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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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| US 08327705 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISC8 Inc. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Hsu (San Clemente, California); Gary Gottlieb (Irvine, California); Clint Kopper (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing method and device for measuring the input rate of an FM micro-gyro having a modulation frequency FM and having an oscillator sense element having a nominal frequency FOSC is disclosed. In a first aspect of the invention, the method comprises defining a first time interval TWN and a second time interval TWP and measuring the first time interval and the second time interval by counting the number of periods of a predetermined reference frequency. The nominal frequency of the oscillator sense element FOSC is measured along with the modulation frequency FM. From these measurements, the proof mass period NW is calculated. The time difference Δt is calculated from the above measurements. The method then comprises calculating a modulation M that produced the measured Δt, preferably using an iterative method. From the above, the input rate Ω is calculated by dividing M by a sensitivity S of the FM micro-gyro. The above method and other methods for signal processing for measuring the input rate of an FM micro-gyro are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806339 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08327924 | Muley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Muley (Ranchos Palos Verdes, California); Joe Borghese (Yucca Valley, California); Michael Williams (Harbor City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger fin capable of increasing convective heat transfer by reducing internal conduction along an undesirable direction within the heat exchanger fin itself is disclosed. More specifically, the current invention reduces conduction within the heat exchanger fin along an undesirable direction along the direction of fluid flow because such conduction decreases the performance of the heat exchanger fin. A heat exchanger fin in accordance with the present invention utilizes a plurality of notches within the heat exchanger fin that is perpendicular to the direction of fluid flow to increase the resistance of conduction within the heat exchanger fin itself. By increasing the resistance of conduction in an undesired direction, the heat exchanger fin is capable of more uniform temperature to along the entire surface area to facilitate increase convective heat transfer in the desired direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167992 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08327960 | Couture et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam P. Couture (Allston, Massachusetts); Richard Page (Middleton, Massachusetts); John P. O'Brien (Newton, Massachusetts); Mikhail Filippov (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew Shein (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic vehicle (10,100,150A,150B150C,160,1000,1000A, includes a chassis (20,106,152,162) having front and rear ends (20A,152A,20B,152B) and supported on right and left driven tracks (34,44,108,165). Right and left elongated flippers (50,60,102,154,164) are disposed on corresponding sides of the chassis and operable to pivot. A linkage (70,156,166) connects a payload deck assembly (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806), configured to support a removable functional payload, to the chassis. The linkage has a first end (70A) rotatably connected to the chassis at a first pivot (71), and a second end (70B) rotatably connected to the deck at a second pivot (73). Both of the first and second pivots include independently controllable pivot drivers (72,74) operable to rotatably position their corresponding pivots (71,73) to control both fore-aft position and pitch orientation of the payload deck (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806) with respect to the chassis (20,106,152,162). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444236 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328396 | Capasso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nanfang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Fan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for collimating radiation can include an aperture of subwavelength dimensions and a neighboring set of grooves defined on a metal film integrated with an active or passive device that emits radiation. Integration of the beam collimator onto the facet of a laser or other radiation-emitting device provides for beam collimation and polarization selection. Beam divergence can be reduced by more than one order of magnitude compared with the output of a conventional laser. An active beam collimator with an aperture-groove structure can be integrated with a wide range of optical devices, such as semiconductor lasers (e.g., quantum cascade lasers), light emitting diodes, optical fibers, and fiber lasers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/738180 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/311.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328466 | Shook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Shook (San Diego, California); Steve Whiteside (San Diego, California); Robert Lee (Descanso, California); Ronald Skala (Murrieta, California); Paul Wade (Chula Vista, California); Bret Thomson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater plow can include a depressor cam and a chute cam that are pivotably attached to a blade portion. The blade portion can be formed with a trough and the depressor cam can be biased in the trough. The chute cam can be formed with a groove having a minimum thickness at its attached end and an increasing taper to a maximum thickness at its distal end. A sensor passing through the plow contacts the edge of the depressor cam, causing depressor cam rotation away from the trough. The sensor passes the depressor cam and pushes against the chute cam, which causes the chute cam to contra-rotate relative to the depressor cam until the sensor passes through the chute arm at is maximum thickness. Once the sensor passes through, the cams contra-rotate back to their respective biased positions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880200 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328505 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Kevin E. Green (Broad Brook, Connecticut); Shaoluo L. Butler (Manchester, Connecticut); Gajawalli V. Srinivasan (South Windsor, Connecticut); Glenn N. Levasseur (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A shroud suitable for use in combination with an adjacent rotor blade includes a leading portion comprising a first thickness, and a trailing portion adjacent to the leading portion and comprising a second thickness, wherein the second thickness is less than the first thickness so that stiffness in the leading portion is greater than in the trailing portion and radial expansion by thermal growth of the leading portion of the shroud is constrained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/308269 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328511 | Hernandez Russe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilhelm Ramon Hernandez Russe (Lynn, Massachusetts); John Alan Manteiga (North Andover, Massachusetts); Robert John Parks (Ipswich, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine nozzle includes radially inner and outer bands integrally joined to opposite ends of an airfoil. The outer band has forward and aft hooks extending radially outwardly at axially opposite ends. And the hooks have different prechorded circumferential curvatures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486126 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/209.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328857 | Anders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juanita J. Anders (Potomac, Maryland); Ilko K. Ilev (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald W. Waynant (Clarksville, Maryland); Kimberly R. Byrnes (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating spinal cord injury (SCI) includes transcutaneously irradiating at least a portion of a spinal environment of the patient with light having a power density of at least about 0.01 mW/cm2 at the portion of the spinal environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713087 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328966 | Laib 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) | Gerald R. Laib (Olney, Maryland); Michael Beggans (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making miniature explosive powder charges or other compressible materials, including providing a material to be compressed into multiple cavities of a rigid platen, and positioning an elastic platen in contact with the rigid platen. The elastic platen is mounted in a head assembly having a pressurizing fluid. Evacuating the cavities and the material contained therein, and trapping fractious particles and vapors out-gassed from the material. Pressurizing fluid, which causes deformation of the elastic platen to form distensions that project into the cavities and compress the material into compacts. The pressurizing fluid is depressurized enabling the distensions to retract and the elastic platen to return to a non-deformed state. Finally, separating the elastic and rigid platens and collecting the compacts, which may be miniature explosive charges having an optimized density. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283783 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329006 | Gebhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faraday Technology, Inc. (Clayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Gebhart (Clayton, Ohio); Jenny J. Sun (Tipp City, Ohio); Phillip O. Miller (Dayton, Ohio); E. Jennings Taylor (Troy, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for establishing more uniform deposition across one or more faces of a workpiece in an electroplating process. The apparatus employs eductors in conjunction with a flow dampener member and other measures to provide a more uniform current distribution and a more uniform metal deposit distribution as reflected in a coefficient of variability that is lower than conventional processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431030 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/230.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329118 | Padmanabhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aravind Padmanabhan (Plymouth, Minnesota); Peter Reutiman (Crystal, Minnesota); Eugen I. Cabuz (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining one or more operating parameters for a timing protocol of a microfluidic circuit are provided. In some embodiments, wet out times are measured for certain flow channels, and start times, flow rates and/or other parameters are calculated so that the various fluids in the microfluidic cartridge arrive at certain locations at a desired time and/or in a desired sequence. To help compensate for process variations, one or more fluidic process monitor components/structures may be fabricated along with the functional components/structures of a microfluidic cartridge. Test may be performed on the process monitor components/structures to help identify process variations in the particular microfluidic cartridge at hand. By using the process monitor data, the timing protocol for a particular microfluidic cartridge may be made more accurate. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932662 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329141 | Wong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franklin C. Wong (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of using unsealed and non-colloidal radiopharmaceuticals, for example beta emitting radiopharmaceuticals such as Yttrium-90 chloride, Indium-111 chloride, F-18-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose, or combinations thereof, for locoregional ablation of cells in the abnormal tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714295 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329178 | Marasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Jianhua Sui (Boston, Massachusetts); Chen Xu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides human monoclonal antibodies or fragments thereof, that specifically bind to CXCR4. Disclosed are methods of use of such antibodies for the treatment and/or prevention of a CXCR4 disease or disorder such as cancer and X4-tropic HIV-1 infection Also provided are methods of use of such antibodies and antibody fragments for the treatment or prevention of cancer metastasis. The invention provides methods of mobilizing CD34+stem cells from the bone marrow and methods of blocking chemotaxis of CXCR4-expressing cells in response to SDF-1. Also provided are methods of use of the antibodies and fragments thereof for the prevention or treatment of graft-versus-host disease. Finally, the invention provides methods of inhibiting new tumor blood vessel formation and/or tumor cell angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883258 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329423 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Joon-Seo Park (Madison, Wisconsin); Sarah Teren (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides liquid crystal-based devices and methods for bioagent detection. In certain aspects, the present invention is directed to devices and methods utilizing liquid crystals and membranes containing polymerized targets that can report the presence of bioagents including, but not limited to, enzymes, antibodies, and toxins. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011514 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329445 | Frost |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, enzymes, and cells for the biosynthetic production of phloroglucinol from malonyl-CoA, which is ultimately obtained from simple starting materials such as glucose; also provided are methods for preparing derivatives of biosynthetic phloroglucinol, including, e.g., resorcinol. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081993 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329461 | Marek 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) | Patrick J. Marek (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Joshua P. Magnone (Millis, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held implement for removing microbiological matter from a surface to which the matter is adhered, and storing the matter for subsequent examination, includes a sonic wave generator for producing sonic waves for breaking up a film of the microbiological matter on the surface, a swab for contact with the surface and collecting the microbiological matter, a suction producing device for drawing the microbiological matter from the swab and into the implement, and a trap in the implement for receiving and retaining the drawn biological matter for subsequent examination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539329 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/309.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329482 | Yao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhimin Jamie Yao (Goleta, California); James Ibbetson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for light emitting diode (LED) chips are provided. In one embodiment of a method, a pre-formed capping wafer is provided, with the capping wafer comprising a conversion material. A wire-bond free LED wafer is fabricated comprising a plurality of LEDs. The capping wafer is bonded to the LED wafer using an adhesive. The LED chips are later singulated upon completion of all final fabrication steps. The capping wafer provides a robust mechanical support for the LED chips during fabrication, which improves the strength of the chips during fabrication. Additionally, the capping wafer may comprise an integrated conversion material, which simplifies the fabrication process. In one possible embodiment for an LED chip wafer, a submount wafer is provided, along with a plurality of LEDs flip-chip mounted on the submount wafer. Additionally, a capping wafer is bonded to the LEDs using an adhesive, and the capping wafer comprises a conversion material. At least some of the light emitted from the LEDs passes through the capping wafer where at least some of the light is converted by the conversion material. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771938 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329559 | Takeuchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hideki Takeuchi (Austin, Texas); Emmanuel P. Quevy (El Cerrito, California); Tsu-Jae King (Fremont, California); Roger T. Howe (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In fabricating a microelectromechanical structure (MEMS), a method of forming a narrow gap in the MEMS includes a) depositing a layer of sacrificial material on the surface of a supporting substrate, b) photoresist masking and at least partially etching the sacrificial material to form at least one blade of sacrificial material, c) depositing a structural layer over the sacrificial layer, and d) removing the sacrificial layer including the blade of the sacrificial material with a narrow gap remaining in the structural layer where the blade of sacrificial material was removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/737545 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329873 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Adams (Hatboro, Pennsylvania); Eva M. Horak (West Orange, New Jersey); Louis M. Weiner (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bispecific single chain antibody molecules are disclosed which may be used to advantage to treat various forms of cancer associated with the overexpression of members of the EGFR protein family. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943367 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329967 | Brandvold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Michael J. McCall (Geneva, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a blended fuel from a paraffin rich component and a cyclic rich component, where each of the components are generated from a renewable feedstock, is presented. The paraffin rich component is generated from glycerides and free fatty acids in feedstocks such as plant and animal oils. The cyclic rich component is generated from biomass derived pyrolysis oil. The source of the animal or plant oil and the biomass may be the same renewable source. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418963 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329968 | Brandvold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Michael J. McCall (Geneva, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing at least one blended fuel from a paraffin rich component and a cyclic rich component, where each of the components are generated from a renewable feedstock, is presented. The paraffin rich component is generated from glycerides and free fatty acids in feedstocks such as plant and animal oils. The cyclic rich component is generated from biomass derived pyrolysis oil. The source of the animal or plant oil and the biomass may be the same renewable source. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418971 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330116 | Lacy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proportional Technologies, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Lacy (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to radiation detection, and more particularly, to a method and device for the remote detection and localization of nuclear materials in an unknown background. A method and apparatus for long range neutron and gamma ray detection and imaging is disclosed wherein a panel of thin walled tube detectors are rotated to enhance detection performance. The method and apparatus have particular applicability to portable monitoring and homeland security. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483771 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330149 | Katz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Jia Sun (Baltimore, Maryland); Nath Bhola Pal (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured is an organic/polymer diode having a first layer composed essentially of one of an organic semiconductor material or a polymeric semiconductor material and a second layer formed on the first layer and being electrically coupled to the first layer such that current flows through the layers in one direction when a voltage is applied in one direction. The second layer is essentially composed of a material whose characteristics and properties are such that when formed on the first layer, the diode is capable of high frequency rectifications on the order of megahertz rectifications such as for example rectifications at one of above 100KHz, 500KhZ, IMHz, or 10 MHz. In further embodiments, the layers are arranged so as to be exposed to atmosphere. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/680308 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330323 | Zalalutdinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim Zalalutdinov (Silver Springs, Maryland); Robert B. Reichenbach (Portland, Oregon); Keith Aubin (Coventry, Rhode Island); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A source signal is converted into a time-variant temperature field with transduction into mechanical motion. In one embodiment, the conversion of a source signal into the time-variant temperature field is provided by utilizing a micro-fabricated fast response, bolometer-type radio frequency power meter. A resonant-type micromechanical thermal actuator may be utilized for temperature read-out and demodulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292658 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330642 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanwei Jin (Salisbury, Maryland); Jose′ M. F. Moura (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A high resolution imaging system is used to detect and locate targets using time reversal in rich scattering environments, where the number of scatterers is significantly larger than the number of antennas. Our imaging system performs two major tasks by time reversal: clutter mitigation and target focusing. Clutter mitigation is accomplished through waveform reshaping to suppress the clutter returns. After the suppressed clutter is subtracted from the returned signal, a second time reversal for target focusing is performed. A final image is then obtained by beamforming. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/217838 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330650 | Goldman |
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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) | Geoffrey Howard Goldman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar system, apparatus, and method includes at least one radar transmitter for transmitting an electromagnetic waveform; a receiving antenna comprising a plurality of receiving antenna elements and delay lines, each of the plurality of receiving antenna elements receiving the return signal operatively associated with a predetermined delay line; each delay line having a delay length which produces a different phase delay in the return signal; the different phase delays producing substantially different antenna patterns for the received signal at a given frequency; at least one processor operatively connected to receive data from the plurality of delay lines; the at least one processor operating to analyze the substantially different beam patterns for a given frequency; whereby the processing of the data produces results indicating the presence and location of a target. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775687 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330819 | Jung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Hack Jung (Princeton, New Jersey); Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for for matching objects is disclosed. At least two images where one of the at least two images has a first target object and a second of the at least two images has a second target object are received. At least one first patch from the first target object and at least one second patch from the second target object are extracted. A distance-based part encoding between each of the at least one first patch and the at least one second patch based upon a corresponding codebook of image parts including at least one of part type and pose is constructed. A viewpoint of one of the at least one first patch is warped to a viewpoint of the at least one second patch. A parts level similarity measure based on the view-invariant distance measure for each of the at least one first patch and the at least one second patch is applied to determine whether the first target object and the second target object are the same or different objects. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758507 |
| ART UNIT | 2446 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330952 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Jingjing Li (Palo Alto, California); Qiangfei Xia (Palo Alto, California); Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for performing Raman spectroscopy comprises a waveguide layer configured with at least one array of features, the at least one array of features being configured to provide guided-mode resonance for at least one wavelength of electromagnetic radiation; and at least one fluid channel disposed in the waveguide layer. An analyte sensor comprises an electromagnetic radiation source configured to emit a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, the system for performing Raman spectroscopy, and at least one photodetector configured to detect Raman scattered light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625304 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330956 | Seletskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denis V. Seletskiy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael Hasselbeck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mansoor Sheik-Bahae (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide devices and methods of an optical coupled-cavity photo-acoustic spectroscopy (CC-PAS). The exemplary CC-PAS can include three mirrors configured in parallel to couple a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity with a sample cavity. The sample cavity can be a resonant cavity for containing a sample. The FP cavity can be used as a tunable input coupler for the sample cavity to improve spectroscopic sensitivities when measuring an absorber in the sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791156 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330958 | Levitsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emitech, Inc (Fall River, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor A. Levitsky (Fall River, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optochemical detector for detecting various chemical compounds and comprising a flow cell incorporating the sensory element constructed of an organic-inorganic emissive nanocomposite which luminescence spectral response is specific to exposed target vapors and particulates. The change in the luminescent spectral response is measured during this exposure. The detector is equipped with air-jet sampling system functioning in real-time mode for delivery of vapors and particulates to sensory element. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/702143 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331091 | Kaslusky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott F. Kaslusky (West Hartford, Connecticut); Brian St. Rock (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect of the invention, an electronics package includes an enclosure and one or more thermal energy generating components disposed in the enclosure. A radial heat sink is disposed in the enclosure including a blower disposed in the radial heat sink and a plurality of fins extending from a periphery of the blower toward a perimeter of the radial heat sink. The plurality of fins define a plurality of channels having a plurality of channel exits at the perimeter of the radial heat sink. The radial heat sink configured to dissipate thermal energy from the one or more components which are arranged around the heat sink according to heat flux requirements of each component. An air inlet extends through the enclosure and is connected to the blower to direct air to the blower in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first longitudinal face and/or the second longitudinal face. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873508 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331129 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Yi (Mountain View, California); Frederick Perner (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); Muhammad Shakeel Qureshi (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory array with write feedback includes a number of row lines intersecting a number of column lines, a memory element connected between one of the row lines and one of the column lines, an electrical condition supply to be selectively applied to one of the row lines; and a feedback control loop to control an electrical condition supplied by the electrical condition supply. A method for setting the state of a memory element within a memory array includes applying an electrical condition to the memory element within the memory array, sensing a resistive state of the memory element, and controlling the electrical condition based on the sensed resistive state to cause the memory element to reach a target resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875423 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331139 | Gallagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Gallagher (Ardsley, New York); Daniel C. Worledge (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices and techniques for use thereof are provided. In one aspect, a magnetic memory cell is provided. The magnetic memory cell comprises at least one fixed magnetic layer; at least one first free magnetic layer separated from the fixed magnetic layer by at least one barrier layer; at least one second free magnetic layer separated from the first free magnetic layer by at least one spacer layer; and at least one capping layer over a side of the second free magnetic layer opposite the spacer layer. One or more of the first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer comprise at least one rare earth element, such that the at least one rare earth element makes up between about one percent and about 10 percent of one or more of the first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/036098 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331164 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seongwon Kim (Old Tappan, New Jersey); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Bipin Rajendran (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, low-power, asynchronous, resistor-based memory read circuit includes a memory cell having a plurality of consecutive memory states, each of said states corresponding to a respective output voltage. A sense amplifier reads the state of the memory cell. The sense amplifier includes a voltage divider configured to receive the output voltage of the memory cell and to output a settled voltage an amplifier having a voltage threshold between the settled voltages associated with two of said consecutive memory states, configured to discriminate between said two consecutive memory states. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960651 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/189.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331194 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating an underwater acoustic waveguide suitable for guiding acoustic energy between a source and a receiver to enable underwater communications. Electrolysis of water by electrically powered terminals continuously creates a bubble field having a volume fraction of less than 0.01% gas. The bubble field has a lower sound speed than the surrounding water, resulting in the bubble field acting as a waveguide to transmit sound over the length of the bubble field. By maintaining small bubble radii, the bubble field can be stable for long periods of time. By keeping the volume fraction and bubble radii small, the power requirements for the terminals are minimized. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/767072 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331195 | Schumer 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) | Sean Schumer (Hoboken, New Jersey); Mark Mellini (Denville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, program and system utilizing a number of field-deployed sensors to accurately detect and classify objects/events (targets) of interest within a sensor field including the detection/classification of human beings travelling on-foot or with vehicles and their direction(s) of travel. In particular, the method, computer program and system are operable to determine whether a detected target is an animal, human or vehicle via analysis of received acoustic and sensor data. The analyses performed include comparison/correlation of the sensor data to known seismic cyclostationary signatures, acoustic and seismic characteristics of human footsteps and travel tendencies, and acoustic and seismic characteristics of non-human (animal) footsteps and travel tendencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582071 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331267 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Zhang (Cupertino, California); Gabriel Hoffmann (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining an optimal backbone for a robotic relay network are provided. A robotic relay network comprising a plurality of nodes including a base station node, one or more mobile relay nodes, and one or more user nodes is provided. A signal strength value for each pair-wise communication link between each of the nodes is identified. A weight function is applied to each communication link value to determine a communication link weight. An optimal backbone tree is determined from the communication link weights. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771283 |
| ART UNIT | 2467 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331420 | Kleider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Kleider (Decatur, Georgia); Benjamin Russell Hamilton (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of methods and apparatus for wirelessly communicating signals include one or more transmitters configured to generate a plurality of wireless signal for transmission. Each of the wireless signals includes a plurality of pilot signals represented in a plurality of unevenly spaced, in-band subcarriers. Pilot signals of each wireless signal are positioned at subcarriers that are orthogonal in frequency with subcarriers at which pilot signals of all other wireless signals are positioned. According to an embodiment, subcarrier indices each the plurality of pilot signals are determined using a third order or higher order polynomial parameterization of pilot subcarriers in conjunction with a convex optimization algorithm to produce pilot signals having near-optimal channel estimate mean square error (MSE) performance. The wireless signals are simultaneously radiated over a wireless communication channel using a plurality of co-located or distributed antennas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649672 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331863 | Kleider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Eric Kleider (Atlanta, Georgia); Robert John Baxley (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment for wirelessly communicating a signal includes a transmitter combining a plurality of phase shifted input data signals with a plurality of synchronization/pilot sequences to produce a plurality of combined signals, performing frequency domain-to-time domain transformations of the combined signals to produce a plurality of candidate signals, determining peak-to-average ratios for at least some of the plurality of candidate signals, identifying a selected signal from the plurality of candidate signals based on the peak-to-average ratios, and transmitting the selected signal over a wireless communication channel. An embodiment further includes a receiver receiving a channel-affected version of the transmitted, selected signal, determining an estimate of a selective mapping index, which identifies the synchronization/pilot sequence from the plurality of synchronization/pilot sequences, applying corrections to the received signal based on estimated channel perturbations to produce an equalized combined signal, and producing an output data symbol from the equalized combined signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/359205 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331886 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Jiu Wang (Taichung, Taiwan); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated multi-core RF device includes a common amplifier which outputs an amplified RF signal. A common transmission line is configured to supply the amplified RF signal to a plurality of common transmission line distribution connections. Each receiver core of a plurality of receiver cores has a receiver core RF input coupled to one of the plurality of common transmission line distribution connections. Each core is configured to be tunable to a channel and to output at least one baseband output per channel. The integrated multi-core RF device is configured to concurrently down convert a plurality of channels to corresponding down converted baseband signals. The integrated multi-core RF device is configured to allow dynamic selection of the one or more of the plurality of channels over time. A method to recover a DSCC receiver IC is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564454 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332453 | Boersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Silvia Melitta Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany); Holger Wetter (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A shifter that includes a plurality of shift stages positioned within the shifter, and receiving and shifting input data to generate a shifted result, and a detection circuit coupled at an input of a final shift stage of the plurality of shifters, in a final stage within the shifter. The detection circuit receives a partially shifted vector at the input of the final shift stage along with a predetermined shift amount, and performing an all-one or all-zero detection operation using a portion of the partially shifted vector and the predetermined shift amount, in parallel, to a shifting operation performed by the final shift stage to generate the shifted result. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/331702 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332552 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Claude Basso (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jean L. Calvignac (Raleigh, North Carolina); Daniel M. Dreps (Georgetown, Texas); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated processor design includes physical interface macros supporting heterogeneous electrical properties. The processor design comprises a plurality of processing cores and a plurality of physical interfaces to connect to a memory interface, a peripheral component interconnect express (PCI Express or PCIe) interface for input/output, an Ethernet interface for network communication, and/or a serial attached SCSI (SAS) interface for storage. Each physical interface may be programmatically connected to a selected interface controller, such as a memory controller, a PCI Express controller, or an Ethernet controller, for example. A plurality of such controllers may be connected to a switch within the processor design, with the switch also being connected to each physical interface macro. Thus, the physical interface macros may be programmatically connected to a subset of the plurality of controllers. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270569 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332588 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Analyzing pre-processed code includes identifying at least one storage-modifying construct specifying a storage-modifying memory access to a memory hierarchy of a data processing system and determining if more than one granule of a cache line of data containing multiple granules that is targeted by the storage-modifying construct is subsequently referenced by said pre-processed code. Post-processed code including a storage-modifying instruction corresponding to the at least one storage-modifying construct in the pre-processed code is generated and stored. Generating the post-processed code includes marking the storage-modifying instruction with a partial cache line hint indicating that said storage-modifying instruction targets less than a full cache line of data within a memory hierarchy if the analyzing indicates only one granule of the target cache line will be accessed while the cache line is held in the cache memory and otherwise refraining from marking the storage-modifying instruction with the partial cache line hint. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349315 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332661 | Mostovych |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew N. Mostovych (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for securing stand-alone microdevices or parts of larger processing devices are arranged for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from an information containing region of the secured microdevice. The method includes implementation of control protocols and hardware which monitor the conditions of secured microdevices and generate commands to trigger obliteration of information; establishment of a local energy storage device which stores energy to be used to perform the controlled obliteration of information; establishment of localized controlled release of the stored energy from the local energy storage device and deposition of the stored energy in the proximity of the information containing regions of the secured microdevices, upon generation of a command to trigger the obliteration of information; and maintenance of conditions for controlled release of the energy stored in the local energy storage upon generation of the command to trigger. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191725 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332722 | Vera Rojas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microelectronics Research and Development Corporation (Colorado City, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo Alonzo Vera Rojas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sasan Ardalan (Albuquerque, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to device and methods for scrubbing configurable logic devices that are used in high-radiation environments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874219 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332959 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Chen (Amherst, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton Riabov (Ossining, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A risk assessment system and method includes an information system configured to disclose information to a third party. A risk determination model is configured to compute identifiability risk for on one or more records in storage. The identifiability risk is compared to a threshold prior to being disclosed wherein the information system is informed of the identifiability risk exceeding the threshold prior to disclosure to the third party. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132828 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D672518 | Facteau 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) | Robert J. Facteau (Rensselaer, New York); George E. Hathaway, IV (Sprakers, New York) |
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| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 29/383013 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Washing, cleaning, or drying machine D32/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation For Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Partho P. Sengupta (Rochester, Minnesota); Marek Belohlavek (Scottdale, Arizona); Bijoy K. Khandheria (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Heart diseases are detected by producing a series of ultrasound images that depict the blood flow pattern in the left ventricle at successive phases of the cardiac cycle. The blood flow pattern images are produced by injecting a diluted contrast agent and tracking the contrast agent particles as they flow through the left ventricle by acquiring ultrasound images at a high frame rate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/298222 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328726 | Varghese et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Shyam Bharat (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Real-time monitoring of tissue ablation is possible by using a vibrating ablation needle coupling lateral shear waves to the tissue. Ultrasonic imaging may characterize the velocity of these shear waves to reveal Young's modulus of the tissue and, at a discontinuity in Young's modulus, a boundary of the ablated lesion reflecting an underlying increase in stiffness of ablated tissue. This technique may be coupled with quasi-static elastography-based ablation monitoring techniques for improved measurement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416485 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328729 | Reynolds et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Reynolds (Morgantown, West Virginia); David G. Frazer (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns embodiments of an acoustic plethysmograph for measuring pulmonary function of an animal, such as a mouse. The plethysmograph in exemplary embodiments can measure thoracic tidal volume of an unrestrained animal. The plethysmograph in exemplary embodiments acoustically excites the chamber containing the animal and detects changes in the acoustic pressure in the chamber, which correlate to the thoracic tidal volume of the animal. Unlike the conventional whole-body plethysmograph, this acoustic plethysmograph provides a direct measure of thoracic tidal volume. The plethysmograph also can be configured to measure chamber flow (the flow of air into and out of the chamber). Specific airway resistance of the animal can then be determined from the thoracic tidal volume and plethysmograph flow measurements. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168829 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/538 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Frankhouser (Orlando, Florida); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical device for reducing the force necessary to penetrate living being tissue using a variety of reciprocating motion actuators, including piezoelectric, voice coil, solenoids, pneumatics or fluidics. The reciprocating actuator drives a penetrating member, such as a needle, through the tissue at a reduced force while the device detects the passage of the penetrating member through the tissue. Upon passage of the penetrating member through the tissue, electrical power to the reciprocating actuator is automatically terminated. One exemplary method for detecting this passage is via a fluid-containing syringe that is coupled to a channel within the penetrating member. Once the penetrating member tip has passed through the living tissue, the fluid within the syringe no longer experiences any pressure and a plunger within the syringe displaces indicating passage of the penetrating member tip. This motion can provide direct tactile feedback to an operator of the medical device or can automatically open a switch providing electrical power to the medical device. Alternatively, a pressure transducer can also monitor the pressure within the penetrating member channel and automatically activate the switch to cut off the electrical power. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559383 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/587 |
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| US 08328857 | Anders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juanita J. Anders (Potomac, Maryland); Ilko K. Ilev (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald W. Waynant (Clarksville, Maryland); Kimberly R. Byrnes (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating spinal cord injury (SCI) includes transcutaneously irradiating at least a portion of a spinal environment of the patient with light having a power density of at least about 0.01 mW/cm2 at the portion of the spinal environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713087 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parag V. Karmarkar (Columbia, Maryland); Aravind Arepally (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Implantable aneurysm-sac treatment devices include an implantable coil body configured and sized to reside in a sac of an aneurysm. The body has an inductance and capacitance. The capacitance is selected so that the coil resonates at a Larmor frequency of a predefined magnetic field strength. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088207 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/1.150 |
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| US 08328934 | Swairjo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manal A. Swairjo (Pomona, California); Dirk Iwata-Reuyl (Portland, Oregon); Valerie de Crecy-Lagard (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a novel, bacterial GTP Cyclohydrolase Type IB enzyme, and the crystal structure thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756617 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts); Dustin Moon (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a device and methods for increasing the concentration of a charged species in solution, wherein the solution containing the concentrated species is exposed to the environment. Such solution can be formed on a surface or on a tip of a measurement device. The open-environment concentration technique overcomes the disadvantages of in-channel concentration devices, especially by eliminating flow-induced delivery processes that lead to concentration losses. Combined with direct contact dispensing, methods of this invention can be used for various applications such as immunoassay and MALDI-MS. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624378 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/502 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franklin C. Wong (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of using unsealed and non-colloidal radiopharmaceuticals, for example beta emitting radiopharmaceuticals such as Yttrium-90 chloride, Indium-111 chloride, F-18-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose, or combinations thereof, for locoregional ablation of cells in the abnormal tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714295 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.650 |
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| US 08329155 | Cloninger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana); Queen's College of the City University of New York (Flushing, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Cloninger (Bozeman, Montana); Robert Engel (Carle Place, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel antimicrobial agents that are quaternary ammonium functionalized glycodendrimers. In one embodiment, the quaternary ammonium functionalized glycodendrimers are compounds of Formula (I): (Q+−-S-L)z-DnX− wherein: D is a dendrimer; n is the generation number of the functionalized dendrimer; z is an integer less than or equal to 2(n+2); L is a linking group; Q+ represents a quaternary ammonium moiety; and S represents a carbohydrate moiety. The present invention further provides formulations containing the antimicrobial agents of the invention, methods of making the agents and formulations of the invention, and methods of using the same as effective and/or broad spectrum antimicrobial agents. The agents and formulations of the invention find use in medicine, for the treatment of various inflammatory conditions or diseases, for example, and have numerous industrial applications. (Q+−-S-L)z-DnX− (I) |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282496 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170 |
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| US 08329162 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pin Wang (Arcadia, California); Lili Yang (Arcadia, California); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for delivery of a polynucleotide encoding a gene of interest, typically an antigen, to a dendritic cell (DC). The virus envelope comprises a DC-SIGN specific targeting molecule. The methods and related compositions can be used to treat patients suffering from a wide range of conditions, including infection, such as HIV/AIDS, and various types of cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781865 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 08329168 | Krishnaswamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sriram Krishnaswamy (St. Davids, Pennsylvania); Elsa P. Bianchini (Villebon/Yvette, France); Steven Orcutt (Audubon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel thrombin/prothrombin protease/zymogen variants which have anticoagulation activity and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/093787 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
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| US 08329177 | Johns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Johns (Reisterstown, Maryland); Xingwu Teng (Baltimore, Maryland); Dechun Li (Perry Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | We found that FIZZ1/RELMα is inducible by hypoxia in lung. The hypoxia-upregulated expression of FIZZ1/RELMα was located in the pulmonary vasculature, bronchial epithelial cells, and type II pneumocytes. Recombinant FIZZ1/RELMα protein stimulates rat pulmonary microvascular smooth muscle cell (RPSM) proliferation dose-dependently. Therefore, we renamed this gene as hypoxia-induced mitogenic factor (HIMF). HIMF strongly activated Akt phosphorylation. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 inhibits HIMF-activated Akt phosphorylation. It also inhibits HIMF-stimulated RPSM proliferation. Thus, the PI3K/Akt pathway, at least in part, mediates the proliferative effect of HIMF. HIMF also has angiogenic and vasoconstrictive activity. Notably, HIMF increases pulmonary arterial pressure and vascular resistance more potently than either endothelin-1 or angiotensin II. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334387 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
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| US 08329178 | Marasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Jianhua Sui (Boston, Massachusetts); Chen Xu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides human monoclonal antibodies or fragments thereof, that specifically bind to CXCR4. Disclosed are methods of use of such antibodies for the treatment and/or prevention of a CXCR4 disease or disorder such as cancer and X4-tropic HIV-1 infection Also provided are methods of use of such antibodies and antibody fragments for the treatment or prevention of cancer metastasis. The invention provides methods of mobilizing CD34+stem cells from the bone marrow and methods of blocking chemotaxis of CXCR4-expressing cells in response to SDF-1. Also provided are methods of use of the antibodies and fragments thereof for the prevention or treatment of graft-versus-host disease. Finally, the invention provides methods of inhibiting new tumor blood vessel formation and/or tumor cell angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883258 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329189 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jere W. McBride (League City, Texas); Tian Luo (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are immunoreactive peptides which can selectively bind Ehrlichia-specific anti-p120 or anti-p140 antibodies. Methods and kits utilizing the immunoreactive peptides are also provided. The immunoreactive peptides may be utilized, e.g., for determining whether or not a subject is infected with Ehrlichia chaffeensis or Ehrlichia canis. In certain embodiments, the immunoreactive peptides may be utilized in an ELISA or lateral flow assay. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769352 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 08329195 | Briles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Briles (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan K. Hollingshead (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions designed to reduce or prevent pneuomococcal infections, nasal carriage, nasal colonization, and central nervous system invasion. Provided herein is a composition comprising a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19 or a variant thereof that can elicit an anti-neuraminidase immune response. Further provided are methods of making and using the compositions disclosed herein. Specifically provided are methods of generating antibodies in a subject comprising administering to the subject an agent or composition taught herein. Also provided are methods of reducing or preventing nasal carriage or pneumococcal infection in a subject comprising administering to the subject a composition taught herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/601233 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
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| US 08329225 | Muzykantov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir R. Muzykantov (Warwick, Pennsylvania); Thomas D. Dziubla (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for encapsulating active protein in a polymeric nanocarrier. The instant method employs homogenization at subzero temperatures so that enzyme activity is retained. Enzymes which can be encapsulated by the present method include, for example, antioxidant enzymes and xenobiotic detoxifying enzymes. Encapsulation of an enzyme protects it from protease degradation and increases therapeutic half-life. Advantageously, polymeric nanoparticles of the invention are permeable to enzyme substrates and therefore enzymes encapsulated by the instant method can exert their effect without release from the nanocarrier. Methods for decomposing a reactive oxygen species, protecting against vascular oxidative stress, and detoxifying a xenobiotic are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481876 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/497 |
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| US 08329390 | Diwu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AnaSpec Incorporated (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenjun Diwu (Sunnyvale, California); Jianjun He (Sunnyvale, California); Yi Tang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the detection and measurement of transmembrane potentials using an N,N,N′-trialkyl thiobarbituric acid-derived polymethine oxonol (shown below). In particular, the present invention is directed to compositions and optical methods for determining transmembrane potentials across the plasma membrane of biological cells using a slightly hydrophobic N,N,N′-trialkyl thiobarbituric acid-derived polymethine oxonols. The method comprises a slightly hydrophobic N,N,N′-trialkyl thiobarbituric acid-derived polymethine oxonol anion capable of redistributing from a first face of the membrane to a second face of the membrane in response to changes in the potential of the membrane. In one aspect the method is used to identify compounds which modulate membrane potentials in biological membranes. wherein R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl and heteroalkyl; n is an integer from 1 to 3; Z is Na, K, ammonium or other biologically acceptable salt. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212203 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08329411 | Tarleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick L. Tarleton (Watkinsville, Georgia); Ronald D. Etheridge, Jr. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensitive, multicomponent diagnostic test for infection with T. cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, including methods of making and methods of use. Also provided is a method for screening T. cruzi polypeptides to identify antigenic polypeptides for inclusion as components of the diagnostic test, as well as compositions containing antigenic T. cruzi polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670993 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08329412 | Chau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Chau (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Tatiana Gladysheva (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to covalent modification of proteins through their conjugation with other proteins. More particularly, the invention relates to the modulation of such conjugation involving the protein NEDD8. The invention provides compositions and methods for detecting and/or modulating the activation and/or conjugation of NEDD8, as well as compositions and methods for discovering molecules which are useful in detecting and/or modulating the activation and/or conjugation of NEDD8. The present invention arises from the purification and characterization of novel NEDD8 activating and conjugating enzymes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706762 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08329413 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Huey Wong (Taipei, Taiwan); Tsui-Ling Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan); Sarah R Hanson (San Marcos, California); Masaaki Sawa (Ibaraki, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for labeling cellular glycans bearing azide groups via fluorescent labeling comprising Cu(I)-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition of a probe comprising alkynyl group. Generation of fluorescent probes from a nonfluorescent precursor, 4-ethynyl-N-ethyl-1,8-naphthalimide, by Cu(I)-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition of the alkyne group of the probe to an azido-modified sugar are provided. Incorporation of azido-containing fucose analog into glycoconjugates via the fucose salvage pathway are disclosed. Fluorescent visualization of fucosylated cells by flow cytometry of cells treated with 6-azidofucose labeled with click-activated fluorogenic probe or biotinylated alkyne is disclosed. Visualization of intracellular location of fucosylated glycoconjugates by fluorescence microscopy are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053192 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08329432 | Kobilka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Daniel Rosenbaum (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments provide a method for crystallizing a GPCR. The method may employ a fusion protein comprising: a) a first portion of a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), where the first portion comprises the TM1, TM2, TM3, TM4 and TM5 regions of the GPCR; b) a stable, folded protein insertion; and c) a second portion of the GPCR, where the second portion comprises the TM6 and TM7 regions of the GPCR. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932100 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
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| US 08329636 | Gerner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); The Regents of the University of California, a California Corporation (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Gerner (Tucson, Arizona); Jason A. Zell (Dana Point, California); Christine McLaren (Irvine, California); Frank Meyskens (Irvine, California); Hoda Anton-Culver (Irvine, California); Patricia A. Thompson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and kits a) for predicting colorectal cancer patient survival, as well as the survival of patients harboring other invasive cancers where cellular proliferation and carcinogenesis is linked, in part, to high levels of ODC activity and increased cellular polyamine contents, and b) for selecting the corresponding treatment options for such patients based on the allelic nucleotide sequence or SNP at position +316 of the ODC1 promoter gene as well as cancer treatment methods, in each case, which include the determination of the ODC1 promoter +316 position genotype, as a means to guide treatment selection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/780592 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 08329643 | Amar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salomon Amar (Brookline, Massachusetts); Xiaoren Tang (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel peptide sequence named PIMAP39 (herein referred to as SEQ ID NO.: 1) and methods of use of the novel sequence and functional variants thereof. The present invention also relates to methods for reducing and/or modulating inflammatory responses by administration of the peptide of the present invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the modulation of the expression of cytokines effected as part of an inflammatory response by administration of the peptide of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/000545 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2.100 |
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| US 08329657 | Tykocinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Marjaneh Razmara (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion proteins which act on the TWEAK and TRAIL signaling axes are provided. The proteins are useful in the treatment or amelioration of autoimmune diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis, as well as other diseases such as alloimmune diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/208091 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
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| US 08329660 | Kuchroo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton, Massachusetts); Terry Strom (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eugene K. Cha (Muttontown, New York); Sumone Chakravarti (Oakland, California); Catherine Sabatos (San Francisco, California); Chen Zhu (Brookline, Massachusetts); Xin Xiao Zheng (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo (Barcelona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding polypeptides which comprise a tim-3 IgV domain and a tim-3 intracellular domain, wherein the polypeptides do not comprise a tim-3 mucin domain or a tim-3 transmembrane domain. In addition, the invention relates to methods of modulating immune responses in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that modulates tim-3 activity. Immune responses include, but are not limited to, immune tolerance, transplantation tolerance, Th1 responses and Th2 responses. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958169 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
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| US 08329676 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides sphingosine-1-phosphate analogs that are potent, and selective agonists at one or more S1P receptors, specifically the S1P1 receptor type, which alter lymphocyte trafficking. The compounds of the invention include compounds having a phosphate moiety as well as compounds with hydrolysis-resistant phosphate surrogates such as phosphonates, alpha-substituted phosphonates, and phosphothionates. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834884 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/114 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tariq M. Rana (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of carrying out the safe and reliable preparation of lipids comprising quaternary amines. Such lipids are especially suited for introducing therapeutic agents into cells or organisms. In particular, the lipids of the invention are suitable for the efficient transfer of gene therapy agents into mammalian cells or organisms in a cell type specific or tissue specific manner. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503531 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329686 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Michael Welch (St. Louis, Missouri); Wenhua Chu (St. Louis, Missouri); Justin Rothfuss (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel isatin analogues, including isatin analogues comprising Michael Acceptors (IMAs) are disclosed. Further disclosed are methods of synthesis of the isatin analogues, and uses of the analogues, including inhibition of caspase-3 and caspase-7, and in vivo imaging of apoptosis by Positron emission tomography (PET) or Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847330 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.210 |
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| US 08329723 | Buolamwini et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John K Buolamwini (Cordova, Tennessee); Shrivaputra Patil (Memphis, Tennessee); Sharma Horrick (Memphis, Tennessee); James K Addo (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are 1-aryl or 1-heteroaryl pyrido[b]indoles compounds with the structure These compounds comprise a β-carboline ring structure substituted at C1 with an aryl or heteroaryl moiety and individually substituted at C3-C8 and N9 with a C1-C4 alkyl, a C1-C4 alkoxy, a C1-C4 alkoxyphenyl, or a hydrogen. Also provided are methods for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells or for treating a cell proliferative disease by contacting the cancer cell or tumor comprising the same with the compounds provided herein or by administering the compounds to a subject with a cell proliferative disease. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799485 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329728 | Winfield |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leyte L. Winfield (Austell, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for compounds, compositions, and methods that involve anti-proliferative and anti-neoplastic activity in cancer cells. In particular, a series of benzimidazole, purine, imidazopyridine, and imidazopyrizine compounds having selected substitution patterns are disclosed, and the activity of various subject compounds is demonstrated. In particular, the disclosure provides for substituted imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine compounds having the general formula their salts, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment using the subject compounds and compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/330797 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/303 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329745 | Harran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrcik G. Harran (Los Angeles, California); Michael S. Brown (Dallas, Texas); Joseph L. Goldstein (Dallas, Texas); Jing Yang (Dallas, Texas); Tong-Jin Zhao (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) is inhibited with designed small molecules of the general formula: Methods comprise contacting the GOAT with an inhibitor and detecting a resultant inhibition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/226471 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329826 | Hartmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Hartmann (Berlin, Germany); Stayce E. Beck (Menlo Park, California); Jennifer R Cochran (Stanford, California); Curtis W Frank (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface modification methods for an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogel to provide a basis for cell or tissue attachment are provided. The method involves the activation of functional groups on the surface of the IPN hydrogel. The activated functional groups are then reacted with amine-containing molecules or hydroxyl-containing molecules. The methods (i) can be performed in an aqueous environment and do not require the use of any organic solvent, (ii) do not require UV treatment, thereby avoiding denaturation of the IPN hydrogel or proteins, and/or (iii) can be performed as a one pot reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590288 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/329.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329859 | Laakkonen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pirjo Laakkonen (Helsinki, Finland); Kimmo Porkka (Helsinki, Finland); Jason A. Hoffman (La Jolla, California); Erkki I. Ruoslahti (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. The invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to tumor lymphatic vasculature in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate containing a moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor lymphatic vasculature. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657529 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329873 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Adams (Hatboro, Pennsylvania); Eva M. Horak (West Orange, New Jersey); Louis M. Weiner (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bispecific single chain antibody molecules are disclosed which may be used to advantage to treat various forms of cancer associated with the overexpression of members of the EGFR protein family. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943367 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329885 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Zuker (San Diego, California); Jon E. Adler (San Diego, California); Nick Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Ken Mueller (San Diego, California); Mark Hoon (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a novel family of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966955 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329890 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Henry Paulson (Iowa City, Iowa); Victor Miller (Iowa City, Iowa); Cynthia Gouvion (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA) targeted against an allele of interest, and methods of using these siRNA molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952449 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329892 | Zamore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts); Gyorgy Hutvagner (Worcester, Massachusetts); Dianne Schwarz (Westborough, Massachusetts); Martin Simard (Deschambault, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of enhancing the efficacy and specificity of RNA silencing. The invention also provides compositions for mediating RNA silencing. In particular, the invention provides siRNAs, siRNA-like molecules, shRNAs, vectors and transgenes having improved specificity and efficacy in mediating silencing of a target gene. Therapeutic methods are also featured. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748689 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329945 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Jack Taunton (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christian A. Hassig (Somerville, Massachusetts); Timothy F. Jamison (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of genes, termed here HDx-related genes, which are involved in the control of chromatin structure and, thus in transcription and translation. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to control cell proliferation and differentiation in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221561 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/621 |
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| US 08329946 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Jack Taunton (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christian A. Hassig (Somerville, Massachusetts); Timothy F. Jamison (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of genes, termed here HDx-related genes, which are involved in the control of chromatin structure and, thus in transcription and translation. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to control cell proliferation and differentiation in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221602 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/621 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329995 | Facciotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Facciotti (Davis, California); Ann J. Slade (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-naturally occurring soybean plants and seeds having reduced isoflavones are provided. A series of independent non-transgenic human-induced mutations found in one or more isoflavone synthase genes of soybean; soybean plants having these mutations in one or more isoflavone synthase genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of the isoflavone synthase gene by screening pooled and/or individual DNA of soybean plants. The results are soybean plants and seeds having reduced isoflavones. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/668008 |
| 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 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruno Madore (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and, more particularly, to imaging situations where the temporal-encoding strategy is disrupted by time-related events, such as breathing motion. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518266 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahnaz Shahidi (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are disclosed for measuring and mapping oxygen tension in a tissue and, in particular, permit direct non-invasive measurement of retinal tissue oxygen tension. In one aspect, the invention is directed to methods for determining oxygen tension in a target tissue sensitized with an oxygen sensitive probe by imaging the target tissue. In one embodiment, the invention provides a noninvasive method for monitoring oxygen tension in a chorioretinal tissue sensitized with an oxygen sensitive probe. In another aspect, apparatus is disclosed that can determine oxygen tension in tissue by quantifying a signal emitted by an oxygen sensitive probe within the three-dimensional map of a tissue to determine oxygen tension and provide a three-dimensional map of oxygen tension variations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686139 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/323 |
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| US 08332166 | Vanderby et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Vanderby (Madison, Wisconsin); Hirohito Kobayashi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774387 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332945 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hahnsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kang G. Shin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is presented for detecting malware applications residing on a mobile device powered by a battery. The system includes a power monitoring module, a data analysis module and a data store that stores a plurality of known power signatures signifying a power consumption anomaly. The power monitoring module measures power drawn from the battery and the data analysis module extracts a power history signature from the power measures. The data analysis module then compares the power history signature with the plurality of known power signatures and initiates a protective operation if the power history signature is closely correlated to one or more of the known power signatures. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793929 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Balachandar Varatharajan (Loveland, Ohio); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina); David Felling (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a premixer for a combustor. The premixer may include a fuel plenum with a number of fuel tubes and a burner tube with a number of air tubes. The fuel tubes extend about the air tubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254903 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08327681 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Alexander Davidson (Spring, Texas); Cameron James Geddes (Calgary, Canada); Randall Lynn Rudolf (Carrollton, Texas); Bruce Allen Selby (Houston, Texas); Duncan Charles MacDonald (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes making coiled tubing at a coiled tubing manufacturing unit coupled to a coiled tubing transportation system. One or more coiled tubing reels are transported from the coiled tubing manufacturing unit to one or more moveable well drilling systems using the coiled tubing transportation system. The coiled tubing transportation system runs from the tubing manufacturing unit to one or more movable well drilling systems, and then back to the coiled tubing manufacturing unit. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106109 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328934 | Swairjo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manal A. Swairjo (Pomona, California); Dirk Iwata-Reuyl (Portland, Oregon); Valerie de Crecy-Lagard (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a novel, bacterial GTP Cyclohydrolase Type IB enzyme, and the crystal structure thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756617 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328967 | Barbee, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy W. Barbee, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sol-gel chemistry is used to prepare igniters comprising energetic multilayer structures coated with energetic materials. These igniters can be tailored to be stable to environmental aging, i.e., where the igniters are exposed to extremes of both hot and cold temperatures (−30 C to 150 C) and both low (0%) and high relative humidity (100%). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/100154 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329012 | Bar-Or et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Molecular Medicine, Inc. (Greenwood Village, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raphael Bar-Or (Denver, Colorado); David Bar-Or (Englewood, Colorado); Leonard T. Rael (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for measuring the oxidation-reduction potential of a fluid sample are provided. The system includes a test strip with a sample chamber adapted to receive a fluid sample. The sample chamber can be associated with a filter membrane. The test strip also includes a reference cell. The oxidation-reduction potential of a fluid sample placed in the sample chamber can be read by a readout device interconnected to a test lead that is in electrical contact with the sample chamber, and a reference lead that is in electrical contact with the reference cell. Electrical contact between a fluid sample placed in the sample chamber and the reference cell can be established by a bridge. The oxidation-reduction potential may be read as an electrical potential between the test lead and the reference lead of the test strip. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450743 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329016 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Ying-Chih Wang (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a novel microfluidic device enabling on-chip implementation of a two-dimensional separation methodology. Previously disclosed microscale immobilized pH gradients (IPG) are combined with perpendicular polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) microchannels to achieve orthogonal separations of biological samples. Device modifications enable inclusion of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) in the second dimension. The device can be fabricated to use either continuous IPG gels, or the microscale isoelectric fractionation membranes we have also previously disclosed, for the first dimension. The invention represents the first all-gel two-dimensional separation microdevice, with significantly higher resolution power over existing devices. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551047 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329060 | Setlur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Ramachandran Gopi Chandran (Bangalore, India); Claire Susan Henderson (Schenectady, New York); Pransanth Kumar Nammalwar (Bangalore, India); Emil Radkov (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present techniques provide a related family of phosphors that may be used in lighting systems to generate blue or blue-green light. The phosphors include systems having a general formula of: ((Sr1−zMz)1−(x+w)AwCex)3(Al1−ySiy)O4+y+3(x−w)F1−y−3(x−w) (I), wherein 0<x≦0.10, 0≦y≦0.5, 0≦z≦0.5, 0≦w≦x, A is Li, Na, K, Rb, or Ag or any combinations thereof, and M is Ca, Ba, Mg, Zn, or Sn or any combinations thereof. Advantageously, phosphors made accordingly to these formulations maintain emission intensity across a wide range of temperatures. The phosphors may be used in lighting systems, such as LEDs and fluorescent tubes, among others, to produce blue and blue/green light. Further, the phosphors may be used in blends with other phosphors, or in combined lighting systems, to produce white light suitable for illumination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256142 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4H0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329090 | Hollingsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel P. Hollingsworth (Oakland, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Thomas F. Soules (Livermore, California); Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a method for forming a composite transparent ceramic preform includes forming a first suspension of oxide particles in a first solvent which includes a first dispersant but does not include a gelling agent, adding the first suspension to a first mold of a desired shape, and uniformly curing the first suspension in the first mold until stable. The method also includes forming a second suspension of oxide particles in a second solvent which includes a second dispersant but does not include a gelling agent, adding the second suspension to the stable first suspension in a second mold of a desired shape encompassing the first suspension and the second suspension, and uniformly curing the second suspension in the second mold until stable. Other methods for forming a composite transparent ceramic preform are also described according to several other embodiments. Structures are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/603195 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Watrous (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for producing and isolating an isotopically enriched compound of a desired isotope from a parent radionuclide. The method includes forming, or placing, a precipitate containing a parent radionuclide of the desired daughter isotope in a first reaction zone and allowing sufficient time for the parent to decay into the desired gaseous daughter radioisotope. The method further contemplates collecting the desired daughter isotope as a solid in a second reaction zone through the application of temperatures below the freezing point of the desired isotope to a second reaction zone that is connected to the first reaction zone. Specifically, a method is presented for producing isotopically enriched compounds of xenon, including the radioactive isotope Xe-131m and the stable isotope Xe-131. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495843 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329140 | Thorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); P. Jeffrey Hay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel E. Schwarz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas M. Cameron (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for storing and evolving hydrogen (H2) employ chemical compounds that can be hydrogenated to store hydrogen and dehydrogenated to evolve hydrogen. A catalyst lowers the energy required for storing and evolving hydrogen. The method and system can provide hydrogen for devices that consume hydrogen as fuel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283462 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329267 | Bettger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eversealed Windows, Inc. (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Bettger (Pella, Iowa); David H. Stark (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible edge seal is provided for a vacuum insulating glazing unit having a first glass pane and a second glass pane spaced-apart from the first. The edge seal comprises a seal member formed of a hermetically bondable material and having a first end, a second end and a center section disposed therebetween. The first end is hermetically bondable to a first glass pane. The second end is hermetically bondable to a second glass pane. The center section comprises a plurality of convolutes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688859 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329502 | Ginley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado); John Perkins (Boulder, Colorado); Joseph Berry (Boulder, Colorado); Thomas Gennett (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of applying a conformal coating to a highly structured substrate and devices made by the disclosed methods are disclosed. An example method includes the deposition of a substantially contiguous layer of a material upon a highly structured surface within a deposition process chamber. The highly structured surface may be associated with a substrate or another layer deposited on a substrate. The method includes depositing a material having an amorphous structure on the highly structured surface at a deposition pressure of equal to or less than about 3 mTorr. The method may also include removing a portion of the amorphous material deposited on selected surfaces and depositing additional amorphous material on the highly structured surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/904959 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329503 | Nielson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic solar concentrator is disclosed with one or more transverse-junction solar cells (also termed point contact solar cells) and a lens located above each solar cell to concentrate sunlight onto the solar cell to generate electricity. Piezoelectric actuators tilt or translate each lens to track the sun using a feedback-control circuit which senses the electricity generated by one or more of the solar cells. The piezoelectric actuators can be coupled through a displacement-multiplier linkage to provide an increased range of movement of each lens. Each lens in the solar concentrator can be supported on a frame (also termed a tilt plate) having three legs, with the movement of the legs being controlled by the piezoelectric actuators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/957082 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329969 | McCall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. McCall (Geneva, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Douglas C. Elliott (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the conversion of biomass derived pyrolysis oil to liquid fuel components is presented. The process includes the production of diesel, aviation, and naphtha boiling point range fuels or fuel blending components by two-stage deoxygenation of the pyrolysis oil and separation of the products. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419005 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330114 | Mihailescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucian Mihailescu (Pleasanton, California); Kai M. Vetter (Alameda, California); Daniel H. Chivers (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems that increase the position resolution and granularity of double sided segmented semiconductor detectors are provided. These systems increase the imaging resolution capability of such detectors, either used as Compton cameras, or as position sensitive radiation detectors in imagers such as SPECT, PET, coded apertures, multi-pinhole imagers, or other spatial or temporal modulated imagers. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349520 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330149 | Katz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Jia Sun (Baltimore, Maryland); Nath Bhola Pal (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured is an organic/polymer diode having a first layer composed essentially of one of an organic semiconductor material or a polymeric semiconductor material and a second layer formed on the first layer and being electrically coupled to the first layer such that current flows through the layers in one direction when a voltage is applied in one direction. The second layer is essentially composed of a material whose characteristics and properties are such that when formed on the first layer, the diode is capable of high frequency rectifications on the order of megahertz rectifications such as for example rectifications at one of above 100KHz, 500KhZ, IMHz, or 10 MHz. In further embodiments, the layers are arranged so as to be exposed to atmosphere. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/680308 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330299 | Steigerwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Louis Steigerwald (Burnt Hills, New York); Ahmed Elasser (Latham, New York); Juan Antonio Sabate (Gansevoort, New York); Maja Harfman Todorovic (Niskayuna, New York); Mohammed Agamy (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A power generation system configured to provide direct current (DC) power to a DC link is described. The system includes a first power generation unit configured to output DC power. The system also includes a first DC to DC converter comprising an input section and an output section. The output section of the first DC to DC converter is coupled in series with the first power generation unit. The first DC to DC converter is configured to process a first portion of the DC power output by the first power generation unit and to provide an unprocessed second portion of the DC power output of the first power generation unit to the output section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171683 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT Batelle, LLC (Oakridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet-less and brushless synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic rotating field when sourced by polyphase alternating currents. An uncluttered rotor is positioned within the magnetic rotating field and is spaced apart from the stator. An excitation core is spaced apart from the stator and the uncluttered rotor and magnetically couples the uncluttered rotor. The brushless excitation source generates a magnet torque by inducing magnetic poles near an outer peripheral surface of the uncluttered rotor, and the stator currents also generate a reluctance torque by a reaction of the difference between the direct and quadrature magnetic paths of the uncluttered rotor. The system can be used either as a motor or a generator |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466169 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/216.129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330348 | Berben et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Berben (Taufkirchen, Germany); Homer Antoniadis (Mountain View, California); Frank Jermann (Koenigsbrunn, Germany); Benjamin Claus Krummacher (Regensburg, Germany); Norwin Von Malm (Nittendorf, Germany); Martin Zachau (Geltendorf, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus device such as a light source is disclosed which has an OLED device and a structured luminescence conversion layer deposited on the substrate or transparent electrode of said OLED device and on the exterior of said OLED device. The structured luminescence conversion layer contains regions such as color-changing and non-color-changing regions with particular shapes arranged in a particular pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092075 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330372 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoon W. Kang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Aly E. Fathy (Knoxville, Tennessee); Joshua L. Wilson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapidly twisted electromagnetic accelerating structure includes a waveguide body having a central axis, one or more helical channels defined by the body and disposed around a substantially linear central axial channel, with central portions of the helical channels merging with the linear central axial channel. The structure propagates electromagnetic waves in the helical channels which support particle beam acceleration in the central axial channel at a phase velocity equal to or slower than the speed of light in free space. Since there is no variation in the shape of the transversal cross-section along the axis of the structure, inexpensive mechanical fabrication processes can be used to form the structure, such as extrusion, casting or injection molding. Also, because the field and frequency of the resonant mode depend on the whole structure rather than on dimensional tolerances of individual cells, no tuning of individual cells is needed. Accordingly, the overall operating frequency may be varied with a tuning/phase shifting device located outside the resonant waveguide structure. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/784571 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/5.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331027 | Padmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard A. Padmore (Berkeley, California); Dmytro L. Voronov (El Cerrito, California); Rossana Cambie (Moraga, California); Valeriy V. Yashchuk (Richmond, California); Eric M. Gullikson (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A diffraction grating structure having ultra-high density of grooves comprises an echellette substrate having periodically repeating recessed features, and a multi-layer stack of materials disposed on the echellette substrate. The surface of the diffraction grating is planarized, such that layers of the multi-layer stack form a plurality of lines disposed on the planarized surface of the structure in a periodical fashion, wherein lines having a first property alternate with lines having a dissimilar property on the surface of the substrate. For example, in one embodiment, lines comprising high-Z and low-Z materials alternate on the planarized surface providing a structure that is suitable as a diffraction grating for EUV and soft X-rays. In some embodiments, line density of between about 10,000 lines/mm to about 100,000 lines/mm is provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510900 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/576 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331076 | Tuncer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enis Tuncer (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A clad capacitor and method of manufacture includes assembling a preform comprising a ductile, electrically conductive fiber; a ductile, electrically insulating cladding positioned on the fiber; and a ductile, electrically conductive sleeve positioned over the cladding. One or more preforms are then bundled, heated and drawn along a longitudinal axis to decrease the diameter of the ductile components of the preform and fuse the preform into a unitized strand. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838070 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/301.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331417 | Caffrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Paul Caffrey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Joseph McRae Palmer (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Wireless communication systems and methods utilize one or more remote terminals, one or more base terminals, and a communication channel between the remote terminal(s) and base terminal(s). The remote terminal applies a direct sequence spreading code to a data signal at a spreading factor to provide a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signal. The DSSS signal is transmitted over the communication channel to the base terminal which can be configured to despread the received DSSS signal by a spreading factor matching the spreading factor utilized to spread the data signal. The remote terminal and base terminal can dynamically vary the matching spreading factors to adjust the data rate based on an estimation of operating quality over time between the remote terminal and base terminal such that the amount of data being transmitted is substantially maximized while providing a specified quality of service. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763973 |
| 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 08332460 | Blocksome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel computer including compute nodes, each including two reduction processing cores, a network write processing core, and a network read processing core, each processing core assigned an input buffer. Copying, in interleaved chunks by the reduction processing cores, contents of the reduction processing cores' input buffers to an interleaved buffer in shared memory; copying, by one of the reduction processing cores, contents of the network write processing core's input buffer to shared memory; copying, by another of the reduction processing cores, contents of the network read processing core's input buffer to shared memory; and locally reducing in parallel by the reduction processing cores: the contents of the reduction processing core's input buffer; every other interleaved chunk of the interleaved buffer; the copied contents of the network write processing core's input buffer; and the copied contents of the network read processing core's input buffer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760020 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiara Daraio (Pasadena, California); Piervincenzo Rizzo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of structures and materials using a highly nonlinear medium for the generation and detection of one or multiple highly nonlinear pulses (or highly nonlinear waves) impinging on a material or structure. The apparatus includes pulse exciters that induce the propagation of highly nonlinear, weakly nonlinear or linear stress waves in the material, system, or structure to be inspected and/or detectors for the observation and the detection of the output waves from the material/structure being tested. The NDE method includes the use of the tunable highly nonlinear apparatus as impulse exciter alone, or in combination with an accelerometer or a nonlinear sensor to detect the outgoing pulse. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251164 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08328934 | Swairjo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manal A. Swairjo (Pomona, California); Dirk Iwata-Reuyl (Portland, Oregon); Valerie de Crecy-Lagard (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a novel, bacterial GTP Cyclohydrolase Type IB enzyme, and the crystal structure thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756617 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329218 | Ediger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Ediger (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen Swallen (Madison, Wisconsin); Ken Kearns (Madison, Wisconsin); Lian Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); Tian Wu (Lake Bluff, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vapor deposition methods that overcome the kinetic restrictions imposed by more conventional vapor deposition processes and liquid-cooling techniques to form amorphous molecular solids with greatly enhanced stabilities. The present methods produce amorphous molecular solids having stabilities, as measured by fictive temperature, that cannot be achieved using liquid-cooling methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040242 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329889 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods and compositions for the detection of target genes. The inventors have developed a synthetic nucleic acid sensor-effector gene circuit. In cells without a target gene, the circuit suppresses e.g., effector production, but in the presence of the target gene the suppression is subject to competition, such that the synthetic sensor is de-repressed and permits expression of the effector gene. The methods and compositions described further permit the selective expression of an effector gene in those cells expressing the target gene. In this manner, cells expressing a target gene can be selectively targeted for treatment or elimination. In certain aspects, the methods and compositions described permit the selective expression of an agent such as a therapeutic gene product, in a specifically targeted population of cells in an organism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/867537 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329927 | Tew et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ahmad Emad-Eldin Madkour (Amherst, Massachusetts); Sterling Fitzgerald Alfred (Durham, North Carolina); Paralee Patten King (Princeton, Massachusetts); Semra Colak (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides certain novel water-soluble and water-insoluble monomers for ring opening metathesis polymerization and novel polymers, compositions and products, and related methods thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/234180 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330154 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Jinhui Song (Atlanta, Georgia); Xudong Wang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical generator includes a substrate, a semiconductor piezoelectric structure having a first end and an opposite second end disposed adjacent to the substrate, a first conductive contact and a second conductive contact. The structure bends when a force is applied adjacent to the first end, thereby causing an electrical potential difference to exist between a first side and a second side of the structure. The first conductive contact is in electrical communication with the first end and includes a material that creates a Schottky barrier between a portion of the first end of the structure and the first conductive contact. The first conductive contact is also disposed relative to the structure in a position so that the Schottky barrier is forward biased when the structure is deformed, thereby allowing current to flow from the first conductive contact into the first end. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/608865 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330323 | Zalalutdinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim Zalalutdinov (Silver Springs, Maryland); Robert B. Reichenbach (Portland, Oregon); Keith Aubin (Coventry, Rhode Island); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A source signal is converted into a time-variant temperature field with transduction into mechanical motion. In one embodiment, the conversion of a source signal into the time-variant temperature field is provided by utilizing a micro-fabricated fast response, bolometer-type radio frequency power meter. A resonant-type micromechanical thermal actuator may be utilized for temperature read-out and demodulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292658 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331019 | Cheong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fook Chiong Cheong (New York, New York); David G. Grier (New York, New York); Sang-Hyuk Lee (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for performing three-dimensional holographic microscopy of an optically trapped one dimensional structure. The method and system use an inverted optical microscope, a laser source which generates a trapping laser beam wherein the laser beam is focused by an objective lens into a plurality of optical traps. The method and system also use a collimated laser at an imaging wavelength to illuminate the structure created by the optical traps. Imaging light scattered by the optically tapped structure forms normalized intensity holograms that are imaged by a video camera and analyzed by optical formalisms to determine light field to reconstruct 3-D images for analysis and evaluation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759839 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331615 | Furukawa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasutaka Furukawa (Champaign, Illinois); Jean Ponce (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to obtain a sparse set of patches for the object. The sparse set of patches is expanded to obtain a dense set of patches for the object, and the dense set of patches is filtered to remove erroneous patches. Optionally, reconstructed patches can be converted into 3D mesh models. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/183282 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331886 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Jiu Wang (Taichung, Taiwan); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated multi-core RF device includes a common amplifier which outputs an amplified RF signal. A common transmission line is configured to supply the amplified RF signal to a plurality of common transmission line distribution connections. Each receiver core of a plurality of receiver cores has a receiver core RF input coupled to one of the plurality of common transmission line distribution connections. Each core is configured to be tunable to a channel and to output at least one baseband output per channel. The integrated multi-core RF device is configured to concurrently down convert a plurality of channels to corresponding down converted baseband signals. The integrated multi-core RF device is configured to allow dynamic selection of the one or more of the plurality of channels over time. A method to recover a DSCC receiver IC is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564454 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332024 | Rapoport et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin I. Rapoport (New York, New York); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts); Woradorn Wattanapanitch (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Soumyajit Mandal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Scott Arfin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-low-power circuit for wireless neural recording and stimulation is provided. The circuit includes a neural amplifier with adaptive power biasing for use in multi-electrode arrays and a decoding and/or learning architecture. An impedance-modulation telemetry system provides low-power data telemetry. Also, the circuit includes a wireless link for efficient power transfer, and at least one circuit for wireless stimulation of neurons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127497 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332457 | Brun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuriy Brun (Wilmington, Delaware); Nenad Medvidovic (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for privacy-preserved distributed computing on large networks using a tile-based architecture is disclosed. An expression for a tile seed assembly characterizing a problem, such as an NP-complete problem, may be determined. The solution to the tile seed assembly is a full tile assembly including a plurality of tile types. In a network of participating nodes, a tile type may be assigned to each node. A description of a tile type specific to a node may be provided to each node. A tile seed assembly may be established on selected nodes. Through progressive recruitment and replication, the tile assembly may mature, in response to the problem being solvable, into a full tile assembly having a solution. The solution may be received by the client computer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259059 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332945 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hahnsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kang G. Shin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is presented for detecting malware applications residing on a mobile device powered by a battery. The system includes a power monitoring module, a data analysis module and a data store that stores a plurality of known power signatures signifying a power consumption anomaly. The power monitoring module measures power drawn from the battery and the data analysis module extracts a power history signature from the power measures. The data analysis module then compares the power history signature with the plurality of known power signatures and initiates a protective operation if the power history signature is closely correlated to one or more of the known power signatures. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793929 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08327578 | Takeda |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fumiomi Takeda (Martinsburg, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Blackberries are grown so that an additional blackberry crop can be harvested after the normal blackberry growing season has ended. During the normal growing season a distal portion of a blackberry plant is rooted in a planting medium. After the conclusion of the growing season the distal portion is severed from the original plant so that the distal portion is independent form the original plant. After subjecting the distal portion to a chilling period, the distal portion is moved to a warmer climate (or simply warmed) and thereby produces a second harvest of blackberries in the off-season months of December to May. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887851 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/58.1FV |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08327797 | Morales-Ramos 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) | Juan Morales-Ramos (Greenville, Mississippi); Maria Rojas (Greenville, Mississippi); Daniel Cahn (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Predatory mites contained in an enclosed housing are provided with a continuous food source (i.e. spidermites) so that the healthy adult predatory mites migrate upwards to a collection container at the apex of the housing where a user harvests the predatory mites. The predatory mites are provided with spidermite-infested vegetation disposed in planar trays. The trays are chronologically arranged in a vertical stack within the housing so that as new trays loaded with spidermites are added to the top of the stack, old trays depleted of spidermites are removed from the bottom of the stack. The predatory mites intuitively display negative geotropism and positive phototropism so that the mites naturally move upwards and toward the light. Consequently the predatory mites migrate to the upper trays as new trays are added and eventually reach the collection container at the apex of the housing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432313 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/6.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329218 | Ediger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Ediger (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen Swallen (Madison, Wisconsin); Ken Kearns (Madison, Wisconsin); Lian Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); Tian Wu (Lake Bluff, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vapor deposition methods that overcome the kinetic restrictions imposed by more conventional vapor deposition processes and liquid-cooling techniques to form amorphous molecular solids with greatly enhanced stabilities. The present methods produce amorphous molecular solids having stabilities, as measured by fictive temperature, that cannot be achieved using liquid-cooling methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040242 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329992 | Busov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through The State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor B. Busov (Houghton, Michigan); Steven H. Strauss (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encode polypeptides for increasing the rate of growth of plants. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as increased growth, increased leaf area and reduced fertility. Expression of polypeptides in plants or plant cells promotes cell division. Expression of the polynucleotides in plants in the antisense orientation produces plants that are sterile or have smaller leaves. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/663063 |
| 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 8/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08331201 | Eliezer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XW LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel and useful system and method for leap second and daylight saving time (DST) correction for use in a radio controlled clock (RCC) receiver. The RCC receiver extracts schedule information from the frame, including the time for the DST transition and whether a leap second needs to be added at the end of this half-year. Linear error correcting coding is used for the leap second and the DST on/off indications, while non-linear error correcting coding (e.g., a look up table) is used for the DST schedule to enhance reception reliability in the presence of noise and interference. The one second/one hour corrections are scheduled to occur when they should take place and the correction is applied exactly when DST or leap second is to go into effect, without having to receive anything around the time of the correction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424807 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331205 | Seigler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael Leigh Mallary (Harmony, Pennsylvania); Hua Zhou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having a first pole with a first side and a second side opposite from the first side, a second pole positioned on the first side of the first pole, and a waveguide positioned on the second side of the first pole wherein the waveguide has an end adjacent to an air bearing surface. The first pole includes a first portion spaced from the waveguide and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface, with the second portion being structured such that an end of the second portion is closer to the waveguide than the first portion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/277497 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/13.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331632 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranab Mohanty (Tampa, Florida); Sudeep Sarkar (Tampa, Florida); Rangachar Kasturi (Tampa, Florida); P. Jonathon Phillips (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel, linear modeling method to model a face recognition algorithm based on the match scores produced by the algorithm. Starting with a distance matrix representing the pair-wise match scores between face images, an iterative stress minimization algorithm is used to obtain an embedding of the distance matrix in a low-dimensional space. A linear transformation used to project new face images into the model space is divided into two sub-transformations: a rigid transformation of face images obtained through principal component analysis of face images and a non-rigid transformation responsible for preserving pair-wise distance relationships between face images. Also provided is a linear indexing method using the linear modeling method to perform the binning or algorithm-specific indexing task with little overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/371099 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331751 | Delaney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | mBio Diagnositcs, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie J. Delaney (Boulder, Colorado); Kevin D. Moll (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for illuminating a sample includes a planar waveguide. The planar waveguide includes a first substrate, including a first outer surface and a first inner surface, and a second substrate, including a second outer surface and a second inner surface. The first and second inner surfaces of the first and second substrates, respectively, are spaced apart from each other and partly define a volume for confining the sample therein. The apparatus also includes a light source for providing light directed toward the planar waveguide, such that the light is optically coupled to and contained within the planar waveguide between the outer surfaces of the first and second substrates, while illuminating at least a portion of the sample confined within the volume. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942234 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08330154 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Jinhui Song (Atlanta, Georgia); Xudong Wang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical generator includes a substrate, a semiconductor piezoelectric structure having a first end and an opposite second end disposed adjacent to the substrate, a first conductive contact and a second conductive contact. The structure bends when a force is applied adjacent to the first end, thereby causing an electrical potential difference to exist between a first side and a second side of the structure. The first conductive contact is in electrical communication with the first end and includes a material that creates a Schottky barrier between a portion of the first end of the structure and the first conductive contact. The first conductive contact is also disposed relative to the structure in a position so that the Schottky barrier is forward biased when the structure is deformed, thereby allowing current to flow from the first conductive contact into the first end. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/608865 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330644 | Hilliard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Hilliard (Greenbelt, Maryland); Manohar Deshpande (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An expandable and reconfigurable instrument node includes a feature detection means and a data processing portion in communication with the feature detection means, the data processing portion configured and disposed to process feature information. The instrument node further includes a phase locked loop (PLL) oscillator in communication with the data processing portion, the PLL oscillator configured and disposed to provide PLL information to the processing portion. The instrument node further includes a single tone transceiver and a pulse transceiver in communication with the PLL oscillator, the single tone transceiver configured and disposed to transmit or receive a single tone for phase correction of the PLL oscillator and the pulse transceiver configured and disposed to transmit and receive signals for phase correction of the PLL oscillator. The instrument node further includes a global positioning (GPA) receiver in communication with the processing portion, the GPS receiver configured and disposed to establish a global position of the instrument node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835958 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08330961 | Polzin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt A. Polzin (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Valentin Korman (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The system includes at least one light source generating light energy having a corresponding wavelength. The system's sensor is based on an optical interferometer that receives light energy from each light source. The interferometer includes a free-space optical path disposed in an environment of interest. The system's sensor includes an optical device disposed in the optical path that causes light energy of a first selected wavelength to continue traversing the optical path whereas light energy of at least one second selected wavelength is directed away from the optical path. The interferometer generates an interference between the light energy of the first selected wavelength so-traversing the optical path with the light energy at the corresponding wavelength incident on the optical interferometer. A first optical detector detects the interference. At least one second detector detects the light energy at the at least one second selected wavelength directed away from the optical path. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837173 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332342 | Saha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhaskar Saha (San Jose, California); Kai F. Goebel (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention develops a mathematical model to describe battery behavior during individual discharge cycles as well as over its cycle life. The basis for the form of the model has been linked to the internal processes of the battery and validated using experimental data. Effects of temperature and load current have also been incorporated into the model. Subsequently, the model has been used in a Particle Filtering framework to make predictions of remaining useful life for individual discharge cycles as well as for cycle life. The prediction performance was found to be satisfactory as measured by performance metrics customized for prognostics for a sample case. The work presented here provides initial steps towards a comprehensive health management solution for energy storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622407 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08329006 | Gebhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faraday Technology, Inc. (Clayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Gebhart (Clayton, Ohio); Jenny J. Sun (Tipp City, Ohio); Phillip O. Miller (Dayton, Ohio); E. Jennings Taylor (Troy, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for establishing more uniform deposition across one or more faces of a workpiece in an electroplating process. The apparatus employs eductors in conjunction with a flow dampener member and other measures to provide a more uniform current distribution and a more uniform metal deposit distribution as reflected in a coefficient of variability that is lower than conventional processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431030 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/230.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08329995 | Facciotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Facciotti (Davis, California); Ann J. Slade (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-naturally occurring soybean plants and seeds having reduced isoflavones are provided. A series of independent non-transgenic human-induced mutations found in one or more isoflavone synthase genes of soybean; soybean plants having these mutations in one or more isoflavone synthase genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of the isoflavone synthase gene by screening pooled and/or individual DNA of soybean plants. The results are soybean plants and seeds having reduced isoflavones. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/668008 |
| 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 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331201 | Eliezer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XW LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel and useful system and method for leap second and daylight saving time (DST) correction for use in a radio controlled clock (RCC) receiver. The RCC receiver extracts schedule information from the frame, including the time for the DST transition and whether a leap second needs to be added at the end of this half-year. Linear error correcting coding is used for the leap second and the DST on/off indications, while non-linear error correcting coding (e.g., a look up table) is used for the DST schedule to enhance reception reliability in the presence of noise and interference. The one second/one hour corrections are scheduled to occur when they should take place and the correction is applied exactly when DST or leap second is to go into effect, without having to receive anything around the time of the correction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424807 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08330262 | Colgan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan G. Colgan (Armonk, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Armonk, New York); Roy R. Yu (Armonk, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced 3D integration structure comprises a logic microprocessor chip bonded to a collection of vertically stacked memory slices and an optional set of outer vertical slices comprising optoelectronic devices. Such a device enables both high memory content in close proximity to the logic circuits and a high bandwidth for logic to memory communication. Additionally, the provision of optoelectronic devices in the outer slices of the vertical slice stack enables high bandwidth direct communication between logic processor chips on adjacent enhanced 3D modules mounted next to each other or on adjacent packaging substrates. A method to fabricate such structures comprises using a template assembly which enables wafer format processing of vertical slice stacks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698529 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08332959 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Chen (Amherst, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton Riabov (Ossining, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A risk assessment system and method includes an information system configured to disclose information to a third party. A risk determination model is configured to compute identifiability risk for on one or more records in storage. The identifiability risk is compared to a threshold prior to being disclosed wherein the information system is informed of the identifiability risk exceeding the threshold prior to disclosure to the third party. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132828 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08331632 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranab Mohanty (Tampa, Florida); Sudeep Sarkar (Tampa, Florida); Rangachar Kasturi (Tampa, Florida); P. Jonathon Phillips (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel, linear modeling method to model a face recognition algorithm based on the match scores produced by the algorithm. Starting with a distance matrix representing the pair-wise match scores between face images, an iterative stress minimization algorithm is used to obtain an embedding of the distance matrix in a low-dimensional space. A linear transformation used to project new face images into the model space is divided into two sub-transformations: a rigid transformation of face images obtained through principal component analysis of face images and a non-rigid transformation responsible for preserving pair-wise distance relationships between face images. Also provided is a linear indexing method using the linear modeling method to perform the binning or algorithm-specific indexing task with little overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/371099 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08329992 | Busov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through The State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor B. Busov (Houghton, Michigan); Steven H. Strauss (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encode polypeptides for increasing the rate of growth of plants. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as increased growth, increased leaf area and reduced fertility. Expression of polypeptides in plants or plant cells promotes cell division. Expression of the polynucleotides in plants in the antisense orientation produces plants that are sterile or have smaller leaves. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/663063 |
| 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 8/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08329954 | Sisler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward C. Sisler (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of applying cyclopropene amine derivatives and compositions thereof to inhibit ethylene receptors in plants and plant material are disclosed. Methods include applying to the plant an effective ethylene response-inhibiting amount of at least one cyclopropene amine compound or composition thereof. Cyclopropene amine compounds, enantiomers, stereoisomers or salts thereof are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248917 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331733 | Dean |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics by and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | According to various embodiments, a method is provided for improving data and a system is provided that is configured to perform the method. The method can comprise processing a data signal by using an optical system comprising a signal processor. The method can comprise collecting data generated by the optical system, wherein the data comprises non-uniformly sampled data. The method can comprise performing an interpolation operation on the non-uniformly sampled data using the signal processor, to generate interpolated data. Further, the method can comprise adjusting the data with the interpolated data using the signal processor, to generate improved data. The improved data can be output to a user, for example, by displaying the improved data on a display unit, or by printing out the improved data. According to various embodiments, the data can comprise any desired data, for example, image data. The method can comprise improving the image resolution, improving the image brightness, improving the image contrast, and/or improving the image focus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550141 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08331888 | Halladay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry E. Halladay (Bellevue, Washington); David O. Edewaard (Oakton, Virginia); Terry M. Swann (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Remote programmable reference systems and methods are described. A remote programmable reference system maintains a set of parameters from which a reference signal can be generated to transmit the reference signal to a system platform. In an embodiment, a parameters update can be received from which a modified reference signal can be generated to transmit the modified reference signal. In another embodiment, the remote programmable reference system maintains multiple sets of parameters from which respective reference signals can be generated for any one or more system platforms having different system configurations. The system platforms can interface with the remote programmable reference system through a system interface via a communication network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421344 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/187.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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