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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 08333140 | Meitzler 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) | Thomas J. Meitzler (Troy, Michigan); Jason A. Schrader (Warren, Michigan); Thomas P. Reynolds (Warren, Michigan); Samuel E. Ebenstein (Southfield, Michigan); Gregory H. Smith (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A unit of modular armor. The module has a box-like, optically opaque outer shell of ballistic-protection material enclosed to exclude light from the module's interior. The shell contains transparent armor plates and the shell contains a self-diagnostic system for ascertaining whether the plates have been damaged. The self-diagnostic system includes a first PC board disposed along first edges of the plates, the board being divided into strips on which are mounted rows of lights. The self-diagnostic system further includes a second PC board at second, opposed edges of the plates divided into strips on which are mounted rows of light receptors. The PC boards incorporate circuitry for illuminating the rows of the lights in a row-by-row sequence, and for allowing activation only of the receptors directly opposed to illuminated lights. This circuitry has an analysis means for determining the health of the plates in response to signals from the receptors. The armor module has a transparent, elastomeric, adhesive matrix within the shell in which each of the plates and boards are suspended and encapsulated, wherein the matrix occupies all space not occupied by other elements within the shell. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039878 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333178 | Harcombe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Thomas Harcombe (Richmond, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A control valve, for use in controlling fuel pressure within a control chamber, comprises a control valve member, first flow restriction and second flow restriction. The control valve member is movable between a first position, and a second position. The first flow restriction is arranged to maintain a first pressure upstream of the first flow restriction when the control valve member is in transition between the first position and the second position. The second flow restriction is positioned downstream of the first flow restriction and is arranged to maintain a second pressure upstream of the second flow restriction. The second flow restriction is dimensioned and located relative to the first flow restriction such that in transition between the first and second positions the net force exerted on the control valve member by the first pressure balances the net force exerted on the control valve member by the second pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/225149 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333260 | Hall et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Hall (Beavercreek, Ohio); Karl Cartwright (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Kris Cartwright (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A deep insertion vented earpiece system is described including resilient earpieces shaped to a wearer's ear canal for a conformal fit. A receptacle is provided within the outer surface of each earpiece for releasably receiving an audio plug. The audio plugs include a miniature loudspeaker and a pair of external ribs for mating with a corresponding pair of grooves formed along the periphery of the receptacle. This rib and groove feature provides for a secure retention of the audio plugs while enabling a simple removal operation. Each earpiece includes an audio passage to conduct the audio signal from the loudspeaker and a vent passage to enable continuous venting of the wearer's ear to atmosphere. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796078 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333295 | Parker 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) | Robert Parker (Panama City, Florida); David Robinson (Panama City, Florida); Anthony Simpson (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention in one variation is a pressure vessel having a pair of hemispheres with a wall and a circular edge, a pair of sealing elements, and an intervening mounting plate with circular groove on both sides of the plate. The hemispheres are mounted on opposite sides of the plate. Each groove has an sealing element and the circular edge. A seal is formed between the plate and a hemisphere when the hemisphere is pressed against the sealing element. Pressure can be generated by creating a partial vacuum in the sealed hemispheres or by using clamps. When exposed to higher pressures, such as when the vessel is used underwater, the pressure on the hemispheres is conveyed to the sealing element forming an even tighter seal. The vessel has interface connections that enable communication to and from devices mounted inside. The vessels are modular and can be ganged to provide redundancy or different functions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583568 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333347 | Ritter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | For each capture mechanism of a plurality of three capture mechanisms, a necked coupling element received by a corresponding socket slides therealong and engages a corresponding latch lever biased in an open position and rotates the latch lever to a closed position as the necked coupling element is slid within the socket towards a bottom thereof. A latch locked biased against the latch lever engages a notch in the latch lever when the latch lever is closed so as to latch the latch lever in the closed position and thereby capture the necked coupling element within the socket. The latch lever is unlatched by releasing the latch lock from engagement with the latch. Different latch levers incorporate different shaped surfaces that engage different corresponding necked coupling elements captured thereby so as to provide for respectively constraining in one, two and three degrees-of-freedom, respectively. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/447718 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333535 | Whiteside 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) | Steve Whiteside (San Diego, California); Robert Lee (Descanso, California); Ronald Skala (Murrieta, California); Brian Shook (San Diego, California); Paul Wade (Chula Vista, California); Bret Thomson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater plow includes a plow assembly that is attached to a frame. The plow assembly includes a blade portion, which defines a blade trough, and a sensor chute portion. The blade portion extends downwardly below a plane that is coincident with a longitudinal axis defined by the frame, while the chute portion extends upwardly above the same plane. A depressor arm is pivotably attached to the blade portion and biased to be in contact with the trough. The depressor arm has a groove that is sized to allow the cable, but not the sensors, to pass through the groove while the depressor arm is in contact with the trough. With this configuration, an array cable passes downward through the blade portion of the plow assembly and becomes buried in the ocean floor. Array sensors, however, are routed upward and pass through the chute portion of the plow assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876407 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333820 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Simpsonville, South Carolina); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an aerosol method, and accompanying apparatus, for preparing powdered products of a variety of materials involving the use of an ultrasonic aerosol generator including a plurality of ultrasonic transducers underlying and ultrasonically energizing a reservoir of liquid feed which forms droplets of the aerosol. Carrier gas is delivered to different portions of the reservoir by a plurality of gas delivery ports delivering gas from a gas delivery system. The aerosol is pyrolyzed to form particles, which are then cooled and collected. The invention also provides powders made by the method and devices made using the powders. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040087 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333934 | Cao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Cao (Blawenburg, New Jersey); Jonas O. Tegenfeldt (Lund, Sweden); Stephen Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert H. Austin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device for interfacing nanofluidic and microfluidic components suitable for use in performing high throughput macromolecular analysis. Diffraction gradient lithography (DGL) is used to form a gradient interface between a microfluidic area and a nanofluidic area. The gradient interface area reduces the local entropic barrier to nanochannels formed in the nanofluidic area. In one embodiment, the gradient interface area is formed of lateral spatial gradient structures for narrowing the cross section of a value from the micron to the nanometer length scale. In another embodiment, the gradient interface area is formed of a vertical sloped gradient structure. Additionally, the gradient structure can provide both a lateral and vertical gradient. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536178 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334024 | Ervin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electronic Bio Sciences, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N Ervin (Park City, Utah); Geoffrey Alden Barrall (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for single-sided bilayer formation includes a first fluid chamber including a sidewall and a second fluid chamber extending through the sidewall. A barrier wall, having at least a portion defining a hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity surface property, separates the first and second fluid chambers and includes a nanopore therein across which a planar lipid bilayer (PLB) is formed. In use, an electrolyte is added to the first and second fluid chambers and a lipid/organic solvent mixture is added to the first fluid chamber to form a lipid/organic solvent layer. The electrolyte level within the first fluid chamber is adjusted such that the lipid layer is raised above the barrier wall and a PLB is formed through single-sided spontaneous formation from the first fluid chamber across the nanopore. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/362806 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334056 | Gleeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Gleeson (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Sordelet (Ames, Iowa); Wen Wang (Shenyan, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy including: about 10 at % to about 30 at % of a Pt-group metal; less than about 23 at % Al; about 0.5 at % to about 2 at % of at least one reactive element selected from Hf, Y, La, Ce and Zr, and combinations thereof; a superalloy substrate constituent selected from the group consisting of Cr, Co, Mo, Ta, Re and combinations thereof; and Ni; wherein the Pt-group metal, Al, the reactive element and the superalloy substrate constituent are present in the alloy in a concentration to the extent that the alloy has a solely γ′-Ni3Al phase constitution. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/225175 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334149 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Shi (Carlsbad, California); Hiren D. Thacker (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-chip module (MCM) is described. This MCM includes at least two substrates that are remateably mechanically coupled by positive and negative features on facing surfaces of the substrates. These positive and negative features mate with each other. In particular, a positive feature may mate with a given pair of negative features, which includes negative features on each of the substrates. Furthermore, at least one of the negative features in the given pair may include a hard magnetic material, and the positive feature and the other negative feature in the given pair may include a soft magnetic material that provide a flux-return path to the hard magnetic material. In this way, the hard magnetic material may facilitate the remateable mechanical coupling of the substrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/467671 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334279 | McCall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Validus Genetics (Kensington, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. McCall (Boca Grande, Florida); Eric Hoffman (Kensington, Maryland); Kanneboyina Nagaraju (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as treatments of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, and as inhibitors of NF-κB for the treatment or prevention of muscular wasting disease, including muscular dystrophy. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327628 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334324 | Colson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yolonda L. Colson (Dover, Massachusetts); Solomon Azouz (Dallas, Texas); Mark W. Grinstaff (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jesse Wolinsky (Brookline, Massachusetts); Aaron Griset (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and processes that can be used to prepare polymer-based films, particles, gels and related compositions, and processes for delivery of agents, and other uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690607 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334404 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Lucht (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Ang Xiao (Kingston, Rhode Island); Li Yang (Kingston, Rhode Island); Mengqing Xu (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous electrolyte usable in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries including a solution of LiPF6/carbonate based electrolytes with low concentrations of LiFOP such that the thermal stability is increased compared to a standard lithium battery. A method of making lithium tetrafluorophospahte (LiF4C2O4, LiFOP) including, reacting PF5 with lithium oxalate, recrystallizing DMC/dichloromethane from a 1:1 mixture of to separate LiF4OP from LiPF6 to form a lithium salt. An electric current producing rechargeable Li-ion cell. The rechargeable lithium ion cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a solution of a lithium salt in a non-aqueous organic solvent containing lithium tetrafluorooxalatophosphate (LiPF4(C2O4), LiF4OP). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553366 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/816 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334418 | Osegovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Water Generating Systems LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Osegovic (St. Petersburg, Florida); Brian Blake-Collins (St. Petersburg, Florida); Ian M Slattery (St. Petersburg, Florida); Michael D Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to using gas hydrate (clathrate and semi-clathrate) together with a catalytic formulation, including catalyst and anti-foaming agent, to separate specific gases from a gas mixture. In particular, compound hydrate is formed from a mixed gas feedstock to concentrate one or more desired gas species in the hydrate phase and the remainder in the gas phase. The hydrate is then separated from the gas phase and dissociated to produce a gas stream concentrated in the desired species. Additives that both accelerate the growth of hydrate and facilitate dissociation and separation are added to improve the rate of reaction and, at the same time, eliminate hard-to-break foam produced by the catalyst, thereby enhancing the total throughput of the complete process. The addition of some materials can also result in changes in the density of the hydrate product, which can be useful for optimizing the separation of hydrate from unreacted liquid and/or rejected gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/608464 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334422 | Gutsol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander F. Gutsol (San Ramon, California); Alexander Fridman (Marlton, New Jersey); Michael J. Gallagher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Victor Vasilets (Moscow, Russian Federation); Kenneth Blank (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for decontaminating bioaerosol with high concentrations of bacterial, viral, spore and other airborne microorganisms or biologic contaminants, in flight at high flow rates. A plasma screen created across the flow of air contaminated with airborne biologic agents renders contaminants non-culturable within millisecond. The technology may cooperate with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. It may be particularly beneficial in preventing bioterrorism and the spread of toxic or infectious agents, containing airborne pandemic threats such as avian flu, sterilizing spaces such as hospitals, pharmaceutical plants and manufacturing facilities, treating exhaust ventilation streams, minimizing biological environmental pollutants in industrial settings, improving general air quality, and preventing sick building syndrome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/377904 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334460 | 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 coaxial transducer that uses lead zirconate titanate ceramic or other suitable material as an isolator between the conductors in a coaxial cable to transmit acoustic power at useful levels. The lead zirconate titanate ceramic is diced into thin disks and placed in between spacers made of much stronger insulating material. The coaxial cable is then integrated into a conventional double-armored steel tow cable with a typical diameter of 1″. This provides substantial longitudinal strength and provides crushing resistance to the lead zirconate titanate ceramic when the cable is being deployed or retrieved over a sheave under tension. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162147 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/110.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334464 | Edwards et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuck Edwards (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); James John Howarth (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karel Vanheusden (Placitas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for making a printed circuit board comprising a substrate and an electrical circuit is provided. The circuit is formed by deposition of a plurality of electronic inks onto the substrate and curing of each of the electronic inks. The deposition may be performed using an ink-jet printing process. The inkjet printing process may include the step of printing a plurality of layers, wherein a first layer includes at least one electronic ink deposited directly onto the substrate, and wherein each subsequent layer includes at least one electronic ink deposited on top of at least a portion of a previous layer when the previous layer has been cured. One or more of the layers may include at least two of the electronic inks. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331187 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334486 | Hogate |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac Jon Hogate (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a first heater located at the leading edge of a gas turbine structural member, a second heater located aft of the first heater, and a third heater located aft of the second heater. The first, second and third heaters are electrically-powered to prevent icing of the gas turbine structural member. Each of the heaters has a Watt density, and the Watt densities of the heaters differ from one another as a function of a magnitude of a cooling coefficient for airflow passing the vicinity of each heater. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215633 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334604 | Dunn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dunn (West Kingston, Rhode Island); Christopher J. Egan (South Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated engine and generator is provided and includes a stationary non-rotating shaft. An engine block is provided that is capable of rotation about the shaft. The engine block comprises a plurality of cylinders with each cylinder including a piston translating in rectilinear motion while rotating about the shaft. A stationary generator housing and stator surrounds the block and has stator windings wound into the housing. Magnets are affixed to an outer surface of the block to rotate with the block, with the magnets separated from the housing by an air gap. The stator windings are electrically configured to match pole pairs of the magnets in order to generate electrical current upon block rotation. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894538 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334614 | Silnutzer 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) | David Silnutzer (Panama City, Florida); Steve Thorsted (Panama City, Florida); Jesse Miles (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system electromagnetically communicates beyond the electromagnetic barrier created by a physical barrier. First pre-existing electrical AC power distributing infrastructure extends on one side of the physical barrier and has electrical conductors and AC outlets. At least one first communication subsystem is located at the one side of the physical barrier and is connected to the electrical conductors. At least one second communication subsystem is located at an opposite side from the first side of the physical barrier. The first and second communication subsystems each have a first handheld transceiver radio, a second transceiver radio, a radio-to-local-area-network converter, and a power line Ethernet adapter. At least one electrical conductor extends the electrical power distributing infrastructure on the one side to the power line Ethernet adapter of the second communication subsystem on the opposite side of the physical barrier. The cost-effective system is made of commercial and government off-the-shelf components. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/658742 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334770 | Gurton |
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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) | Kristan Peter Gurton (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector assembly for detecting a flash from the firing of a weapon comprising: a first support; a plurality of sensors supported by the first support for detecting light from the flash; the sensors operating to receive light in the range of ultraviolet light from approximately 100 nm to approximately 290 nm; a directional indicator for indicating the directional location of the first support; and an indicator assembly comprising at least one indicator; the at least one indicator operating to display the directional location of the flash. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533611 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334803 | Urkowitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry Urkowitz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining target echo detection efficacy of a signal processing algorithm of a radar system involves generating a simulated noise complex envelope sequence, generating a simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope pulse sequence and adding the simulated noise complex envelope sequence to the simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope pulse sequence, thereby producing simulated noisy radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence. The simulated noisy radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence is inputted into the signal processing algorithm and the output of the signal processing algorithm is analyzed to determine target echo detection efficacy of the signal processing algorithm. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627338 |
| 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 342/169 |
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| US 08334889 | Blanche et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TIPD, LLC (Tucson, Arizona); The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre-Alexandre Jean Blanche (Tucson, Arizona); Arkady Bablumyan (San Diego, California); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A holographic direct-view display system uses holographic integral imaging techniques that is an auto stereoscopic way to reproduce parallax and occlusion. The display is not resolution limited and is scalable to display life size images if desired. The system can be used to transmit 3D depictions of a scene at video and sub-video rates as well as other information, such as images of documents or computer generated images. The images may be captured, transmitted and displayed in real-time (or near real-time) for telepresence or stored for time-shifted display. The system combines integral holography, a pulsed laser to record the hologram at high speed and a dynamic refreshable holographic material such as a photorefractive polymer as a recording media. The system uses techniques to write, read and erase the updateable hologram that allow the holographic material, hence direct-view display to remain stationary throughout each of the processes for continuous presentation of the hologram to the audience. The system may write, read and erase at the same time and continuously to increase throughput. This system may also use additional novel techniques to improve brightness, efficiently implement a full-parallax display and to implement a full-color display in a transmission geometry. |
| FILED | Friday, November 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954758 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/14.70 |
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| US 08334976 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Scott Carney (Urbana, Illinois); Kimani C. Toussaint (Champaign, Illinois); Brynmor J. Davis (Etna, New Hampshire); Santosh Tripathi (Kathmandu, Nepal) |
| ABSTRACT | A coherent confocal microscope and methods for measuring elements of the non-linear susceptibility of a nanoparticle, including, more particularly, all of the elements of the second-order susceptibility tensor of a single nanoparticle under permutation and Kleinman symmetry. Using a high numerical aperture lens, two-dimensional scanning and a vector beam shaper, the second-order nonlinear susceptibility is derived from a single confocal image. A forward model for the problem is presented and a computationally efficient data processing method robustly solves the inverse problem. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/154014 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/337 |
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| US 08335238 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for processing streaming data at high sustained data rates. These mechanisms receive a plurality of data elements over a plurality of non-sequential communication channels and write the plurality of data elements directly to the file system of the data processing system in an unassembled manner. The mechanisms further perform a data scrubbing operation to determine if there are any missing data elements that are not present in the plurality of data elements written to the file system and assemble the plurality of data elements into a plurality of data streams associated with the plurality of non-sequential communication channels in response to results of the data scrubbing indicating that there are no missing data elements. In addition, the mechanisms release the assembled plurality of data streams for access via the file system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/342193 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335405 | Askins |
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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) | Charles G Askins (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and accompanying method to measure fiber twist. The method includes independent determination of fiber bending by measuring strain sensing in outer cores of the same fiber. The apparatus includes a multi-core optical fiber comprising a center core and a plurality of peripheral cores at a distance radially from the center core and running parallel to the center core. The center core includes at least one fiber Bragg grating with polarization-dependent reflectivity. The fiber Bragg grating reflects the launched light as reflected light. The apparatus includes a multi-core optical fiber bend sensing system operable to communicate with the multi-core optical fiber. The multi-core optical fiber bend sensing system is operable to sense a bend in the multi-core optical fiber. The apparatus includes a processor operable to communicate with the polarization controller. The apparatus includes a polarization vector analyzer operable to communicate electronically with the processor, and optically with a portion of the light launched into the central core of the optical fiber. The polarization vector analyzer is operable to measure the state of polarization of the launched light. The polarization controller is operable to align the polarization of the launched light with the minor axis or the major axis of birefringence of the FBG. The processor is operable, after the polarization controller aligns the polarization of the launched light, to determine a twist in the multi-core optical fiber based on the polarization of the launched light and the bend in the multi-core optical fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614309 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
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| US 08335411 | Kuznia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultra Communications, Inc. (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Kuznia (Encinitas, California); Joseph F. Ahadian (San Marcos, California); Richard T. Hagan (Mission Viejo, California); Richard J. Pommer (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A component for coupling light bi-directionally between optical waveguides and optoelectronic devices is described. This component can be inexpensively manufactured and fits within the existing form-factor of fiber optic transceivers or transmitters, and has features for efficiently coupling laser light to a waveguide and light from the same waveguide to a detector. The described components can be formed as an array to operate within system that operation over parallel optical fibers. Applicability for these components is for optical time domain reflectometry, bi-directional optical communications, remote fiber sensing, and optical range finders. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617021 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
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| US 08335660 | Nierwinski, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stanley Nierwinski, Jr. (Havre De Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining whether the number of samples taken from a population of units where the distribution of X and Y variables are unknown by evaluating ratio mean measurements on a computer to determine a confidence interval. The method comprising: inputting samples from the total population with each unit sample having at least two variables X and Y; redefining the multivariate data that comprises the two variables X and Y; estimating the mean; computing the standard error; using a bootstrapping method, generating boot strap samples, computing a Z distribution based upon the bootstrap samples; and computing the confidence interval. The system comprises a processor for performing the steps of the method. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550981 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08336014 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jitesh Jain (Rajasthan, India); Stephen F. Cauley (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hong Li (He nan, China PRC); Cheng-Kok Koh (West Lafayette, Indiana); Venkataramanan Balakrishnan (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of simulating operation of a VLSI interconnect structure having capacitive and inductive coupling between nodes thereof. A matrix X and a matrix Y containing different combinations of passive circuit element values for the interconnect structure are obtained where the element values for each matrix include inductance L and inverse capacitance P. An adjacency matrix A associated with the interconnect structure is obtained. Numerical integration is used to solve first and second equations, each including as a factor the product of the inverse matrix X−1 and at least one other matrix, with first equation including X−1Y, X−1A, and X−1P, and the second equation including X−1A and X−1P. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852942 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/115 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angel Secure Networks, Inc. (Orono, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Hewitt Smith (Old Town, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for securing sensitive material on a computer system comprising a network of computers from unauthorized access by a root level user of the computer system, the method including the steps of: limiting access to the sensitive material to one or more authorized users; controlling the operation of one or more system functions to prevent unauthorized access to the sensitive material. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150373 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); Rachiotek, LLC (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens Peter Timm (Carlsbad, California); Manohar M. Panjabi (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic spine stabilization device is provided that includes at least one force imparting member, e.g., a spring. The force imparting member is adapted to deliver a force of between about 150 lb/inch and 450 lbs/inch, and restrict the relative travel distance between said first and second pedicles to a distance of between about 1.5 mm and 5 mm. The spinal stabilization devices also have a minimal impact on the location of the center of rotation for the spinal segment being treated. By providing resistance in the noted range and restricting the travel distance to the noted range, it has been found that the stabilization device provides a desired level of stabilization, as reflected by range of motion values that closely approximate pre-injury range of motion levels. In addition, the resistance levels are not so high as to alter the location of the center of rotation of the treated spinal segment from its normal anatomical location to levels previously obtained, thereby permitting substantially unimpeded angular motion despite the posterior presence of a stabilization device. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/714727 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333953 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yichen Lu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Huyen Cao (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for delivering exogenous proteins to the cytosol, by binding a target antigen (such as a protein) to a transport factor that contains a fragment of a bipartite protein exotoxin, but not the corresponding protective antigen. Preferably, the target antigen is fused to the transport factor. Preferred transport factors include the protective antigen binding domain of lethal factor (LFn) from B. anthracis, consisting of amino acids 1-255, preferably a fragment of at least 80 amino acids that shows at least 80% homology to LFn, and a fragment of about 105 amino acids from the carboxy portion that does not bind PA. The target antigen can include any molecule for which it would be desirable to elicit a CMI response, including viral antigens and tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782659 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Feng Yang (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel antigen, MPD6, which belongs to the group of cryptic antigens without conventional genomic structure and is encoded by a cryptic open reading frame located in the 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR) of myotrophin mRNA. MPD6 elicits IgG antibody responses in a subset of PV patients, as well as patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and prostate cancer. The translation of MPD6 was mediated by a novel internal ribosome entry site (IRES) upstream of the MPD6 reading frame. Furthermore, the MPD6-IRES mediated translation, but not myotrophin-MPD6 transcription, was significantly upregulated in response to IFN-α stimulation. These findings demonstrate that a novel IRES-mediated mechanism is responsible for the translation of unconventional self-antigen MPD6 in responsive to IFN-α stimulation. The eliciting anti-tumor immune response against unconventional antigen MPD6 in patients with myeloproliferative diseases indicates MPD6 as a target of novel immunotherapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/377444 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GRADALIS, Inc. (Carrollton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Smyth Templeton (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for tissue-specific targeted delivery of therapeutic agents through the use of tissue-specific peptidomimetic ligands are disclosed herein. The ligand comprises a composition of formula A-scaffold-A′ and one or more hydrophobic anchors covalently linked to the scaffold. The A and A′ compounds linked to the scaffold comprise monovalent peptidomimetic compounds wherein each monovalent peptidomimetic compound is selected from the group consisting of fragments IKs, GKs, IDs, GSs, GTs, VSs, TKs, KTs, ARs, KIs, KEs, AEs, GRs, YSs, IRs, and morpholino. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875723 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
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| US 08333994 | Katti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kattesh V. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Raghuraman Kannan (Columbia, Missouri); Kavita K. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Satish Kumar Nune (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides stabilized, biocompatible gold nanoparticles that are stabilized with material from polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material or reactive phytochemical components of the plant material. The gold nanoparticles of the invention can be fabricated with an environmentally friendly method for making biocompatible stabilized gold nanoparticles. In methods of the invention, an aqueous solution containing gold salts is mixed with polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material. In preferred embodiment methods of making, an aqueous solution containing gold salts is provided. The aqueous solution is mixed with black tea, turmeric, curcumin or cinnamon or a similar naturally occurring polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material. The gold salts react to form biocompatible gold nanoparticles that are stabilized with a coating of the polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material. The black tea, turmeric, curcumin or cinnamon or similar naturally occurring polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material can be a powder or can be in its root or bark form. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283935 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334095 | Wickersham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian R. Wickersham (Brookline, Massachusetts); John A. T. Young (San Diego, California); Edward M. Callaway (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of expressing a heterologous nucleic acid sequence, such as a sequence encoding a detectable protein, in a primary neuron (or plurality of primary neurons) and other neurons that are monosynaptically connected to the primary neuron (or plurality of primary neurons). Such methods involve viruses (such as, rabies viruses) defective for transsynaptic transport (TST-defective virus) and in situ complementation of the defect in a manner that permits only monosynaptic transport of the TST-defective virus. The TST-defective virus and, therefore, any heterologous nucleic acid sequence it carries in its genome, are not transmitted to neurons that are not monosynaptically connected to the primary neuron (or plurality of primary neurons). Also disclosed are methods of targeting a TST-defective virus to a genetically defined primary neuron (or plurality of primary neurons). The disclosed technology enables far more specific labelling and/or manipulation of neural networks than has previously been possible. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/803918 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana J. Giulian (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Encephalotoxin produced by activated mononuclear phagocytes is present in individuals having neurological disease including neurodegenerative and neuro-inflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), HIV-1-associated dementia (HAD), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, prion disease, minor cognitive/motor dysfunction, acute stroke, acute trauma, or neuro-AIDS. Biochemical detection of encephalotoxin according to the methods of the invention will allow diagnosis of neurological disease in early, presymptomatic stages, thereby allowing early intervention in disease progression as well as identification of subjects or populations at risk for developing neurodegenerative disease. The methods of the invention also provide a mechanism for monitoring progression and treatment of neurological disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727359 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.160 |
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| US 08334107 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Reema Zeineldin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Menake Piyasena (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to lipid bilayer coated beads and methods of using those beads in immunoassays, in analytical assay and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419853 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 08334138 | Robins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J Robins (Athens, Georgia); Thomas C Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the culture and maintenance of pluripotent stem cells. More particularly, the present invention provides for compositions and methods for culturing, maintaining, growing and stabilizing primate pluripotent stem cells in a feeder-free defined media further comprising human serum, or a soluble attachment component of the human serum, for promoting cell attachment. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856662 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/408 |
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| US 08334239 | Kodadek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kodadek (Dallas, Texas); D. Gomika Udugamasooriya (Coppell, Texas); Rolf Brekken (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell-based screen is reported can be used to identify specific receptor-binding compounds in a combinatorial library of peptoids (N-alkylglycine oligomers) displayed on beads. This strategy was applied to the isolation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2 (VEGFR2)-binding peptoids, which were optimized to create lead compounds with high affinity for VEGFR2. One of these peptoids was shown to be an antagonist of VEGF-VEGFR2 interaction and receptor function. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166042 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334257 | Chilkoti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashutosh Chilkoti (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of enhancing in vivo efficacy of an active agent, comprising: administering to a subject an active agent that is coupled to a bioelastic polymer or elastin-like peptide, wherein the in vivo efficacy of the active agent is enhanced as compared to the same active agent when administered to the subject not coupled to (or not associated with) a bioelastic polymer or ELP. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158190 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.100 |
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| US 08334260 | Rubin 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 (Washington, District of Columbia); St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research (Victoria, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Rubin (Potomac, Maryland); Aykut Üren (Rockville, Maryland); Brian K. Kay (Hinsdale, Illinois); Bernard Weisblum (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew Todd Gillespie (Mount Waverly, Australia); Nicole Joy Horwood (Ashwood, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a peptide motif and proteins containing the motif that are capable of binding to secreted Frizzled-related protein family members. Accordingly, the disclosure also includes methods of regulating the interaction of sFRP-1 with proteins containing the motif. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019567 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16.700 |
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| US 08334272 | Dean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dean (Rochester, New York); Robert Christopher Geiger (Fort Myers, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for increasing the transfer of nucleic acids into cells. In particular, the present invention provides for the use of inhibitors of HDAC6, a cytoplasmic histone deacetylase present in mammalian cells by, for example, small molecules or siRNA treatment, in increasing gene transfer and/or expression in cells in vitro and in vivo for research and gene therapy applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/902240 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08334273 | de Fougerolles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonin de Fougerolles (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tatiana Novobrantseva (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Akin Akinc (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of the Factor VII gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970673 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08334275 | Finkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terri H. Finkel (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jiyi Yin (Perrysburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides cellular gene products which have anti-apoptotic activity in HIV-1 infected cells and provides agents for the inhibition of the cellular gene products. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/168057 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08334279 | McCall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Validus Genetics (Kensington, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. McCall (Boca Grande, Florida); Eric Hoffman (Kensington, Maryland); Kanneboyina Nagaraju (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as treatments of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, and as inhibitors of NF-κB for the treatment or prevention of muscular wasting disease, including muscular dystrophy. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327628 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
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| US 08334302 | 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-b]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 | 13/330791 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/303 |
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| US 08334320 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Liu (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ping Men (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods of treatment using an iron chelator, an antioxidant, estrogen, and/or combinations thereof, optionally, linked to a nanoparticle, to treat a subject in need thereof. The compositions and methods may be used to restore or protect the normal functions of osteoblast and osteoclast by depleting iron and inhibiting oxidative damage. The compositions and methods may also be used to increase the bone formation rate in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790132 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/566 |
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| US 08334377 | Groves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Groves (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a novel class of substituted macrocyclic metallic compounds. The compounds are useful as peroxynitrite decomposition catalysts. Pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of making and using the compounds, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or prodrug thereof are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311639 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
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| US 08334405 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derun Li (Somerville, Massachusetts); John R. Falck (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Chiral thioureas are effective catalysts for the borane reduction of prochiral ketones to optically active alcohols. A prochiral ketone may be reduced to an optically active alcohol in the presence of a substantially sub-stoichiometric amount of chiral thiourea. The asymmetric thiourea compound of the present invention may be produced according to a production method described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080634 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/31 |
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| US 08334503 | Mcluckey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Mcluckey (West Lafayette, Indiana); Paul A. Chrisman (Normal, Illinois); Sharon J. Pitteri (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling ion parking in an ion trap includes generating a trapping field for trapping cations and anions, and applying a tailored waveform during a period when ion/ion reactions occur to park first generation product ions with m/z values that differ from those of a cation and an anion in selected m/z regions. In particular, the tailored waveform inhibits simultaneously the reactions of ions of disparate m/z ratios. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920062 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/283 |
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| US 08334514 | Larkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josh Larkin (Reno, Nevada); Nelson Publicover (Reno, Nevada); John Sutko (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Localization methods and methods for localizing a light source using multivariate statistical analysis. In particular, a multi-variate distribution, such as a multi-variate normal distribution, may be used to localize photons originating from a light source and, in particular, may be used to analyze photon position maps acquired by Photon Event Distribution Sampling (PEDS). The multi-variate distribution assigned to each of the photons in the photon position map may be summed to predict a most probable location for the light source. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709908 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
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| US 08334694 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ek Tsoon Tan (Rochester, Minnesota); Stephen J Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved self-calibration method for accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using inversion recovery pulse sequences allows calibration data for determining coil sensitivity profiles to be acquired by employing a calibration pulse sequence within the delay time of an inversion recovery pulse sequence. The calibration pulse sequence includes a constrained number of calibration pulses having small flip angles so that acceptable longitudinal magnetization recovery is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690756 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334696 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fa-Hsuan Lin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. In particular, spatial encoding of signals received from the subject is performed by spatial encoding magnetic fields (SEMs) produced by driving a parallel array of local gradient coils with current weightings that define a mode of the coil array. A set of globally orthogonal modes are determined using a singular value decomposition and two modes that produce SEMs with desired magnetic field variance characteristics are selected for spatial encoding. The spatially encoding signals are received by a parallel array of radio frequency receiver coil elements in order to resolve ambiguities in spatial encoding caused by the SEMs. Images are subsequently reconstructed using, for example, an iterative time domain reconstruction method. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753555 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335561 | Modarres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MoHammad Modarres (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of analyzing a subject for excessive daytime sleepiness, and more particularly to a quick (short duration), quantitative method of sleep disorder analysis. The present invention additionally relates to a method that can be used to quantitatively measure the treatment endpoints for the subject, i.e., appropriate levels of stimulants. Additionally, the present invention relates to a device for sleep disorder analysis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/957098 |
| 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 |
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| US 08333075 | York et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Xavier Stevenson (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that includes a turbine fuel nozzle comprising an air-fuel premixer. The air-fuel premixed includes a swirl vane configured to swirl fuel and air in a downstream direction, wherein the swirl vane comprises an internal coolant path from a downstream end portion in an upstream direction through a substantial length of the swirl vane. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425293 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333230 | Marsden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth C. Marsden (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mitchell K. Meyer (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Blair K. Grover (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Randall S. Fielding (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Billy W. Wolfensberger (Rigby, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A casting device includes a covered crucible having a top opening and a bottom orifice, a lid covering the top opening, a stopper rod sealing the bottom orifice, and a reusable mold having at least one chamber, a top end of the chamber being open to and positioned below the bottom orifice and a vacuum tap into the chamber being below the top end of the chamber. A casting method includes charging a crucible with a solid material and covering the crucible, heating the crucible, melting the material, evacuating a chamber of a mold to less than 1 atm absolute through a vacuum tap into the chamber, draining the melted material into the evacuated chamber, solidifying the material in the chamber, and removing the solidified material from the chamber without damaging the chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175122 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08333564 | Krivcov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Krivcov (Chelyabinsk Region, Russian Federation); Vladimir Krivospitski (Chelyabinsk Region, Russian Federation); Vasili Maksimov (Chelyabinsk Region, Russian Federation); Richard Halstead (Rohnert Park, California); Jurij Vasiljevich Grahov (Chelyabinsk Region, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical axis wind turbine airfoil is described. The wind turbine airfoil can include a leading edge, a trailing edge, an upper curved surface, a lower curved surface, and a centerline running between the upper surface and the lower surface and from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil can be configured so that the distance between the centerline and the upper surface is the same as the distance between the centerline and the lower surface at all points along the length of the airfoil. A plurality of such airfoils can be included in a vertical axis wind turbine. These airfoils can be vertically disposed and can rotate about a vertical axis. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042390 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/223.A00 |
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| US 08333823 | Iwasaki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iwao Iwasaki (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota); David J. Englund (Bovey, Minnesota); Dave Hendrickson (Coleraine, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for producing metallic iron nuggets may include providing multiple layers of agglomerates, such as briquettes, balls and extrusions, of a reducible mixture of reducing material (such as carbonaceous material) and of a reducible iron bearing material (such as iron oxide) on a hearth material layer (such as carbonaceous material) and providing a coarse overlayer of carbonaceous material over at least some of the agglomerates. Heating the agglomerates of reducible mixture to 1425° C. or 1400° C. or 1375° C. results in formation of an intermediate product of one or more metallic iron nuggets, which may have a sulfur content of less than 0.03%, and slag, which may have less than 5% mass MgO, which may have a ratio of percent by weight sulfur in the slag over percent by weight sulfur in the metallic nuggets of at least about 12 or at least about 15. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847591 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/484 |
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| US 08333949 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald Parker (Durham, North Carolina); Wayne Seames (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for producing high carbon content products from biomass, a biomass oil is added to a cracking reactor vessel. The biomass oil is heated to a temperature ranging from about 100° C. to about 800° C. at a pressure ranging from about vacuum conditions to about 20,700 kPa for a time sufficient to crack the biomass oil. Tar is separated from the cracked biomass oil. The tar is heated to a temperature ranging from about 200° C. to about 1500° C. at a pressure ranging from about vacuum conditions to about 20,700 kPa for a time sufficient to reduce the tar to a high carbon content product containing at least about 50% carbon by weight. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800449 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/449.900 |
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| US 08334014 | Petsev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter N Petsev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Svitlana Pylypenko (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nick Carroll (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tim Olson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides oxide microparticles with engineered hierarchical porosity and methods of manufacturing the same. Also described are structures that are formed by templating, impregnating, and/or precipitating the oxide microparticles and method for forming the same. Suitable applications include catalysts, electrocatalysts, electrocatalysts support materials, capacitors, drug delivery systems, sensors and chromatography. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484885 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
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| US 08334062 | Pujari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vimal K. Pujari (Northboro, Massachusetts); Ara Vartabedian (Hudson, Massachusetts); William T. Collins (Auburn, Massachusetts); David Woolley (Ayer, Massachusetts); Charles Bateman (Rutland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to a multi-layered article suitable for service in severe environments. The article may be formed of a substrate, such as silicon carbide and/or silicon nitride. The substrate may have a first layer of a mixture of a rare earth silicate and Cordierite. The substrate may also have a second layer of a rare earth silicate or a mixture of a rare earth silicate and cordierite. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024522 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
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| US 08334161 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Dennis (Canton, Texas); Scott Harrington (Oakland, California); Jane Manning (Woodside, California); David Smith (Campbell, California); Ann Waldhauer (La Honda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are described. Solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829922 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
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| US 08334421 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huizhen Gao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yifeng Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Rodriguez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Denise N. Bencoe (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of rendering hazardous materials less dangerous comprising trapping the hazardous material in nanopores of a nanoporous composite material, reacting the trapped hazardous material to render it less volatile/soluble, sealing the trapped hazardous material, and vitrifying the nanoporous material containing the less volatile/soluble hazardous material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495851 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334523 | Degtiarenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel V. Degtiarenko (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for the prevention of overheating of laser or particle beam impact zones through the use of a moving-in-the-coolant-flow arrangement for the energy absorbing core of the device. Moving of the core spreads the energy deposition in it in 1, 2, or 3 dimensions, thus increasing the effective cooling area of the device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286989 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
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| US 08334749 | Lacy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Lacy (Greenville, South Carolina); Gilbert Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Stevenson (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature detector includes a first metal and a second metal different from the first metal. The first metal includes a plurality of wires and the second metal includes a wire. The plurality of wires of the first metal are connected to the wire of the second metal in parallel junctions. Another temperature detector includes a plurality of resistance temperature detectors. The plurality of resistance temperature detectors are connected at a plurality of junctions. A method of detecting a temperature change of a component of a turbine includes providing a temperature detector include ing a first metal and a second metal different from the first metal connected to each other at a plurality of junctions in contact with the component; and detecting any voltage change at any junction. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568348 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/22.R00 |
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| US 08334899 | Neil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Neil (Williamsburg, Virginia); Kevin Carl Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective laser beam viewing system or device including a camera selectively sensitive to laser light wavelengths and a viewing screen receiving images from the laser sensitive camera. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the camera is worn on the head of the user or incorporated into a goggle-type viewing display so that it is always aimed at the area of viewing interest to the user and the viewing screen is incorporated into a video display worn as goggles over the eyes of the user. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982128 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335363 | Stolin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Stolin (Newport News, Virginia); John E. McKisson (Hampton, Virginia); Seung Joon Lee (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark Frederick Smith (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for image reconstruction of moving radionuclide distributions. Its particular embodiment is for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging of awake animals, though its techniques are general enough to be applied to other moving radionuclide distributions as well. The invention eliminates motion and blurring artifacts for image reconstructions of moving source distributions. This opens new avenues in the area of small animal brain imaging with radiotracers, which can now be performed without the perturbing influences of anesthesia or physical restraint on the biological system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/456372 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335420 | Beach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Beach (Livermore, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); Michael J. Messerly (Danville, California); Christopher P. J. Barty (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single, or near single transverse mode waveguide definition is produced using a single homogeneous medium to transport both the pump excitation light and generated laser light. By properly configuring the pump deposition and resulting thermal power generation in the waveguide device, a thermal focusing power is established that supports perturbation-stable guided wave propagation of an appropriately configured single or near single transverse mode laser beam and/or laser pulse. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809177 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
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| US 08335555 | Lehman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean K. Lehman (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wave-based tomographic imaging method and apparatus based upon one or more rotating radially outward oriented transmitting and receiving elements have been developed for non-destructive evaluation. At successive angular locations at a fixed radius, a predetermined transmitting element can launch a primary field and one or more predetermined receiving elements can collect the backscattered field in a “pitch/catch” operation. A Hilbert space inverse wave (HSIW) algorithm can construct images of the received scattered energy waves using operating modes chosen for a particular application. Applications include, improved intravascular imaging, bore hole tomography, and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of parts having existing access holes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/814435 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Schwartz (Los Angeles, California); Dong-Joon Kim (Los Angeles, California); Robert T. M'Closkey (Los Angeles, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for reducing the frequency split between the Coriolis-coupled modes in disc resonator gyroscopes (DRGs) by perturbing the mass distribution on the disc resonator based on an identified model are disclosed. A model-identification method of tuning a resonator comprises perturbing the mass and measuring a frequency response matrix of the resonator. The frequency response matrix includes a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs and the resonator has a plurality of coupled resonance modes. A reduced structural mechanics matrix model of the resonator in sensor and actuator coordinates is identified from the measured frequency response matrix and analyzed to determine generalized eigenvectors of the structural mechanics model and their variations due to selected mass perturbations which is then estimated to improve degeneracy of the plurality of coupled resonance modes based on the generalized eigenvectors of the mass and the stiffness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481247 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334013 | Petsev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter N Petsev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Erin Derbins (Ponchatoula, Louisiana); Sergio Mendez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shailendra Rathod (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nick Carroll (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Weitz (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method for forming populations of monodisperse porous silica particles. Also provided are monodisperse populations of porous silica particles, an array of physically connected monodisperse porous silica particles and a microfluidic device for forming populations of monodisperse porous silica particles. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263947 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334014 | Petsev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter N Petsev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Svitlana Pylypenko (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nick Carroll (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tim Olson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides oxide microparticles with engineered hierarchical porosity and methods of manufacturing the same. Also described are structures that are formed by templating, impregnating, and/or precipitating the oxide microparticles and method for forming the same. Suitable applications include catalysts, electrocatalysts, electrocatalysts support materials, capacitors, drug delivery systems, sensors and chromatography. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484885 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334016 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jill S. Becker (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Hausmann (Los Gatos, California); Seigi Suh (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal silicates or phosphates are deposited on a heated substrate by the reaction of vapors of alkoxysilanols or alkylphosphates along with reactive metal amides, alkyls or alkoxides. For example, vapors of tris(tert-butoxy)silanol react with vapors of tetrakis(ethylmethylamido)hafnium to deposit hafnium silicate on surfaces heated to 300° C. The product film has a very uniform stoichiometry throughout the reactor. Similarly, vapors of diisopropylphosphate react with vapors of lithium bis(ethyldimethylsilyl)amide to deposit lithium phosphate films on substrates heated to 250° C. Supplying the vapors in alternating pulses produces these same compositions with a very uniform distribution of thickness and excellent step coverage. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407556 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334029 | Tam-Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suk-Wah Tam-Chang (Reno, Nevada); Sean M. Casey (Reno, Nevada); Isaac K. Iverson (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Wonewoo Seo (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides materials and methods for making anisotropic solids which may be in the form of films, layers, shaped elements, and other shaped articles. The methods provide anisotropic solids without the need for rolling, rubbing, or stretching to impart orientational alignment of the molecules of the solid. The methods employ organic or organometallic compounds which are soluble orienting molecules. The solvent or solvent system must be sufficiently volatile to be removed without disruption of the molecular orientation. The soluble orienting molecules include those containing one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups and the solvent or solvent system can be a polar organic solvent or solvent system or an aqueous solvent or solvent system. The invention also provides novel compounds having quaterrylene, perylene and naphthalene ring systems carrying one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups. These novel compounds can exhibit useful absorption and fluorescence properties in solution and in the solid phase and can exhibit useful liquid crystalline properties. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/079731 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334107 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Reema Zeineldin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Menake Piyasena (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to lipid bilayer coated beads and methods of using those beads in immunoassays, in analytical assay and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419853 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334306 | Ba et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of California State University (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Ba (Monrovia, California); Errol V. Mathias (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitroxide free radicals attached to antineoplastic agents can synergize their potencies to cancer cells. This invention relates to any antineoplastic agents and their derivatives chemically attached with nitroxide free radicals, such as TEMPO and its radical derivatives. This invention also relates to precursors of such compounds, as well as the products formed from the adducts after administration. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053170 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334404 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Lucht (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Ang Xiao (Kingston, Rhode Island); Li Yang (Kingston, Rhode Island); Mengqing Xu (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous electrolyte usable in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries including a solution of LiPF6/carbonate based electrolytes with low concentrations of LiFOP such that the thermal stability is increased compared to a standard lithium battery. A method of making lithium tetrafluorophospahte (LiF4C2O4, LiFOP) including, reacting PF5 with lithium oxalate, recrystallizing DMC/dichloromethane from a 1:1 mixture of to separate LiF4OP from LiPF6 to form a lithium salt. An electric current producing rechargeable Li-ion cell. The rechargeable lithium ion cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a solution of a lithium salt in a non-aqueous organic solvent containing lithium tetrafluorooxalatophosphate (LiPF4(C2O4), LiF4OP). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553366 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/816 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334428 | Gelvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanton B. Gelvin (West Lafayette, Indiana); Heiko Oltmanns (Dossenheim, Germany); Lan Ying Lee (West Lafayette, Indiana); Bronwyn Frame (Ames, Iowa); Kan Wang (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions reduce copy number of transgenes and minimizing vector backbone sequences in plant transformation. Agrobacterium strains with T-DNA integrated into the chromosomal DNA of the Agrobacterium reduce the copy number and vector backbone sequences. Chromosomal integration vectors to integrate T-DNA into a specific locus of Agrobacterium chromosome are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514180 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334976 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Scott Carney (Urbana, Illinois); Kimani C. Toussaint (Champaign, Illinois); Brynmor J. Davis (Etna, New Hampshire); Santosh Tripathi (Kathmandu, Nepal) |
| ABSTRACT | A coherent confocal microscope and methods for measuring elements of the non-linear susceptibility of a nanoparticle, including, more particularly, all of the elements of the second-order susceptibility tensor of a single nanoparticle under permutation and Kleinman symmetry. Using a high numerical aperture lens, two-dimensional scanning and a vector beam shaper, the second-order nonlinear susceptibility is derived from a single confocal image. A forward model for the problem is presented and a computationally efficient data processing method robustly solves the inverse problem. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/154014 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334984 | Perez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maximillian A. Perez (Irvine, California); Andrei A. Shkel (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are optically coupled in series with each other to form an ordered optical series. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has a unique signalband and a passband. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has its unique signalband within the passbands of all of the next higher ordered Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors in the optical series so that a corresponding unique fringe signal from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors is a multiplexed output from the optical series. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545700 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335668 | Taggart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governers For Higher Education, State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Taggart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); Peter Dewhurst (West Kingston, Rhode Island); Arun U. Nair (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed of providing an optimal minimum mass topology for a structure based on a set of design criteria including at least one support point and at least one force to be applied to the structure. The method includes the steps of: identifying a plurality of nodes within a structure design domain, and assigning an initial density value to said plurality of nodes; conducting a finite element analysis on the nodes; determining one of a stress intensity or strain energy values for each node; ranking the nodes by relative stress intensity or strain energy values; adjusting the density value for each node; and repeating the steps of conducting a finite element analysis on said nodes, wherein the step of adjusting each density value for each node is performed according to a family of statistical distribution functions that gradually transition to a bimodal distribution wherein nodes are either fully dense or effectively void thereby providing an optimal topology. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/052760 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08336014 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jitesh Jain (Rajasthan, India); Stephen F. Cauley (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hong Li (He nan, China PRC); Cheng-Kok Koh (West Lafayette, Indiana); Venkataramanan Balakrishnan (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of simulating operation of a VLSI interconnect structure having capacitive and inductive coupling between nodes thereof. A matrix X and a matrix Y containing different combinations of passive circuit element values for the interconnect structure are obtained where the element values for each matrix include inductance L and inverse capacitance P. An adjacency matrix A associated with the interconnect structure is obtained. Numerical integration is used to solve first and second equations, each including as a factor the product of the inverse matrix X−1 and at least one other matrix, with first equation including X−1Y, X−1A, and X−1P, and the second equation including X−1A and X−1P. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852942 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08334119 | Gonzalez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Gonzalez (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the development of appropriate cultivation conditions for a bacteria to grow anaerobically (fermentatively) on a glycerol substrate. The method requires culturing bacteria having a functional 1,2-propanediol pathway and a functional type II glycerol dehydrogenase-dihydroxyacetone kinase pathway in a culture medium containing high concentrations of glycerol, a neutral to mildly acidic pII, low levels of potassium and phosphate, and high levels of CO2, such that glycerol is thus converted into a desirable product, such as ethanol, hydrogen, formate, succinate, or 1,2-propanediol. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/347811 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334124 | Mullaney 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) | Edward J. Mullaney (Crandon, Wisconsin); Abul H. J. Ullah (Slidell, Louisiana); Xin Gen Lei (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is site-directed mutagenesis of a cloned phyA gene employed to replaced cysteine residues involved in disulfide bridge formation with another amino acid. Also disclosed herein is an isolated mutant phytase comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 96 percent sequence identity to SEQ. ID. NO: 6 and containing a double-substitution amino acid residue substitution of residue 31 and residue 40 of SEQ. ID. NO: 6, wherein said isolated mutant phytase has phytase activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887656 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334366 | Hughes 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) | Stephen R. Hughes (Peoria, Illinois); Patrick F. Dowd (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Lycotoxin-1 peptide mutant peptides which exhibit increased insecticidal activity are produced by substitution of both a proline for the lysine at amino acid position 24 and a tryptophan for the leucine at amino acid position 25 of the wild-type amino acid sequence for lycotoxin-1. Further substitution of amino acids 8, 9 or 10 of the lycotoxin-1 wild-type amino acid sequence, specifically substituting a histidine for the phenylalanine at amino acid position 8, a glutamine for the glycine at amino acid position 10, or a serine for the leucine at amino acid position 9, provides an even greater increase in insecticidal activity. In addition to changes in the lycotoxin-1 amino acid sequence, the addition of an enterokinase K recognition site, DDDK, to the N-terminus of the lycotoxin-1 peptide increases insecticidal activity further still. Isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the mutant lycotoxin-1 peptides, expression vectors containing these sequences, microorganisms or other host cells transformed with these vectors, and recombinant methods for producing the peptides, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/770343 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08334031 | Ajdelsztajn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonardo Ajdelsztajn (Niskayuna, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Dalong Zhong (Niskayuna, New York); Molly Maureen Gentleman (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article coated with a highly durable, wetting resistant coating is provided. The article comprises a coating that comprises a cermet material. The cermet material includes a nickel-bearing metal matrix and a phase disposed within the matrix. The phase includes an anion moiety, for example nitrogen, carbon, or boron; and a cation moiety, for example chromium, zirconium, titanium, vanadium, hafnium, niobium, or tantalum. The phase is present in the cermet at a level of at least about 5 volume %. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329654 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334391 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer of the formula/structure wherein R represents alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, or heteroaryl; each R1 and R2 is independently hydrogen (H), a suitable hydrocarbon; a heteroatom containing group or a halogen; R3 and R4 are independently a suitable hydrocarbon, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; x and y represent the number of groups; Z represents sulfur, oxygen, selenium, or NR′ wherein R′ is hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl; and n and m represent the number of repeating units. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399226 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334690 | Kitching et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kitching (Boulder, Colorado); Svenja Knappe (Boulder, Colorado); Jan Preusser (Boulder, Colorado); Vladislav Gerginov (Braunschweig, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetometer and method of use is presently disclosed. The magnetometer has at least one sensor void of extraneous metallic components, electrical contacts and electrically conducting pathways. The sensor contains an active material vapor, such as an alkali vapor, that alters at least one measurable parameter of light passing therethrough, when in a magnetic field. The sensor may have an absorptive material configured to absorb laser light and thereby activate or heat the active material vapor. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537922 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08333810 | Meyyappan |
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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) | Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A supercapacitor system, including (i) first and second, spaced apart planar collectors, (ii) first and second arrays of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) towers or single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) towers, serving as electrodes, that extend between the first and second collectors where the nanotube towers are grown directly on the collector surfaces without deposition of a catalyst and without deposition of a binder material on the collector surfaces, and (iii) a porous separator module having a transverse area that is substantially the same as the transverse area of at least one electrode, where (iv) at least one nanotube tower is functionalized to permit or encourage the tower to behave as a hydrophilic structure, with increased surface wettability. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398854 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08336014 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jitesh Jain (Rajasthan, India); Stephen F. Cauley (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hong Li (He nan, China PRC); Cheng-Kok Koh (West Lafayette, Indiana); Venkataramanan Balakrishnan (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of simulating operation of a VLSI interconnect structure having capacitive and inductive coupling between nodes thereof. A matrix X and a matrix Y containing different combinations of passive circuit element values for the interconnect structure are obtained where the element values for each matrix include inductance L and inverse capacitance P. An adjacency matrix A associated with the interconnect structure is obtained. Numerical integration is used to solve first and second equations, each including as a factor the product of the inverse matrix X−1 and at least one other matrix, with first equation including X−1Y, X−1A, and X−1P, and the second equation including X−1A and X−1P. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852942 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 08334404 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Lucht (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Ang Xiao (Kingston, Rhode Island); Li Yang (Kingston, Rhode Island); Mengqing Xu (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous electrolyte usable in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries including a solution of LiPF6/carbonate based electrolytes with low concentrations of LiFOP such that the thermal stability is increased compared to a standard lithium battery. A method of making lithium tetrafluorophospahte (LiF4C2O4, LiFOP) including, reacting PF5 with lithium oxalate, recrystallizing DMC/dichloromethane from a 1:1 mixture of to separate LiF4OP from LiPF6 to form a lithium salt. An electric current producing rechargeable Li-ion cell. The rechargeable lithium ion cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a solution of a lithium salt in a non-aqueous organic solvent containing lithium tetrafluorooxalatophosphate (LiPF4(C2O4), LiF4OP). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553366 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/816 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08334000 | Greenway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank L. Greenway (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Zhijun Liu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Eugene A. Woltering (Kenner, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An extract of Chinese blackberry (Rubus suavissimus) has been found to inhibit angiogenesis, and two active fractions isolated. Gallic acid was shown to be one of the active anti-angiogenic compounds by an in vitro human angiogenesis model. Aqueous extracts from other plants either known or found to have gallic acid were also found to have anti-angiogenic activity. Various derivatives of gallic acid were found to inhibit angiogenesis. The extract from Chinese blackberry also slowed the growth of a pancreatic tumor and of corneal neovascularization in rats. Extracts from pomegranate were shown to inhibit angiogenesis in fat tissue. Extracts from Rubus spp, and other plants with gallic acid, and gallic acid and its derivatives will be useful for treating various diseases associated with neovascularization, including diabetic retinopathy, psoriasis, tumors, obesity, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718148 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08335649 | Hoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clean Power Research, L.L.C. (Napa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Hoff (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented system and method for estimating photovoltaic power generation for use in photovoltaic fleet operation is provided. A set of sky clearness indexes is generated as a ratio of each irradiance observation in a set of irradiance observations that has been regularly measured for a plurality of locations, which are each within a geographic region suitable for operation of a photovoltaic fleet, and clear sky irradiance. A time series of the set of the sky clearness indexes is formed for all of the locations within the geographic region. Fleet irradiance statistics for the photovoltaic fleet are generated through statistical evaluation of the time series of the set of the sky clearness indexes. Power statistics for the photovoltaic fleet are built as a function of the fleet irradiance statistics and an overall power rating of the photovoltaic fleet. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453956 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08335693 | Walls |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D Walls (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method of identifying shipping anomalies are provided. One anomaly detection module is configured to access data related to items in a delivery environment and determine the occurrence of anomalies based on the accessed data. The detected anomalies are evaluated with other accessed data to identify source, destination or routing errors and to correct same. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434662 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08334403 | Alabugin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Alabugin (Tallahassee, Florida); Serguei Kovalenko (Martinez, Georgia); Wang Yong Yang (Tallahassee, Florida); Kerry Gilmore (Tallahassee, Florida); Boris Breiner (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for double-stranded DNA cleavage of light-activated lysine conjugates are enhanced at the slightly acidic pH suitable for selective targeting of cancer cells by the presence of two amino groups of different basicities. The first amino group plays an auxiliary role enhancing solubility and affinity to DNA whereas the second amino group which is positioned next to the light-activated DNA-cleaver undergoes protonation at the desired pH threshold. Protonation results in two synergetic effects which account for the increased DNA-cleaving ability at the lower pH: tighter binding to DNA at the lower pH; and the unproductive pathway which quenches the excited state of the photocleaver through intramolecular electron transfer is eliminated once the donor amino group next to the chromophore is protonated. The utility of these molecules for phototherapy of cancer is confirmed by the drastic increase in toxicity of five conjugates against cancer cell lines upon photoactivation. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/640877 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08334982 | Fang-Yen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Fang-Yen (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gabriel Popescu (Brighton, Massachusetts); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California); Adam Wax (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ramachandra Dasari (Shererville, Indiana); Michael Feld (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for phase measurement which address the problem of phase noise using combinations of a number of strategies including, but not limited to, common-path interferometry, phase referencing, active stabilization and differential measurement. Embodiment are directed to optical devices for imaging small biological objects with light. These embodiments can be applied to the fields of, for example, cellular physiology and neuroscience. These preferred embodiments are based on principles of phase measurements and imaging technologies. The scientific motivation for using phase measurements and imaging technologies is derived from, for example, cellular biology at the sub-micron level which can include, without limitation, imaging origins of dysplasia, cellular communication, neuronal transmission and implementation of the genetic code. The structure and dynamics of sub-cellular constituents cannot be currently studied in their native state using the existing methods and technologies including, for example, x-ray and neutron scattering. In contrast, light based techniques with nanometer resolution enable the cellular machinery to be studied in its native state. Thus, preferred embodiments of the present invention include systems based on principles of interferometry and/or phase measurements and are used to study cellular physiology. These systems include principles of low coherence interferometry (LCI) using optical interferometers to measure phase, or light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) wherein interference within the cellular components themselves is used, or in the alternative the principles of LCI and LSS can be combined to result in systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494605 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08335947 | Hoffmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald R. Hoffmann (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, an availability analysis tool includes executable code that is operable to calculate an availability value for a system having a number of operational units. The executable code may receive one or more reliability metrics for each operational unit and designate one or more reliability metrics for at least spare unit associated with the operational unit to be similar to the one or more reliability metrics. An availability value for the system may be calculated according to the reliability metrics of the operational unit and its associated at least one hot or cold spare unit. The executable code may then output this calculated availability value to the user interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055022 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/47.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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