of the low cost and long-lasting hydraulic energy storage system in the vehicle, together with the electric energy storage system (comprising a motor/generator and battery pack) of the vehicle, allows significantly reduced demands and higher operating efficiencies for the battery pack, thereby facilitating a more cost-effective, efficient and/or durable overall energy storage system for the vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711603 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Railway rolling stock 15/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08301027 | Shaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Shaw (Westford, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An Agile-Beam Laser Array Transmitter (ABLAT) uses an array of emitters and an array of lenses to project electromagnetic beams over a wide angular coverage area in the far field. Differences in the separation pitches of the two arrays allows the ABLAT to project beams to contiguous and/or overlapping positions, depending on the ratio of the separation pitches and the lens focal length. Compared to other beam steering technology, the ABLAT is a smaller, lighter, and more efficient means of projecting beams over wider angular coverage areas. Various embodiments can be used in any beam steering application, including, but not limited to: free-space optical communications; light detection and ranging (lidar); optical scanning (e.g., retinal or bar-code scanning); display projection; image capture; optical character recognition; scanning laser microscopy; non-destructive testing; printing; facsimiles; map making; web inspection; color print processing; phototypesetting and platemaking; laser marking; material processing; DNA analysis; and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316828 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08300788 | Millen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Millen (Concord, Massachusetts); Joshua Guttman (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); John Ramsdell (Andover, Massachusetts); Justin Sheehy (Waltham, Massachusetts); Brian Sniffen (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product are provided for selecting a service to provide a service operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/808921 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/201.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08301458 | Amato et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Amato (Reston, Virginia); Brent Alan Raney (Purcellville, Virginia); Joseph Anthony Narvaez (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include systems and methods of delivery DVDs, games, other electronically or computer readable media, or other high value items through the mail or via any other delivery service for return and redelivery to a second customer. For example, in one embodiment, items returned by a first customer are identified during processing of a container or mailer containing the item, the second customer is determined, a new address label is affixed to the container, and the item is delivered to the second customer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391122 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08297450 | Zavidniak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin P. Zavidniak (Carlsbad, California); Dale J. Shabra (San Diego, California); Phillip Y. Chou (San Diego, California); George Gaffoglio (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular rack for mounting avionics equipment comprises an upper rectangular frame, a lower rectangular frame, and a plurality of struts interconnecting the upper rectangular frame and the lower rectangular frame. Each strut is at least partially formed of an electrically conductive carbon fiber composite material and includes at least one flange extending substantially orthogonal to the strut. The flange includes a plurality of mounting holes to allow avionics equipment to be mounted to the rack. A method of mounting avionics equipment in an aircraft is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015220 |
| ART UNIT | 3637 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports: Racks 211/13.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08300501 | Varghese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Scretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham N. Varghese (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for three-dimensional tracking of high speed undersea projectiles may utilize a distributed field of randomly positioned passive acoustic sensors. The system measures variables related to the pressure field generated by a supercavitating projectile in flight wherein the amplitude of the pressure generated at a point in space is related to the projectile dimensions, velocity, and trajectory. The system iteratively processes data from the sensors to measure launch velocity, flight direction (trajectory), ballistic coefficient (drag), and/or maximum range. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646318 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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