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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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| US 08402734 | Johnnie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Helene B. Anderson (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Robicheau (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Helene B. Anderson (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Robicheau (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for recovery of physical objects includes a chain having two ends and a retriever attached to one of the ends. The retriever is configured to locate the object to be recovered and to grasp and retrieve that object once located. The retriever includes transducers that detect acoustic frequencies propagating in a fluid medium. Independent transponders, which can be deployed from the retriever; are provided for deployment in an area to be searched. Each transponder emits a predetermined acoustic frequency that is detectable by the transducers. The transducers signal movement of the recovery device for retrieval of the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/296488 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chain, staple, and horseshoe making 059/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402742 | Roberge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut); Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut); Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems involving tip fans are provided. In this regard, a representative gas turbine engine system includes: a multi-stage fan having a first rotatable set of blades and a second counter-rotatable set of blades, the second rotatable set of blades defining an inner fan and a tip fan and being located downstream of the first set of rotatable blades; and an epicyclic differential gear assembly operative to receive a torque input and differentially apply the torque input to the first set of blades and the second set of blades. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/452368 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402838 | Ware |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeff L. Ware (Weatherford, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff L. Ware (Weatherford, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A nutplate tester is provided. The nutplate tester includes a main body and a holder coupled to the main body. The holder is configured to hold a probe. The nutplate tester also includes a pneumatic actuator coupled to the holder, and an extension frame coupled to the main body. The extension frame includes an attachment portion configured to attach to a post foot that engages a structure that a nutplate is fastened to. The pneumatic actuator is configured to apply pressure against the holder relative to the extension frame to engage the nutplate by the probe held by the holder. The nutplate tester also includes a feed control coupled to the pneumatic actuator. The feed control is configured to control fluid to be supplied to the pneumatic actuator to apply the pressure by the pneumatic actuator against the holder according to at least one of a controlled speed and a controlled pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984560 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402877 | Petrosillo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Petrosillo (West Milford, New Jersey); Daniel Gennarelli (East Hanover, New Jersey); Louis Campanile (Denville, New Jersey); Chad Young (Macomb, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Petrosillo (West Milford, New Jersey); Daniel Gennarelli (East Hanover, New Jersey); Louis Campanile (Denville, New Jersey); Chad Young (Macomb, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor kit may include a weapon shield having a front plate with a weapon barrel opening and at least one window opening; a rotating outboard shield including a front panel connected to a center panel and a rear panel connected to the center panel, each of the front, center, and rear panels including a window opening and a window disposed over the window opening; a rotating inboard shield having an upper portion that is solid and a lower portion with a viewing aperture, the rotating inboard shield being located generally opposite the rotating outboard shield, the rotating inboard shield and the rotating outboard shield being simultaneously rotatable and maintaining fixed positions relative to each other; and a stationary inboard shield located in an interior of a circle of rotation of the rotating inboard shield and the rotating outboard shield. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652862 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402892 | Scheid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); Brad Moan (Greenwood, Indiana); Thomas Gailey (Spring Lake, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); Brad Moan (Greenwood, Indiana); Thomas Gailey (Spring Lake, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A priming assembly and a method are provided for coupling a plurality of detonators to at least one explosive through a plurality of transmission lines. The priming assembly may include a housing that receives the plurality of detonators and the plurality of transmission lines. In use, the plurality of transmission lines may communicate with the plurality of detonators within the housing to transmit explosive charges from the plurality of detonators to the at least one explosive. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/982658 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/275.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402894 | McGuigan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew T McGuigan (Knoxville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew T McGuigan (Knoxville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressed air launched munition comprises a projectile which after firing forms a multiplicity of elongated ropes held in a tubular configuration by a series of stiff spacers. The stiff spacers retain a rope tube diameter of at least about 8 inches. The ropes and stiff spacers have an essentially neutral specific gravity in water. The projectile is effective in entangling a boat propeller and stopping an uncooperative boat with little damage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/093921 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08403389 | Johnnie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Helene B. Anderson (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Robicheau (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Helene B. Anderson (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Joseph W. Robicheau (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for recovery of physical objects includes a chain having two ends and a retriever attached to one of the ends. The retriever is configured to locate the object to be recovered and to grasp and retrieve that object once located. The retriever includes transducers that detect acoustic frequencies propagating in a fluid medium. Independent transponders, which can be deployed from the retriever; are provided for deployment in an area to be searched. Each transponder emits a predetermined acoustic frequency that is detectable by the transducers. The transducers signal movement of the recovery device for retrieval of the object. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248456 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/66.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404095 | Perkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Keith Perkins (Alexandria, Virginia); Perry Skeath (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lee Johnson (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Peele (Alexandria, Virginia); William Bassett (Port Republic, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Keith Perkins (Alexandria, Virginia); Perry Skeath (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lee Johnson (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Peele (Alexandria, Virginia); William Bassett (Port Republic, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of immersing an electrode in an electroplating solution while under vacuum, to substantially eliminate air and/or other gas from microscopic holes, cavities or indentations in the electrode. A method of electroplating an electrode in an electroplating solution including the application of a vacuum to the electrode while it is immersed in the electroplating solution to thereby substantially eliminate air and/or other gas from microscopic holes, cavities or indentations in the electrode. The electroplating liquid may be applied to only one side of the electrode (“the wet side”) in which case, sufficient time is allowed to pass for the immersion liquid to fill the microscopic through-holes, cavities or indentations in the electrode. An enhancement of this mode is to force liquid through the microscopic holes from the wet side. A highly penetrating solvent may be used as an immersion liquid. Alternatively, carbon dioxide can be used as an immersion liquid, in which case the liquid carbon dioxide may be obtained by adjusting the temperature and pressure conditions in a closed container of gaseous carbon dioxide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476522 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404123 | Brueck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Deying Xia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Deying Xia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, there is a method of forming a nanochannel including depositing a photosensitive film stack over a substrate and forming a pattern on the film stack using interferometric lithography. The method can further include depositing a plurality of silica nanoparticles to form a structure over the pattern and removing the pattern while retaining the structure formed by the plurality of silica nanoparticles, wherein the structure comprises an enclosed nanochannel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892427 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404224 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Cationic polymers hydrolyzable to zwitterionic polymers, monomers for making the cationic polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, therapeutic agent delivery systems that include the cationic polymers, methods for administering a therapeutic agent using the delivery systems, and methods for making and using the cationic polymers, monomers, surfaces, and therapeutic agent delivery systems. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619589 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404336 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Ngoc Nguyen (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Ngoc Nguyen (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Layered materials are provided that have surprisingly low thermal conductivities. A plurality of layers of a selected material such as, for example, tungsten diselenide, is formed by a modulated elemental reactants method to produce a low thermal conductivity material. The layers are generally stacked but substantially randomly arranged as stacked. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/090849 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404384 | Feaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron M. Feaver (Seattle, Washington); Henry R. Costantino (Woodinville, Washington); William D. Scott (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EnerG2 Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron M. Feaver (Seattle, Washington); Henry R. Costantino (Woodinville, Washington); William D. Scott (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application is generally directed to ultrapure synthetic carbon materials having both high surface area and high porosity, ultrapure polymer gels and devices containing the same. The disclosed ultrapure synthetic carbon materials find utility in any number of devices, for example, in electric double layer capacitance devices and batteries. Methods for making ultrapure synthetic carbon materials and ultrapure polymer gels are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829282 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404449 | Bayley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stochastic sensing in which the analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element or an adaptor element. If such bonding is irreversible, the bond may be broken by a chemical reagent. The sensor element may be a protein, such as the engineered PSH type or αHL protein pore. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current, change in force, and change in fluorescence. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429897 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404487 | Mountford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carolyn E. Mountford (Easy Ryde, Australia); Peter Russell (Pyme, Australia); Ian C. P. Smith (Winnipeg, Canada); Rajmund L. Somorjai (Headingley, Canada) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn E. Mountford (Easy Ryde, Australia); Peter Russell (Pyme, Australia); Ian C. P. Smith (Winnipeg, Canada); Rajmund L. Somorjai (Headingley, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Robust classification methods analyse magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) data (spectra) of fine needle aspirates taken from breast tumors. The resultant data when compared with the histopathology and clinical criteria provide computerized classification-based diagnosis and prognosis with a very high degree of accuracy and reliability. Diagnostic correlation performed between the spectra and standard synoptic pathology findings contain detail regarding the pathology (malignant versus benign), vascular invasion by the primary cancer and lymph node involvement of the excised axillary lymph nodes. The classification strategy consisted of three stages: pre-processing of MR magnitude spectra to identify optimal spectral regions, cross-validated Linear Discriminant Analysis, and classification aggregation via Computerised Consensus Diagnosis. Malignant tissue was distinguished from benign lesions with an overall accuracy of 93%. From the same spectrum, lymph node involvement was predicted with an accuracy of 95% and tumor vascularization with an overall accuracy of 92%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072327 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404490 | Genovese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland); Robin L. Matthews (Port Deposit, Maryland); Kwok Y. Ong (Joppa, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland); Robin L. Matthews (Port Deposit, Maryland); Kwok Y. Ong (Joppa, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a chemical detector has at least one detection window and at least first and second ampoules selectively communicatively coupled to the at least one detection window. The first ampoule contains a first substance that can hydrolyze a nerve agent. The second ampoule contains a second substance that can react with a hydrolyzed nerve agent to produce a color change. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/295669 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404558 | Eden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Kwang-Soo Kim (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Kwang-Soo Kim (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a preferred method of formation embodiment, a metal foil or film is obtained or formed with micro-holes. The foil is anodized to form metal oxide. One or more self-patterned metal electrodes are automatically formed and buried in the metal oxide created by the anodization process. The electrodes form in a closed circumference around each microcavity in a plane(s) transverse to the microcavity axis, and can be electrically isolated or connected. Preferred embodiments provide inexpensive microplasma device electrode structures and a fabrication method for realizing microplasma arrays that are lightweight and scalable to large areas. Electrodes buried in metal oxide and complex patterns of electrodes can also be formed without reference to microplasma devices—that is, for general electrical circuitry. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188712 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404650 | Koch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tad H. Koch (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Burkhart (Spokane Valley, Washington); Glen C. Post (Spokane, Washington); Jordan W. Nafie (Jupiter, Florida); Brian T. Kalet (Sunvalley, Nevada); Benjamin L. Barthel (Broomfeld, Colorado); Daniel L. Rudnicki (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tad H. Koch (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Burkhart (Spokane Valley, Washington); Glen C. Post (Spokane, Washington); Jordan W. Nafie (Jupiter, Florida); Brian T. Kalet (Sunvalley, Nevada); Benjamin L. Barthel (Broomfeld, Colorado); Daniel L. Rudnicki (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides therapeutically effective compounds for the prevention and treatment of cancer and pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as methods of using and administering these compounds. The invention also includes methods of activating a prodrug of these therapeutically effective compounds by the administration of a peptide-directed targeting construct that delivers a prodrug-activating enzyme to a target activation site. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/091321 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404728 | Pang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuan-Ping Pang (Rochester, Minnesota); Jewn Giew Park (Rochester, Minnesota); Shaohua Wang (Rochester, Minnesota); Anuradha Vummenthala (Iowa City, Iowa); Rajesh K Mishra (Iowa City, Iowa); Jon Davis (Silver Spring, Maryland); Charles B. Millard (Frederick, Maryland); James J. Schmidt (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota); U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan-Ping Pang (Rochester, Minnesota); Jewn Giew Park (Rochester, Minnesota); Shaohua Wang (Rochester, Minnesota); Anuradha Vummenthala (Iowa City, Iowa); Rajesh K Mishra (Iowa City, Iowa); Jon Davis (Silver Spring, Maryland); Charles B. Millard (Frederick, Maryland); James J. Schmidt (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to materials and methods for inhibiting Botulinum neurotoxin, and more particularly to materials and methods for inhibiting the zinc endopeptidase of Botulinum neurotoxin serotypes A, D and/or E (BoNTA, BoNTD and/or BoNTE). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/846187 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404800 | Beaujuge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pierre Marc Beaujuge (Berkeley, California); John J. Reynolds (Gainesville, Florida); Stefan Martin Ellinger (Visp, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre Marc Beaujuge (Berkeley, California); John J. Reynolds (Gainesville, Florida); Stefan Martin Ellinger (Visp, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A soluble donor-acceptor electrochromic polymer (DA-ECP) is prepared that absorbs light throughout at least the majority of the visible range and is essentially black to the human eye when in the neutral state, but is highly transmissive when electrochemically doped. The conjugated polymer has acceptor units separated by sequences of a plurality of donor units. The sequences can be monodispersed or polydispersed. The DA-ECP is prepared by the polycondensation of a plurality of at least one donor-acceptor oligomer (DA-oligomer) that has at least one internal acceptor repeating unit and at least one donor repeating unit on all termini of the oligomer, and optionally, a plurality of at least one donor monomer and/or donor oligomer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/922908 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404850 | Cabell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Allen Cabell (San Antonio, Texas); Joseph A McDonough (Helotes, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Allen Cabell (San Antonio, Texas); Joseph A McDonough (Helotes, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Bis-quaternary pyridinium-aldoxime salts are disclosed, and their associated polymorphic character, along with their methods of preparation. Such polymorphic salts may then be used for treatment of exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors, such as a phosphorous containing cholinesterase inhibitor type compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/047988 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405012 | Herman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Herman (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Deeds (Port Tabacco, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Herman (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Deeds (Port Tabacco, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS type actuator includes a substrate defining a plane; a micro bellows disposed on the substrate and operable to expand in a direction out of a substrate plane, the substrate having an opening therein for fluid flow to the micro bellows; and a ramp disposed above the micro bellows. In a collapsed position of the micro bellows, the ramp is substantially parallel to the plane of the substrate and, in expanded positions of the micro bellows, the micro bellows applies a force to the ramp thereby causing rotation of the ramp in a direction out of the substrate plane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729089 |
| 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 244/3.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405021 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana Z. Anderson (Boulder, Colorado); Evan Salim (Boulder, Colorado); Matthew Squires (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Sterling Eduardo McBride (Princeton, New Jersey); Steven Alan Lipp (West Windsor, New Jersey); Joey John Michalchuk (Lambertville, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado); Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana Z. Anderson (Boulder, Colorado); Evan Salim (Boulder, Colorado); Matthew Squires (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Sterling Eduardo McBride (Princeton, New Jersey); Steven Alan Lipp (West Windsor, New Jersey); Joey John Michalchuk (Lambertville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Cold-atom systems and methods of handling cold atoms are disclosed. A cold-atom system has multiple chambers and a fluidic connection between two of the chambers. One of these two chambers includes an atom source and the other includes an atom chip. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600821 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405069 | Kippelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Perry (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Philoseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Simon Jones (Los Angeles, California); Joshua N. Haddock (Roanoke, Virginia); Xiaohong Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hotchkiss (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Perry (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Philoseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Simon Jones (Los Angeles, California); Joshua N. Haddock (Roanoke, Virginia); Xiaohong Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hotchkiss (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are embodiments of organic thin-film transistors (OTFT) with a gate insulator layer comprised of nanocomposites incorporating metal oxide nanoparticles coated by organic ligands and methods of fabricating such OTFTs. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514358 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405129 | Chuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Te K. Chuang (New York, New York); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te K. Chuang (New York, New York); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A design structure tangibly embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit includes a plurality of bit line structures, a plurality of word line structures intersecting said plurality of bit line structures to form a plurality of cell locations, and a plurality of cells located at said plurality of cell locations, each of said cells being selectively coupled to a corresponding bit line structure under control of a corresponding word line structure, each of said cells comprising a logical storage element having at least a first n-type field effect transistor and at least a first p-type field effect transistor, wherein said at least first n-type field effect transistor is formed with a relatively thick buried oxide layer sized to reduce capacitance of said bit line structures, and said at least first p-type field effect transistor is formed with a relatively thin buried oxide layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450004 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405385 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Double modulation of a magnetoresistive sensor entails modulating both an excitation (e.g., voltage or current) applied to the sensor and a tickling magnetic field applied to the sensor. The excitation and magnetic field are modulated at different frequencies fc and ff, respectively. As a result of the double modulation, the sensor output spectrum includes a carrier tone (CT) at frequency fc and side tones (STs) at frequencies fc±ff. A baseline relation between CT amplitude and ST amplitude is determined (e.g., by measuring CT and ST amplitude while drift occurs in the absence of a sample). During sensor operation, raw ST measurements are corrected using corresponding raw CT measurements to provide corrected ST measurements as the sensor output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661158 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405413 | Carpenter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary D. Carpenter (Austin, Texas); Alan J. Drake (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Robert M. Senger (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Carpenter (Austin, Texas); Alan J. Drake (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Robert M. Senger (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A critical path monitor having selectable data output modes provides additional information about critical path delay variation. A pulse is propagated through a synthesized path representing a critical path in a functional logic circuit and a synthesized path delay is measured by a monitoring circuit that detects the arrival of an edge of the pulse at the output of the synthesized delay. The measured delay is provided as a real-time output and a processed result of the measured delay is processed according to a data output mode selected from multiple selectable output modes, thereby providing different information describing the real-time data about critical path delay, such as a range of edge positions corresponding to a variation of the critical path delay. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861289 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/750.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405469 | Itoh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tatsuo Itoh (Rolling Hills, California); Christophe Caloz (Quebec, Canada); I-Hsiang Lin (Mountain View, California); Hiroshi Okabe (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatsuo Itoh (Rolling Hills, California); Christophe Caloz (Quebec, Canada); I-Hsiang Lin (Mountain View, California); Hiroshi Okabe (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | High-frequency couplers and coupling techniques are described utilizing artificial composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL). Three specific forms of couplers are described; (1) a coupled-line backward coupler is described with arbitrary tight/loose coupling and broad bandwidth; (2) a compact enhanced-bandwidth hybrid ring coupler is described with increased bandwidth and decreased size; and (3) a dual-band branch-line coupler that is not limited to a harmonic relation between the bands. These variations are preferably implemented in a microstrip fabrication process and may use lumped-element components. The couplers and coupling techniques are directed at increasing the utility while decreasing the size of high-frequency couplers, and are suitable for use with separate coupler or couplers integrated within integrated devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/312328 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405494 | Hilger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E Hilger (Reston, Virginia); John D Hodapp (Springfield, Virginia); Sean M Jellish (Fairfax, Virginia); Christopher H Marshall (Alexandria, Virginia); John K Ramsey, Jr. (Annandale, Virginia); Philip Perconti (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E Hilger (Reston, Virginia); John D Hodapp (Springfield, Virginia); Sean M Jellish (Fairfax, Virginia); Christopher H Marshall (Alexandria, Virginia); John K Ramsey, Jr. (Annandale, Virginia); Philip Perconti (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of imaging and non-imaging sensors are used in combination with a graphical user interface (GUI) system on a vehicle to detect items of interest. In particular, a GUI has been developed that seamlessly integrates high magnification, Narrow Field of View (NFOV) imaging sensors and Wide Field of View (WFOV) imaging sensors. The GUI is capable of displaying both WFOV and NFOV images, gimbal controls, and allow NFOV sensor to be pointed to any location within the wide field of view efficiently by a single touch of a touch screen display. The overall goal is to allow an operator to select which imagery from multiple WFOV sensors to display in order to prescreen regions of interest that require further investigation using sensors with more magnification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507831 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405561 | Handy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik S. Handy (Malden, Massachusetts); Joseph M. Kunze (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SI2 Technologies, Inc. (N. Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik S. Handy (Malden, Massachusetts); Joseph M. Kunze (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multifunctional structures and methods of manufacturing multifunctional structures which function as both electronic devices and load-bearing elements are disclosed. The load-bearing elements are designed to have electronic functionality using electronics designed to be load-bearing. The method of manufacturing the multifunctional structure comprises forming an electronic element directly on at least one ply of arbitrarily shaped load-bearing material using conventional lithographic techniques and/or direct write fabrication techniques, and assembling at least two plies of arbitrarily shaped load-bearing material into a multifunctional structure. The multifunctional structure may be part of an aerospace structure, part of a land vehicle, part of a watercraft or part of a spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672972 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405564 | Kindt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rickie W. Kindt (Arlington, Virginia); Mark Kragalott (Woodbridge, Virginia); Mark G Parent (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Gregory C Tavik (Rockville, Maryland) |
| 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); Mark Kragalott (Woodbridge, Virginia); Mark G Parent (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Gregory C Tavik (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-wideband antenna array architecture includes a first array of radiating elements, a second array of radiating elements, and a third array of radiating elements, with their respective element widths proportionately ascending in size. In one configuration, the first array radiating element width is half a wavelength at the highest frequency of operation, the second array element width is twice the first width, and the third array element width is twice the second width. The first, second, and third arrays are positioned in a wavelength-scaled lattice wherein the wavelength scaling is based on design operative frequencies and whereby adjacent actively-radiating elements for an operative frequency are aligned so as to produce constructive interference when powered up. Feed means such as a diplexer with a selected-band frequency control then provides power to each array. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617167 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405574 | Gallahger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis G. Gallahger (Panama City, Florida); William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); William W. Hughes, III (Panama City, Florida); Charles G. Holmes (Panama City, Florida); Richard Manley (Panama City, Florida); Charles M. Edmondson, II (Panama City, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis G. Gallahger (Panama City, Florida); William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); William W. Hughes, III (Panama City, Florida); Charles G. Holmes (Panama City, Florida); Richard Manley (Panama City, Florida); Charles M. Edmondson, II (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for a facemask wearer to view high resolution, high data content, color imagery are provided. A display using organic light emitting diode (OLED) micro-displays provides 800×600 color pixel resolution at 60 Hz. The OLED micro-displays allow for powering the system through a standard Universal Serial Bus (USB) port connected to a compatible sensor system that provides the required power and standard display signal to the OLED display. The display is held away from the user's field of view by a quick release facemask attachment bracket. The bracket can provide for flipping the display up and down, swiveling the display, or rotating the display with one hand. When needed, the display can be flipped down, such that the display is in contact with the facemask faceplate, enabling clear, focused images even in zero visibility water. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806258 |
| ART UNIT | 2695 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405834 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Torun, Poland); Robert Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Torun, Poland); Robert Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of acquiring optical coherence tomographic data from a sample. The method includes the steps of scanning a first location on the sample to obtain a first set of optical coherence tomographic data, scanning a second location on the sample to obtain a second set of optical coherence tomographic data, and defining a fiducial position relative to a location on the sample using one of the two sets of optical coherence tomographic data. In one embodiment, the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is survey data. However, in another embodiment the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is sample measurement data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/979862 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405996 | Shaddock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Mulford Shaddock (Troy, New York); Deng Tao (Clifton Park, New York); Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, New York); Dalong Zhong (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Michael Eastman (Ballston Lake, New York); Kevin Matthew Durocher (Waterford, New York); Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr. (Northville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Mulford Shaddock (Troy, New York); Deng Tao (Clifton Park, New York); Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, New York); Dalong Zhong (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Michael Eastman (Ballston Lake, New York); Kevin Matthew Durocher (Waterford, New York); Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr. (Northville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article and method of forming the article is disclosed. The article includes a heat source, a heat-sink, and a thermal interface element having a plurality of freestanding nanosprings, a top layer, and a bottom layer. The nanosprings, top layer, and the bottom layers of the article include at least one inorganic material. The article can be prepared using a number of methods including the methods such as GLAD and electrochemical deposition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826337 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406045 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene Youjun Chen (Fremont, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Grandis Inc. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Youjun Chen (Fremont, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and magnetic devices associated with a magnetic element are described that includes a presetting fixed layer having a presetting fixed layer magnetization, a free layer having a changeable free layer magnetization, and a fixed layer having a fixed layer magnetization, where a presetting current pulse applied between the presetting fixed layer and free layer operates to preset the free layer magnetization in advance of a write pulse. Techniques and magnetic devices associated with a magnetic element are described that includes a first terminal, a first magnetic tunnel junction, a second terminal, a second magnetic tunnel junction, and a third terminal, where a current pulse applied between the first and second terminal operate to switch the state of the first magnetic tunnel junction and a current applied between the second and third terminal operate to switch the state of the second magnetic tunnel junction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/009818 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406175 | Santivanez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cesar A. Santivanez (Boston, Massachusetts); Gentian Jakllari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cesar A. Santivanez (Boston, Massachusetts); Gentian Jakllari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to systems and methods for communication in a wireless ad hoc network that employs multi-packet reception. The wireless network includes a transmitting node configured to transmit a control packet to a receiving node while other nodes within a transmission range of the transmitting node are involved in ongoing communication. The receiving node is configured to receive the control packet while simultaneously receiving a second packet from a second transmitting node, and to process the control packet without aborting the receiving of the second packet. Methods for transmitting and receiving multiple packets simultaneously are also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709330 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406267 | Ripin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J Ripin (Needham, Massachusetts); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Anish K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Hybl (Nahant, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J Ripin (Needham, Massachusetts); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Anish K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Hybl (Nahant, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state gain element including a thin doped region in which an optical signal propagates through the thin doped region at a large angle with respect to the normal to the thin doped region, reflects at a boundary of the thin doped region, and passes through the thin doped region again. An optical pump beam propagates through the thin doped region also at a large angle with respect to the normal to the thin doped region. In one example, the gain element and source of the pump beam are configured such that there is total internal reflection of the pump beam at the boundary of the thin doped region for a second pumping pass through the thin doped region. In another example, an elliptically symmetric laser beam is used to create a circularly symmetric gain region in the thin doped region. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/389975 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406280 | Draganov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandr Draganov (Reston, Virginia); Franklin M. Haas, Jr. (Hamilton, Virginia); Marc A. Harlacher (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Argon ST, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandr Draganov (Reston, Virginia); Franklin M. Haas, Jr. (Hamilton, Virginia); Marc A. Harlacher (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for mitigating multipath interference of signals in environments to determine the line of sight signal propagation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406456 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406423 | Menendez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Charles Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Charles Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods are provided for transmitting an encrypted data word of two or more bits. This involves identifying a random key word comprising two or more bits for encrypting the data word and identifying a set of unique orthogonal codes. This also involves selecting a code from the set of unique orthogonal codes that corresponds to a result of an exclusive-or (XOR) operation between the two or more bits of the data word and the random key word. This also involves encoding a signal with the code and transmitting the encoded signal as encrypted data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724617 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406493 | Choi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Richard Choi (McLean, Virginia); Les R. Folio (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Richard Choi (McLean, Virginia); Les R. Folio (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for separating diagnostic content of x-ray images from non-diagnostic content in order to achieve an optimum image reproduction and windowing. In particular, a method is provided for displaying a plurality of radiological density images in a single viewing window by overlaying gray scale images of each radiological density image in a single display window. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175308 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406525 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Ma (Champaign, Illinois); Allen Yang Yang (Berkeley, California); John Norbert Wright (Urbana, Illinois); Andrew William Wagner (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Ma (Champaign, Illinois); Allen Yang Yang (Berkeley, California); John Norbert Wright (Urbana, Illinois); Andrew William Wagner (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for recognition of high-dimensional data in the presence of occlusion, including: receiving a target data that includes an occlusion and is of an unknown class, wherein the target data includes a known object; sampling a plurality of training data files comprising a plurality of distinct classes of the same object as that of the target data; and identifying the class of the target data through linear superposition of the sampled training data files using l1 minimization, wherein a linear superposition with a sparsest number of coefficients is used to identify the class of the target data. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865639 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406586 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics Inc. (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a balanced thermal approach to the tuning of an optical time delay device in order to eliminate any long-term time response of the device performance due to thermal time constants of the device, its mount, packaging or electronic temperature control circuits. The invention provides multiple ways to improve the thermal tuning speed of the balanced thermal approach. Additionally, the invention overcomes an issue of microresonator non-uniformity by operating a large group of microresonators as a ‘super-ring’ by tuning the large group together to provide a controllable group delay with large bandwidth. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/897219 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406598 | Christopher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony J. Christopher (Andover, Massachusetts); John C. Briggs (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael Mucci (Upton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | kSARIA Corporation (Methuen, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Christopher (Andover, Massachusetts); John C. Briggs (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael Mucci (Upton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided for shaping an end of an optical fiber. The apparatus may include a frame and a clamp constructed to hold the optical fiber in a fixed location relative to the frame. The apparatus may further include a tip shaper supported by the frame and movable in a first direction toward and away from the clamp, and moveable in a second direction that lies in a plane transverse to the first direction to shape the end of the optical fiber when the tip shaper is placed in contact with the optical fiber. The apparatus may include an abrasive substrate which abrades the end of the fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914420 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406623 | Koka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Michael Oliver McCracken (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Michael Oliver McCracken (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for optical data communication, including: a first sending node including a first data item for transmission to a first receiving node during a first timeslot; a second sending node including a second data item for transmission during a second timeslot; a first optical data link (ODL) and a second ODL; a first output switch configured to switch the first data item from the first sending node onto the first ODL during the first timeslot; a second output switch configured to switch the second data item from the second sending node onto the first ODL during the second timeslot; an optical coupler connecting the first and second ODL; and a first input switch operatively connecting the first receiving node with the second ODL and configured to switch the first data item from the second ODL to the first receiving node during the first timeslot. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/707554 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406834 | Kirichenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HYPRES, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting circuit, and a method, are disclosed for generating pulses with stable frequency. The circuit includes an annular Long Josephson Junction (LJJ) capable of producing electrical pulses of a desired frequency due to a steady bias current applied to the LJJ. The circuit further includes an electrical interface for injecting an RF signal of a first frequency into the annular LJJ, resulting in the desired frequency locking onto the first frequency. Typically the first frequency substantially equals the desired frequency. The injection of the RF signal further results in the decrease of the frequency jitter of the desired frequency. The pulses generated in the loop section of the LJJ are outputted through a tail section of the LJJ, and through transmission lines which couple to the tail section. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/973661 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407010 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Mark W. Eshoo (Solana Beach, California); Vivek Samant (Encinitas, California); Neill White (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Mark W. Eshoo (Solana Beach, California); Vivek Samant (Encinitas, California); Neill White (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA by amplification of a segment of mitochondrial DNA containing restriction sites, digesting the mitochondrial DNA segments with restriction enzymes, determining the molecular masses of the restriction fragments and comparing the molecular masses with the molecular masses of theoretical restriction digests of known mitochondrial DNA sequences stored in a database. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049949 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407020 | Baggenstoss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul M. Baggenstoss (Bonn, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Baggenstoss (Bonn, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for determining frequency and slope of a linear frequency modulated signal. Windowed signal data is collected and used for formulating a search surface function which can be calculated recursively. The function is divided into parts. Part values are calculated at an underspecified number of points corresponding to the number of parts. The search surface function part values are interpolated at values between frequency values. An interpolation geometry is chosen and then the function part values are interpolated at values between frequency values and slopes. Function parts are added together giving a restored search surface function. The frequency and slope values can be searched to find the values that maximize the search surface function. Other embodiments result in faster execution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891918 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407170 | Harrison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory A. Harrison (Oviedo, Florida); Harold W. Nelson (San Diego, California); Ross Hall (Orlando, Florida); Lorie R. Ingraham (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Harrison (Oviedo, Florida); Harold W. Nelson (San Diego, California); Ross Hall (Orlando, Florida); Lorie R. Ingraham (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a root cause of a problem in a multiple-element system includes correlating an incoming alarm signal with an element x in a multiple-element system and accessing an implication list comprising a list of all elements upstream of element x. At least one element on the implication list is weighted with data relating to the at least one element. Taking into account the weighting step, a probability is calculated that an element on the implication list comprises a most-probable root cause of the subsequent alarm signal. The identified most-probable root cause of the incoming alarm signal is output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625944 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407173 | Estock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jamie L. Estock (Washington, District of Columbia); Robert K. McCormack (Somerville, Massachusetts); Emily K M Stelzer (Rockville, Maryland); Kathryn Engel (Ijamsville, Maryland); Amy Alexander Horrey (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aptima, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie L. Estock (Washington, District of Columbia); Robert K. McCormack (Somerville, Massachusetts); Emily K M Stelzer (Rockville, Maryland); Kathryn Engel (Ijamsville, Maryland); Amy Alexander Horrey (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods establish quantitative relationships between system features and system objectives. In some embodiments, the features have a plurality of feature values related to the objective and the methods comprise analyzing a mathematical functional relationship between the plurality of feature values and the objective to create a plurality of objective values reflecting the ability of the feature values to satisfy the objective, selecting a feature value and analyzing the relationship to create an objective value; and generating an objective measure reflecting the objective value. In some embodiments, the mathematical function comprises a polynomial interpolation. In some embodiments, the features are a fidelity dimension and the feature values are values of fidelity in a processor based aircraft simulator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244798 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407263 | Elad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph B. Elad (Claymont, Delaware); Apperson Hunter Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Bin Yu (Wilmington, Delaware); Srikanth V. Kallurkar (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Dale (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quantum Leap Research, Inc. (Claymont, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Elad (Claymont, Delaware); Apperson Hunter Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Bin Yu (Wilmington, Delaware); Srikanth V. Kallurkar (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Dale (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, known as The Collaboration Portal (COPO), relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users. It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits for communities of users, and can efficiently and robustly distribute the processing in behalf of those users over a decentralized network of computers. The field of the invention generally encompasses enabling appropriate and desired communication among communities of users and organizations, and providing information, goods, services, a works, opportunities, and connections among users and organizations. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/021690 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/803 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407275 | Boersma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Michael Kroener (Ehningen, Germany); Silvia M. Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Michael Kroener (Ehningen, Germany); Silvia M. Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A floating point processor unit executes a floating point compare instruction with two operands of the same or different precision by comparing the two operands in integer format, which speeds up the execution of the floating point compare instruction significantly. The floating point processor now executes the floating point compare instruction at least twice as fast or faster (e.g., two clock cycles instead of five clock cycles in the prior art) for nearly most operand cases (e.g., 99% of all cases). Only the rare corner cases require additional operations on one of the operands and thus require additional cycles of execution time because the integer compare operation will not work for these corner cases. This is due to the fact that one operand is a single precision subnormal number in an unnormalized representation (i.e., has two representations) and the other operand is in the SP subnormal range such that the integer compare operation will fail. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255968 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/671 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407492 | Friddell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas H. Friddell (Kent, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Friddell (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed to facilitate power management of asynchronous logic devices to operate asynchronous logic devices at a desired level of processing throughput with minimal power consumption. A plurality of completion signals is received from a processing circuit. Each of the plurality of completion signals identifies an associated operation has been completed by the processing circuit. A plurality of phase signals is generated where the plurality of phase signals includes a respective phase signal generated at a time when each of the plurality of completion signals is expected to be received. A plurality of time differences is determined where each of the time differences is based on a difference between receipt of a completion signal and the respective phase signal generated at the time when the completion signal is expected to be received. A composite difference of the time differences is totaled. A voltage supplied to the processing circuit is adjusted based on the composite difference. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/687676 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407625 | Cohen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Cohen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Glenn Beach (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Brook Cavell (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Gene Foulk (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Jacobus (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jay Obermark (Ann Arbor, Michigan); George Paul (Belleville, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cybernet Systems Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Cohen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Glenn Beach (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Brook Cavell (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Gene Foulk (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Jacobus (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jay Obermark (Ann Arbor, Michigan); George Paul (Belleville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in motion. For example, the leg gestures generated when a person runs are different than when a person walks. The system described here can identify such differences and categorize these behaviors. Gestures, as previously defined, are motions generated by humans, animals, or machines. Multiple gestures on a body (or bodies) are recognized simultaneously and used in determining behaviors. If multiple bodies are tracked by the system, then overall formations and behaviors (such as military goals) can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/412252 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/863 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407639 | Redekopp |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Redekopp (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Redekopp (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for mapping state elements of digital circuits for equivalence verification are provided. One method for mapping state elements for equivalence verification between a first circuit and a second circuit includes (a) determining a first sequential depth from primary inputs and primary outputs of the first circuit and the second circuit to each state element thereof, wherein the first sequential depth is a minimum count of state elements along any path between two points of a circuit, (b) identifying and mapping first state elements of the first circuit and the second circuit having a unique first sequential depth, (c) determining a second sequential depth from the identified first state elements of the first circuit and the second circuit to the remaining state elements, (d) identifying second state elements of the first circuit and the second circuit having a unique second sequential depth, and (e) repeating (c) and (d) unless the process is no longer generating new unique mappings of state elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015504 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barton T. Clark (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barton T. Clark (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for transferring binary instructions from a computer system to an external platform is described herein. The process extracts binary instructions from the computer system. The instructions include a function at a register location. The process disassembles the binary instructions to produce an intermediate representation of the function. An interruption is inserted at the register location linked to a routine call. The process analyzes the intermediate representation for data dependency to identify internal data references for the routine call and external data references to produce a data dependence representation. The process reconfigures the data dependence representation to produce a reconfigured representation, whose control flow logic produces a logic hierarchy representation for the function. The process then translates the logic hierarchy representation to produce a source code of the function that compiles on the external platform to produce an object code to be linked with the binary code upon execution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075289 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407696 | Alpern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bowen Alpern (Peekskill, New York); Glenn S Ammons (Albany, New York); Vasanth Bala (Rye, New York); Todd W Mummert (Danbury, Connecticut); Balachandar Rajaraman (Cary, North Carolina); Darrell Christopher Reimer (Tarrytown, New York); Mark N. Wegman (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bowen Alpern (Peekskill, New York); Glenn S Ammons (Albany, New York); Vasanth Bala (Rye, New York); Todd W Mummert (Danbury, Connecticut); Balachandar Rajaraman (Cary, North Carolina); Darrell Christopher Reimer (Tarrytown, New York); Mark N. Wegman (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for updating an application on a host system includes steps or acts of: installing an application on the host system; installing a virtual machine monitor on the host system, installing a first virtual container on the host system, wherein the first virtual container comprises at least one update to the installed application; and instantiating the first virtual container under the virtual machine monitor in a mode wherein the host system can be accessed but not modified and wherein instantiating the first virtual container includes updating the installed application in the first virtual computer and running the updated application in the first virtual container. The method may also include a step of confirming that the updated application runs properly. Optionally, the virtual container may be devirtualized. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757954 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08403481 | Izatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Ryan P. McNabb (Durhham, North Carolina); Anthony N. Kuo (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Ryan P. McNabb (Durhham, North Carolina); Anthony N. Kuo (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing motion artifacts in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) include scanning a sample with a scan pattern to acquire OCT data at a plurality of data locations. The data locations are distributed in the scan pattern across the sample such that at least some spatially adjacent data locations are acquired non-sequentially in time. A profile of the sample corresponding to a sample surface or an aspect of an internal structure of the sample is estimated responsive the OCT data. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010517 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08403828 | Mawn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louise A. Mawn (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert L. Galloway, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise A. Mawn (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert L. Galloway, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible endoscope for ophthalmic orbital surgery includes a flexible probe housing having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The endoscope also includes an image fiber disposed in the lumen that communicates image information from the distal end of the flexible probe, a purge fluid/gas port disposed at the proximal end of the flexible probe that accepts purge fluid/gas and a purge fluid/gas conduit disposed in the lumen and in fluid communication with the purge fluid/gas port. The fluid/gas conduit delivers purge fluid/gas to the distal end of the endoscope. The endoscope also includes an access conduit disposed in the lumen that receives one of an ablation instrument, a coagulating instrument and a medication delivery instrument. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895635 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08403850 | Varghese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Hao Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Hao Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An elastographic imaging system providing for axial, lateral and elevational strain measurements employs a series of one-dimensional axial measurements to deduce a coarse axial, lateral and/or elevational displacement that is used to guide one or more, two- or three-dimensional cross-correlations of smaller kernels providing improved image resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054830 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404088 | Porco, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Porco, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts); Baudouin Gerard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Porco, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts); Baudouin Gerard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a new strategies for the synthesis of compounds of the rocaglamide family and related natural products. The synthetic approach generally involves photochemical generation of an oxidopyrylium species from a 3-hydroxychromone derivative followed by an enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of the oxidopyrylium species to a dipolarophile in the presence of a TADDOL derivative. This approach can be used for the formation of adducts containing an aglain core structure. Methods of the conversion of aglain core structures to aglain, rocaglamide and forbaglin ring systems are also provided. The present invention also relates to the use of rocaglamide/aglain/forbaglin derivatives for the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of cancer or cancerous conditions, disorders associated with cellular hyperproliferation, or NF-κB-dependent conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423370 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/157.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404244 | Schiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Schiller (Kensington, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (McLean, Virginia); Richard B. S. Roden (Severna Park, Maryland); Ratish Gambhira (Mandeville, Louisiana); Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Schiller (Kensington, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (McLean, Virginia); Richard B. S. Roden (Severna Park, Maryland); Ratish Gambhira (Mandeville, Louisiana); Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method for inducing broadly cross-neutralizing antibodies against cutaneous and mucosal papillomavirus types or against heterologous papillomavirus types in humans comprising administering to a human in need thereof an immunogenic peptide or protein (or polynucleotide encoding therefor), where the immunogenic peptide or protein is: (a) a peptide or protein of at least 10 amino acid residues in length having a sequence corresponding to either a sequence from the N terminal amino acids 1-200 of papillomavirus L2 protein (for cross-neutralizing antibodies against cutaneous and mucosal papillomavirus types) or a sequence from the N terminal amino acids 1-88 of papillomavirus L2 protein (for cross-neutralizing antibodies against heterologous papillomavirus types), (b) a peptide or protein of at least 10 amino acid residues in length with at least 55% identity with the sequence from (a), or (c) a peptide or protein as defined in either (a) or (b) which is conjugated or fused to a protein or peptide other than a papillomavirus L2 protein or peptide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883495 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404247 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Young (San Diego, California); Anette Schneemann (San Diego, California); Marianne Manchester (San Diego, California); Kelly Dryden (San Diego, California); John M. Marlett (San Diego, California); Darly Joseph Manayani (San Diego, California); Godfrey Jonah Anderson Rainey (Kensington, Maryland); Vijay Reddy (San Diego, California); Marc E. Siladi (San Diego, California); Heather M. Scobie (Hamden, Connecticut); Diane Thomas (San Diego, California); Mark Yeager (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Young (San Diego, California); Anette Schneemann (San Diego, California); Marianne Manchester (San Diego, California); Kelly Dryden (San Diego, California); John M. Marlett (San Diego, California); Darly Joseph Manayani (San Diego, California); Godfrey Jonah Anderson Rainey (Kensington, Maryland); Vijay Reddy (San Diego, California); Marc E. Siladi (San Diego, California); Heather M. Scobie (Hamden, Connecticut); Diane Thomas (San Diego, California); Mark Yeager (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antitoxin and vaccine compositions based on nodavirus VLPs are provided. Anthrax antitoxin and vaccine compositions are provided. Methods of treating toxins with VLP-based antitoxins are provided. Methods of raising an immune response with immunogen decorated VLPs are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/167627 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/196.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404442 | Basilico et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Claudio Basilico (New York, New York); Alka Mansukhani (New York, New York); Upal Basu Roy (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudio Basilico (New York, New York); Alka Mansukhani (New York, New York); Upal Basu Roy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to methods for identifying bone anabolic agents and factors, identifying pathways that promote proliferation of osteoblasts for bone growth and/or repair, and for identifying new therapeutic targets for treatments for osteoporosis and other bone degenerative disorders characterized by osteopenia. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832936 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404449 | Bayley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stochastic sensing in which the analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element or an adaptor element. If such bonding is irreversible, the bond may be broken by a chemical reagent. The sensor element may be a protein, such as the engineered PSH type or αHL protein pore. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current, change in force, and change in fluorescence. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429897 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404451 | Halperin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for mass spectrometry and other methods to determine levels of glycated CD59 in subjects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/313517 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404482 | Manel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicolas Manel (New York, New York); Dan R. Littman (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Manel (New York, New York); Dan R. Littman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an in vitro method for promoting differentiation and proliferation of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells). The instant method may be used to generate a population of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells) in vitro. Methods for screening to identify agents capable of modulating Th-IL17+ cell differentiation are also encompassed by the present invention. Isolated, pure populations of homogeneous Th-IL17+ cells that do not express cellular markers characteristic of Th1, Th2, or Treg cells are also encompassed herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/473980 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404635 | Fogelman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan M. Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California); Gattadahalli M. Anantharamaiah (Birmingham, Alabama); Mohamad Navab (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California); Gattadahalli M. Anantharamaiah (Birmingham, Alabama); Mohamad Navab (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel peptides that ameliorate one or more symptoms of atherosclerosis. The peptides are highly stable and readily administered via an oral route. The peptides are effective to stimulate the formation and cycling of pre-beta high density lipoprotein-like particles and/or to promote lipid transport and detoxification. This invention also provides a method of tracking a peptide in a mammal. In addition, the peptides inhibit osteoporosis. When administered with a statin, the peptides enhance the activity of the statin permitting the statin to be used at significantly lower dosages and/or cause the statins to be significantly more anti-inflammatory at any given dose. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180309 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404640 | Dwinell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael B. Dwinell (Elm Grove, Wisconsin); Priscilla A. Johanesen (Victoria, Australia); Michael K. Wendt (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Dwinell (Elm Grove, Wisconsin); Priscilla A. Johanesen (Victoria, Australia); Michael K. Wendt (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of diagnosing carcinoma in a patient, the method comprising providing a sample of colorectal cells from a human patient and analyzing the sample for CXCL12 hypermethylation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255360 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404646 | Schiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter W. Schiller (Montreal, Canada); Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Kesheng Zhao (Jackson Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (New York, New York); Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter W. Schiller (Montreal, Canada); Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Kesheng Zhao (Jackson Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of reducing or preventing mitochondrial permeability transitioning. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide having at least one net positive charge; a minimum of four amino acids; a maximum of about twenty amino acids; a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; and a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 2 a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt+1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/247648 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404650 | Koch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tad H. Koch (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Burkhart (Spokane Valley, Washington); Glen C. Post (Spokane, Washington); Jordan W. Nafie (Jupiter, Florida); Brian T. Kalet (Sunvalley, Nevada); Benjamin L. Barthel (Broomfeld, Colorado); Daniel L. Rudnicki (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tad H. Koch (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Burkhart (Spokane Valley, Washington); Glen C. Post (Spokane, Washington); Jordan W. Nafie (Jupiter, Florida); Brian T. Kalet (Sunvalley, Nevada); Benjamin L. Barthel (Broomfeld, Colorado); Daniel L. Rudnicki (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides therapeutically effective compounds for the prevention and treatment of cancer and pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as methods of using and administering these compounds. The invention also includes methods of activating a prodrug of these therapeutically effective compounds by the administration of a peptide-directed targeting construct that delivers a prodrug-activating enzyme to a target activation site. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/091321 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404655 | Keay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); David Zacharias (Palm Coast, Florida); Sonia L. Planey (St. Augustine, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); David Zacharias (Palm Coast, Florida); Sonia L. Planey (St. Augustine, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally concerns inhibition of a molecule that has a role in post-translational modification of a receptor for antiproliferative factor (APF) of bladder epithelial cells, thereby modulating the APF. In particular, inhibition of DHHC2 activity and/or ZDHHC2 expression results in modulation of APF receptor activity, and in specific aspects such modulation is therapeutic and/or preventative for a bladder condition, such as interstitial cystitis. In addition, inhibition of CKAP4 palmitoylation in certain cases also decreases its activity as a tPA receptor on smooth muscle cells or surfactant A on type II pneumocytes, and/or generally inhibits its function as a cell membrane receptor, cell chaperone molecule, and/or membrane trafficking agent. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600571 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404656 | Karp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher L. Karp (Cincinnati, Ohio); Stuart P. Weisberg (New York, New York); Senad Divanovic (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Karp (Cincinnati, Ohio); Stuart P. Weisberg (New York, New York); Senad Divanovic (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating or preventing diet-induced obesity and/or one or more sequelae thereof in a subject. These methods comprise administering to a subject in need of treatment or at risk for developing diet-induced obesity and/or one or more sequelae thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one inhibitor of RP 105 and/or MD-I activity. Also disclosed are methods of identifying compounds that inhibit development of diet-induced obesity and/or one or more sequelae thereof. In some aspects, these methods comprise: providing at least one first cell comprising TLR4, MD-2. RP105. MD-K and a TLR4-responsive promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a reporter, contacting the at least one first cell with lipopolysaccharide and with a candidate compound; and determining a level of expression of the reporter in the presence of the LPS and the candidate compound, in some aspects, these methods comprise: providing at least one first cell comprising TLR2, TLR1, TLR6, MD-2, RP H/S, MD-K and a TLR2-responsive promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a reporter, contacting the at least one first cell with a lipopepude ligand of TLR2 and with a candidate compound, and determining a level of expression of the reporter in the presence of the lipopeptide ligand of TLR2 and the candidate compound. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672869 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404658 | Hajjar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger J. Hajjar (New York, New York); Wolfgang Ch. Poller (Falkensee, Germany); Henry Fechner (Luckau, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NanoCor Therapeutics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger J. Hajjar (New York, New York); Wolfgang Ch. Poller (Falkensee, Germany); Henry Fechner (Luckau, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to targeted RNAi for the treatment of heart failure by modulating defective cardiac Ca2+ homeostasis via decreasing expression or activity of phospholamban (PLB) using adeno-associated virus (AAV) transfection of cardiomyocytes. Methods for decreasing ventricular arrhythmias, as well as methods for overall improvement of survival from heart failure in subjects are also disclosed. Further, the present invention provides methods which can be used to diagnose susceptibility to treatment by RNAi, and includes pharmaceutical compositions, kits and vectors including an RNAi sequence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/811306 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404665 | Shami |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Shami (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Shami (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method of simultaneously treating both cancer and the Multidrug Resistance Phenotype via inhibition of cellular thiols, such as Glutathione S-Transferase (GST). This enzyme is overproduced in leukemia and solid tumor cells and is one of the main pathways involved in the Multidrug Resistance phenotype. The treatment provides for the administration of a chemically inert pro-drug, designed to be a specific substrate for the GST enzyme that, once cleaved, liberates the bioactive toxin Nitric Oxide (NO) intracellularly at the site of a malignant growth. NO then acts to inhibit the growth of the malignant cells and to induce cellular differentiation and apoptosis therein, effectively treating an existing cancerous condition. Additionally, once NO is liberated from the pro-drug, the remaining structure acts to inhibit further GST activity, providing a treatment for the Multidrug Resistant phenotype. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508744 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404669 | Cance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William G. Cance (Gainesville, Florida); Elena Kurenova (Gainesville, Florida); Vita Golubovskaya (Gainesville, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Cance (Gainesville, Florida); Elena Kurenova (Gainesville, Florida); Vita Golubovskaya (Gainesville, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to protein binding inhibitor compounds and methods of identifying and using them. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating a variety of diseases and disorders, including cell proliferative disorders, especially cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283826 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404671 | Turos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Praveen Ramaraju (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Praveen Ramaraju (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to heterosubstituted N-thiolated beta-lactams, compositions comprising these compounds, methods for their production, and methods of use as antibiotics to inhibit the growth of bacteria. In one embodiment, the compounds have the structure shown in formula (A) or formula (B) or formula (C): wherein the R groups are as defined in the specification. The antibacterial agents of the invention can be administered to a human or animal to treat or inhibit bacterial infection, such as that of Staphylococcus species, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/951778 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404752 | Bullock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | M. Ross Bullock (Miami, Florida); Bruce Spiess (Manakin-Sabot, Virginia); Deborah P. Thompson (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Costa Mesa, California); Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Ross Bullock (Miami, Florida); Bruce Spiess (Manakin-Sabot, Virginia); Deborah P. Thompson (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for methods of treating a subject suffering from central nervous system injury, including traumatic brain injury, comprising administering to the subject an amount of a perfluorocarbon. This invention also provides for use of a perfluorocarbon in the manufacture of a medicament for treating a subject suffering from central nervous system injury including traumatic brain injury. This invention further provides for a pharmaceutical composition comprising a perfluorocarbon for use in treating a subject suffering from central nervous system injury, including traumatic brain injury. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460409 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/759 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404758 | Bowman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Timothy F. Scott (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Timothy F. Scott (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for inducing reversible chain cleavage of polymer chains in a crosslinked polymeric material. Reversible cleavage of the polymer backbone is capable of relieving stress in the polymeric material as the bonds reform in a less stressed state. The invention also provides methods for making polymeric materials capable of reversible chain cleavage, materials made by the methods of the invention, and linear monomers containing reversible chain cleavage groups which are useful in the materials and methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/109400 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404805 | Nicchitta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher V. Nicchitta (Durham, North Carolina); James J. Wassenberg (Durham, North Carolina); Meredith F. N. Rosser (Durham, North Carolina); Robyn C. Reed (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher V. Nicchitta (Durham, North Carolina); James J. Wassenberg (Durham, North Carolina); Meredith F. N. Rosser (Durham, North Carolina); Robyn C. Reed (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter discloses characterization of interactions between ligands and Hsp90 proteins, including GRP94, wherein ligand binding to the N-terminal nucleotide binding domain of GRP94 elicits a conformational change that converts the GRP94 from an inactive to an active conformation, and wherein the chaperone and peptide-binding activities of the GRP94 are markedly stimulated. Also disclosed are purification, screening, and therapeutic methods pertaining to the biological activity of GRP94, and in some instances HSP90, based upon the characterization of ligand interactions of Hsp90 peptide-binding proteins, including GRP94. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573618 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404806 | Buck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martina Buck (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martina Buck (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated peptides of a BRCA1 domain, which bind to p53 cognate DNA and stimulate transcription activities and cancer cell apoptosis. Nucleic acids encoding the peptides, and methods of expression thereof, are also provided. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use thereof, for treating breast and ovarian cancer using the peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/849261 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404807 | Cohen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California); Limin Li (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California); Limin Li (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | TSG101 is a tumor susceptibility gene whose homozygous functional knock out in fibroblasts leads to transformation and the ability of these cells to form metastatic tumors in nude mice. The cellular transformation that results from inactivation of TSG101 is reversible by restoration of TSG101 function. Decreased expression of TSG101 is associated with the occurrence of certain human cancers, including breast carcinomas. The TSG101 nucleic acid compositions find use in identifying homologous or related proteins and the DNA sequences encoding such proteins; in producing compositions that modulate the expression or function of the protein; and in studying associated physiological pathways. In addition, modulation of the gene activity in vivo is used for prophylactic and therapeutic purposes, such as treatment of cancer, identification of cell type based on expression, and the like. The DNA is further used as a diagnostic for a genetic predisposition to cancer, and to identify specific cancers having mutations in this gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/116911 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404817 | Sherman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); Robert E. Reiter (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); Robert E. Reiter (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) is expressed in the majority of prostate cancer patients, making it an ideal target for cancer immunotherapy. Murine monoclonal antibody 1G8 binds to PSCA with nanomolar affinity, but its efficacy as a therapeutic agent is limited by the generation of a HAMA response. The present invention discloses humanized 1G8 antibodies in which the majority of the mouse-derived epitopes have been removed. These humanized antibodies bind PSCA with high affinity and specificity, and have been shown to reduce human bladder tumor take in a nude mouse model. These characteristics make the humanized antibodies of the present invention attractive agents for the treatment and detection of tumors expressing PSCA. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/308783 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404818 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhaochun Chen (Potomac, Maryland); Patricia Earl (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhaochun Chen (Potomac, Maryland); Patricia Earl (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Orthopoxviruses. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining B5 or A33 binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining B5 or A33 binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/038613 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404829 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Yinghui Guan (South San Francisco, California); Wen-Lin Kuo (San Ramon, California); Jane Fridlyand (San Francisco, California); Gordon B. Mills (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Yinghui Guan (South San Francisco, California); Wen-Lin Kuo (San Ramon, California); Jane Fridlyand (San Francisco, California); Gordon B. Mills (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Cancer markers may be developed to detect diseases characterized by increased expression of apoptosis-suppressing genes, such as aggressive cancers. Genes in the human chromosomal regions, 8q24, 11q13, 20q11-q13, were found to be amplified indicating in vivo drug resistance in diseases such as ovarian cancer. Diagnosis and assessment of amplification levels certain genes shown to be amplified, including PVT1, can be useful in prediction of poor outcome of patient's response and drug resistance in ovarian cancer patients with low survival rates. Certain genes were found to be high priority therapeutic targets by the identification of recurrent aberrations involving genome sequence, copy number and/or gene expression are associated with reduced survival duration in certain diseases and cancers, specifically ovarian cancer. Therapeutics to inhibit amplification and inhibitors of one of these genes, PVT1, target drug resistance in ovarian cancer patients with low survival rates is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814798 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404838 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Garland R. Marshall (Clayton, Missouri); Linda J. Pike (Clayton, Missouri); Robert Yang (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garland R. Marshall (Clayton, Missouri); Linda J. Pike (Clayton, Missouri); Robert Yang (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The teachings relate to methods of identifying inhibitors of dimerization of tyrosine receptor kinases such as EGFR. The methods comprise providing, on a digital computer, a molecular model comprising a complex of extracellular dimerization domains of an RTK, docking a chemical databases to the molecular model, scoring the compounds comprised by the database, and identifying one or more high-scoring compounds. The methods further comprise testing a compound for RTK inhibitory activity in vitro, and testing a compound for specificity as an RTK inhibitor. Also disclosed are compounds selected by the described methods, and methods of treatment using the compounds. Two compounds (NSC11241 and NSC56452) are disclosed that inhibit EGF receptor kinase activation in a dose-dependent manner. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157472 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404874 | DeLuca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hector F. DeLuca (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Pawel Grzywacz (Madison, Wisconsin); James B. Thoden (Madison, Wisconsin); Hazel Holden (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector F. DeLuca (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Pawel Grzywacz (Madison, Wisconsin); James B. Thoden (Madison, Wisconsin); Hazel Holden (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of purifying (20R,25S)-2-methylene-19,26-dinor-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to obtain (20R,25S)-2-methylene-19,26-dinor-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in crystalline form. The method includes the steps of preparing a solvent of methanol and water, dissolving a product containing (20R,25S)-2-methylene-19,26-dinor-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to be purified in the solvent, cooling the solvent and dissolved product below ambient temperature for a sufficient amount of time to form a precipitate of (20R,25S)-2-methylene-19,26-dinor-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 crystals, and recovering the (20R,25S)-2-methylene-19,26-dinor-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 crystals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/247600 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 552/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405385 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Double modulation of a magnetoresistive sensor entails modulating both an excitation (e.g., voltage or current) applied to the sensor and a tickling magnetic field applied to the sensor. The excitation and magnetic field are modulated at different frequencies fc and ff, respectively. As a result of the double modulation, the sensor output spectrum includes a carrier tone (CT) at frequency fc and side tones (STs) at frequencies fc±ff. A baseline relation between CT amplitude and ST amplitude is determined (e.g., by measuring CT and ST amplitude while drift occurs in the absence of a sample). During sensor operation, raw ST measurements are corrected using corresponding raw CT measurements to provide corrected ST measurements as the sensor output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661158 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405392 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin-Hong Chen (Forest Hills, New York); Samuel Singer (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Hong Chen (Forest Hills, New York); Samuel Singer (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for corrected nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data include applying a presaturation radio frequency (RF) magnetic field different from a fat molecule resonance for a particular time to a target tissue; and applying a first measurement RF magnetic field within a first time after the particular time. Correction nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data from the target tissue is determined based on first NMR data received in response to applying the first measurement RF magnetic field. In some embodiments, a second measurement RF magnetic field is also applied in a second time different from both the particular time and the first time. Corrected NMR data is determined by subtracting the correction NMR data from second NMR data received in response to applying the second measurement RF magnetic field. Among other applications, these techniques allow distinguishing either fat or proteins in edemas, or both, from proteins in other tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643235 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405393 | Tseitlin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Tseitlin (Denver, Colorado); Richard Quine (Littleton, Colorado); George Rinard (Longmont, Colorado); Gareth Eaton (Denver, Colorado); Sandra Eaton (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado Seminary, which owns and operates the University of Denver (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Tseitlin (Denver, Colorado); Richard Quine (Littleton, Colorado); George Rinard (Longmont, Colorado); Gareth Eaton (Denver, Colorado); Sandra Eaton (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems and methods for detecting electron spins using electron paramagnetic resonance are described. An excitation signal generator configured to generate an excitation signal of varying amplitude and phase as compared to a reference signal may be present. A crossed loop resonator configured to isolate a detection signal produced by the excitation signal exciting an object with a magnetic field may also be preset. Further, a detection device configured to detect electron spins of the object using the detection signal isolated by the crossed loop resonator may be present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942386 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405395 | Setsompop et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kawin Setsompop (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kawin Setsompop (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for multi-slice magnetic resonance imaging, in which image data is acquired simultaneously from multiple slice locations using a radio frequency coil array, is provided. By way of example, a modified EPI pulse sequence is provided, and includes a series of magnetic gradient field “blips” that are applied along a slice-encoding direction contemporaneously with phase-encoding blips common to EPI sequences. The slice-encoding blips are designed such that phase accruals along the phase-encoding direction are substantially mitigated, while providing that signal information for each sequentially adjacent slice location is cumulatively shifted by a percentage of the imaging FOV. This percentage FOV shift in the image domain provides for more reliable separation of the aliased signal information using parallel image reconstruction methods such as SENSE. In addition, the mitigation of phase accruals in the phase-encoding direction provides for the substantial suppression of pixel tilt and blurring in the reconstructed images. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761314 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405834 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Torun, Poland); Robert Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Torun, Poland); Robert Huber (Schnaitsee, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of acquiring optical coherence tomographic data from a sample. The method includes the steps of scanning a first location on the sample to obtain a first set of optical coherence tomographic data, scanning a second location on the sample to obtain a second set of optical coherence tomographic data, and defining a fiducial position relative to a location on the sample using one of the two sets of optical coherence tomographic data. In one embodiment, the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is survey data. However, in another embodiment the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is sample measurement data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/979862 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406498 | Ortyn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus George (Seattle, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus George (Seattle, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal or multispectral images of cells comprising a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric image features identifiable in the images are used to identify differences between first and second populations of cells. The differences can include changes in a relative percentage of different cell types in each population, or a change in a first type of cell present in the first population of cells and the same type of cell in the second population of cells. The changes may be indicative of a disease state, indicative of a relative effectiveness of a therapy, or indicative of a health of the person from whom the cells populations were obtained. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631795 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406849 | Jeong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eun-Kee Jeong (North Salt Lake City, Utah); Dennis L. Parker (Centerville, Utah); Kim Seong-Eun Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Evgueni G. Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eun-Kee Jeong (North Salt Lake City, Utah); Dennis L. Parker (Centerville, Utah); Kim Seong-Eun Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Evgueni G. Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for operating an MRI system is provided. The disclosure provides a diffusion-prepared driven-equilibrium preparation for an imaging volume and acquiring 3-dimensional k-space data from said prepared volume by a plurality of echoplanar readouts of stimulated echoes. An excitation radio-frequency signal and first and second inversion RF signals are provided to define a field-of-view (FOV). |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732382 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406858 | Werahera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Priya N. Werahera (Aurora, Colorado); John Daily (Lafayette, Colorado); M. Scott Lucia (Larkspur, Colorado); Adrie van Bokhoven (Denver, Colorado); E. David Crawford (Denver, Colorado); Frank Barnes (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Priya N. Werahera (Aurora, Colorado); John Daily (Lafayette, Colorado); M. Scott Lucia (Larkspur, Colorado); Adrie van Bokhoven (Denver, Colorado); E. David Crawford (Denver, Colorado); Frank Barnes (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for in vivo classification of tissue are disclosed. The tissue is irradiated with light from multiple light sources and light scattered and fluoresced from the tissue is received. Distinct emissions of the sample are identified from the received light. An excitation emission matrix is generated (1002). On-diagonal and off diagonal components of the excitation emission matrix are identified (1004, 1006, 1008). Spectroscopic measures are derived from the excitation emission matrix (1014), and are compared to a database of known spectra (1016) permitting the tissue to be classified as benign or malignant (1018). An optical biopsy needle or an optical probe may be used to contemporaneously classify and sample tissue for pathological confirmation of diagnosis. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913042 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406859 | Zuzak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karel Zuzak (Arlington, Texas); Jeffrey A. Cadeddu (Dallas, Texas); Rafael Ufret-Vincenty (Dallas, Texas); Robert P. Francis (Lewisville, Texas); Edward Livingston (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karel Zuzak (Arlington, Texas); Jeffrey A. Cadeddu (Dallas, Texas); Rafael Ufret-Vincenty (Dallas, Texas); Robert P. Francis (Lewisville, Texas); Edward Livingston (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hyperspectral imaging system having an optical path. The system including an illumination source adapted to output a light beam, the light beam illuminating a target, a dispersing element arranged in the optical path and adapted to separate the light beam into a plurality of wavelengths, a digital micromirror array adapted to tune the plurality of wavelengths into a spectrum, an optical device having a detector and adapted to collect the spectrum reflected from the target and arranged in the optical path and a processor operatively connected to and adapted to control at least one of: the illumination source; the dispersing element; the digital micromirror array; the optical device; and, the detector, the processor further adapted to output a hyperspectral image of the target. The dispersing element is arranged between the illumination source and the digital micromirror array, the digital micromirror array is arranged to transmit the spectrum to the target and the optical device is arranged in the optical path after the target. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538616 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406861 | Bigio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Irving J. Bigio (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Roberto Reif (Seattle, Washington); Ousama A'Amar (Dedham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving J. Bigio (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Roberto Reif (Seattle, Washington); Ousama A'Amar (Dedham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring light scattering and absorption properties of a tissue, the device comprising: a probe comprising first and second optical fibers for irradiation and detection. The optical fibers are substantially parallel to each other at the distal end, and are separated by a distance of less than 2 mm, wherein said first and second optical fibers are arranged in said probe at an angle, 6=10 deg. to 45 deg., to the plane perpendicular to the distal end of said probe and wherein the tips of the optical fibers at the distal end are polished parallel to the plane perpendicular to the distal end of said probe. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/593016 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406862 | Hopenfeld |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce Hopenfeld (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angel Medical Systems, Inc. (Fair Haven, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Hopenfeld (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An acute ischemia monitor is disclosed. The monitor, which includes an analog to digital convertor and a processor that performs beat detection, monitors the time course of a heart signal parameter, namely ST segment deviation, computed from an electrocardiogram. The device stores ST deviation statistics for multiple leads. For each lead, upper and lower ST deviation boundaries are computed. For each lead, current ST deviation values are compared with the statistical values to determine a metric indicative of the degree of abnormality of a current ST deviation value. The metric is equal to the difference between the current ST deviation value and the upper or lower boundary, normalized according to the dispersion of the ST deviation. Metrics from different leads are summed and compared to a threshold to determine whether the combined metric is indicative of a cardiac event. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945039 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/516 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406887 | Ok et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an improved hermetic package for implantation in the human body. The implantable device includes an electrically non-conductive substrate with electrically conductive vias. A flip-chip circuit is attached to the substrate using conductive bumps and electrically connected to a first subset of the vias. The flip-chip circuit can contain one or more stacks or a folded stack. A wire-bonded circuit is also attached to the substrate and electrically connected to a second subset of the vias. A cover is bonded to the substrate. The cover, substrate, and vias form an improved hermetic package for implantation. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224104 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08402703 | Brandt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Michael Brandt (Walnut Creek, California); Stephan K. Barsun (Davis, California); Nathaniel T. Coleman (Oakland, California); Yin Zhou (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Michael Brandt (Walnut Creek, California); Stephan K. Barsun (Davis, California); Nathaniel T. Coleman (Oakland, California); Yin Zhou (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mounting support for a photovoltaic module is described. The mounting support includes a foundation having an integrated wire-way ledge portion. A photovoltaic module support mechanism is coupled with the foundation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625363 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08402843 | Nance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Frank T. McCoy (Barnwell, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Frank T. McCoy (Barnwell, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample collection vial and process of using a vial is provided. The sample collection vial has an opening secured by a dissolvable plug. When dissolved, liquids may enter into the interior of the collection vial passing along one or more edges of a dissolvable blocking member. As the blocking member is dissolved, a spring actuated closure is directed towards the opening of the vial which, when engaged, secures the vial contents against loss or contamination. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/735317 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08403223 | Lewis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Linda A. Lewis (Andersonville, Tennessee); Glenn O. Allgood (Powell, Tennessee); Robert W. Smithwick, III (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda A. Lewis (Andersonville, Tennessee); Glenn O. Allgood (Powell, Tennessee); Robert W. Smithwick, III (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A taggant composition including a taggant material that is invisible in light of the visible spectrum and fluoresces under a non-visible excitation energy, a binder, and a solvent in which the taggant material and the binder are dissolved. The taggant composition can be printed or otherwise applied to a material such as fabric to provide a detectable and identifiable indicium. A method and apparatus for detecting and decoding the taggant indicium are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026016 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404449 | Bayley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hagan Bayley (College Station, Texas); Seong-Ho Shin (College Station, Texas); Tudor Luchian (College Station, Texas); Stephen Cheley (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stochastic sensing in which the analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element or an adaptor element. If such bonding is irreversible, the bond may be broken by a chemical reagent. The sensor element may be a protein, such as the engineered PSH type or αHL protein pore. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current, change in force, and change in fluorescence. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429897 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404570 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Erik C. Scher (San Francisco, California); Liberato Manna (Lecce, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Erik C. Scher (San Francisco, California); Liberato Manna (Lecce, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Graded core/shell semiconductor nanorods and shapped nanorods are disclosed comprising Group II-VI, Group III-V and Group IV semiconductors and methods of making the same. Also disclosed are nanorod barcodes using core/shell nanorods where the core is a semiconductor or metal material, and with or without a shell. Methods of labeling analytes using the nanorod barcodes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938870 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404613 | Adzic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Alexander Harris (East Setauket, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Alexander Harris (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | High-surface-area carbon nanostructures coated with a smooth and conformal submonolayer-to-multilayer thin metal films and their method of manufacture are described. The preferred manufacturing process involves the initial oxidation of the carbon nanostructures followed by immersion in a solution with the desired pH to create negative surface dipoles. The nanostructures are subsequently immersed in an alkaline solution containing non-noble metal ions which adsorb at surface reaction sites. The metal ions are then reduced via chemical or electrical means and the nanostructures are exposed to a solution containing a salt of one or more noble metals which replace adsorbed non-noble surface metal atoms by galvanic displacement. Subsequent film growth may be performed via the initial quasi-underpotential deposition of a non-noble metal followed by immersion in a solution comprising a more noble metal. The resulting coated nanostructures may be used, for example, as high-performance electrodes in supercapacitors, batteries, or other electric storage devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709836 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404631 | Cary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen P. L. Cary (San Mateo, California); Elizabeth M. Boon (Stony Brook, New York); Emily Weinert (Berkeley, California); Jonathan A. Winger (Oakland, California); Michael A. Marletta (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. L. Cary (San Mateo, California); Elizabeth M. Boon (Stony Brook, New York); Emily Weinert (Berkeley, California); Jonathan A. Winger (Oakland, California); Michael A. Marletta (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | H-NOX proteins are mutated to exhibit improved or optimal kinetic and thermodynamic properties for blood gas O2 delivery. The engineered H-NOX proteins comprise mutations that impart altered O2 or NO ligand-binding relative to the corresponding wild-type H-NOX domain, and are operative as physiologically compatible mammalian blood O2 gas carriers. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and methods that use wild-type or mutant H-NOX proteins for the treatment of any condition for which delivery of O2 is beneficial. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302002 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404632 | Cary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen P. L. Cary (San Mateo, California); Elizabeth M. Boon (Stony Brook, New York); Jonathan A. Winger (Oakland, California); Michael A. Marletta (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. L. Cary (San Mateo, California); Elizabeth M. Boon (Stony Brook, New York); Jonathan A. Winger (Oakland, California); Michael A. Marletta (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | H-NOX proteins are mutated to exhibit improved or optimal kinetic and thermodynamic properties for blood gas NO delivery. The engineered H-NOX proteins comprise mutations that impart altered NO or O2 ligand-binding relative to the corresponding wild-type H-NOX domain, and are operative as physiologically compatible mammalian blood NO gas carriers. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and methods that use wild-type or mutant H-NOX proteins for the treatment of any condition for which delivery of NO is beneficial. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302004 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404829 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Yinghui Guan (South San Francisco, California); Wen-Lin Kuo (San Ramon, California); Jane Fridlyand (San Francisco, California); Gordon B. Mills (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Yinghui Guan (South San Francisco, California); Wen-Lin Kuo (San Ramon, California); Jane Fridlyand (San Francisco, California); Gordon B. Mills (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Cancer markers may be developed to detect diseases characterized by increased expression of apoptosis-suppressing genes, such as aggressive cancers. Genes in the human chromosomal regions, 8q24, 11q13, 20q11-q13, were found to be amplified indicating in vivo drug resistance in diseases such as ovarian cancer. Diagnosis and assessment of amplification levels certain genes shown to be amplified, including PVT1, can be useful in prediction of poor outcome of patient's response and drug resistance in ovarian cancer patients with low survival rates. Certain genes were found to be high priority therapeutic targets by the identification of recurrent aberrations involving genome sequence, copy number and/or gene expression are associated with reduced survival duration in certain diseases and cancers, specifically ovarian cancer. Therapeutics to inhibit amplification and inhibitors of one of these genes, PVT1, target drug resistance in ovarian cancer patients with low survival rates is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814798 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405006 | Staab |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Torsten Albert Staab (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Torsten Albert Staab (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for heating a biological sample, the device having a heating source comprising a semiconductor chip. A sample chamber, or other medium to be heated, is positioned adjacent the heating source, wherein the sample chamber is configured to house a biological sample at a predetermined temperature. A microcontroller is electrically coupled to the semiconductor chip and a sensor positioned inside, at, or near the sample chamber. The microcontroller supplies a load current to the heating source to generate heat from the heating source, and the sensor is coupled to the microcontroller to provide feedback for controlling the heat generated by the heating source. The device may also support different heating profiles that are software and/or hardware selectable. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242847 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405233 | Blizzard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Blizzard (Bay City, Michigan); James Steven Tonge (Sanford, Michigan); William Kenneth Weidner (Bay City, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Corning Corporation (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Blizzard (Bay City, Michigan); James Steven Tonge (Sanford, Michigan); William Kenneth Weidner (Bay City, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible barrier film has a thickness of from greater than zero to less than 5,000 nanometers and a water vapor transmission rate of no more than 1×10−2 g/m2/day at 22° C. and 47% relative humidity. The flexible barrier film is formed from a composition, which comprises a multi-functional acrylate. The composition further comprises the reaction product of an alkoxy-functional organometallic compound and an alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound. A method of forming the flexible barrier film includes the steps of disposing the composition on a substrate and curing the composition to form the flexible barrier film. The flexible barrier film may be utilized in organic electronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/144362 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405347 | Gale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allan Roy Gale (Livonia, Michigan); Paul Theodore Momcilovich (Tecumseh, Michigan); Michael W. Degner (Novi, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan Roy Gale (Livonia, Michigan); Paul Theodore Momcilovich (Tecumseh, Michigan); Michael W. Degner (Novi, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An automotive vehicle power system includes a battery charger having an input and output. The battery charger receives electrical energy via the input when the input is electrically connected with an electrical energy source. The battery charger also reduces a current provided at the output from a commanded value to a target value that varies according to a voltage at the input if the voltage at the input falls within a predetermined range of voltages. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/897323 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406491 | Gee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy F. Gee (Knoxville, Tennessee); James S. Goddard (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy F. Gee (Knoxville, Tennessee); James S. Goddard (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Image registration of low contrast image sequences is provided. In one aspect, a desired region of an image is automatically segmented and only the desired region is registered. Active contours and adaptive thresholding of intensity or edge information may be used to segment the desired regions. A transform function is defined to register the segmented region, and sub-pixel information may be determined using one or more interpolation methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117478 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406567 | Pizlo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system processes 2D images of 2D or 3D objects, creating a model of the object that is consistent with the image and as veridical as the perception of the 2D image by humans. Vertices of the object that are hidden in the image are recovered by using planarity and symmetry constraints. The 3D shape is recovered by maximizing 3D compactness of the recovered object and minimizing its surface area. In some embodiments, these two criteria are weighted by using the geometric mean. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581604 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406837 | Gillies et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George T. Gillies (Charlottesville, Virginia); Helen Fillmore (Richmond, Virginia); William C. Broaddus (Midlothian, Virginia); Boyd M. Evans, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Stephen W. Allison (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George T. Gillies (Charlottesville, Virginia); Helen Fillmore (Richmond, Virginia); William C. Broaddus (Midlothian, Virginia); Boyd M. Evans, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Stephen W. Allison (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A functionalized tip is incorporated into catheters for the cytometric delivery of cells into the brain and other body parts. For use in the brain, the tip forms part of a neurosurgical probe having a proximal end and a distal end. In addition to the functionalized tip, the probe has at least one cell slurry delivery lumen and a plurality of optical fibers configured along the probe, terminating in the tip to provide the photo-optical capability needed to monitor the viability and physiological behavior of the grafted cells as well as certain characteristics of the cellular environment. Details are also presented of the use of a neurocatheter having a cytometric tip of the type disclosed in the invention, as employed within the context of a feedback and control system for regulating the number of cells delivered to the brain of a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513258 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08402711 | Lusk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig Perry Lusk (Lutz, Florida); Paul Joseph Montalbano (St. Cloud, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Perry Lusk (Lutz, Florida); Paul Joseph Montalbano (St. Cloud, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Multistable shape-shifting surfaces that retain their effectiveness as physical barriers while undergoing changes in shape and that can remain stable in the various shapes. The shape changes include any motion that makes the surface more effective at performing its function, such as expansion, shrinkage, twisting, encircling, wiggling, swallowing or constricting. The shape-shifting surfaces include tiled arrays of polygonal cells, each cell including specifically-designed compliant flexures attached to specifically-shaped overlapping thin plates or shells. The surfaces remain stable by leveraging them during deformation to an extent that they cannot spontaneously return to the unstressed shape. Applications for such surfaces include micro-scale cellular engineering and macro-scale biomedical applications, recreational uses, national security, and environmental protection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484680 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/646 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08403557 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Li (Shoreline, Washington); Hai Wang (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Li (Shoreline, Washington); Hai Wang (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromixer is fabricated using a selective high intensity focused ultrasound foaming technique. The micromixer employs a 3D porous region for effective mixing. The 3D porous micromixer can achieve sufficient mixing results with a short mixing length for flows with a Reynolds number as low as 0.1. The fabrication process of the micromixer is rapid, low-cost, and biocompatible. The pore size of the micromixer can be controlled by adjusting the selective high intensity focused ultrasound foaming parameters. The micromixer has potential for use in lab-on-a-chip and micro-total-analysis devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863077 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404212 | Norton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Grant Norton (Pullman, Washington); David McIlroy (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington); Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant Norton (Pullman, Washington); David McIlroy (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for storing hydrogen. One embodiment of such a method comprises providing a storage apparatus having a substrate and a nanostructure mat on at least a portion of a side of the substrate. The nanostructure mat comprises a plurality of nanostructures having a surface ionization state which causes more than one layer of hydrogen to adsorb onto the nanostructures. The method can also include exposing the nanostructure mat to hydrogen such that more than one layer of hydrogen adsorbs onto the nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836728 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404224 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Cationic polymers hydrolyzable to zwitterionic polymers, monomers for making the cationic polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, therapeutic agent delivery systems that include the cationic polymers, methods for administering a therapeutic agent using the delivery systems, and methods for making and using the cationic polymers, monomers, surfaces, and therapeutic agent delivery systems. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619589 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404313 | Kumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashok Kumar (Tampa, Florida); Manoj Kumar Singh (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok Kumar (Tampa, Florida); Manoj Kumar Singh (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method for the synthesis of nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) wires by depositing nanocrystalline diamond on Si nanowires using chemical vapor deposition methods. Seeding the nanowires in solutions containing nanodiamond powers, NCD wires are fabricated in typical CVD growth conditions within a very short time. NCD wires were 0.5-5 μm in diameter, depending on the growth time, with lengths in the range of 20-100 μm. The average elastic modulus determined by nanoindentation is 474.16±13.48 GPa. The unique mechanical properties of the NCD wire make it a potential material for active components of both electronic and electromechanical devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689575 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404825 | Tittiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Claus Tittiger (Reno, Nevada); Rubi Figueroa-Teran (Reno, Nevada); Gary J. Blomquist (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claus Tittiger (Reno, Nevada); Rubi Figueroa-Teran (Reno, Nevada); Gary J. Blomquist (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method and enzyme for forming various compounds, such as monoterpenes and monoterpenoid compounds. In a specific example, the present disclosure provides a method for producing one or more of (−)-ipsdienol, (−)-ipsenol, ipsenone, and ipsdienone. The present disclosure also provides methods of using compounds formed from the disclosed method and enzyme. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/947708 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404890 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Dumesic (Madison, Wisconsin); Mei Chia (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Madison, Wisconsin); Mei Chia (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a method of making sorbic acid, pentadiene, or 3-penten-2-one. The method includes partially hydrogenating 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2-pyrone (HMP) to yield 5,6-dihydro-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (4-DHMMP). Then, if 3-penten-2-one is desired, thermally decomposing the 4-DHMMP to yield 3-penten-2-one. If sorbic acid or pentadiene are desired, the 4-DHMMP is hydrogenated to yield 4-hydroxy-6-methyltetrahydro-2-pyrone (4-HMTHP). The 4-HMTHP is then dehydrated by contacting it with a solid acid catalyst to yield parasorbic acid (PSA). The PSA can then be ring-opened by contacting it with a solid acid catalyst. The reaction conditions of the ring-opening reaction can be controlled to yield sorbic acid and/or pentadiene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943433 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405069 | Kippelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Perry (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Philoseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Simon Jones (Los Angeles, California); Joshua N. Haddock (Roanoke, Virginia); Xiaohong Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hotchkiss (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Perry (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Philoseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Simon Jones (Los Angeles, California); Joshua N. Haddock (Roanoke, Virginia); Xiaohong Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hotchkiss (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are embodiments of organic thin-film transistors (OTFT) with a gate insulator layer comprised of nanocomposites incorporating metal oxide nanoparticles coated by organic ligands and methods of fabricating such OTFTs. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514358 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405385 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew A. Hall (Stanford, California); Richard Gaster (Los Altos, California); Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Double modulation of a magnetoresistive sensor entails modulating both an excitation (e.g., voltage or current) applied to the sensor and a tickling magnetic field applied to the sensor. The excitation and magnetic field are modulated at different frequencies fc and ff, respectively. As a result of the double modulation, the sensor output spectrum includes a carrier tone (CT) at frequency fc and side tones (STs) at frequencies fc±ff. A baseline relation between CT amplitude and ST amplitude is determined (e.g., by measuring CT and ST amplitude while drift occurs in the absence of a sample). During sensor operation, raw ST measurements are corrected using corresponding raw CT measurements to provide corrected ST measurements as the sensor output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661158 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405618 | Colgate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Peshkin (Chicago, Illinois); John Glassmire (Chicago, Illinois); Laura Winfield (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Peshkin (Chicago, Illinois); John Glassmire (Chicago, Illinois); Laura Winfield (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic device provides indirect haptic feedback and virtual texture sensations to a user by modulation of friction of a touch surface of the device in response to one or more sensed parameters and/or time. The sensed parameters can include, but are not limited to, sensed position of the user's finger, derivatives of sensed finger position such as velocity and/or acceleration, sensed finger pressure, and/or sensed direction of motion of the finger. The touch surface is adapted to be touched by a user's bare finger, thumb or other appendage and/or by an instrument such as a stylus held by the user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726391 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406525 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Ma (Champaign, Illinois); Allen Yang Yang (Berkeley, California); John Norbert Wright (Urbana, Illinois); Andrew William Wagner (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Ma (Champaign, Illinois); Allen Yang Yang (Berkeley, California); John Norbert Wright (Urbana, Illinois); Andrew William Wagner (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for recognition of high-dimensional data in the presence of occlusion, including: receiving a target data that includes an occlusion and is of an unknown class, wherein the target data includes a known object; sampling a plurality of training data files comprising a plurality of distinct classes of the same object as that of the target data; and identifying the class of the target data through linear superposition of the sampled training data files using l1 minimization, wherein a linear superposition with a sparsest number of coefficients is used to identify the class of the target data. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865639 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406567 | Pizlo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system processes 2D images of 2D or 3D objects, creating a model of the object that is consistent with the image and as veridical as the perception of the 2D image by humans. Vertices of the object that are hidden in the image are recovered by using planarity and symmetry constraints. The 3D shape is recovered by maximizing 3D compactness of the recovered object and minimizing its surface area. In some embodiments, these two criteria are weighted by using the geometric mean. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581604 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406889 | Llinas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rodolfo R. Llinas (New York, New York); Ian W. Hunter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bryan P. Ruddy (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodolfo R. Llinas (New York, New York); Ian W. Hunter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bryan P. Ruddy (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to conducting polymer nanowires and their use in a brain-machine interface which is secure, robust and minimally invasive. In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a vascular-based brain-machine interface comprising conducting polymer nanowires is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892659 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08402819 | Dazzi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Dazzi Dazzi (Les Ulis, France); Clotilde Policar (Paris, France); Kevin Kjoller (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Reading (Norwich, United Kingdom); Konstantin Vodopyanov (San Jose, California); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anasys Instruments, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Dazzi Dazzi (Les Ulis, France); Clotilde Policar (Paris, France); Kevin Kjoller (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Reading (Norwich, United Kingdom); Konstantin Vodopyanov (San Jose, California); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An AFM based technique has been demonstrated for performing highly localized IR spectroscopy on a sample surface. Significant issues as to size, cost of implementation, and repeatability/robustness of results exist in commercializing the technique. The invention addresses many of these issues thereby producing a version of the analytical technique that can be made generally available to the scientific community. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315859 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405932 | Seigler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Sharat Batra (Plymouth, Minnesota); Robert Earl Rottmayer (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Hua Zhou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas William Clinton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jie Gong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Sharat Batra (Plymouth, Minnesota); Robert Earl Rottmayer (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Hua Zhou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas William Clinton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jie Gong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a waveguide having an end adjacent to an air bearing surface, first and second poles positioned on opposite sides of the waveguide, and wherein the first pole includes a first portion spaced from the waveguide and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface, with the second portion being structured such that an end of the second portion is closer to the waveguide than the first portion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589905 |
| ART UNIT | 2686 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/125.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08404775 | Sample et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer L. Sample (Bethesda, Maryland); Amy A. Hofstra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer L. Sample (Bethesda, Maryland); Amy A. Hofstra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymerizable ligand comprising, in one embodiment, a polyaromatic compound, with a terminal functional group, non-covalently bonded to the sidewalls of carbon nanotubes. This structure preserves the structural, mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical properties of the CNTs and ensures that an unhindered functional group is available to bond with an extended polymer matrix thereby resulting in an improved polymer-nanotube composite. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946547 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406469 | Fisher |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Fisher (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Fisher (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for progressive band selection for hyperspectral images. A system having module configured to control a processor to practice the method calculates a virtual dimensionality of a hyperspectral image having multiple bands to determine a quantity Q of how many bands are needed for a threshold level of information, ranks each band based on a statistical measure, selects Q bands from the multiple bands to generate a subset of bands based on the virtual dimensionality, and generates a reduced image based on the subset of bands. This approach can create reduced datasets of full hyperspectral images tailored for individual applications. The system uses a metric specific to a target application to rank the image bands, and then selects the most useful bands. The number of bands selected can be specified manually or calculated from the hyperspectral image's virtual dimensionality. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838600 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08406586 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics Inc. (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a balanced thermal approach to the tuning of an optical time delay device in order to eliminate any long-term time response of the device performance due to thermal time constants of the device, its mount, packaging or electronic temperature control circuits. The invention provides multiple ways to improve the thermal tuning speed of the balanced thermal approach. Additionally, the invention overcomes an issue of microresonator non-uniformity by operating a large group of microresonators as a ‘super-ring’ by tuning the large group together to provide a controllable group delay with large bandwidth. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/897219 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08406834 | Kirichenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HYPRES, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting circuit, and a method, are disclosed for generating pulses with stable frequency. The circuit includes an annular Long Josephson Junction (LJJ) capable of producing electrical pulses of a desired frequency due to a steady bias current applied to the LJJ. The circuit further includes an electrical interface for injecting an RF signal of a first frequency into the annular LJJ, resulting in the desired frequency locking onto the first frequency. Typically the first frequency substantially equals the desired frequency. The injection of the RF signal further results in the decrease of the frequency jitter of the desired frequency. The pulses generated in the loop section of the LJJ are outputted through a tail section of the LJJ, and through transmission lines which couple to the tail section. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/973661 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08404475 | McSpadden Gardener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian B. McSpadden Gardener (Wooster, Ohio); Maria Soledad Benitez (Quito, Ecuador) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian B. McSpadden Gardener (Wooster, Ohio); Maria Soledad Benitez (Quito, Ecuador) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to plant disease suppressive microorganisms and compositions including the same, methods for isolating disease suppressive microorganisms, and methods for controlling plant disease using disclosed compositions and methods. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/055672 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08406487 | Abramovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gil Abramovich (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin George Harding (Niskayuna, New York); Qingying Hu (Bellevue, Washington); Swaminathan Manickam (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Meena Ganesh (Clifton Park, New York); Christopher Allen Nafis (Rexford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gil Abramovich (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin George Harding (Niskayuna, New York); Qingying Hu (Bellevue, Washington); Swaminathan Manickam (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Meena Ganesh (Clifton Park, New York); Christopher Allen Nafis (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for contactless fingerprint detection and verification comprising illuminating a fingerprint and directing a reflected light through an imaging system using liquid crystal panels and birefringent elements to polarize the light. A plurality of polarized images are captured and used to calculate the depth of structural features on the fingertip. A means to generate a two-dimensional rolled equivalent image of the fingerprint is also provided which may then be used for verification and authentication. The invention also provides an imaging system for carrying out the method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/694840 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08404655 | Keay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); David Zacharias (Palm Coast, Florida); Sonia L. Planey (St. Augustine, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); David Zacharias (Palm Coast, Florida); Sonia L. Planey (St. Augustine, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally concerns inhibition of a molecule that has a role in post-translational modification of a receptor for antiproliferative factor (APF) of bladder epithelial cells, thereby modulating the APF. In particular, inhibition of DHHC2 activity and/or ZDHHC2 expression results in modulation of APF receptor activity, and in specific aspects such modulation is therapeutic and/or preventative for a bladder condition, such as interstitial cystitis. In addition, inhibition of CKAP4 palmitoylation in certain cases also decreases its activity as a tPA receptor on smooth muscle cells or surfactant A on type II pneumocytes, and/or generally inhibits its function as a cell membrane receptor, cell chaperone molecule, and/or membrane trafficking agent. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600571 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08404183 | Sahle-Demessie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie (Mason, Ohio); Pratim Biswas (Chesterfield, Missouri); Unnikrishnan R. Pillai (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chulhan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie (Mason, Ohio); Pratim Biswas (Chesterfield, Missouri); Unnikrishnan R. Pillai (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chulhan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactor produces a surface corona for emitting UV light and for the production of ozone by passing air or oxygen through the surface corona. The emitted UV light activates a photocatalyst coated on a surface facing a surface with embedded electrodes which generate the surface corona. The photocatalyst is a thin film of nanoparticle TiO2 with primary particle size of 0.02 to 0.2 μm was deposited on a substrate by a flame aerosol method. The method combines ozonation and photocatalysis to provide effective and efficient oxidation of alcohols and hydrocarbons to value added products. The method can also be used for air and water cleaning. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544771 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08406267 | Ripin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J Ripin (Needham, Massachusetts); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Anish K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Hybl (Nahant, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J Ripin (Needham, Massachusetts); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Anish K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Hybl (Nahant, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state gain element including a thin doped region in which an optical signal propagates through the thin doped region at a large angle with respect to the normal to the thin doped region, reflects at a boundary of the thin doped region, and passes through the thin doped region again. An optical pump beam propagates through the thin doped region also at a large angle with respect to the normal to the thin doped region. In one example, the gain element and source of the pump beam are configured such that there is total internal reflection of the pump beam at the boundary of the thin doped region for a second pumping pass through the thin doped region. In another example, an elliptically symmetric laser beam is used to create a circularly symmetric gain region in the thin doped region. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/389975 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08407360 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for generating a distributed stream processing application are provided. The techniques include obtaining a declarative description of one or more data stream processing tasks from a graph of operators, wherein the declarative description expresses at least one stream processing task, generating one or more containers that encompass a combination of one or more stream processing operators, and generating one or more execution units from the declarative description of one or more data stream processing tasks, wherein the one or more execution units are deployable across one or more distributed computing nodes, and comprise a distributed data stream processing application binary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/495534 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08404336 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Ngoc Nguyen (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Ngoc Nguyen (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Layered materials are provided that have surprisingly low thermal conductivities. A plurality of layers of a selected material such as, for example, tungsten diselenide, is formed by a modulated elemental reactants method to produce a low thermal conductivity material. The layers are generally stacked but substantially randomly arranged as stacked. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/090849 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08403848 | Mietus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph E. Mietus (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chung-Kang Peng (Sharon, Massachusetts); Robert Joseph Thomas (Newton, Massachusetts); Ary L. Goldberger (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Mietus (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chung-Kang Peng (Sharon, Massachusetts); Robert Joseph Thomas (Newton, Massachusetts); Ary L. Goldberger (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from the cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. In an embodiment, an R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the R-R interval series are extracted to produce a normal-to-normal (NN) interval series. The amplitude variations in the QRS complex are used to extract to a surrogate respiration signal (i.e., ECG-derived respiration (EDR)) that is associated with the NN interval series. The two series are corrected to remove outliers, and resampled. The cross-spectral power and coherence of the two resampled signals are calculated over a plurality of coherence windows. For each coherence window, the product of the coherence and cross-spectral power is used to calculate coherent cross power. Using the appropriate thresholds for the coherent cross power, the proportion of sleep spent in CAP, non-CAP, and wake and/or REM are determined. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018768 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08404186 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Reginald W. Clark (San Diego, California); Bernard J. Eastland (San Diego, California); Michael W. Ingram (San Diego, California); Joseph C. Stumpf (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novatron, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald W. Clark (San Diego, California); Bernard J. Eastland (San Diego, California); Michael W. Ingram (San Diego, California); Joseph C. Stumpf (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultraviolet flux multiplying air sterilization chamber comprises inner surfaces having a diffuse reflective behavior. The sterilization chamber includes an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture for air to flow through said chamber and a light source emitting an ultraviolet light. Due to the reflectivity of the inner surfaces of the chamber, a flux of the ultraviolet light is multiplied by reflecting multiple times from the inner surfaces of the chamber. The inlet and outlet apertures are advantageously configured to reduce the amount of light that escapes from the chamber and increase the amount of photons available in the chamber. In an exemplary embodiment, perforated end panels having diffuse, reflective interior surfaces may be provided over at least a portion of the inlet and outlet apertures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006143 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08405524 | Richman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. Richman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Douglas S. Deadrick (Derry, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Richman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Douglas S. Deadrick (Derry, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for detecting the passage of vehicles and the classification thereof by weight using geophone outputs and a unique density measurement in which the number of peaks of the geophone signal above a predetermined threshold over a number of time frames indicates the presence of a vehicle, with the number of time frames in which the density exceeds the threshold indicating whether the vehicle is a heavy vehicle such as a tank, or a light vehicle such as a car, with the threshold eliminating both manmade and natural noise, as well as distinguishing seismic vibrations due to personnel and animals. In one embodiment, various thresholds are utilized to detect the onset of vehicle presence and the end of the event. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/339225 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/943 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407160 | Cretu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriela Cretu (New York, New York); Angelos Stavrou (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Michael E. Locasto (Miller, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriela Cretu (New York, New York); Angelos Stavrou (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Michael E. Locasto (Miller, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for generating sanitized data are provided. The methods including: dividing a first training dataset comprised of a plurality of training data items into a plurality of data subsets each including at least one training data item of the plurality of training data items of the first training dataset; based on the plurality of data subsets, generating a plurality of distinct anomaly detection micro-models; testing at least one data item of the plurality of data items of a second training dataset of training data items against each of the plurality of micro-models to produce a score for the at least one tested data item; and generating at least one output dataset based on the score for the at least one tested data item. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940790 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08407560 | Ordentlich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik Ordentlich (San Jose, California); Ron M. Roth (Haifa, Israel); Pascal Vontobel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Ordentlich (San Jose, California); Ron M. Roth (Haifa, Israel); Pascal Vontobel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system embodiments of the present invention are directed to encoding information in ways that are compatible with constraints associated with electrical-resistance-based memories and useful in other, similarly constrained applications, and to decoding the encoded information. One embodiment of the present invention encodes k information bits and writes the encoded k information bits to an electronic memory, the method comprising systematically encoding the k information bits to produce a vector codeword, with additional parity bits so that the codeword is resilient to bit-transition errors that may occur during storage of the codeword in, and retrieval of the codeword from, the electronic memory, ensuring that the codeword does not violate a weight constraint, and writing the codeword to the electronic memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836405 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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