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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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| US 08307827 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatole D. Martin (Gainesville, Florida); Michael J. Banner (Alachua, Florida); Andrea Gabrielli (Gainesville, Florida); Neil Russell Euliano, II (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for automated inspiratory muscle strength exercise includes software for setting a mechanical ventilator for a pressure regulated breath with an initial pressure target that is at the highest pressure setting a patient can tolerate and increasing the pressure target as tolerated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401500 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/204.230 |
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| US 08308646 | Belohlavek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Belohlavek (Rochester, Minnesota); Eileen M. McMahon (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A trainable, adaptable system for analyzing functional or structural clinical data can be used to identify a given pathology based on functional data. The system includes a signal processor that receives functional data from a device monitoring a subject and normalizes the functional data over at least one cycle of functional data. The system also includes a neural network having a plurality of weights selected based on predetermined data and receiving and processing the normalized functional data based on the plurality of weights to generate at least one metric indicating a degree of relation between the normalized functional data to the predetermined data. A diagnostic interpretation module is included for receiving the at least one metric from the neural network and classifying the functional data as indicative of the given pathology or not indicative of the given pathology based on a comparison of the at least one metric to at least one probability distribution of a likelihood of the given pathology. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405289 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/483 |
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| US 08308665 | Harry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason D. Harry (Rumford, Rhode Island); James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); James B. Niemi (West Kingston, Rhode Island); Atilla A. Priplata (Allston, Massachusetts); Stephen J. Kleshinski (Scituate, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and wearable system and for enhancing human balance and gait and preventing foot injury through neurological stimulation of the foot and the ankle. Subthreshold stimulation for neurosensory enhancement is provided via electrodes or vibrational actuators, or combination thereof, disposed in or on a wearable a platform, such as an insole, sock shoe, removable shoe insert, or applied without the support of a platform, to the skin surface of an individual. Suprathreshold stimulation for therapeutic purposes, such as improving blood flow, is also provided by the vibrational actuators. The actuators and electrodes are driven by bias signals generated by a bias signal generator that is coupled to a controller. The signal generator under the control of the controller is adapted to generate a non-deterministic random signal, a repetitive pattern or series of patterns. The controller optionally includes a communication port for interfacing with an external computer for purposes of optimizing and programming the controller. The wearable system is powered by a power source. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793729 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/22 |
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| US 08309070 | Low et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Low (Shorewood, Minnesota); Jing Xiao (Roseville, Minnesota); Zhenhong Nan (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to methods for isolation and culture of umbilical cord blood stem cells, cells isolated by the methods, and therapeutic uses for those cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/130820 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 08309095 | Scadden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Laura M. Calvi (Rochester, New York); Gregor Adams (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for manipulating hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells, mesenchymal stem cells, epithelial stem cells, neural stem cells and related products through activation of the PTH/PTHrP receptor in neighboring cells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/097664 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 08309099 | Hoffmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erich Hoffmann (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the development of a dual promoter system (preferably a RNA pol I-pol II system) for the efficient intracellular synthesis of viral RNA. The resultant minimal plasmid-based system may be used to synthesize any RNA virus, preferably viruses with a negative single stranded RNA genome. The viral product of the system is produced when the plasmids of the system are introduced into a suitable host cell. One application of the system is production of attenuated, reassortant influenza viruses for use as antigens in vaccines. The reassortant viruses generated by cotransfection of plasmids may comprise genes encoding the surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase from an influenza virus currently infecting the population and the internal genes from an attenuated influenza virus. An advantageous property of the present invention is its versatility; the system may be quickly and easily adapted to synthesize an attenuated version of any RNA virus. Attenuated or inactivated RNA viruses produced by the present invention may be administered to a patient in need of vaccination by any of several routes including intranasally or intramuscularly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/150426 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/209.100 |
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| US 08309102 | Mrsny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall J. Mrsny (Los Altos Hills, California); Deborah Dean (San Anselmo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for immunizing against infection by Chlamydia trachomatis. The methods and compositions rely, in part, on administering an immunogenic composition comprising one or more peptides derived from C. trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) to a subject to be immunized. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise a chimeric immunogens, expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides, and kits comprising the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105676 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
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| US 08309134 | McDonough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A McDonough (Helotes, Texas); Hong Dixon (Helotes, Texas); Maria Lucy Kimmel (San Antonio, Texas); Larry Allen Cabell (San Antonio, Texas); Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to non-aggregating nanoparticles and their associated methods of preparation. The nanoparticles may have a surface and a size range of 1 nm to 999 nm, along with a zeta potential of −50 to 50 millivolts. A polycation and/or polyanion may be disposed on the nanoparticle surface. In addition, an active ingredient may be encapsulated within the nanoparticles or associated with the polycation or polyanion on the nanoparticle surface. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245450 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
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| US 08309311 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong-Gang Wang (Palmyra, Pennsylvania); Domenico Coppola (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods for detecting the presence of a neoplastic condition by comparing a sample level of a BIF-1 to a reference, wherein a low level of BIF-1 in the sample correlates with the presence of a neoplastic condition. Another method involves determining the risk of relapse, tumor recurrence and/or metastasis by determining a sample level of a Bif-1 to a reference level of Bif-1, wherein low sample levels correlate with a likelihood of relapse, recurrence and/or metastasis. Yet another method includes detecting the presence of a pre-neoplastic condition, such as prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia. The method involves measuring a level of a Bif-1 in a sample and comparing the level of Bif-1 in the sample to a reference level of Bif-1. High levels of Bif-1 in the sample correlate with the presence of the pre-neoplastic condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730844 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08309313 | Blackshear |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry J. Blackshear (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides glycated peptides and glycated fragments and glycated variants thereof, antibodies and aptamers which bind thereto, compositions and kits comprising the same, related conjugates, and a database comprising data indicating the concentration of glycated peptides present in diabetic and non-diabetic persons. The invention also provides a method of monitoring glycemic control, a method of treating or preventing diabetes, a method of preventing a complication of diabetes, a method of monitoring the status of diabetes, a method of determining the efficacy of a diabetes treatment, as well as methods of detecting diabetes or a predisposition thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/281909 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 08309320 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California); The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia R. Morris (Oakland, California); Stanley L. Hazen (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for diagnosis, including prognosis, of conditions associated with decreased arginine bioavailability (which can result from dysregulated arginine metabolism, e.g., due to increased arginase activity) by assessing in a sample from a subject the ratio of arginine to one or more, usually two or more, modulators of arginine bioavailability. In one embodiment, the ratio of arginine to (ornithine+citrulline) is assessed to aid in diagnosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628841 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
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| US 08309322 | Peters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reuben John Peters (Ames, Iowa); David G. Russell (Ithaca, New York); Francis M. Mann (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel uses for diterpene modulators of macrophage phagosomal maturation are provided. The diterpene isotuberculosinol is used as an immune modulator, assay for pharmaceutical compositions and an isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis labdane-related diterpenoid virulence factor. A method of treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis infectivity is further provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776759 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/32 |
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| US 08309349 | Glorioso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Glorioso (Blawnox, Pennsylvania); Darren Wolfe (Verona, Pennsylvania); David Krisky (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a cell line complementing HSV ICP4, ICP27, and UL55 genes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418062 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08309350 | Isacoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Matthew Volgraf (Oakland, California); Pablo Ignacio Gorostiza Langa (Barcelona, Spain); Katharine Borges (Centerport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a synthetic regulator of protein function, which regulator is a light-sensitive regulator. The present invention further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present invention further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. The present invention further provides methods of identifying agents that modulate protein function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/364105 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08309356 | Glazer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Glazer (Gulford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for targeted gene therapy are disclosed. Compositions containing double duplex-forming pseudocomplementary oligonucleotides are administered in combination with a donor oligonucleotide that is homologous to a target sequence on a double-stranded DNA molecule in need of repair or replacement. By activating cellular mechanisms involved in DNA synthesis, repair and recombination, the double duplex-forming pseudocomplementary oligonucleotides can introduce one or more mutations at a site of interest by increasing the efficiency of targeted recombination of the donor oligonucleotide. The pseudocomplementary oligonucleotides/donor oligonucleotide compositions may be administered in combination with a second therapeutic agent that enhances access of the pseudocomplementary oligonucleotides and/or the donor oligonucleotide to the target site, an agent that enhances or increases DNA repair or recombination, or an agent that enhances uptake or delivery of the oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753016 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/463 |
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| US 08309519 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Li (Salt Lake City, Utah); Christopher Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nyall London (Bountiful, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are described herein. Methods for producing and screening compounds and compositions capable of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are also described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions are included in the compositions described herein. The compositions described herein are useful in, for example, methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis, including methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis induced by specific angiogenic, permeability and inflammatory factors, such as, for example VEGF, bFGF and thrombin. Methods for treating specific diseases and conditions are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/111776 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
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| US 08309524 | Woolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Gullford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods and compositions useful for treating and diseases caused by a dysregulation of the BMP/GDF branch of the TGF-β signaling pathway. Also disclosed are methods for identifying compounds useful for such therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171429 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
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| US 08309525 | Barzilai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nir Barzilai (Hartsdale, New York); Pinchas Cohen (Pacific Palisades, California); Radhika Muzumdar (Mamaroneck, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of using humanin and humanin analogs to treat a mammal exhibiting or at risk for insulin resistance, increase insulin sensitivity in a mammal exhibiting or at risk for insulin resistance, treat type-2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and neurodegeneration, treat and prevent myocardial injury, and determine longevity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/451524 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.400 |
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| US 08309526 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); University College Cardiff Consultants Ltd (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, Georgia); University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Freeman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Francisco Schopfer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerie O'Donnell (Penarth, United Kingdom); Paul Baker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yuqing E. Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruce Branchaud (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are nitrated lipids and methods of making and using the nitrated lipids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797460 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 08309527 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Oligonucleotides containing unthylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response in a subject are disclosed. Also disclosed are therapies for treating diseases associated with immune system activation that are initiated by unthylated CpG dinucleotides in a subject comprising administering to the subject oligonucleotides that do not contain unmethylated CpG sequences (i.e. methylated CpG sequences or no CpG sequence) to outcompete unmethylated CpG nucleic acids for binding. Further disclosed are methylated CpG containing dinucleotides for use antisense therapies or as in vivo hybridization probes, and immunoinhibitory oligonucleotides for use as antiviral therapeutics. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789536 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08309530 | Szentirmai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Szentirmai (Spokane Valley, Washington); Levente Kapas (Spokane Valley, Washington); James M. Krueger (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain aspects, the preproghrelin gene, but not the ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a) is required for normal integration of thermoregulation and sleep in mice. Particular aspects provide methods for modulation of thermoregulation and other ghrelin-mediated conditions (e.g., reduction of appetite or food intake, reduction of body weight or treatment of obesity, reduction of body temperature or induction of hypothermia, etc.), comprising administration of an inhibitor of ghrelin expression, and including, e.g., siRNA inhibition for treatment of obesity and for modulation of thermoregulation (e.g., induction of hypothermia in surgical settings benefiting from same). Additionally provided are methods for reducing body temperature or induction of hypothermia, comprising administration to a mammalian subject in need thereof an amount of an anti-obestatin antibody agent sufficient to reduce body temperature or induce hypothermia. Further methods comprise administration of a ghrelin peptide antagonist. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700009 |
| 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 |
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| US 08309533 | Xu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuoshang Xu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Human diseases caused by dominant, gain-of-function mutations develop in heterozygotes bearing one mutant and one wild-type copy of a gene. Because the wild-type gene often performs important functions, whereas the mutant gene is toxic, any therapeutic strategy must selectively inhibit the mutant while retaining wild-type gene expression. The present invention includes methods of specifically inhibiting the expression of a mutant allele, while preserving the expression of a co-expressed wild-type allele using RNAi, a therapeutic strategy for treating genetic disorders associated with dominant, gain-of-function gene mutations. The invention also includes small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) that selectively suppress mutant, but not wild-type, expression of copper zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1), which causes inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The present invention further provides asymmetric siRNAs and shRNAs with enhanced efficacy and specificity and mediating RNAi. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031534 |
| 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 |
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| US 08309541 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavin P. Robertson (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); SubbRao V. Madhunapantula (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Shantu Amin (Union City, New Jersey); Dhimant Desai (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-cancer compositions and methods are described including one or more compounds having the structural formula I: R2-R-R1, where R is phenyl, where R1 is (CH2)nSe—C(═NH)—NH2, where R2 is (CH2)nSe—C(═NH)—NH2 or R2 is H, and where each n is independently 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. Methods of treating a subject are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject having a condition characterized by Akt dysregulation. Administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject detectably increases apoptosis and/or decreases proliferation of cancer cells, particularly cancer cells characterized by Akt dysregulation. Compositions of the present invention inhibit Akt enzymes, iNOS, and increase MAP kinase activity such that cancer cells contacted with the compositions are inhibited. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107494 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 08309565 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Ganesh D. Kini (Bristow, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphonate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use for treating a variety of medical disorders, e.g., osteoporosis and other disorders of bone metabolism, cancer, viral infections, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/220548 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/274 |
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| US 08309582 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Chung-Wai Shiau (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitors useful in the treatment of unwanted proliferating cells, including cancers and precancers, in subjects in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having unwanted proliferating cells comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitor described herein to a subject in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of preventing the proliferation of unwanted proliferating cells, such as cancers and precancers, in a subject comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitor described herein to a subject at risk of developing a condition characterized by unwanted proliferating cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652456 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/342 |
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| US 08309599 | Koide et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazunori Koide (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Albert (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ananthapadmanabhan Sivaramakrishnan (Jamestown, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel analogs of FR901464, as well as an improved methodology for preparing FR901464 and its analogs. These compounds display an anti-cancer activity and are candidates for therapies against a number of disease states associated with dysfunctional RNA splicing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/883105 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
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| US 08309603 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Jeff Kearbey (Lakeland, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to a feed composition and method of affecting the carcass composition by increasing the lean mass, reducing the fat mass, and/or reducing the percent fat mass comprising SARM compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730094 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/524 |
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| US 08309614 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Ding (Los Angeles, California); Julia Y. Ljubimova (Studio City, California); Eggehard Holler (Los Angeles, California); Keith L. Black (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of Polycefin-LLL nanoconjugate as a means of cytoplasmic delivery of drugs. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a drug delivery molecule, comprising a polymerized carboxylic acid molecular scaffold covalently linked to L-leucylleucylleucine. In another embodiment, the Polycefin-LLL includes drug antisense morpholino oligos, targeting antibodies, and a pH-sensitive endosome escape unit. In addition, the drug could be siRNA, microRNA, and aptamer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/935110 |
| 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 514/772 |
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| US 08309691 | Witman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George B. Witman (Grafton, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Pazour (Framingham, Massachusetts); Joel L. Rosenbaum (Branford, Connecticut); Douglas G. Cole (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to various intraflagellar transport (IFT) polypeptides and the nucleic acids that encode them. The new IFT particle polypeptides and nucleic acids can be used in a variety of diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic methods. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188621 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
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| US 08309697 | Sodroski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Sodroski (Medford, Massachusetts); Matthew Stremlau (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christopher M. Owens (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel TRIM polypeptides, proteins, and nucleic acid molecules. In addition to isolated, full-length TRIM proteins, the invention further provides isolated TRIM fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-TRIM antibodies. The invention also provides TRIM nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing a nucleic acid molecule of the invention, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced and non-human transgenic animals in which an TRIM gene has been introduced or disrupted. The present invention also provides methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection. The invention further provides methods for identifying a compound capable of treating or preventing viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection and AIDS. In addition, the invention provides a method for treating a subject having a viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection using the modulators of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689800 |
| ART UNIT | 4171 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08309701 | Drayna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secrectary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Drayna (Potomac, Maryland); Un-Kyung Kim (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Identified herein are different forms of bitter receptor genes that occur in different humans. These alleles are generated by numerous coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (cSNP's) that occur within the members of the T2R gene family. Some SNP's cause amino acid substitutions, while others introduce chain termination codons, rendering the allele non-functional. Differences in these genes are believed to have a large effect on those individuals' sense of bitter taste, such that these individuals perceive the taste of bitter substances differently than the rest of the population. The ability to assay this allelic information is useful in the development of flavorings and flavor enhancers, as it can be used to define large groups and populations who perceive bitter tastes differently. This in turn allows the taste preferences of these groups to be addressed at the molecular level for the first time. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534505 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.310 |
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| US 08309704 | 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 (Worcester, Massachusetts); Martin Simard (Deschambault, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of enhancing the efficacy and specificity of RNAi. The invention also provides compositions for mediating RNAi. In particular, the invention provides siRNAs, shRNAs, vectors and transgenes having improved specificity and efficacy in mediating silencing of a target gene. Therapeutic methods are also featured. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859321 |
| 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 |
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| US 08309705 | 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 | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748937 |
| 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 |
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| US 08309768 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Samuel K. Kulp (Hillard, Ohio); Dasheng Wang (Dublin, Ohio); John C. Byrd (Columbus, Ohio); Natarajan Muthusamy (Galloway, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of FTY720-derived compounds with antitumor activity are described. These compounds include the compounds of formula I: wherein R1 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methyl. methoxy, and hydroxyl; R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methoxy, and hydroxyl; R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl and cyclo-alkyl; and n is independently selected from 0 to 6. The compounds have lower immunosuppressive side effects as a result of not being phosphorylated by sphingosine kinase 2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/305927 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309790 | Popko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Popko (Chicago, Illinois); Wensheng Lin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the field of neurology. Specifically, the invention relates to the discovery and characterization of molecular components that play a role in neuronal demyelination or remyelination. In addition, the invention relates to the generation of an animal model that exhibits hypomyelination. The compositions and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for drug screening and/or treatment of demyelination disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799670 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
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| US 08309791 | Fahrenkrug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Recombinectics, Inc. (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Fahrenkrug (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Daniel F. Carlson (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Aron M. Geurts (New Berlin, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic artiodactyls are described as well as methods of making and using such artiodactyls. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/504364 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/17 |
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| US 08309932 | Haselman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Haselman (Renton, Washington); Robert S. Miyaoka (Shoreline, Washington); Thomas K. Lewellen (Port Ludlow, Washington); Scott Hauck (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for estimating the start time of an electronic pulse generated in response to a detected event, for example the start time for pulses received in response to photon detection in positron emission tomography, includes providing a detector that detects an external event and generates an electronic analog pulse signal. A composite reference pulse curve is calculated to represent analog pulse signals generated by the detector. Upon receiving an analog pulse signal, it may be filtered, and then digitized, and normalized based on the area of the digital signal. Using at least one point of the normalized digital pulse signal, the composite reference pulse curve shape is used to estimate the pulse start time. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213007 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/362 |
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| US 08310532 | Mertz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Mertz (Boston, Massachusetts); Daryl Lim (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kengyeh K. Chu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A first image data set of the real-world object is received at a processor where the real-world object was illuminated with substantially uniform illumination. A second image data set of the real-world object is received at the processor where the real-world object was illuminated with substantially structured illumination. A high pass filter is applied to the first-image data set to remove out-of-focus content and retrieve high-frequency in-focus content. The local contrast of the second-image data set is determined producing a low resolution local contrast data set. The local contrast provides a low resolution estimate of the in-focus content in the first-image data set. A low pass filter is applied to the estimated low resolution in-focus data set, thus making its frequency information complementary to the high-frequency in-focus data set. The low and high frequency in-focus data sets are combined to produce an optically-sectioned data set of the real-world object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/994413 |
| ART UNIT | 2485 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/79 |
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| US 08310674 | Huening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pete Huening (Clayton, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer is provided including a camera and an axial symmetric camera mount configured to receive the camera and to rotate. The spectrometer furthers include an input for providing optical radiation to a spectrometer system; a diffraction grating for dispersing the optical radiation along a prescribed plane; at least one lens for focusing wavelength-dispersed light onto at least one array of a detector of optical radiation, wherein the camera has at least one linear array of elements for detecting optical radiation; a mechanical housing, wherein the axial symmetric camera mount is configured to couple the camera to the mechanical housing; and a means for rotating the camera coupled to the mechanical housing about an axis. Related systems and methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/468372 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 08311607 | Zelenchuk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luma Imaging Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex R. Zelenchuk (Stoughton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at three selected wavelengths, one of which corresponds to an isosbestic point. In one example, the isosbestic point occurs at about 431 nm. The intensities of the observed signals are normalized using the 431 nm intensity. A score is determined using the ratios in a discriminant analysis. The tissue under examination is resected or not, based on the diagnosis of disease or health, according to the outcome of the discriminant analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215096 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence D. Sanger (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rehabilitation device is presented that is inexpensive to produce and is easy to use. The device uses a predictable method to estimate the activity of muscle and therefore provide many ways to train and rehabilitate a person having a prosthetic limb or other neuromuscular disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226373 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/546 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Matthew Horsager (Los Angeles, California); Scott H. Greenwald (Seattle, Washington); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Ione Fine (Seattle, Washington); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Geoffrey M. Boynton (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for retinal stimulation are shown. The method comprises varied parameters, including frequency, pulse width, and pattern of pulse trains to determine a stimulation pattern and visual perception threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818373 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311790 | Senger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan S. Senger (Blacksburg, Virginia); Eleftherios Papoutsakis (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction for Clostridium acetobutylicum (ATCC 824) was created using a new semi-automated reverse engineering algorithm. This invention includes algorithms and software that can reconstruct genome-scale metabolic networks for cell-types available through the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes. This method can also be used to complete partial metabolic networks and cell signaling networks where adequate starting information base is available. The software may use a semi-automated approach which uses a priori knowledge of the cell-type from the user. Upon completion, the program output is a genome-scale stoichiometric matrix capable of cell growth in silico. The invention also includes methods for developing flux constraints and reducing the number of possible solutions to an under-determined system by applying specific proton flux states and identifying numerically-determined sub-systems. Although the model-building and analysis tools described in this invention were initially applied to C. acetobutylicum, the novel algorithms and software can be applied universally. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422772 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis M. Chapin (Fort Worth, Texas); John T. Schueler (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool for removing plugs from recesses obviates the need for a twist of the wrist in engaging a plug for removal. A plunger is carried by a housing and is supported for reciprocal axial motion between extended and retracted positions relative to the housing. A shaft of the plunger includes a first threaded section that is engaged in a nut carried by the housing and has threads pitched to allow relative axial motion to be converted to relative rotation between shaft and housing. A second threaded section of the plunger shaft is configured to tap into a plug in response to shaft rotation in a tapping direction, and has a shallower thread pitch than the first threaded section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652354 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/426.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | S2 Corporation (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Woidtke (Bozeman, Montana); Peter B. Sellin (Bozeman, Montana); Charles Thiel (Bozeman, Montana); Calvin C. Harrington (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of rotating a sample for use in a cryocooler, having the steps of mounting a sample in a sample mounting apparatus, the apparatus comprising a housing having an outer wall surface, an inner wall surface, a mount attached to the inner wall surface for supporting the sample, and a motor for rotating the sample, and an exchange gas to provide thermal communication between the moving sample and the inner housing surfaces; sealing the housing by applying a sealant to adjoining parts of the housing such that the joints are air tight; evacuating the housing; adding an inert gas to the housing; sealing the inert gas in the housing; attaching the outer wall surface of the housing to a cryocooler; and rotating the sample by engaging the motor. Also disclosed is a cryogenic apparatus having a sample holder; a cryo-cooler; a thermal link connecting the sample holder and the cryo-cooler; and a motor attached to the sample holder for rotating a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/749036 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/51.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Prevey, III (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inducing compressive residual stress of blading members integrally formed with a rotor. The method includes using a caliper-type burnishing tool such that the caliper arms of the tool are contoured and oriented for placing the burnishing elements on opposite sides of the blading member to be treated. The blading member is burnished to introduce a pre-determined pattern of residual compressive stresses in a selected area of the blade. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806767 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/53 |
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| US 08307724 | Wichert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clinton Michael Wichert (Edmond, Oklahoma); Tim Webb (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Carl Chipman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Martin Sanders (Morrison, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The improved analyte collection device is adjustable between two separate and distinct configurations. The first configuration enhances analyte collection by precluding undesired gas flow from around the sampling device. The second configuration enhances analyte collection by extending and focusing gas flow into the sampling device. Additionally, the current invention provides methods for collecting analyte from the surface of objects or the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582380 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Lerner (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar energy device includes a first prism with a dichroic surface and a reflective surface opposite the dichroic surface. A first solar cell is positioned to receive light rays passing through the dichroic surface. A second solar cell positioned to receive light rays from the reflective surface. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/246096 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Stoves and furnaces 126/683 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Shawn O. Meade (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns a method of making a thin film and/or particle having a grey scale code embedded in its physical structure by refractive index changes between different regions of the thin film or particle, as well as thin films and particles made by the method. In a preferred method for encoding a thin film, a semiconductor or insulator substrate is etched to form a thin film including pores. The etching conditions are controlled to vary porosity in the thin film according to a pattern that will generate an optical signature in the reflectivity spectrum in response to illumination such that the optical signature will including a grey scale code. The etching waveform is formed by the addition of at least two separate sine components in accordance with the following equations (1)An=(Anmax−Anmin)/2; (2) kn=frequency=1/period; (3) yn=An[sin(knt−Φ)+1]+Anmin (4) ycomp=[y1+ . . . +yn]/n wherein equation (1) defines the amplitude of sine component n, which results in the spectral peak height, or grey scale of a bit; Equation (2) defines the frequency of the each sine component, which results in the spectral position of a peak, or identification of a bit (1st bit, 2nd bit, etc. . . );. Equation (3) defines sine component n and Equation (4) defines the composite waveform used to drive the electrochemical etch. The film can be removed and diced into particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/589741 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/454 |
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| US 08308112 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island); The University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommie L. Wood (Arlington, Texas); Thomas C. Corke (Granger, Indiana); Martiqua Post (Colorad Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft includes a surface over which an airflow passes. A plasma actuator is configured to generate a plasma above the surface, the plasma coupling a directed momentum into the air surrounding the surface to reduce separation of the airflow from the surface. A method of reducing separation of an airflow from a surface of an aircraft includes generating a plasma in air surrounding the surface at a position where the airflow would separate from the surface in the absence of the plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519770 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308428 | Bridges, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Bridges, Jr. (Durham, Connecticut); Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly includes a body having two circumferential sides, a leading end, and a trailing end. At least one of the circumferential sides includes a first channel sidewall, a second channel sidewall, and a channel bottom wall that together define a seal channel for receiving a seal. The seal channel includes a slot that cooperates with a tab on the seal to facilitate securing the seal within the seal channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869142 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308873 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert A. Chin (Portland, Connecticut); William P. Ogden (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing steel includes carburizing a martensitic stainless steel work piece to produce a carburized case by utilizing in combination, (i) a composition of the martensitic stainless steel work piece, (ii) a preselected carbon concentration in the carburized case, and (iii) a preselected grain size of the martensitic stainless steel work piece such that the carburized case predominately forms carbides of composition M6C, M2C, M23C6 or combinations thereof. The martensitic stainless steel work piece is then heated to substantially solution the metal carbides. The work piece is then quenched at a cooling rate that is sufficient to avoid substantial precipitation of any carbides during cool down to the martensite start temperature, then given a low temperature temper. In so doing, the carburized case hardened martensitic stainless steel will have balanced mechanical, tribological and corrosion resistance properties for high performance bearing and gear components. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083676 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308874 | Clark 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) | Arthur E. Clark (Adelphi, Maryland); Marilyn Wun-Fogle (Potomac, Maryland); James B. Restorff (College Park, Maryland); Thomas A. Lograsso (Ames, Iowa); Rick Allen Kellogg (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy comprising: a magnetostrictive iron alloy having the formula: FexGayAlz, where x is of from about 65 at % to about 90 at %, y is of from about 5 at % to about 35 at %, and z is of from about 0 at % to about 30 at %; and wherein said alloy has a room temperature magnetostriction of at least approximately 150 ppm. An alloy having a saturated magnetostriction of from about at least 150 ppm comprising: a magnetostrictive iron alloy having the formula: FexGayBet, where x is of from about 65 at % to about 90 at %, y is of from about 1 at % to about 35 at %, and t is of from about 1 at % to about 30 at %; and wherein said alloy has a room temperature magnetostriction of at least approximately 150 ppm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296726 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308889 | Glancy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Glancy (North Ogden, Utah); David L. Johnson (Roy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for curing composite material to form composite structures are provided. A curing tool in one embodiment includes cured nano tube impregnated resin, at least two conductors formed in the nano tube impregnated resin, at least one layer of cured composite material and at least one insulation layer separating the cured composite material from the nano tube impregnated resin. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870556 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308978 | Marrocco, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Marrocco, III (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Farshad J. Motamedi (San Dimas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photoluminescent and electroluminescent compositions are provided which comprise a matrix comprising aromatic repeat units and a luminescent metal ion or luminescent metal ion complex. Methods for producing such compositions, and the electroluminescent devices formed therefrom, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/737220 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309029 | Wick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system for collecting, detecting, and classifying submicron-sized particles in a sample comprising an Integrated Virus Detection System (IVDS) of the type wherein the detecting means includes a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) and condensation particle counter (CPC), the improvement comprising positioning an aerosol collector or an electrostatic collector between the differential mobility analyzer and the condensation particle counter wherein submicron-sized particles from the environmental sample are collected for further analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/411679 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309230 | Karim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inmat, Inc. (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas P. Karim (Green Brook, New Jersey); Harris A. Goldberg (Edison, New Jersey); Carrie A. Feeney (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Michele Farrell (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A multilayer barrier structure includes a plurality of relatively thin nanocomposite layers separated by one or more relatively thick intermediate layers selected from synthetic elastomers or non-elastomeric polymers. The composites exhibit remarkably long breakthrough and lag-times and are useful for packaging or protective apparel. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272351 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309371 | De La Houssaye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. De La Houssaye (San Diego, California); J. Scott Rodgers (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method include forming an optical cavity by positioning a photonic crystal a predetermined distance from a substrate, and creating, within the cavity, a standing wave having a substantially flat wavefront. The standing wave may be created by applying an input wave to a first surface of the photonic crystal. The predetermined distance may be such that a peak intensity of the standing wave is proximate to or a calculated distance from the substrate surface. The peak intensity may vary in relation to the substrate surface. The method may include tuning the peak intensity location within the cavity by shifting the wavelength of the input wave or altering the characteristics of the photonic crystal by an external field. A second photonic crystal may be used on the other side of the substrate to replace the reflecting properties of the substrate, allowing for further smoothing of the wavefront. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506932 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309528 | Feinmark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Feinmark (Haworth, New Jersey); Richard B. Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery that two pore K+ channel (2PK) gene expression is increased in tumors and tumor cell lines, especially prostate tumor cells. The present invention encompasses methods for disease diagnosis, drug screening and the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299852 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309625 | Ramotowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preventing accumulation of organisms on a surface exposed to a marine environment. Nano-particles are provided in a water soluble polymer. The nano-particles have a thickness of about 2 nanometers and a major surface area of about 3 microns and are treated by a quaternary ammonium salt. The treated nano-particles are mixed into the water soluble polymer material. This mixture can be applied to the exposed surface. Biofouling is prevented by the sharpness of the nano-particles, sloughing of the water soluble material, and biocidal action caused by the quaternary ammonium salt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/159471 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309783 | Strege et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua R. Strege (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Benjamin G. Oster (Thompson, North Dakota); Paul D. Pansegrau (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Chad A. Wocken (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Marc D. Kurz (Thompson, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to production of fuels or fuel blendstocks from renewable sources. Various embodiments provide a method of producing a hydrocarbon product by hydrotreating a feedstock including at least one of a renewable triacylglyceride (TAG), renewable free fatty acid (FFA), and renewable fatty acid C1-C5 alkyl ester (C1-C5 FAE) in the presence of a nonsulfided hydrotreating catalyst to produce a first product including hydrocarbons. In some examples, the first product can be subjected to further chemical transformations such as aromatization, cracking, or isomerization to produce a second product including hydrocarbons. In various embodiments, the first or second hydrocarbon product with minimal or substantially no further processing can be suitable as a liquid transportation fuel or fuel blendstock, including fuels such as gasoline, naptha, kerosene, jet fuel, and diesel fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335803 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/733 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309925 | Mendis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajind Mendis (Houston, Texas); Daniel M. Mittleman (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising polarizing and coupling an electromagnetic beam to a first-order transverse electric (TE1) mode with respect to a parallel plate waveguide (PPWG) integrated resonator comprising two plates and a cavity, sending the electromagnetic beam into the PPWG integrated resonator to excite the cavity by the TE1 mode and cause a resonance response, and obtaining wave amplitude data that comprises a resonant frequency, and obtaining the refractive index of fluids filling the cavity via the shift in resonant frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561978 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309928 | Antesberger |
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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) | A. Wayne Antesberger (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An infrared imaging system including a substrate, a plurality of hexagonal shaped micro-bolometer pixels combined to define a focal plane array. Each pixel is electrically connected to the substrate with a pair of opposing isolation legs. One end of the isolation leg is attached to the pixel's periphery while the other is fixed to that substrate so that the focal plane array and a plane containing the substrate have a parallel, spaced-apart relationship. In this manner, the isolation legs provides an electrical communication path from each pixel to the substrate as each pixel undergoes an internal change in resistance due to absorption of infrared energy. At the same time, the legs separate the pixels from the substrate so that there is no heat transfer between the pixel and the substrate due to direct contact. The hexagonal shape arrangement also allows for a staggered arrangement of adjacent rows in the array, thereby increasing the fill factor for the focal plane array of the device. The addition of stepped areas to the hexagonal pixel provides for improved energy absorption through increase in area and multiple coupling of resonant cavities between the pixel and the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753204 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309955 | Katz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Baltimore, Maryland); Bhola Nath Pal (Baltimore, Maryland); Kevin Cua See (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic or electro-optic device has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric layer has electrically insulating planar layers with intercalated ions therebetween such that the electrically insulating planar layers provide a barrier to impede movement of the intercalated ions to the first and second electrodes under an applied voltage while permitting a polarization of the dielectric layer while in operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/743764 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310223 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward K. Hoffman (Anaheim, California); Thomas A. Miller (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical probe and associated method are provided to establish electrical contact with a wire. The electrical probe includes an elongate member extending between opposed first and second ends, and first and second needles connected to the elongate member and extending beyond the first end of the elongate member. The electrical probe also includes first and second conductors electrically connected to the first and second needles, respectively, and extending along the elongate member. The electrical probe also includes a bumper stop connected to the elongate member proximate the first end of the tube. Further, the electrical probe includes a movable engagement member extending lengthwise along the elongate member. The moveable engagement member includes a hook that extends beyond the first end of the elongate member and beyond the first and second needles. The hook may include a terminal portion configured to contact the bumper stop. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859713 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/72.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310259 | Hamel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey Hamel (Cedarville, Michigan); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Samuel McKnight (New Paltz, New York); Chirag S. Patel (Peekskill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon carrier space transformer assembly includes one or more silicon structures, which provide space transformer scaling to permit interconnection for fine pitch input/output interconnections with a semiconductor die or wafer, and fine pitch test probe tips connected to the one or more silicon structures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024655 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/756.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310304 | Vagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Vagher (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Clayton Harmon (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital power amplifier is disclosed. The digital power amplifier may comprise an amplifying stage configured for applying a first level of attenuation to an RF input signal in response to a desired output power level of the digital power amplifier; a reference loop configured for determining an average power of a sample of the RF input signal and providing a reference value at least partially based upon the average power of the sample of the RF input signal; a feedback loop configured for applying a second level of attenuation to a sample of an output of the amplifying stage and providing a feedback value indicating an average power of the attenuated sample of the output; and an error amplifier configured for providing a gain control adjustment signal to the amplifying stage, the gain control adjustment signal being determined based upon the reference value and the feedback value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/974465 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310544 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moon S. Kim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Alan M. Lefcourt (Elkridge, Maryland); Kuanglin Chao (Ellicott, Maryland); Yud-Ren Chen (Laurel, Maryland); Andre G. Senecal (North Smithfield, Rhode Island); Patrick Marek (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The hand-held inspection tool enhances the ability of an on-site inspector to detect and communicate the presence of contamination on an object or in an area. An on-site inspector directs an excitation light in the sensing head of the tool into an area of interest. If the targeted contamination is present, the excitation light causes the contamination to emit fluorescence. The emitted fluorescent light passes through a narrow spectral band-pass video camera filter and is detected by a video camera mounted in the tool sensing head. The video camera transmits the image to a display visible to the on-site inspector. The invention also includes a means of recording, documenting, and wirelessly communicating the inspection process so that remotely located personnel can view the inspection, and respond to the inspection findings in real time. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157911 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310931 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Bong Jun Ko (Harrington, New Jersey); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for inferring network link topology includes receiving an address of a seed node in a network, initializing a set of links and monitors of the network, refining, iteratively beginning at the seed node, the set of links and monitors of the network, wherein a local topology of links is inferred from routing information of a current node and a remote topology of links is inferred from routing information of the set of monitors, wherein the set of monitors is created from the local topology of links, and outputting the topology of links including the local and remote topology of links as a topology of the network. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175931 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310936 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In a communication network, links in a transmission path between source and destination terminals are sequentially switched to an operational state in response to a command or a group of commands for transmitting data prior to completion of assembling the data. Each node in the transmission path independently monitors transmission of data. After transmitting the data, the links are selectively switched to pre-determined power saving states. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178048 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311035 | Bossler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Bossler (Chandler, Arizona); Elizabeth Marie Raslavsky (Chandler, Arizona); Nicole Marie Loomis (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a method for communicating call control signaling information in a communications system that includes a user equipment (UE) and a base includes the UE formatting the call control signaling information, transmitting the call control signaling information over a first logical channel that is mapped to a first transport channel, and transmitting user traffic over a second logical channel that is mapped to a second transport channel. In an embodiment, the base receives the call control signaling information from the UE over the first logical channel, receives the user traffic from the UE over the second logical channel, and transmits the call control signaling information to a core network. In an embodiment, the communication system is an IP network in which information is exchanged between the UE and the base using a W-CDMA transmission protocol. The base may form a portion of a satellite-based radio network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241474 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/091382 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311373 | Santiago 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) | Francisco Santiago (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Alfredo N. Rayms-Keller (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Victor H. Gehman, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia); Karen J. Long (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Kevin A. Boulais (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector is provided for sampling and identifying a material, such as a medium in which the detector is disposed. The detector includes an annular photonic crystal fiber, first and second electrodes, an electrical power supply, an illumination source and an analyzer. The fiber has opposite longitudinal ends, surrounds a center core tube and includes fused capillary tubes. The electrodes are disposed between the fiber's longitudinal ends. The electrical power supply connects between the electrodes. The illumination source emits light into the core tube from one of the opposite ends. The analyzer for compares an emission pattern from light transverse to the fiber against an established pattern, and indicates match in response to correspondence between the patterns. The annular structure has a two-dimensional optical photonic band-gap. The analyzer monitors the emission pattern by optical frequency domain reflectometry or optical time domain reflectometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462062 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311739 | Huddle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Guidance and Electronics Company, Inc. (Woodland Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Huddle (Chatsworth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for: (a) the correction of one or more elements determined from a first set of continuous gyro and accelerometer measurements comprising using a second set of discontinuously measured higher accuracy accelerometer measurements doubly integrated in an inertial coordinate system, (b) determining relative movement of a vehicle using a first set of acceleration measurements that do not include components of acceleration caused by the Earth's gravitational field, and a second set of acceleration measurements that do include components of acceleration caused by the Earth's gravitational field; and (c) correcting errors in an inertial navigation system positioned in a vehicle comprising using independently measured changes in position of the vehicle relative to an inertial coordinate frame. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362383 |
| 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 71/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311742 | Schuck |
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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) | Peter W. Schuck (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for accurately estimating plasma velocities on the photosphere based on magnetic field data from vector magnetograms. Spatial and temporal derivatives of the magnetic field components are computed and a structure tensor containing terms that specifically include the horizontal magnetic field components is constructed. The structure tensor is convolved with a window function and a least-squares solution based on the convolved structure tensor is found. The solution includes the plasma velocities in the horizontal and vertical directions at the center of the window. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692393 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311752 | Tam 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) | Daniel W. Tam (San Diego, California); Peder M. Hansen (San Diego, California); Daniel R. Gaytan (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for quantifying the effective loss of a mast-clamp-current-probe (MCCP) antenna comprising the following steps: providing a vector network analyzer (VNA) having first and second ports (Ports 1 and 2 respectively); coupling a transmit monopole antenna to Port 1 via a first transmission line; coupling a receive antenna to Port 2 via a second transmission line; determining the S-parameters of the two coupled antennas; calculating the power at the receive antenna (Pr); converting the transmit antenna to the MCCP antenna by shorting the transmit antenna to ground and clamping a current probe around the transmit antenna; determining the S′-parameters of the MCCP antenna and the receive antenna; calculating the power at the receive antenna (Pr′) when coupled to the MCCP antenna; and quantifying the effective loss of the MCCP antenna as the difference Pr−Pr′. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909560 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311757 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American GNC Corporation (Simi Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Fang Lin (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An innovative configuration of Miniaturized Smart Self-calibration EPD for mortar applications, as the azimuth/heading and elevation measurement device. This innovative EPD configuration uses only two FOGs or DTG and accelerometers and it is self-contained. This leads to a new EPD implementation that produces a small and light device with lower cost and adequate accuracy for the small dismounted mortar applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228766 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311965 | Breitwisch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Breitwisch (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chung Hon Lam (Yorktown Heights, New York); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Bipin Rajendran (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A neuromorphic circuit includes a first field effect transistor in a first diode configuration establishing an electrical connection between a first gate and a first drain of the first field effect transistor. The neuromorphic circuit also includes a second field effect transistor in a second diode configuration establishing an electrical connection between a second gate and a second drain of the second field effect transistor. The neuromorphic circuit further includes variable resistance material electrically connected to both the first drain and the second drain, where the variable resistance material provides a programmable resistance value. The neuromorphic circuit additionally includes a first junction electrically connected to the variable resistance material and providing a first connection point to an output of a neuron circuit, and a second junction electrically connected to the variable resistance material and providing a second connection point to the output of the neuron circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620624 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311966 | D'Ambrosio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle OTC Subsidiary LLC (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D'Ambrosio (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes relational Bayesian network-based tracking methods. Various, distinct embodiments of the present invention include tracking methods for: real-time relational tracking of e-commerce segmentation and personalization, in-residence tracking of elderly and disabled people, real-time relational tracking for ground target tracking, and real-time relational tracking of satellites and satellite constellations. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/860323 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312071 | Kailas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishnan Kunjunny Kailas (Tarrytown, New York); Brian Chan Monwai (Austin, Texas); Viresh Paruthi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A random number generator includes a fairness checker and correction module that ensures that a complete random sequence within a predetermined period of time will be output by the random number generator. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/101734 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312220 | Guthrie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Harmony L. Helterhoff (Cedar Park, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In response to a data request of a first of a plurality of processing units, the first processing unit selects a victim cache line to be castout from the lower level cache of the first processing unit and determines whether a mode is set. If not, the first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric an LCO command identifying the victim cache line and indicating that a lower level cache is the intended destination. If the mode is set, the first processing unit issues a castout command with an alternative intended destination. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the first processing unit removes the victim cache line from its lower level cache, and the victim cache line is held elsewhere in the data processing system. The mode can be set to inhibit castouts to system memory, for example, for testing. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420933 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312458 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Satya P. Sharma (Austin, Texas); Randal C. Swanberg (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A wake-and-go mechanism is provided with a central repository wake-and-go array for a multiple processor data processing system. The wake-and-go mechanism recognizes a programming idiom that indicates that a thread running on a processor within the multiple processor data processing system is waiting for an event. The wake-and-go mechanism updates a central repository wake-and-go array with a target address associated with the event. Each entry in the central repository wake-and-go array may include a thread identification (ID), a central processing unit (CPU) ID, the target address, the expected data, a comparison type, a lock bit, a priority, and a thread state pointer, which is the address at which the thread state information is stored. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024384 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312464 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for providing hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface (MPI) tasks by modifying tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors executing tasks of an MPI job are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. Each processor has an associated hardware implemented MPI load balancing controller. The MPI load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. Thus, operations may be performed to shift workloads from the slowest processor to one or more of the faster processors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846168 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08307653 | Anoshkina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elvira V. Anoshkina (Winter Springs, Florida); Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytic oxidation module for a catalytic combustor of a gas turbine engine is provided. The catalytic oxidation module comprises a plurality of spaced apart catalytic elements for receiving a fuel-air mixture over a surface of the catalytic elements. The plurality of catalytic elements includes at least one primary catalytic element comprising a monometallic catalyst and secondary catalytic elements adjacent the primary catalytic element comprising a multi-component catalyst. Ignition of the monometallic catalyst of the primary catalytic element is effective to rapidly increase a temperature within the catalytic oxidation module to a degree sufficient to ignite the multi-component catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/363923 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08307974 | Saunders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Saunders (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); John D. Brady (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A track assembly for a particulate material extrusion pump according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a link assembly with a roller bearing. An insert mounted to a load beam located such that the roller bearing contacts the insert. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010904 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/626.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308203 | Spletzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry L. Spletzer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Martinez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lisa C. Marron (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary mechanical latch for positive latching and unlatching of a rotary device with a latchable rotating assembly having a latching gear that can be driven to latched and unlatched states by a drive mechanism such as an electric motor. A cam arm affixed to the latching gear interfaces with leading and trailing latch cams affixed to a flange within the drive mechanism. The interaction of the cam arm with leading and trailing latch cams prevents rotation of the rotating assembly by external forces such as those due to vibration or tampering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496413 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Closure fasteners 292/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308430 | Bevington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems Utility Scale, Inc. (Barre, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Bevington (Waitsfield, Vermont); Garrett L. Bywaters (Waitsfield, Vermont); Clint C. Coleman (Warren, Vermont); Daniel P. Costin (Montpelier, Vermont); William L. Danforth (Rochester, Vermont); Jonathan A. Lynch (St. Johnsbury, Vermont); Robert H. Rolland (Waitsfield, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind turbine comprising an electrical generator that includes a rotor assembly. A wind rotor that includes a wind rotor hub is directly coupled to the rotor assembly via a simplified connection. The wind rotor and generator rotor assembly are rotatably mounted on a central spindle via a bearing assembly. The wind rotor hub includes an opening having a diameter larger than the outside diameter of the central spindle adjacent the bearing assembly so as to allow access to the bearing assembly from a cavity inside the wind rotor hub. The spindle is attached to a turret supported by a tower. Each of the spindle, turret and tower has an interior cavity that permits personnel to traverse therethrough to the cavity of the wind rotor hub. The wind turbine further includes a frictional braking system for slowing, stopping or keeping stopped the rotation of the wind rotor and rotor assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/032173 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308836 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Company (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guohai Liu (Birmingham, Alabama); Wan Wang Peng (Birmingham, Alabama); Pannalal Vimalchand (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for depressurizing and cooling a high pressure, high temperature dense phase solids stream having coarse solid particles with entrained gas therein. In one aspect, the system has an apparatus for at least partially depressurizing and cooling the high pressure, high temperature dense phase solids stream having gas entrained therein and a pressure letdown device for further depressurization and separating cooled coarse solid particles from a portion of the entrained gas, resulting in a lower temperature, lower pressure outlet of solid particles for downstream processing or discharge to a storage silo for future use and/or disposal. There are no moving parts in the flow path of the solids stream in the system. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426700 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308940 | Granick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve Granick (Champaign, Illinois); Liang Hong (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are chromatography devices having a stationary phase that includes patchy particles having at least two different surface chemistries, such as Janus particles. Also provided are methods of separating at least one analyte out of a sample, where the method includes adding a sample having at least one analyte to a chromatography device that includes a stationary phase that includes a plurality of patchy particles. Further provided are methods that include packing a chromatography column with a plurality patchy particles having at least two different surface chemistries. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274588 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308954 | Ginosar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Daniel S. Wendt (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of removing a polar solvent from a fluid volume contaminated with at least one polar impurity, such as a free fatty acid, is provided. The method comprises providing a fluid volume that includes at least one polar impurity dissolved in at least one solvent. The fluid volume is contacted with an expanding gas to remove the at least one solvent. The expanding gas may be dissolved into the at least one solvent in the fluid volume to form a gas-expanded solvent. The immiscibility of the polar impurities in the gas-expanded solvent enables separation of the polar impurities from the gas-expanded solvent. After separation of the polar impurities, at least one of the temperature and pressure may be reduced to separate the solvent from the expanding gas such that the clean solvent may be reused. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238225 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308982 | Lyons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Joseph Lyons (Burnt Hills, New York); Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Robert John Cleaver (West Charlton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, phosphor materials and apparatus related to nacaphite family of materials are presented. Potassium and rubidium based nacaphite family compounds and phosphors designed by doping divalent rare earth elements in the sites of alkaline earth metals in the nacaphite material families are descried. An apparatus comprising the phosphors based on the nacaphite family materials are presented herein. The compounds presented is of formula A2B1-yRyPO4X where the elements A, B, R, X and suffix y are defined such that A is potassium, rubidium, or a combination of potassium and rubidium and B is calcium, strontium, barium, or a combination of any of calcium, strontium and barium. X is fluorine, chlorine, or a combination of fluorine and chlorine, R is europium, samarium, ytterbium, or a combination of any of europium, samarium, and ytterbium, and y ranges from 0 to about 0.1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873090 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4P0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308984 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of exfoliating a layered material (e.g., transition metal dichalcogenide) to produce nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm, typically smaller than 10 nm. The method comprises (a) dispersing particles of a non-graphite laminar compound in a liquid medium containing therein a surfactant or dispersing agent to obtain a stable suspension or slurry; and (b) exposing the suspension or slurry to ultrasonic waves at an energy level for a sufficient length of time to produce separated nano-scaled platelets. The nano-scaled platelets are candidate reinforcement fillers for polymer nanocomposites. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/200307 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/378.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08308989 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Junliang Zhang (Rochester, New York); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to platinum-metal oxide composite particles and their use as electrocatalysts in oxygen-reducing cathodes and fuel cells. The invention particularly relates to methods for preventing the oxidation of the platinum electrocatalyst in the cathodes of fuel cells by use of these platinum-metal oxide composite particles. The invention additionally relates to methods for producing electrical energy by supplying such a fuel cell with an oxidant, such as oxygen, and a fuel source, such as hydrogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033764 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309020 | Skubal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura R Skubal (West Brooklyn, Illinois); Alan L McArthur (Mokena, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying and making quantitative determinations of different deposits on a portion thereof, determining that the deposit is a contaminant and decontaminating at least the portion of the system is disclosed. The system comprises a controller, a sensing portion and a decontamination portion. The controller contains information about at least one noncontaminant. The sensing portion communicates with at least the controller and the portion of the system and is adapted to detect the deposit. The decontaminating portion communicates with at least the controller and is adapted to decontaminate the portion of the system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/046478 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309049 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A molten metal reactor for converting a carbon material and steam into a gas comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide is disclosed. The reactor includes an interior crucible having a portion contained within an exterior crucible. The interior crucible includes an inlet and an outlet; the outlet leads to the exterior crucible and may comprise a diffuser. The exterior crucible may contain a molten alkaline metal compound. Contained between the exterior crucible and the interior crucible is at least one baffle. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581656 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/418.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309241 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Wood (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Dale B. Trester (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery system to monitor temperature includes at least one cell with a temperature sensing device proximate the at least one cell. The battery system also includes a flexible member that holds the temperature sensor proximate to the at least one cell. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/084060 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309324 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. H. David Wu (Pittsford, New York); Michael Newcomb (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an inducible and a high expression nucleic acid promoter isolated from Clostridium thermocellum. These promoters are useful for directing expression of a protein or polypeptide encoded by a nucleic acid molecule operably associated with the nucleic acid promoters. The present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs including the C. thermocellum promoters, and expression vectors and hosts containing such nucleic acid constructs. The present invention also relates to protein isolated from Clostridium thermocellum, including a repressor protein. The present invention also provides methods of using the isolated promoters and proteins from Clostridium thermocellum, including methods for directing inducible in vitro and in vivo expression of a protein or polypeptide in a host, and methods of producing ethanol from a cellulosic biomass. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271287 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309333 | Koch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Koch (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany); Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | AlkB from Pseudomonas putida was engineered using in-vivo directed evolution to hydroxylate small chain alkanes. Mutant AlkB-BMO1 hydroxylates propane and butane at the terminal carbon at a rate greater than the wild-type to form 1-propanol and 1-butanol, respectively. Mutant AlkB-BMO2 similarly hydroxylates propane and butane at the terminal carbon at a rate greater than the wild-type to form 1-propanol and 1-butanol, respectively. These biocatalysts are highly active for small chain alkane substrates and their regioselectivity is retained in whole-cell biotransformations. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/618960 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309355 | Bankiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genzyme Corporation (Framingham, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krys Bankiewicz (Garrett Park, Maryland); Janet Cunningham (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of delivering viral vectors, particularly recombinant AAV virions, to the central nervous system (CNS) are provided for the treatment of CNS disorders, particularly those disorders which involve the neurotransmitter dopamine. The methods entail providing rAAV virions that comprise a transgene encoding aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) and administering the virions to the brain of a mammal using a non-manual pump. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384935 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 08309489 | Roldan Cuenya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beatriz Roldan Cuenya (Orlando, Florida); Ahmed R. Naitabdi (Paris, France); Farzad Behafarid (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An inverse micelle-based method for forming nanoparticles on supports includes dissolving a polymeric material in a solvent to provide a micelle solution. A nanoparticle source is dissolved in the micelle solution. A plurality of micelles having a nanoparticle in their core and an outer polymeric coating layer are formed in the micelle solution. The micelles are applied to a support. The polymeric coating layer is then removed from the micelles to expose the nanoparticles. A supported catalyst includes a nanocrystalline powder, thin film, or single crystal support. Metal nanoparticles having a median size from 0.5 nm to 25 nm, a size distribution having a standard deviation ≦0.1 of their median size are on or embedded in the support. The plurality of metal nanoparticles are dispersed and in a periodic arrangement. The metal nanoparticles maintain their periodic arrangement and size distribution following heat treatments of at least 1,000° C. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818928 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/339 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald P. Huffman (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method of producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and other hydrocarbons that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions by combining Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with catalytic dehydrogenation is claimed. Catalytic dehydrogenation (CDH) of the gaseous products (C1-C4) of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) can produce large quantities of hydrogen while converting the carbon to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). Incorporation of CDH into a FTS-CDH plant converting coal to liquid fuels can eliminate all or most of the CO2 emissions from the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction that is currently used to elevate the H2 level of coal-derived syngas for FTS. Additionally, the FTS-CDH process saves large amounts of water used by the WGS reaction and produces a valuable by-product, MWCNT. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299862 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700 |
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| US 08309661 | Koh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyoung Moo Koh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Antek G. Wong-Foy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam J. Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Annabelle I. Benin (Schaumburg, Illinois); Richard R. Willis (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions of crystalline coordination copolymers wherein multiple organic molecules are assembled to produce porous framework materials with layered or core-shell structures. These materials are synthesized by sequential growth techniques such as the seed growth technique. In addition, the invention provides a simple procedure for controlling functionality. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478042 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/389 |
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| US 08309793 | Mullet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Mullet (College Station, Texas); William L. Rooney (College Station, Texas); Patricia E. Klein (College Station, Texas); Daryl Morishige (Bryan, Texas); Rebecca Murphy (Bryan, Texas); Jeff A. Brady (Stephenville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and composition for the production of non-flowering or late flowering sorghum hybrid. For example, in certain aspects methods for use of molecular markers that constitute the Ma5/Ma6 pathway to modulate photoperiod sensitivity are described. The invention allows the production of plants having improved productivity and biomass generation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507053 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/267 |
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| US 08309929 | Bond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiziana Bond (Livermore, California); Garrett Cole (Vienna, Austria); Lynford Goddard (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compact tunable optical cavities are provided for in-situ NIR spectroscopy. MEMS-tunable VCSEL platforms represents a solid foundation for a new class of compact, sensitive and fiber compatible sensors for fieldable, real-time, multiplexed gas detection systems. Detection limits for gases with NIR cross-sections such as O2, CH4, COx and NOx have been predicted to approximately span from 10ths to 10s of parts per million. Exemplary oxygen detection design and a process for 760 nm continuously tunable VCSELS is provided. This technology enables in-situ self-calibrating platforms with adaptive monitoring by exploiting Photonic FPGAs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406838 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.70 |
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| US 08309955 | Katz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Baltimore, Maryland); Bhola Nath Pal (Baltimore, Maryland); Kevin Cua See (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic or electro-optic device has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric layer has electrically insulating planar layers with intercalated ions therebetween such that the electrically insulating planar layers provide a barrier to impede movement of the intercalated ions to the first and second electrodes under an applied voltage while permitting a polarization of the dielectric layer while in operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/743764 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 08310202 | Scudiere |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew B. Scudiere (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A power transmission system includes a loosely coupled air core transformer having a resonance frequency determined by a product of inductance and capacitance of a primary circuit including a primary coil. A secondary circuit is configured to have a substantially same product of inductance and capacitance. A back EMF generating device (e.g., a battery), which generates a back EMF with power transfer, is attached to the secondary circuit. Once the load power of the back EMF generating device exceeds a certain threshold level, which depends on the system parameters, the power transfer can be achieved at higher transfer efficiency if performed at an operating frequency less than the resonance frequency, which can be from 50% to 95% of the resonance frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858070 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/108 |
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| US 08310235 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject apparatus is a fuel cell toroid cavity detector for in situ analysis of samples through the use of nuclear magnetic resonance. The toroid cavity detector comprises a gas-tight housing forming a toroid cavity where the housing is exposed to an externally applied magnetic field B0 and contains fuel cell component samples to be analyzed. An NMR spectrometer is electrically coupled and applies a radiofrequency excitation signal pulse to the detector to produce a radiofrequency magnetic field B1 in the samples and in the toroid cavity. Embedded coils modulate the static external magnetic field to provide a means for spatial selection of the recorded NMR signals. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941385 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312193 | Ohmacht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Krishnan Sugavanam (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A master device sends a request to communicate with a slave device to a switch. The master device waits for a period of cycles the switch takes to decide whether the master device can communicate with the slave device, and the master device sends data associated with the request to communicate at least after the period of cycles has passed since the master device sent the request to communicate to the switch without waiting to receive an acknowledgment from the switch that the master device can communicate with the slave device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684630 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ellis Meng (Pasadena, California); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mark Humayun (Glendale, California); Rajat Agrawal (Redlands, California); Ronalee Lo (Monterey Park, California); Jason Shih (Yorba Linda, California); Kenrick Kuwahara (Woodland Hills, California); Po-Ying Li (Los Angeles, California); Damien Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Po-Jui Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an implantable device for delivering a therapeutic agent to a patient include a reservoir configured to contain a liquid comprising the therapeutic agent, and a cannula in fluid communication with the reservoir. The cannula is shaped to facilitate insertion thereof into a patient's eyeball. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790240 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/114 |
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| US 08309201 | Majidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmel Majidi (Berkeley, California); Richard Groff (Berkeley, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated nano-structure includes a substrate, a supporting stalk, a node, and at least two spatular plate portions. The supporting stalk has a first end opposite a second end. The first end of the supporting stalk is connected to the substrate. The supporting stalk has a diameter range of about 50 nanometers to about 2 microns. A node is disposed at the second end of the supporting stalk. At least two spatular plate portions are connected to the node. The at least two spatular plate portions have planar geometries and are radially distributed about the node. The at least two spatular plate portions has a ratio of a maximum plate thickness to a maximum plate length of at most about 1:20. The maximum plate length is measured along a line from a boundary of the spatular plate portion to a centroid of the node. The maximum plate length is at least about 100 nanometers. The at least two spatular plate portion adhere to a contact surface using intermolecular forces when the spatular plate portions are in contact with the contact surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843619 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/141 |
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| US 08309359 | Sohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Ho Sohn (Pasadena, California); Jesse L. Beauchamp (La Canada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Isobaric reagents for labeling analytes are provided. The isobaric reagents have facile design and synthesis that allows for differential labeling of an unlimited number of analyte samples. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/007513 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
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| US 08309370 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheldon Schultz (La Jolla, California); David A. Schultz (La Jolla, California); David R. Smith (La Jolla, California); Jack J. Mock (Del Mar, California); Thomas J. Silva (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for interrogating a target having a plurality of plasmon resonant particles (PREs) distributed in the target are disclosed. In the method, a field containing the target is illuminated, and one or more spectral emission characteristics of the light-scattering particles in the field are detected. From this data, an image of positions and spectral characteristic values in the field is constructed, allowing PREs with a selected spectral signature to be discriminated from other light-scattering entities, to provide information about the field. Also disclosed are a novel PRE composition for use in practicing the method, and a variety of diagnostic applications of the method. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157151 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
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| US 08309618 | Hedrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Lupton Hedrick (Pleasanton, California); Russell Clayton Pratt (Oakland, California); Robert M. Waymouth (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to methods and materials useful for depolymerizing a polymer. In one embodiment, for example, the disclosure provides a method for depolymerizing a polymer containing electrophilic linkages, wherein the method comprises contacting the polymer with a nucleophilic reagent in the presence of a guanidine-containing compound. The methods and materials of the disclosure find utility, for example, in the field of waste reclamation and recycling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496520 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/48 |
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| US 08309738 | Olivo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horacio F. Olivo (Iowa City, Iowa); Antonio Victor Osorio Lozada (Visp, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the preparation of indene-based thiazolidinethiones are provided comprising contacting 1-amino-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-2-ol, or a substituted derivative thereof, with an acid under suitable reaction conditions to provide a first intermediate; and contacting the first intermediate with an alkali xanthate in the presence of an alkali hydroxide under suitable reaction conditions to provide a compound of formula (III), wherein R1-R8 are defined herein. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685014 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309793 | Mullet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Mullet (College Station, Texas); William L. Rooney (College Station, Texas); Patricia E. Klein (College Station, Texas); Daryl Morishige (Bryan, Texas); Rebecca Murphy (Bryan, Texas); Jeff A. Brady (Stephenville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and composition for the production of non-flowering or late flowering sorghum hybrid. For example, in certain aspects methods for use of molecular markers that constitute the Ma5/Ma6 pathway to modulate photoperiod sensitivity are described. The invention allows the production of plants having improved productivity and biomass generation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507053 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/267 |
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| US 08309925 | Mendis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajind Mendis (Houston, Texas); Daniel M. Mittleman (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising polarizing and coupling an electromagnetic beam to a first-order transverse electric (TE1) mode with respect to a parallel plate waveguide (PPWG) integrated resonator comprising two plates and a cavity, sending the electromagnetic beam into the PPWG integrated resonator to excite the cavity by the TE1 mode and cause a resonance response, and obtaining wave amplitude data that comprises a resonant frequency, and obtaining the refractive index of fluids filling the cavity via the shift in resonant frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561978 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
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| US 08309936 | Kreckel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York City, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger Kreckel (Gemuenden, Germany); Hjalmar Bruhns (Bonn, Germany); Daniel Wolf Savin (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion deflector, for deflecting a beam of charged particles along an arc in a deflection plane, includes a pair of non-spherical deflection electrodes adapted for being charged with different voltages. The pair of deflection electrodes are configured to control, in both the deflection plane and in a direction perpendicular to the deflection plane, a cross sectional spread of charged particles in a deflected beam that exits the ion deflector. In some embodiments, a first electrode has a first height perpendicular to the deflection plane and a second electrode has a different second height. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/708886 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
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| US 08309989 | Luisier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu Luisier (West Lafayette, Indiana); Samarth Agarwal (West Lafayette, Indiana); Gerhard Klimeck (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Illustrative embodiments of a vertical tunneling field effect transistor are disclosed which may comprise a semiconductor body including a source region doped with a first dopant type and a pocket region doped with a second dopant type, where the pocket region is formed above the source region. The transistor may also comprise an insulated gate formed above the source and pocket regions, the insulated gate being configured to generate electron tunneling between the source and pocket regions if a voltage is applied to the insulated gate. The transistor may further comprise a lateral tunneling barrier formed to substantially prevent electron tunneling between the source region and a drain region of the semiconductor body, where the drain region is doped with the second dopant type. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858465 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310128 | Ferreira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Jingyan Dong (Apex, North Carolina); Deepkishore Mukhopadhyay (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | MEMS stages comprising a plurality of comb drive actuators provide micro and up to nano-positioning capability. Flexure hinges and folded springs that operably connect the actuator to a movable end stage provide independent motion from each of the actuators that minimizes unwanted off-axis displacement, particularly for three-dimensional movement of a cantilever. Also provided are methods for using and making MEMS stages. In an aspect, a process provides a unitary MEMS stage made from a silicon-on-insulator wafer that avoids any post-fabrication assembly steps. Further provided are various devices that incorporate any of the stages disclosed herein, such as devices requiring accurate positioning systems in applications including scanning probe microscopy, E-jet printing, near-field optic sensing, cell probing and material characterization. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437051 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
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| US 08311069 | Dantus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcos Dantus (Okemos, Michigan); Vadim V. Lozovoy (Holt, Michigan); Bingwei Wu (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct ultrashort laser system is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, a method of measuring laser pulse phase distortions is performed without requiring an adaptive pulse shaper or interferometry. In yet another aspect of the present invention, a system, a method of operating, a control system, and a set of programmable computer software instructions perform Multiphoton Intrapulse Interference Phase Scan processes, calculations, characterization and/or correction without requiring an adaptive pulse shaper. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/809481 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/25 |
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| US 08311372 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vescent Photonics, Inc. (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Anderson (Lyons, Colorado); Scott D. Rommel (Lakewood, Colorado); Scott R. Davis (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal waveguides for dynamically controlling the refraction of light. Generally, liquid crystal materials may be disposed within a waveguide in a cladding proximate or adjacent to a core layer of the waveguide. In one example, portions of the liquid crystal material can be induced to form refractive or lens shapes in the cladding that interact with a portion (e.g. evanescent) of light in the waveguide so as to permit electronic control of the refraction/bending, focusing, or defocusing of light as it travels through the waveguide. In one example, a waveguide may be formed using one or more patterned or shaped electrodes that induce formation of such refractive or lens shapes of liquid crystal material, or alternatively, an alignment layer may have one or more regions that define such refractive or lens shapes to induce formation of refractive or lens shapes of the liquid crystal material. In another example, such refractive or lens shapes of liquid crystal material may be formed by patterning or shaping a cladding to define a region or cavity to contain liquid crystal material in which the liquid crystal materials may interact with the evanescent light. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774514 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower, Inc. (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ezekiel S. Holliday (Belpre, Ohio); James Gary Wood (Albany, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for sensing the position of a reciprocating free piston in a free piston Stirling machine. The sensor has a disk mounted to an end face of the power piston coaxially with its cylinder and reciprocating with the piston The disk includes a rim around its outer perimeter formed of an electrically conductive material A coil is wound coaxially with the cylinder, spaced outwardly from the outer perimeter of the disk and mounted in fixed position relative to the pressure vessel, preferably on the exterior of the pressure vessel wall. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845998 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/114.770 |
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| US 08309944 | Gubarev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail V. Gubarev (Huntsville, Alabama); Brian D. Ramsey (Huntsville, Alabama); Darell E. Engelhaupt (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Neutron optics based on the two-reflection geometries are capable of controlling beams of long wavelength neutrons with low angular divergence. The preferred mirror fabrication technique is a replication process with electroform nickel replication process being preferable. In the preliminary demonstration test an electroform nickel optics gave the neutron current density gain at the focal spot of the mirror at least 8 for neutron wavelengths in the range from 6 to 20 Å. The replication techniques can be also be used to fabricate neutron beam controlling guides. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240626 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/504.R00 |
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| US 08310671 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quang-Viet Nguyen (Stone Ridge, Virginia); David G Fischer (Richfield, Ohio); Jun Kojima (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An architecture for spontaneous Raman scattering (SRS) that utilizes a frame-transfer charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor operating in a subframe burst gating mode to realize time-resolved combustion diagnostics is disclosed. The technique permits all-electronic optical gating with microsecond shutter speeds (<5 μs), without compromising optical throughput or image fidelity. When used in conjunction with a pair of orthogonally-polarized excitation lasers, the technique measures time-resolved vibrational Raman scattering that is minimally contaminated by problematic optical background noise. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893627 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08308984 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of exfoliating a layered material (e.g., transition metal dichalcogenide) to produce nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm, typically smaller than 10 nm. The method comprises (a) dispersing particles of a non-graphite laminar compound in a liquid medium containing therein a surfactant or dispersing agent to obtain a stable suspension or slurry; and (b) exposing the suspension or slurry to ultrasonic waves at an energy level for a sufficient length of time to produce separated nano-scaled platelets. The nano-scaled platelets are candidate reinforcement fillers for polymer nanocomposites. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/200307 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/378.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08309102 | Mrsny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall J. Mrsny (Los Altos Hills, California); Deborah Dean (San Anselmo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for immunizing against infection by Chlamydia trachomatis. The methods and compositions rely, in part, on administering an immunogenic composition comprising one or more peptides derived from C. trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) to a subject to be immunized. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise a chimeric immunogens, expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides, and kits comprising the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105676 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08311607 | Zelenchuk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luma Imaging Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex R. Zelenchuk (Stoughton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at three selected wavelengths, one of which corresponds to an isosbestic point. In one example, the isosbestic point occurs at about 431 nm. The intensities of the observed signals are normalized using the 431 nm intensity. A score is determined using the ratios in a discriminant analysis. The tissue under examination is resected or not, based on the diagnosis of disease or health, according to the outcome of the discriminant analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215096 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08309830 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Ward (Kabul, None); Lee F. Siler (Merrill, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A wheat variety designated MSU Line E0028, the plants and seeds of MSU Line E0028, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety E0028 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety E0028 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety E0028. The present technology also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from MSU Line E0028 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763713 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/320.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08310544 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moon S. Kim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Alan M. Lefcourt (Elkridge, Maryland); Kuanglin Chao (Ellicott, Maryland); Yud-Ren Chen (Laurel, Maryland); Andre G. Senecal (North Smithfield, Rhode Island); Patrick Marek (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The hand-held inspection tool enhances the ability of an on-site inspector to detect and communicate the presence of contamination on an object or in an area. An on-site inspector directs an excitation light in the sensing head of the tool into an area of interest. If the targeted contamination is present, the excitation light causes the contamination to emit fluorescence. The emitted fluorescent light passes through a narrow spectral band-pass video camera filter and is detected by a video camera mounted in the tool sensing head. The video camera transmits the image to a display visible to the on-site inspector. The invention also includes a means of recording, documenting, and wirelessly communicating the inspection process so that remotely located personnel can view the inspection, and respond to the inspection findings in real time. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157911 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08308886 | Andrews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Donald Andrews (Hockessin, Delaware); Marc B Goldfinger (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Mark Andrew Harmer (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Gary Delmar Jaycox (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); William J Marshall (Wilmington, Delaware); Elizabeth Forrester McCord (Hockessin, Delaware); Charles Nehemiah McEwen (Newark, Delaware); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Geoffrey Nunes (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Rinaldo Soria Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Paul J Shannon (Exton, Pennsylvania); Kenneth George Sharp (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Karyn B Visscher (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Boston, Massachusetts); John W Catron, Jr. (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Wilmington, Delaware); Thomas C Felder (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Howard David Glicksman (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses processes for thermal transfer patterning of a nanoparticle layer and a corresponding proximate portion of a carrier layer, and optionally additional transfer layers, together onto a thermal imaging receiver. The invention is useful for dry fabrication of electronic devices. Additional embodiments of the invention include multilayer thermal imaging donors comprising in layered sequence: a base film, a carrier layer and a nanoparticle layer. The carrier layer can be a dielectric or conducting layer. When the carrier layer is a dielectric layer, the base film includes a light attenuating agent in the form of a dye or pigment. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488262 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312021 | Matveeva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina Matveeva (Chicago, Illinois); Ayman Farahart (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that builds an association tensor (such as a matrix) to facilitate document and word-level processing operations. During operation, the system uses terms from a collection of documents to build an association tensor, which contains values representing pair-wise similarities between terms in the collection of documents. During this process, if a given value in the association tensor is calculated based on an insufficient number of samples, the system determines a corresponding value from a reference document collection, and then substitutes the corresponding value for the given value in the association tensor. After the association tensor is obtained, a dimensionality reduction method is applied to compute a low-dimensional vector space representation for the vocabulary terms. Document vectors are computed as linear combinations of term vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228924 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/739 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08307723 | Novosselov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enertechnix, Inc. (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Evan D Dengler (Seattle, Washington); Michelle Hickner (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods are disclosed for non-contact pneumatic sampling of surfaces, persons, articles of clothing, buildings, furnishings, vehicles, baggage, packages, mail, and the like, for aerosols or vapor residues indicative of a hazard or a benefit, where the residues are chemical, radiological, biological, toxic, or infectious in character. A central orifice for pulling a vacuum is surrounded by an array of convergingly-directed gas jets, forming a “virtual sampling chamber”. The gas jets are configured to deliver millisecond pneumatic pulses that erode particles and vapors from solid surfaces at a distance. A curtain wall flow encloses the sampling area during pulse retrieval. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834860 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08307724 | Wichert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clinton Michael Wichert (Edmond, Oklahoma); Tim Webb (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Carl Chipman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Martin Sanders (Morrison, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The improved analyte collection device is adjustable between two separate and distinct configurations. The first configuration enhances analyte collection by precluding undesired gas flow from around the sampling device. The second configuration enhances analyte collection by extending and focusing gas flow into the sampling device. Additionally, the current invention provides methods for collecting analyte from the surface of objects or the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582380 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08311147 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/091382 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08311959 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip S Yu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An object and attributes that describe that object are identified. The attributes are grouped into attribute patterns, and classification classes are identified. For each identified class a sketch table containing a plurality of parallel hash tables is created. For the object to be classified, each attribute pattern is processed using the all of the hash functions for each sketch table, resulting in a plurality of values under each sketch table for a single attribute pattern. The lowest value is selected for each sketch table. The distribution of values across all sketch tables is evaluated for each attribute pattern, producing a discriminatory power for each attribute pattern. Attribute patterns having a discriminatory power above a given threshold are selected and added to the associated sketch table values. The sketch table with the largest overall sum is identified, and the associated class is assigned to the object belonging to the attribute patterns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/400863 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08308848 | Alptekin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gokhan Alptekin (Boulder, Colorado); Margarita DuBovik (Denver, Colorado); Ambalavanan Jayaraman (Nothglenn, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas desulfurization sorbents and methods using them for removal of sulfur from gas streams, particularly at high temperatures ranging from 500 to 1000° C. The sorbents and methods are of particular application to produce a sulfur-clean feed from reformate gas generated from readily available transportation fuels containing sulfur. Sorbents of the invention can reduce the sulfur concentration in reformate gas to parts per billion on volume basis (ppbv) levels over a large range of temperatures. Sorbent materials of this invention comprise a nickel phase dispersed on a particulate support or a monolith support. The support can be a high surface area support with surface area of 100 m2/g or higher. The invention also provides systems for desulfurizing reformate gas and systems for providing a desulfurized gas to a fuel cell, particularly a solid oxide fuel cell. |
| FILED | Friday, November 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626870 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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