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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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| US 08341823 | Maciejewski 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) | Wendell C. Maciejewski (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Douglas Sasko (North Stonington, Connecticut); Gary N. Motin (Waterford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fixture and method for mounting a head window to a frame for use in a submarine periscope system. The fixture supports the head window during the potting of the head window to the frame. A spring-loaded clamping plate is mountable to a baseplate for relative movement therebetween. The clamping assembly has an oval recessed portion. A plurality of spaced apart feet are formed within the oval. The feet support and are bonded to the head window. Shim stock are placed between the feet to define a critical gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248264 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08341834 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. A plurality of slots are formed in the sidewall of said interposer for the venting of gases and pressure therethrough. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275563 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342027 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); Syntonics, LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio); Yakup Bayram (Dublin, Ohio); Orbay Tuncay (Emmaus, Pennsylvania); Bruce G. Montgomery (Glenwood, Maryland); Gary W. Bruce (Severna Park, Maryland); Douglas E. Crowe (Herdon, Virginia); Steven E. Gemeny (Finksburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a physical property of an object or fluid in a dynamic multi-path clutter environment comprises transmitting an RF interrogation signal to a wireless sensor physically coupled to the object or fluid (gas or liquid) in the dynamic multi-path clutter environment, wherein the wireless sensor is operable to receive the RF interrogation signal, produce a reference signal and a measurement signal, and retransmit the reference signal and the measurement signal in the dynamic multi-path clutter environment. The reference signal and measurement signal are delayed by the wireless sensor by an amount of time that may be a function of the unknown physical property. The method also comprises receiving the retransmitted reference signal and the retransmitted measurement signal and comparing them in the time domain in order to determine the unknown physical property of the object or fluid. The method further comprises setting the time delays of the retransmitted reference and retransmitted measurement signals to be long enough for the ringdown time to be over but not so long so that the differential time is distorted by the dynamics of the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197465 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342031 | Jamshidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Jamshidi (Berkeley, California); Albert P. Pisano (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are capacitive strain sensors. In certain embodiments, the capacitive strain sensor can continuously and accurately measure strain in corrosive ambient conditions and may operate up to 370° C. or more in air. The sensor includes a differential capacitor that includes a bending beam structure. In some instances, the sensor is configured to increase the effect of strain in a substrate along a sensing axis while attenuating the effect of cross-axis strain. Also provided are methods of making the capacitive strain sensors, e.g., using Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) fabrication techniques, and methods of using the capacitive strain sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/606022 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342070 | Travis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Travis (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment of methods and apparatus for a control surface restraint and release system comprises a restraint apparatus detachably coupled to the control surface, a guidance rail slidably engaging the restraint apparatus, and a stopping mechanism coupled to the guidance rail and configured to stop a movement of the restraint apparatus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237338 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342172 | Levy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Michael S. Singer (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to devices, systems, and methods for monitoring inhaled drug usage to predict when an acute attack or exacerbation of a disease, such as a respiratory disease, is imminent. Instrumented inhalers that use modular designs with standard components are disclosed, as are systems for monitoring the instrumented inhalers. Also disclosed are methods for determining whether or not a patient's inhaled drug usage pattern indicates that an acute attack or disease exacerbation is imminent, and notifying appropriate medical personnel of any usage patterns indicative of an attack or disease exacerbation. If such an attack or exacerbation is imminent, additional therapeutic agents may be dispensed to the patient or other interventions made. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525540 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/200.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342271 | Filippov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Filippov (Arlington, Massachusetts); John P. O'Brien (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam P. Couture (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic vehicle including a chassis having front and rear ends, an electric power source supported by the chassis, and multiple drive assemblies supporting the chassis. Each drive assembly including a track trained about a corresponding drive wheel and a drive control module. The drive control module including a drive control housing, a drive motor carried by the drive control housing and operable to drive the track, and a drive motor controller in communication with the drive motor. The drive motor controller including a motor controller logic circuit and an amplifier commutator in communication with the drive motor and the motor controller logic circuit and is capable of delivering both amplified and reduced voltage to the drive motor from the power source. In one instance, the drive control module is separately and independently removable from a receptacle of the chassis as a complete unit. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970199 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342337 | Genovese 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) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland); Patrick M. Nolan (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A water sampling device and method for use with a radiation probe. The device includes a base, filtrate reservoir, filter media support disc, and sample reservoir. The sample reservoir may be interchanged with a radiation probe adaptor. The device and method provide a simple and convenient means to separate particulate solids from a water sample prior to measuring radioactivity without the need for a heat source or electrical power to evaporate the water. The device and method can be used with a variety of commercially available radiation probes and is suitable for field applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731229 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342423 | Bowers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Bowers (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Anthony T Harcombe (Richmond, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel supply passage and a valve arrangement for controlling fuel pressure within the fuel supply passage. The valve arrangement includes a valve member movable between an open position in which the fuel supply passage communicates with a low pressure fuel drain and a closed position in which communication between the fuel supply passage and the low pressure fuel drain is prevented. The valve arrangement comprises damping means for controlling and/or damping movement of the valve member between the closed and open positions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/794779 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342852 | King |
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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) | Lynn R. King (Tigard, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for simulating one or more hemorrhages in order to provide a more dynamic and realistic hemorrhage simulation in order to train medical personnel and other critical care givers, such as first responders, medics, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) on treating hemorrhages. The system includes a reservoir, a flow controller, and at least one conduit connected to at least one simulated wound site wherein the system supplies fluid to the simulated wound site in order to simulate a hemorrhage. The system may further include a plurality of wound sites that have their respective fluid flows controlled by the fluid flow controller. In at least one embodiment, the reservoir and the flow controller are housed within a bag. In at least one embodiment, the system further includes an audio system for providing audio cues to the simulation participants to enhance the realism of the simulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/009665 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342860 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface board connector includes a plurality of individual conductive partition element seats. Each partition element seat includes four spring fingers that extend into apertures in a dielectric base plate of the interface assembly. Two adjacent spring fingers form a tweezers-like connector in one of the apertures that couples to a trace on a balun board contact post to form an impedance-matched extension of the balanced transmission line that is an integral part of the adjacent partition element seats. Each spring finger includes three distinct sections. A ramp section allows the balun board, when inserted, to push apart the two spring fingers and slide into place. The contact sections of two adjacent spring fingers form the electrical junction between the balanced transmission line traces on the balun board contact post and the section of balanced transmission line formed by the parallel spring sections of the two adjacent spring fingers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/236871 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342908 | Vontell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Vontell (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for thermal mechanical machining of composite materials includes a head, a drive, and a shaft. The head has an abrasive face. The drive is coupled to the apparatus to move the head to produce abrasion of the composite material by the abrasive face. The shaft includes a passageway that communicates a heated gas to an interface between the abrasive face and the composite material. The gas removes particles that result from the abrasion of the composite material by the abrasive face. The gas can be heated sufficiently to carbonize or vaporize organic constituents of the composite material. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550670 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343050 | Fan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liexiang Fan (Sammamish, Washington); Kevin Sekins (Yallow Point, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Feedback of position is provided for high intensity focused ultrasound. The location of a beam from a HIFU transducer is determined using ultrasound imaging. The ultrasound imaging detects tissue displacement caused by a beam transmitted from the HIFU transducer. The displacement or information derived from the displacement may be used to detect and image the location of the beam. Separate transducers may be used for HIFU and imaging. The user aims the HIFU transmissions with feedback from ultrasound imaging of displacement of tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435196 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343324 | Koval et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl A. Koval (Arvada, Colorado); Christine E. Evans (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Richard D. Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Mya A. Norman (Springdale, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides electrochemically-based methods and devices for producing fluid flow and/or changes in fluid pressure. In the methods and devices of the invention, current is passed through a divided electrochemical cell. Adjacent compartments of the cell are divided by a separator which comprises an ionically conducting separator. Each compartment includes an electrode and an electrolyte solution or ionic liquid. The electrolyte solution(s) or ionic liquid(s) and the ionically conducting separator are selected to obtain the desired relationship between the current through the cell and the fluid flowrate and/or change in fluid pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/716457 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343382 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Gregory C. Welch (Santa Barbara, California); Robert Coffin (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Jeff Peet (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for altering the electronic and optical properties of a chemical compound having a band gap and a framework that includes π-delocalized electrons. The method includes complexing a Lewis acid to a basic site within the framework to form a Lewis acid adduct having a band gap that differs from the band gap of the chemical compound. The λmax of the Lewis acid adduct can be shifted to a longer wavelength in comparison to the λmax of the chemical compound. In various versions, the chemical compound can be a conjugated oligomer, a conjugated polymer, or a small molecule comprising a conjugated π-electron system. Electronic devices that include Lewis acid adducts are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800904 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343792 | Carothers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Carothers (Oro Valley, Arizona); Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia); Vu A. Vu (Falls Church, Virginia); Robert Kamocsai (Manassas, Virginia); Timothy J. Conway (Gainesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for manufacturing a lateral germanium detector is disclosed. A detector window is opened through an oxide layer to expose a doped single crystalline silicon layer situated on a substrate. Next, a single crystal germanium layer is grown within the detector window, and an amorphous germanium layer is grown on the oxide layer. The amorphous germanium layer is then polished to leave only a small portion around the single crystal germanium layer. A dielectric layer is deposited on the amorphous germanium layer and the single crystal germanium layer. Using resist masks and ion implants, multiple doped regions are formed on the single crystal germanium layer. After opening several oxide windows on the dielectric layer, a refractory metal layer is deposited on the doped regions to form multiple germanide layers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/521853 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343807 | Aksyuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk (Westfield, New Jersey); Nagesh R Basavanhally (Skillman, New Jersey); Avinoam Kornblit (Highland Park, New Jersey); Warren Yiu-Cho Lai (Chatham Township, New Jersey); Joseph Ashley Taylor (Springfield, New Jersey); Robert Francis Fullowan (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus including a chip substrate having a first chip surface facing away from a second chip surface; an array of microelectronic elements on the first chip surface; and an array of conductors each in communication with one of the microelectronic elements, the conductors passing through the chip substrate and fully spanning a distance between the first and second chip surfaces. Process including: providing an apparatus including a chip substrate having a first chip surface facing away from a second chip surface, an array of microelectronic elements being on the first chip surface, an array of conductors each being in communication with one of the microelectronic elements and partially spanning an average distance between the first and second chip surfaces; bonding a temporary support carrier onto the array of microelectronic elements; removing a portion of the chip substrate, thereby reducing the average distance between the first and second chip surfaces; and forming an under bump metallization pad at the second chip surface in electrical communication with a conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291974 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343815 | Bangsaruntip et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarunya Bangsaruntip (Mount Kisco, New York); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey Sleight (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) includes a source region, the source region comprising a first portion of a nanowire; a channel region, the channel region comprising a second portion of the nanowire; a drain region, the drain region comprising a portion of a silicon pad, the silicon pad being located adjacent to the channel region; and a gate configured such that the gate surrounds the channel region and at least a portion of the source region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777881 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343823 | Hersee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xin Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanowire and larger, post-based HEMTs, arrays of such HEMTs, and methods for their manufacture are provided. In one embodiment, a HEMT can include a III-N based core-shell structure including a core member (e.g., GaN), a shell member (e.g., AlGaN) surrounding a length of the core member and a two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) at the interface therebetween. The core member including a nanowire and/or a post can be disposed over a doped buffer layer and a gate material can be disposed around a portion of the shell member. Exemplary methods for making the nanowire HEMTs and arrays of nanowire HEMTs can include epitaxially forming nanowire(s) and epitaxially forming a shell member from each formed nanowire. Exemplary methods for making the post HEMTs and arrays of post HEMTs can include etching a III-N layer to form III-N post(s) followed by formation of the shell member(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/461331 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343841 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Cooper (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xiaokun Wang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a front side of the semiconductor substrate. Additional semiconductor layers may be formed on a font side of the first semiconductor layer. The substrate is subsequently removed. In some embodiments, one or more additional semiconductor layers may be formed on the back side of the first semiconductor layer after the semiconductor substrate has been removed. Additionally, in some embodiments, a portion of the first semiconductor layer is removed along with the semiconductor substrate. In such embodiments, the first semiconductor layer is subsequently etched to a known thickness. Source regions and device electrodes may be then be formed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/961410 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344142 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Zesheng An (Santa Barbara, California); Steve Barlow (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials, methods of forming perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials, and methods of using the perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629273 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344196 | Harvey 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) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California); Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process from converting alcohol feedstock to diesel/turbine fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/095290 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344253 | 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 | 13/161546 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/102.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344302 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Murphy (Sahuarita, Arizona); Jesse H. Blake (Tucson, Arizona); Carlos Garcia (Sahuarita, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication interface for a laser-guided projectile is configured to use the SAL seeker on board the laser-guided projectile as a communication link. A communication device generates a pulsed optical beam that overlaps the detection band of the SAL seeker. The pulsed optical beam is encoded with data for the SAL seeker. Computer-readable program code is loaded into and executed by the seeker's signal processor to process the signals generated in response to the pulsed optical beam to extract the data for the SAL seeker. Data is typically coupled to the projectile pre-launch but may be coupled in flight to the target. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794983 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344342 | Barrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven F. Barrett (Laramie, Wyoming); Michael J. Wilcox (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Donald C. Thelen, Jr. (Bozeman, Montana); David F. Cox (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for providing image primitives, such as edge polarity, edge magnitude, edge orientation, and edge displacement, and derivatives thereof, for an object are described. The data are obtained substantially simultaneously and processed in parallel such that multiple objects can be distinguished from one another in real time. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150478 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/559.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344358 | Avouris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (White Plains, New York); Yu-Ming Lin (West Harrison, New York); Yu Zhu (West Harrison, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A graphene-based field effect transistor includes source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned to a gate electrode. A stack of a seed layer and a dielectric metal oxide layer is deposited over a patterned graphene layer. A conductive material stack of a first metal portion and a second metal portion is formed above the dielectric metal oxide layer. The first metal portion is laterally etched employing the second metal portion, and exposed portions of the dielectric metal oxide layer are removed to form a gate structure in which the second metal portion overhangs the first metal portion. The seed layer is removed and the overhang is employed to shadow proximal regions around the gate structure during a directional deposition process to form source and drain electrodes that are self-aligned and minimally laterally spaced from edges of the gate electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876454 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344398 | Parikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Sten Heikman (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a diode begins by depositing an AlxGa1-xN nucleation layer on a SiC substrate, then depositing an n+ GaN buffer layer, an n− GaN layer, an AlxGa1-xN barrier layer, and an SiO2 dielectric layer. A portion of the dielectric layer is removed and a Schottky metal deposited in the void. The dielectric layer is affixed to the support layer with a metal bonding layer using an Au—Sn utectic wafer bonding process, the substrate is removed using reactive ion etching to expose the n+ layer, selected portions of the n+, n−, and barrier layers are removed to form a mesa diode structure on the dielectric layer over the Schottky metal, and an ohmic contact is deposited on the n+ layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905374 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344853 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eigent Technologies, LLC (Holmdel, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice Warner (Holmdel, New Jersey); Robert Warner (Holmdel, New Jersey); Jack Winters (Middletown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for providing security in an RFID system and provides a secure active RFID architecture that uses a combination of passive and active RFID circuitry and employs authentication and encryption techniques in the processing of data, at rest and over the air. In the method of communicating securely in an RFID system of the present invention, a random number is generated with the passive RFID circuitry. The random number is forwarded to a reader. The reader is authenticated by comparing a first hash value determined from a hash function of the random number generated at the RFID tag and an Authenticated Facility Group ID stored on the RFID tag with a second hash value determined from the hash function of the forwarded random number and an Authenticated Facility Group ID stored in the reader such that if the first hash value matches the second hash value the reader is authenticated. After the reader is authenticated, the tag ID stored at the RFID tag can be revealed. After authentication of the reader, a second layer of security using encryption is provided with the active RFID circuitry. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801591 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/10.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344885 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angel Secure Networks Inc. (Orono, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Hewitt Smith (Orono, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is disclosed including one or more security structures. The one or more security structures includes: a weldable frame; a plurality of composite panels, each panel securable to the weldable frame, each composite panel configured to form at least one joint with at least one adjoining composite panel; and a respective security element embedded within each of the composite panels. The security element is configured to detect a breach in the composite panel. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358132 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/550 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344924 | Vigoda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Bernstein (Middleton, Massachusetts); Alexander Alexeyev (Gorham, Maine); William Bradley (Somerville, Massachusetts); Theophane Weber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach to converting an analog value based on a partition of an input range produces probabilities that the input is found within each of the regions based, for example, on a noisy version of the input. In some examples, iterative and/or pipelined application of comparison circuitry is used to accumulate a set of analog representations of the output probabilities. The circuitry can be adapted or configured according to the characteristics of the degradation (e.g., according to the variance of an additive noise) and/or prior information about the distribution of the clean input (e.g., a distribution over a discrete set of exemplar values, uniformly distributed etc.). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/095188 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344937 | Drake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R. Drake (Northborough, Massachusetts); Yuchoi F. Lok (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for a first radar; identifying a blind spot in coverage of the first radar; providing a second radar to illuminate the blind spot, and merging data from the first and second radars using target classification prior to tracking to reduce false targets. In one embodiment, polarimetric data is used to classify targets. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761590 |
| 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 342/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344943 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Domains, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliott R. Brown (Glendale, California); Abraham Hartenstein (Chatsworth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to retrodirective radio-frequency systems wherein a transmit antenna array includes at least one row of N transmit elements and a receive antenna array includes at least one row of N receive elements that correspond one-to-one to the transmit elements and wherein the transmit and receive elements are located on spaced planes, and centered about a common axis and located at common transmit distance and a common receive distance, respectively. In some embodiments the one row of transmit and receive elements comprises “n” rows of elements, where “n” is an integer greater than one, thereby forming a two-dimensional array. In some embodiments the total transmit radiation pattern provides an azimuth coverage of 360 degrees. In other embodiments, it may provide less coverage but be operable as independent sectors. In some embodiments, the desired transmit wave form will be identical between all transmit elements of the array, one possible example being pseudo random noise imparted on a sinusoidal carrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511065 |
| 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 342/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345251 | Myrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Myrick (Irmo, South Carolina); Paul G. Miney (County Leitrim, Ireland); Maria V. Schiza (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas sensor uses optical interferents in a porous thin film cell to measure the refractive index of the pore medium. As the medium within the pores changes, spectral variations can be detected. For example, as the pores are filled with a solution, the characteristic peaks exhibit a spectral shift in one direction. Conversely, when tiny amounts of gas are produced, the peaks shift in the opposite direction. This can be used to measure gas evolution, humidity and for applications for other interferometric-based sensing devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026552 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345264 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiying Huang (Arlington, Texas); Uday Shankar Tata (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor, sensor assembly and a method of sensing, in which the sensor is in contact with a material or structure and the sensor directly measures one or more property changes in the material by means of light reflection and scattering using a reflective target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152451 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345348 | Savage-Leuchs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for amplifying laser signals using segments of fibers of differing core diameters and/or differing cladding diameters to suppress amplified spontaneous emission and non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM), self-phase modulation, and stimulated Brillouin and/or Raman scattering (SBS/SRS). In some embodiments, different core sizes have different sideband spacings (spacing between the desired signal and wavelength-shifted lobes). Changing core sizes and providing phase mismatches prevent buildup of non-linear effects. Some embodiments further include a bandpass filter to remove signal other than the desired signal wavelength and/or a time gate to remove signal at times other than during the desired signal pulse. Some embodiments include photonic-crystal structures to define the core for the signal and/or the inner cladding for the pump. Some embodiments include an inner glass cladding to confine the signal in the core and an outer glass cladding to confine pump light in the inner cladding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/160473 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345364 | Liberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Liberman (Reading, Massachusetts); Mordechai Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an optical limiter device for protecting an object from incident light having a wavelength in the visible, infrared or ultraviolet spectrum. The device comprises a plurality of nanoparticles of a metallic material including free electrons that undergo collective oscillations when exposed to the incident light. The plurality of nanoparticles of the metallic material include a plurality of nanoparticles of a non-spherical particle geometry, which may include a geometry having a plurality of sharp protrusions on a spherical body. The metallic material may include gold, silver, aluminum, indium or copper. The device further comprises a structurally rigid transparent medium in which the plurality of nanoparticles of the metallic material are embedded; and a mechanical support mounting the transparent medium between the incident light and the object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/586971 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/888 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345511 | Rikoski |
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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) | Richard J. Rikoski (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband blazed array has a plurality of elements. The elements are arranged side-by-side in a non-parallel spaced apart fashion with center-to-center spacing between adjacent elements being identical along cross-sections of the array that are aligned with the array's endfire directions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798168 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345518 | Khizroev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sakhrat Khizroev (Riverside, California); Rabee Ikkawi (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Nissim Amos (Moreno Valley, California); Roman Chomko (Riverside, California); Alexander Balandin (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High density-information storage is accomplished by the use of novel, near-field optical devices in combination with high-density storage media. The near-field optical devices are configured to focus light to nanoscale spot sizes and may employ negative index of refraction materials for focusing. The high-density storage media may include protein-based storage media, such as photochromic proteins, and high-coercivity magnetic storage media. Light energy provided the optical devices may enable exposed protein molecules to transition between stable molecular states that may be distinguished on the basis of their respective spectral maxima. Light energy provided by the optical device may also be used to heat localized regions of magnetic media to a selected temperature, effecting local changes in coercivity of the magnetic media. Information may be written to the magnetic storage media within this localized region using a magnetic recording device, while leaving the magnetic state of the remaining portion of the magnetic storage media unchanged. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/505434 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/13.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345988 | Shan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Shan (West Windsor, New Jersey); Bogdan Calin Mihai Matei (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for recognizing an object, comprising providing a set of scene features from a scene, pruning a set of model features, generating a set of hypotheses associated with the pruned set of model features for the set of scene features, pruning the set of hypotheses, and verifying the set of pruned hypotheses is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159969 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346025 | Gill |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas M. Gill (South Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus 100 that comprises a planar electro-optic modulator 110 being located on a substrate 105 and including a waveguide 115 and electrical contacts 120. The waveguide that includes first and second substantially straight segments 122, and a curved segment 126 that serially end-connects the first and second substantially straight segments such that light 130 travels in a substantially anti-parallel manner in the first and second substantially straight segments. The electrical contacts being located adjacent the first and second substantially straight segments and being connected to produce constructively adding phase modulations on an optical carrier passing through the segments. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467867 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346029 | Jiang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AdValue Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A multicomponent glass fiber having a doping concentration of 55%-85% (wt./wt.) of a rare-earth oxide is presented. The rare-earth oxide is selected from the group comprising: Pr2O3, Nd2O3, Pm2O3, Sm2O3, Eu2O3, Gd2O3, Tb2O3, Dy2O3, Ho2O3; Er2O3, Tm2O3, Yb2O3, La2O3, Ga2O3, Ce2O3, and Lu2O3. Additionally, an all-fiber isolator using highly rare-earth oxide doped fibers is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628914 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346087 | O'Krafka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian W. O'Krafka (Austin, Texas); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Xuehze Zheng (San Diego, California); Ilya A. Sharapov (Palo Alto, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system that includes an array of chip modules (CMs) is described. In this system, a given CM in the array includes a semiconductor die that is configured to communicate data signals with one or more adjacent CMs through electromagnetic proximity communication using proximity connectors. Note that the proximity connectors are proximate to a surface of the semiconductor die. Moreover, the given CM is configured to communicate optical signals with other CMs through an optical signal path using optical communication, and the optical signals are encoded using wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863815 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346331 | Bunce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Bunce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ajit Devaraj (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Meltem Alkan Izzetoglu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Banu Onaral (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kurtulus Izzetoglu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Kambiz Pourrezaei (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Functional near-infrared (fNIR) neuroimaging is used to assess credibility, detect deception, and implement a query methodology for determining deception via neuroimaging. Oxygenation levels of portions of the brain are imaged via fNIR spectroscopy and utilized to determine if the subject is telling a lie or a truth. In an example configuration, oxygenation levels in the inferior and/or middle prefrontal cortical areas of the brain, such as the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal and/or inferior frontal cortex, are measured to determine if a subject is lying relative to telling the truth. An example system includes a portable, flexible, belt like sensing device that is positioned proximate the subjects scalp. Sensed neural activity is transmitted either through wired or wireless means, to a processor for analysis of the sensed neural activity. The query methodology utilizes an attestation assertion that mitigates variance in brain responses due to the length or form of a question. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105979 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346682 | Steed 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) | Chad A. Steed (Purvis, Mississippi); J. Edward Swan, II (Starkville, Mississippi); T.J. Jankun-Kelly (Starkville, Mississippi); Patrick J. Fitzpatrick (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are presented in which interactive parallel coordinates capabilities are combined with automated correlation and regression tools providing advanced visual user interface utilities to facilitate identification of associations in multivariate data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691853 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346828 | Boersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Michael Kroener (Ehningen, Germany); Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany); Silvia M. Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany); Kerstin Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for storing numbers in a register file are provided. The system and the method store single precision numbers in double precision format in a register file that is shared between floating point computational units and computational units not supporting floating point numbers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250935 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346841 | Etienne-Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Cape Town Research Contracts and Intellectual Property Services (, South Africa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph R. Etienne-Cummings (Baltimore, Maryland); Jonathan Craig Tapson (Cape Town, South Africa); Francesco V. G. Tenore (Baltimore, Maryland); Fopefulu O. Folowosele (Baltimore, Maryland); Mark Philip Vismer (Harston, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A sub-circuit for facilitating the synchronization of event-based samples of signals in a cross-correlation circuit utilizing event-based sampling is provided. The sub-circuit alternatively integrates one of the signals to be cross-correlated and alternates between the signals in response to the output of a hysteretic comparator. The invention extends to a method of manipulating the input signals to a cross-correlation circuit utilizing event-based sampling so-as to facilitate the synchronization of the event-based samples of the signals. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467759 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/813 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347036 | Cargnoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Cargnoni (Austin, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Harmony L. Helterhoff (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from a lower level cache, and a target lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units is selected. A determination is made whether the selected target lower level cache has provided more than a threshold number of retry responses to lateral castout (LCO) commands of the first lower level cache, and if so, a different target lower level cache is selected. The first processing unit thereafter issues a LCO command on the interconnect fabric. The LCO command identifies the victim cache line to be castout and indicates that the target lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. In response to a successful coherence response to the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421180 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347037 | Guthrie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Thomas L. Jeremiah (Hillsborough, North Carolina); William L. McNeil (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Piyush C. Patel (Cary, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a processor core having an associated upper level cache and a lower level victim cache. In response to a memory access request of the processor core that specifies a non-modifying access to a target coherency granule, a determination is made whether the memory access request hits or misses in a directory of the lower level victim cache. In response to determining that the memory access request hits in the lower level victim cache in a data-valid coherence state, the lower level victim cache provides the target coherency granule of the memory access request to the upper level cache. The lower level victim cache preserves the target coherency granule in the lower level victim cache in a shared coherence state if the memory access request is of a first type and invalidates the target coherency granule if the memory access request is of a second type. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256002 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347074 | Scott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Patrick Scott (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for translating network data transmissions begins with a data transmission received at a router. An interface identifier is prepended before a first field of the data transmission, forming a prepended field. The data transmission is transmitted to a translation device. The data transmission is translated without altering the prepended field. The translated data transmission is transferred back to the router. The interface identifier is removed. The translated data is transmitted while maintaining adjacency with an adjacent peer using the interface identifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365776 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
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| US 08347144 | Khalak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scientific Monitoring Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asif Khalak (San Carlos, California); Link Jaw (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing false alarms in a monitoring system comprising the steps of: providing an initial fault set (or a preliminary fault set) and using a decision process to successively reduce this initial fault set to a fault ensemble, said decision process using increasing probability or confidence in the initial fault set to generate the fault ensemble, which is considered to reflect a true abnormal condition; the decision process comprising at least two steps: the first step is generating a preliminary fault set by using a standard anomaly detection method with the additional variable (or adaptive) thresholds or temporal filters; the second step is using the preliminary fault set to generate at least one fault ensemble, each of which comprises a reduced number of refined faults that represent a more confident explanation of the cause(s) of an abnormal condition. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802704 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arion-Xenofon Hadjioannou (Los Angeles, California); David B. Stout (Culver City, California); Robert W. Silverman (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging an animal includes a first mounting surface, a bed sized to support the animal and releasably secured to or integral with the first mounting surface. The apparatus also includes a plurality of straps, each having a first end in a fixed position relative to the bed and a second end for tightening around a limb of the animal. A method for in-vivo imaging of an animal includes providing an animal that has limbs, providing a first mounting surface, and providing a bed removably secured to or integral with the mounting surface and sized to support the animal as well as being coupled to a plurality of straps. The method also includes placing the animal on the bed between the plurality of straps and tightening at least two of the plurality of straps around at least two of the limbs such that the animal is substantially secured in place relative to the bed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/660298 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342683 | Payor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland); Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick Edward Payor (Cumming, Georgia); Peter Kollbaum (Bloomington, Indiana); Ming Ye (Fort Worth, Texas); Arthur Bradley (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An ophthalmic lens includes spherical aberration in an amount that accounts for spherical aberration introduced into the lens during the manufacturing process and/or spherical aberration differences in the manufactured lens measured off of the eye and measured on the eye. The result is a lens-and-eye optical system is free or substantially free of spherical aberration, i.e., having only negligible spherical aberration. Because the optical system is free or substantially free of spherical aberration, there is no or only negligible coma induced by the normal misalignment of the lens optical axis and the eye's primary line of sight. The result is a lens-and-eye optical system that provides enhanced optical performance and visual quality. Also disclosed are methods of designing and manufacturing lenses with spherical aberration adjustments to account for manufacturing process changes and off-eye to on-eye differences. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/868766 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/159.740 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343066 | Eagleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Eagleman (Houston, Texas); Vani Pariyadath (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Neural responses to a repeated stimulus typically diminish, an effect known as repetition suppression. When a single visual stimulus (e.g., letter of the alphabet, word, object, face) is serially flashed in different locations of a display, several stimuli appear to be present simultaneously due to an effect known as persistence of vision. Normal human observers' estimates of how many stimuli they perceived at any instant of time are significantly lower when the same stimulus is flashed repeatedly than when a different stimulus is used for each flash. This is a result of the brain's diminishing response (repetition suppression) to the repeated stimuli. The present invention generally relates to methods for assessing the normality of neural performance, particularly as relates to the integrity of cortical inhibition, visual persistence, proliferation effect, and repetition suppression. Deficits in repetition suppression serve as early and confirmatory measures of cognitive disorders such as schizophrenia. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240782 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343171 | Farritor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane M. Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mark Rentschler (Omaha, Nebraska); Amy Lehman (Seward, Nebraska); Stephen R. Platt (Garland, Nebraska); Jeff Hawks (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various actuation system embodiments, including fluid actuation systems, drive train actuation systems, and motorless actuation systems. Additional embodiments include a reversibly lockable tube that can provide access for a medical device to a patient's cavity and further provides a reversible rigidity or stability during operation of the device. Further embodiments include various operational components for medical devices, including medical device arm mechanisms that have both axial and rotational movement while maintaining a relatively compact structure. medical device winch components, medical device biopsy/stapler/clamp mechanisms, and medical device adjustable focus mechanisms. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171413 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is provided for facilitating preparation of a sample for imaging. The device includes a cartridge having a generally flat, upper surface, a lower surface, an input port extending between the upper and lower surfaces thereof and an output port extending between the upper and lower surfaces thereof. The cartridge includes a first recess in the lower surface thereof having a first end communicating with the input port and a second end communicating with the output port. A cover slip has an upper surface engageable with the lower surface of the cartridge such that a portion of the upper surface of the cover slip communicates with the recess in the lower surface of the recess. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591335 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/536 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343458 | Bogyo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Bogyo (Redwood City, California); Galia Blum (Jerusalem, Israel); Alicia Berger (San Francisco, California); Zhen Cheng (Stanford, California); Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Activity-based probes, which are specific for certain active cysteine proteases (caspase, cathepsin and legumain) and carry radioactive labels, are disclosed. The present probes comprise an acyloxymethyketone (AOMK) “warhead” that binds only to active enzyme. The probes further comprise peptide-like structure that targets the probe to a specific cysteine protease or protease family, and a radiolabel on the probe, which is bound to the targeted enzyme. It has been found that the present probes are stable in vivo and give specific target images distinguishable over background. The preferred probes are labeled with a positron-emitting agent such as 64Cu, 125I (SPECT) and 99mTc (PET). The probes show in vivo half-life and stability well suited for imaging. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418116 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343461 | Debinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waldemar Debinski (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Jill Wykosky (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Denise Gibo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds, compositions, and methods for detecting, diagnosing and treating cancers such as glioblastoma multiforme. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201662 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343481 | Wetsel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick A. Wetsel (Houston, Texas); Dachun Wang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a population of in vitro cultured cells of alveolar epithelial type II (ATII) cell lineage derived from at least one embryonic stem cell is disclosed which comprises (a) culturing said at least one embryonic stem cell in vitro in a medium comprising MATRIGEL®, to produce differentiated cells without formation of an embryonic body, wherein at least some of the differentiated cells are of ATII cell phenotype; (b) identifying the differentiated cells of ATII cell phenotype by detecting expression of at least one biomarker of ATII cells; (c) isolating the differentiated cells having ATII cell phenotype; and (d) cloning the isolated cells to produce a population of cells having ATII cell phenotype. The resulting cells are preferably >99% pure ATII phenotype lineage and are potentially useful therapeutically for treating lung injury and disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527969 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 08343491 | Johns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger A. Johns (Reisterstown, Maryland); Qingning Su (Germantown, Maryland); Hunter Clay Champion (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Hypoxia induced mitogenic factor (HIMF) is a member of the “found in inflammatory zone” (FIZZ)/resistin family of proteins and has potent mitogenic, angiogenic, and vasoconstrictive effects in the lung vasculature. We use antibodies to HIMF to treat certain diseases including adult respiratory distress syndrome, radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and emphysema. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518857 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
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| US 08343497 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinjun Shi (Boston, Massachusetts); Frank Alexis (Greenville, South Carolina); Matteo Iannacone (Boston, Massachusetts); Elliott Ashley Moseman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Pamela Basto (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Ulrich von Andrian (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Elena Tonti (Riccione, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and systems for delivery of nanocarriers to cells of the immune system. The invention provides nanocarriers capable of stimulating an immune response in T cells and/or in B cells. The invention provides nanocarriers that comprise an immunofeature surface. The nanocarriers are capable of targeting antigen presenting cells when administered to a subject. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive nanocarriers. The present invention provides methods of designing, manufacturing, and using inventive nanocarriers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428381 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 08343498 | Alexis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Alexis (Greenville, South Carolina); Matteo Iannacone (Boston, Massachusetts); Jinjun Shi (Boston, Massachusetts); Pamela Basto (Somerville, Massachusetts); Elliott Ashley Moseman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ulrich von Andrian (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Elena Tonti (Riccione, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and systems for delivery of nanocarriers to cells of the immune system. The invention provides nanocarriers capable of stimulating an immune response in T cells and/or in B cells. The invention provides nanocarriers that comprise an immunofeature surface and an immunostimulatory moiety. In some embodiments, the immunostimulatory moiety is an adjuvant. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive nanocarriers. The present invention provides methods of designing, manufacturing, and using inventive nanocarriers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428395 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343499 | Valenzuela 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) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesus G. Valenzuela (Rockville, Maryland); Yasmine Belkaid (Norwood, Ohio); Shaden Kamhawi (Rockville, Maryland); David Sacks (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jose M. C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selecting and uses of anti-arthropod vector vaccines to prevent Leishmaniasis. The present invention also provides compositions for vaccines to prevent Leishmaniasis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/102936 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 08343506 | Frolov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya V. Frolov (Birmingham, Alabama); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas); Eryu Wang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a chimeric Chikungunya virus comprising a heterologous alphavirus cDNA fragment and a Chikungunya virus cDNA fragment. The heterologous alphavirus may include but is not limited to Sindbis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus or Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. The present invention also discloses the use of this chimeric Chikungunya virus as vaccines and in serological and diagnostic assays. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798796 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 08343512 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infectious Disease Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington); Darrick Carter (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods, including vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions for inducing or enhancing an immune response are disclosed based on the discovery of useful immunological adjuvant properties in a synthetic, glucopyranosyl lipid adjuvant (GLA) that is provided in substantially homogeneous form. Chemically defined, synthetic GLA offers a consistent vaccine component from lot to lot without the fluctuations in contaminants or activity that compromise natural-product adjuvants. Also provided are vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions that include GLA and one or more of an antigen, a Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonist, a co-adjuvant and a carrier such as a pharmaceutical carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/277919 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/275.100 |
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| US 08343527 | Dadsetan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mahrokh Dadsetan (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael Yaszemski (Rochester, Minnesota); Lichun Lu (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides photocrosslinkable, injectable, biodegradable oligo(poly(ethylene glycol) fumarate) (OPF) hydrogels made from the photopolymerization of an OPF macromer with UV light and a photoinitiator. Hydrogels with varying mechanical properties and water content can be made with changes in macromer and crosslinking agent concentration in a precursor solution. The biodegradable OPF hydrogels can be injected as a fluid into a bodily defect of any shape, may incorporate various therapeutic agents, e.g., cells and/or growth factors, and may be implanted via minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/909241 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
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| US 08343725 | Croce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, Office of Technology Transfer (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland); Aaron J. Schetter (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of colon cancers. In particular, the present invention provides diagnostics and prognostics for colon (including colon adenocarcinoma) cancer patients, wherein the methods related to measuring miR levels can predict poor survival. The invention also provides methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/296500 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
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| US 08343746 | Rank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Rank (Palo Alto, California); Arek Bibillo (Cupertino, California); Paul Peluso (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions that include DNA polymerases having increased residence times for nucleotide analogues, particularly modified recombinant Φ29-type DNA polymerases with such increased residence times, are provided. Methods of making the polymerases and of using the polymerases in sequencing and DNA amplification are also provided. Compositions including α-thiophosphate nucleotide analogues with four or more phosphate groups are described, as are methods for determining the sequence of nucleic acid molecules using such analogues. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977160 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
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| US 08343913 | Cowen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leah Cowen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing antifungal drug resistance in which Hsp inhibitors, such as Hsp90 inhibitors, are used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/175515 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.300 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Protection of proteins against fibrillation may be afforded by introduction of certain histidine substitutions into the protein, such that a pair of histidines are present with sufficient spacing as to allow the histidines to coordinate with zinc. In the case of insulin, introduction of histidine residue substitutions at residues A4 and A8 together or a histidine residue substitution at residue B1, provides increased resistance to fibrillation while maintaining at least a majority of the activity of the insulin analogue. Introduction of a histidine residue substitution at residue A8 restores at least a portion of fibrillation resistance that may have been harmed by substitutions present on the B-chain such as those present in fast-acting insulins. Proteins protected by such histidine substitutions may be used to provide a pharmaceutical composition. A method of treating a patient includes administering a physiologically effective amount of the pharmaceutical composition to the patient. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/160187 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/6.200 |
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| US 08343923 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fanxin Long (St. Louis, Missouri); Matthew J. Hilton (St. Louis, Missouri); Xiaolin Tu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of treating osteoporosis and other bone disorders by inhibiting Notch signaling. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268268 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16.700 |
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| US 08343936 | Duffield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Duffield (San Diego, California); Youe-Kong Shue (Carlsbad, California); Yoshitaka Ichikawa (San Diego, California); Chan-Kou Hwang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel macrolides, the preparation of novel macrolides, the use of novel macrolides for preventing, treating, or ameliorating various conditions, and the use of novel macrolides as antibacterial agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/136172 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/29 |
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| US 08343939 | Madsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Rask Madsen (Newton, Massachusetts); George Liang King (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventors discovered that PKCε is necessary for VEGF signaling through PI3K/Akt-dependent pathways and is involved in MAPK-dependent pathways, thus regulating eNOS activity and DNA synthesis, respectively. Thus differential manipulation of PKCε activity can be used to modify VEGF effects in conditions in which modulation of angiogenesis is desirable (e.g., for treatment of diabetic proliferative retinopathy or to enhance angiogenesis for treatment of peripheral and myocardial ischemia). |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510201 |
| 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 08343941 | Gunderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New jersey (New Brunswicj, New Jersey); Silagene, Inc. (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Ian Gunderson (Piscataway, New Jersey); Rafal Goraczniak (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for modulating the expression of a protein of interest are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/082865 |
| 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 08343942 | Oottamasathien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siam Oottamasathien (Salt Lake City, Utah); Wanjian Jia (Salt Lake City, Utah); Glenn D. Prestwich (Eastsound, Washington); Lindsi McCoard (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods for treating interstitial cystitis in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound which is a modified hyaluronan or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, wherein said hyaluronan or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester comprises at least one sulfate group and the primary C-6 hydroxyl proton of at least one N-acetyl-glucosamine residue is substituted with an unsubstituted alkyl group or fluoroalkyl group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069860 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344019 | Pendrak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L Pendrak (Kensington, Maryland); David D Roberts (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the production of biliverdin and methods of treatment and prevention. In particular, the invention concerns methods for producing biliverdin in yeast, especially Candida albicans, and other microorganisms. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/372361 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344041 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonggu Park (Lawrence, Kansas); Paulette Spencer (Parkville, Missouri); Elizabeth Murphy Topp (Lawrence, Kansas); Qiang Ye (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel monomer, 1,1,1-tri-[4-(methacryloxyethylaminocarbonyloxy)-phenyl]ethane (MPE) can be used in preparing dental compositions The MPE monomer can be combined into a dental adhesive with hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and BisGMA (bisphenol A dimethacrylate). The MPE polymer can be polymerized with a photoinitiator system, such as a system that includes an iodonium salt. The iodonium salt can be diphenyliodonium hexafluorophosphate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415180 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/174 |
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| US 08344042 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Dacheng Zhao (Shenzhen, China PRC); Eduardo Saiz (London, United Kingdom); Antoni P. Tomsia (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for a biodegradable synthetic bone composition comprising a biodegradable hydrogel polymer scaffold comprising a plurality of hydrolytically unstable linkages, and an inorganic component; such as a biodegradable poly(hydroxyethylmethacrylate)/hydroxyapatite (pHEMA/HA) hydrogel composite possessing mineral content approximately that of human bone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633708 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/115 |
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| US 08344121 | Lyakhov 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) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya G. Lyakhov (Frederick, Maryland); Thomas D. Schneider (Frederick, Maryland); Danielle Needle (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides probes for one or more target molecules. In particular examples, the probes include a molecular linker and first and second functional groups linked and spaced by the molecular linker, wherein the functional groups are capable of interacting with one another or with the target biomolecule in a predetermined reaction, and wherein the molecular linker maintains the first and second functional groups sufficiently spaced from one another such that the functional groups do not substantially interact in an absence of the target biomolecule. In the presence of the target biomolecule the functional groups interact (with each other, with the target biomolecule, or both), and in some examples a detectable signal is produced. In some examples, the functional groups can detect or modify a target molecule. Also provided are methods of using the probes, for example to detect or modify a target molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638160 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.310 |
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| US 08344133 | Thorson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joseph M. Langenhan (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of producing compounds with enhanced desirable properties and diminished side effects as well as the compounds produced by the methods. In preferred embodiments, methods of the present invention use a universal chemical glycosylation method that employs reducing sugars and requires no protection or activation. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides neoglycoside digitoxin analogs that include compounds with significantly enhanced cytotoxic potency toward human cancer cells and tumor-specificity, but are less potent Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors in a human cell line than digitoxin. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819801 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/29.100 |
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| US 08344158 | Achilefu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Achilefu (St. Louis, Missouri); Hyeran Lee (St. Louis, Missouri); John Christian Mason (St. Louis, Missouri); Hyeran Lee, legal representative (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses fluorescent cyanine dyes and methods of using such dyes. In particular, the invention encompasses near infrared polymethine cyanine dyes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192480 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344319 | Kenttamaa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hilkka I. Kenttamaa (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Jesse Borton, II (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jinshan Gao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhicheng Jin (West Lafayette, Indiana); Benjamin Curtis Owen (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a novel system and method for evaporating and ionizing compounds comprising an LIAD source and an ionization source that operates at atmospheric pressure. This system is readily adaptable for use with most commercially available mass spectrometers. Ionization sources include Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization sources (APCI) and Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization (APPI) sources. The ionization sources are positioned such that the analyte desorbing from the surface of the LIAD is fed into the ion stream produced by the ionization source and ionized analyte and ionized fragments of the analyte are fed into the sample inlet of a mass spectrometer. These systems allow for the mass spectrometric analysis of non-polar compounds that lack readily ionizable functional groups, such as saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons and compounds with medium to low polarity, as well as hydrocarbon mixtures, such as petroleum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080597 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344333 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); SRU Biosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen C. Shulz (Lee, New Hampshire); Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Anusha Pokhriyal (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic crystal substrate exhibiting resonant enhancement of multiple fluorophores has been demonstrated. The device, which can be fabricated uniformly from plastic materials over a ˜3×5 in2 surface area by nanoreplica molding, features a 1-D periodic grating structure which utilizes two distinct resonant modes to enhance electric field stimulation of a first dye excited by a first laser (e.g., λ=632.8 nm laser exciting cyanine-5) and a second dye excited by a second laser (e.g., λ=532 nm laser exciting cyanine-3). The first and second lasers could be replaced by a single variable wavelength (tunable) laser. Resonant coupling of the laser excitation to the photonic crystal surface is obtained for each wavelength at a distinct incident angle θ. The photonic crystal is capable of amplifying the output of any fluorescent dye with an excitation wavelength in a given wavelength range (e.g., the range 532 nm<λ<660 nm) by selection of an appropriate incident angle. The device can be used for biological assays that utilize multiple fluorescent dyes within a single imaged area, such as gene expression microarrays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/135246 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344342 | Barrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven F. Barrett (Laramie, Wyoming); Michael J. Wilcox (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Donald C. Thelen, Jr. (Bozeman, Montana); David F. Cox (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for providing image primitives, such as edge polarity, edge magnitude, edge orientation, and edge displacement, and derivatives thereof, for an object are described. The data are obtained substantially simultaneously and processed in parallel such that multiple objects can be distinguished from one another in real time. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150478 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/559.290 |
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| US 08344728 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharmila Majumdar (Alameda, California); John Kurhanewicz (South San Francisco, California); Jeffrey C. Lotz (San Mateo, California); David S. Bradford (Sausalito, California); Kayvan Keshari (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | NMR spectroscopy is performed on intervertebral disc tissue. Extent of degeneration is determined based on the NMR spectroscopy. Correlation between NMR spectral regions and at least one of tissue degeneration and pain are made. Accordingly, NMR spectroscopy is used to determine location and/or extent of at least one of degeneration or pain associated with a region of tissue, such as for example in particular disc degeneration, or discogenic pain. NMR spectral peak ratios, such as between N-Acetyl/cho and cho/carb, are readily acquired and analyzed to predict degree of tissue degeneration and/or pain for: tissue samples using HR-MAS spectroscopy; and larger portions of anatomy such as joint segments such as a spine, using clinical 3 T MRI systems with surface head or knee coils; and tissue regions such as discs within spines of living patients using 3 T MRI systems with a surface spine coil, thus providing a completely non-invasive diagnostic toolset and method to image and localize degeneration and/or pain. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829847 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345508 | Wodnicki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Rayette Ann Fisher (Niskayuna, New York); Charles Gerard Woychik (Niskayuna, New York); Shubhra Bansal (Niskayuna, New York); Albert Taesung Byun (Guilderland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular and tileable sensor array with routing in the interposer carrying the signals from the sensors to the integrated circuits. In one embodiment a large area modular sensor array assembly includes one or more tileable modules coupled together. The tileable modules have a plurality of transducer cells forming a sensor, an interposer coupled on a first side to the plurality of transducer cells by a plurality, one or more integrated circuits coupled to a second side of the interposer, wherein the interposer is configured to form the connection of at least some of the transducer cells to the integrated circuits, and one or more input/output connectors coupled to the interposer and providing an external interface. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/714239 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345930 | Tamrakar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir Tamrakar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Qian Yu (Princeton, New Jersey); Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for estimating a volume of at least one food item on a food plate is disclosed. A first and second plurality of images are received from different positions above a food plate, wherein angular spacing between the positions of the first plurality of images is greater than angular spacing between the positions of the second plurality of images. A first set of poses of each of the first plurality of images is estimated. A second set of poses of each of the second plurality of images is estimated based on at least the first set of poses. A pair of images taken from each of the first and second plurality of images is rectified based on at least the first and second set of poses. A 3D point cloud is reconstructed based on at least the rectified pair of images. At least one surface of the at least one food item above the food plate is estimated based on at least the reconstructed 3D point cloud. The volume of the at least one food item is estimated based on the at least one surface. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758208 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346345 | Imanishi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshikazu Imanishi (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Palczewski (Bellevue, Washington); Bryan S. Sires (Seattle, Washington); Eric J. Seibel (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for assessing a physiological state of a mammalian retina in vivo, the methods of this aspect of the invention each include the steps of (a) irradiating a portion of a mammalian retina, in vivo, with light having a wavelength in the range of from 600 nm to 1000 nm at an intensity sufficient to stimulate two-photon-induced fluorescence in the retina; and (b) assessing a physiological state of the retina by analyzing the fluorescence. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/722314 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346346 | Schnitzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Jacob Schnitzer (Palo Alto, California); Juergen Claus Jung (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Imaging, testing and/or analysis of subjects are facilitated with a capillary-access approach. According to an example embodiment, a capillary is implanted into a specimen and adapted to accept an optical probe to facilitate optical access into the specimen. In some applications, the capillary is implanted for use over time, with one or more different probes being inserted into the capillary at different times, while the capillary is implanted. Certain applications involve capillary implantation over weeks, months or longer. Other applications are directed to the passage of fluid to and/or from a sample via the capillary. Still other applications are directed to the passage of electrical information between the sample and an external arrangement, via an implanted capillary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334769 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack Kotovsky (Oakland, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Angela C. Tooker (Dublin, California); Jennifer B. Alameda (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | All-optical photoacoustic spectrometer sensing systems (PASS system) and methods include all the hardware needed to analyze the presence of a large variety of materials (solid, liquid and gas). Some of the all-optical PASS systems require only two optical-fibers to communicate with the opto-electronic power and readout systems that exist outside of the material environment. Methods for improving the signal-to-noise are provided and enable mirco-scale systems and methods for operating such systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628952 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342042 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary S. Groenewold (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Catherine Rae (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for sampling chemical compounds from fixed surfaces and related methods are disclosed. The device may include a vacuum source, a chamber and a sorbent material. The device may utilize vacuum extraction to volatilize the chemical compounds from the fixed surfaces so that they may be sorbed by the sorbent material. The sorbent material may then be analyzed using conventional thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TD/GC/MS) instrumentation to determine presence of the chemical compounds. The methods may include detecting release and presence of one or more chemical compounds and determining the efficacy of decontamination. The device may be useful in collection and analysis of a variety of chemical compounds, such as residual chemical warfare agents, chemical attribution signatures and toxic industrial chemicals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777951 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342073 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. Chu (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Warren F. Jones (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey M. Lacy (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary L. Thinnes (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite armor panels are disclosed. Each panel comprises a plurality of functional layers comprising at least an outermost layer, an intermediate layer and a base layer. An armor system incorporating armor panels is also disclosed. Armor panels are mounted on carriages movably secured to adjacent rails of a rail system. Each panel may be moved on its associated rail and into partially overlapping relationship with another panel on an adjacent rail for protection against incoming ordnance from various directions. The rail system may be configured as at least a part of a ring, and be disposed about a hatch on a vehicle. Vehicles including an armor system are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/510014 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08342136 | Hadjioannou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arion-Xenofon Hadjioannou (Los Angeles, California); David B. Stout (Culver City, California); Robert W. Silverman (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging an animal includes a first mounting surface, a bed sized to support the animal and releasably secured to or integral with the first mounting surface. The apparatus also includes a plurality of straps, each having a first end in a fixed position relative to the bed and a second end for tightening around a limb of the animal. A method for in-vivo imaging of an animal includes providing an animal that has limbs, providing a first mounting surface, and providing a bed removably secured to or integral with the mounting surface and sized to support the animal as well as being coupled to a plurality of straps. The method also includes placing the animal on the bed between the plurality of straps and tightening at least two of the plurality of straps around at least two of the limbs such that the animal is substantially secured in place relative to the bed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/660298 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343425 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Li (Austin, Texas); Leonidas E. Ocola (Oswego, Illinois); Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Millicent A. Firestone (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A user-friendly multi-layer micro/nanofluidic flow device and micro/nano fabrication process are provided for numerous uses. The multi-layer micro/nanofluidic flow device can comprise: a substrate, such as indium tin oxide coated glass (ITO glass); a conductive layer of ferroelectric material, preferably comprising a PZT layer of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) positioned on the substrate; electrodes connected to the conductive layer; a nanofluidics layer positioned on the conductive layer and defining nanochannels; a microfluidics layer positioned upon the nanofluidics layer and defining microchannels; and biomolecular nanovalves providing bio-nanovalves which are moveable from a closed position to an open position to control fluid flow at a nanoscale. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391486 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343686 | DeJonghe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lutgard DeJonghe (Lafayette, California); Craig Jacobson (Moraga, California); Michael Tucker (Oakland, California); Steven Visco (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Tubular objects having two or more concentric layers that have different properties are joined to one another during their manufacture primarily by compressive and friction forces generated by shrinkage during sintering and possibly mechanical interlocking. It is not necessary for the concentric tubes to display adhesive-, chemical- or sinter-bonding to each other in order to achieve a strong bond. This facilitates joining of dissimilar materials, such as ceramics and metals. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/304191 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343766 | McKnight et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the transient transformation of a living biological cell having an intact cell membrane defining an intracellular domain, and an apparatus for the transient transformation of biological cells. The method and apparatus include introducing a compartmentalized extracellular component fixedly attached to a cellular penetrant structure to the intracellular domain of the cell, wherein the cell is fixed in a predetermined location and wherein the component is expressed within in the cell while being retained within the compartment and wherein the compartment restricts the mobility and interactions of the component within the cell and prevents transference of the component to the cell. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/305134 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343878 | Qiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weibin Qiu (Urbana, Illinois); Lynford L. Goddard (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of plasma etching Ga-based compound semiconductors includes providing a process chamber and a source electrode adjacent thereto. The chamber contains a Ga-based compound semiconductor sample in contact with a platen which is electrically connected to a first power supply, and the source electrode is electrically connected to a second power supply. SiCl4 and Ar gases are flowed into the chamber. RF power is supplied to the platen at a first power level, and RF power is supplied to the source electrode. A plasma is generated. Then, RF power is supplied to the platen at a second power level lower than the first power level and no greater than about 30 W. Regions of a surface of the sample adjacent to one or more masked portions of the surface are etched at a rate of no more than about 25 nm/min to create a substantially smooth etched surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/638721 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344042 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Dacheng Zhao (Shenzhen, China PRC); Eduardo Saiz (London, United Kingdom); Antoni P. Tomsia (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for a biodegradable synthetic bone composition comprising a biodegradable hydrogel polymer scaffold comprising a plurality of hydrolytically unstable linkages, and an inorganic component; such as a biodegradable poly(hydroxyethylmethacrylate)/hydroxyapatite (pHEMA/HA) hydrogel composite possessing mineral content approximately that of human bone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633708 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344553 | Savage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Savage (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Brian S. Stoltzfus (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and concomitant apparatus for generating pulses comprising providing a laser light source, disposing a voltage electrode between ground electrodes, generating laser sparks using the laser light source via laser spark gaps between the voltage electrode and the ground electrodes, and outputting pulses via one or more insulated ground connectors connected to the voltage electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793331 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344597 | Sirbuly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Sirbuly (Carlsbad, California); Xianying Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Yinmin Wang (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoconverter is capable of directly generating electricity through a nanostructure embedded in a polymer layer experiencing differential thermal expansion in a stress transfer zone. High surface-to-volume ratio semiconductor nanowires or nanotubes (such as ZnO, silicon, carbon, etc.) are grown either aligned or substantially vertically aligned on a substrate. The resulting nanoforest is then embedded with the polymer layer, which transfers stress to the nanostructures in the stress transfer zone, thereby creating a nanostructure voltage output due to the piezoelectric effect acting on the nanostructure. Electrodes attached at both ends of the nanostructures generate output power at densities of ˜20 nW/cm2 with heating temperatures of ˜65° C. Nanoconverters arrayed in a series parallel arrangement may be constructed in planar, stacked, or rolled arrays to supply power to nano- and micro-devices without use of external batteries. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970727 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345509 | Vu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (San Ramon, California); Los Alamos National Security (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Vu (Houston, Texas); Kurt T. Nihei (Oakland, California); Denis P. Schmitt (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Christopher Skelt (Houston, Texas); Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); James A. TenCate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In some aspects of the disclosure, a method for creating three-dimensional images of non-linear properties and the compressional to shear velocity ratio in a region remote from a borehole using a conveyed logging tool is disclosed. In some aspects, the method includes arranging a first source in the borehole and generating a steered beam of elastic energy at a first frequency; arranging a second source in the borehole and generating a steerable beam of elastic energy at a second frequency, such that the steerable beam at the first frequency and the steerable beam at the second frequency intercept at a location away from the borehole; receiving at the borehole by a sensor a third elastic wave, created by a three wave mixing process, with a frequency equal to a difference between the first and second frequencies and a direction of propagation towards the borehole; determining a location of a three wave mixing region based on the arrangement of the first and second sources and on properties of the third wave signal; and creating three-dimensional images of the non-linear properties using data recorded by repeating the generating, receiving and determining at a plurality of azimuths, inclinations and longitudinal locations within the borehole. The method is additionally used to generate three dimensional images of the ratio of compressional to shear acoustic velocity of the same volume surrounding the borehole. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463802 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346495 | Gering |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes an electrochemical cell, monitoring hardware, and a computing system. The monitoring hardware samples performance characteristics of the electrochemical cell. The computing system determines cell information from the performance characteristics. The computing system also analyzes the cell information of the electrochemical cell with a Butler-Volmer (BV) expression modified to determine exchange current density of the electrochemical cell by including kinetic performance information related to pulse-time dependence, electrode surface availability, or a combination thereof. A set of sigmoid-based expressions may be included with the modified-BV expression to determine kinetic performance as a function of pulse time. The determined exchange current density may be used with the modified-BV expression, with or without the sigmoid expressions, to analyze other characteristics of the electrochemical cell. Model parameters can be defined in terms of cell aging, making the overall kinetics model amenable to predictive estimates of cell kinetic performance along the aging timeline. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765384 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346928 | Blocksome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas R. Miller (Albert Lea, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering an epoch initiated for remote memory access that include: initiating, by an origin application messaging module on an origin compute node, one or more data transfers to a target compute node for the epoch; initiating, by the origin application messaging module after initiating the data transfers, a closing stage for the epoch, including rejecting any new data transfers after initiating the closing stage for the epoch; determining, by the origin application messaging module, whether the data transfers have completed; and closing, by the origin application messaging module, the epoch if the data transfers have completed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491733 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347001 | Salapura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valentina Salapura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Performance counters may be operable to collect one or more counts of one or more selected activities, and registers may be operable to store a set of performance counter configurations. A state machine may be operable to automatically select a register from the registers for reconfiguring the one or more performance counters in response to receiving a first signal. The state machine may be further operable to reconfigure the one or more performance counters based on a configuration specified in the selected register. The state machine yet further may be operable to copy data in selected one or more of the performance counters to a memory location, or to copy data from the memory location to the counters, in response to receiving a second signal. The state machine may be operable to store or restore the counter values and state machine configuration in response to a context switch event. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684429 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347039 | Boyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Boyle (Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Norman Christ (New York, New York); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Mawhinney (New York, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Krishnan Sugavanam (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A stream prefetch engine performs data retrieval in a parallel computing system. The engine receives a load request from at least one processor. The engine evaluates whether a first memory address requested in the load request is present and valid in a table. The engine checks whether there exists valid data corresponding to the first memory address in an array if the first memory address is present and valid in the table. The engine increments a prefetching depth of a first stream that the first memory address belongs to and fetching a cache line associated with the first memory address from the at least one cache memory device if there is not yet valid data corresponding to the first memory address in the array. The engine determines whether prefetching of additional data is needed for the first stream within its prefetching depth. The engine prefetches the additional data if the prefetching is needed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684693 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347270 | Bouchard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann M. Bouchard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon C. Osbourn (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented software self-assembled system and method for providing an external override and monitoring capability to dynamically self-assembling software containing machines that self-assemble execution sequences and data structures. The method provides an external override machine that can be introduced into a system of self-assembling machines while the machines are executing such that the functionality of the executing software can be changed or paused without stopping the code execution and modifying the existing code. Additionally, a monitoring machine can be introduced without stopping code execution that can monitor specified code execution functions by designated machines and communicate the status to an output device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923764 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Alex J. Kossett (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Miniature robotic vehicles suitable for a variety of tasks including covert surveillance, reconnaissance, and recreation are provided. Embodiments of the invention may include vehicles having a hybrid transportation system that incorporates a rotary-wing flight mode in conjunction with a wheeled ground transport mode. As a result, exemplary vehicles provide efficient ground-mode travel, with the added ability to fly over large obstacles and rough terrain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962310 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343382 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Gregory C. Welch (Santa Barbara, California); Robert Coffin (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Jeff Peet (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for altering the electronic and optical properties of a chemical compound having a band gap and a framework that includes π-delocalized electrons. The method includes complexing a Lewis acid to a basic site within the framework to form a Lewis acid adduct having a band gap that differs from the band gap of the chemical compound. The λmax of the Lewis acid adduct can be shifted to a longer wavelength in comparison to the λmax of the chemical compound. In various versions, the chemical compound can be a conjugated oligomer, a conjugated polymer, or a small molecule comprising a conjugated π-electron system. Electronic devices that include Lewis acid adducts are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800904 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343446 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Rosenberg (Missoula, Montana); Paul Miranda (Butte, Montana); Yuen Onn Wong (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The oxine ligands 5-chloro-8-hydroxyquiniline and 5-sulfoxyl-8-hydroxyquinoline are covalently bound, using, for example, the Mannich reaction, to a silica gel polyamine composite made from a silanized amorphous silica xerogel and polyallylamine. The resulting modified composites, termed CB-1 (X═Cl) and SB-1 (X═SO3H), respectively, show a clear selectivity for trivalent over divalent ions and selectivity for gallium over aluminum. The compounds of the invention can be applied for the sequestration of metals, such as heavy metals, from contaminated mine tailing leachates. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272662 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343627 | Zhong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan-Jian Zhong (Endwell, New York); Hye-Young Park (Yongin Shi, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward core-shell nanoparticles, each comprising a ligand-capped metal shell surrounding a plurality of discrete, nonconcentric, metal-containing cores. Methods of making and using these nanoparticles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/034155 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343636 | Jen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Shi Michelle Liu (Kenmore, Washington); Yu-Hua Niu (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Crosslinkable compounds useful for making hole-transporting materials for organic light-emitting devices, hole-transporting layers made from the crosslinkable compounds, and light-emitting devices that include the hole-transporting layers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267309 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343744 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H Arnold (La Canada, California); Matthew W Peters (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium was engineered using a combination of directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis to hydroxylate linear alkanes regio- and enantioselectively using atmospheric dioxygen as an oxidant. Mutant 9-10A-A328V hydroxylates octane primarily at the 2-position to form S-2-octanol (40% ee). Another mutant, 1-12G, hydroxylates alkanes larger than hexane primarily at the 2-position, but forms R-2-alcohols (40-55% ee). These biocatalysts are highly active for alkane substrates and support thousands of product turnovers. These regio- and enantio-selectivities are retained in whole-cell biotransformations with E. coli, where the engineered P450s can be expressed at high levels and the expensive cofactor is supplied endogenously. |
| FILED | Monday, January 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/983841 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08343749 — Method and apparatus for membrane-based, two-stage gas production from solid biomaterials
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagamany Nirmalakhandan (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Shuguang Deng (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Geoffrey Smith (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention preferably relate to a method and apparatus for a two-stage membrane-based production of gas, preferably hydrogen gas or the like, from solid biological materials, preferably organic waste materials or the like, comprising anaerobic hydrolysis and fermentation and photofermentation using microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/347012 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344142 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Zesheng An (Santa Barbara, California); Steve Barlow (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials, methods of forming perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials, and methods of using the perylenetetracarboxylic diimide charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629273 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344170 | Kennedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Pious Kurian (Aurora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A poly(cyclosiloxane) network comprises the hydrosilation reaction product of a cyclosiloxane of the formula (I) wherein R and R2 are the same or different for each siloxane moiety of hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group, and a cycloalkyl group, and wherein n is an integer from 3 to 8, wherein the cyclosiloxanes are joined by moieties selected from the group consisting of oxygen atoms, linear silanols, branched silanols, halosilanes, alkoxysilanes, vinyl silanes, allyl silanes, vinyl siloxanes, and allyl siloxanes, wherein the Si—O bonds of the cyclosiloxanes are substantially unrearranged compared to the cyclosiloxane precursors of the network. A process for the preparation of a poly(cyclosiloxane) network comprises providing a cyclosiloxane; providing a crosslinking group selected from the group consisting of linear silanols, branched silanols, halosilanes, alkoxysilanes, vinyl silanes, allyl silanes, vinyl siloxanes, and allyl siloxanes; contacting the cyclosiloxane and crosslinking group under condensation reaction conditions such that the crosslinking groups provide Si—O—Si linkages between the cyclosiloxane moieties to form a poly(cyclosiloxane) network composition. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525284 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344319 | Kenttamaa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hilkka I. Kenttamaa (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Jesse Borton, II (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jinshan Gao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhicheng Jin (West Lafayette, Indiana); Benjamin Curtis Owen (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a novel system and method for evaporating and ionizing compounds comprising an LIAD source and an ionization source that operates at atmospheric pressure. This system is readily adaptable for use with most commercially available mass spectrometers. Ionization sources include Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization sources (APCI) and Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization (APPI) sources. The ionization sources are positioned such that the analyte desorbing from the surface of the LIAD is fed into the ion stream produced by the ionization source and ionized analyte and ionized fragments of the analyte are fed into the sample inlet of a mass spectrometer. These systems allow for the mass spectrometric analysis of non-polar compounds that lack readily ionizable functional groups, such as saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons and compounds with medium to low polarity, as well as hydrocarbon mixtures, such as petroleum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080597 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344333 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); SRU Biosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen C. Shulz (Lee, New Hampshire); Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Anusha Pokhriyal (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic crystal substrate exhibiting resonant enhancement of multiple fluorophores has been demonstrated. The device, which can be fabricated uniformly from plastic materials over a ˜3×5 in2 surface area by nanoreplica molding, features a 1-D periodic grating structure which utilizes two distinct resonant modes to enhance electric field stimulation of a first dye excited by a first laser (e.g., λ=632.8 nm laser exciting cyanine-5) and a second dye excited by a second laser (e.g., λ=532 nm laser exciting cyanine-3). The first and second lasers could be replaced by a single variable wavelength (tunable) laser. Resonant coupling of the laser excitation to the photonic crystal surface is obtained for each wavelength at a distinct incident angle θ. The photonic crystal is capable of amplifying the output of any fluorescent dye with an excitation wavelength in a given wavelength range (e.g., the range 532 nm<λ<660 nm) by selection of an appropriate incident angle. The device can be used for biological assays that utilize multiple fluorescent dyes within a single imaged area, such as gene expression microarrays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/135246 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345518 | Khizroev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sakhrat Khizroev (Riverside, California); Rabee Ikkawi (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Nissim Amos (Moreno Valley, California); Roman Chomko (Riverside, California); Alexander Balandin (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High density-information storage is accomplished by the use of novel, near-field optical devices in combination with high-density storage media. The near-field optical devices are configured to focus light to nanoscale spot sizes and may employ negative index of refraction materials for focusing. The high-density storage media may include protein-based storage media, such as photochromic proteins, and high-coercivity magnetic storage media. Light energy provided the optical devices may enable exposed protein molecules to transition between stable molecular states that may be distinguished on the basis of their respective spectral maxima. Light energy provided by the optical device may also be used to heat localized regions of magnetic media to a selected temperature, effecting local changes in coercivity of the magnetic media. Information may be written to the magnetic storage media within this localized region using a magnetic recording device, while leaving the magnetic state of the remaining portion of the magnetic storage media unchanged. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/505434 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/13.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346584 | Suresh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishnan Suresh (Madison, Wisconsin); Sankara Hari Gopalakrishnan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An engineering simulation tool uses boundary regions of proposed design modifications to a finite design element to assess the impact of those proposed design modifications. This tool allows a designer to incorporate a new design feature into a proposed model and generate simulated performance results for the proposed design without re-execution of finite element method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022552 |
| ART UNIT | 3684 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346683 | Dybala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exprentis, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz G. Dybala (Fairfax, Virginia); Ewa Grzybowska (Arlington, Virginia); Roman Vichr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A knowledge based system, program, and method for regulatory knowledge representation, utilization, and maintenance is presented. The system, program, and method support advanced reasoning concerning entities and events in order to determine their adherence to regulations and policies, with the specific ability to identify violations of regulations that govern industries such as the financial services industry. Advanced approaches and methods that allow for efficient representation of regulatory knowledge, its utilization and maintenance are specifically defined. Events and actions like, for instance, financial transactions or regulatory compliance violations can be evaluated on an automated basis by applying various approaches and methods using the regulatory knowledge system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771587 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346841 | Etienne-Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Cape Town Research Contracts and Intellectual Property Services (, South Africa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph R. Etienne-Cummings (Baltimore, Maryland); Jonathan Craig Tapson (Cape Town, South Africa); Francesco V. G. Tenore (Baltimore, Maryland); Fopefulu O. Folowosele (Baltimore, Maryland); Mark Philip Vismer (Harston, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A sub-circuit for facilitating the synchronization of event-based samples of signals in a cross-correlation circuit utilizing event-based sampling is provided. The sub-circuit alternatively integrates one of the signals to be cross-correlated and alternates between the signals in response to the output of a hysteretic comparator. The invention extends to a method of manipulating the input signals to a cross-correlation circuit utilizing event-based sampling so-as to facilitate the synchronization of the event-based samples of the signals. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467759 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/813 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08342454 | Leimkuehler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Paragon Space Development Corporation (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Orville Leimkuehler (League City, Texas); Thomas William Morin (Vail, Arizona); Grant A. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable thermal-control system adapted to support space-related research and exploration. Embodiments of the present invention assist in preventing overheating of small payloads being transported from an orbiting space vehicle to a planetary surface by small atmospheric-entry vehicles. Other embodiments of the present invention provide thermal control within an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit. Each embodiment utilizes at least one phase-change material, cooled significantly below the freezing temperature, to absorb heat. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826627 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/171.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343403 | Gavalas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lillian Susan Gavalas (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a microporous membrane comprises the steps of: providing a plurality of carbon nanotubes having a hollow interior diameter of 20 Angstroms or less; sonicating the plurality of carbon nanotubes utilizing a solution comprising deionized, distilled water and a surfactant that coats at least one of the plurality of carbon nanotubes; collecting the coated carbon nanotubes; forming a matrix that supports the plurality of carbon nanotubes; embedding the coated carbon nanotubes into the matrix; rinsing the coated nanotubes to remove at least a portion of the surfactant; curing the nanotube-matrix assembly; and cutting the nanotube-matrix assembly to a particular thickness so as to open the ends of the embedded nanotubes. The hollow interiors of the plurality of embedded carbon nanotubes comprise the pores of the microporous membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174380 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343740 | Gonda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve R. Gonda (Houston, Texas); Iris von Gustedt-Gonda, legal representative (Houston, Texas); Robert C. Chang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Binil Starly (Norman, Oklahoma); Christopher Culbertson (Saint George, Kansas); Heidi L. Holtorf (Nederland, Texas); Wei Sun (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Julia Leslie (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a micro-organ device comprises providing a microscale support having one or more microfluidic channels and one or more micro-chambers for housing a micro-organ and printing a micro-organ on the microscale support using a cell suspension in a syringe controlled by a computer-aided tissue engineering system, wherein the cell suspension comprises cells suspended in a solution containing a material that functions as a three-dimensional scaffold. The printing is performed with the computer-aided tissue engineering system according to a particular pattern. The micro-organ device comprises at least one micro-chamber each housing a micro-organ; and at least one microfluidic channel connected to the micro-chamber, wherein the micro-organ comprises cells arranged in a configuration that includes microscale spacing between portions of the cells to facilitate diffusion exchange between the cells and a medium supplied from the at least one microfluidic channel. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/058227 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344281 | Taminger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen M. Taminger (Yorktown, Virginia); William H. Hofmeister (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert A. Hafley (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling an electron beam process wherein a wire is melted and deposited on a substrate as a molten pool comprises generating the electron beam with a complex raster pattern, and directing the beam onto an outer surface of the wire to thereby control a location of the wire with respect to the molten pool. Directing the beam selectively heats the outer surface of the wire and maintains the position of the wire with respect to the molten pool. An apparatus for controlling an electron beam process includes a beam gun adapted for generating the electron beam, and a controller adapted for providing the electron beam with a complex raster pattern and for directing the electron beam onto an outer surface of the wire to control a location of the wire with respect to the molten pool. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751075 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08344705 | Ganev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgeni Ganev (Torrance, California); William Warr (Glendale, California); Mohamed (Arif) Salam (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method employing a lead-unity-lag adjustment on a power generation system is disclosed. The method may include calculating a unity power factor point and adjusting system parameters to shift a power factor angle to substantially match an operating power angle creating a new unity power factor point. The method may then define operation parameters for a high reactance permanent magnet machine based on the adjusted power level. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555987 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08346694 | Dugan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanne Bechta Dugan (Crozet, Virginia); Hong Xu (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The DEFT methodology, system and computer readable medium extends the applicability of the PRA (Probabilistic Risk Assessment) methodology to computer-based systems, by allowing DFT (Dynamic Fault Tree) nodes as pivot nodes in the Event Tree (ET) model. DEFT includes a mathematical model and solution algorithm, supports all common PRA analysis functions and cutsets. Additional capabilities enabled by the DFT include modularization, phased mission analysis, sequence dependencies, and imperfect coverage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/722432 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08345087 | Cossairt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Parellel Consulting Limited Liability Company (Dover, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver S. Cossairt (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus includes an image generation subsystem (IGS) for generating at least one two-dimensional (2D) image and providing filtered rays derived from the at least one 2D image to an optical element for modulating the filtered rays and producing a 3D image, wherein the filtered rays comprise limited overlap of pixel information. A method and a computer program product for generating 3D images are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/679539 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08345374 | Sendur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology, LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ibrahim Kursat Sendur (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Albert Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Chubing Peng (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A patterned magnetic recording medium for use in heat assisted magnetic recording comprises an electrically conductive heat sink layer and a plurality of discrete magnetic recording elements positioned adjacent to a first surface of the heat sink layer. Disc drives that include the patterned medium and a method of magnetic recording using the patterned media are also included. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/447602 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/77.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08344853 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eigent Technologies, LLC (Holmdel, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice Warner (Holmdel, New Jersey); Robert Warner (Holmdel, New Jersey); Jack Winters (Middletown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for providing security in an RFID system and provides a secure active RFID architecture that uses a combination of passive and active RFID circuitry and employs authentication and encryption techniques in the processing of data, at rest and over the air. In the method of communicating securely in an RFID system of the present invention, a random number is generated with the passive RFID circuitry. The random number is forwarded to a reader. The reader is authenticated by comparing a first hash value determined from a hash function of the random number generated at the RFID tag and an Authenticated Facility Group ID stored on the RFID tag with a second hash value determined from the hash function of the forwarded random number and an Authenticated Facility Group ID stored in the reader such that if the first hash value matches the second hash value the reader is authenticated. After the reader is authenticated, the tag ID stored at the RFID tag can be revealed. After authentication of the reader, a second layer of security using encryption is provided with the active RFID circuitry. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801591 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/10.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347144 | Khalak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scientific Monitoring Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asif Khalak (San Carlos, California); Link Jaw (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing false alarms in a monitoring system comprising the steps of: providing an initial fault set (or a preliminary fault set) and using a decision process to successively reduce this initial fault set to a fault ensemble, said decision process using increasing probability or confidence in the initial fault set to generate the fault ensemble, which is considered to reflect a true abnormal condition; the decision process comprising at least two steps: the first step is generating a preliminary fault set by using a standard anomaly detection method with the additional variable (or adaptive) thresholds or temporal filters; the second step is using the preliminary fault set to generate at least one fault ensemble, each of which comprises a reduced number of refined faults that represent a more confident explanation of the cause(s) of an abnormal condition. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802704 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08343559 | Manthey 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) | John A. Manthey (Auburndale, Florida); Kyung Myung (Winter Haven, Florida); Jan A. Narciso (Winter Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for removing furanocoumarins from a liquid includes the steps of incubating the liquid with fungal hyphae for at least about two hours and removing the hyphae from the liquid by a filtration step. The furanocoumarins can be recovered from the hyphae using methods within the ordinary skill in the art. The method is useful for the removal of furanocoumarins from furanocoumarin-containing citrus juice so that the juice can be safely consumed by humans taking drugs that are metabolized by P450 CYP3A, which is the enzyme responsible for the metabolism of many widely-prescribed medications. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338221 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08346331 | Bunce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Bunce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ajit Devaraj (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Meltem Alkan Izzetoglu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Banu Onaral (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kurtulus Izzetoglu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Kambiz Pourrezaei (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Functional near-infrared (fNIR) neuroimaging is used to assess credibility, detect deception, and implement a query methodology for determining deception via neuroimaging. Oxygenation levels of portions of the brain are imaged via fNIR spectroscopy and utilized to determine if the subject is telling a lie or a truth. In an example configuration, oxygenation levels in the inferior and/or middle prefrontal cortical areas of the brain, such as the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal and/or inferior frontal cortex, are measured to determine if a subject is lying relative to telling the truth. An example system includes a portable, flexible, belt like sensing device that is positioned proximate the subjects scalp. Sensed neural activity is transmitted either through wired or wireless means, to a processor for analysis of the sensed neural activity. The query methodology utilizes an attestation assertion that mitigates variance in brain responses due to the length or form of a question. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105979 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08344060 | Weder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Weder (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Stuart J. Rowan (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Jeffrey R. Capadona (North Ridgeville, Ohio); Dustin J. Tyler (Highland Heights, Ohio); Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan (Cleveland, Ohio); Otto van den Berg (Leuven, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer nanocomposites exhibit a reversible change in stiffness and strength in response to a stimulus. The polymer nanocomposites include a matrix polymer with a comparably low modulus and strength and nanoparticles that have a comparably high modulus and strength. The particle-particle interactions are switched by the stimulus, to change the overall material's mechanical properties. In a preferred embodiment, a chemical regulator is used to facilitate changes of the mechanical properties. Methods for inducing modulus changes in polymer nanocomposites are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384729 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
08343749 — Method and apparatus for membrane-based, two-stage gas production from solid biomaterials
| US 08343749 | Nirmalakhandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagamany Nirmalakhandan (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Shuguang Deng (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Geoffrey Smith (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention preferably relate to a method and apparatus for a two-stage membrane-based production of gas, preferably hydrogen gas or the like, from solid biological materials, preferably organic waste materials or the like, comprising anaerobic hydrolysis and fermentation and photofermentation using microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/347012 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08344937 | Drake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R. Drake (Northborough, Massachusetts); Yuchoi F. Lok (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for a first radar; identifying a blind spot in coverage of the first radar; providing a second radar to illuminate the blind spot, and merging data from the first and second radars using target classification prior to tracking to reduce false targets. In one embodiment, polarimetric data is used to classify targets. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761590 |
| 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 342/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08344512 | Knickerbocker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John U. Knickerbocker (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Scalable silicon (Si) interposer configurations that support low voltage, low power operations are provided. In one aspect, a Si interposer is provided which includes a plurality of through-silicon vias (TSVs) within a first plane thereof adapted to serve as power, ground and signal interconnections throughout the first plane such that the TSVs that serve as the power and ground interconnections are greater in number and/or size than the TSVs that serve as the signal interconnections; and a plurality of lines within a second plane of the interposer in contact with one or more of the TSVs in the first plane, the second plane being adjacent to the first plane, adapted to serve as power, ground and signal interconnections throughout the second plane such that the lines that serve as the power and the ground interconnections are greater in number and/or size than the lines that serve as the signal interconnections. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544987 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08344305 | Convery |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Convery (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a solar power tower heliostat alignment system and method that includes a solar power tower with a focal area, a plurality of heliostats that each reflect sunlight towards the focal area of the solar power tower, an off-focal area location substantially close to the focal area of the solar power tower, a communication link between the off-focal area location and a misaligned heliostat, and a processor that interprets the communication between the off-focal area location and the misaligned heliostat to identify the misaligned heliostat from the plurality of heliostats and that determines a correction for the identified misaligned heliostat to realign the misaligned heliostat to reflect sunlight towards the focal area of the solar power tower. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727124 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08342390 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Potter (Oak Hill, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia); Hernan A. Borja (Bealeton, Virginia); Nan K. McKenzie (Garrett Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Two-way disc mailers for mailing DVDs, CDs, video game discs, or other discs from a sender to a recipient via first class mail. The disc mailer provides improved automated mail processing while weighing less than or equal to 1 ounce, including the weight of the disc. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856880 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes 229/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08342069 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mike Brennan (Bristow, Virginia); Brett Goldstein (Potomac, Maryland); Luis Giraldo (Fairfax, Virginia); Rob Wallace (Woodbridge, Virginia); John Ryan (Fairfax, Virginia); Ed Dezelick (Germantown, Maryland); Mike Millspaugh (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A breaching apparatus includes an impactor element and a self-contained energy source. The self-contained energy source enables the impactor element to impact a first surface of a structure. The impactor element is configured to transmit a localized shock wave through the structure upon impact. The self-contained energy source is capable of accelerating the impactor element to a velocity sufficient to induce spalling at a second surface of the structure. Multiple breaching apparatuses can be supported by a frame to facilitate simultaneous or successive breaching of the structure. The breaching apparatus can be used in a method to breach a concrete structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/906443 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08343508 | Pomato et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intracel Holdings LLC (Frederick, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Pomato (Frederick, Maryland); Martin V. Haspel (Seneca, Maryland); Janet H. Ransom (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides botulinum antitoxin compositions and methods of production, and methods of treating animals and humans prophylactically and also those suspected of having contacted botulism toxin. The botulinum antitoxin is prepared by inoculating an animal with a monovalent botulinum toxoid and toxin. The animal's plasma is collected and purified at a high pH by affinity chromatography. The resulting monovalent immunoglobulins are de-speciated by digestion with pepsin. Monovalent antitoxins for all seven botulinum serotypes are then combined to produce a high titered heptavalent botulinum antitoxin composition. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/636315 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347237 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A Bier (Palo Alto, California); Edward W Ishak (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a belief graph and a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state by presenting an instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object that represents a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure wherein the instance-representation of the first separately-movable instance object can be selected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426925 |
| ART UNIT | 2174 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/853 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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