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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 08, 2013
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| US 08347630 | Lovett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery A. Lovett (Tolland, Connecticut); Frederick C. Padget (Vernon, Connecticut); John W. Mordosky (Manchester, Connecticut); Shawn M. McMahon (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An air-blast fuel nozzle assembly includes a housing having an inner surface defining an interior chamber around a central axis. The inner surface terminates in an exit aperture. An air swirler pneumatically communicates with the interior chamber and has vanes operative to impart a swirling motion to air passing across the vanes and into the interior chamber. A fuel injection assembly includes a nozzle portion extending along the central axis and having a plurality of outlets circumferentially-arranged around the central axis that are directed into the interior chamber toward the inner surface of the housing. A shield extends radially outwardly from the nozzle portion upstream of the plurality of outlets. The shield extends between a base at the nozzle section and a free tip end such that the shield extends partially across the interior chamber toward the inner surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/203383 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347685 | Chu 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) | Pamela M. Chu (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Jeffrey R. Anderson (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for validating or calibrating a chemical detector at a point of use. The method includes presenting a device to the chemical detector, the device comprising a frangible container defining a predetermined volume and a chemical material sealed within the frangible container in a predetermined amount, and breaking the frangible container to release the chemical material for detection by the chemical detector. A device and method of making the device for validating or calibrating a chemical at a point of use are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604496 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347723 | Questo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sonipulse, Inc. (Cameron Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren Questo (El Dorado Hills, California); Robert W. Cribbs (Placerville, California); Donna L. Cribbs, legal representative (Placerville, California); Carl W. Hennige (Folsom, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a sonic resonator system for use in testing the adhesive bond strength of composite materials. Also disclosed herein are a method of calibrating the sonic resonator system to work with a particular composite bond joint, and a method of non-destructive testing the “pass-fail” of the bonded composite bond strength, based on a required bond strength. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800730 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/588 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347944 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland State University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taysir H. Nayfeh (Cleveland, Ohio); Anita M. Wiederholt (Sheffield Village, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-composite structures are formed by pre-loading carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into at least one of a plurality of channels running the length of a cartridge, placing the pre-loaded cartridge in a piston chamber of a die-casting machine, creating a vacuum therein, and filing the piston chamber with molten metal to soak the pre-loaded cartridge and fill empty cartridge channels. Pressure is applied via the piston to eject the carbon nanotubes and molten metal from the cartridge channels and inject the nano-composite mixture into a rod-shaped die cavity. The internal diameter of the cavity is equal to or less than the final diameter of the nozzle. The nano-composite mixture is cooled to form a solid nano-composite rod having the first predetermined diameter, wherein the carbon nanotubes are aligned in a non-random manner. Furthermore, drawing down the nano-composite rod to smaller diameter wire further disperses the nanotubes along the length of the wire. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327076 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347945 | Taffet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Taffet (South Windsor, Connecticut); Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of molding a platform opening includes the steps of providing a main body core and a platform core, with the main body core having a portion that forms a portion of the platform. The platform core has at least one side portion that will form a side opening. Molten metal is directed around the cores within a mold and solidifies. The cores are removed, leaving cavities where the cores were within the molten metal, and includes an opening in a side face formed by the side portion of the platform body core. Lost core components are also disclosed and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/193956 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348190 | Fleming |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Fleming (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A ducted fan air-vehicle having alternative methods of control is described. The ducted fan air-vehicle includes an air duct, a fan, a center body, a plurality of control vanes. Each control vanes includes a separate servo for independent control of each control vane, and is therefore able to operate the control vanes in a non-traditional manner to provide maximum control authority. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/359407 |
| 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 244/23.D00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348193 | McGeer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerovel Corporation (White Salmon, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. McGeer (Underwood, Washington); Andreas H. von Flotow (Hood River, Oregon); Corydon C. Roeseler (Hood River, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | For retrieval of a hovering aircraft, a cable, bar, or similar fixture is suspended in an approximately horizontal orientation across the retrieval area between two well-separated supports. The aircraft slowly flies into this fixture, which then slides along the aircraft in a direction approximately parallel with the aircraft's thrust line. This leads to the aircraft becoming fastened to the fixture by an interceptor or aircraft capturer, which in alternative embodiments are respectively on the aircraft or the fixture or both. Thrust is then reduced, and the aircraft comes to rest hanging from the fixture for subsequent removal. Retrieval is thus accomplished with simple and economical apparatus, light and unobtrusive elements on the aircraft, low risk of damage, and only moderate piloting accuracy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/540032 |
| 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 244/110.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348504 | Gregory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wireless Sensor Technologies, LLC (Encinitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto J. Gregory (Wakefield, Rhode Island); John R. Conkle (Encinitas, California); Thomas J. Birnbaum (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature measurement system capable of operating in harsh environments including a temperature sensor having an antenna, diode, and dielectric layer disposed on the object of interest is provided, wherein the antenna includes a buried portion that extends through and is electrically coupled to the object of interest, and an exposed portion disposed upon an outer surface of the dielectric layer and the diode is coupled between the object of interest and the exposed portion of the antenna. The antenna is configured to receive interrogating signals from a transmitter, and to transmit response signals corresponding to the resonant frequency of the temperature sensor and its harmonics, which are indicative of the measured temperature of the object of interest. A receiver detects the response signals and correlates the frequency to a known temperature response of the dielectric material. Methods of making and using the temperature measurement system are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778823 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348522 | Kuznia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultra Communications, Inc. (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Kuznia (Encinitas, California); Joseph F. Ahadian (San Marcos, California); Richard T. Hagan (Mission Viejo, California); Richard J. Pommer (Carlsbad, California); Brian Catanzaro (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A component system and method is described that is made of components for transmitting, routing and receiving “in-air” optical signals for placement on printed wiring boards (PWBs). The transmitters are components including a light source attached to a transparent substrate and aligned to a coupling lens. The transparent substrate can contain circuitry for controlling the light source, or the circuitry could be attached to the transparent substrate. The receivers include a light detector attached to a transparent substrate with circuitry for converting optical signals to electrical circuitry (integrated onto the transparent substrate or separately attached). The routing components include a lens for coupling light into an optical waveguide, an optical waveguide and, optionally, a second lens for coupling light from the optical waveguide. The component system allows in-air optical communication between PWBs, without requiring traditional connections and harnesses between the PWBs, thus increasing their reliability and throughput. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558251 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348616 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Todd Williams (West Chester, Ohio); Robert Patrick Tameo (Peabody, Massachusetts); Charles Eric Lavender (Mason, Ohio); Michael A. Thomas (Villa Hills, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A balance weight for a turbine rotor includes: (a) a block-like centerbody; (b) a pair of resilient spring arms extending laterally from opposite sides of the centerbody, the centerbody and the spring arms collectively defining an arcuate shape; and (c) at least one locating structure extending from a radially outer surface of the balance weight. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485122 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349066 | Ambrose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Ambrose (Loganville, Georgia); Anthony M. Chasser (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Susan F. Donaldson (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Beon-Kyu Kim (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); John R. Schneider (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are low temperature, moisture curable coating compositions, related coated substrates, and methods for coating a substrate. The coating compositions include an ungelled, secondary amine-containing Michael addition reaction product of reactants including a compound comprising more than one site of ethylenic unsaturation, and an aminofunctional silane. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433167 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/287.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349099 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ormco Corporation (Orange, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred David Johnson (San Leandro, California); Walter A. Bachmann (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal seeds for forming single-crystal shape-memory alloys (SMAs) may be fabricated with high reliability and control by alloying thin films of material together. In particular, described herein are methods of forming AlCuNi SMAs by first producing high-quality seeds (ingots) of copper, aluminum, and nickel to produce for pulling single crystal shape memory alloys, in particular superelastic or hyperelastic alloys. The method is applicable to a wide range of alloys in which one or more of the components are reactive. The method is an improvement upon traditional methods such as mixing and melting pellets. In this improved method, a reactive layer (e.g., aluminum) is provided in thin flat layers between layers of other materials (e.g., copper and layers of nickel). When the stacked layers are vacuum heated in a crucible to the melting temperature of the reactive layer, it becomes reactive and chemically bonds to the other layers, and may form eutectics that, as the temperature is further increased, melt homogeneously and congruently at temperatures below the melting temperatures of copper and nickel. Oxidation and evaporation are greatly reduced compared to other methods of alloying, and loss of material from turbulence is minimized. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948852 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349104 | Vontell, Sr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Vontell, Sr. (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes positioning a layer of adhesive between a first structural component and a second structural component, positioning a first evaluation film between the first structural component and the layer of adhesive, curing the adhesive at least partially, separating the first structural component and the first evaluation film by a relative movement therebetween, and inspecting bond line quality of the adhesive. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/220032 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349129 | Blanchard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Blanchard (Mesa, Arizona); R. Steve Rednour (Chandler, Arizona); Douglas Loy (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a debonding apparatus, a system comprising such apparatus, and methods for using such apparatus or system for the removal of flexible substrates (14) post-processing without damage to fabricated devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921871 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/717 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349222 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Hu Kang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Unconventional twisted π-electron system electro-optic (EO) chromophores/compounds, compositions and related device structures. Crystallographic analysis of several non-limiting chromophores reveals, for instance, large ring-ring dihedral twist angles and a highly charge-separated zwitterionic structure in the ground state, in both solution phase and solid-state. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/169638 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349582 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Yu Wu (Gainesville, Florida); Alexandros Demetrios Theodore (Plantation, Florida); Jin-Hwa Lee (Plano, Texas); Lindsey Ann Riemenschneider (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide bioaerosol detection systems and methods for detecting bioaerosols. In one embodiment, the bioaerosol detection system can include a humidifier to increase the humidity of a continuously flowing sample volume of a bioaerosol sample using a biologically compatible liquid medium, and an amplifier to deposit vapor on the bioaerosol sample for a particle size amplification process. Bioaerosol(s) can thus be detected and sampled while simultaneously maintaining their viability. The disclosed bioaerosol detection systems and the methods can provide high efficiency for sampling and detecting ultrafine bioaerosol(s) such as viruses and proteins, which can be smaller than 0.3 μm in diameter and can be as small as 20 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673753 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349617 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Christopher Kang (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffraction gratings comprising a substrate with protrusions extending therefrom. In one embodiment, the protrusions are made of a porous material, for example porous silicon with a porosity of greater than about 10%. The diffraction grating may also be constructed from multiple layers of porous material, for example porous silicon with a porosity of greater than about 10%, with protrusion of attached thereto. In some embodiments the protrusions may be made from photoresist or another polymeric material. The gratings are the basis for sensitive sensors. In some embodiments, the sensors are functionalized with selective binding species, to produce sensors that specifically bind to target molecules, for example chemical or biological species of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, May 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790905 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349669 | Ye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Ye (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to TFTs and methods of fabricating the TFTs. In TFTs, the active channel carries the current between the source and drain electrodes. By tailoring the composition of the active channel, the current can be controlled. The active channel may be divided into three layers, a gate control layer, a bulk layer, and an interface control layer. The separate layers may have different compositions. Each of the gate control, bulk and interface control layers may additionally comprise multiple layers that may have different compositions. The composition of the various layers of the active channel comprise oxygen, nitrogen, and one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zinc, indium, cadmium, tin, gallium and combinations thereof. By varying the composition among the layers, the mobility, carrier concentration and conductivity of the various layers may be controlled to produce a TFT having desired properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/556380 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349711 | Preble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kyma Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Preble (Raleigh, North Carolina); Lianghong Liu (Cary, North Carolina); Andrew D. Hanser (Raleigh, North Carolina); N. Mark Williams (Raleigh, North Carolina); Xueping Xu (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for making a GaN article, an epitaxial nitride layer is deposited on a single-crystal substrate. A 3D nucleation GaN layer is grown on the epitaxial nitride layer by HVPE under a substantially 3D growth mode. A GaN transitional layer is grown on the 3D nucleation layer by HVPE under a condition that changes the growth mode from the substantially 3D growth mode to a substantially 2D growth mode. A bulk GaN layer is grown on the transitional layer by HVPE under the substantially 2D growth mode. A polycrystalline GaN layer is grown on the bulk GaN layer to form a GaN/substrate bi-layer. The GaN/substrate bi-layer may be cooled from the growth temperature to an ambient temperature, wherein GaN material cracks laterally and separates from the substrate, forming a free-standing article. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015303 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349888 | Landauer 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Landauer (Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Michael Seed (Bethesda, Maryland); Venkataraman Srinivasan (Germantown, Maryland); Alla Shapiro (Rockville, Maryland); Chris H. Takimoto (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of animals, including humans from radiation injury. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising the isoflavone genistein (4′,5,7-trihydroxyflavone) or phytoestrogenic isoflavonoids. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696285 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349966 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Hong Xue (Seattle, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Marine coatings including cationic polymers hydrolyzable to nonfouling zwitterionic polymers, coated marine surfaces, and methods for making and using the marine coatings. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/780251 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/329.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350107 | 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 for converting alcohol feedstocks to diesel/turbine fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/095245 |
| 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 08350203 | Font 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) | Carlos Font (Alexandria, Virginia); G Charmaine Gilbreath (Burke, Virginia); Freddie Santiago (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Blerta Bajramaj (Alexandria, Virginia); David Kim (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of flattening a deformable mirror (DM) such as a piezoelectric DM to correct for distortion includes inputting an incident light beam into a reference beam optical path while blocking the DM response, recording a flat wavefront (Φn, R) as a reference wavefront from a reference mirror, blocking the reference beam to obtain a DM response, activating a close-loop mode of DM Control Software and computing iterations until a difference between the reference wavefront and the DM response is minimized, recording a wavefront created by the DM (Φn, DM) and the corresponding voltage vector (Vn) applied to the DM; and applying a voltage vector to the DM to thereby flatten the DM and correct for the distortion. The method is useful in an application such as for ground-to-space links at Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) wavelengths. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040958 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350210 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In one instance, an optical interconnection is embedded in a structure. The optical interconnection embedded in the structure enables interfacing electrical subsystems and sharing electrical signals across the structure by converting electrical signals into optical and vice a versa by means of the optical data pipe technology. The system of these teachings enables methods for decreasing the weight and size of the system, for decreasing sensitivity to electromagnetic interference and for obtaining data from the interior of a system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477831 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350411 | Kimball et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolarBridge Technologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Kimball (Mahomet, Illinois); Philip T. Krein (Champaign, Illinois); Nicholas D. Benavides (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for supplying energy to a load includes an energy recharge unit, an energy storage unit, an energy converter connected to the energy recharge unit, the energy converter being capable of transferring energy at a power level from the energy recharge unit to an output node, the power level being determined by a power transfer controller, and a bi-directional energy converter connected to the energy storage unit and to the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting energy of varying voltages from the energy storage unit to energy of varying current levels to supplement the transferred energy with energy from the energy storage unit so as to maintain a constant voltage on the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting the transferred energy to provide charging energy to the energy storage unit when the transferred energy exceeds a demand level of the load while maintaining the constant voltage at the output node. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092916 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350614 | Gershenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kailiang Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Leu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed, reconfigurable statistical signal processing apparatus comprises an array of discrete-time analog signal processing circuitry for statistical signal processing based on a local message-passing algorithm and digital configuration circuitry for controlling the functional behavior of the array of analog circuitry. The input signal to the apparatus may be expressed as a probabilistic representation. The analog circuitry may comprise computational elements arranged in a network, with a receiving module that assigns probability values when an input signal arrives and communicates the probability values to one of the computational elements, the computational elements producing outputs based on the assigned probability values. The signal processing apparatus may be an analog logic automata cell or an array of cells, wherein each cell is able to communicate with all neighboring cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422491 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350703 | Gengel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn W. Gengel (Hollister, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Torn Pounds (Monte Sereno, California); Kenneth D. Schatz (San Jose, California); Paul S. Drzaic (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/987995 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350749 | Malas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Malas (Centerville, Ohio); Krishna Pasala (Centerville, Ohio); Usha M. Pasala, legal representative (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for testing and/or validating the suitability of a multi-radar signature database to be used on radar systems having automatic target recognition. The database may include measured field data and/or modeled synthetic data. The technique allows field data to be compared to the synthetic data using modal mutual information. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/770211 |
| 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 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350750 | Paek 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) | Eung Gi Paek (Germantown, Maryland); Joon Y Choe (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed time reversal mirror array (DTRMA) system includes a plurality of independent, sparsely distributed time reversal mirrors (TRMs). Each of the TRMs includes an antenna; a transceiver connected to the antenna for transmitting a signal toward a target, for receiving a return, reflected signal from the target, and for retransmitting a time-reversed signal toward the target: means for phase-locking and for maintaining spatial and temporal coherences between the TRMs; and a computer including a machine-readable storage media having programmed instructions stored thereon for computing and generating the time-reversed retransmitted signal, thereby providing a phased array functionality for the DTRMA while minimizing distortion from external sources. The DTRMA is capable of operating in an autonomous, unattended, and passive state, owing to the time-reversal's self-focusing feature. The beam may be sharply focused on the target due to the coherently synthesized extended aperture over the entire array. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948841 |
| 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 342/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350765 | Smith, Jr. 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) | Jerry Rosson Smith, Jr. (Springfield, Virginia); Thomas J. Miller (Pasadena, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, as typically embodied, implements an energy source, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna, a resonant cavity, and an electricity meter (e.g., voltmeter, ammeter, or power meter) to calibrate an electronic device. Firstly, the receiving antenna is calibrated based on measurement of power that has been generated and transmitted in known quantity, propagated through air, and received by the receiving antenna. Secondly, the resonant cavity is connectively situated between the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna; the resonant cavity is calibrated based on measurement of power that has been generated and transmitted in the same quantity, propagated through the resonant cavity, and received by the receiving antenna. Thirdly, an electronic device is substituted for the receiving antenna; the electronic device is calibrated based on measurement of power that has been generated and transmitted in the same quantity, propagated through the resonant cavity, and received by the electronic device. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/780391 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350767 | Brigham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn A. Brigham (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Marat Davidovitz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Zhanna Davidovitz, legal representative (Belmont, Massachusetts); Sean M. Duffy (Stow, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Herd (Rowley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are a notch antenna and an array antenna based on a low profile stripline feed. The notch antenna includes a planar dielectric substrate having upper and lower surfaces. Each surface has a conductive layer with an opening therein. A notch antenna element is disposed on the conductive layer of the upper surface at the opening. A stripline embedded in the planar dielectric substrate extends under the notch antenna element. The stripline is adapted to couple an RF signal between the stripline and the notch antenna element. A conductive via is electrically coupled to the stripline and extends from the stripline to the opening in the conductive layer on the lower surface so that the RF signal is accessible at the lower surface. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/126418 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken Allen Crawley (Saint George, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A Frequency Agile Electrically Small Tactical AM Broadcast Band Antenna System (NC#098978) comprising a transmitter, antenna, plurality of mast wires and configurable tophat assembly. The transmitter is designed to transmit radio frequency signals. The antenna tuning unit is operatively coupled to the transmitter and designed to tune the apparatus to a desired frequency. The plurality of mast wires operatively is coupled to the antenna tuning unit and designed to receive and output radio frequency signals. The configurable tophat assembly is operatively coupled to the plurality of mast wires. The configurable tophat assembly comprises a tophat disc comprising a conductive material, a plurality of tophat wires comprising a conductor material and a plurality of tophat jumpers designed to help configure said plurality of tophat wires to different lengths by providing electrical open and electrical short states. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/051887 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/745 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350770 | Dawson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Dawson (Lemon Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention provides a configurable ground plane for a matched antenna so that by configuring or changing the ground plane shape in a controlled manner, a change in the radiation pattern can be achieved such that the main beam of the antenna is steered in a particular direction, and a null in another direction. According to one aspect of the present invention, antennas such as monopole or patch antennas with a configurable ground plane of the present invention with a plurality of configurable sectors can be made to change in shape, size and conductivity. Such ground plane modifications can be used to select the direction of maximum gain away from a direction of interference, such in the case of tactical jamming. Likewise, the ground plane modifications can be used to steer the maximum directivity of an antenna in a desired direction for increased signal integrity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830662 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350771 | Zaghloul 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); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir I Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland); W Mark Dorsey (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-band, dual-orthogonally-polarized antenna element includes a dielectric substrate having a conductor layer that includes a square ring slot and a shorted square ring, with each having a pair of orthogonal feed points. The shorted square ring is fed with coaxial probe feeds, while the square ring slot feeds striplines terminated in open-circuited stubs for coupling energy to each pair of orthogonal feed points. The first and second stripline feeds are not coplanar in order that each stub terminates past a center point of the element. The square ring slot operates as a high frequency band radiator and the shorted square ring operates as a low frequency band radiator, and both bands radiate substantially simultaneous dual-orthogonally-polarized modes. The modes can be any combination of dual-Circular Polarization (CP) and dual-Linear Polarization (LP), depending on the geometry of the radiators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792092 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350773 | Kindt |
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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) | Rickie W. Kindt (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna element for fabricating into a linear or planar array includes a tapered slot along a main axis of the antenna element body that extends from a first slot end, defined by an outwardly flared opening at a second end of the antenna element, into a second meandering portion that is offset from the main axis, and then into a second slot end having a bend with respect to the main axis, and finally into a slot-line cavity proximate to the first end of the antenna element body. A feed port extends into the antenna element body from the outer surface of the first end of the antenna element body into the second slot end bend adjacent the slot-line cavity. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792824 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350774 | Pickles |
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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) | William R. Pickles (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A double balun dipole antenna element includes a dielectric substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a pair of coplanar Marchand baluns positioned in a mutually antiphase configuration on the first and second surfaces, and at least one feed line connected to the pair of Marchand baluns. A doubly polarized antenna element includes a pair of orthogonally interleaved double balun dipole antenna elements, which can be further configured into an array of such antenna elements. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209932 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351031 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectral Sciences, Inc. (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marsha J. Fox (Lexington, Massachusetts); Pajo Vujkovic-Cvijin (Burlington, Massachusetts); Neil Goldstein (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-shot spectral imager or imaging system which acquires multiplexed spatial and spectral data in a single snapshot with high optical collection efficiency and with the speed limited only by the readout time of the detector circuitry. The imager uses dispersive optics together with spatial light modulators to encode a mathematical transform onto the acquired spatial-spectral data. A multitude of encoded images is recorded simultaneously on a focal plane array and subsequently decoded to produce a spectral/spatial hypercube. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793766 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351200 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. (Lagrangeville, New York); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for cooling an electronics rack and a computer room from a single unit, which includes a heat-generating electronics subsystem across which air flows from an air inlet to an air outlet side of the rack. First and second modular cooling units (MCUs) are associated with the rack and configured to provide system coolant to the electronics subsystem for cooling thereof. System coolant supply and return manifolds are in fluid communication with the MCUs for facilitating providing of system coolant to the electronics subsystem, and to an air-to-liquid heat exchanger associated with the rack for exclusively cooling air passing through the rack, as well as conditioning the ambient air of the computer room. Such cooling is exclusive of an outside-of-rack conditioned air unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425226 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/679.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351220 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiyong Liang (Tallahassee, Florida); Ben Wang (Tallahassee, Florida); Chun Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Jin Gyu Park (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material for electromagnetic interference shielding is provided. The composite material comprises a stack including at least two electrically conductive nanoscale fiber films, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one insulating gap positioned between the at least two nanoscale fiber films. The stack is effective to provide a substantial multiple internal reflection effect. An electromagnetic interference shielded apparatus and a method for shielding an electrical circuit from electromagnetic interference is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695850 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351229 | Siri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kasemsan Siri (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system controller includes multiple channels and each channel has a current sharing controller that is coupled to a shared current signal bus and a shared voltage signal bus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731140 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351234 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Carter (Los Altos, California); Frederick Perner (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extensible three dimensional circuit having parallel array channels includes an access layer and crossbar array layers overlying the access layer and being electrically connected to the access layer. The crossbar array layers include parallel channels, the parallel channels being formed from two classes of vias, the first class being pillar vias connected to relatively short stub lines, and the second class being traveling-line vias connected to long lines that travel away from the via; pillar vias and traveling-line vias being configured to connect to crossing lines such that each crossing point between the lines is uniquely addressed by one pillar via and one traveling-line via. Programmable crosspoint devices are disposed between the crossing lines. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/770539 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351383 | Agarwal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaSat, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil Agarwal (North Potomoc, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth and frequencies among different beams. Bandwidth request data may be received and compiled from the terminals. The satellite may be configured with different beam coverage areas, and may dynamically allocate bandwidth and particular frequency channels to different beam coverage areas based on the requests. In each of a series of one or more epochs, and according to the bandwidth requests, there may be allocations among carrier groups, traffic classes, and particular terminals. The setup of slot structure and selection of modes for particular terminals is also addressed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615491 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351476 | Hubbard 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) | Richard F. Hubbard (Burke, Virginia); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph R. Peñano (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Daniel F. Gordon (Waldorf, Maryland); Phillip A. Sprangle (Great Falls, Virginia); Bahman Hafizi (Bethesda, Maryland); Arie Zigler (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for the quasi-remote compression and focusing of a moderate-intensity laser pulse to form a much higher intensity beam that can be directed at a target and used as a probe beam or used in a probe beam converter to generate other forms of electromagnetic radiation or energetic particles. A system for the quasi-remote propagation of high-intensity laser beams in accordance with the present invention comprises a main platform on which a first, “seed” laser pulse is generated, stretched, and amplified, and a remote platform, located at a distance from the main platform, which is configured to receive the amplified and stretched pulse and convert it into the high-intensity laser beam. The high-intensity laser beam in turn can then be converted into one or more probe beams directed at a target object. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529167 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351481 | Capasso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin G. Lee (Toronto, Canada); Christian Pflugl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laurent Diehl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mikhail A. Belkin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for improved single-mode selection in a quantum cascade laser. In one example, a distributed feedback grating incorporates both index-coupling and loss-coupling components. The loss-coupling component facilitates selection of one mode from two possible emission modes by periodically incorporating a thin layer of “lossy” semiconductor material on top of the active region to introduce a sufficiently large loss difference between the two modes. The lossy layer is doped to a level sufficient to induce considerable free-carrier absorption losses for one of the two modes while allowing sufficient gain for the other of the two modes. In alternative implementations, the highly-doped layer may be replaced by other low-dimensional structures such as quantum wells, quantum wires, and quantum dots with significant engineered intraband absorption to selectively increase the free-carrier absorption losses for one of multiple possible modes so as to facilitate single-mode operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/126576 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351649 | Medioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Qian Yu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Thang Ba Dinh (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies for object tracking can include accessing a video feed that captures an object in at least a portion of the video feed; operating a generative tracker to capture appearance variations of the object operating a discriminative tracker to discriminate the object from the object's background, where operating the discriminative tracker can include using a sliding window to process data from the video feed, and advancing the sliding window to focus the discriminative tracker on recent appearance variations of the object; training the generative tracker and the discriminative tracker based on the video feed, where the training can include updating the generative tracker based on an output of the discriminative tracker, and updating the discriminative tracker based on an output of the generative tracker; and tracking the object with information based on an output from the generative tracker and an output from the discriminative tracker. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416913 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351799 | Banwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Banwell (Howell, New Jersey); Anjali Agarwal (Matawan, New Jersey); Janet Jackel (Holmdel, New Jersey); Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey); Ted K. Woodward (Holmdel, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for multiscale sampling for wide dynamic range electro-optic receivers is presented. The method comprises obtaining a signal, reproducing the signal into first and second signals, scaling one signal with respect to the other, modulating both signals with the same modulation function, and utilizing the resulting vector response function to invert the response of the link over a greater dynamic range than would otherwise be possible with a single instance of the modulated signal. The sealed modulation response may be obtained by splitting the signal into two polarizations and utilizing a modulator having different response for the two polarizations, or by utilizing two modulators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573996 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08352184 | Meyer |
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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) | Steven J. Meyer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to a system for generating and transmitting a telemetry formatted message containing raw Global Positioning System (GPS) information, processed Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) information corresponding to the position and attitude of a high speed vehicle in motion. This telemetry formatted message is received on the ground and used to improve Kalman filter operation. In particular, the telemetry formatted message is used as an input to a ground based Kalman filter that is set to track and predict the trajectory of the high speed vehicle. The telemetry formatted message content improves the overall operation of the Kalman filter by preventing Kalman filter resets that occur when a bit error is encountered in the IMU data and improves the time correlation of high data rate IMU information and low data rate GPS information, both necessary for accurate tracking of the high speed vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/650756 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08352265 | Lin et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Lin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rob A. Rutenbar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A hardware implemented backend search stage, or engine, for a speech recognition system is provided. In one embodiment, the backend search engine includes a number of pipelined stages including a fetch stage, an updating stage which may be a Viterbi stage, a transition and prune stage, and a language model stage. Each active triphone of each active word is represented by a corresponding triphone model. By being pipelined, the stages of the backend search engine are enabled to simultaneously process different triphone models, thereby providing high-rate backend searching for the speech recognition system. In one embodiment, caches may be used to cache frequently and/or recently accessed triphone information utilized by the fetch stage, frequently and/or recently accessed triphone-to-senone mappings utilized by the updating stage, or both. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/341640 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/256.600 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. McGrory (St. Louis, Missouri); Edward M. Parmenter (St. Peters, Missouri); Douglas W. Reeves (Maryland Heights, Missouri); Russell C. Waltz (Florissant, Missouri); Darrell O. Bartz (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The different advantageous embodiments provide an apparatus that comprises a number of data storage units, a data extraction tool, a data warehouse, and a data processing system. The data extraction tool is configured to extract data from the number of data storage units. The data warehouse has a number of data files comprising the data extracted from the number of data storage units. The data processing system is configured to process selected data for a number of selected systems from the number of data files. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489704 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/765 |
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| US 08352530 | Dao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Son T. Dao (Stuttgart, Germany); Juergen G. Haess (Schoenaich, Germany); Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany); Michael K. Kroener (Ehningen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A residue generator for calculation and correction of a residue value. The residue generator includes a residue-generation tree connected with an operand register at an input of the residue generator including a plurality of register-bits receiving and carrying bits of numerical data. The residue-generation tree includes a multiplexer connected with respective register-bits which carry unused bits, and selectively providing logical zeros or a correction value when provided, at the respective register-bits carrying the unused bits, a plurality of decoders, each decoder receiving the bits of numerical data from the respective registers-bits including the logical zeros or the correction value when provided and decoding the numerical data, and a plurality of residue condensers, receiving the decoded numerical data from the decoders including the logical zeros or the correction value when provided, and calculating the residue value and correcting while calculating the residue value using the correction value when provided by the multiplexer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329784 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/491 |
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| US 08352531 | Boersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); J. Adam Butts (Hartsdale, New York); Silvia Melitta Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The forcing of the result or output of a rounder portion of a floating point processor occurs only in a fraction non-increment data path within the rounder and not in the fraction increment data path within the rounder. The fraction forcing is active on a corner case such as a disabled overflow exception. A disabled overflow exception may be detected by inspecting the normalized exponent. If a disabled overflow exception is detected, the round mode is selected to execute only in the non-increment data path thereby preventing the fraction increment data path from being selected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177346 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/497 |
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| US 08352757 | Egan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick K. Egan (Rochester, Minnesota); Wesley M. Felter (Austin, Texas); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas); Juan C. Rubio (Austin, Texas); Malcolm S. Ware (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for oversubscribing branch circuits. An active energy management mechanism determines a cumulative wattage rating using power consumption information for a powered element, the power consumption information is for a primary and a redundant portion of the powered element. The active energy management mechanism determines a power reduction power cap to be used by the powered element in the event of a loss of either a primary or a redundant power source supplied to the powered element using the cumulative wattage rating, a branch circuit rating, and a circuit breaker rating for the powered element. The active energy management mechanism sends the power reduction power cap to the powered element in order that the powered element reduces power to the power reduction power cap in the event of the loss of either the primary power source or the redundant power source supplied to the powered element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686008 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
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| US 08352806 | Gollub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Gollub (Round Rock, Texas); Luis A. Lastras-Montano (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Piyush C. Patel (Cary, North Carolina); Eric E. Retter (Austin, Texas); Barry M. Trager (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shmuel Winograd (Scarsdale, New York); Kenneth L. Wright (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to improve memory failure management may include memory, and an error control decoder to determine failures in the memory. The system may also include an agent that may monitor failures in the memory. The system may further include a table where the error control decoder may record the failures, and where the agent can read and write to. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023498 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Tung (Mountain View, California); Günter Niemeyer (Mountain View, California); David Liang (Menlo Park, California); Byong-Ho Park (Cincinnati, Ohio); Friedrich B. Prinz (Woodside, California); Bob S. Hu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides small position sensors for applications where localized sensing in a small volume of space is needed but where measurement of large relative displacement is also necessary. The invention enables a surgeon to accurately position the tip of a catheter during minimally invasive therapy. The current invention further improves the quality of tactile feedback to a physician during catheter-based surgeries with an axial force sensor at the tip of the catheter that allows for the transmission of force information to the physician. One embodiment of this invention is a position sensor for active interventional catheters, where the sensor may be laser-machined shape memory alloy (SMA), and the catheter actuators may be heated SMA or wire-pulleys. Providing position feedback from a catheter during minimally invasive therapy allows for closed-loop control of the catheter tip position under computer-aided guidance and enable force feedback to the physician. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151963 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862 |
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| US 08348427 | Buckland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Bradley A. Bower (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for extended depth frequency domain optical coherence tomography are provided including a detection system configured to sample spectral elements at substantially equal frequency intervals, wherein a spectral width associated with the sampled spectral elements is not greater than one-half of the frequency interval. Related methods are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887891 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
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| US 08348921 | Ivorra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antoni Ivorra (Berkeley, California); Boris Rubinsky (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gel compositions with adjusted conductivity are disclosed which compositions are used for directing reversible electroporation and irreversible electroporation of cells and tissue. The gel compositions are also used in a similar manner in order to carry out thermotherapy on cells and tissues. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/427027 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/500 |
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| US 08349318 | Lavie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnon Lavie (Chicago, Illinois); Manfred Konrad (Göttingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for enhancing efficiency of prodrugs by specifically engineered enzymes with altered or enhanced activity and broader substrate specificity towards nucleoside analogs used in cancer chemotherapy, and delivering the enzymes to specific target cells in a patient. The invention also provides modified deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) mutants with such enhanced activities. Furthermore, the invention provides antibody-conjugated enzymes, pharmaceutical composition and kit containing the same, that can be specifically delivered to tumor cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/993660 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.300 |
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| US 08349320 | Ware et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl F. Ware (Solana Beach, California); Carl De Trez (Brussels, Belgium); Michael Croft (San Diego, California); Timothy C. Cheung (Sydney, Australia); Ian R. Humphreys (St. Brides Major, United Kingdom); Karen G. Potter (San Diego, California); Christopher A. Benedict (Encinitas, California); Mitchell Kronenberg (Del Mar, California); Marcos W. Steinberg (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily (TNFRSF) and acts as a molecular switch that modulates T cell activation by propagating positive signals from the TNF related ligand, LIGHT (p30, TNFSF14), or inhibitory signals through the immunoglobulin superfamily member, B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA). A novel binding site for BTLA is disclosed, located in cysteine-rich domain-1 of HVEM. BTLA binding site on HVEM overlaps with the binding site for the Herpes Simplex virus-1 envelope glycoprotein D (gD), but is distinct from where LIGHT binds, yet gD inhibits the binding of both ligands. A BTLA activating protein present in human cytomegalovirus is identified as UL144. UL144 binds BTLA, but not LIGHT, and inhibits T cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/482426 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08349326 | Shoemaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Shoemaker (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Jean Mukherjee (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and systems for administering antibody therapeutic agents. The methods include administering one or more (e.g., two or three) binding agents, wherein each of the binding agents has one or more monomers that have a binding region that is specific to a portion of a disease agent and one or more copies of a tag. The binding agents can be specific to one or more portions of the same or different disease agents. The tag is the same for each of the binding agents. The methods include administering an anti-tag antibody, wherein the anti-tag antibody has an anti-tag region that is specific to the tag, and can have an immunoglobulin (e.g., IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, and IgM). Disease agents include bacteria, bacterial proteins, viruses, viral proteins, cancer cells, and proteins or toxins produced therefrom or from other sources such as snakes, insects, plants, etc. In particular, the present invention includes methods and systems for binding agents having one or more monomers that are specific to neurotoxins that cause botulism. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889511 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
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| US 08349555 | Glinskii |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gennadi V. Glinsky (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennadi V. Glinskii (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The emerging concept of cancer stem cells suggests that activation in transformed cells of “stemness” genetic pathways (e.g., normal stem cells' self-renewal pathways) may contribute to the survival life cycle of cancer stem cells, and to tumor progression and metastasis of the malignancy. Thus, activation of “stemness” genes in cancer cells may be associated with aggressive clinical behavior and increased likelihood of therapy failure. General methods and kits associated with prediction of clinical outcome for a disease state of a subject based on gene expression analysis are described. The invention includes determining expression of at least three genes selected from the group consisting of GBX2, MKI67, CCNB1, BUB1, KNTC2, USP22, HCFC1, RNF2, ANK3, FGFR2, and CES1, and mouse homologs thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908775 |
| 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 435/6 |
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| US 08349559 | Wojchowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maine Medical Center (Portland, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Wojchowski (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the generation of a population of Epo-responsive marrow derived cells that express Epo-responsive genes and gene products. The present invention also relates to the detection of Epo-responsive genes and gene products as well as to the detection of the administration of Epo, Epo-derivatives and Epo-mimetics in subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693167 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
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| US 08349560 | Croce |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for reducing the proliferation of ALL cancer cells through targeted interactions with ALL1 fusion proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/274724 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for reducing the proliferation of ALL cancer cells through targeted interactions with ALL1 fusion proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/274737 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08349568 | 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 | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/295280 |
| 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 08349576 | Ryazanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey G. Ryazanov (Princeton, New Jersey); Benjamin E. Turk (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Assays for identifying novel compounds for inhibiting eEF2 kinase and consequence peptides employed therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837478 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| US 08349577 | Iqbal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid Iqbal (Staten Island, New York); Sonia Chalbot (New York, New York); Inge Grundke-Iqbal (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for evaluating blood-neural barrier permeability. Phospholipid liposomes are labeled with a fluorescent phospholipase A2 substrate and exposed to cerebrospinal fluid. The change in fluorescence is monitored to determine PLA2 activity. The PLA2 activity is used to evaluate the permeability and function of the blood-neural barrier. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/766391 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
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| US 08349579 | Raz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avraham Raz (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Pratima Nangia-Makker (Troy, Michigan); Rafael Fridman (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are differential antibodies recognizing the cleaved and non-cleaved forms of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and methods of using the antibodies as surrogate diagnostic markers for the presence of active MMPs in cancer, such as growing breast cancers. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316587 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 08349581 | Hazen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Marc S. Penn (Beachwood, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for characterizing the near term risk of experiencing a major adverse cardiac event in a patient presenting with chest pain are provided. In one embodiment the method comprises determining the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in a bodily sample obtained from the patient. In another embodiment, the method comprises determining the level of MPO mass in a bodily sample obtained from the patient. In another embodiment, the method comprises determining the level of one or more select MPO-generated oxidation products in a bodily sample obtained from the patient. The select MPO-generated oxidation products are dityrosine, nitrotyrosine, chlorotyrosine, methionine sulphoxide or an MPO-generated lipid peroxidation product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/265081 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/28 |
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| US 08349586 | Hamer |
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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) | Dean Hamer (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, e.g., to a commensal bacterium which can colonize the genitourinary and/or gastrointestinal mucosa, and which, under suitable conditions, secretes a heterologous antimicrobial polypeptide, wherein the secreted antimicrobial polypeptide is effective to inhibit infectivity by, or a pathogenic activity of, a pathogen. In a most preferred embodiment, the antimicrobial polypeptide inhibits HIV infection (e.g., fusion) and/or pathogenesis. Also described are preventive or therapeutic compositions comprising the commensal bacteria, and methods to inhibit infectivity and/or pathogenesis, using the bacteria. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710512 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 08349604 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam S. Mohapatra (Lutz, Florida); Arun Kumar (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to a nano-based sensing device (a sensor) comprising a nano-scale working electrode that can be used for the ultra-sensitive detection of blood analytes, disease biomarkers, and other target molecules. The present invention also pertains to a method for detecting target molecules using the sensor as the sensor element of a microfluidic device. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747713 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
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| US 08349605 | Lear et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Lear (Fort Collins, Colorado); David S. Dandy (Fort Collins, Colorado); Matthew D. Stephens (Fort Collins, Colorado); Guangwei Yuan (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide sensor capable of direct, real-time detection and monitoring of analytes in the vicinity of the waveguide surface without requiring the tagging or labeling of the analyte, is described. Analytic and numerical calculations have predicted that by locally detecting either changes in the evanescent field or changes in the light coupled out of the waveguide as a result of the presence of the analyte, high detection sensitivity will be able to be achieved. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/403546 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.700 |
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| US 08349727 | Guo et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Guo (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stephen P. DeWeerth (Mendota, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Stretchable multi-chip modules (SMCMs) are capable of withstanding large mechanical deformations and conforming to curved surfaces. These SMCMs may find their utilities in elastic consumer electronics such as elastic displays, skin-like electronic sensors, etc. In particular, stretchable neural implants provide improved performances as to cause less mechanical stress and thus fewer traumas to surrounding soft tissues. Such SMCMs usually comprise of various electronic components attached to or embedded in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate and wired through stretchable interconnects. However, reliably and compactly connecting the electronic components to PDMS-based stretchable interconnects is very challenging. This invention describes an integrated method for high-density interconnection of electronic components through stretchable interconnects in an SMCM. This invention has applications in high-density SMCMs, as well as high-density stretchable/conformable neural interfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083111 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349791 | Slusky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna S. Slusky (Stockholm, Sweden); Hang Yin (Boulder, Colorado); William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides which bind to the helical transmembrane region of membrane proteins are disclosed, as are methods for the design of polypeptides that bind to the transmembrane region of membrane proteins. Also provided are methods for the use of the disclosed polypeptides in various applications, as well as products made through the practice of the instant methods. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/306424 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349794 | Balasubramanian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathyamangalam V. Balasubramanian (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions useful for reconstitution of concentrated formulations containing protein/peptide pharmaceuticals are provided. The composition generally includes one or more lipids, as well as one or more alcohols that promote and stabilize the formation of (a) lipid molecular assemblies with greater protein encapsulation; (b) protein-lipid complexes and (c) protein and lipid solutions. The reconstitution medium improves the protein-lipid association that in turn alters the pharmaceutical properties. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/204922 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sessa (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods useful for treating various conditions and afflictions, such as inflammation and cancer. More specifically, the present invention relates to compositions and methods of treatment which utilize peptides comprising at least one caveolin scaffolding domain. Even more specifically, the present invention relates to compositions of fusion peptides comprising the antennapedia homeodomain fused to a caveolin scaffolding domain and to methods of using these peptides to treat various conditions and afflictions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978770 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 08349837 | Zebala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aminopterin, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Zebala (Sammamish, Washington); Dean Y. Maeda (Seattle, Washington); Joel R. Morgan (Kent, Washington); Stuart J. Kahn (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed a pharmaceutical composition comprising racemic aminopterin or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. There is further disclosed a method to treat a disorder in a patient comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of racemic aminopterin or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of racemic aminopterin. More particularly, there is disclosed a method for treating disorders modulated by at least dihydrofolate reductase activity, such as cancers and inflammatory disorders, wherein the method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of racemic aminopterin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692593 |
| 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 514/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349888 | Landauer 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Landauer (Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Michael Seed (Bethesda, Maryland); Venkataraman Srinivasan (Germantown, Maryland); Alla Shapiro (Rockville, Maryland); Chris H. Takimoto (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of animals, including humans from radiation injury. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising the isoflavone genistein (4′,5,7-trihydroxyflavone) or phytoestrogenic isoflavonoids. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696285 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349896 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Womens's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Clary B. Clish (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin triggered lipid mediators (ATLMs) are disclosed which are useful for the treatment of prevention of inflammation associated with diseases, including ischemia. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/707317 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349898 | Ruoho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold E. Ruoho (Madison, Wisconsin); Abdol R. Hajipour (Madison, Wisconsin); Uyen B. Chu (Madison, Wisconsin); Dominique A. Fontanilla (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula I and compositions thereof. The invention further provides methods of using the compounds and compositions. The compounds of the invention can provide high affinity binding to sigma-1 receptors in a mammal. The compounds can exhibit selectivity for the sigma-1 receptor over the sigma-2 receptor. The compounds and compositions of the invention can also be used to treat conditions that involve the sigma-1 receptor, such as addiction, cardiovascular conditions, and cancer, for example, cancer of the breast, lung, prostate, ovarian, colorectal, or the CNS. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/621246 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/646 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349910 | Carrico et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac S. Carrico (Stony Brook, New York); Brian L. Carlson (Richmond, California); Peng Wu (Berkeley, California); Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions and methods for site-specific modification of proteins by incorporation of an aldehyde tag. Enzymatic modification at a sulfatase motif of the aldehyde tag through action of a formylglycine generating enzyme (FGE) generates a formylglycine (FGly) residue. The aldehyde moiety of FGly residue can be exploited as a chemical handle for site-specific attachment of a moiety of interest to a polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163574 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349982 | Mikos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonios G. Mikos (Houston, Texas); Michael C. Hacker (Leipzig, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Macromonomers capable of both physical crosslinking and chemical crosslinking. The combination of chemical crosslinking and physical crosslinking provides the ability to generate rapidly gelling hydrogels for many different applications. Moreover, the macromonomers may incorporate functional groups that allow for two different gelation mechanisms—thermal gelation and ionic gelation—further improving mechanical stability of hydrogels formed from the disclosed macromonomers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259107 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/321 |
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| US 08350007 | Jennings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Yissum, Research Development Company of Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia A Jennings (San Diego, California); Jack Dixon (San Diego, California); Rachel Nechushtai (Motza I'llit, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates to the fields of crystallography, biochemistry, and drug design. In particular, methods and compositions for screening, identifying and designing compounds that interact with human mitoNEET. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673469 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350008 | Botstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Botstein (Belmont, California); Robert L. Cohen (San Mateo, California); Audrey D. Goddard (San Francisco, California); Austin L. Gurney (Belmont, California); Kenneth J. Hillan (San Francisco, California); David A. Lawrence (San Francisco, California); Arnold J. Levine (New York, New York); Diane Pennica (Burlingame, California); Margaret Ann Roy (San Francisco, California); William I. Wood (Hillsborough, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Wnt-1-Induced Secreted Proteins (WISPs) are provided, whose genes are induced at least by Wnt-1. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides, as well as vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides, and methods for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117051 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 08350012 | Rapoport et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Basil Rapoport (Santa Monica, California); Sandra McLachlan (Santa Monica, California); Chun-Rong Chen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes monoclonal antibodies that suppress thyrotropin receptor constitutive activity and methods of using the antibodies to treat thyroid related diseases; particularly hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/519513 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.220 |
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| US 08350014 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Thaddeus Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Eddie Leonard Myers (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making diazo-compounds, diazonium salts thereof and other protected forms of these compounds. Diaz-compounds are prepared by reaction of a tertiary phosphine reagent carrying a reactive carbonyl group with an azide. The reaction can also generate an acyl triazene which can be converted thermally or by addition of base to form the diazo-compound or the acyl triazene can be isolated. The method is particularly useful for conversion of azides carrying one or more electron withdrawing groups to diazo-compounds. The method can be carried out in aqueous medium under mild conditions and is particularly useful for conversion of azido sugars to diazo-compound and diazonium salts thereof under physiological conditions. Tertiary phosphine reagents, particularly those that are water-soluble, and precursors for preparation of the reagents are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620567 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350017 | Pier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Casie Anne Kelly-Quintos (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Lisa Cavacini (Natick, Massachusetts); Marshall R. Posner (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that bind specifically to poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG), such as Staphylococcal PNAG, in acetylated, partially acetylated and/or fully deacetylated form. The invention further provides methods for using these peptides in the diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy of infections by bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Some antibodies of the invention enhance opsonophagocytic killing and in vivo protection against bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Compositions of these peptides, including pharmaceutical compositions, are also provided, as are functionally equivalent variants of such peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334775 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350042 | Hermann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Hermann (Cardiff by the Sea, California); Maia Carnevali (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds and methods of synthesis of Formula I for the development of antiviral drugs for the treatment of HCV infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865385 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350064 | Strongin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Strongin (Portland, Oregon); Isiah M. Warner (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Youjun Yang (Austin, Texas); Mark Lowry (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sayo O. Fakayode (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Jorge O. Escobedo Cordova (Portland, Oregon); Xiangyang Xu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Xanthene compounds are disclosed having fluorescence at multiple wavelengths. Also disclosed are methods for their synthesis and use. Some of the compounds fluoresce at three wavelengths, emitting white light. Uses include the imaging of biological tissues, illumination, and display technologies. Many of the compounds have large Stokes shifts, and are resistant to photobleaching. The fluorescence may be readily distinguished from that of endogenous fluorophores, and from that of most existing, commercially-available fluorescent probes. The compounds are well suited for use in “multiplexing” techniques. They exhibit clear isosbestic and isoemissive points, and have broad absorption and emission ranges. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/374111 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/384 |
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| US 08350073 | Hock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam S. Hock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the synthesis of catalysts and precursors thereof. Methods of the invention may comprise combining a catalyst precursor and at least one ligand to generate a catalytically active species, often under mild conditions and in high yields. In some cases, a wide variety of catalysts may be synthesized from a single catalyst precursor. Methods of the invention may also include the preparation of catalysts which, under reaction conditions known in the art, may have been difficult or impossible to prepare and/or isolate due to, for example, steric crowding at the metal center. The present invention also provides catalyst compositions, and precursors thereof, which may be useful in various chemical reactions including olefin metathesis. In some cases, methods of the invention may reduce the number of synthetic and purification steps required to produce catalysts and/or other reaction products, as well as reducing time, cost, and waste production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033472 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350564 | Celedon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo A. Celedon (Baltimore, Maryland); Sean X. Sun (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory Bowman (Pikesville, Maryland); Denis Wirtz (Washington, District of Columbia); Peter Searson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for determining the torque imposed on a filament, such as a single DNA strand or macromolecule, using a magnetic probe and an imaging device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720025 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351665 | Tearney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); John A. Evans (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Software systems, arrangements and processes for evaluating an image associated with at least one portion of an anatomical structure are provided. For example, first information associated with the at least one portion of the anatomical structure second information associated with the at least one portion of the anatomical structure can be received. Third information can be generated by determining a relationship between the first information and the second information. Further, the image can be evaluated using a predetermined pathological scoring criteria and the third information. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/414564 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08351675 | So et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter So (Boston, Massachusetts); Bevin Engelward (Lexington, Massachusetts); Timothy Ragan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Karsten Bahlmann (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ki Hean Kim (Belmont, Massachusetts); Lily Hsu-Laiho (San Luis Obispo, California); Hayden Huang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, a method for imaging tissue, for example, includes the steps of mounting the tissue on a computer controlled stage of a microscope, determining volumetric imaging parameters, directing at least two photons into a region of interest, scanning the region of interest across a portion of the tissue, imaging a plurality of layers of the tissue in a plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, sectioning the portion of the tissue and imaging a second plurality of layers of the tissue in a second plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, detecting a fluorescence image of the tissue due to said excitation light; and processing three-dimensional data that is collected to create a three-dimensional image of the region of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757139 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43914 | Castro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold R. Castro (Monroe, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An antigen composition and method for the detection of antibodies to Treponema pallidum and the diagnosis of syphilis are described. The antigen composition contains synthetic cardiolipin and synthetic lecithin. The antigen composition may additionally contain cholesterol and an alcohol. The antigen composition is useful as an immunoreagent in immunoassays for the detection of antibodies associated with T. pallidum infection. The methods are sensitive and specific for T. pallidum infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 13/333849 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a particulate matter (PM) filter that includes multiple zones. An electrical heater includes heater segments that are associated with respective ones of the zones. The electrical heater is arranged upstream from and proximate with the PM filter. A post-fuel injection system injects fuel into at least one of a cylinder of an engine and an exhaust system. A control module is configured to operate in a first mode that includes activating the electrical heater to heat exhaust of the engine. The control module is also configured to operate in a second mode that includes activating the post-injection system to heat the exhaust. The control module selectively operates in at least one of the first mode and the second mode. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358672 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349035 | Ahmed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shabbir Ahmed (Naperville, Illinois); Dionissios D. Papadias (Chicago, Illinois); Sheldon H. D. Lee (Willowbrook, Illinois); Rajesh K. Ahluwalia (Burr Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a fuel processor comprising a linear flow structure having an upstream portion and a downstream portion; a first catalyst supported at the upstream portion; and a second catalyst supported at the downstream portion, wherein the first catalyst is in fluid communication with the second catalyst. Also provided is a method for reforming fuel, the method comprising contacting the fuel to an oxidation catalyst so as to partially oxidize the fuel and generate heat; warming incoming fuel with the heat while simultaneously warming a reforming catalyst with the heat; and reacting the partially oxidized fuel with steam using the reforming catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582559 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349071 | Boxley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chett Boxley (Park City, Utah); Akash Akash (Salt Lake City, Utah); Qiang Zhao (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for treating fly ash to render it highly usable as a concrete additive. A quantity of fly ash is obtained that contains carbon and which is considered unusable fly ash for concrete based upon foam index testing. The fly ash is mixed with an activator solution sufficient to initiate a geopolymerization reaction and for a geopolymerized fly ash. The geopolymerized fly ash is granulated. The geopolymerized fly ash is considered usable fly ash for concrete according to foam index testing. The geopolymerized fly ash may have a foam index less than 35% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash, and in some cases less than 10% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash. The activator solution may contain an alkali metal hydroxide, carbonate, silicate, aluminate, or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450286 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349151 | Schmitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin W. Schmitt (Arlington, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Norman (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Universal cell frame generic for use as an anode frame and as a cathode frame in a water electrolyzer. According to one embodiment, the universal cell frame includes a unitary annular member having a central opening. Four trios of transverse openings are provided in the annular member, each trio being spaced apart by about 90 degrees. A plurality of internal radial passageways fluidly interconnect the central opening and each of the transverse openings of two diametrically-opposed trios of openings, the other two trios of openings lacking corresponding radial passageways. Sealing ribs are provided on the top and bottom surfaces of the annular member. The present invention is also directed at a water electrolyzer that includes two such cell frames, one being used as the anode frame and the other being used as the cathode frame, the cathode frame being rotated 90 degrees relative to the anode frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655251 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349214 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Brian R. Kromer (Buffalo, New York); Michael M. Litwin (Cheektowaga, New York); Lee J. Rosen (Buffalo, New York); Gervase Maxwell Christie (Amherst, New York); Jamie R. Wilson (Maynard, Massachusetts); Lawrence W. Kosowski (Colden, New York); Charles Robinson (Lawtons, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing a synthesis gas product having one or more oxygen transport membrane elements thermally coupled to one or more catalytic reactors such that heat generated from the oxygen transport membrane element supplies endothermic heating requirements for steam methane reforming reactions occurring within the catalytic reactor through radiation and convention heat transfer. A hydrogen containing stream containing no more than 20 percent methane is combusted within the oxygen transport membrane element to produce the heat and a heated combustion product stream. The heated combustion product stream is combined with a reactant stream to form a combined stream that is subjected to the reforming within the catalytic reactor. The apparatus may include modules in which tubular membrane elements surround a central reactor tube. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/179279 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349289 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanny D. Schmidt (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Paul J. Dauenhauer (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin); Bradon J. Dreyer (Rockford, Michigan); James R. Salge (Lancaster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for the production of synthesis gas. More particularly, various embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for volatilizing fluid fuel to produce synthesis gas by using a metal catalyst on a solid support matrix. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/043030 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/650 |
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| US 08349547 | Burckel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bruce Burckel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cody M. Washburn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M. Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithographic method is used to fabricate porous carbon structures that can provide electrochemical electrodes having high surface area with uniform and controllable dimensions, providing enormous flexibility to tailor the electrodes toward specific applications. Metal nanoparticles deposited on the surface of the porous carbon electrodes exhibit ultra small dimensions with uniform size distribution. The resulting electrodes are rugged, electrically conductive and show excellent electrochemical behavior. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874971 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
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| US 08349587 | Fischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ginkgo BioWorks, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curt R. Fischer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Austin J. Che (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Reshma P. Shetty (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason R. Kelly (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure identifies pathways, mechanisms, systems and methods to confer chemoautotrophic production of carbon-based products of interest, such as sugars, alcohols, chemicals, amino acids, polymers, fatty acids and their derivatives, hydrocarbons, isoprenoids, and intermediates thereof, in organisms such that these organisms efficiently convert inorganic carbon to organic carbon-based products of interest using inorganic energy, such as formate, and in particular the use of organisms for the commercial production of various carbon-based products of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/285919 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 08349617 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Christopher Kang (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffraction gratings comprising a substrate with protrusions extending therefrom. In one embodiment, the protrusions are made of a porous material, for example porous silicon with a porosity of greater than about 10%. The diffraction grating may also be constructed from multiple layers of porous material, for example porous silicon with a porosity of greater than about 10%, with protrusion of attached thereto. In some embodiments the protrusions may be made from photoresist or another polymeric material. The gratings are the basis for sensitive sensors. In some embodiments, the sensors are functionalized with selective binding species, to produce sensors that specifically bind to target molecules, for example chemical or biological species of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, May 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790905 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349633 | Allerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew A. Allerman (Tijeras, New Mexico); Mary H. Crawford (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Stephen R. Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A denticulated Group III nitride structure that is useful for growing AlxGa1-xN to greater thicknesses without cracking and with a greatly reduced threading dislocation (TD) density. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471690 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350061 | Iyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashi S. Iyer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kumkum Ganguly (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Bacterial quorum-sensing molecule analogs having the following structures: and methods of reducing bacterial pathogenicity, comprising providing a biological system comprising pathogenic bacteria which produce natural quorum-sensing molecule; providing a synthetic bacterial quorum-sensing molecule having the above structures and introducing the synthetic quorum-sensing molecule into the biological system comprising pathogenic bacteria. Further is provided a method of targeted delivery of an antibiotic, comprising providing a synthetic quorum-sensing molecule; chemically linking the synthetic quorum-sensing molecule to an antibiotic to produce a quorum-sensing molecule-antibiotic conjugate; and introducing the conjugate into a biological system comprising pathogenic bacteria susceptible to the antibiotic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286661 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350145 | Angel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger P Angel (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a generator for photovoltaic conversion of concentrated sunlight into electricity. A generator according to the invention incorporates a plurality of photovoltaic cells and is intended for operation near the focus of a large paraboloidal reflector pointed at the sun. Within the generator, the entering concentrated light is relayed by secondary optics to the cells arranged in a compact, concave array. The light is delivered to the cells at high concentration, consistent with high photovoltaic conversion efficiency and low cell cost per unit power output. Light enters the generator, preferably first through a sealing window, and passes through a field lens, preferably in the form of a full sphere or ball lens centered on the paraboloid focus. This lens forms a concentric, concave and wide-angle image of the primary reflector, where the intensity of the concentrated light is stabilized against changes in the position of concentrated light entering the generator. Receiving the stabilized light are flat photovoltaic cells made in different shapes and sizes and configured in a concave array corresponding to the concave image of a given primary reflector. Photovoltaic cells in a generator are also sized and interconnected so as to provide a single electrical output that remains high and stable, despite aberrations in the light delivered to the generator caused by, for example, mispointing or bending of the primary reflector. In some embodiments, the cells are set back from the image formed by the ball lens, and part of the light is reflected onto each cell small secondary reflectors in the form of mirrors set around its perimeter. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463016 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350472 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DULY Research Inc. (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping Chen (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Martin L. Lundquist (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); David U. L. Yu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spark gap switch for controlling the output of a high voltage pulse from a high voltage source, for example, a capacitor bank or a pulse forming network, to an external load such as a high gradient electron gun, laser, pulsed power accelerator or wide band radar. The combination of a UV laser and a high vacuum quartz cell, in which a photocathode and an anode are installed, is utilized as triggering devices to switch the spark gap from a non-conducting state to a conducting state with low delay and low jitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/660890 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/542 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350523 | Kajouke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California); Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for operating a charging system with galvanic isolation adapted for multiple operating modes. A vehicle charging system comprises a DC interface, an AC interface, a first conversion module coupled to the DC interface, and a second conversion module coupled to the AC interface. An isolation module is coupled between the first conversion module and the second conversion module. The isolation module comprises a transformer and a switching element coupled between the transformer and the second conversion module. The transformer and the switching element are cooperatively configured for a plurality of operating modes, wherein each operating mode of the plurality of operating modes corresponds to a respective turns ratio of the transformer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/535994 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/108 |
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| US 08351569 | Baker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Louis Baker (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | X-ray phase sensitive wave-front sensor techniques are detailed that are capable of measuring the entire two-dimensional x-ray electric field, both the amplitude and phase, with a single measurement. These Hartmann sensing and 2-D Shear interferometry wave-front sensors do not require a temporally coherent source and are therefore compatible with x-ray tubes and also with laser-produced or x-pinch x-ray sources. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794312 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351674 | Lassahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon D. Lassahn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gregory D. Lancaster (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Image portion identification methods, image parsing methods, image parsing systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image portion identification method includes accessing data regarding an image depicting a plurality of biological substrates corresponding to at least one biological sample and indicating presence of at least one biological indicator within the biological sample and, using processing circuitry, automatically identifying a portion of the image depicting one of the biological substrates but not others of the biological substrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/931787 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
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| US 08352204 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Morrison (Butte, Montana); William H. Morrison (Butte, Montana); Jon P. Christophersen (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Chester G. Motloch (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of rapidly measuring an impedance spectrum of an energy storage device in-situ over a limited number of logarithmically distributed frequencies are described. An energy storage device is excited with a known input signal, and a response is measured to ascertain the impedance spectrum. An excitation signal is a limited time duration sum-of-sines consisting of a select number of frequencies. In one embodiment, magnitude and phase of each frequency of interest within the sum-of-sines is identified when the selected frequencies and sample rate are logarithmic integer steps greater than two. This technique requires a measurement with a duration of one period of the lowest frequency. In another embodiment, where selected frequencies are distributed in octave steps, the impedance spectrum can be determined using a captured time record that is reduced to a half-period of the lowest frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/772880 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08352220 | Wayne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Wayne (Berkeley, California); Alexander Frumkin (San Rafael, California); Michael Zaydman (San Rafael, California); Scott Lehman (Martinez, California); Jules Brenner (Novato, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments may include systems and methods to create and edit a representation of a worksite, to create various data objects, to classify such objects as various types of pre-defined “features” with attendant properties and layout constraints. As part of or in addition to classification, an embodiment may include systems and methods to create, associate, and edit intrinsic and extrinsic properties to these objects. A design engine may apply of design rules to the features described above to generate one or more solar collectors installation design alternatives, including generation of on-screen and/or paper representations of the physical layout or arrangement of the one or more design alternatives. Embodiments may also include definition of one or more design apertures, each of which may correspond to boundaries in which solar collector layouts should comply with distinct sets of user-defined design preferences. Distinct apertures may provide heterogeneous regions of collector layout according to the user-defined design preferences. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/708501 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J Rose (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for automatically generating lists of stop words for information retrieval and analysis. Generation of the stop words can include providing a corpus of documents and a plurality of keywords. From the corpus of documents, a term list of all terms is constructed and both a keyword adjacency frequency and a keyword frequency are determined. If a ratio of the keyword adjacency frequency to the keyword frequency for a particular term on the term list is less than a predetermined value, then that term is excluded from the term list. The resulting term list is truncated based on predetermined criteria to form a stop word list. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555962 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horacio D. Espinosa (Winnetka, Illinois); Nicolaie A. Moldovan (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a microchannel as well as a thin film structure including same is made by forming a first thin film on a side of a substrate, forming a fugitive second thin film on the first thin film such that the second thin film defines a precursor of the elongated microchannel and a plurality of extensions connected to and extending transversely relative to the precursor along a length thereof A third thin film is formed on the first thin film and the fugitive second thin film such that the second thin film resides between the first thin film and the third thin film. A respective access site is formed in a region of the third thin film residing on a respective extension and penetrating to the fugitive second thin film. The fugitive second thin film forming the precursor is selectively removed from between the first thin film and the third thin film using an etching medium introduced through the access sites, thereby forming the microchannel between the first thin film and the third thin film. The method preferably further includes forming a sealing layer on the third thin film in a manner to close off open access sites remaining after selective removal of the second thin film. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/803664 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08348047 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Lynch (Chicago, Illinois); Paul Umbanhowar (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for imparting movement to one or more articles includes placing the one or more articles on a surface of a support member and imparting vibratory motion to the support member by vibrating actutators connected to the support member wherein the vibratory motion includes at least a rotational vibratory component about one or more axes out-of-alignment with the gravity vector to produce effective force fields on the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559121 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/752.100 |
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| US 08349222 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Hu Kang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Unconventional twisted π-electron system electro-optic (EO) chromophores/compounds, compositions and related device structures. Crystallographic analysis of several non-limiting chromophores reveals, for instance, large ring-ring dihedral twist angles and a highly charge-separated zwitterionic structure in the ground state, in both solution phase and solid-state. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/169638 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/586 |
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| US 08349311 | Wittrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Dane Wittrup (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Balaji M. Rao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas A. Lauffenburger (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to IL-2 mutants with increased affinity for the IL-2 alpha-receptor subunit (IL-2Rα). The invention thus includes IL-2 mutants with improved biological potency. The invention also includes methods for directed evolution of IL-2α using yeast surface display to generate mutants with increased affinity for IL-2Rα. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/088045 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 08349410 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinyu Huang (Duluth, Georgia); Alan J. Russell (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Nicolay V. Tsarevsky (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer formed by controlled radical polymerization includes groups that can be modified after controlled radical polymerization to form a radical. The polymer can be the reaction product of a controlled radical polymerization of radically polymerizable monomers, wherein at least one of the radically polymerizable monomers includes at least one group that can be modified after the controlled radical polymerization to form a radical. A compound includes a first group that is stimulated upon application of energy to the molecule to tether the molecule to a surface or to another polymer chain and a second group comprising a controlled radical polymerization initiator functionality. A block copolymer includes at least a first segment to impart a predetermined functionality to a target surface and at least a second segment including functional groups to interact with the targeted surface to attach the block copolymer to the surface. The first segment can free of functional groups that interact with the surface to attach the block copolymer to the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894010 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/508 |
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| US 08350073 | Hock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam S. Hock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the synthesis of catalysts and precursors thereof. Methods of the invention may comprise combining a catalyst precursor and at least one ligand to generate a catalytically active species, often under mild conditions and in high yields. In some cases, a wide variety of catalysts may be synthesized from a single catalyst precursor. Methods of the invention may also include the preparation of catalysts which, under reaction conditions known in the art, may have been difficult or impossible to prepare and/or isolate due to, for example, steric crowding at the metal center. The present invention also provides catalyst compositions, and precursors thereof, which may be useful in various chemical reactions including olefin metathesis. In some cases, methods of the invention may reduce the number of synthetic and purification steps required to produce catalysts and/or other reaction products, as well as reducing time, cost, and waste production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033472 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/58 |
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| US 08350564 | Celedon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo A. Celedon (Baltimore, Maryland); Sean X. Sun (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory Bowman (Pikesville, Maryland); Denis Wirtz (Washington, District of Columbia); Peter Searson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for determining the torque imposed on a filament, such as a single DNA strand or macromolecule, using a magnetic probe and an imaging device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720025 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
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| US 08350594 | Karczmarek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michal Karczmarek (Fremont, California); Arvind Mithal (Arlington, Massachusetts); Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Enabling scheduling of single cycle as well as scheduling multi-cycle rules in a synchronous digital system whose behavior is governed by an asynchronous system specification (e.g., a TRS) provides a way to allow complex actions at state transitions of the asynchronous system without requiring that the complex actions be synthesized in logic that must be performed in a single clock cycle. For example, a relatively infrequent action may include a critical timing path that determines the maximum clock frequency of the system. By allowing that infrequent action to take multiple clock cycles, even if that action takes more absolute time, other actions may take less absolute time by virtue of being able to operate the synchronous system at a higher clock rate. The overall system may then operate more quickly (e.g., as measured by the average number of rules applied per unit of absolute time). |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614771 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/93 |
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| US 08350614 | Gershenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kailiang Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Leu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed, reconfigurable statistical signal processing apparatus comprises an array of discrete-time analog signal processing circuitry for statistical signal processing based on a local message-passing algorithm and digital configuration circuitry for controlling the functional behavior of the array of analog circuitry. The input signal to the apparatus may be expressed as a probabilistic representation. The analog circuitry may comprise computational elements arranged in a network, with a receiving module that assigns probability values when an input signal arrives and communicates the probability values to one of the computational elements, the computational elements producing outputs based on the assigned probability values. The signal processing apparatus may be an analog logic automata cell or an array of cells, wherein each cell is able to communicate with all neighboring cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422491 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/334 |
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| US 08350625 | Komijani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbas Komijani (Los Angeles, California); Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiri Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power amplifier circuit comprising a scalable power amplifier including an input and an output, and a plurality of activated amplifier elements operative to produce an output signal at the output, and operative to dynamically vary a power output level of the output signal. A variable impedance circuit operatively responsive to dynamically load the output of the scalable power amplifier. Wherein the scalable power amplifier further includes an amplifier configuration circuit operatively responsive to selectively activate the selectively activated amplifier elements by at least reducing power to at least one of the selectively activated amplifier elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/231871 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/276 |
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| US 08350855 | Van Horn, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Brooks Van Horn, III (Herndon, Virginia); Gregory Turk (Tucker, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for reducing anti-aliasing in a procedural texture. One method includes creating a procedural reduction map describing the texture as applied to an object, and querying the map for radiance of a pixel in the object. One system includes memory and a processor. The processor is programmed, by the code stored in the memory, to create a procedural reduction map describing the texture as applied to an object, and query the map for radiance of a pixel in the object. One system includes means for creating a procedural reduction map describing the texture as applied to an object, and means for querying the map for radiance of a pixel in the object. The map includes a basis functions and a hierarchy of texels. Each texel includes basis weights and a surface normal distribution. Each basis weight corresponds to one of the basis functions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869068 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351053 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wonmo Kang (Champaign, Illinois); M. Taher A. Saif (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | According to example embodiments of the invention, a microscale testing stage comprises a frame having first and second opposing ends and first and second side beams, at least one deformable force sensor beam, a first longitudinal beam having a free end, a second longitudinal beam having a facing free end, a support structure, and a pair of slots disposed at each of the free ends. In certain embodiments, a separately fabricated microscale or nanoscale specimen comprises a central gauge length portion of a material to be tested, and first and second hinges providing a self-aligning mechanism for uniaxial loading. In other embodiments, a layer of a conductive material defines first and second conductive paths and an open circuit that can be closed by the specimen across the gap. In other embodiments, the stage is formed of a high melting temperature material. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/823743 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351106 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaeyoun Kim (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) structure is provided. The structure includes an elastomer membrane, a plurality of polymer fibers attached to the elastomer membrane, an array of detectors operatively connected to the plurality of polymer fibers at a first end of the plurality of polymer fibers, and a microlens array operatively connected to the plurality of polymer fibers at a second end of the plurality of polymer fibers. A method of manufacturing an optical MEMS structure is provided. The method includes forming a hollow PDMS chamber in which PDMS fibers extend from top to bottom using a lost wax molding process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180668 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351109 | Kanatzidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Illinois); In Chung (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonlinear optic article for difference frequency generation is provided. The article comprises a wave mixer configured to generate a difference frequency mixing signal, the wave mixer comprising a compound made from one or more noncentrosymmetric crystal-glass phase-change materials comprising one or more chalcogenide compounds that are structurally one dimensional and comprise a polymeric 1∞[PSe6−] chain or a polymeric 1∞[P2Se62−] chain, wherein the one or more chalcogenide compounds are capable of difference frequency generation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/407550 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351241 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sung Hyun Jo (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of suppressing propagation of leakage current in an array of switching devices. The method includes providing a dielectric breakdown element integrally and serially connected to a switching element within each of the switching device. A read voltage (for example) is applied to a selected cell. The propagation of leakage current is suppressed by each of the dielectric breakdown element in unselected cells in the array. The read voltage is sufficient to cause breakdown in the selected cells but insufficient to cause breakdown in the serially connected, unselected cells in a specific embodiment. Methods to fabricate of such devices and to program, to erase and to read the device are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826653 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08351742 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chee Wei Wong (New York, New York); Rohit Chatterjee (Chennai, India); Xiaochun Li (Madison, Wisconsin); Xugang Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for sensing properties of a workpiece and embedding a photonic sensor in metal are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, systems for sensing properties of a workpiece include an optical input, a photonic device, an optical detector, and a digital processing device. The optical input provides an optical signal at an output of the optical input. The photonic device is coupled to the workpiece and to the output of the optical input. The photonic device generates an output signal in response to the optical signal, wherein at least one of an intensity of the output signal and a wavelength of the output signal depends on at least one of thermal characteristics and mechanical characteristics of the workpiece. The optical detector receives the output signal from the photonic device and is configured to generate a corresponding electronic signal. The digital processing device is coupled to the optical detector and determines at least one of the thermal characteristics and mechanical the characteristics of the workpiece based on the electronic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905974 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08352385 | Rapoport et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin I. Rapoport (New York, New York); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts); Woradorn Wattanapanitch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchip for performing a neural decoding algorithm is provided. The microchip is implemented using ultra-low power electronics. Also, the microchip includes a tunable neural decodable filter implemented using a plurality of amplifiers, a plurality of parameter learning filters, a multiplier, a gain and time-constant biasing circuits; and analog memory. The microchip, in a training mode, learns to perform an optimized translation of a raw neural signal received from a population of cortical neurons into motor control parameters. The optimization being based on a modified gradient descent least square algorithm wherein update for a given parameter in a filter is proportional to an averaged product of an error in the final output that the filter affects and a filtered version of its input. The microchip, in an operational mode, issues commands to controlling a device using learned mappings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127380 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08352738 | Parno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Parno (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Cynthia Kuo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Adrian Perrig (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Phishing attacks succeed by exploiting a user's inability to distinguish legitimate websites from spoofed websites. Most prior work focuses on assisting the user in making this distinction; however, users must make the right security decision every time. Unfortunately, humans are ill-suited for performing the security checks necessary for secure site identification, and a single mistake may result in a total compromise of the user's online account. Fundamentally, users should be authenticated using information that they cannot readily reveal to malicious parties. Placing less reliance on the user during the authentication process enhances security and eliminates many forms of fraud. We disclose using a trusted device to perform mutual authentication that eliminates reliance on perfect user behavior, thwarts Man-in-the-Middle attacks after setup, and protects a user's account even in the presence of keyloggers and most forms of spyware. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998890 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08347479 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Smith (Williamsburg, Virginia); John A. Newman (Yorktown, Virginia); Robert S. Piascik (Williamsburg, Virginia); Edward H. Glaessgen (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A first material with a known maximum temperature of operation is coated with a second material on at least one surface of the first material. The coating has a melting temperature that is greater than the maximum temperature of operation of the first material. The coating is heated to its melting temperature until the coating flows into any cracks in the first material's surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/849906 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/402.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08347722 | Qing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Acellent Technologies, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinlin Qing (Cupertino, California); Shawn J. Beard (Livermore, California); Irene Li (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors affixed to various such structures, where the sensors can withstand, remain affixed, and operate while undergoing both cryogenic temperatures and high vibrations. In particular, piezoelectric single crystal transducers are utilized, and these sensors are coupled to the structure via a low temperature, heat cured epoxy. This allows the transducers to monitor the structure while the engine is operating, even despite the harsh operating conditions. Aspects of the invention thus allow for real time monitoring and analysis of structures that operate in conditions that previously did not permit such analysis. A further aspect of the invention relates to use of piezoelectric single crystal transducers. In particular, use of such transducers allows the same elements to be used as both sensors and actuators. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358108 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350629 | Parrott et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Parrott (Healdsburg, California); Allen A. Sweet (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential resonant ring oscillator (“DRRO*) circuit using a ring oscillator topology to electronically tune the oscillator over multi-octave bandwidths. The oscillator tuning is substantially linear, because the oscillator frequency is related to the magnetic tuning of a YIG sphere, which has a resonant frequency equal to a fundamental constant multiplied by the DC magnetic field. The simple circuit topology uses half turn or multiple half turn loops magnetic coupling methods connecting a differential pair of amplifiers into a feedback loop configuration having a four port YIG tuned filter, thus creating a closed loop ring oscillator. The oscillator may use SiGe bipolar junction transistor technology and amplifiers employing heterojunction bipolar transistor technology SiGe is the preferred transitor material as it keeps the transistor's 1/f noise to an absolute minimum in order to achieve minimum RF phase noise. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/060002 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08347688 | O'Brien |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert O'Brien (Clackamas, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for analyzing samples, such as gas samples, are described. One method comprises providing a gas sample, increasing pressure applied to the gas sample to compress the sample to a smaller volume and provide a pneumatically focused gas sample, and analyzing the pneumatically focused gas sample using any of a variety of analytical techniques. Also disclosed are systems for gas analysis, including systems for analysis of pneumatically focused, and thereby concentrated, gas samples and for analysis of particulate matter in gas samples. Analytical systems constructed within personal computer cases also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578575 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08349129 | Blanchard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Blanchard (Mesa, Arizona); R. Steve Rednour (Chandler, Arizona); Douglas Loy (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a debonding apparatus, a system comprising such apparatus, and methods for using such apparatus or system for the removal of flexible substrates (14) post-processing without damage to fabricated devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921871 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/717 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350208 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Hang Zhang (Scottsdale, Arizona); Ding Ding (Chandler, Arizona); Elizabeth Steenbergen (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Two-terminal multi junction photodetectors and focal plane arrays for multi-color detection or imaging acquisition can be formed by connecting photodiodes with different bandgaps or wavelengths, through tunnel diodes, in series with the same polarization. Under reverse bias in the dark, the total current going through such multi junction photodetectors is dictated by the smallest reverse saturation current of the photodiodes. When in operating mode, a set of light sources with different wavelengths corresponding to each individual photodiode can be used to optically bias all the photodiodes except the detecting photodiode Under illumination, all other photodiodes work in the photovoltaic mode and have much higher maximum possible reverse currents than the detecting photodiode. As a result, the total current of the multi junction photodetector is dictated by the detecting photodiode. Therefore, a total current can be read by, for example, read-out circuits to give the optical signal strength at that specific wavelength of the detecting photodiode. By using an algorithm one can use such multi junction photodetectors to detect different wavelengths and to take multicolor images. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011475 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08349077 | Bondokov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Reducing the microvoid (MV) density in AlN ameliorates numerous problems related to cracking during crystal growth, etch pit generation during the polishing, reduction of the optical transparency in an AlN wafer, and, possibly, growth pit formation during epitaxial growth of AlN and/or AlGaN. This facilitates practical crystal production strategies and the formation of large, bulk AlN crystals with low defect densities—e.g., a dislocation density below 104 cm−2 and an inclusion density below 104 cm−3 and/or a MV density below 104 cm−3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605192 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08350556 | Knuffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brenton J. Knuffman (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Adam V. Steele (Rockville, Maryland); Jabez J. McClelland (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated optical element and Faraday cup that can measure charged particle beam currents, manipulate light and analyze charged particle beam energy distribution. One boundary of the cup is formed by a lens or other suitable optical element which can be used for manipulating light along the axis of the Faraday cup. The surface of the optical element interior to the cup is coated with a transparent conductor in order to establish the simultaneous functions of taking charged particle beam current measurements, taking energy distribution measurements and manipulating light for such applications as focusing or imaging. A suppressor/blanker/retarder electrode is designed to eliminate spurious current signals that can result from production of secondary electrons by the charged particle beam impinging on the electrode surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691256 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08349374 | Woltering et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene A. Woltering (Kenner, Louisiana); Conrad A. Hornick (Makawao, Hawaii); Amy E. Myers (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Noni juice and a protein-free, alcohol precipitate of Noni juice inhibited angiogenesis in in vitro human angiogenesis models. When growth medium contained Noni juice at least over the range from about 2.5% to about 33% (by volume), angiogenesis was blocked. Moreover, Noni juice and an ethanol precipitate were able to destroy a pre-existing angiogenic response as well as prevent the development of new vessels. Noni juice was effective in inhibiting the growth of angiogenic vessels from breast cancer explants. It will also be effective in treating cancers and non-cancerous diseases whose response includes an increase in angiogenesis, e.g., retinopathy of prematurity, neovascular glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and psoriasis. In an initial experiment, Noni juice was effective in treating lesions associated with psoriasis. The primary antiangiogenic component is believed to be a carbohydrate with a molecular weight less than about 6000 Daltons. In an initial experiment, oral administration of Noni juice appeared to adversely affect the antiangiogenic component(s) in the juice. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/204341 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08352551 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia); Wayne H. Orbke (Germantown, Tennessee); Christine Ray (Washington, District of Columbia); Cathy M. Rogerson (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/809581 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| INVENTOR(S) | Irina B. Bakaltcheva (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are freeze-dried plasma formats specifically designed for the trauma care field. Blood plasma is subjected to a glucose removal step, a protein fraction up-concentration step and addition of stabilizers prior to freeze-drying. Preferable stabilizers are glutamine dipeptides, glutamine and glycine. The glutamine based formulation is added direct to plasma and serves three main purposes: 1) Increases stability of plasma proteins and stabilizes pH in freeze-dried state; 2) Increases stability of plasma proteins against Gamma Irradiation and thus allows for the application of a terminal sterilization step; 3) Introduces supplements beneficial to the trauma patient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/681866 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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