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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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| US 08312726 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joey Wong (Enfield, Connecticut); Peter Chen (Manchester, Connecticut); Dana P. Stewart (Vernon, Connecticut); David N. Waxman (Manchester, Connecticut); Michael A. Mike (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems involving I-beam struts are provided. In this regard, a representative strut assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first I-beam strut having first and second flanges spaced from each other and interconnected by a web, the first strut exhibiting a twist along a length of the web. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962653 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/796 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312729 | Matwey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Matwey (Phoenix, Arizona); David Jan (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow discouraging system includes a stator assembly, fins, and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly includes stationary components forming a side wall including an annular groove defined by an outer axially-extending surface, an inner axially-extending surface, and a radial surface. One or more outer axial fins disposed in the annular groove extend along the outer axially-extending surface of the side wall. One or more inner axial fins disposed in the annular groove extend along the inner axially-extending surface of the side wall. One or more radial fins disposed in the annular groove extend axially from the radial surface of the side wall. The rotor assembly is disposed adjacent to and is spaced apart from the stator assembly to form a portion of a cavity and includes an annular rim extending at least partially into the annular groove and disposed between the outer and inner axial fins. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563622 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312763 | Manalis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Manalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrea K. Bryan (Allston, Massachusetts); Philip Dextras (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas P. Burg (Goettingen, Germany); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Yao-Chung Weng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sungmin Son (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for improving measurements of particle or cell characteristics, such as mass, in Susppended Microchannel Resonators (SMR's). Apparatus include in particular designs for trapping particles in SMR's for extended measurement periods. Methods include techniques to provide differential measurements by varying the fluid density for repeated measurements on the same particle or cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587898 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08312782 | McMickell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett McMickell (Scottsdale, Arizona); Paul Buchele (Glendale, Arizona); Gary Lynwood Gisler (Granbury, Texas); James Andrus (Peoria, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained momentum control system (MCS) for a spacecraft is provided for small satellites. The MCS features a miniaturized gyroscopic rotor with a rotational speed in excess of 20,000 RPM. The MCS includes at least three control moment gyroscopic mechanical assemblies (CMAs) rigidly mounted within a single enclosure, where each CMA mounted in an orientation whereby the longitudinal axis of each CMA is either orthogonal to every other CMA or is parallel to another CMA but in the opposite orientation. In order to further reduce the size of the MCS, an electronics package that is configured to interface command and control signals with and to provide power to the CMAs is included within the MCS enclosure. A plurality of shock isolation devices are used to secure each of the CMAs to the enclosure in order to reduce the launch load upon the CMAs thereby allowing the use of smaller rotor spin bearings. The MCS enclosure surrounding the CMAs and support structure is hermetically sealed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639647 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/5.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313289 | Caprario et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Caprario (Cromwell, Connecticut); Daniel J. Griffin (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems involving rotor bayonet coverplates and tools for installing such coverplates are provided. In this regard, a representative turbine assembly for a gas turbine engine includes: a turbine disk operative to mount a set of turbine blades; and a coverplate having an annular main body portion and a spaced annular arrangement of tabs extending radially inwardly from the main body portion with open-ended gaps being located between the tabs, the tabs being operative to secure an inner diameter of the coverplate to the turbine disk. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952367 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313557 | Willauer 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) | Heather D. Willauer (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dennis R Hardy (California, Maryland); M. Kathleen Lewis (Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania); Ejiogu C. Ndubizu (Burtonsville, Maryland); Frederick Williams (Accokeek, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally directed to a system for recovering CO2 from seawater or aqueous bicarbonate solutions using a gas permeable membrane with multiple layers. At elevated pressures, gaseous CO2 and bound CO2 in the ionic form of bicarbonate and carbonate diffuse from the seawater or bicarbonate solution through the multiple layers of the membrane. Also disclosed is the related method of recovering CO2 from seawater or aqueous bicarbonate solutions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/491460 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313588 | Iorio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luana Emiliana Iorio (Clifton Park, New York); Francis Johnson (Clifton Park, New York); Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian (Niskayuna, New York); Gary Shiflet (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joseph Poon (Charlottesville, Virginia); Sriparna Bhattacharya (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An amorphous magnetic alloy is presented. The alloy has the general formula: (Fe1-xCox)nMoaPbBcCdSie, wherein n is the atomic percent of iron and cobalt; x is the fraction of n; a, b, c, d and e are the atomic percent of molybdenum, phosphorous, boron, carbon and silicon respectively and n, x, a, b, c, d and e are defined by following relationship: 76≦n≦85; 0.05<x≦0.50; 0≦a≦4; b≧10; 0≦c<d; and 0.1≦e≦2. Articles comprising the alloy and methods employing the alloy for making articles are also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609391 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313633 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polestar Technologies, Inc. (Needham Heights, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiulan Li (Needham Heights, Massachusetts); Ranganathan Shashidhar (Needham Heights, Massachusetts); Yufeng Ma (Needham Heights, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecular recognition sensor system is provided incorporating a molecular imprinted nanosensor device formed by the process steps of: (a) fabricating using photolithography a pair of metallic electrodes separated by a microscale gap onto a first electrical insulation layer formed on a substrate; (b) applying a second electrical insulation layer on most of a top surface of said pairs of electrodes; (c) depositing additional metallic electrode material onto said electrode pairs using electrochemical deposition, thereby decreasing said microgap to a nano sized gap between said electrode pairs; (d) electrochemically polymerizing in said nanogap conductive monomers containing a target analyte, thereby forming a conducting polymer nanojunction in the gap between electrode pairs; and (e) immersing resultant sensor device in a solution which removes away the target analyte, and intermittently applying a voltage to the conducting polymer while it is immersed in said solution, thereby swelling and shrinking the conducting polymer to effect a more efficient extraction of target analyte from the conducting polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510414 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313636 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Arnold (Ringwood, United Kingdom); Raphael Rouillon (Vineuil, France); Carl Diver (Falcarragh, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a metal housing (14) includes providing a first passage (10) through the metal housing (14) and providing a second passage (12) through the metal housing (14), wherein the second passage (12) includes a region of intersection (20) which intersects the first passage (10) to define an opening (22, 122, 222) into the first passage (10). The method further includes subjecting the metal housing (14) to a heat treatment process to carburise an internal surface of the first and/or second passage (10, 12) and, subsequent to the carburization process, applying a hard stage electrochemical machining process to the carburised internal surface of the first and/or second passage (10, 12) to improve surface finish. Another aspect of the invention includes providing a second passage (12) through the metal housing (14) by means of a tool (46), such as an electrochemical machining electrode, having an active region without rotational symmetry about its axis (Y-Y). The active region is shaped to provide the region of intersection (20) with a generally conical taper (29, 31) to the opening (22; 122; 222). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/921540 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/661 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313656 | Gibbons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Gibbons (Torrington, Connecticut); Francis P. Marocchini (Somers, Connecticut); Tomas R. Leutwiler (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable wash flow filter assembly includes guide that is operable to guide a wash velocity control cone between a minimal position and a maximum position. The guide defines at least one activation deltaP window downstream of a conical gap between the wash velocity control cone and a frusto-conical wash filter. The fuel flow through the conical gap and the activation deltaP window is operable to position the wash velocity control cone between the minimal position and maximum position to selectively split a fuel flow through an inlet into a burn flow through a thru flow port and a filtered flow thru the frusto-conical wash filter and filtered flow port. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228606 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/741 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313724 | Hwang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen-Fang Hwang (Midland, Michigan); Zheyl Chen (Houston, Texas); James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention relates to new processes to simultaneously shorten and functionalize raw or purified carbon nanotubes to improve their dispersity and processibility, and the short functionalized nanotubes that may be made by the processes. This present invention also relates to new compositions of matter using short functionalized carbon nanotubes with thermoset, thermoplastic polymers, high temperature polymers, and other materials; the processes for making such composite materials; and the products of said processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/280523 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313725 | Loutfy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corporation (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona); Juan L. Sepulveda (Tucson, Arizona); Sekyung Chang (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An in-situ method for nanomixing magnesium aluminate spinel nanoparticles with a uniformly distributed controlled concentration of nanoparticles of an inorganic sintering aid, such as LiF, to produce ready-to-sinter spinel powder. The spinel-sintering aid nanomixture is formed by induced precipitation of the sintering aid nanoparticles from a dispersion of the spinel nanoparticles in an aqueous solution of the sintering aid, followed by separation, drying and deagglomeration of the spinel-sintering aid nanomixed product. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460451 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313853 | Kaun |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin, flexible, porous ceramic composite (PCC) film useful as a separator for a molten-salt thermal battery comprises 50% to 95% by weight of electrically non-conductive ceramic fibers comprising a coating of magnesium oxide on the surface of the fibers in an amount in the range of 5% to 50% by weight. The ceramic fibers comprise Al2O3, AlSiO2, BN, AlN, or a mixture of two or more of the foregoing; and the magnesium oxide coating interconnects the ceramic fibers providing a porous network of magnesium oxide-coated fibers having a porosity of not less than 50% by volume. The pores of the film optionally can include a solid electrolyte salt. A laminated electrode/PCC film combination is also provided, as well as a thermal battery cell comprising the PCC film as a separator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315210 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313901 | Breaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Kenneth F. Blount (New Haven, Connecticut); Izabela J. Puskarz (West Hartford, Connecticut); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to the detection of conformational changes and interactions with trigger molecules in riboswitches. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158168 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313967 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung-Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of epitaxial growth of cubic phase, nitrogen-based compound semiconductor thin films on a semiconductor substrate, for example a <001> substrate, which is periodically patterned with grooves oriented parallel to the <110> crystal direction and terminated in sidewalls, for example <111> sidewalls. The method can provide an epitaxial growth which is able to supply high-quality, cubic phase epitaxial films on a <001> silicon substrate. Controlling nucleation on sidewall facets, for example <111>, fabricated in every groove and blocking the growth of the initial hexagonal phase at the outer region of an epitaxial silicon layer with barrier materials prepared at both sides of each groove allows growth of cubic-phase thin film in each groove and either be extended to macro-scale islands or coalesced with films grown from adjacent grooves to form a continuous film. This can result in a wide-area, cubic phase nitrogen-based compound semiconductor film on a <001> substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691463 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314016 | Zheleva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsvetanka S. Zheleva (Rockville, Maryland); Pankaj B. Shah (Rockville, Maryland); Michael A. Derenge (Columbia, Maryland); Daniel J. Ewing (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-defect gallium nitride structure including a first gallium nitride layer comprising a plurality of gallium nitride columns etched into the first gallium nitride layer and a first dislocation density; and a second gallium nitride layer that extends over the gallium nitride columns and comprises a second dislocation density, wherein the second dislocation density may be lower than the first dislocation density. In addition, a method for fabricating a gallium nitride semiconductor layer that includes masking an underlying gallium nitride layer with a mask that comprises an array of columns and growing the underlying gallium nitride layer through the columns and onto said mask using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition pendeo-epitaxy to thereby form a pendeo-epitaxial gallium nitride layer coalesced on said mask to form a continuous pendeo-epitaxial monocrystalline gallium nitride semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/459115 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314279 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as reprensted by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan C. Lee (Silver Spring, Maryland); Douglas A. Behrens (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A process to perform selective catalytic oxidation of four-carbon alcohols to produce four-carbon olefins with yields greater than 90%. The process includes providing a supply of oxygen gas and a butanol fuel, atomizing and evaporating the fuel to produce a vapor, mixing the vapor with the oxygen to form a fuel mixture, reacting the fuel mixture in the presence of a heated solid Rh/Al2O3 or Al2O3 catalysts. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870888 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314446 | Yao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Holdings, LLC (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Yao (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor including an array of light sensitive pixels, each pixel including: at least one hetero-junction phototransistor having a floating base without contact, wherein each phototransistor is a mesa device having active layers exposed at side-walls of the mesa device; and at least one atomic layer deposited high-k dielectric material adjacent to and passivating at least the side-wall exposed active layers. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244938 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314462 | Hull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Adam Hull (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina); James Theodore Richmond (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device may include an insulating layer and a semiconductor electrode on the insulating layer. An area of increased electrical resistance may separate a contact area of the semiconductor electrode from an active area of the semiconductor electrode. In addition, a metal contact may be provided on the contact area of the semiconductor electrode opposite the insulating layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510523 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314576 | Fahimi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Fahimi (Arlington, Texas); Amir Khoobroo (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for detecting faults and optimizing phase currents in an electromechanical energy converter are disclosed. An example method comprises: measuring a current of a phase of the electromechanical energy converter, modeling the electromechanical energy converter with the current measurement input into a field reconstruction module, calculating a flux linkage of the electromechanical energy converter, comparing the flux linkage with a flux linkage from a no fault electromechanical energy converter, and optimizing the current of the phase of the electromechanical energy converter in response to the comparison. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838442 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314604 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Allen Mitchell (Olney, Maryland); Christian Fazi (Coumbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an apparatus and methodology for performing spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) measurements on an RF circuit, such as a mixer, using a single analog input port. The present invention is designed for use when access to the intermediate frequency (IF) port in a radio frequency (RF) front-end circuit is not available, when the traditional two-port method for making an SFDR measurement is inadequate. Passing the analog input through a directional coupler between the RF combiner and the mixer facilitates the performance of the traditional third order intermodulation (IMD) test. Key differences between the single-port and traditional two-port setups are considered and examined, and experimental data obtained using the single-port setup is compared to data obtained using the traditional two-port set-up for different mixer models. Comparison of similar results yields confirmation and a calibration to account for the additional losses introduced by the directional coupler. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508121 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314665 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Los Angeles, California); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts); Alexei Gaidarzhy (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano electromechanical integrated circuit filter and method of making. The filter comprises a silicon substrate; a sacrificial layer; a device layer including at least one resonator, wherein the resonator includes sub-micron excitable elements and wherein the at least one resonator possess a fundamental mode frequency as well as a collective mode frequency and wherein the collective mode frequency of the at least one resonator is determined by the fundamental frequency of the sub-micron elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311141 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314748 | Ksienski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Ksienski (Los Angeles, California); Walter L. Bloss (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Eric K. Hall, II (Seal Beach, California); James P. McKay (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna system includes a heptagonal antenna array having one center antenna element and seven circumferentially surrounding antenna elements offering improved near and far sidelobe rejection, which is well suited for mechanically-gimbaled and time delayed electrical steering antenna applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720659 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/844 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314750 | Josypenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A slotted bifilar or quadrifilar helix antenna has a plurality of helical antenna elements. The antenna elements have an outer planar surface. A slot element is secured to an interior of the outer planar surface. The slot element extends radially inwardly to a slot element edge. At least two radially opposite slot element edges define a tapered slot. At a shorted point on the antenna, at least one radially opposite pair of slot elements are electrically shorted together. A feed point is axially offset from the shorted point along the antenna axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769195 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314812 | Eckel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Eckel (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual image source display system with an anti-aliased textual foreground and graphic image background, where display information from each source is combined, but only after the intensity level for each given pixel color component in the graphical image background is dimmed by an amount which is equal to the highest intensity level of any pixel color component in the same pixel as the given pixel color component. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221525 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/611 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314932 | Ou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fung Suong Ou (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy device includes a substrate, and an ultraviolet cured resist disposed on the substrate. The ultraviolet cured resist has a pattern of cone-shaped protrusions, where each cone-shaped protrusion has a tip with a radius of curvature equal to or less than 10 nm. The ultraviolet cured resist is formed of a predetermined ratio of a photoinitiator, a cross-linking agent, and a siloxane based backbone chain. A Raman signal-enhancing material is disposed on each of the cone-shaped protrusions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771440 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314933 | Cui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiquan Cui (Pasadena, California); Xin Heng (Emeryville, California); Lap Man Lee (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to techniques for improving optofluidic microscope (OFM) devices. One technique which may be used eliminates the aperture layer covering the light detector layer. Other techniques retain the aperture layer, reversing the relative position of the light source and light detector such that light passes through the aperture layer before passing through the fluid channel to the light detector. Another technique adds an optical tweezer for controlling the movement of objects moving through the fluid channel. Another technique adds an optical fiber bundle to relay light from light transmissive regions to a remote light detector. Another technique adds two electrodes at ends of the fluid channel to generate an electrical field capable of moving objects through the fluid channel while suppressing rotation. These techniques can be employed separately or in combination to improve the capabilities of OFM devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398050 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315065 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Shi (Carlsbad, California); Hiren D. Thacker (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-chip module (MCM) is described. This MCM includes at least two substrates that are remateably mechanically coupled by positive and negative features on facing surfaces of the substrates. These positive and negative features may mate and self-lock with each other. For example, the positive features on one of the surfaces may include pairs of counterposed micro-springs, and the negative features may include pits or grooves on the other surface. When the substrates are mechanically coupled, a given pair of positive features may provide a force in a plane of the other surface. Furthermore, by compressing the MCM so that the surfaces of the substrates are pushed toward each other, the mechanical coupling may be released. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568017 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/779 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315282 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany); James G. Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Desmond C. Adler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for improving and stabilizing Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) operation. The control system may also provide regulation of FDML operational parameters such as filter tuning, laser gain, polarization, polarization chromaticity, elliptical polarization retardance, and/or dispersion. The control system may be located internal to or external from the FDML laser cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288715 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315283 | Hoffman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Laser systems and related methods are provided. In this regard, a representative laser system includes: a laser diode array that generates light; a first crystal having a cavity; an optical element operative to focus the generated light onto the first crystal such that the light generates a high-power circulating beam within the cavity; a second crystal positioned with respect to the first crystal such that the frequency of the high-power circulating beam is doubled; and a first coating applied to the first crystal and second coating applied to the second crystal, the first coating and the second coating being operative to cause at least a portion of the beam to be emitted within a particular wavelength range of the generated light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178251 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315357 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia); Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing a total number of beam segments in a dose distribution for a radiation therapy field is provided. The method includes providing a multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan using a suitably programmed computer, where the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan includes a radiation beam dose performance objective and a fluence map sparsity objective in a given fluence function domain, and providing a Pareto frontier of tradeoff criteria between the beam dose performance and a total number of radiation segments (or sub-fields) of the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan using the suitably programmed computer, where an achieved set of radiation beam dose distributions associated with efficiency points of the Pareto frontier are evaluated using a clinical acceptance criteria, where a clinically acceptable radiation beam dose distribution having a smallest number of the multileaf collimator segments is a final solution for the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924832 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315387 | Kanter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NuCrypt LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Kanter (Chicago, Illinois); Daniel Reily (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for a secure communication network using AlphaEta quantum encryption is provided. A polarization insensitive optical receiver based on a 90 degrees hybrid coupler is used for the detection and digitization of optically encrypted signals. Once digitized, such signals can be decrypted, stored, or re-transmitted over arbitrary media such as using RF wireless means. Alternatively, the signal can be generated directly for transmission over RF wireless nodes. The system may include nodes for retransmitting the signal without decrypting it, allowing for secure communication among specific users. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/482267 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315500 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingjing Li (Palo Alto, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A metamaterial inclusion structure (MIS), a metamaterial and a method of producing an optical magnetic response employ interspersed plasmonic and dielectric materials. The MIS includes first petals of a plasmonic material and second petals of a dielectric material that alternate at a surface and along a periphery of the MIS. The MIS exhibits the magnetic resonance when illuminated by an optical signal at an optical wavelength. The optical signal has a magnetic field component that is parallel with an interface between the first petals and the second petals. The metamaterial includes a plurality of the MIS arranged in an array and provides an optical magnetic susceptibility at the optical wavelength. The method forms the MIS with the alternating petals and includes illuminating the MIS with the optical signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245612 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315741 | Karpman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Karpman (Marlborough, Connecticut); Richard P. Meisner (Glastonbury, Connecticut); John L. Shade (Portland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprises a rotary apparatus, a control law and a processor. The rotary apparatus comprises a rotor and a housing forming a gas path therebetween, and the control law controls flow along the gas path. The processor comprises an output module, a plurality of temperature modules, a thermodynamic module, a comparator and an estimator. The output module generates an output signal as a function of a plurality of rotor and housing temperatures defined along the gas path, and the temperature modules determine time derivatives of the rotor and housing temperatures. The thermodynamic module models boundary conditions for the gas path, and the comparator determines errors in the boundary conditions. The estimator estimates the rotor and housing temperatures based on the time derivatives, such that the errors are minimized and the flow is controlled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552656 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315955 | Wymeersch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henk Wymeersch (Boston, Massachusetts); Moe Z. Win (Framingham, Massachusetts); Faisal M. Kashif (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of equalization used to estimate a transmitted signal given a received output is presented herein. The equalization method involves modeling a transmission channel as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The HMM channel is evaluated as a finite state machine. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique of sampling and computation is then utilized to estimate the transmitted signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977749 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315958 | Rubin 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) | Stuart Rubin (San Diego, California); Witold Pedrycz (Edmonton, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The underlying objective of this invention is to show how fuzzy sets (and information granules in general) and grammatical inference play an interdependent role in information granularization and knowledge-based problem characterization. The bottom-up organization of the material starts with a concept and selected techniques of data compactification which involves information granulation and gives rise to higher order constructs (type-2 fuzzy sets). The detailed algorithmic investigations are provided. In the sequel, we focus on Computing with Words (CW), which in this context is treated as a general paradigm of processing information granules. We elaborate on a role of randomization and offer a detailed example illustrating the essence of the granular constructs along with the grammatical aspects of the processing. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719225 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315966 | Narain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjai Narain (Madison, New Jersey); Gary Levin (Bedminster, New Jersey); Vikram Kaul (Randolph, New Jersey); Rajesh Talpade (Madison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method provides a solution to the problem of applying end-to-end requirements of connectivity, security, reliability and performance to configure a network and ultimately assign network components to the network. All requirements are modeled as constraints and a constraint solver does the resolution. Not every constraint to be solved is solved by the model-finder. Instead, we “factor away” subsets of a constraint that can be efficiently solved via a special-purpose constraint solver, such as an SQL/Prolog engine, linear programming system, or even an algorithm, leaving behind a constraint that truly requires the power of model-finding, and that is often efficiently solvable by existing model-finders. Such constraints are compiled into quantifier-free constraints that are Boolean combinations of constraints of two forms x=y and x=c where x, y are variables and c is a constant. Such constraints can be efficiently solved by modern SAT-based model-finders. The system intelligently removes the quantifiers instead of having the model-finder remove the quantifiers. An “unsatisfiability-core” analysis efficiently guides the search for configurations to change to restore consistency. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268223 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315998 | Dean |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Anthony Dean (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for searching Semantic Web structured resources and presenting the search results to a user can increase the likelihood that the search can produce meaningful results. An index database can be constructed by parsing literal values from statements from the resources to obtain component words of the literal values, with the index relating the component words to the statements from which they were parsed. A search engine can obtain component words from the database that match search terms in a query prepared by the user and can obtain the related statements for the matching words. A servlet or other application using the search engine and database can obtain predicates, instances, types of said instances, and full literal values of said instances for the related statements. The search results can be presented to the user as a summary of the predicates, instances, types, and full literal values. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803551 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316023 | Cole |
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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) | Patrick L. Cole (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented system for processing selected data from a raw data file having a plurality of data sets arranged according to a repeating fixed format includes a plurality of processing sequences. A first sequence creates output files, each corresponding to a data set and having a common format, by sequentially processing the data sets according to a first meta-program. A second sequence generates a first data structure by processing each output file according to a second meta-program, the first data structure including data arrangements corresponding to the output files. A third sequence generates a second data structure by processing the first data structure according to a third meta-program, the second data structure including a tabular arrangement of data including data from each data arrangement. A fourth sequence processes the second data structure and provides an output configured to facilitate analysis of the data. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533916 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316060 | Snyder, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 21st Century Technologies (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Daniel Snyder, II (Cedar Park, Texas); Craig Michael Chase (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A planning and search system are described wherein a graph search and segment matching are used to handle very large searches at a higher speed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/246684 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/797 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316218 | 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 for a microprocessor. The wake-and-go mechanism looks ahead in the instruction stream of a thread for programming idioms that indicate that the thread is waiting for an event. if a look-ahead polling operation succeeds, the look-ahead wake-and-go engine may record an instruction address for the corresponding idiom so that the wake-and-go mechanism may have the thread perform speculative execution at a time when the thread is waiting for an event. During execution, when the wake-and-go mechanism recognizes a programming idiom, the wake-and-go mechanism may store the thread state in the thread state storage. Instead of putting the thread to sleep, the wake-and-go mechanism may perform speculative execution. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024419 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316228 | Winslow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A device having an encryption module in communication with first and second communication ports may facilitate connecting to an access network, without requiring a non-secure hard drive to initiate the network access. The encryption module may define a normal mode and a bypass mode. In normal mode, data from the first port may be sent encrypted to the second port, for communicating securely in an encrypted environment. In bypass mode, data from the first port may be sent unencrypted to the second port. The data being sent may be intercepted and presented to the user for approval in a human readable format. The user may confirm that the data is appropriate for being sent unencrypted. This data may be sent unencrypted in response to a request for information (e.g., an assent to terms and conditions) from the access network, such as at a hotel or public wireless hotspot, for example. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337384 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316249 | Palem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna V. Palem (Atlanta, Georgia); Bilge E. Akgul (Istanbul, Turkey); Jason M. George (Acworth, Georgia); Harry Bourne Marr (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems, methods, and computing units are provided for variable scaling of computing elements. In one representative embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a plurality of computing resource levels; and providing one of the plurality of computing resource levels to each of a plurality of computing elements, each computing element having an associated output, the provided voltage level based upon associated output significance. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527211 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43825 | Apisdorf 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) | Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Virginia); Sam Brandon Sandbote (Dallas, Texas); Michael Daniel Poole (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method forward data between processing elements. A first processing element includes an address register that stores a first memory address. A forwarding storage element is coupled to the first processing element. A second processing element, coupled to the forwarding storage element, transmits a second memory address to the forwarding storage element. The forwarding storage transmits the second memory address to the first processing element, and the first processing element compares the second memory address with the first memory address. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942275 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Manalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrea K. Bryan (Allston, Massachusetts); Philip Dextras (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas P. Burg (Goettingen, Germany); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Yao-Chung Weng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sungmin Son (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for improving measurements of particle or cell characteristics, such as mass, in Susppended Microchannel Resonators (SMR's). Apparatus include in particular designs for trapping particles in SMR's for extended measurement periods. Methods include techniques to provide differential measurements by varying the fluid density for repeated measurements on the same particle or cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587898 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313698 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Y. Paik (Chula Vista, California); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a droplet-based nucleic acid amplification apparatus and system. According to one embodiment, a droplet microactuator is provided made using a first substrate including a fluorescing material and including a detection region for detecting a fluorescence signal from a droplet, which detection region is coated with a light absorbing, low fluorescence or non-fluorescing material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960583 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313712 | Melin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica E. Melin (Palo Alto, California); Donald C. Stark (Palo Alto, California); James A. Weaver (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention provide a microfluidic valve having a housing that includes a microfluid control port disposed adjacent to a microfluid exhaust port, where a movable rigid material having a first diameter is disposed in the housing between the microfluid control port and the microfluid exhaust port. The housing further includes a microfluid pressure port having a first microfluid pressure. The microfluid pressure port is connected to the microfluid exhaust port by a microfluid valve orifice having a second diameter, where the first diameter is larger than the second diameter, and when a second microfluid pressure is applied to the control port the moveable rigid material closes the microfluid valve orifice, where the first microfluid pressure is greater than the second microfluid pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/660797 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/537 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313746 | Dimitrov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesday, Maryland); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, Office of Technology Transfer (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Rockville, Maryland); Zhongyu Zhu (Frederick, Maryland); Christopher C. Broder (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Hendra or Nipah virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/195366 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313895 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to droplet-based surface modification and washing. According to one embodiment, a method of providing a bead-containing droplet with a reduced concentration of a substance is provided, the method including providing a droplet microactuator including a droplet having a starting volume and including one or more beads and a starting concentration and starting quantity of the substance. The method further includes conducting one or more droplet operations to merge a wash droplet with the droplet provided in the above step to yield a combined droplet and including one or more droplet operations to divide the combined droplet to yield a set of droplets including a droplet including substantially all of the one or more beads and having a decreased concentration of the substance relative to the starting concentration and a droplet which is substantially lacking in the beads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615609 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08313896 | Martuza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Martuza (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Samuel Rabkin (Swampscott, Massachusetts); William Curry (Boston, Massachusetts); Christopher Farrell (Brookline, Massachusetts); Cecile Zaupa (Bassoues, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of stimulating an immune response (e.g., to treat cancer) include administering to a subject a composition including dendritic cells incubated with (i) oHSV-infected tumor cells or a composition derived therefrom, or (ii) tumor cells plus oHSV, as well as methods of preparing such compositions, are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384633 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313901 | Breaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Kenneth F. Blount (New Haven, Connecticut); Izabela J. Puskarz (West Hartford, Connecticut); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to the detection of conformational changes and interactions with trigger molecules in riboswitches. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158168 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313903 | Kolpashchikov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Kolpashchikov (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to binary oligonucleotide probes for nucleic analysis, which probes can be made of DNA or RNA that recognize nucleic acid analytes (both DNA and RNA) with unprecedented high selectivity under mild conditions and are highly sensitive to single nucleotide mismatches (SNP single nucleotide polymorphisms) without PCR amplification. In one group, the binary probes indicate that they have hybridized to a particular nucleic analyte by binding to a molecular beacon that gives off a fluorescent signal. A second group of binary probes bind to a dye such as malachite green, where upon hybridization to analyte the fluorescence of the dye increases dramatically and is easily detected and measured. The new binary probes require only about five minutes at room temperature to generate a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Sunday, April 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/295625 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313907 | Pourmand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Pourmand (Scotts Valley, California); Miloslav Karhanek (Santa Cruz, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for direct detection of chemical reactions are provided. In a preferred embodiment, electric charge perturbations of the local environment during enzyme-catalyzed reactions are sensed by an electrode system with an immobilized target molecule. The target molecule is preferably DNA. The charge perturbation caused by the polymerase reaction can uniquely identify a DNA sequence. The polymerization process generates local perturbations of charge in the solution near the electrode surface and induces a charge in a polarazible gold electrode. This event is detected as a transient current by a voltage clamp amplifier. Detection of single nucleotides in a sequence can be determined by dispensing individual dNTPs to the electrode solution and detecting the charge perturbations. Alternatively, multiple bases can be determined at the same time using a mix of all dNTPs with subsequent analysis of the resulting signal. The initial enzyme attachment to the DNA molecule can be detected prior to polymerization, with electrode capacitance measurement using the same voltage-clamp amplifier. This technique and device may be adapted to other reaction determinations, such as enzymatic reactions, other electrode configurations, and other amplifying circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/170607 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313936 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H Sherman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zachary Q Beck (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yousong Ding (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polypeptides involved in cryptophycin biosynthesis and the nucleic acid molecules that encode such polypeptides. The nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides of the invention or variants thereof can be used in the methods of the invention to produce cryptophycins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507530 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313943 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry S. Campbell (Wyncote, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ, TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564283 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313950 | Rovin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad H. Rovin (Columbus, Ohio); Xiaolan Zhang (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Biomarkers for determining a kidney flare episode in systemic lupus erythematosus are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600890 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 08314067 | Horvitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Robert Horvitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Shai Shaham (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the discovery that human interleukin-1β convertase (ICE) is structurally similar to the protein encoded by the C. elegans cell death gene, ced-3. Comparative and mutational analyses of the two proteins, together with previous observations, suggest that the Ced-3 protein may be a cysteine protease like ICE and that ICE may be a human equivalent of the nematode cell death gene. Another mammalian protein, the murine NEDD-2 protein, was also found to be similar to Ced-3. The NEDD-2 gene is implicated in the development of the murine central nervous system. On the basis of these findings, novel drugs for enhancing or inhibiting the activity of ICE, ced-3, or related genes are provided. Such drugs may be useful for treating inflammatory diseases and/or diseases characterized by cell deaths, as well as cancers, autoimmune disorders, infections, and hair growth and hair loss. Furthermore, such drugs may be useful for controlling pests, parasites and genetically engineered organisms. Furthermore, novel inhibitors of the activity of ced-3, ICE and related genes are described which comprise portions of the genes or their encoded products. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/282211 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314076 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Yang Wang (Amherst, New York); John Subjeck (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for enhancing an immune response to a desired antigen in an individual. The method is performed by administering to the individual an agent capable of inhibiting class A macrophage scavenger receptor (SR-A) and optionally administering the desired antigen. Also provided is a method for enhancing an immune response to an antigen by administering to an individual a composition containing antigen presenting cells that are characterized by specifically inhibited SR-A. Substantially purified populations of mammalian dendritic cells characterized by specifically inhibited SR-A are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/413177 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314118 | Zagon et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ian S. Zagon (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Patricia J. McLaughlin (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Joseph W. Sassani (Hershey, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to treatment of dry eye. In particular, the invention relates to methods and formulations for treating dry eye based on topical application of opioid antagonists such as naltrexone. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760658 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314149 | Zamora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Feering B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands); University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruben Zamora (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henri R. Ford (La Canada, California); Thais Sielecki-Dzurdz (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Vidal F. De La Cruz (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed wherein semapimod, and/or the mesylate salt thereof, is administered for the treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879144 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/615 |
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| US 08314150 | Cance et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Cance (Orchard Park, New York); Vita Golubovskaya (Orchard Park, New York); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to phosphorylation inhibitor compounds and methods of identifying and using them. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating cell proliferative disorders, especially cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/867997 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/646 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314209 | Rajamani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudha Rajamani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Felix Olasagasti (Santa Cruz, California); David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, California); Seico Benner (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention herein disclosed provides for methods for the synthesis of polymers from monomers. In particular the method provides for the synthesis of polynucleotides from mononucleotides in the absence of catalytic enzymes. The method comprises providing an aqueous solution having a plurality of phospholipid molecules and monomer molecules; subjecting the aqueous solution to fluctuating temperature conditions; subjecting the aqueous solution to fluctuating cycles of drying and hydrating conditions; subjecting the aqueous solution to fluctuating [H+] conditions; the fluctuating conditions thereby allowing formation of a chemical bond between at least two monomers to create a polymer. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316515 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/338 |
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| US 08314212 | Miles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lindsey Miles (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lindsey A. Miles (San Diego, California); John Yates (San Diego, California); Emily I. Chen (Port Jefferson, New York); Nagyung Baik (San Diego, California); Robert J. Parmer (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to C9orf46 homolog, a novel murine membrane protein, and its orthologs in human, mouse and all other species, termed Plg-RKT, or analogs, thereof and the isolation method. The function of this molecule is to bind to plasminogen, plasminogen fragments such as angiostatin1 and other plasminongen fragments having angiostatic activity, tissue plasminogen activator and Lipoprotein(a). Plasminogen receptors function to modulate cell surface proteolysis and physiological and pathophysiological processes requiring cell migration, including, but not limited to, cell migration during inflammation, tissue remodeling, wound healing, tumor cell invasion and metastasis, skeletal myogenesis, neurite outgrowth. Plasminogen receptors also modulate apoptosis and cell death. The invention also relates to antibodies that inhibit plasminogen, plasminogen fragments such as angiostatin1 and other plasminongen fragments having angiostatic activity, tissue plasminogen activator or Lipoprotein(a) binding to Plg-RKT and/or immunoreact with Plg-RKT. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866520 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 08314215 | Bogyo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Bogyo (Redwood City, California); Steven H. L. Verhelst (Palo Alto, California); Marko Fonovic (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A linker system is provided where a small molecule reactive group, e.g., an activity based probe which binds to certain enzymes at the active site, is linked through an aryl diazo linker to an affinity molecule such as biotin. The reactive group may comprise a number of functionalities known to react with a specific target to be studied. This enables the probe to be exposed to analytes, such as proteins and bind specifically to them to form a complex having an affinity molecule allowing immobilization of the bound analyte on an affinity column or other support, e.g. with streptavidin. Then, the linker is cleaved without causing removal of the affinity group or dissociation of the probe from the analyte. The linker is cleaved under mild reducing conditions, e.g., dithionite. The probe is synthesized along with the linker on a solid support. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/376053 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/657 |
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| US 08314246 | Jamison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy F. Jamison (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sze-Sze Ng (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new compositions and reactions to produce allylic alcohols or precursors of allylic alcohols (e.g., silyl ethers of allylic alcohols). Methods of the invention may comprise combining an alkene and an aldehyde in the presence of a transition metal catalyst (e.g., a nickel catalyst) to form an allylic alcohol or precursor of an allylic alcohol. Reaction products of the present invention may be valuable as intermediates and/or products in pharmaceutical and polymer research. Also, methods of the invention may be useful as fragment coupling reactions in complex molecule synthesis. Moreover, methods of the invention may include the use of reagents which, under reaction conditions known in the art, may have been unreactive, i.e., may not have been able to form the reaction product. The reagents used in the present invention may be relatively lower in cost than in other methods. Also, methods of the invention may reduce the number of synthetic and purification steps required to produce the reaction products, as well as reducing time, cost, and waste production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/991340 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/110 |
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| US 08314406 | Ntziachristos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasilis Ntziachristos (Larissa, Greece); Mark J. Niedre (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical imaging systems and methods use early photons in order to generate processed fluorescent light images of fluorescent material on or within a tissue. The early photons are generated in accordance with a pulsed light source and an early-photon light receiver. The processed fluorescent light images tend to have improved resolution and imaging accuracy compared with fluorescent light images generated with photons beyond the early photons portions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594351 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
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| US 08314796 | Pratx et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillem Pratx (Stanford, California); Peter D. Olcott (Menlo Park, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of reconstructing a tomographic image. In a first step, a tomographic image is forward-projected along a list of geometrical lines in a GPU. This list of geometrical lines may be list-mode event data acquired from a tomographic scanner. Alternatively, the list may be a list of weighted lines derived from a sinogram, a histogram, or a timogram acquired from a tomographic scanner. Next, the list of geometrical lines is back-projected into a 3-dimensional volume using the GPU. The results of the forward- and back-projection are then used to reconstruct the tomographic image, which is then provided as an output, e.g. to make the image available for further processing. Examples of output include storage on a storage medium and display on a display device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710273 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/424 |
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| US 08314933 | Cui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiquan Cui (Pasadena, California); Xin Heng (Emeryville, California); Lap Man Lee (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to techniques for improving optofluidic microscope (OFM) devices. One technique which may be used eliminates the aperture layer covering the light detector layer. Other techniques retain the aperture layer, reversing the relative position of the light source and light detector such that light passes through the aperture layer before passing through the fluid channel to the light detector. Another technique adds an optical tweezer for controlling the movement of objects moving through the fluid channel. Another technique adds an optical fiber bundle to relay light from light transmissive regions to a remote light detector. Another technique adds two electrodes at ends of the fluid channel to generate an electrical field capable of moving objects through the fluid channel while suppressing rotation. These techniques can be employed separately or in combination to improve the capabilities of OFM devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398050 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/436 |
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| US 08315282 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany); James G. Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Desmond C. Adler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for improving and stabilizing Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) operation. The control system may also provide regulation of FDML operational parameters such as filter tuning, laser gain, polarization, polarization chromaticity, elliptical polarization retardance, and/or dispersion. The control system may be located internal to or external from the FDML laser cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288715 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/18 |
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| US 08315357 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia); Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing a total number of beam segments in a dose distribution for a radiation therapy field is provided. The method includes providing a multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan using a suitably programmed computer, where the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan includes a radiation beam dose performance objective and a fluence map sparsity objective in a given fluence function domain, and providing a Pareto frontier of tradeoff criteria between the beam dose performance and a total number of radiation segments (or sub-fields) of the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan using the suitably programmed computer, where an achieved set of radiation beam dose distributions associated with efficiency points of the Pareto frontier are evaluated using a clinical acceptance criteria, where a clinically acceptable radiation beam dose distribution having a smallest number of the multileaf collimator segments is a final solution for the multiobjective radiation therapy treatment plan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924832 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle with active cooling is provided. It includes an outer peripheral wall, a nozzle center body concentrically disposed within the outer wall in a fuel and air pre-mixture. The fuel and air pre-mixture includes an air inlet, a fuel inlet and a premixing passage defined between the outer wall in the center body. A gas fuel flow passage is provided. A first cooling passage is included within the center body in a second cooling passage is defined between the center body and the outer wall. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256901 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
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| US 08312725 | Steele et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramgen Power Systems, LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Steele (Woodinville, Washington); Ryan G. Edmonds (Renton, Washington); Joseph T. Williams (Kirkland, Washington); Stephen P. Baldwin (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A trapped vortex combustor. The trapped vortex combustor is configured for receiving a lean premixed gaseous fuel and oxidant stream, where the fuel includes hydrogen gas. The trapped vortex combustor is configured to receive the lean premixed fuel and oxidant stream at a velocity which significantly exceeds combustion flame speed in a selected lean premixed fuel and oxidant mixture. The combustor is configured to operate at relatively high bulk fluid velocities while maintaining stable combustion, and low NOx emissions. The combustor is useful in gas turbines in a process of burning synfuels, as it offers the opportunity to avoid use of diluent gas to reduce combustion temperatures. The combustor also offers the possibility of avoiding the use of selected catalytic reaction units for removal of oxides of nitrogen from combustion gases exiting a gas turbine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570935 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/780 |
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| US 08313287 | Little |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Little (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade includes an airfoil, a blade tip section, a squealer tip rail, and a plurality of chordally spaced fence members. The blade tip section includes a blade tip floor located at an end of the airfoil distal from the root. The blade tip floor includes a pressure side and a suction side joined together at chordally spaced apart leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. The squealer tip rail extends radially outwardly from the blade tip floor adjacent to the suction side and extends from a first location adjacent to the airfoil trailing edge to a second location adjacent to the airfoil leading edge. The fence members are located between the airfoil leading and trailing edges and extend radially outwardly from the blade tip floor and axially from the squealer tip rail toward the pressure side. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486249 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
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| US 08313662 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Edward Miller (Livermore, California); Tayyab Ishaq Suratwala (Pleasanton, California); Jeffrey Devin Bude (Danville, California); Nan Shen (Fremont, California); William Augustus Steele (Tracy, California); Ted Alfred Laurence (Livermore, California); Michael Dennis Feit (Livermore, California); Lana Louie Wong (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preventing damage caused by high intensity light sources to optical components includes annealing the optical component for a predetermined period. Another method includes etching the optical component in an etchant including fluoride and bi-fluoride ions. The method also includes ultrasonically agitating the etching solution during the process followed by rinsing of the optical component in a rinse bath. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572220 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313716 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan D. Miller (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jan Hupka (Gdansk, Poland); Robert Aranowski (Starograd Gdanski, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | A spinning fluids reactor, includes a reactor body (24) having a circular cross-section and a fluid contactor screen (26) within the reactor body (24). The fluid contactor screen (26) having a plurality of apertures and a circular cross-section concentric with the reactor body (24) for a length thus forming an inner volume (28) bound by the fluid contactor screen (26) and an outer volume (30) bound by the reactor body (24) and the fluid contactor screen (26). A primary inlet (20) can be operatively connected to the reactor body (24) and can be configured to produce flow-through first spinning flow of a first fluid within the inner volume (28). A secondary inlet (22) can similarly be operatively connected to the reactor body (24) and can be configured to produce a second flow of a second fluid within the outer volume (30) which is optionally spinning. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/056720 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313721 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Lynn Trahey (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a lithium-oxygen or lithium-air electrochemical cell comprising a negative electrode, an electrolyte, and a porous activated positive electrode comprising lithium-rich electrocatalytic materials suitable for use in lithium-oxygen (air) cells and batteries. The activated positive electrode is produced by activating a precursor electrode formed from a material comprising one or more metal oxide compounds of general formula xLi2O.yMOz, in which 0<x≦4, 0<y≦1, and 0<z≦3, in which M is typically, but not exclusively, a transition metal, excluding Li2MnO3 as a sole metal oxide compound in the precursor electrode. Li2O is extracted from the above-mentioned precursors to activate the electrode either by electrochemical methods or by chemical methods. The invention extends to batteries containing such electrochemical cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731615 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314245 | Yaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Hideki Hayashi (Los Angeles, California); Rahul Banerjee (Los Angeles, California); Kyo Sung Park (Los Angeles, California); Bo Wang (Los Angeles, California); Adrien P. Cote (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks for gas separation, gas storage, catalysis and sensors. More particularly the disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks (ZIFs). The ZIF of the disclosure comprises any number of transition metals or a homogenous transition metal composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/680386 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314287 | Bouton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Bouton (Ardmore, Oklahoma); Donald T. Wood (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A switchgrass cultivar designated EG1102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of switchgrass cultivar EG1102, to the plants of switchgrass EG1102, to plant parts of switchgrass cultivar EG1102 and to methods for producing a switchgrass plant produced by crossing switchgrass cultivar EG1102 with itself or with another switchgrass variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a switchgrass plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic switchgrass plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to switchgrass cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from switchgrass variety EG1102, to methods for producing other switchgrass cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from switchgrass cultivar EG1102 and to the switchgrass plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid switchgrass seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar EG1102 with another switchgrass cultivar. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611779 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314386 | Zaluzec |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nestor J. Zaluzec (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An X-ray spectrometer systems and methods are provided for implementing signal detection for use on electron-optical beam lines and microscopes. The X-ray Spectrometer System (XSS) includes an X-ray detector (XD) measuring the X-ray signal and positioned proximate to a specimen. An environmental isolation window together with an electron beam stop is disposed between XD and the specimen. The environmental isolation window and the electron beam stop protect XD from electrons directly transmitted through the specimen. An electron detector is located between the electron beam stop and the specimen allowing the measurement of scattered electrons. The XD measures an X-ray signal in the X-ray spectrometer system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041265 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314400 | Nikolic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rebecca J. Nikolic (Oakland, California); Adam M. Conway (Livermore, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California); Catherine Reinhardt (Livermore, California); Lars F. Voss (Pleasanton, California); Qinghui Shao (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating three-dimensional PIN structures having conformal electrodes are provided, as well as the structures themselves. The structures include a first layer and an array of pillars with cavity regions between the pillars. A first end of each pillar is in contact with the first layer. A segment is formed on the second end of each pillar. The cavity regions are filled with a fill material, which may be a functional material such as a neutron sensitive material. The fill material covers each segment. A portion of the fill material is etched back to produce an exposed portion of the segment. A first electrode is deposited onto the fill material and each exposed segment, thereby forming a conductive layer that provides a common contact to each the exposed segment. A second electrode is deposited onto the first layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014879 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315032 | Tuncer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enis Tuncer (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A ductile preform for making a drawn capacitor includes a plurality of electrically insulating, ductile insulator plates and a plurality of electrically conductive, ductile capacitor plates. Each insulator plate is stacked vertically on a respective capacitor plate and each capacitor plate is stacked on a corresponding insulator plate in alignment with only one edge so that other edges are not in alignment and so that each insulator plate extends beyond the other edges. One or more electrically insulating, ductile spacers are disposed in horizontal alignment with each capacitor plate along the other edges and the pattern is repeated so that alternating capacitor plates are stacked on alternating opposite edges of the insulator plates. A final insulator plate is positioned at an extremity of the preform. The preform may then be drawn to fuse the components and decrease the dimensions of the preform that are perpendicular to the direction of the draw. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838237 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/301.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315039 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-modified nano graphene platelet (NGP), comprising: (a) a nano graphene platelet having a thickness smaller than 10 nm; and (b) discrete, non-continuous, and non-metallic bumps or nodules bonded to a surface of the graphene platelet to serve as a spacer. When multiple surface-modified NGP sheets are stacked together to form an electrode, large numbers of electrolyte-accessible pores are formed, enabling the formation of large amounts of double layer charges in a supercapacitor, which exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacitance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655247 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315290 | Dallum |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory E. Dallum (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-burst transmitter for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems generates a sequence of precisely spaced RF bursts from a single trigger event. There are two oscillators in the transmitter circuit, a gated burst rate oscillator and a gated RF burst or RF power output oscillator. The burst rate oscillator produces a relatively low frequency, i.e., MHz, square wave output for a selected transmit cycle, and drives the RF burst oscillator, which produces RF bursts of much higher frequency, i.e., GHz, during the transmit cycle. The frequency of the burst rate oscillator sets the spacing of the RF burst packets. The first oscillator output passes through a bias driver to the second oscillator. The bias driver conditions, e.g., level shifts, the signal from the first oscillator for input into the second oscillator, and also controls the length of each RF burst. A trigger pulse actuates a timing circuit, formed of a flip-flop and associated reset time delay circuit, that controls the operation of the first oscillator, i.e., how long it oscillates (which defines the transmit cycle). |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637551 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315788 | Surnilla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopichandra Surnilla (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Thomas G. Leone (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Apoorv Agarwal (Clarkston, Michigan); Brett Stanley Hinds (Clarkston, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for facilitating refueling operations in vehicles operating with multiple fuels. A vehicle operator may be assisted in refueling the multiple fuel tanks of the vehicle by being provided one or more refueling profiles that take into account the vehicle's future trip plans, the predicted environmental conditions along a planned route, and the operator's preferences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/783446 |
| 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 71/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316104 | Galvez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Galvez (Versonnex, France); Harvey B. Newman (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collaborative system that includes automatic monitoring and management of reflector/servers and clients. The reflectors are in a logical cluster although their physical locations may be anywhere in the world. Reflector to reflector performance and status is continuously monitored. If a reflector-to-reflector link goes down or is underperforming, the reflector cluster is rerouted to provide desired performance. Clients are monitored and provide information via the network to register/management servers. A best path for the client capabilities is calculated and established. If network performance deteriorates, there are a tiered selection of session modifications that are initiated to compensate. These include reducing video detail levels, reducing number of video streams, reducing size of video windows, adjusting frame rate, and other corrective measures. The client software includes the ability to accept plug-in applications and functionality for customizable operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559881 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GrassRoots Biotechnology, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard W Twigg, III (Durham, North Carolina); Robert L. Clark, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Scott Joseph Kennedy (Durham, North Carolina); Gregory Kealoha Fricke (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A plant growth array device includes an aerial growth chamber configured to receive aerial shoot portions of a plurality of plants and a root growth chamber configured to receive root portions of the plurality of plants. A dividing member is between the aerial growth chamber and the root chamber and has a plurality of apertures for receiving the plurality of plants therein. The plurality of apertures are configured so that the root portions grow substantially in a common orientation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081013 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313634 | Bocarsly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Bocarsly (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Emily Barton Cole (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to various embodiments of an environmentally beneficial method for reducing carbon dioxide. The methods in accordance with the invention include electrochemically or photoelectrochemically reducing the carbon dioxide in a divided electrochemical cell that includes an anode, e.g., an inert metal counterelectrode, in one cell compartment and a metal or p-type semiconductor cathode electrode in another cell compartment that also contains an aqueous solution of an electrolyte and a catalyst of one or more substituted or unsubstituted aromatic amines to produce therein a reduced organic product. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696840 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313714 | Asokan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subashini Asokan (Houston, Texas); Michael Sha-nang Wong (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method of making non-spherical nanoparticles that includes (a) combining a source of a Group 12, 13, 14, or 15 metal or metalloid; a source of a Group 15 or 16 element; and a source of a quaternary ammonium compound or phosphonium compound; and (b) isolating non-spherical nanoparticles from the resulting reaction mixture. Other embodiments of the invention provide non-spherical nanoparticle compositions, that are the reaction product of a source of a Group 12, 13, 14, or 15 metal or metalloid; a source of a Group 15 or 16 element; and a source of a quaternary ammonium compound or phosphonium compound; wherein nanoparticle tetrapods comprise 75-100 number percent of the nanoparticle products. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/442382 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313903 | Kolpashchikov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Kolpashchikov (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to binary oligonucleotide probes for nucleic analysis, which probes can be made of DNA or RNA that recognize nucleic acid analytes (both DNA and RNA) with unprecedented high selectivity under mild conditions and are highly sensitive to single nucleotide mismatches (SNP single nucleotide polymorphisms) without PCR amplification. In one group, the binary probes indicate that they have hybridized to a particular nucleic analyte by binding to a molecular beacon that gives off a fluorescent signal. A second group of binary probes bind to a dye such as malachite green, where upon hybridization to analyte the fluorescence of the dye increases dramatically and is easily detected and measured. The new binary probes require only about five minutes at room temperature to generate a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Sunday, April 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/295625 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313957 | Snee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Preston T. Snee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rebecca C. Somers (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Nocera (Winchester, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Binding an analyte can cause a change in fluorescence emission of a sensor. The change in fluorescence can be related to the amount of analyte present. The sensor can include a semiconductor nanocrystal linked to a fluorescent moiety. Upon excitation, the fluorescent moiety can transfer energy to the semiconductor nanocrystal, or vice versa. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/330148 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314158 | Schlenoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an osmotically compacted polyelectrolyte complex having a first region and a second region, the first region having a greater modulus than the second region and a method for preparing such an article. The article comprising the polyelectrolyte complex is produced by contacting a polyelectrolyte complex with a solution comprising an osmolyte at a concentration sufficient to compact the polyelectrolyte complex. The compaction process is terminated before the entire article is osmotically compacted. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/346272 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314245 | Yaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Hideki Hayashi (Los Angeles, California); Rahul Banerjee (Los Angeles, California); Kyo Sung Park (Los Angeles, California); Bo Wang (Los Angeles, California); Adrien P. Cote (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks for gas separation, gas storage, catalysis and sensors. More particularly the disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks (ZIFs). The ZIF of the disclosure comprises any number of transition metals or a homogenous transition metal composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/680386 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314665 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Los Angeles, California); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts); Alexei Gaidarzhy (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano electromechanical integrated circuit filter and method of making. The filter comprises a silicon substrate; a sacrificial layer; a device layer including at least one resonator, wherein the resonator includes sub-micron excitable elements and wherein the at least one resonator possess a fundamental mode frequency as well as a collective mode frequency and wherein the collective mode frequency of the at least one resonator is determined by the fundamental frequency of the sub-micron elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311141 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315282 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany); James G. Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Desmond C. Adler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for improving and stabilizing Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) operation. The control system may also provide regulation of FDML operational parameters such as filter tuning, laser gain, polarization, polarization chromaticity, elliptical polarization retardance, and/or dispersion. The control system may be located internal to or external from the FDML laser cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288715 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315306 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qian Xu (College Station, Texas); Vladimir M. Stanković (Lancaster, United Kingdom); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A video encoder system includes a base layer and an enhancement layer for encoding video data. The base layer encodes a reduced quality version of the video data to obtain base layer data. The enhancement layer encodes the video data using energy-concentrating transform operations, nested scalar quantization, and Raptor encoders. The base layer data and enhancement layer data are transmitted through a channel to a video decoder system. The decoder system decodes the base layer data to recover an estimate of the reduced quality video and decodes the enhancement layer data (using the reduced quality video as side information) to obtain blocks of coset indices. The decoder system then operates on the blocks of coset indices to generate estimates of the original video data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517942 |
| ART UNIT | 2485 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315821 | Brujic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jasna Brujic (New York, New York); Eric Corwin (Brooklyn, New York); Maxime Clusel (Grenoble, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining a packing property of a particulate composition. The method includes: obtaining size information relating to the particulate material; determining neighbor information from the size information; determining contact information from the size information; and determining a packing property from the neighbor information and the contact information, thereby enabling determination of the characteristic properties of the particulate composition. The method can be executed by use of a computer system to execute computer software instructions applied to data obtained on the particulate composition to determine a variety of properties of the particulate composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686036 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315955 | Wymeersch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henk Wymeersch (Boston, Massachusetts); Moe Z. Win (Framingham, Massachusetts); Faisal M. Kashif (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of equalization used to estimate a transmitted signal given a received output is presented herein. The equalization method involves modeling a transmission channel as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The HMM channel is evaluated as a finite state machine. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique of sampling and computation is then utilized to estimate the transmitted signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977749 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316104 | Galvez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Galvez (Versonnex, France); Harvey B. Newman (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collaborative system that includes automatic monitoring and management of reflector/servers and clients. The reflectors are in a logical cluster although their physical locations may be anywhere in the world. Reflector to reflector performance and status is continuously monitored. If a reflector-to-reflector link goes down or is underperforming, the reflector cluster is rerouted to provide desired performance. Clients are monitored and provide information via the network to register/management servers. A best path for the client capabilities is calculated and established. If network performance deteriorates, there are a tiered selection of session modifications that are initiated to compensate. These include reducing video detail levels, reducing number of video streams, reducing size of video windows, adjusting frame rate, and other corrective measures. The client software includes the ability to accept plug-in applications and functionality for customizable operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559881 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316288 | Nowoczynski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Nowoczynski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nathan Stone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jared Yanovich (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jason Sommerfield (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of data storage processes for high performance, high core number computing systems. In one embodiment, the systems of the present invention perform sequential I/O whenever possible. To achieve a high degree of sequentiality, the block allocation scheme is determined by the next available block on the next available disk. This simple, non-deterministic data placement method is extremely effective for providing sequential data streams to the spindle by minimizing costly seeks. The sequentiality of the allocation scheme is not affected by the number of clients, the degree of randomization within the incoming data streams, the logical byte addresses of incoming request's file extents, or the RAID attributes (i.e., parity position) of the block. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/734201 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08313660 | Tsotsis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Tsotsis (Orange, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive wire includes a thermoplastic filament having a circumference and a plurality of coating layers dispersed about the circumference of the thermoplastic filament. The coating layers include a plurality of conductive layers comprising aligned carbon nanotubes dispersed therein and at least one thermoplastic layer between each pair of conductive layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975551 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314161 | Polasky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Polasky (Mogadore, Ohio); Raymond M. Breindel (Hartville, Ohio); Roland R. Loh (Stow, Ohio); Yadollah Delaviz (Lewis Center, Ohio); Bharat Patel (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for producing a high strength, but easily deformed, polystyrene foam board that can endure repeatedly deformations from its original configuration into more complex curved shapes without damaging the board integrity or substantially reducing its structural strength. Also provided are rigid polystyrene foam boards produced by this method that exhibit improved bending and impact resistance while substantially retaining or improving other properties, for example, the thermal dimensional stability and fire resistance, exhibited by corresponding conventional XPS foam boards. The foamable compositions may incorporate one or more of a variety of polymer processing aids for the purpose of altering the performance of the final foam products, thereby allowing the properties of the final foam product to be customized to some degree. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208987 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314202 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Emrick (Deerfield, Massachusetts); E. Bryan Coughlin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Thangamani Ranganathan (San Jose, California); Michael Beaulieu (Chicopee, Massachusetts); Richard Farris (Leeds, Massachusetts); Bon-Cheol Ku (Wanju-gun, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel flame-retardant polymers and materials, their synthesis and use. More particularly, the flame-retardant polymers are deoxybenzoin-derived polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/934386 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314404 | McClelland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FEI Company (Hillsboro, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jabez McClelland (Bethesda, Maryland); Brenton J. Knuffman (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Adam V. Steele (Rockville, Maryland); Jonathan H. Orloff (Rockaway Beach, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion beam system uses a separate accelerating electrode, such as a resistive tube, to accelerate the ions while maintaining a low electric field at an extended, that is, distributed ion source, thereby improving resolution. A magneto-optical trap can be used as the ion source. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886354 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08316338 | Peralta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Southern Denmark (Odense M, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene Caupolican Peralta (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Joan Boyar (Odense N, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of simplifying a combinational circuit establishes an initial combinational circuit operable to calculate a set of target signals. A quantity of multiplication operations performed in a first portion of the initial combinational circuit is reduced to create a first, simplified combinational circuit. The first portion includes only multiplication operations and addition operations. A quantity of addition operations performed in a second portion of the first, simplified combinational circuit is reduced to create a second, simplified combinational circuit. The second portion includes only addition operations. Also, the second, simplified combinational circuit is operable to calculate the target signals using fewer operations than the initial combinational circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367660 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08313654 | Piazza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Piazza (Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania); Rafael Garcia (Wyncote, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for aggregating suspended solid particles in an aqueous medium involving mixing the aqueous medium with an effective amount of a flocculant to aggregate the solid particles to form aggregated solid particles, and optionally separating the aggregated solid particles from the aqueous medium. The flocculant is obtained from animal blood. The pH of the aqueous medium may be adjusted to a pH of about 4.5 to about 5.7 by the addition of at least one acid or acidic buffer. The temperature of the aqueous medium may be adjusted to a temperature range of about 10° to about 50° C. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859530 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313708 | Walker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul N. Walker (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for treating objects with a treatment gas comprises a treatment chamber, a chamber input through which objects enter the treatment chamber, and a chamber output (which may be the same as the chamber input) through which the objects leave the treatment chamber. The treatment chamber encloses the treatment gas, which can be steam. The chamber output and/or the chamber input include an intermediate medium, such as a liquid, through which the objects pass. The intermediate medium prevents escape of the treatment gas from the treatment chamber and the ingress of external gases into the treatment chamber, while facilitating input of the objects to the chamber, and output of the objects from the chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060136 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313789 | Hotchkiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arland T. Hotchkiss (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Alberto Nunez (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Robert A. Rastall (Reading, United Kingdom); Glenn R. Gibson (Reading, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut of a human in need thereof, which involves administering to a human a composition containing an effective amount of Ara-(1-5)-(Ara)n-(1-5)-Ara as a prebiotic, where n=0-18. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787771 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314219 | Price |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil P Price (Edelstein, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | C-glycoside keto-amide derivatives, including C-glycoside keto-hydrazones and C-glycoside keto-oximes, may be prepared from plant or animal lipids and saccharides. These C-glycoside keto-amide derivatives are of the formula: wherein: R is a saccharide; Y is independently selected from H or a halogen; m is an integer greater than or equal to 1; X is NH (as in C-glycoside keto-hydrazones) or O (as in C-glycoside keto-oximes); and R2 is an acyl moiety derived from any lipid fatty acid of the formula —C(O)—R3, wherein R3 is a C5 to C22 straight or branched chain hydrocarbon which may be saturated or unsaturated. These C-glycoside keto-amide derivatives have potential applications as surfactants, detergents, liposomes, and bilayers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777588 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/18.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08313853 | Kaun |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin, flexible, porous ceramic composite (PCC) film useful as a separator for a molten-salt thermal battery comprises 50% to 95% by weight of electrically non-conductive ceramic fibers comprising a coating of magnesium oxide on the surface of the fibers in an amount in the range of 5% to 50% by weight. The ceramic fibers comprise Al2O3, AlSiO2, BN, AlN, or a mixture of two or more of the foregoing; and the magnesium oxide coating interconnects the ceramic fibers providing a porous network of magnesium oxide-coated fibers having a porosity of not less than 50% by volume. The pores of the film optionally can include a solid electrolyte salt. A laminated electrode/PCC film combination is also provided, as well as a thermal battery cell comprising the PCC film as a separator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315210 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313870 | Pien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ElectroChem, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyhing M. Pien (Acton, Massachusetts); Marvin Warshay (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates in part to a flow field structure comprising a hydrophilic part and a hydrophobic part communicably attached to each other via a connecting interface. The present disclosure further relates to electrochemical cells comprising the aforementioned flow fields. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262975 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/429 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314446 | Yao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Holdings, LLC (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Yao (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor including an array of light sensitive pixels, each pixel including: at least one hetero-junction phototransistor having a floating base without contact, wherein each phototransistor is a mesa device having active layers exposed at side-walls of the mesa device; and at least one atomic layer deposited high-k dielectric material adjacent to and passivating at least the side-wall exposed active layers. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244938 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08315039 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-modified nano graphene platelet (NGP), comprising: (a) a nano graphene platelet having a thickness smaller than 10 nm; and (b) discrete, non-continuous, and non-metallic bumps or nodules bonded to a surface of the graphene platelet to serve as a spacer. When multiple surface-modified NGP sheets are stacked together to form an electrode, large numbers of electrolyte-accessible pores are formed, enabling the formation of large amounts of double layer charges in a supercapacitor, which exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacitance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655247 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08312724 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongtao Dai (Manchester, Connecticut); Jeffrey M. Cohen (Hebron, Connecticut); Catalin G. Fotache (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided, including a main mixer, and a pilot mixer having an annular housing in which a corner is formed between an aft portion of the housing and a bulkhead wall in which a corner recirculation zone is located to stabilize and anchor the flame of the pilot mixer. The pilot mixer can further include features to cool the annular housing, including in the area of the corner recirculation zone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014434 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08313870 | Pien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ElectroChem, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyhing M. Pien (Acton, Massachusetts); Marvin Warshay (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates in part to a flow field structure comprising a hydrophilic part and a hydrophobic part communicably attached to each other via a connecting interface. The present disclosure further relates to electrochemical cells comprising the aforementioned flow fields. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262975 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/429 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08314201 | Meador et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia); Ohio Aerosapce Institute (Brookpark, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); Baochau N. Nguyen (North Royalton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic oxide aerogels incorporating periodically dispersed flexible linkages are provided. The flexible linkages impart greater flexibility than the native aerogels without those linkages, and have been shown to reduce or eliminate the need for supercritical CO2-mediated drying of the corresponding wet gels. The gels may also be polymer cross-linked via organic polymer chains that are attached to and extend from surface-bound functional groups provided or present over the internal surfaces of a mesoporous ceramic oxide particle network via appropriate chemical reactions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948315 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08314202 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Emrick (Deerfield, Massachusetts); E. Bryan Coughlin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Thangamani Ranganathan (San Jose, California); Michael Beaulieu (Chicopee, Massachusetts); Richard Farris (Leeds, Massachusetts); Bon-Cheol Ku (Wanju-gun, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel flame-retardant polymers and materials, their synthesis and use. More particularly, the flame-retardant polymers are deoxybenzoin-derived polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/934386 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08312822 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John H. Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota); Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for the removal of mercury from flue gas. Effective removal of mercury is obtained by oxidation of elemental mercury, with highly reactive halogen species derived from dissociation of halogen compounds at moderate temperatures brought into contact with the flue gas with or without the addition of carbon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167054 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnaces 110/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08316228 | Winslow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A device having an encryption module in communication with first and second communication ports may facilitate connecting to an access network, without requiring a non-secure hard drive to initiate the network access. The encryption module may define a normal mode and a bypass mode. In normal mode, data from the first port may be sent encrypted to the second port, for communicating securely in an encrypted environment. In bypass mode, data from the first port may be sent unencrypted to the second port. The data being sent may be intercepted and presented to the user for approval in a human readable format. The user may confirm that the data is appropriate for being sent unencrypted. This data may be sent unencrypted in response to a request for information (e.g., an assent to terms and conditions) from the access network, such as at a hotel or public wireless hotspot, for example. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337384 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 08315966 | Narain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjai Narain (Madison, New Jersey); Gary Levin (Bedminster, New Jersey); Vikram Kaul (Randolph, New Jersey); Rajesh Talpade (Madison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method provides a solution to the problem of applying end-to-end requirements of connectivity, security, reliability and performance to configure a network and ultimately assign network components to the network. All requirements are modeled as constraints and a constraint solver does the resolution. Not every constraint to be solved is solved by the model-finder. Instead, we “factor away” subsets of a constraint that can be efficiently solved via a special-purpose constraint solver, such as an SQL/Prolog engine, linear programming system, or even an algorithm, leaving behind a constraint that truly requires the power of model-finding, and that is often efficiently solvable by existing model-finders. Such constraints are compiled into quantifier-free constraints that are Boolean combinations of constraints of two forms x=y and x=c where x, y are variables and c is a constant. Such constraints can be efficiently solved by modern SAT-based model-finders. The system intelligently removes the quantifiers instead of having the model-finder remove the quantifiers. An “unsatisfiability-core” analysis efficiently guides the search for configurations to change to restore consistency. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268223 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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