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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 06, 2012
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| US 08302590 | Kamen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Kamen (Bedford, New Hampshire); Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard J. Lanigan (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A controllable launcher for propelling a payload through a predictable and repeatable trajectory to a desired height. The launcher has an energy source for propelling a carriage and a piston in substantially opposing directions and a controller for controlling the trajectory of the propelled payload to enable the payload to land gently at a safe impact distance from the edge of a destination structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288324 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical guns and projectors 124/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08302597 | Beely 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) | Brendan M. Beely (San Antonio, Texas); Gabriel R. Wright (Converse, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical tube securing device for a patient is disclosed, comprising at least one bite block and a support frame integral with said bite block, said support frame comprising a protruding extension with at least one inwardly recessed portion so as to avoid contact with the patient's mouth, said protruding extension operable to receive an adjustable medical tube retaining device without contacting the face of the patient. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573371 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/200.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08302668 | Bullied et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Bullied (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Carl R. Verner (Windsor, Connecticut); John Joseph Marcin (Marlborough, Connecticut); Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid core assembly for a casting process includes a ceramic core portion, a first refractory metal core portion and a first plate positioned between the ceramic core portion and the first refractory metal core portion. The ceramic core portion includes a first trough. A portion of the refractory metal core portion is received in the first trough. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/155672 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/516 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08302671 | Sauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohn Sauer (Encino, California); Scott Johnson (Torrance, California); Ediberto R. Garcia (Westchester, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a heat exchanger, heat sink or coldwall having a machined manifold for receiving a plurality of individual, modular micro-channel heat exchanger elements. The manifold further includes a parallel flow network or flow distribution network for distributing a cooling fluid uniformly to all micro-channel heat exchanger elements. Each micro-channel heat exchanger element is individually manufactured and tested prior to integration with the manifold. The design of the micro-channel heat exchanger elements may include a straight fin, a high density fin, lanced offset fin, and perforated offset layers fin configurations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111880 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/80.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303220 | Rozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creare Incorporated (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Christopher Rozzi (Hanover, New Hampshire); John Kendall Sanders (Hartland, Vermont); Christian Henry Passow (Etna, New Hampshire); Michael Phillip Day (Cornish, New Hampshire); William Morgan Fisher (Rockingham, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Cryogenic fluids are delivered along an axial path through a machine tool spindle to a cutting tool that is mounted in a standard tool holder. An external source of cryogen is delivered via an insulated line to a junction block housing where the cryogen flows into a vacuum insulated coolant delivery tube mounted on the axis of rotation of the spindle. The coolant delivery tube couples with a cryogenic manifold located in a standard tool holder in the end of the spindle. The cryogenic manifold couples the cryogen to a tool that is mounted in the tool holder. Before a tool change operation, the coolant delivery tube is raised to disconnect it from the cryogenic manifold, and to turn off the flow of cryogen to the delivery tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428218 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Gear cutting, milling, or planing 49/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303239 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Chu (Friendswood, Texas); Jack Wilson (Brooklyn, New York); Jack Craft (Metuchen, New Jersey); Kiel Davis (South Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A percussive digging tool attachment for a small robotic platform employs a percussor module for applying percussive impulses of relatively low impact at relatively high frequency to an attached digging tool to dig into or break up soil and rocks. By using low-impact, high-frequency percussive forces, it reduces the reaction loads on the small robotic platform while providing increased capability. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861710 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/744.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303248 | Cabrera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pedro L. Cabrera (West Haven, Connecticut); Stephen V. Poulin (Milford, Connecticut); Francis D. Federici (Bridgeport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An anti-torque mechanism which permits a full range of swashplate assembly motion. The anti-torque mechanism generally includes an anti-torque shaft and a compound bearing mounted thereto to provide five-degrees-of-freedom (spherical-linear-elastomeric) so as to permit a swashplate attachment point to move axially in response to pitch input; pivot in response to swashplate tilt; and move in/out in the radial direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088894 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303522 | Apperson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve Apperson (Columbia, Missouri); Shubhra Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri); Luis Polo-Parada (Columbia, Missouri); Andrey Bezmelnitsyn (Columbia, Missouri); Keshab Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature device for generating shock waves using the energy of combustion of a nanoenergetic material and directing the shock waves into biological tissues is described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253706 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304253 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uichong Brandon Yi (Los Angeles, California); Peter Patrick De Guzman (Orange, California); Wayne Liu (Los Angeles, California); Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A refill droplet facilitates the extraction of a droplet laterally from a channel in a microfluidic apparatus. Such extraction allows a discrete band of separated particles or solute molecules to be excised from a fluid stream and processed and analyzed separately. An extraction point is located along the length of the channel and includes an EWOD surface or similar microfluidic technology to extract a droplet. An opening in the channel opposite the extraction means is equipped with microfluidic technology to transport a refill droplet to the opening. The refill droplet is moved into the channel or column to occupy the area previously occupied by the extracted droplet. This prevents distortion or mixing of the bands of particles or molecules within the channel and prevents the draining of any portion of the fluidic system. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/090922 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304332 | Immorlica et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Immorlica (Mont Vernon, New Hampshire); Pane-chane Chao (Nashua, New Hampshire); Kanin Chu (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabrication of a field effect transistor gate, with or without field plates, includes the steps of defining a relatively thin Schottky metal layer by a lithography/metal liftoff or metal deposition/etch process on a semiconductor surface. This is followed by depositing a dielectric passivation layer over the entire wafer and defining a second lithographic pattern coincident with or slightly inset from the boundaries of the previously defined metal gate layer. This is followed by etching the dielectric using dry or wet etching techniques and stripping the resist, followed by exposing and developing a third resist pattern to define the thicker gate metal layers required for electrical conductivity and also for the field plate if one is utilized. The final step is depositing gate and/or field plate metal, resulting in a gate electrode and an integral field plate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/150359 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304381 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oncolix, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Y. Chen (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel fusion protein, comprising a receptor-antagonizing domain and an angiogenesis inhibiting domain, characterized, for example, by its ability to block apoptosis and/or inhibit endocrine response, is useful in treating cancer. For example, a human prolactin antagonist-endostatin fusion protein combines apoptosis induction and angiogenesis inhibition to combat cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/010395 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08304595 | Daniels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Hugh Daniels (Mountain View, California); Robert S. Dubrow (San Carlos, California); Robert Enzerink (Davis, California); Esther Li (Fremont, California); Vijendra Sahi (Menlo Park, California); Jay L. Goldman (Mountain View, California); J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatuses for nanomaterial-enhanced hemostatic medical devices are provided. Hemostatic materials and structures are provided that induce coagulation of blood at a wound/opening caused by trauma, a surgical procedure, ulceration, or other cause. The hemostatic materials and structures may incorporate nanostructures and/or further hemostatic elements such as polymers and/or glass beads. The hemostatic materials and structures may be resorbable. Example embodiments include hemostatic bandages, hemostatic plugs, and hemostatic formulations. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329431 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304730 | Schulenburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nielson Wade Schulenburg (Herndon, Virginia); David Wheeler Warren (Los Angeles, California); Donald J. Rudy (San Pedro, California); Michael G. Martino (Inwood, West Virginia); Mark Alan Chatelain (Amissville, Virginia); Michael Arthur Rocha (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring spectral characteristics includes capturing spectral-spatial data that includes radiance measurements over spectrally flat, highly emissive surface portions of a sample material and heater at least two different heater temperatures for transmissive and/or emissive configurations. Temperatures of the sample material and heater are determined at the different heater temperatures for each configuration using, in each instance, radiance measurements taken after the temperatures of the heater and sample material have both stabilized. The transmissivity of the sample material is determined using the temperatures determined in the transmissive configuration and spectral-spatial data collected at selected points of interest over the sample material. The emissivity of the sample material is determined using the temperatures determined in the emissive configuration, the spectral-spatial data collected at selected points of interest over the sample material, and the transmissivity. The reflectivity of the sample material is determined using the emissivity and transmissivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791604 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304783 | Sriram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybrid semiconductor devices including a PIN diode portion and a Schottky diode portion are provided. The PIN diode portion is provided on a semiconductor substrate and has an anode contact on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The Schottky diode portion is also provided on the semiconductor substrate and includes a polysilicon layer on the semiconductor substrate and a ohmic contact on the polysilicon layer. Related Schottky diodes are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477376 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304916 | Sarkozy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Sarkozy (Redondo Beach, California); Xiaobing Mei (Manhatten Beach, California); William R. Deal (Manhatten Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit comprising a substrate including a top-side surface and a backside surface and a plurality of circuit components fabricated on the top-side surface of the substrate. The circuit includes a plurality of electrically conductive vias extending into the substrate from the backside surface of the substrate. Some of the plurality of vias are through vias that extend completely through the substrate and make electrical contact with a circuit component on the top-side surface of the substrate and some of the plurality of vias are part-way through vias that extend only part-way through the substrate and are positioned directly opposite to a circuit component on the top-side surface of the substrate, where the part-way through vias extend at least half-way through the substrate. The number of part-way through vias is determined based on the number of part-way through vias that are necessary to suppress substrate modes in the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/177348 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305154 | Kubena et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Kubena (Oak Park, California); Yook-Kong Yong (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a piezoelectric crystal oscillator using parametric amplification to enhance the Q. Parametric amplification is accomplished by driving the same region of the crystal as used for the oscillator with an overtone of the crystal resonator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954475 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305164 | Jachowski |
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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) | Douglas R Jachowski (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of tuning the stopband attenuation of an absorptive bandstop filter having at least a first and second resonator, where the first resonator includes a first tuning element that exhibits a first resonant frequency, the second resonator includes a second tuning element that exhibits a second resonant frequency, and the tuning elements are used to adjust the corresponding resonant frequencies, includes 1) adjusting the first resonant frequency using the first tuning element; and 2) adjusting the second resonant frequency using the second tuning element, such that both resonant frequencies are coordinated to obtain a selected stopband attenuation level and to thus realize a frequency-selective variable attenuator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797003 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305252 | Bradley |
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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) | Timothy Bradley (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A countermeasure device for directing a mobile tracking device away from an asset is provided. The countermeasure device includes a continuous wave laser source whose output is directed at a seeker head of the mobile tracking device. The countermeasure device causes the generation of localized sources within the mobile tracking device and confuses the mobile tracking device as to the true location of the asset. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541772 |
| 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 342/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305253 | Hershkowitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MARK Resources, Inc. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Hershkowitz (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Processing is described for forming a synthetic aperture radar image of the region toward which a platform moves, and for extracting from this image the physical positions of scatterers in the region, including moving scatterers. The processing entails one-dimensional resampling of the received radar data that can be performed as the data are being collected, facilitating real-time operation. Various embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/913496 |
| 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 342/25.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305261 | Hunter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle P. Hunter (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of adaptively removing mainlobe clutter from range-Doppler data includes estimating the peak of the mainlobe clutter, and determining clutter regionboundaries adaptively and robustly. The mainlobe clutter peak may be estimated from the range-Doppler data, for example using both nonlinear and linear filters. Alternatively the mainlobe clutter peak may be estimated from knowledge of the position and speed of the vehicle, such as a missile, upon which the radar system moves. The clutter boundaries may be determined at each of the range bins by stepping along Doppler bins from the mainlobe clutter peak estimate in opposite directions, locating the boundary at locations off of the mainlobe clutter peak estimate that meet a given criterion. The method produces a finer determination of the mainlobe clutter region, resulting in less of the range-Doppler data being excluded as part of the mainlobe clutter region. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753335 |
| 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 342/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305262 | Nuthalapati |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rao Nuthalapati (Delran, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing method includes transforming a received NLFM waveform from a first domain to a second domain, multiplying the transform of the received NLFM waveform with a complex conjugate of a low-pass filtered and transformed reference signal, and inverse transforming a product of the multiplication from the second domain to the first domain. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719060 |
| 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 342/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305430 | Oskiper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taragay Oskiper (East Windsor, New Jersey); John Fields (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual odometry system and method for a fixed or known calibration of an arbitrary number of cameras in monocular configuration is provided. Images collected from each of the cameras in this distributed aperture system have negligible or absolutely no overlap. The relative pose and configuration of the cameras with respect to each other are assumed to be known and provide a means for determining the three-dimensional poses of all the cameras constrained in any given single camera pose. The cameras may be arranged in different configurations for different applications and are made suitable for mounting on a vehicle or person undergoing general motion. A complete parallel architecture is provided in conjunction with the implementation of the visual odometry method, so that real-time processing can be achieved on a multi-CPU system. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532897 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305575 | Goldstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectral Sciences, Inc. (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Goldstein (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jason A. Cline (Burlington, Massachusetts); Pajo Vujkovic-Cvijin (Burlington, Massachusetts); Steven M. Adler-Golden (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Marsha J. Fox (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian Gregor (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jamine Lee (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive spectral sensor, and methods of using the sensor. The sensor uses a programmable band pass transmission filter to produce both contrast signals, which discriminate specific target materials from background materials by comparing spectral signatures in hardware, and scene radiance spectra. The adaptive spectral sensor may measure one or more scene spectra and may form a spectral image. The sensor may automatically adjust to changing spectral, spatial and temporal conditions in the environment being monitored, by changing sensor resolution in those dimensions and by changing the detection band pass. The programmable band pass can be changed on-the-fly in real time to implement a variety of detection techniques in hardware or measure the spatial or spectral signatures of specific materials and scenes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489906 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305905 | Redi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a multinode arrangement that utilizes a plurality of nodes that communicate with each other by RF transmissions and hardwire communications. The use of both hardwire and RF transmission provides the advantages obtained with both forms of transmission. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/346180 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306047 | Touch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Touch (Manhattan Beach, California); Joseph Bannister (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Stephen Suryaputra (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A packet switch architecture that can switch optical packets at high throughputs without using any random access memory, without fragmenting variable length packets into fixed length fragments and reassembling them, and without converting the optical packets into electronic packets. Programmable delay lines are use which delay the output of each packet for a programmable amount which may be re-programmed while the packet is being delayed by the programmable delay line. Programmable delay line controllers manages the delays imposed by the programmable delay lines so as to have a look-ahead phase during which information about the packets is gathered and a shift phase during which the sequence of packets is shifted to match an output sequence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845616 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306074 | Nettleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia); Dallas N. Barr (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A monoblock laser cavity incorporates optical components for a short-pulse laser. These optical components are ‘locked’ into alignment forming an optical laser cavity for flash lamp or diode laser pumping. The optical laser cavity does not need optical alignment after it is fabricated, increasing the brightness of the monoblock laser. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848272 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/10 |
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| US 08306083 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianlin Liu (Riverside, California); Sheng Chu (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for electrically pumped, surface-emitting and edge emitting ZnO ultraviolet diode lasers are disclosed. The ZnO diode laser may be fabricated using growth processes (e.g., MBE) to form Sb-doped ZnO as a p-type layer and doped ZnO as an n-type layer. ZnO-based quantum well structures may be further formed in between the n- and p-type ZnO layers. The ZnO layers and quantum wells may be grown in columnar structures which act as resonant cavities for generated light, significantly improving light amplification and providing high power output. For example, ultraviolet lasing at around 380 nm was demonstrated at about room temperature at a threshold current density of about 10 A/cm2. The output power was further measured to be about 11.3 μW at about 130 mA driving current. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570695 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306274 | Grycewicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J Grycewicz (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for estimating peak location on a sampled surface (e.g., a correlation surface generated from pixilated images) utilize one or more processing techniques to determine multiple peak location estimates for at least one sampled data set at a resolution smaller than the spacing of the data elements. Estimates selected from the multiple peak location estimates are combined (e.g., a group of estimates is combined by determining a weighted average of the estimates selected for the group) to provide one or more refined estimates. In example embodiments, multiple refined estimates are combined to provide an estimate of overall displacement (e.g., of an image or other sampled data representation of an object). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787289 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306607 | Levi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Levi (Los Altos, California); Evan P. Thrush (San Francisco, California); James S. Harris (Stanford, California); Stepehn J. Smith (Los Altos, California); Krishna V. Shenoy (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Characteristics of biological substances, such as cerebral cortex matter, are sensed. According to an example embodiment, the present invention is directed to a negligibly-intrusive, multi-layer integrated circuit arrangement for monitoring activity of an area of a cerebral cortex that would normally be covered by an anatomical layer. The multi-layer integrated circuit arrangement includes an optics layer located outside the cerebral cortex area that includes an emitter and a detector. The optics layer is adapted for implantation in the anatomical layer and for sensing at least one brain-activity parameter. The multi-layered integrated circuit arrangement also includes a data-processing layer that includes a digital-processing circuit that is adapted for assimilating neural data in response to the optics layer sensing at least one brain-activity parameter. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979091 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank C. Lam (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for thruster control in a flight vehicle. The system and method uses a proportional derivative matrix control technique to determine thrust commands in a Divert and Attitude control (DAC) system. The proportional derivative matrix control system is configured to receive pitch, roll and yaw commands as inputs, and generate thrust commands as outputs. The performance of the proportional derivative matrix controller is such that the thrust commands can achieve the desired attitude angles quickly and with reduced fuel consumption. The matrix control system can efficiently control a variety of thrusters, including asymmetric thrusters having different moment arms. The matrix control system is particularly suitable to the control of DAC systems with asymmetric thrusters that are configured for attitude control. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572138 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306676 | Ingvalson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Ingvalson (Saint Michael, Minnesota); Michael R. Elgersma (Plymouth, Minnesota); Wayne A. Soehren (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for differential altitude estimation utilizing spatial interpolation of pressure sensor data are provided. In one embodiment, a method for mobile navigation comprises: measuring a horizontal location of a mobile navigation unit to generate two-dimensional horizontal coordinate data; measuring a barometric pressure at the mobile navigation unit with a sensor to obtain local pressure data; processing information representative of pressure data derived from a network of a plurality reference stations to obtain a correction factor; performing a calculation using the two-dimensional horizontal coordinate data, the local pressure data, and the correction factor to calculate an altitude coordinate; and determining an altitude of the mobile navigation unit from the altitude coordinate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/087546 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306689 | Koepping et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Koepping (Wall, New Jersey); Russell Shannon (Ocean Gate, New Jersey); Thomas Richardson (Sicklerville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A net-centric avionics diagnostics and automated maintenance environment system includes a storage medium on which is stored diagnostic data concerning the operation of systems of an aircraft and diagnostic data of aircraft systems, including BIT data, an organizational level automated maintenance environment server to transport maintenance and diagnostic information throughout the automated maintenance environment. The system also includes an organizational level diagnostics avionics tester that has a processor to execute diagnostics software for gathering, storing, and processing avionics diagnostics information. The tester is linked to an interface device that includes data acquisition hardware, standard interfaces for an avionics unit under test, and instrumentation for troubleshooting the unit under test. The organizational level diagnostics avionics tester is in network communication with the organizational level automated maintenance environment server. The system also includes a common intermediate level tester for testing a plurality of avionics modular assemblies, and an intermediate level maintenance environment server that stores historical maintenance data for use by the common intermediate level tester and by the organizational level diagnostics avionics tester. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554147 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/34.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for determining information about particle geometry are provided. As such, an ultrasonic transducer acts as both a transmitter and a receiver. The transducer insonifies a particle and scattered waves are then received by the transducer—now acting as a receiver. A small flat target moving relative to a stationary receiver will lead to the same radiated field as waves propagating through an equivalent moving aperture. Based on the Doppler distribution of the scattered or radiated waves resulting from relative motion between the particles and a receiver, the acoustic pressure field in the plane of the equivalent two-dimensional aperture can be inferred. The equivalent aperture geometry can be obtained from the inferred field. Hence, the particle geometry can be determined. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700987 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306811 | Tewfik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Digimarc Corporation (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Tewfik (Edina, Minnesota); Bin Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Mitch Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of embedding data into an audio signal provides a data sequence for embedding in the audio signal and computes masking thresholds for the audio signal from a frequency domain transform of the audio signal. The masking thresholds correspond to subbands of the audio signal, which are obtained from a masking model used to compress the audio signal. The method applies the masking threshold to the data sequence to produce masked data sequence and inserts the masked data sequence in the audio signal to produce an embedded audio signal. A method of detecting data embedded in an audio signal analyzes the audio signal to estimate the masking threshold used in embedding the data and applies the estimated masking threshold to the audio signal to extract the embedded data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923355 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306931 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Data Fusion and Neural Networks, LLC (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Bowman (Broomfield, Colorado); Duane DeSieno (LaJolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting, classifying, and tracking abnormal data in a data stream. Embodiments include an integrated set of algorithms that enable an analyst to detect, characterize, and track abnormalities in real-time data streams based upon historical data labeled as predominantly normal or abnormal. Embodiments of the invention can detect, identify relevant historical contextual similarity, and fuse unexpected and unknown abnormal signatures with other possibly related sensor and source information. The number, size, and connections of the neural networks all automatically adapted to the data. Further, adaption appropriately and automatically integrates unknown and known abnormal signature training within one neural network architecture solution automatically. Algorithms and neural networks architecture are data driven, resulting more affordable processing. Expert knowledge can be incorporated to enhance the process, but sufficient performance is achievable without any system domain or neural networks expertise. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462634 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08307116 | Keckler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Keckler (Austin, Texas); Boris Grot (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to systems for routing data across a multinodal network. Example systems include a multinodal array having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of physical communication channels connecting the nodes. At least one of the physical communication channels may be configured to route data from a first node to two or more other destination nodes of the plurality of nodes. The present disclosure also generally relates to methods for routing data across a multinodal network and computer accessible mediums having stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing techniques for routing data across a multinodal network. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487781 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08307372 | Feblowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for constructing a processing request so that an information processing application satisfying the processing request can be assembled, includes: inputting a processing request, wherein the processing request includes a goal that is represented by a graph pattern that semantically describes a desired processing outcome; and assembling a processing graph that includes at least one component that satisfies the desired processing outcome, wherein the processing graph is assembled by associating the graph pattern that semantically describes the desired processing outcome with a graph pattern that semantically describes an applicability condition of the at least one component or a graph pattern that semantically describes an inclusion effect of the at least one component. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695279 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Frank H. Born (Westernville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for transforming internet resources into safely rendered versions of the same. The invention provides transformative rendering of internet resources to remove malicious code before displaying in a browser or its associated application. Malicious code blockage is accomplished by re-writing all code that is to be transferred to the client browser. Since malicious code is often disguised (or obfuscated), the invention will not attempt to rewrite the entire code set on the page but will still make available the functionality of that code through frequent interaction between the invention's rendering processor and the client browser. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802458 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2272 | Anderson 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) | Anne W. Anderson (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Colleen A. Johnson (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Andrew E. Orzechowski (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method are provided for processing data from a computer that executes an application program. The system includes an extraction engine, a reduction program and an analysis program. The extraction engine retrieves execution data from the application program and records the data to nonvolatile memory as extract data. The reduction program reads the extract data from the memory and reduces the data into human readable format as reduce data. The analysis program analyzes the reduce data in accordance with operator-provided instructions and produces event data that identify at least one sequence associated with the execution data. A management console further displays the implemented processes. The extraction engine can further include a classes assigner for categorizing said execution data into classes. The reduction program can further include a structure builder for formatting said extract data. The reduction program can further include an event layout builder for formatting said event data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/586406 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia State University Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margo A. Brinton (Decatur, Georgia); Wei Li (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions that are effective in the inhibition of viral replication. In particular, the methods and compositions are effective at interfering with the activity of host cell proteins required in viral replication. For example, an embodiment of the invention is directed to inhibition of flavivirus replication wherein the replication is effected by changing the normal interactions of the host cell protein TIAR or TIA-1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654273 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303952 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Murphy (St. Louis, Missouri); Jorn C. Albring (St. Louis, Missouri); Michelle M. Sandau (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods for inducing in vivo tolerance to a foreign tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796392 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303960 | Capala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacek Capala (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Dale O. Kiesewetter (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Gabriela Kramer-Marek (Washington, District of Columbia); Sang Bong Lee (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a radiolabeled affibody molecule comprising a fragment of an IgG-binding domain of protein A from Staphylococcus aureus, a bifunctional linker, and a radiolabel comprising 18F or 76Br, wherein the bifunctional linker links the fragment and the radiolabel. The affibody molecule binds with high affinity to select receptors, which are over-expressed in certain cancers. Since the radionuclides emit a positron, the in vitro and in vivo binding characteristics of the radiolabeled affibody can be assessed using diagnostic imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/528823 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303964 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Wesley Woodard (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy Charles Meredith (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Parag Aggarwal (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides non-toxic Gram-negative bacteria. In particular, the present invention provides viable Gram-negative bacteria (e.g., E. coli) substantially lacking lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) within the outer membrane. The present invention further provides methods of generating viable non-toxic Gram-negative bacteria and uses thereof. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for inducing immune responses and for researching and developing therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655413 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304188 | Kelso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Kelso (Wilmette, Illinois); Kunal Sur (Evanston, Illinois); Zaheer Parpia (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems, devices, and methods for performing biological reactions. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of lipophilic, water immiscible, or hydrophobic barriers in sample separation, purification, modification, and analysis processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162524 |
| 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 08304192 | Willey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Willey (Toledo, Ohio); Erin L. Crawford (Rossford, Ohio); David A. Weaver (Perrysburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for evaluating allelic variations with improved quality controls, methods of preparing such compositions, and applications employing such compositions and methods. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for reducing false positives and/or false negatives in nucleic acid measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072700 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304199 | Bottaro 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); Amgen, Inc. (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. Bottaro (Kensington, Maryland); Gagani Athauda (Southwest Ranches, Florida); Teresa Lynn Burgess (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring c-Met levels in urine and blood samples are provided. Methods for diagnosis and prognosis evaluation for cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053560 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Meller (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, and cells for drug screening based on interaction between a Bim polypeptide and a TRIM2 polypeptide. Methods and compositions for treating cancer based on tested levels of Bim and TRIM2 proteins are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697097 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304222 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Jefferson Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457041 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Poetic Genetics, LLC (Burlingame, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele P. Calos (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides a unidirectional site-specific integration system for integrating a nucleic acid into the genome of a target cell. The provided system includes a site-specific integrating expression cassette (INTEC) vector, consisting of (a) a polynucleotide of interest operably linked to a promoter, (b) a single recombination site, and (c) a hybrid recombination site. In using the subject systems for site-specific integration, the INTEC vector and integrase are introduced into the target cell and the cell is maintained under conditions sufficient to provide for site-specific integration of the nucleic acid into the target cell genome via a recombination event mediated by the site-specific recombinase. Also provided are kits that include the subject systems. The subjects systems, methods and kits find use in a variety of different applications, several representative ones of which are described in detail as well. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198885 |
| 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: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304241 | DeLucas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J DeLucas (Birmingham, Alabama); Wilbur W Wilson (Starkville, Mississippi); Charles S Henry (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lisa Nagy (Birmingham, Alabama); David Johnson (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method to allow a user to pre-screen numerous crystallization conditions in the crystallization space to identify those conditions with the highest probability of yielding crystals and high quality diffracting crystals. In one embodiment, the dilute solution thermodynamic virial coefficient, termed B, is used to aid in the determination crystallization conditions that increase the probability of producing crystals for the crystallant of interest. The present disclosure also provide methods for predicting solution conditions that generate beneficial solubility and/or stability conditions for a polypeptide of interest using the B parameter. Devices for use in the described methods are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/307973 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304257 | Ackerson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Ackerson (Raleigh, North Carolina); Pablo Jadzinsky (Stanford, California); Roger D. Kornberg (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods for preparing thiolate passivated gold nanoparticles are provided resulting in a narrower size distribution. By alternating oxidation and reduction of the particles, after oxidation, the thiolates may be readily displaced with a different thiol, followed by reduction to prevent further reaction. Proteins can be rigidly bound to the gold nanoparticles by binding an scFv for a target protein to the gold nanoparticles, where the scFv prior or subsequent to binding to the gold nanoparticles may be complexed with the target protein. The protein is rigidly held and its structure readily determined using electron microscopy. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715563 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oncolix, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Y. Chen (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel fusion protein, comprising a receptor-antagonizing domain and an angiogenesis inhibiting domain, characterized, for example, by its ability to block apoptosis and/or inhibit endocrine response, is useful in treating cancer. For example, a human prolactin antagonist-endostatin fusion protein combines apoptosis induction and angiogenesis inhibition to combat cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/010395 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08304389 | Harlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization, a Public Institution of Higher Education (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Harlan (Seattle, Washington); Robert K. Winn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Akiko Iwata (Seattle, Washington); Joan Tupper (Seattle, Washington); John Li (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for inhibiting cell death or inflammation in a mammal, wherein the methods each include the step of administering to a mammal a Bcl protein in an amount sufficient to inhibit cell death or inflammation in the mammal. The invention also provides methods for identifying a Bcl protein that inhibits cell death or inflammation when administered to a mammal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107866 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304397 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva Van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a microRNA, miR-208, that induces the expression of β-myosin heavy chain (β-MHC) and represses fast skeletal muscle contractile protein genes. Inhibition of this function is proposed as a treatment for cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy and/or heart failure, and augmentation of this function can be used to repress slow fiber genes and activate fast fiber genes in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831427 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304399 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingwu Xie (League City, Texas); Tao Sheng (Galveston, Texas); Xiaoli Zhang (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a component in the hedgehog signaling pathway that can be useful in the treatment and diagnosis of hedgehog signaling pathway associated disorders. In this regard, the present invention discloses that RanBPM regulated the stability of hedgehog signaling molecule, smoothened (SMO) and that inactivation of RanBPM by siRNA prevented growth and metastasis of cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/448655 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304400 | Waisman |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Waisman (Calgary, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods useful in the reduction of p11 protein activity in cancer cells. P11 protein is demonstrated to affect plasmin production and activity, MMP activity, plasminogen activation, antiangiogenic plasmin fragment production, cell invasion, tumor development and metastasis. Compositions that modulate levels of p11 either up or down are demonstrated to be effective in reducing tumor development. Also disclosed are cancer treatment methods that employ compositions that modulate p11 activity and clonal cell lines and assays useful for the identification of compositions that modulate p11 activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775670 |
| 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 08304401 | St. Germain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. St. Germain (Scarborough, Maine); Arturo Hernandez (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods for decreasing fat mass, increasing energy expenditure, increasing resistance to obesity, and lowering blood glucose levels in a subject with an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of type III deiodinase. In this regard, agents of the invention are useful in treating diabetes and obesity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059264 |
| 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 08304408 | Wrasidlo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang Wrasidlo (La Jolla, California); Catriona H. Jamieson (La Jolla, California); Dennis Carson (La Jolla, California); Tadeusz F. Molinski (La Jolla, California); Desheng Lu (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides dBHD-based compositions and dBHD analog compositions, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, e.g., in the form of liposomes and nanoparticles comprising them, and methods of making and using them. In one embodiment, these dBHD analogs are used to inhibit a dysfunctional stem cell and/or a cancer (tumor) stem cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600996 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/212.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304451 | Mazitschek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Mazitschek (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nicholas Paul Kwiatkowski (Auburn, Massachusetts); James Elliot Bradner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents and efficient methods for the synthesis thereof, the present invention provides novel inhibitors of histone deacetylases, tubulin deacetylases, and/or aggresome inhibitors, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives thereof. The inventive compounds fall into two classes—“isotubacin” class and “isoisotubacin” class—all of which include a 1,3-dioxane core. The present invention further provides methods for treating disorders regulated by histone deacetylase activity, tubulin deacetylase activity, and/or the aggresome (e.g., proliferative diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases, protozoal infections, protein degradation disorders, protein deposition disorders, etc.) comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inventive compound to a subject in need thereof. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299430 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304521 | Hollenbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Hollenbach (New Orleans, Louisiana); Patrick J. Miller (New Orleans, Louisiana); Kevin N. Dietz (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Pax3, a member of the paired class homeodomain family of transcription factors and an essential protein for early skeletal muscle development, was shown to be phosphorylated in proliferating mouse primary myoblasts. Furthermore, Ser205, Ser201 and Ser209 were identified as the only sites of phosphorylation on Pax3 in proliferating mouse primary myoblasts. Phosphorylation of Ser205 was shown to be required for the efficient phosphorylation of Ser201 and/or Ser209. Site-specific antibodies were made to each of these three sites when phosphorylated. These three sites are also present and phosphorylated in the Pax3-FOXO1 fusion protein, and phosphorylation of these sites may play a role in ARMS. Thus, these new antibodies may be used in studying the regulation of nerve and muscle development and differentiation and in finding therapeutic solutions for certain disorders, including Waardenburg syndrome and childhood solid muscle tumor alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477541 |
| 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 530/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Universtiy (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan K. Louie (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanowires are constructed using a variety of methods. Using one such method, a nanowire material is introduced to a microtubule lumen as a solution. The nanowire material is solidified to form a nanowire substantially within the microtubule lumen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402647 |
| 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 530/412 |
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| US 08304529 | Kore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anilkumar R. Kore (Austin, Texas); Muthian Shanmugasundaram (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel cap analogs which are easily synthesized, resulting in high levels of capping efficiency and transcription and improved translation efficiencies are provided. Such caps are methylated at the N7 position of one or both guanosines of the dinucleotide cap as well as at the 3′ position on the ribose ring. Substituent groups on the ribose ring also result in the cap being incorporated in the forward orientation. Also provided are methods useful for preparing capped analogs and using mRNA species containing such analogs are also contemplated herein, as well as kits containing the novel cap analogs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/375527 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304530 | Zamore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts); Gyorgy Hutvagner (Worcester, Massachusetts); Dianne Schwarz (Westborough, Massachusetts); Martin Simard (Deschambault, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of enhancing the efficacy and specificity of RNA silencing. The invention also provides compositions for mediating RNA silencing. In particular, the invention provides siRNAs, siRNA-like molecules, shRNAs, vectors and transgenes having improved specificity and efficacy in mediating silencing of a target gene. Therapeutic methods are also featured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729892 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304561 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dilek Dogutan Kiper (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a metalloporphyrin is carried out by reacting (i) a linear tetrapyrrole, said linear tetrapyrrole having a 19-acyl group and a 1-protecting group, with (ii) a metal salt under basic conditions to produce the metalloporphyrin. Products produced by such methods and intermediates useful for carrying out such methods are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/456482 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304748 | Derenzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pittsburg, California); Floyd J. James (Jamestown, North Carolina); Mattias K. Klintenberg (Uppsala, Sweden); Jie Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Jia-Qing Wang, legal representative (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein is described a method for identifying semiconductor radiation detector materials based on the mobility of internally generated electrons and holes. It was designed for the early stages of exploration, when samples are not available as single crystals, but as crystalline powders. Samples are confined under pressure in an electric field and the increase in current resulting from exposure to a high-intensity source of ionization current (e.g., 60Co gamma rays) is measured. A pressure cell device is described herein to carry out the method. For known semiconductors, the d.c. ionization current depends on voltage according to the Hecht equation, and for known insulators the d.c. ionization current is below detection limits. This shows that the method can identify semiconductors in spite of significant carrier trapping. Using this method and pressure cell, it was determined that new materials BiOI, PbIF, BiPbO2Cl, BiPbO2Br, BiPbO2I, Bi2GdO4Cl, Pb3O2I2, and Pb5O4I2 are semiconductors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/091045 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305077 | Morrell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Robert Morrell (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides phase-sensitive methods of radio frequency field mapping (e.g., B1 mapping), in which flip angle is encoded in the phase of a transverse magnetization produced by a series of RF pulses. The phase-sensitive methods can measure flip angle over a wider range than other methods such as double-angle methods. In one aspect, a phase-sensitive method of radio frequency mapping includes acquiring a first transverse magnetization phase measurement using an RF excitation pulse with flip angle 2α and acquiring a second transverse magnetization phase measurement using an RF excitation pulse with flip angle −2α. The method also includes computing a phase difference between the two phase measurements and generating a radio frequency map based on the phase difference. The radio frequency map may be used, for example, to correct an image for variation in image intensity caused by B1 field inhomogeneity and correct T1 measurements for variations caused by B1 field inhomogeneity. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/498326 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305682 | Tu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for generating a substantially supercontinuum-free widely-tunable multimilliwatt source of radiation characterized by a narrowband line profile. The apparatus and methods employ nonlinear optical mechanisms in a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by detuning the wavelength of a pump laser to a significant extent relative to the zero-dispersion wavelength (ZDW) of the PCF. Optical phenomena employed for the selective up-conversion in the PCF include, but are not limited to, four-wave mixing and Cherenkov radiation. Tunability is achieved by varying pump wavelength and power and by substituting different types of PCFs characterized by specified dispersion properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/807772 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306293 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Walker (Barboursville, Virginia); Francesco Viola (Charlottesville, Virginia); William F. Mauldin, Jr. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods systems and computer readable media are provided for extracting information pertaining to at least one moving target. A set of signal data are inputted to a principal components processor, wherein the set of signal data comprise signal data corresponding to at least one waveform acquired from the at least one moving target. A complex representation of the set of signal data is formed and, using a principal components processor, at least one complex principal component of the complex representation is calculated. At least one of the calculated complex principal components is automatically selected and each of the at least one automatically selected complex principal component is applied to extract information about the at least one moving target. Methods systems and computer readable media are provided extracting information pertaining to at least one moving target. A set of signal data comprising signal data corresponding to at least one waveform acquired from the at least one moving target are inputted to a principal components processor. A complex representation of the set of signal data is formed, and at least one complex principal component of the complex representation is calculated. An estimated value of a physical characteristic of the at least one moving, target is then calculated, using a phase of at least one of the at least one complex principal components. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467216 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08306299 | Samsonov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey A Samsonov (Madison, Wisconsin); Ashley G Anderson, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia Velikina (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing a motion-compensated image depicting a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. An MRI system is used to acquire a time series of k-space data from the subject by sampling k-space along non-Cartesian trajectories, such as radial, spiral, or other trajectories at a plurality of time frames. Those time frames at which motion occurred are identified and this information used to segment the time series into a plurality of k-space data subsets. For example, the k-space data subsets contain k-space data acquired at temporally adjacent time frames that occur between those identified time frames at which motion occurred. Motion correction parameters are determined from the k-space data subsets. Using the determined motion correction parameters, the k-space data subsets are corrected for motion. The corrected data subsets are combined to form a corrected k-space data set, from which a motion-compensated image is reconstructed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/072353 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306601 | Lang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the effect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. Planning therapy may include generating one or more physical models. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209373 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306625 | Vyas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neha Vyas (Covina, California); Donald A. Webber (Encino, California); John J. Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for verifying that proper visual stimulation is applied to the visual prostheses are described. In one of the methods, a retinal stimulation system implanted on a subject is simulated externally. An external testing device is also discussed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925530 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306752 | Gardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Gardner (Needham, Massachusetts); James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Boris Hayete (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jeremiah Faith (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying regulatory relationships between expressed regulating polypeptides and targets of the regulatory activities of such regulating polypeptides. More specifically, the invention provides a new method for identifying regulatory dependencies between biochemical species in a cell. In particular embodiments, provided are computer-implemented methods for identifying a regulatory interaction between a transcription factor and a gene target of the transcription factor, or between a transcription factor and a set of gene targets of the transcription factor. Further provided are genome-scale methods for predicting regulatory interactions between a set of transcription factors and a corresponding set of transcriptional target substrates thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271944 |
| 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 08307433 | Yue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan Yue (Hampton, Virginia); Haining Wang (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting username/password (U/P) credentials operates on a client computer that cooperates with an anti-phishing scheme that generates a client warning at the client computer when a suspected phishing website issues a U/P request. At the client computer, a set of S fake U/P credentials is generated when the client warning is heeded, or a set of (S−1) fake U/P credentials are derived from a client-supplied U/P credential provided after the client warning is ignored. The client computer then transmits to the suspected phishing website one of (i) the set of S fake U/P credentials, and (ii) the client-supplied U/P credential along with the set of (S−1) fake U/P credentials. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622513 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan W. Hunt (Athens, Georgia); Senthil Chinnasamy (Chennai, India); Keshav C. Das (Athens, Georgia); Erico Rolim de Mattos (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Biological optimization systems for enhancing photosynthetic efficiency and methods of use. Specifically, methods for enhancing photosynthetic efficiency including applying pulsed light to a photosynthetic organism, using a chlorophyll fluorescence feedback control system to determine one or more photosynthetic efficiency parameters, and adjusting one or more of the photosynthetic efficiency parameters to drive the photosynthesis by the delivery of an amount of light to optimize light absorption of the photosynthetic organism while providing enough dark time between light pulses to prevent oversaturation of the chlorophyll reaction centers are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014464 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/58.1LS |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08302554 | Barth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorada State University Research Foundation. (Ft. Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt L. Barth (Fort Collins, Colorado); Robert A. Enzenroth (Fort Collins, Colorado); Walajabad S. Sampath (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for rapid cooling of a large substrate in a vacuum environment. A first cooled plate is brought into close proximity with one surface of a flat substrate. The spatial volume between the first cooling plate and the substrate is sealed and brought to a higher pressure than the surrounding vacuum level to increase the cooling efficiency. A second cooled plate is brought into close proximity with the opposite surface of the flat substrate. A second spatial volume between the second cooling plate and the substrate is sealed and the gas pressure is equalized to the gas pressure in the first spatial volume. The equalization of the gas pressure on both sides of the flat substrate eliminates deflection of the substrate and bending stress in the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861391 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303176 | Kochergin |
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| ABSTRACT | This invention teaches the fiber optic sensors temperature sensors for cryogenic temperature range with improved sensitivity and resolution, and method of making said sensors. In more detail, the present invention is related to enhancement of temperature sensitivity of fiber optic temperature sensors at cryogenic temperatures by utilizing nanomaterials with a thermal expansion coefficient that is smaller than the thermal expansion coefficient of the optical fiber but larger in absolute value than the thermal expansion coefficient of the optical fiber at least over a range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777305 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303237 | Stringer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Kent Stringer (Bucyrus, Kansas); Simon Scott Yerganian (Lee's Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A feeding mechanism and method for feeding minute items, such as capacitors, resistors, or solder preforms. The mechanism is adapted to receive a plurality of the randomly-positioned and randomly-oriented extremely small or minute items, and to isolate, orient, and position the items in a specific repeatable pickup location wherefrom they may be removed for use by, for example, a computer-controlled automated assembly machine. The mechanism comprises a sliding shelf adapted to receive and support the items; a wiper arm adapted to achieve a single even layer of the items; and a pushing arm adapted to push the items into the pickup location. The mechanism can be adapted for providing the items with a more exact orientation, and can also be adapted for use in a liquid environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556295 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303696 | Vimalchand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Company (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pannalal Vimalchand (Birmingham, Alabama); Guohai Liu (Birmingham, Alabama); Wan Wang Peng (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are apparatus and method to treat large amounts of flue gas from a pulverized coal combustion power plant. The flue gas is contacted with solid sorbents to selectively absorb CO2, which is then released as a nearly pure CO2 gas stream upon regeneration at higher temperature. The method is capable of handling the necessary sorbent circulation rates of tens of millions of lbs/hr to separate CO2 from a power plant's flue gas stream. Because pressurizing large amounts of flue gas is cost prohibitive, the method of this invention minimizes the overall pressure drop in the absorption section to less than 25 inches of water column. The internal circulation of sorbent within the absorber assembly in the proposed method not only minimizes temperature increases in the absorber to less than 25° F., but also increases the CO2 concentration in the sorbent to near saturation levels. Saturating the sorbent with CO2 in the absorber section minimizes the heat energy needed for sorbent regeneration. The commercial embodiments of the proposed method can be optimized for sorbents with slower or faster absorption kinetics, low or high heat release rates, low or high saturation capacities and slower or faster regeneration kinetics. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/833023 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08303767 — Methods of pretreating comminuted cellulosic material with carbonate-containing solutions
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Francis (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of pretreating comminuted cellulosic material with an acidic solution and then a carbonate-containing solution to produce a pretreated cellulosic material are provided. The pretreated material may then be further treated in a pulping process, for example, a soda-anthraquinone pulping process, to produce a cellulose pulp. The pretreatment solutions may be extracted from the pretreated cellulose material and selectively re-used, for example, with acid or alkali addition, for the pretreatment solutions. The resulting cellulose pulp is characterized by having reduced lignin content and increased yield compared to prior art treatment processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/933185 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303818 | Salvo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Streamline Automation, LLC (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Di Salvo (Madison, Alabama); Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); H. Waite H. Dykes, Jr. (Huntsville, Alabama); Rodrigo Teixeira (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to use of an active ionic liquid to dissolve algae cell walls. The ionic liquid is used to, in an energy efficient manner, dissolve and/or lyse an algae cell walls, which releases algae constituents used in the creation of energy, fuel, and/or cosmetic components. The ionic liquids include ionic salts having multiple charge centers, low, very low, and ultra low melting point ionic liquids, and combinations of ionic liquids. An algae treatment system is described, which processes wet algae in a lysing reactor, separates out algae constituent products, and optionally recovers the ionic liquid in an energy efficient manner. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970512 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303883 | Landingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Paul R. Coronado (Livermore, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides foams of desired cell sizes formed from metal or ceramic materials that coat the surfaces of carbon foams which are subsequently removed. For example, metal is located over a sol-gel foam monolith. The metal is melted to produce a metal/sol-gel composition. The sol-gel foam monolith is removed, leaving a metal foam. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/479796 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304089 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallic nanowire network synthesized using chemical reduction of a metal ion source by a reducing agent in the presence of a soft template comprising a tubular inverse micellar network. The network of interconnected polycrystalline nanowires has a very high surface-area/volume ratio, which makes it highly suitable for use in catalytic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955954 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304122 | Poshusta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Poshusta (Broomfield, Colorado); Charles W. Booten (Westminster, Colorado); Jerry L. Martin (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) system having a hot zone with a center cathode air feed tube for improved reactant distribution, a CPOX reactor attached at the anode feed end of the hot zone with a tail gas combustor at the opposing end for more uniform heat distribution, and a counter-flow heat exchanger for efficient heat retention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367168 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08304302 — Photovoltaic device using single wall carbon nanotubes and method of fabricating the same
| US 08304302 | Biris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas); Zhongrui Li (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device and methods for forming the same. In one embodiment, the photovoltaic device has a silicon substrate, and a film comprising a plurality of single wall carbon nanotubes disposed on the silicon substrate, wherein the plurality of single wall carbon nanotubes forms a plurality of heterojunctions with the silicon in the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/752617 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304465 | Coronado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Coronado (Livermore, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the preparation of high strength air-dried organic aerogels. The method involves the sol-gel polymerization of organic gel precursors, such as resorcinol with formaldehyde (RF) in aqueous solvents with R/C ratios greater than about 1000 and R/F ratios less than about 1:2.1. Using a procedure analogous to the preparation of resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) aerogels, this approach generates wet gels that can be air dried at ambient temperatures and pressures. The method significantly reduces the time and/or energy required to produce a dried aerogel compared to conventional methods using either supercritical solvent extraction. The air dried gel exhibits typically less than 5% shrinkage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335297 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304670 | Abercrombie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Knox Abercrombie (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gregory David Richardson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Matthew Bligh Scudiere (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Frederick T. Sheldon (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for weighing a load is disclosed. The weighing system includes a pad having at least one transducer for weighing a load disposed on the pad. In some embodiments the pad has a plurality of foot members and the weighing system may include a plate that disposed underneath the pad for receiving the plurality of foot member and for aligning the foot members when the weighing system is installed. The weighing system may include a spacer disposed adjacent the pad and in some embodiments, a spacer anchor operatively secures the spacer to a support surface, such as a plate, a railway bed, or a roadway. In some embodiments the spacer anchor operatively secures both the spacer and the pad to a roadway. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/732599 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Weighing scales 177/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304737 | Tobin, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth W. Tobin, Jr. (Harriman, Tennessee); Philip R. Bingham (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ayman I. Hawari (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system employing a coded aperture mask having multiple pinholes is provided. The coded aperture mask is placed at a radiation source to pass the radiation through. The radiation impinges on, and passes through an object, which alters the radiation by absorption and/or scattering. Upon passing through the object, the radiation is detected at a detector plane to form an encoded image, which includes information on the absorption and/or scattering caused by the material and structural attributes of the object. The encoded image is decoded to provide a reconstructed image of the object. Because the coded aperture mask includes multiple pinholes, the radiation intensity is greater than a comparable system employing a single pinhole, thereby enabling a higher resolution. Further, the decoding of the encoded image can be performed to generate multiple images of the object at different distances from the detector plane. Methods and programs for operating the imaging system are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572536 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304748 | Derenzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pittsburg, California); Floyd J. James (Jamestown, North Carolina); Mattias K. Klintenberg (Uppsala, Sweden); Jie Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Jia-Qing Wang, legal representative (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein is described a method for identifying semiconductor radiation detector materials based on the mobility of internally generated electrons and holes. It was designed for the early stages of exploration, when samples are not available as single crystals, but as crystalline powders. Samples are confined under pressure in an electric field and the increase in current resulting from exposure to a high-intensity source of ionization current (e.g., 60Co gamma rays) is measured. A pressure cell device is described herein to carry out the method. For known semiconductors, the d.c. ionization current depends on voltage according to the Hecht equation, and for known insulators the d.c. ionization current is below detection limits. This shows that the method can identify semiconductors in spite of significant carrier trapping. Using this method and pressure cell, it was determined that new materials BiOI, PbIF, BiPbO2Cl, BiPbO2Br, BiPbO2I, Bi2GdO4Cl, Pb3O2I2, and Pb5O4I2 are semiconductors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/091045 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305078 | Savukov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Mykhaylovich Savukov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrei Nikolaevich Matlashov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michelle A. Espy (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Petr Lvovich Volegov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert Henry Kraus, Jr. (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vadim Sergeyevich Zotev (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for performing an in-situ magnetic resonance imaging of an object. The method includes the steps of providing an atomic magnetometer, coupling a magnetic field generated by magnetically resonating samples of the object through a flux transformer to the atomic magnetometer and measuring a magnetic resonance of the atomic magnetometer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/577010 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306018 | Kouchri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Mohammadzadeh Kouchri (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system, a method of managing a communications network in such a system and a program product therefore. The system/network includes an ENERGY STAR (E-star) aware softswitch and E-star compliant communications devices at system endpoints. The E-star aware softswitch allows E-star compliant communications devices to enter and remain in power saving mode. The E-star aware softswitch spools messages and forwards only selected messages (e.g., calls) to the devices in power saving mode. When the E-star compliant communications devices exit power saving mode, the E-star aware softswitch forwards spooled messages. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012623 |
| ART UNIT | 2468 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306752 | Gardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Gardner (Needham, Massachusetts); James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Boris Hayete (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jeremiah Faith (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying regulatory relationships between expressed regulating polypeptides and targets of the regulatory activities of such regulating polypeptides. More specifically, the invention provides a new method for identifying regulatory dependencies between biochemical species in a cell. In particular embodiments, provided are computer-implemented methods for identifying a regulatory interaction between a transcription factor and a gene target of the transcription factor, or between a transcription factor and a set of gene targets of the transcription factor. Further provided are genome-scale methods for predicting regulatory interactions between a set of transcription factors and a corresponding set of transcriptional target substrates thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271944 |
| 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 08306942 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Y. Chen (San Ramon, California); William G. Hanley (Livermore, California); Tracy D. Lemmond (Tracy, California); Lawrence J. Hiller (Livermore, California); David A. Knapp (Livermore, California); Marshall J. Mugge (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid machine learning methodology and system for classification that combines classical random forest (RF) methodology with discriminant analysis (DA) techniques to provide enhanced classification capability. A DA technique which uses feature measurements of an object to predict its class membership, such as linear discriminant analysis (LDA) or Andersen-Bahadur linear discriminant technique (AB), is used to split the data at each node in each of its classification trees to train and grow the trees and the forest. When training is finished, a set of n DA-based decision trees of a discriminant forest is produced for use in predicting the classification of new samples of unknown class. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436667 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08303789 | Ivory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelius F. Ivory (Pullman, Washington); Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Youn-Jin Oh (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide an exemplary lab-on-a-chip (LOC) system that serves as an analytical tool and/or as a separation medium for an electrolyte solution including various charged molecular species. The LOC system can include an integrated nanofluidic FET device in combination with suitable analysis systems. By applying and controlling a longitudinal electric field and a transverse electric potential, the flow and the pH of the electrolyte solution in the nanofluidic channels can be controlled. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/721860 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303876 | Torkelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Torkelson (Skokie, Illinois); Katsuyuki Wakabayashi (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer-graphite compositions and related methods of using solid-state shear pulverization as can be used to affect one or more physical properties thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/035568 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/211.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304188 | Kelso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Kelso (Wilmette, Illinois); Kunal Sur (Evanston, Illinois); Zaheer Parpia (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems, devices, and methods for performing biological reactions. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of lipophilic, water immiscible, or hydrophobic barriers in sample separation, purification, modification, and analysis processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162524 |
| 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 08304247 | Peppas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Peppas (Austin, Texas); Carolyn Bayer (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel recognitive hydrogels and sensors are provided, as well as methods of fabricating and using such hydrogels and sensors. Such recognitive hydrogels may comprise a molecularly imprinted polymer having a binding cavity specific for a triggering molecule and a conductive polymer associated with the molecularly imprinted polymer. Such sensors may comprise the recognitive hydrogels and an impedance sensing component. Such methods may comprise providing a triggering molecule, providing a sensor comprising a molecularly imprinted polymer having a binding cavity specific for the triggering molecule, a conductive polymer associated with the molecularly imprinted polymer, and an impedance sensing component, introducing the triggering molecule into the sensor, and detecting a change in impedance of the recognitive hydrogel with the impedance sensing component. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581308 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304537 | Tomasulo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Massimiliano Tomasulo (Miami, Florida); Francisco M. Raymo (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocyclic compounds incorporating a [1,3]oxazine ring may be used to make chromogenic materials. These molecules switch from a colorless state to a colored form upon addition of either acid or base. In both instances, the [1,3]oxazine ring opens in response to the pH change forming an indolium cation, after the addition of acid, or a phenolate anion, after the addition of base. Alternatively, the switch may occur in response to a change in electrical current or potential or a change in temperature. Chromophores absorb in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Hence, their formation translates into the appearance of color. These processes are fully reversible and the original colorless state can be regenerated by switching the pH back to neutral. Thus, these halochromic compounds can be used to develop displays, filters, indicators, lenses, sensors, switches, or windows able to switch their color in response to pH changes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/733887 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305106 | Bohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Florian Bohn (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Hua Wang (Hillsboro, Oregon); Yu-Jiu Wang (Shengang Township, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing self-healing integrated circuits. The method is characterized in that the behavior of a circuit or a device in response to an input signal is observed. One or more operational parameters or characteristics of the circuit or the device are derived. A corrective action to bring the operational parameters or characteristics of the circuit or device within a desired range is deduced, if needed. The corrective action can be the application of a correction signal or a modification of one or more parameters or characteristics of an element in the circuit. The calculated corrective action, if needed, is applied to bring the operational parameters or characteristics of the circuit or device within the desired range. Optionally, the operational parameters or characteristics of the circuit or the device after the correction is effectuated can be checked. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806906 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/762.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08305682 | Tu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for generating a substantially supercontinuum-free widely-tunable multimilliwatt source of radiation characterized by a narrowband line profile. The apparatus and methods employ nonlinear optical mechanisms in a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by detuning the wavelength of a pump laser to a significant extent relative to the zero-dispersion wavelength (ZDW) of the PCF. Optical phenomena employed for the selective up-conversion in the PCF include, but are not limited to, four-wave mixing and Cherenkov radiation. Tunability is achieved by varying pump wavelength and power and by substituting different types of PCFs characterized by specified dispersion properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/807772 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306047 | Touch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Touch (Manhattan Beach, California); Joseph Bannister (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Stephen Suryaputra (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A packet switch architecture that can switch optical packets at high throughputs without using any random access memory, without fragmenting variable length packets into fixed length fragments and reassembling them, and without converting the optical packets into electronic packets. Programmable delay lines are use which delay the output of each packet for a programmable amount which may be re-programmed while the packet is being delayed by the programmable delay line. Programmable delay line controllers manages the delays imposed by the programmable delay lines so as to have a look-ahead phase during which information about the packets is gathered and a shift phase during which the sequence of packets is shifted to match an output sequence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845616 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306752 | Gardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Gardner (Needham, Massachusetts); James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Boris Hayete (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jeremiah Faith (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying regulatory relationships between expressed regulating polypeptides and targets of the regulatory activities of such regulating polypeptides. More specifically, the invention provides a new method for identifying regulatory dependencies between biochemical species in a cell. In particular embodiments, provided are computer-implemented methods for identifying a regulatory interaction between a transcription factor and a gene target of the transcription factor, or between a transcription factor and a set of gene targets of the transcription factor. Further provided are genome-scale methods for predicting regulatory interactions between a set of transcription factors and a corresponding set of transcriptional target substrates thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271944 |
| 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 08306811 | Tewfik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Digimarc Corporation (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Tewfik (Edina, Minnesota); Bin Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Mitch Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of embedding data into an audio signal provides a data sequence for embedding in the audio signal and computes masking thresholds for the audio signal from a frequency domain transform of the audio signal. The masking thresholds correspond to subbands of the audio signal, which are obtained from a masking model used to compress the audio signal. The method applies the masking threshold to the data sequence to produce masked data sequence and inserts the masked data sequence in the audio signal to produce an embedded audio signal. A method of detecting data embedded in an audio signal analyzes the audio signal to estimate the masking threshold used in embedding the data and applies the estimated masking threshold to the audio signal to extract the embedded data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923355 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08307433 | Yue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan Yue (Hampton, Virginia); Haining Wang (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting username/password (U/P) credentials operates on a client computer that cooperates with an anti-phishing scheme that generates a client warning at the client computer when a suspected phishing website issues a U/P request. At the client computer, a set of S fake U/P credentials is generated when the client warning is heeded, or a set of (S−1) fake U/P credentials are derived from a client-supplied U/P credential provided after the client warning is ignored. The client computer then transmits to the suspected phishing website one of (i) the set of S fake U/P credentials, and (ii) the client-supplied U/P credential along with the set of (S−1) fake U/P credentials. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622513 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08302477 | Sarrazin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Olympus NDT (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe C. Sarrazin (Palo Alto, California); Will M. Brunner (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system incorporating a balanced mechanical resonator and a method for vibration of a sample composed of granular material to generate motion of a powder sample inside the sample holder for obtaining improved analysis statistics, without imparting vibration to the sample holder support. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378032 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303176 | Kochergin |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Kochergin (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention teaches the fiber optic sensors temperature sensors for cryogenic temperature range with improved sensitivity and resolution, and method of making said sensors. In more detail, the present invention is related to enhancement of temperature sensitivity of fiber optic temperature sensors at cryogenic temperatures by utilizing nanomaterials with a thermal expansion coefficient that is smaller than the thermal expansion coefficient of the optical fiber but larger in absolute value than the thermal expansion coefficient of the optical fiber at least over a range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777305 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08303922 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represeted by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lin (Newport News, Virginia); John W. Connell (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method is disclosed for the exfoliation of hexagonal boron nitride into mono- and few-layered nanosheets (or nanoplatelets, nanomesh, nanoribbons). The method does not necessarily require high temperature or vacuum, but uses commercially available h-BN powders (or those derived from these materials, bulk crystals) and only requires wet chemical processing. The method is facile, cost efficient, and scalable. The resultant exfoliated h-BN is dispersible in an organic solvent or water thus amenable for solution processing for unique microelectronic or composite applications. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546185 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304241 | DeLucas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J DeLucas (Birmingham, Alabama); Wilbur W Wilson (Starkville, Mississippi); Charles S Henry (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lisa Nagy (Birmingham, Alabama); David Johnson (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method to allow a user to pre-screen numerous crystallization conditions in the crystallization space to identify those conditions with the highest probability of yielding crystals and high quality diffracting crystals. In one embodiment, the dilute solution thermodynamic virial coefficient, termed B, is used to aid in the determination crystallization conditions that increase the probability of producing crystals for the crystallant of interest. The present disclosure also provide methods for predicting solution conditions that generate beneficial solubility and/or stability conditions for a polypeptide of interest using the B parameter. Devices for use in the described methods are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/307973 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08304253 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uichong Brandon Yi (Los Angeles, California); Peter Patrick De Guzman (Orange, California); Wayne Liu (Los Angeles, California); Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A refill droplet facilitates the extraction of a droplet laterally from a channel in a microfluidic apparatus. Such extraction allows a discrete band of separated particles or solute molecules to be excised from a fluid stream and processed and analyzed separately. An extraction point is located along the length of the channel and includes an EWOD surface or similar microfluidic technology to extract a droplet. An opening in the channel opposite the extraction means is equipped with microfluidic technology to transport a refill droplet to the opening. The refill droplet is moved into the channel or column to occupy the area previously occupied by the extracted droplet. This prevents distortion or mixing of the bands of particles or molecules within the channel and prevents the draining of any portion of the fluidic system. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/090922 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08304718 | Ouyang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Liang Gao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of interfacing atmospheric pressure ion sources, including electrospray and desorption electrospray ionization sources, to mass spectrometers, for example miniature mass spectrometers, in which the ionized sample is discontinuously introduced into the mass spectrometer. Discontinuous introduction improves the match between the pumping capacity of the instrument and the volume of atmospheric pressure gas that contains the ionized sample. The reduced duty cycle of sample introduction is offset by operation of the mass spectrometer under higher performance conditions and by ion accumulation at atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622776 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306079 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Johnstown, Ohio); Joseph S. Phillips (Powell, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Dublin, Ohio); Michael N. Patena (Pataskala, Ohio); Tim Burnham (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Paul Coleman (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a laser base unit adapted to provide laser light to an interaction region, the laser light removing material from the structure. The laser base unit includes a laser generator and a laser head coupled to the laser generator. The laser head is adapted to remove the material from the interaction region, thereby providing reduced disruption to activities within the structure. The apparatus further includes an anchoring mechanism adapted to be releasably coupled to the structure and releasably coupled to the laser head. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the laser base unit. The controller is adapted to transmit control signals to the laser base unit in response to user input. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/577070 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/38.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08306018 | Kouchri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Mohammadzadeh Kouchri (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system, a method of managing a communications network in such a system and a program product therefore. The system/network includes an ENERGY STAR (E-star) aware softswitch and E-star compliant communications devices at system endpoints. The E-star aware softswitch allows E-star compliant communications devices to enter and remain in power saving mode. The E-star aware softswitch spools messages and forwards only selected messages (e.g., calls) to the devices in power saving mode. When the E-star compliant communications devices exit power saving mode, the E-star aware softswitch forwards spooled messages. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012623 |
| ART UNIT | 2468 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08306682 | Gray, Jr. |
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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) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In a series hybrid vehicle, a system for determining a shift schedule for shifting a multi-gear transmission connected to a drive means is disclosed. A vehicle operator selects among a plurality of shift styles respectively representing a plurality of shift schedules variously optimized for performance or fuel economy. A performance-based shift schedule favors providing maximum power to the road by starting at the first (lowest) gear when accelerating from a stop and utilizing all available gears of the transmission. An economy based shift schedule favors energy efficiency by skipping the first gear and optionally one or more higher-numbered gears in order to bias operation of the drive means toward lower speeds and higher torque output while reducing shift frequency. The invention provides for maintaining the number of gear ratio choices provided by a transmission having relatively many distinct gear ratios, while providing for reduced frequency of shifting and driver choice of a shift schedule favoring either performance or economy. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/654321 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08302661 | Forbes Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); Sterry A. Shaffer (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/420910 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08306747 | Gagarin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Starodub, Inc. (Kensington, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Gagarin (Kensington, Maryland); James R. Mekemson (Potomac, Maryland); Michael L. Scott (Kensington, Maryland); Milton K. Mills (Washington, District of Columbia); Morton S. Oskard (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile platform, sensors mounted on the mobile platform, computers, data storage devices, power system, data acquisition hardware, and software form a Travel Way Measurement System. The mobile platform with sensors mounted within and upon it, moves along a surface travel way and records data to determine an accurate location and geometry of the travel way surface, surface features, transverse profile and features along side the travel way surface, structures, signs, and other features above the travel way surface, and utilities, pavement thickness and properties, pavement condition, and bridge deck properties and condition below the travel way surface. The mobile platform and sensors can travel and collect data at up to 60 miles per hour or more. The data acquisition hardware and software protocols permit the synchronization of all the sensor outputs in the temporal and spatial domain or in any other domain resulting from numerical transformation of sensor outputs. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009255 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/514 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08302671 | Sauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohn Sauer (Encino, California); Scott Johnson (Torrance, California); Ediberto R. Garcia (Westchester, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a heat exchanger, heat sink or coldwall having a machined manifold for receiving a plurality of individual, modular micro-channel heat exchanger elements. The manifold further includes a parallel flow network or flow distribution network for distributing a cooling fluid uniformly to all micro-channel heat exchanger elements. Each micro-channel heat exchanger element is individually manufactured and tested prior to integration with the manifold. The design of the micro-channel heat exchanger elements may include a straight fin, a high density fin, lanced offset fin, and perforated offset layers fin configurations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111880 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/80.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08307372 | Feblowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for constructing a processing request so that an information processing application satisfying the processing request can be assembled, includes: inputting a processing request, wherein the processing request includes a goal that is represented by a graph pattern that semantically describes a desired processing outcome; and assembling a processing graph that includes at least one component that satisfies the desired processing outcome, wherein the processing graph is assembled by associating the graph pattern that semantically describes the desired processing outcome with a graph pattern that semantically describes an applicability condition of the at least one component or a graph pattern that semantically describes an inclusion effect of the at least one component. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695279 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08304529 | Kore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anilkumar R. Kore (Austin, Texas); Muthian Shanmugasundaram (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel cap analogs which are easily synthesized, resulting in high levels of capping efficiency and transcription and improved translation efficiencies are provided. Such caps are methylated at the N7 position of one or both guanosines of the dinucleotide cap as well as at the 3′ position on the ribose ring. Substituent groups on the ribose ring also result in the cap being incorporated in the forward orientation. Also provided are methods useful for preparing capped analogs and using mRNA species containing such analogs are also contemplated herein, as well as kits containing the novel cap analogs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/375527 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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