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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 02, 2013
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| US 08408014 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidney W. K. Yuan (Los Angeles, California); David G. T. Curran (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney W. K. Yuan (Los Angeles, California); David G. T. Curran (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are directed to pulse tube coolers having flow resistance devices that are variable within the thermodynamic cycle of the pulse tube. An example pulse tube may comprise a compressor, a regenerator, a reservoir and a pulse tube. A working fluid may be positioned within the regenerator, pulse tube and reservoir. Further, a variable phase control device may be positioned in a fluid path between the pulse tube and the reservoir. The pulse tube cooler may also comprise a control circuit. The control circuit may be programmed to vary a characteristic of the variable phase control device based on the position of the pulse tube cooler in its thermodynamic cycle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611774 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408114 | Tan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wright Materials Research Co. (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A ballistic shield for protection against up to 7.62×63 mm AP rounds (NIJ Level IV). The ballistic shield is multiple layered and includes polymer foam, ceramic tiles, and a support structure fabricated from ballistic resistant fabric. Individual layers are bonded with adhesives and preferably wrapped with fabric. Under the fabric cover of the exterior surface of the shield is a polymer foam layer that exhibits excellent blast impact resistance and blast attenuation properties as well as a hard ceramic or the like layer. The foam layer is preferably made from liquid crystal or semi-crystalline polymer to enhance fire resistance and provide enhanced ductility. According to a preferred embodiment, the man-portable ballistic shield of the present invention also incorporates a compact video system for viewing the front side of the ballistic shield thereby allowing for the elimination of the transparent view port weakness of current state of the art ballistic shields. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/586568 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408115 | Barger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edwin Barger (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edwin Barger (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein provide military personnel with a swift and accurate means to return fire at a detected shooter. In particular, the systems and methods described herein relate to an indicator for a weapon sight. In some embodiments, the indicator is electromechanical. In some embodiments, the indicator is configured to be moveable such that when the weapon sight is aligned with the indicator, the weapon points in the direction of the detected shooter. In some embodiments, the indicator is attached to the weapon itself, while in other embodiments, the indicator is attached to the weapon mount. The weapon may be located on a ground vehicle, aircraft, or may be portable. In some embodiments, the system includes a processor configured to receive a shooter's location, determine the position of the indicator based on the received shooter location, and control the indicator to move into the determined position. In some embodiments, the system may provide the location of more than one shooter to military personnel and the location of the second shooter may be provided in the form of an aural or visual signal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886073 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/41.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408132 | Lucas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James D. Lucas (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Denny L. Kurschner (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Thomas E. MacPherson (Robbinsdale, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Lucas (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Denny L. Kurschner (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Thomas E. MacPherson (Robbinsdale, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Initiator modules for munitions control systems include a mounting portion for receiving a portion of an initiation device, a detonator device disposed within the initiator module, a connection portion configured to connect the initiator module with a munitions control system, and an electronics assembly configured to electronically couple with a munitions control system and transmit a signal to the detonator device. Munitions systems may include initiator modules received in a socket of a munitions control system. Methods of igniting explosive devices include coupling a shock tube to an explosive device, connecting an initiator module to a munitions control system, mounting a portion of the shock tube to the initiator module, and igniting the shock tube with a detonator device disposed within the initiator module. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723446 |
| 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 12/202.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408133 | Rastegar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Richard Dratler (Montville, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (Ronkonkoma, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Richard Dratler (Montville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detonating an unexploded munition including: firing one or more munitions into an area without detonation; providing the one or more munitions with a power supply having a piezoelectric material for generating power from an induced vibration; inducing a vibration in the power supply of the one or more munitions to generate power; and generating a detonation signal from the generated power to detonate the one or more munitions. |
| FILED | Sunday, June 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487240 |
| 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 12/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408358 | Hermiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Michael Hermiller (Liberty Township, Ohio); Michael Richard Maddux (Jamestown, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Michael Hermiller (Liberty Township, Ohio); Michael Richard Maddux (Jamestown, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Tunable perforate acoustic liners are disclosed using shape memory materials, which allow the acoustic liners to tune for multiple frequencies across a wide range, unlike current designs which are limited to specific frequencies or small ranges. The liner will be initiated through a sensor and feedback loop to monitor the current acoustic environment and initiate geometry change needed to more effectively attenuate engine noise. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813642 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408460 | Schneider et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A ranging system for use with a projectile launching device is provided. The ranging system includes an alignment marker visible with an optical sight device. The position of the alignment marker is adjusted based at least on a determined range to a target. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793503 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408817 | Noddings et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth C. Noddings (Manhattan Beach, California); Terry L. Holcomb (Torrance, California); Mahmood A. Majid (Westminster, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth C. Noddings (Manhattan Beach, California); Terry L. Holcomb (Torrance, California); Mahmood A. Majid (Westminster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled radius splice protector includes a first fiber optic fiber, a second fiber optic fiber, a fiber splice connecting the first fiber optic fiber and the second fiber optic fiber, a hot melted splice tubing extending over the fiber splice and a jacket tubing receiving the hot melted splice tubing and pre-formed to a selected bend radius. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/413912 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408866 | Weaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Alan Weaver (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tony Alan Lambert (Brownsburg, Indiana); James Sellhorn (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Alan Weaver (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tony Alan Lambert (Brownsburg, Indiana); James Sellhorn (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil having an inlet and an exit, the inlet configured to receive a cooling gas flow operable to cool at least part of an other airfoil; and a passage disposed in the airfoil and fluidly coupled to the inlet and the exit, the exit being configured to pass at least some of the cooling gas flow to the other airfoil. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313063 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408918 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianjuen Hu (Boxborough, Massachusetts); Gill Pratt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jeff Weber (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energid Technologies Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianjuen Hu (Boxborough, Massachusetts); Gill Pratt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jeff Weber (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic simulation method determines a location of a needle assembly within a magneto-rheological fluid. The needle assembly within the magneto-rheological fluid is associated with a desired resistance value. A viscosity control signal representative of the desired resistance value is generated. The viscosity control signal is applied to a viscosity control device to vary a viscosity of the magneto-rheological fluid to achieve the desired resistance value. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147863 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408956 | Vosburgh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload delivery unit for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes an unmanned buoy, a drop weight member, and a retention system. The buoy includes a container. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The drop weight member is mounted on the shell and has a negative buoyancy with respect to the submersion medium. The retention system is operative to retain the drop weight member on the buoy and selectively release the drop weight member from the buoy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493933 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices 441/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409130 | Sondeen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jill L. Sondeen (New Braunfels, Texas); Guy A. Drew (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill L. Sondeen (New Braunfels, Texas); Guy A. Drew (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for controlling resuscitation in a patient. In at least one embodiment, the invention includes a fluid rate measurer, a controller electrically coupled to the fluid rate measurer, and a pump. The controller is adapted to receive signals from a physiological monitor and controls the pump. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/935640 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409389 | Jones |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary E. Jones (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Jones (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Portable apparatus for curing a part includes a wheeled frame having sliding part supports that move the part from a loading position to a curing position. A part clamping assembly is slidably mounted on the frame to apply clamping pressure to the part when the part is in the curing position in order to compact the part during a cure cycle. The clamping assembly includes a set of electrically heated shoes that heat the part to a cure temperature. A fan is provided to accelerate cool down the part after curing is complete. The heating and cooling operations are automatically performed by a programmed controller. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638188 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409411 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shalini Prasad (Portland, Oregon); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Prasad (Portland, Oregon); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors include nano-porous alumina membranes that are sensitized by immobilization of antibodies in the nano-pores. The nano-membranes can be sensitized to respond to a single target compound, or different portions of the nano-membrane can be differently sensitized. Capture of the target compound can be detected based on a spectral signature associated with electrical conductance in the nano-pores. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634367 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409430 | Decaux |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Henri Decaux (Blois, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Henri Decaux (Blois, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A purging assembly for a fuel filter housing. The purging assembly comprises a shaft having towards an upper end an upper sealing element, located around the perimeter of the shaft, and having towards a lower end a lower sealing element, located around the perimeter of the shaft. A sensor is integrated with the shaft. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/524244 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409510 | McGill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Michael Martin (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Kevin Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Eric Houser (Ocean View, New Jersey); Stanley Vincent Stepnowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Viet Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Michael Martin (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Kevin Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Eric Houser (Ocean View, New Jersey); Stanley Vincent Stepnowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Viet Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In the invention, a collection device includes a flow through micro scale plate arranged to collect analyte. The plate includes holes, and sorbent coating on contact surfaces of the plate. The holes pass analyte fluid flow, for example analyte vapor so that fluid flow for collection may be generally perpendicular to the sorbent plate. Preferred embodiment plates include an integrated heater trace. In preferred embodiments, a high substantially perpendicular flow is used for collection and concentration, and during desorption and delivery a low substantially parallel flow is used. The low flow is selected to meet constraints of a detector system. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542453 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409590 | Wimer-Mackin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan Wimer-Mackin (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ligocyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Wimer-Mackin (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Anthrax antigens are provided that find use as immunogens and vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/589290 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/246.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409691 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher P. Henry (Thousand Oaks, California); Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher P. Henry (Thousand Oaks, California); Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable stiffness segmented composite material including reinforcements embedded in a variable stiffness matrix and having a structure for precisely controlling the three-dimensional (3D) distribution and connectivity of the reinforcements in the variable stiffness matrix. The composite material includes a variable stiffness matrix and a plurality of rigidly interconnected reinforcements embedded within the variable stiffness matrix, the interconnected reinforcements being for mitigating a deformation of the composite material along a first direction by blocking a rigid body motion of the reinforcements with respect to one another in the first direction while allowing a deformation in a second direction differing from the first direction. That is, in one embodiment, the interconnected reinforcements are configured to move with respect to one another to allow for an in-plane deformation of the composite material while mitigating an out-of-plane deformation of the composite material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/212469 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409858 | Delehanty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James B. Delehanty (Washington, District of Columbia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia); Hedi M. Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland); Glyn Dawson (Chicago, Illinois); Philip E. Dawson (San Diego, California); Juan Bautista Blanco-Canosa (A Coruna, Spain); Kelly Boeneman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Delehanty (Washington, District of Columbia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia); Hedi M. Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland); Glyn Dawson (Chicago, Illinois); Philip E. Dawson (San Diego, California); Juan Bautista Blanco-Canosa (A Coruna, Spain); Kelly Boeneman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are peptides for delivery of a nanoparticle to the cytosol, the peptide comprising: (a) a nanoparticle association domain; (b) a proline-rich spacer domain; (c) an uptake domain; and (d) a vesicle escape domain comprising a non-hydrolyzable lipid moiety, wherein the spacer domain is between the nanoparticle association domain and the uptake and vesicle escape domains, and wherein the peptide, when attached to an extracellular nanoparticle, is effective to induce uptake of the nanoparticle by a cell and delivery of the nanoparticle to the cytosol of the cell. Also described are methods of delivery of a nanoparticle to the cytosol of a cell, the method comprising providing to a cell a nanoparticle attached to such a peptide. Exemplary nanoparticles include quantum dots. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908601 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409984 | Bennahmias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Joseph Bennahmias (Ladera Ranch, California); Michael John Zani (Laguna Niguel, California); Jeffrey Winfield Scott (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NexGen Semi Holding, Inc. (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Joseph Bennahmias (Ladera Ranch, California); Michael John Zani (Laguna Niguel, California); Jeffrey Winfield Scott (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to the formation of multi-component oxide heterostructures (MCOH) using surface nucleation to pattern the atomic layer deposition (ALD) of perovskite material followed by patterned etch and metallization to produce ultra-high density MCOH nano-electronic devices. Applications include ultra-high density MCOH memory and logic, as well as electronic functionality based on single electrons, for example a novel flash memory cell Floating-Gate (FG) transistor with LaAlO3 as a gate tunneling dielectric. Other types of memory devices (DIMMS, DRAM, and DDR) made with patterned ALD of LaAlO3 as a gate dielectric are also possible. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813394 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410070 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald M. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky); Shelia Diann Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky); Kara Joyce Sedoris (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald M. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky); Shelia Diann Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky); Kara Joyce Sedoris (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Quadruplex-forming guanine-rich nucleic acid sequences are useful in compositions and methods for inhibiting cellular growth and proliferation and inducing cell death. Compositions for treating a patient are provided, including (i) a safe and effective amount of a sequence having at least 80% nucleic acid identity with a guanine-rich promoter gene oligonucleotide (GPGO), and (ii) a carrier, wherein the oligonucleotide forms at least one quadruplex. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/063509 |
| 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 08410326 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); David Martin Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin); Jesse Quentin Bond (Madison, Wisconsin); Dong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Ryan M. West (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); David Martin Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin); Jesse Quentin Bond (Madison, Wisconsin); Dong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Ryan M. West (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing hydrocarbons, especially C8 or larger alkenes, from lactones, hydroxy-carboxylic acids, alkene-carboxylic acids, alcohols, or mixtures thereof, or an aqueous solution of lactones, hydroxy-carboxylic acids, alkene-carboxylic acids, alcohols, or mixtures thereof is described. The process includes reacting the starting materials with a first acid catalyst to yield a first product mixture. The first product mixture is then reacted with a second acid catalyst (which can be the same or different from the first acid catalyst) to yield a second product mixture comprising hydrocarbons, for example alkenes having a chain length of C8+. The process is suitable for producing hydrocarbons that can be used in or as liquid transportation fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/687471 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410431 | Ouyang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sandilya Venkata Garimella (Lafayette, Indiana); Jason David Harper (Medaryville, Indiana); Nicholas Alan Charipar (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sandilya Venkata Garimella (Lafayette, Indiana); Jason David Harper (Medaryville, Indiana); Nicholas Alan Charipar (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for transferring ions for analysis. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample including an ionizing source for converting molecules of a sample into gas phase ions in a region at about atmospheric pressure, an ion analysis device, and an ion transfer member operably coupled to a gas flow generating device, in which the gas flow generating device produces a laminar gas flow that transfers the gas phase ions through the ion transfer member to an inlet of the ion analysis device. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122651 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410455 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Y. Charles Cao (Gainesville, Florida); Ou Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel Edward Shelby (Gainesville, Florida); Yongan Yang (Irvine, California); Jiaqi Zhuang (Gainesville, Florida); Nicolo Omenetto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Y. Charles Cao (Gainesville, Florida); Ou Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel Edward Shelby (Gainesville, Florida); Yongan Yang (Irvine, California); Jiaqi Zhuang (Gainesville, Florida); Nicolo Omenetto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is a device for photo-stimulated color emission having at least one plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle comprising at least one semiconducting material and a plurality of at least one dopant coupled with an irradiation source such that the plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle emit electromagnetic radiation at two or more wavelengths where the intensities of the emissions depend on the intensity of the irradiation. In an embodiment of the invention, the plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle can be a doped core/shell nanoparticle where the plurality of dopants can reside in exclusively the core, exclusively the shell, or in both the core and shell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755820 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410496 | Hersee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xin Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xin Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor devices including high-quality (i.e., defect free) group III-N nanowires and uniform group III-N nanowire arrays as well as their scalable processes for manufacturing, where the position, orientation, cross-sectional features, length and the crystallinity of each nanowire can be precisely controlled. A pulsed growth mode can be used to fabricate the disclosed group III-N nanowires and/or nanowire arrays providing a uniform length of about 10 nm to about 1000 microns with constant cross-sectional features including an exemplary diameter of about 10-1000 nm. In addition, high-quality GaN substrate structures can be formed by coalescing the plurality of GaN nanowires and/or nanowire arrays to facilitate the fabrication of visible LEDs and lasers. Furthermore, core-shell nanowire/MQW active structures can be formed by a core-shell growth on the nonpolar sidewalls of each nanowire. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/231559 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410523 | Huffaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Diana L. Huffaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry R. Dawson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ganesh Balakrishnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Diana L. Huffaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry R. Dawson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ganesh Balakrishnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide high-quality layered semiconductor devices and methods for their fabrication. The high-quality layered semiconductor device can be formed in planar with low defect densities and with strain relieved through a plurality of arrays of misfit dislocations formed at the interface of highly lattice-mismatched layers of the device. The high-quality layered semiconductor device can be formed using various materials systems and can be incorporated into various opto-electronic and electronic devices. In an exemplary embodiment, an emitter device can include monolithic quantum well (QW) lasers directly disposed on a SOI or silicon substrate for waveguide coupled integration. In another exemplary embodiment, a superlattice (SL) photodetector and its focal plane array can include a III-Sb active region formed over a large GaAs substrate using SLS technologies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/332014 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410562 | Lazarus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiung Lo (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiung Lo (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive chemical sensor, along with methods of making and using the sensor are provided. The sensors described herein eliminate undesirable capacitance by etching away the substrate underneath the capacitive chemical sensor, eliminating most of the substrate capacitance and making changes in the chemical-sensitive layer capacitance easier to detect. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010954 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410660 | Helvajian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); William W. Hansen (Lakewood, California); Lee F. Steffeney (Lake Elsinore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); William W. Hansen (Lakewood, California); Lee F. Steffeney (Lake Elsinore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photostructurable ceramic is processed using photostructuring process steps for embedding devices within a photostructurable ceramic volume, the devices may include one or more of chemical, mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, and acoustic devices, all made in part by creating device material within the ceramic or by disposing a device material through surface ports of the ceramic volume, with the devices being interconnected using internal connections and surface interfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686989 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410780 | Cochrane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Corey Cochrane (Culver City, California); Patrick M. Lenahan (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey Cochrane (Culver City, California); Patrick M. Lenahan (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This method of adaptive signal averaging is used to enhance the signal to noise ratio of magnetic resonance and other analytical measurements which involve repeatable signals partially or completely obscured by noise in a single measurement at a rate much faster than that observed with conventional signal averaging. This technique expedites the signal averaging process because it filters each individual scan in real time with an adaptive algorithm and then averages them separately to provide an averaged filtered signal with less noise. This technique is particularly useful for any type of continuous wave magnetic resonance experiment or any other noisy measurement where signal averaging is utilized. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557123 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410843 | Goodman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel I. Goodman (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Benjamin A. Miller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew A. Herman (Boston, Massachusetts); James E. Vian (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel I. Goodman (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Benjamin A. Miller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew A. Herman (Boston, Massachusetts); James E. Vian (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyphase nonlinear digital predistorters (pNDPs) mitigate nonlinear distortions generated by time-interleaved digital-to-analog converters (TIDACs). Processors in an example pNDP compute nonlinear and linear compensation terms representative of channel mismatches and other imperfections in the TIDAC based on the digital input to the TIDAC. The pNDP subtracts these compensation terms from a delayed copy of the digital input to yield a predistorted digital input. The TIDAC converts on the predistorted digital input into a fullband analog output that is substantially free of nonlinear distortion. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/987227 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410973 | Harrington |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald E. Harrington (Moorpark, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Harrington (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for activating a motion detector. An electromagnetic signal is transmitted in a form of a beam. The beam is configured to activate the motion detector when the beam encounters the motion detector. The beam is moved to a location in which the motion detector is present such that the motion detector activates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/913473 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411081 | Mitra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects are disclosed. At least some embodiments include a computer-readable storage medium including software (executable on a processor) to symmetrize a modeled physical object that causes the processor to identify a plurality of clusters (each including a plurality of symmetric point pairs each derived from a plurality of sampled surface points of the object), and to calculate and apply each of a first plurality of displacement value pairs to corresponding sample positions of the symmetric point pairs within at least one cluster, increasing the symmetry of the cluster. The software further causes the processor to calculate a second plurality of displacement value pairs, to contract the cluster using the second plurality of displacement value pairs, to merge two or more clusters within the transformation space, and to present a graphical representation of the symmetrized modeled physical object to a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481197 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411278 | Parks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen D. Parks (Spotsylvania, Virginia); Scott E. Spence (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen D. Parks (Spotsylvania, Virginia); Scott E. Spence (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An accelerometer instrument is provided for measuring acceleration. The instrument includes a laser, a Mach-Zender interferometer (MZI), a mechanical spring, a detector, a camera, and an analyzer. The laser emits a coherent light beam of photons. The MZI includes first and second beam-splitters along with first and second mirrors. The first mirror has an established mass m and connects to the spring for vibrating substantially perpendicular to its reflection plane. The mechanical spring has an established spring constant k. The MZI has an established weak measurement Nw based on a known offset ε for the beam-splitters. The detector detects the beam beyond the second beam-splitter. The camera provides a pointer measurement shift δq of the photons. The camera is disposed after the detector. The analyzer determines the acceleration α based on |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/136902 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411282 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiquan Cui (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Demetri Psaltis (Preverenges, Switzerland); Xin Heng (Hercules, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiquan Cui (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Demetri Psaltis (Preverenges, Switzerland); Xin Heng (Hercules, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential interference contrast (DIC) determination device and method utilizes an illumination source, a layer having a pair of two apertures that receive illumination from the illumination source, and a photodetector to receive Young's interference from the illumination passing through the pair of two apertures. In addition, a surface wave assisted optofluidic microscope and method utilize an illumination source, a fluid channel having a layer with at least one aperture as a surface, and a photodetector that receives a signal based on the illumination passing through the aperture. The layer is corrugated (e.g., via fabrication) and parameters of the corrugation optimize the signal received on the photodetector. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157245 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411493 | Katti |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Romney R. Katti (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) that includes a magnetic bit coupled between a first conductor line and a selection device. The selection device includes at least two transistors. The selection device is operative to (a) select the magnetic bit for a spin-torque transfer (STT) write operation when the at least two transistors are in a first state and (b) select the magnetic bit for a read operation when the at least two transistors are in a second state. The selection device may be implemented in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, and the transistors may include body ties. The selection device may also be radiation hardened. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610158 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411497 | Ong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian E. Ong (Pleasanton, California); Xueti Tang (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Grandis, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian E. Ong (Pleasanton, California); Xueti Tang (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing a magnetic memory are described. The method and system include providing magnetic storage cells, bit lines coupled with the magnetic storage cells, preset lines, and word lines coupled with the magnetic storage cells. Each magnetic storage cell includes magnetic element(s). The bit lines drive write current(s) through selected storage cell(s) of the magnetic storage cells to write to the selected storage cell(s). The preset lines drive preset current(s) in proximity to but not through the selected storage cell(s). The preset current(s) generate magnetic field(s) to orient the magnetic element(s) of the selected storage cell(s) in a direction. The word lines enable the selected storage cell(s) for writing. Either the bit lines reside between the preset lines and the storage cells or the preset lines reside between the storage cells and on a storage cell side of the bit lines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774703 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411713 | Im |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and system for processing a thin film sample are provided. In particular, a beam generator can be controlled to emit at least one beam pulse. The beam pulse is then masked to produce at least one masked beam pulse, which is used to irradiate at least one portion of the thin film sample. With the at least one masked beam pulse, the portion of the film sample is irradiated with sufficient intensity for such portion to later crystallize. This portion of the film sample is allowed to crystallize so as to be composed of a first area and a second area. Upon the crystallization thereof, the first area includes a first set of grains, and the second area includes a second set of grains whose at least one characteristic is different from at least one characteristic of the second set of grains. The first area surrounds the second area, and is configured to allow an active region of a thin-film transistor (“TFT”) to be provided at a distance therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556451 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411785 | Jafarkhani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, California); Feng Li (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, California); Feng Li (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to achieve full diversity without sacrificing bandwidth and with a linear complexity in a wireless system includes the steps of orthogonally transmitting a plurality of signals utilizing multiple antennas using a corresponding plurality of precoders in a plurality of time slots, which precoders are designed using the channel information to cancel interference among the plurality of signals while achieving a maximum possible diversity of NM with low complexity for at least two users each having N transmit antennas and one receiver with M receive antennas, separating the signals in the receiver using the orthogonality of the transmitted signals, and decoding the signals independently to provide full diversity to the at least two users. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/103940 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411938 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chao Zhang (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Peter Jeffrey Burt (Princeton, New Jersey); Gooitzen Sieman van der Wal (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chao Zhang (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Peter Jeffrey Burt (Princeton, New Jersey); Gooitzen Sieman van der Wal (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for fusing images taken by a plurality of cameras is disclosed, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of images of the same scene taken by the plurality of cameras; generating Laplacian pyramid images for each source image of the plurality of images; applying contrast normalization to the Laplacian pyramids images; performing pixel-level fusion on the Laplacian pyramid images based on a local salience measure that reduces aliasing artifacts to produce one salience-selected Laplacian pyramid image for each pyramid level; and combining the salience-selected Laplacian pyramid images into a fused image. Applying contrast normalization further comprises, for each Laplacian image at a given level: obtaining an energy image from the Laplacian image; determining a gain factor that is based on at least the energy image and a target contrast; and multiplying the Laplacian image by a gain factor to produce a normalized Laplacian image. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275781 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411969 | Joslin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erin Joslin (San Diego, California); Matthew Waller (San Diego, California); Heidi Buck (San Diego, California); Jerry Fu (San Diego, California); Stephen Hobbs (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erin Joslin (San Diego, California); Matthew Waller (San Diego, California); Heidi Buck (San Diego, California); Jerry Fu (San Diego, California); Stephen Hobbs (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for processing satellite imagery include a satellite, a processor, a database of vessel position data and a computer readable storage medium. The methods process satellite imagery by fusing the imagery with information from the database to automatically identify ships. The methods include the steps of defining an Area of Interest (AOI) and Time of Interest (TOI) for the image and enlarging the AOI according to a time window that brackets the TOI and an assumed vessel maximum speed. Vessel position data from the database for all vessels within the enlarged AOI and the time window is accessed, and fused to imagery position data using Chi-Squared probability analysis. If the analysis meets predetermined probability threshold criteria, the vessel position is assigned to the satellite image to identify the vessel. Otherwise, the operator is alerted that imaged vessels do not correlate to vessel reporting data, or vice versa. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851738 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412292 | Agassi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yehoshua Dan Agassi (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel E. Oates (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yehoshua Dan Agassi (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel E. Oates (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Intermodulation distortion (IMD) is known to be an impediment to progress in superconductor-based filter technology. The present invention's methodology for reducing IMD can open doors to heretofore unseen practical applications involving high temperature superconductor (HTS) filters. Typical inventive practice includes (a) increasing the thickness d, and/or (b) changing the operation temperature T, of the filter's HTS film. The film's thickness d is increased in such a way as to decrease the IMD power PIMD in accordance with the material-independent proportionate relationship PIMD∝1/d1.5-6. The film's operation temperature T is bettered or optimized in accordance with the material-independent proportionate relationship PIMD∝(λO(T))10(K(2)(T))2/(ΔO(T))6, and further in accordance with three individual material-dependent relationships, namely, between operation temperature T and each of linear penetration depth λO, gap maximum ΔO, and kernel K(2). Some inventive embodiments include oxygen overdoping of the film as an additional/alternative IMD-reductive measure. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837544 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412450 | Huebner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan D. Huebner (Ridgecrest, California); Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Huebner (Ridgecrest, California); Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for allowing accurate navigation to a target regardless of GPS jamming levels. A method to update the navigation solution of an object being navigated toward a target based upon seeker measurements in at least one of three electromagnetic frequency domains: infrared, visible, and radio frequency (RF). |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/726025 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412464 | Wick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland); Michael F. Stanford (Conowingo, Maryland); Alan W. Zulich (Bel Air, Maryland); Samir V. Deshpande (Edgewood, Maryland); Rabih E. Jabbour (Bel Air, Maryland); Jacek P. Dworzanski (Bel Air, Maryland); Patrick E. McCubbin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland); Michael F. Stanford (Conowingo, Maryland); Alan W. Zulich (Bel Air, Maryland); Samir V. Deshpande (Edgewood, Maryland); Rabih E. Jabbour (Bel Air, Maryland); Jacek P. Dworzanski (Bel Air, Maryland); Patrick E. McCubbin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided for identifying a cell type in a sample that includes identification of one or more peptide sequences in the sample. Each peptide sequence is assigned to a protein of known sequence. A matrix of assignments is generated for the presence or absence of each peptide in one or more cells. The matrix of assignments is rearranged according to cell classification. A cell type based on the most probable cell classification is identified. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546282 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412482 | Robillard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Robillard (Oro Valley, Arizona); Gregory E. Longerich (Oro Valley, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Robillard (Oro Valley, Arizona); Gregory E. Longerich (Oro Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic acceleration switch, such as for arming and firing a squib, for instance used in arming a warhead, safe missile air, ground and sea launch separation arming, includes multiple redundancies to provide a fail-safe system that does not have a single-point failure. The switch includes different channels, each of which includes a power subsystem, multiple accelerometers, a pair of controllers, and a switching circuit. The power subsystems of the two channels provide power to multiple accelerometers of each channel. The accelerometers of each channel may include a mix of digital and analog accelerometers. The acceleration sensors can be either one-axis or three-axis sensors. The accelerometers are connected to the controllers of both channels. The controllers provide redundancy for each channel. In addition, the controllers include voting logic that receives inputs from the accelerometers, and determines whether to send arm and enable signals to the multiple squib drivers. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/630007 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE44129 | Apisdorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Virginia); Sam Brandon Sandbote (Dallas, Texas); Michael Daniel Poole (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Virginia); Sam Brandon Sandbote (Dallas, Texas); Michael Daniel Poole (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method process data elements with instruction-level parallelism. An instruction buffer holds a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction being associated with a first thread, and the second instruction being associated with a second thread. A dependency counter counts satisfaction of dependencies of instructions of the second thread on instructions of the first thread. An instruction control unit is coupled to the instruction buffer and the dependency counter, the instruction control unit increments and decrements the dependency counter according to dependency information included in instructions. An execution switch is coupled to the instruction control unit and the instruction buffer, and the execution switch routes instructions to instruction execution units. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862815 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08409126 | Humes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Deborah Buffington (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); CytoPherx, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Deborah Buffington (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and devices to treat and/or prevent inflammatory conditions within a subject and to related methods. More particularly, the invention relates to systems, devices, and related methods that sequester leukocytes and/or platelets and then inhibit their inflammatory action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827606 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409166 | Wiener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen M. Wiener (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert F. Hoyt, Jr. (Boyds, Maryland); John R. Deleonardis (McLean, Virginia); Randall R. Clevenger (Mount Airy, Maryland); Robert J. Lutz (Olney, Maryland); Douglas V. Christini (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Brian Safer (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Wiener (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert F. Hoyt, Jr. (Boyds, Maryland); John R. Deleonardis (McLean, Virginia); Randall R. Clevenger (Mount Airy, Maryland); Robert J. Lutz (Olney, Maryland); Douglas V. Christini (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Brian Safer (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices are disclosed for selective delivery of therapeutic substances to specific histologic or microanatomic areas of organs. Introduction of the therapeutic substance into a hollow organ space (such as an hepatobiliary duct or the gallbladder lumen) at a controlled pressure, volume or rate allows the substance to reach a predetermined cellular layer (such as the ephithelium or sub-epithelial space). The volume or flow rate of the substance can be controlled so that the intralumenal pressure reaches a predetermined threshold level beyond which subsequent subepithelial delivery of the substance occurs. Alternatively, a lower pressure is selected that does not exceed the threshold level, so that delivery occurs substantially only to the epithelial layer. Such site specific delivery of therapeutic agents permits localized delivery of substances (for example to the interstitial tissue of an organ) in concentrations that may otherwise produce systemic toxicity. Occlusion of venous or lymphatic drainage from the organ can also help prevent systemic administration of therapeutic substances, and increase selective delivery to superficial epithelial cellular layers. Delivery of genetic vectors can also be better targeted to cells where gene expression is desired. The access device comprises a cannula with a wall piercing tracar within the lumen. Two axially spaced inflatable balloons engage the wall securing the cannula and sealing the puncture site. A catheter equipped with an occlusion balloon is guided through the cannula to the location where the therapeutic substance is to be delivered. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094764 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409228 | Blatter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeffrey E. Ransden (Fairfield, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeffrey E. Ransden (Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Tissue management methods can include inserting a clamping device into a vessel and clamping a vessel wall via the clamping device. Tissue can be dilated about the clamping device and an anastomotic device provided to the vessel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480678 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409297 | Boone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Alan Boone (Seattle, Washington); Ben Gilbert Macomber (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthocare Innovations LLC (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Alan Boone (Seattle, Washington); Ben Gilbert Macomber (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic prosthesis alignment device is disclosed that may automatically move the alignment of a prosthesis socket in relation to a prosthesis shank. The robotic prosthesis alignment device provides automatic translation in two axes. The robotic prosthesis alignment device includes angulation mechanics that automatically provide for plantarflexion, dorsiflexion, inversion, and eversion of the foot and shank with respect to the prosthesis socket. A surrogate device is also disclosed that can replicate the alignment achieved with the robotic prosthesis alignment device. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/502162 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409408 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Planet Strategies, L.L.C. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell having an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system arranged to manipulate cathode particulates motion including a magnetic subsystem having at least one source of magnetic field arranged to interact with cathode particulates via magnetic field interaction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/251646 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409463 | Perez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesus Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida); Sudip Nath (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesus Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida); Sudip Nath (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses an aqueous method of making polymer coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles. The method comprises providing a mixture of iron salts in an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid. A solution of ammonium hydroxide is added to the mixture and stirred. Stirring continues with an aqueous solution of one or more biocompatible polymers so as to promote formation of polymer coated iron nanoparticles in suspension, wherein optionally at least one of the polymers in the coating may be aminated. Centrifuging the suspension leaves a supernatant without large particles. Filtering the supernatant through an ultrafiltration membrane and collecting the filtrate recovers polymer coated nanoparticles. Crosslinking the polymer is effected by treatment with a solution of epichlorohydrin and sodium hydroxide while stirring vigorously for up to about eight hours. Optionally aminating the polymer may be accomplished by treatment with ammonia after crosslinking and then removing remaining free epichlorohydrin. Nanoparticles made by the method are included in the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174169 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409548 | Bankiewicz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krystof S. Bankiewicz (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krystof S. Bankiewicz (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system that is directed to the local delivery of growth factors to the mammalian CNS to treat CNS disorders associated with neuronal death and/or dysfunction is described. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/078357 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409584 | Wisniewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas M. Wisniewski (Staten Island, New York); Fernando Goni (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Wisniewski (Staten Island, New York); Fernando Goni (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical agents and compositions useful for the treatment and prevention of amyloid disease in a subject. The invention further relates to isolated antibodies that recognize a common conformational epitope of amyloidogenic proteins or peptides that are useful for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of amyloid disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774293 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409602 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Carrie Brubaker (Chicago, Illinois); Corinne Zisch (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Carrie Brubaker (Chicago, Illinois); Andreas H. Zisch (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for preventing or repairing damage to a fetal membrane. In one embodiment, the method comprises contacting a fetal membrane with a composition comprising a four-armed catechol-terminated polyethylene glycol (cPEG) and a biocompatible oxidant. In one embodiment, the four-armed cPEG and the biocompatible oxidant are initially contained in separate solutions, and the solutions are mixed to form the composition just prior to or at the same time that the composition contacts the fetal membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845949 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409603 | Gourdie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert G. Gourdie (Charleston, South Carolina); Jay D. Potts (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina); Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Gourdie (Charleston, South Carolina); Jay D. Potts (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a kit is described. The kit includes primed living cells joined to and at least partially within a three-dimensional hydrogel structure and an isolated polypeptide having the carboxy-terminal amino acid sequence of an alpha Connexin, or a conservative variant thereof, wherein the polypeptide does not include the full length alpha Connexin protein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896196 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409808 | Ried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad (Rockville, Maryland); Winfried Steinberg (Soest, Germany); Gert Auer (Stockholm-Solna, Sweden); Sonia Andersson (Stockholm, Sweden); Catharina Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad (Rockville, Maryland); Winfried Steinberg (Soest, Germany); Gert Auer (Stockholm-Solna, Sweden); Sonia Andersson (Stockholm, Sweden); Catharina Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for identifying conditions of low grade cervical dysplasia and assessing the progressive potential of individual lesions to develop into high grade cervical dysplasia and cervical squamous cell cancer as well as cervical adenocarcinoma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/884608 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409809 | Meitinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Meitinger (Munich, Germany); Tim Matthias Strom (Munich, Germany); Saskia Biskup (Stuttgart, Germany); Marius Ueffing (Munich, Germany); Elisabeth Kremmer (Freising, Germany); Christian Johannes Gloeckner (Rottenburg-Hailfingen, Germany); Thomas Gasser (Tuebingen, Germany); Petra Herzig (Basel, Switzerland); Friedrich Asmus (Teubingen, Germany); Nadja Patenge (Rostock, Germany); Alexander Zimprich (Vienna, Austria); Matthew J. Farrer (Jacksonville, Florida); Jennifer M. Kachergus (Atlantic Beach, Florida); Sara J. Lincoln (Jacksonville, Florida); Mary M. Hulihan (Atlanta, Georgia); Zibigniew Wszolek (Jacksonville, Florida); Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) (Neuheberg, Germany); Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen (Tuebingen, Germany); Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Meitinger (Munich, Germany); Tim Matthias Strom (Munich, Germany); Saskia Biskup (Stuttgart, Germany); Marius Ueffing (Munich, Germany); Elisabeth Kremmer (Freising, Germany); Christian Johannes Gloeckner (Rottenburg-Hailfingen, Germany); Thomas Gasser (Tuebingen, Germany); Petra Herzig (Basel, Switzerland); Friedrich Asmus (Teubingen, Germany); Nadja Patenge (Rostock, Germany); Alexander Zimprich (Vienna, Austria); Matthew J. Farrer (Jacksonville, Florida); Jennifer M. Kachergus (Atlantic Beach, Florida); Sara J. Lincoln (Jacksonville, Florida); Mary M. Hulihan (Atlanta, Georgia); Zibigniew Wszolek (Jacksonville, Florida); Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention refers to a newly discovered gene named KASPP for Kinase Associated with Parkinsonism with Pleiomorphic Pathology or alternatively named LRRK2 for Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2, its production, biochemical characterization and use for the detection and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson disease (PD) including, without limitation, sporadic PD, Alzheimer disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and other synucleinopathies and/or tauopathy as well as several polymorphisms and mutations in the KASPP/LRRK2 gene segregated with PD. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219131 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409820 | Imperiali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elvedin Lukovic (Brooklyn, New York); Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Vera (Granada, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elvedin Lukovic (Brooklyn, New York); Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Vera (Granada, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for determining kinase activity. In some cases, the compositions comprise a triazole heterocycle. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise a quinoline moiety. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to compositions that undergo chelation-enhanced fluorescence (CHEF). In some cases, the compositions may have fluorescence emission spectra with peak maxima greater than 490 nm. The compositions of the present invention can be used, in certain embodiments, to detect phosphorylated substrates and biological processes such as phosphorylation events. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873065 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409826 | Ervasti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Ervasti (Shoreview, Minnesota); Kevin J. Sonnemann (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Ervasti (Shoreview, Minnesota); Kevin J. Sonnemann (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a fusion protein including a full-length TAT-utrophin or an anti-dystrophinopathic fragment thereof, a method of treating dystrophinopathies (including Duchenne muscular dystrophy) using the fusion protein, a pharmaceutical composition for treating dystrophinopathies in mammals comprising the fusion protein, and nucleic acid constructs for expressing the fusion protein. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940166 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409859 | Verfaillie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Catherine M. Verfaillie (Leuven, Belgium); Miguel Angel Barajas Velez (Pamplona, Spain); Yves Pierre Heremans (Heverlee, Belgium) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine M. Verfaillie (Leuven, Belgium); Miguel Angel Barajas Velez (Pamplona, Spain); Yves Pierre Heremans (Heverlee, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for differentiating non-embryonic multipotent stem cells along the pancreatic lineage. The present invention further provides non-embryonic multipotent stem cells and progeny derived therefrom to provide pancreatic cells to a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/089868 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410050 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haesun Kim (Teaneck, New Jersey); Anthony O. Caggiano (Larchmont, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Ardsley, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haesun Kim (Teaneck, New Jersey); Anthony O. Caggiano (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to administering glial growth factor 2 (GGF2) to a patient in need thereof, to achieve serum levels of GGF2 within a desired therapeutic window determined based on the disease or disorder afflicting the patient. In a particular embodiment, the patient is suffering from a disease or disorder associated with reduced levels of myelination and the GGF2 is administered to promote myelination in the patient. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380760 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/7.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410053 | Bachovchin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Melrose, Massachusetts); Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Melrose, Massachusetts); Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to improved methods for treatment or prophylaxis in animal subjects (including humans) of autoimmune disorders including Type I diabetes, septic shock, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and Crohn's disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/496627 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410063 | Huizing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marjan Huizing (Kensington, Maryland); William A. Gahl (Kensington, Maryland); Irini Manoli (Rockville, Maryland); Enriko Klootwijk (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marjan Huizing (Kensington, Maryland); William A. Gahl (Kensington, Maryland); Irini Manoli (Rockville, Maryland); Enriko Klootwijk (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for treating kidney and muscle dysfunction that involves use of therapeutic amounts of N-acetyl mannosamine. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/530433 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410064 | Radominska-Pandya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna Radominska-Pandya (Little Rock, Arkansas); Grover Miller (Little Rock, Arkansas); Jeffery Moran (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Radominska-Pandya (Little Rock, Arkansas); Grover Miller (Little Rock, Arkansas); Jeffery Moran (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses classical cannabinoid metabolites and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862501 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410078 | Liang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce Tsan Liang (Avon, Connecticut); Achilles Pappano (West Simsbury, Connecticut); Jian-Bing Shen (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Tsan Liang (Avon, Connecticut); Achilles Pappano (West Simsbury, Connecticut); Jian-Bing Shen (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are N-methanocarba derivatives of AMP and their use in the treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases and conditions responsive to activation of the cardiac P2X receptor. In one embodiment, the N-methanocarba derivative of AMP is the N-methanocarba derivative of 2-chloro-AMP. Diseases and conditions responsive to activation of the cardiac P2X receptor include, for example, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac failure resulting from any cause of abnormal Ca2+ homeostasis or from myocardial injuries, vascular insufficiency leading to myocardial infarction, post-myocardial infarction conditions, post-myocardial infarction conditions within the short-term post-infarction period, and diastolic heart failure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751699 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410085 | Moore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David D. Moore (Bellaire, Texas); Jae Man Lee (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Moore (Bellaire, Texas); Jae Man Lee (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | We have discovered that phospholipids diundecanoyl (C11:0-C11:0) and dilauroyl (C12:0-C12:0) phosphatidylcholine (PC) act as agonists of the LRH-1 receptor. We have also shown that administration of these lipids to diabetic mice reduces blood glucose levels. On the basis of these discoveries, the present invention features compositions that include these lipids and structurally related lipids. Also featured are methods of treating metabolic disorders and inflammatory bowel disease, lowering blood glucose levels, and increasing LRH-1 receptor activity in a subject by administration of these lipids. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/742879 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410097 | Makriyannis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Watertown, Massachusetts); Rajesh Thotapally (Pune, India); Venkata Kiran Rao Vemuri (Boston, Massachusetts); Teresa Olszewska (Gdansk, Poland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Watertown, Massachusetts); Rajesh Thotapally (Pune, India); Venkata Kiran Rao Vemuri (Boston, Massachusetts); Teresa Olszewska (Gdansk, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are biologically active hetero pyrrole analogs such as imidazoles, thiazoles, oxazoles and pyrazoles capable of interacting with the CB1 and/or the CB2 cannabinoid receptors. One aspect discloses hetero pyrrole analogs acting as antagonists for the CB1 and/or the CB2 receptors. Another aspect discloses hetero pyrrole analogs having selectivity for the CB1 or CB2 cannabinoid receptor. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical preparations employing the disclosed analogs and methods of administering therapeutically effective amounts of the disclosed analogs to provide a physiological effect. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334163 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410118 | DiRusso et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Concetta DiRusso (Lincoln, Nebraska); Paul Black (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Concetta DiRusso (Lincoln, Nebraska); Paul Black (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes inhibitors of fatty acid uptake and methods of using such inhibitors. Specifically, the present disclosure describes inhibitors with specificity for FATP2. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571632 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/259.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410138 | Wyss-Coray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Mary J. Tanga (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Mary J. Tanga (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for treatment and prevention of disorders and conditions characterized by reduced TGF-β signaling are described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323679 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410140 | Brummett |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad M. Brummett (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad M. Brummett (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods use in pain reduction, including but not limited to, peripheral nerve blocks. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for the administration of perineural dexmedetomidine and ropivacaine in combination for increased antinociception in peripheral nerve blocks. In addition, this invention relates to any use of dexmedetomidine alone or in combination with other agents for the purpose of decreasing inflammation around peripheral nerves, thereby decreasing the potential for peripheral nerve injury. Further, the invention relates to the use of dexmedetomidine to reduce inflammation in the muscle to lessen or prevent muscle damage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791506 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410149 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain novel semicarbazides, sulfonyl carbazides, ureas and related compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to Arenaviridae (Junin, Machupo, Guanavito, Sabia and Lassa), Filoviridae (ebola and Marburg viruses), Flaviviridae (yellow fever, omsk hemorrhagic fever and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses), and Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley fever). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914400 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/361 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410247 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Annie Tam (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Matthew B. Soellner (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Annie Tam (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Matthew B. Soellner (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Water soluble reagents and methods for the formation of an amide bond between a phosphinothioester and an azide in an aqueous medium. The phosphinothioester is generated using a water-soluble phosphinothiol reagent. This reaction allows formation of an amide bond between a wide variety of chemical species including amino acids, peptides or protein fragments in an aqueous solution. Of particular interest, this reaction allows for the formation of an amide bond in a physiological setting. In a specific embodiment, this invention provides reagents and methods for peptide ligation in an aqueous medium. The reaction eliminates the need for a cysteine residue and is traceless leaving no residual atoms in the ligated peptide product. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546249 |
| 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 530/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410249 | Pier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Casie Anne Kelly-Quintos (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Lisa Cavacini (Natick, Massachusetts); Marshall R. Posner (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Casie Anne Kelly-Quintos (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Lisa Cavacini (Natick, Massachusetts); Marshall R. Posner (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that bind specifically to poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG), such as Staphylococcal PNAG, in acetylated, partially acetylated and/or fully deacetylated form. The invention further provides methods for using these peptides in the diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy of infections by bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Some antibodies of the invention enhance opsonophagocytic killing and in vivo protection against bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Compositions of these peptides, including pharmaceutical compositions, are also provided, as are functionally equivalent variants of such peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334869 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 08410255 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (San Rafael, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Novato, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (San Rafael, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852387 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410258 | Goto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yasuyuki Goto (Obihiro, Japan); Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infections Disease Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasuyuki Goto (Obihiro, Japan); Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for preventing, treating and detecting leishmaniasis are disclosed. The compositions generally comprise fusion polypeptides comprising multiple Leishmania antigens, in particular, KMP11, SMT, A2 and/or CBP, or immunogenic portions or variants thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding such fusion polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/621382 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410292 | Beutler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Beutler (Union Bridge, Maryland); Ranjala Ratnayake (Gainesville, Florida); David Covell (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Tanya R. Johnson (Germantown, 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) | John A. Beutler (Union Bridge, Maryland); Ranjala Ratnayake (Gainesville, Florida); David Covell (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Tanya R. Johnson (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are englerins and derivatives (I) thereof useful in the treatment of a number of cancers, particularly renal cancer, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and method of treating a patient with the use of these derivatives. The englerins, for example Englerin A and Englerin B, can be isolated from the plant Phyllanthus engleri or produced by synthetic methods. An example of the englerin derivative is 2′-chloroenglerin A, which has the structure (II), wherein double bond ‘a’ is E, Z, or a mixture of E and Z. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/811245 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410562 | Lazarus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiung Lo (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiung Lo (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive chemical sensor, along with methods of making and using the sensor are provided. The sensors described herein eliminate undesirable capacitance by etching away the substrate underneath the capacitive chemical sensor, eliminating most of the substrate capacitance and making changes in the chemical-sensitive layer capacitance easier to detect. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010954 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411081 | Mitra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects are disclosed. At least some embodiments include a computer-readable storage medium including software (executable on a processor) to symmetrize a modeled physical object that causes the processor to identify a plurality of clusters (each including a plurality of symmetric point pairs each derived from a plurality of sampled surface points of the object), and to calculate and apply each of a first plurality of displacement value pairs to corresponding sample positions of the symmetric point pairs within at least one cluster, increasing the symmetry of the cluster. The software further causes the processor to calculate a second plurality of displacement value pairs, to contract the cluster using the second plurality of displacement value pairs, to merge two or more clusters within the transformation space, and to present a graphical representation of the symmetrized modeled physical object to a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481197 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412306 | Kurpad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krishna N. Kurpad (Madison, Wisconsin); Orhan Unal (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna N. Kurpad (Madison, Wisconsin); Orhan Unal (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of tracking a medical device and generating an image of a target area. The medical device includes a tracking device to create an imaging field-of-view that extends beyond the tip of the medical device while allowing the tip of the medical device to be visualized. The medical device further includes an imaging/visualization device to create an imaging field from the point of view of the medical device. A voltage standing wave suppression device is formed on the exterior surface of the medical device to prevent the formation of voltage standing waves and localized tissue heating. The voltage standing wave suppression device includes two cable traps spaced apart from one another with each cable trap being formed of a closely packed coiled region of a conductor extending the length of the medical device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728874 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412321 | Gilmour, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Gilmour, Jr. (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey J. Fox (Ithaca, New York); Mark Riccio (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gilmour, Jr. (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey J. Fox (Ithaca, New York); Mark Riccio (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to evaluating the effect of physiological conditions on the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation, identifying strategies for treatment or prevention of ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, and evaluating a subject for induction of ventricular fibrillation from a condition of ventricular tachycardia. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787578 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412339 | 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 comprises an electrically non-conductive substrate; a plurality of electrically conductive vias through said electrically non-conductive substrate; a flip-chip circuit attached to said electrically non-conductive substrate using conductive bumps and electrically connected to a first subset of said plurality of electrically conductive vias, wherein said flip-chip circuit contains one or more stacks or a folded stack; a wire bonded circuit attached to said electrically non-conductive substrate and electrically connected to a second subset of said electrically conductive vias; and a cover bonded to said electrically non-conductive substrate, said cover, said electrically non-conductive substrate and said electrically conductive vias forming a hermetic package. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924709 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412651 | Paiva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Rafael Paiva (Salt Lake City, Utah); Tolga Tasdizen (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Rafael Paiva (Salt Lake City, Utah); Tolga Tasdizen (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided for characterizing a dataset. A representative dataset is defined from a dataset by a computing device. The representative dataset includes a first plurality of data points and the dataset includes a second plurality of data points. The number of the first plurality of data points is less than the number of the second plurality of data points. The data point is added to the representative dataset if a minimum distance between the data point and each data point of the representative dataset is greater than a sampling parameter. The data point is added to a refinement dataset if the minimum distance between the data point and each data point of the representative dataset is less than the sampling parameter and greater than half the sampling parameter. A weighting matrix is defined by the computing device that includes a weight value calculated for each of the first plurality of data points based on a determined number of the second plurality of data points associated with a respective data point of the first plurality of data points. The weight value for a closest data point of the representative dataset is updated if the minimum distance between the data point and each data point of the representative dataset is less than half the sampling parameter. A machine learning algorithm is executed by the computing device using the defined representative dataset and the defined weighting matrix applied in an approximation for a computation of a full kernel matrix of the dataset to generate a parameter characterizing the dataset. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875330 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08407871 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph S. Taylor (Noblesville, Indiana); John D. Myers (Kokomo, Indiana); William J. Baney (Kokomo, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph S. Taylor (Noblesville, Indiana); John D. Myers (Kokomo, Indiana); William J. Baney (Kokomo, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method that employs a novel combination of conventional fabrication techniques provides a ceramic short-resistant capacitor that is bendable and/or shapeable to provide a multiple layer capacitor that is extremely compact and amenable to desirable geometries. The method allows thinner and more flexible ceramic capacitors to be made. The method includes forming a first thin metal layer on a substrate; depositing a thin, ceramic dielectric layer over the metal layer; depositing a second thin metal layer over the dielectric layer to form a capacitor exhibiting a benign failure mode; and separating the capacitor from the substrate. The method may also include bending the resulting capacitor into a serpentine arrangement with gaps between the layers that allow venting of evaporated electrode material in the event of a benign failure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/498025 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408005 | Panuccio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory J. Panuccio (East Amherst, New York); Troy M. Raybold (Colden, New York); Agil Jamal (Richmond, Texas); Raymond Francis Drnevich (Clarence Center, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Panuccio (East Amherst, New York); Troy M. Raybold (Colden, New York); Agil Jamal (Richmond, Texas); Raymond Francis Drnevich (Clarence Center, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of low pressure N2 from an air separation unit (ASU) for use as a sweep gas in a hydrogen transport membrane (HTM) to increase syngas H2 recovery and make a near-atmospheric pressure (less than or equal to about 25 psia) fuel for supplemental firing in the heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) duct burner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522347 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408066 | Romero et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward F. Romero (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Richard A. Jepsen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Danny Lynn Gregory (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Romero (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Richard A. Jepsen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Danny Lynn Gregory (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A shaker assembly for vibration testing includes first and second shakers, where the first shaker includes a piezo-electric material for generating vibration. A support structure permits a test object to be supported for vibration of the test object by both shakers. An input permits an external vibration controller to control vibration of the shakers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911383 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408424 | Saunders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California); John D. Brady (Canoga Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California); John D. Brady (Canoga Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus that promotes the flow of materials has a body having an inner shape for holding the materials, a wall having a shape that approximates a portion of the inner shape of the body, and a vibrator attached to the wall. The wall may be disposed vertically within the body close to the body's inner shape. The vibrator transfers vibrations to the wall to agitate the material and encourage material flow. |
| FILED | Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/618040 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing 222/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408445 | Cai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne W. Cai (Troy, Michigan); Bongsu Kang (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Chin-An Tan (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne W. Cai (Troy, Michigan); Bongsu Kang (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Chin-An Tan (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibration welding system includes a controller, welding horn, an active material element, and anvil assembly. The assembly may include an anvil body connected to a back plate and support member. The element, e.g., a piezoelectric stack or shape memory alloy, is positioned with respect to the assembly. The horn vibrates in a desirable first direction to form a weld on a work piece. The element controls any vibrations in a second direction by applying calibrated response to the anvil body in the second direction. A method for controlling undesirable vibrations in the system includes positioning the element with respect to the anvil assembly, connecting the anvil body to the support member through the back plate, vibrating the horn in a desirable first direction, and transmitting an input signal to the element to control vibration in an undesirable second direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/409494 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409377 | Daniels et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Daniels (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Ronald J. Heaps (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric D. Steffler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); W. David Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Daniels (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Ronald J. Heaps (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric D. Steffler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); W. David Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustible structural composites and methods of forming same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a combustible structural composite includes combustible material comprising a fuel metal and a metal oxide. The fuel metal is present in the combustible material at a weight ratio from 1:9 to 1:1 of the fuel metal to the metal oxide. The fuel metal and the metal oxide are capable of exothermically reacting upon application of energy at or above a threshold value to support self-sustaining combustion of the combustible material within the combustible structural composite. Structural-reinforcing fibers are present in the composite at a weight ratio from 1:20 to 10:1 of the structural-reinforcing fibers to the combustible material. Other embodiments and aspects are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/193427 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409383 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chin-An Tan (Troy, Michigan); Bongsu Kang (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Wayne W. Cai (Troy, Michigan); Tao Wu (Temple, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chin-An Tan (Troy, Michigan); Bongsu Kang (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Wayne W. Cai (Troy, Michigan); Tao Wu (Temple, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibration welding system includes a controller, welding horn, an anvil, and a passive damping mechanism (PDM). The controller generates an input signal having a calibrated frequency. The horn vibrates in a desirable first direction at the calibrated frequency in response to the input signal to form a weld in a work piece. The PDM is positioned with respect to the system, and substantially damps or attenuates vibration in an undesirable second direction. A method includes connecting the PDM having calibrated properties and a natural frequency to an anvil of an ultrasonic welding system. Then, an input signal is generated using a weld controller. The method includes vibrating a welding horn in a desirable direction in response to the input signal, and passively damping vibration in an undesirable direction using the PDM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438200 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409450 | Zettl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jannik Christian Meyer (Ulm, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jannik Christian Meyer (Ulm, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a method of suspending a graphene membrane across a gap in a support structure includes attaching graphene to a substrate. A pre-fabricated support structure having the gap is attached to the graphene. The graphene and the pre-fabricated support structure are then separated from the substrate which leaves the graphene membrane suspended across the gap in the pre-fabricated support structure. An embodiment of a method of depositing material includes placing a support structure having a graphene membrane suspended across a gap under vacuum. A precursor is adsorbed to a surface of the graphene membrane. A portion of the graphene membrane is exposed to a focused electron beam which deposits a material from the precursor onto the graphene membrane. An embodiment of a graphene-based structure includes a support structure having a gap, a graphene membrane suspended across the gap, and a material deposited in a pattern on the graphene membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409938 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409524 | Farmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); James L. Brunk (Martinez, California); S. Daniel Day (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); James L. Brunk (Martinez, California); S. Daniel Day (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A paint that warns of radiological or chemical substances comprising a paint operatively connected to the surface, an indicator material carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances, and a thermo-activation material carried by the paint. In one embodiment, a method of warning of radiological or chemical substances comprising the steps of painting a surface with an indicator material, and monitoring the surface for indications of the radiological or chemical substances. In another embodiment, a paint is operatively connected to a vehicle and an indicator material is carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/365144 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409525 | Farmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for warning of corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. The system comprises painting a surface with a paint or coating that includes an indicator material and monitoring the surface for indications of the corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/365513 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409800 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid enzyme responsive to copper, comprising an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein the nucleic acid enzyme is not self-cleaving. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598070 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409902 | Harley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, California); Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, California); Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric film stack of a solar cell is ablated using a laser. The dielectric film stack includes a layer that is absorptive in a wavelength of operation of the laser source. The laser source, which fires laser pulses at a pulse repetition rate, is configured to ablate the film stack to expose an underlying layer of material. The laser source may be configured to fire a burst of two laser pulses or a single temporally asymmetric laser pulse within a single pulse repetition to achieve complete ablation in a single step. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/486095 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410183 | Cortright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-temperature catalytic process for converting biomass (preferably glycerol recovered from the fabrication of bio-diesel) to synthesis gas (i.e., H2/CO gas mixture) in an endothermic gasification reaction is described. The synthesis gas is used in exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, such as Fischer-Tropsch, methanol, or dimethylether syntheses. The heat from the exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction is integrated with the endothermic gasification reaction, thus providing an energy-efficient route for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410330 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410185 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luping Yu (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Shengwen Yuan (Chicago, Illinois); Junbing Yang (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luping Yu (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Shengwen Yuan (Chicago, Illinois); Junbing Yang (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous polymer, poly-9,9′-spirobifluorene and its derivatives for storage of H2 are prepared through a chemical synthesis method. The porous polymers have high specific surface area and narrow pore size distribution. Hydrogen uptake measurements conducted for these polymers determined a higher hydrogen storage capacity at the ambient temperature over that of the benchmark materials. The method of preparing such polymers, includes oxidatively activating solids by CO2/steam oxidation and supercritical water treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/298168 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410396 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jim J. Chang (San Ramon, California); Herbert W. Friedman (Oakland, California); Brian J. Comaskey (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim J. Chang (San Ramon, California); Herbert W. Friedman (Oakland, California); Brian J. Comaskey (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system produces a first laser beam for rapidly removing the bulk of material in an area to form a ragged hole. The laser system produces a second laser beam for accurately cleaning up the ragged hole so that the final hole has dimensions of high precision. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655416 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410635 | Ransom |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for deactivating a matrix conversion module. An electrical system comprises an alternating current (AC) interface, a matrix conversion module coupled to the AC interface, an inductive element coupled between the AC interface and the matrix conversion module, and a control module. The control module is coupled to the matrix conversion module, and in response to a shutdown condition, the control module is configured to operate the matrix conversion module to deactivate the first conversion module when a magnitude of a current through the inductive element is less than a threshold value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/725265 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410656 | Lokhandwalla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Owen Scott Quirion (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Owen Scott Quirion (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine and stator assembly are provided that include a continuous stator portion having stator teeth, and a tooth tip portion including tooth tips corresponding to the stator teeth of the continuous stator portion, respectively. The tooth tip portion is mounted onto the continuous stator portion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609652 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/216.101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410729 | Spencer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Spencer (Menlo Park, California); Robert Noble (San Jose, California); Sara Campbell (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Spencer (Menlo Park, California); Robert Noble (San Jose, California); Sara Campbell (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic band gap fibers are described having one or more defects suitable for the acceleration of electrons or other charged particles. Methods and devices are described for exciting special purpose modes in the defects including laser coupling schemes as well as various fiber designs and components for facilitating excitation of desired modes. Results are also presented showing effects on modes due to modes in other defects within the fiber and due to the proximity of defects to the fiber edge. Techniques and devices are described for controlling electrons within the defect(s). Various applications for electrons or other energetic charged particles produced by such photonic band gap fibers are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804942 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410758 | Kajouke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for bi-directional energy delivery. A charging system comprises a first bi-directional conversion module, a second bi-directional conversion module, and an isolation module coupled between the first bi-directional conversion module and the second bi-directional conversion module. The isolation module provides galvanic isolation between the first bi-directional conversion module and the second bi-directional conversion module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/535975 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410952 | Abercrombie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert K. Abercrombie (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lee M. Hively (Philadelphia, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Abercrombie (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lee M. Hively (Philadelphia, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensor modules (12) including accelerometers (20) are placed on a physical structure (10) and tri-axial accelerometer data is converted to mechanical power (P) data (41) which then processed to provide a forewarning (57) of a critical event concerning the physical structure (10). The forewarning is based on a number of occurrences of a composite measure of dissimilarity (Ci) exceeding a forewarning threshold over a defined sampling time; and a forewarning signal (58) is provided to a human observer through a visual, audible or tangible signal. A forewarning of a structural failure can also be provided based on a number of occurrences of (Ci) above a failure value threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962787 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/669 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411275 | Ohodnicki, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. (Alison Park, Pennsylvania); Thomas D. Brown (Finleyville, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. (Alison Park, Pennsylvania); Thomas D. Brown (Finleyville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a plasmon resonance-based method for H2 sensing in a gas stream at temperatures greater than about 500° C. utilizing a hydrogen sensing material. The hydrogen sensing material is comprised of gold nanoparticles having an average nanoparticle diameter of less than about 100 nanometers dispersed in an inert matrix having a bandgap greater than or equal to 5 eV, and an oxygen ion conductivity less than approximately 10−7 S/cm at a temperature of 700° C. Exemplary inert matrix materials include SiO2, Al2O3, and Si3N4 as well as modifications to modify the effective refractive indices through combinations and/or doping of such materials. At high temperatures, blue shift of the plasmon resonance optical absorption peak indicates the presence of H2. The method disclosed offers significant advantage over active and reducible matrix materials typically utilized, such as yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) or TiO2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/443223 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412708 | Shevitz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Wolf Shevitz (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Wolf Shevitz (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the present invention includes a method for analyzing and solving possibility tree. A possibility tree having a plurality of programmable nodes is constructed and solved with a solver module executed by a processor element. The solver module executes the programming of said nodes, and tracks the state of at least a variable through a branch. When a variable of said branch is out of tolerance with a parameter, the solver disables remaining nodes of the branch and marks the branch as an invalid solution. The valid solutions are then aggregated and displayed as valid tree solutions. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561729 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412974 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Matthew R. Ellavsky (Rochester, Minnesota); Ross L. Franke (Rochester, Minnesota); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark J. Jeanson (Rochester, Minnesota); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas A. Liebsch (Sious Falls, South Dakota); Daniel Littrell (Carmel, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Don D. Reed (Rochester, Minnesota); Brandon E. Schenck (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard A. Swetz (Mahopac, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Matthew R. Ellavsky (Rochester, Minnesota); Ross L. Franke (Rochester, Minnesota); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark J. Jeanson (Rochester, Minnesota); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas A. Liebsch (Sious Falls, South Dakota); Daniel Littrell (Carmel, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Don D. Reed (Rochester, Minnesota); Brandon E. Schenck (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard A. Swetz (Mahopac, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit generates a global clock signal with a pulse width modification to synchronize processors in a parallel computing system. The circuit may include a hardware module and a clock splitter. The hardware module may generate a clock signal and performs a pulse width modification on the clock signal. The pulse width modification changes a pulse width within a clock period in the clock signal. The clock splitter may distribute the pulse width modified clock signal to a plurality of processors in the parallel computing system. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696764 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08413227 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu-Gene T. Chen (Minden, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Gene T. Chen (Minden, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes receiving a message at a first wireless node. The first wireless node is associated with a first wired network, and the first wired network is associated with a first security layer. The method also includes transmitting the message over the first wired network when at least one destination of the message is located in the first security layer. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting the message for delivery to a second wireless node when at least one destination of the message is located in a second security layer. The second wireless node is associated with a second wired network, and the second wired network is associated with the second security layer. The first and second security layers may be associated with different security paradigms and/or different security domains. Also, the message could be associated with destinations in the first and second security layers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205156 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08407979 | Hofer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard R. Hofer (Monrovia, California) |
| 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) | Richard R. Hofer (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a Hall thruster that incorporates a discharge chamber having a variable area channel including an ionization zone, a transition region, and an acceleration zone. The variable area channel is wider through the acceleration zone than through the ionization zone. An anode is located in a vicinity of the ionization zone and a cathode is located in a vicinity of the acceleration zone. The Hall thruster includes a magnetic circuit which is capable of forming a local magnetic field having a curvature within the transition region of the variable area channel whereby the transition region conforms to the curvature of the local magnetic field. The Hall thruster optimizes the ionization and acceleration efficiencies by the combined effects of the variable area channel and magnetic conformity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926279 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408707 | Watson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew B. Watson (Los Gatos, California); Albert J. Ahumada (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Watson (Los Gatos, California); Albert J. Ahumada (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating a visual acuity metric, based on wavefront aberrations (WFAs), associated with a test subject and representing classes of imperfections, such as defocus, astigmatism, coma and spherical aberrations, of the subject's visual system. The metric allows choices of different image template, can predict acuity for different target probabilities, can incorporate different and possibly subject-specific neural transfer functions, can predict acuity for different subject templates, and incorporates a model of the optotype identification task. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428441 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409372 | Padula, II |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Santo A Padula, II (Valley City, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administraton of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santo A Padula, II (Valley City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for stabilizing the strain-temperature response for a shape memory alloy are provided. To perform stabilization of a second sample of the shape memory alloy, a first sample of the shape memory alloy is selected for isobaric treatment and the second sample is selected for isothermal treatment. When applying the isobaric treatment to the first sample, a constant stress is applied to the first sample. Temperature is also cycled from a minimum temperature to a maximum temperature until a strain on the first sample stabilizes. Once the strain on the first sample stabilizes, the isothermal treatment is performed on the second sample. During isothermal treatment, different levels of stress on the second sample are applied until a strain on the second sample matches the stabilized strain on the first sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874523 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409491 | Stackpoole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margaret M Stackpoole (Santa Clara, California); Matthew J Gasch (Sacramento, California); Michael W Olson (Sunnyvale, California); Ian W. Hamby (Seattle, Washington); Sylvia M Johnson (Piedmont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret M Stackpoole (Santa Clara, California); Matthew J Gasch (Sacramento, California); Michael W Olson (Sunnyvale, California); Ian W. Hamby (Seattle, Washington); Sylvia M Johnson (Piedmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tough ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) composite comprises grains of UHTC matrix material, such as HfB2, ZrB2 or other metal boride, carbide, nitride, etc., surrounded by a uniform distribution of acicular high aspect ratio reinforcement ceramic rods or whiskers, such as of SiC, is formed from uniformly mixing a powder of the UHTC material and a pre-ceramic polymer selected to form the desired reinforcement species, then thermally consolidating the mixture by hot pressing. The acicular reinforcement rods may make up from 5 to 30 vol % of the resulting microstructure. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215206 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/624 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409534 | Parrish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clyde F. Parrish (Trinity, Florida); Landy Chung (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| 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) | Clyde F. Parrish (Trinity, Florida); Landy Chung (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus utilizing chlorine dioxide and hydrogen peroxide are useful to reduce emissions of NOx, SOx, and heavy metals, e.g., mercury, emissions from combustion flue gas streams. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/692557 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409845 | Trent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan D Trent (La Selva Beach, California); Sherwin J Gormly (Carson City, Nevada); Tsegereda N Embaye (Boulder Creek, California); Lance D Delzeit (Santa Clara, California); Michael T Flynn (Corte Madera, California); Travis A Liggett (Redkey, Indiana); Patrick W Buckwalter (La Selva Beach, California); Robert Baertsch (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D Trent (La Selva Beach, California); Sherwin J Gormly (Carson City, Nevada); Tsegereda N Embaye (Boulder Creek, California); Lance D Delzeit (Santa Clara, California); Michael T Flynn (Corte Madera, California); Travis A Liggett (Redkey, Indiana); Patrick W Buckwalter (La Selva Beach, California); Robert Baertsch (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing hydrocarbons, including oil, by processing algae and/or other micro-organisms in an aquatic environment. Flexible bags (e.g., plastic) with CO2/O2 exchange membranes, suspended at a controllable depth in a first liquid (e.g., seawater), receive a second liquid (e.g., liquid effluent from a “dead zone”) containing seeds for algae growth. The algae are cultivated and harvested in the bags, after most of the second liquid is removed by forward osmosis through liquid exchange membranes. The algae are removed and processed, and the bags are cleaned and reused. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316557 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410469 | Nessel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Nessel (Hinckley, Ohio); Richard Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Nessel (Hinckley, Ohio); Richard Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonvolatile nanoionic switch is disclosed. A thin layer of chalcogenide glass engages a substrate and a metal selected from the group of silver and copper photo-dissolved in the chalcogenide glass. A first oxidizable electrode and a second inert electrode engage the chalcogenide glass and are spaced apart from each other forming a gap therebetween. A direct current voltage source is applied with positive polarity applied to the oxidizable electrode and negative polarity applied to the inert electrode which electrodeposits silver or copper across the gap closing the switch. Reversing the polarity of the switch dissolves the electrodeposited metal and returns it to the oxidizable electrode. A capacitor arrangement may be formed with the same structure and process. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/050229 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411214 | Chapman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Chapman (Cardinal, Virginia); Louis J. Glaab (Hampton, Virginia); Timothy D. Schott (Hampton, Virginia); Charles T. Howell (Newport News, Virginia); Vincent J. Fleck (Tabb, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Chapman (Cardinal, Virginia); Louis J. Glaab (Hampton, Virginia); Timothy D. Schott (Hampton, Virginia); Charles T. Howell (Newport News, Virginia); Vincent J. Fleck (Tabb, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for flight training and evaluation of pilots comprises electronically activated vision restriction glasses that detect the pilot's head position and automatically darken and restrict the pilot's ability to see through the front and side windscreens when the pilot-in-training attempts to see out the windscreen. Thus, the pilot-in-training sees only within the aircraft cockpit, forcing him or her to fly by instruments in the most restricted operational mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/144937 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412376 | Abdallah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for distributing tension among tendons of a tendon-driven finger in a robotic system, wherein the finger characterized by n degrees of freedom and n+1 tendons. The method includes determining a maximum functional tension and a minimum functional tension of each tendon of the finger, and then using a controller to distribute tension among the tendons, such that each tendon is assigned a tension value less than the maximum functional tension and greater than or equal to the minimum functional tension. The method satisfies the minimum functional tension while minimizing the internal tension in the robotic system, and satisfies the maximum functional tension without introducing a coupled disturbance to the joint torques. A robotic system includes a robot having at least one tendon-driven finger characterized by n degrees of freedom and n+1 tendons, and a controller having an algorithm for controlling the tendons as set forth above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720725 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412378 | Abdallah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calibrating tension sensors on tendons in a tendon-driven manipulator without disassembling the manipulator and without external force references. The method calibrates the tensions against each other to produce results that are kinematically consistent. The results might not be absolutely accurate, however, they are optimized with respect to an initial or nominal calibration. The method includes causing the tendons to be slack and recording the sensor values from sensors that measure the tension on the tendons. The method further includes tensioning the tendons with the manipulator positioned so that it is not in contact with any obstacle or joint limit and again recording the sensor values. The method then performs a regression process to determine the sensor parameters that both satisfy a zero-torque constraint on the manipulator and minimize the error with respect to nominal calibration values. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/629637 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412391 | Paluszek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Paluszek (Princeton, New Jersey); Pradeep Bhatta (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton Satelitte Systems (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Paluszek (Princeton, New Jersey); Pradeep Bhatta (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method and system for maneuvering a first spacecraft relative to a nearby second spacecraft that occupies a finite volume of space including obstacles in the vicinity of the second from a measured present relative position to a desired ending relative position. A trajectory is computed for the first spacecraft from the present relative position to the ending relative position using the A* algorithm. One or more thrusters of the first spacecraft are then fired. The first spacecraft's relative position and velocity are then measured and compared to the computed trajectory. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193172 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412469 | Bebout et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brad Bebout (Santa Cruz, California); Erich Fleming (Redwood City, California); Matthew Piccini (Belmont, California); Christopher Beasley (Sunnyvale, California); Leslie Bebout (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad Bebout (Santa Cruz, California); Erich Fleming (Redwood City, California); Matthew Piccini (Belmont, California); Christopher Beasley (Sunnyvale, California); Leslie Bebout (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Mobile system and method for monitoring environmental parameters involved in growth or metabolic transformation of algae in a liquid. Each of one or more mobile apparati, suspended or partly or wholly submerged in the liquid, includes at least first and second environmental sensors that sense and transmit distinct first and second environmental, growth or transformation parameter values, such as liquid temperature, temperature of gas adjacent to and above the exposed surface, liquid pH, liquid salinity, liquid turbidity, O2 dissolved in the liquid, CO2 contained in the liquid, oxidization and reduction potential of the liquid, nutrient concentrations in the liquid, nitrate concentration in the liquid, ammonium concentration in the liquid, bicarbonate concentration in the liquid, phosphate concentration in the liquid, light intensity at the liquid surface, electrical conductivity of the liquid, and a parameter α(alga) associated with growth stage of the alga, using PAM fluorometry or other suitable parameter measurements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698996 |
| 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 72/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08408786 | Hudgings et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Janice A. Hudgings (South Hadley, Massachusetts); Rajeev J. Ram (Arlington, Massachusetts); Maryam Farzaneh (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice A. Hudgings (South Hadley, Massachusetts); Rajeev J. Ram (Arlington, Massachusetts); Maryam Farzaneh (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides techniques and apparatus for optical characterization of photonic devices and/or circuits. By way of example, the techniques can be used to identify damaged devices in photonic integrated circuits. In some embodiments, thermal imaging is employed as a diagnostic tool for characterizing the devices/circuits under investigation. For example, in one embodiment, integrated cascaded semiconductor amplifiers can be characterized using amplified spontaneous emission from one amplifier as a thermal modulation input to another amplifier. A thermoreflectance image of the second amplifier can reveal flaws, if present. Further, in some embodiments, thermal imaging in conjunction with a total energy model can be employed to characterize the elements of photonic circuits optically and/or to map the optical power distribution throughout the circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115201 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409351 | Robbins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua Robbins (Golden, Colorado); Michael Seman (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SiC Systems, Inc. (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Robbins (Golden, Colorado); Michael Seman (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to grow a boule of silicon carbide is described. The method may include flowing a silicon-containing precursor and a carbon-containing precursor proximate to a heated filament array and forming the silicon carbide boule on a substrate from reactions of the heated silicon-containing and carbon-containing precursors. Also, an apparatus for growing a silicon carbide boule is described. The apparatus may include a deposition chamber to deposit silicon carbide on a substrate, and a precursor transport system for introducing silicon-containing and carbon-containing precursors into the deposition chamber. The apparatus may also include at least one filament or filament segment capable of being heated to a temperature that can activate the precursors, and a substrate pedestal to hold a deposition substrate upon which the silicon carbide boule is grown. The pedestal may be operable to change the distance between the substrate and the filament as the silicon carbide boule is grown. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186112 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409800 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid enzyme responsive to copper, comprising an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein the nucleic acid enzyme is not self-cleaving. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598070 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409827 | Stewart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel fusion protein comprising a nitrate reductase (NR) and a truncated hemoglobin N (trHbN) domain. The fusion protein may be used for bioremediation of nitric oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184037 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410245 | Torkelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Torkelson (Skokie, Illinois); Cynthia Pierre (Chicago, Illinois); Amanda Flores (Mount Vernon, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Torkelson (Skokie, Illinois); Cynthia Pierre (Chicago, Illinois); Amanda Flores (Mount Vernon, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid-state shear pulverization of semi-crystalline polymers and copolymers thereof and related methods for enhanced crystallization kinetics and physical/mechanical properties. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322396 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/502.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410257 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Akita, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Akita, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288987 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410303 | Alabugin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor Alabugin (Tallahassee, Florida); Abdulkader Baroudi (Paris, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Alabugin (Tallahassee, Florida); Abdulkader Baroudi (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the preparation of an aromatic carboxylic acid aryl ester or an N-aryl aromatic carboxamide. The method comprises contacting an O,O-diaryl thiocarbonate or an O-aryl-N-aryl thiocarbamate with a reactant that regioselectively reacts with sulfur, which contact causes an O-neophyl rearrangement, thereby forming either the aromatic carboxylic acid aryl ester or the N-aryl aromatic carboxamide, respectively. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/053756 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410455 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Y. Charles Cao (Gainesville, Florida); Ou Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel Edward Shelby (Gainesville, Florida); Yongan Yang (Irvine, California); Jiaqi Zhuang (Gainesville, Florida); Nicolo Omenetto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Y. Charles Cao (Gainesville, Florida); Ou Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel Edward Shelby (Gainesville, Florida); Yongan Yang (Irvine, California); Jiaqi Zhuang (Gainesville, Florida); Nicolo Omenetto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is a device for photo-stimulated color emission having at least one plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle comprising at least one semiconducting material and a plurality of at least one dopant coupled with an irradiation source such that the plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle emit electromagnetic radiation at two or more wavelengths where the intensities of the emissions depend on the intensity of the irradiation. In an embodiment of the invention, the plurally doped semiconducting nanoparticle can be a doped core/shell nanoparticle where the plurality of dopants can reside in exclusively the core, exclusively the shell, or in both the core and shell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755820 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410658 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostatic energy harvester comprises at least a plurality of variable capacitor layers. In one embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are directly bonded together. In another embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are bonded together with at least one moving mass layer. Still in another embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are located at different heights and are located separately from each other. A method of making such a device is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473439 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411081 | Mitra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niloy J. Mitra (New Delhi, India); Leonidas J. Guibas (Palo Alto, California); Mark Pauly (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects are disclosed. At least some embodiments include a computer-readable storage medium including software (executable on a processor) to symmetrize a modeled physical object that causes the processor to identify a plurality of clusters (each including a plurality of symmetric point pairs each derived from a plurality of sampled surface points of the object), and to calculate and apply each of a first plurality of displacement value pairs to corresponding sample positions of the symmetric point pairs within at least one cluster, increasing the symmetry of the cluster. The software further causes the processor to calculate a second plurality of displacement value pairs, to contract the cluster using the second plurality of displacement value pairs, to merge two or more clusters within the transformation space, and to present a graphical representation of the symmetrized modeled physical object to a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481197 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411140 | Adelson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward H. Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward H. Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor includes a photosensing structure, a volume of elastomer capable of transmitting an image, and a reflective skin covering the volume of elastomer. The reflective skin is illuminated through the volume of elastomer by one or more light sources, and has particles that reflect light incident on the reflective skin from within the volume of elastomer. The reflective skin is geometrically altered in response to pressure applied by an entity touching the reflective skin, the geometrical alteration causing localized changes in the surface normal of the skin and associated localized changes in the amount of light reflected from the reflective skin in the direction of the photosensing structure. The photosensing structure receives a portion of the reflected light in the form of an image, the image indicating one or more features of the entity producing the pressure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488008 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08413019 | Candes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuel Candes (Los Angeles, California); Terence Tao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuel Candes (Los Angeles, California); Terence Tao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for correcting transmission errors. According to the method, a transmitted vector corrupted by error can be recovered solving a linear program. The method has applications in the transmission of Internet media, Internet telephony, and speech transmission. In addition, error correction is embedded as a key building block in numerous algorithms, and data-structures, where corruption is possible; corruption of digital data stored on a hard-drive, CD, DVD or similar media is a good example. In short, progress in error correction has potential to impact several storage and communication systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/978305 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08408956 | Vosburgh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload delivery unit for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes an unmanned buoy, a drop weight member, and a retention system. The buoy includes a container. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The drop weight member is mounted on the shell and has a negative buoyancy with respect to the submersion medium. The retention system is operative to retain the drop weight member on the buoy and selectively release the drop weight member from the buoy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493933 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices 441/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409228 | Blatter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeffrey E. Ransden (Fairfield, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeffrey E. Ransden (Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Tissue management methods can include inserting a clamping device into a vessel and clamping a vessel wall via the clamping device. Tissue can be dilated about the clamping device and an anastomotic device provided to the vessel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480678 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409408 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Planet Strategies, L.L.C. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick I. James (Madison, Wisconsin); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell having an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system arranged to manipulate cathode particulates motion including a magnetic subsystem having at least one source of magnetic field arranged to interact with cathode particulates via magnetic field interaction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/251646 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409984 | Bennahmias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Joseph Bennahmias (Ladera Ranch, California); Michael John Zani (Laguna Niguel, California); Jeffrey Winfield Scott (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NexGen Semi Holding, Inc. (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Joseph Bennahmias (Ladera Ranch, California); Michael John Zani (Laguna Niguel, California); Jeffrey Winfield Scott (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to the formation of multi-component oxide heterostructures (MCOH) using surface nucleation to pattern the atomic layer deposition (ALD) of perovskite material followed by patterned etch and metallization to produce ultra-high density MCOH nano-electronic devices. Applications include ultra-high density MCOH memory and logic, as well as electronic functionality based on single electrons, for example a novel flash memory cell Floating-Gate (FG) transistor with LaAlO3 as a gate tunneling dielectric. Other types of memory devices (DIMMS, DRAM, and DDR) made with patterned ALD of LaAlO3 as a gate dielectric are also possible. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813394 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410658 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zhang (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostatic energy harvester comprises at least a plurality of variable capacitor layers. In one embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are directly bonded together. In another embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are bonded together with at least one moving mass layer. Still in another embodiment, at least two of the variable capacitor layers are located at different heights and are located separately from each other. A method of making such a device is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473439 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08407999 | Gray, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| 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) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbocharged engine system is configured to vaporize methanol using heat from exhaust gases and uses the vaporized methanol to drive the engine's turbocharger. The methanol may also be dissociated into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. After passing through the turbocharger, the vapor is injected into the engine by port injection. By selective timing of exhaust valves, the exhaust gases are separated into two streams, a first stream comprising gases ejected during exhaust blowdown, and a second stream of gases ejected during the remainder of the engine's exhaust stroke. The blowdown gases are employed to drive a separate turbine of the turbocharger. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286645 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08408144 | Read |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Read (Dexter, Michigan) |
| 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) | David H. Read (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage car for a locomotive includes a hydraulic energy storage system designed to capture and reuse energy normally lost in dynamic braking. The energy storage car is preferably configured to provide functions sufficient to replace one of multiple locomotives used to pull a freight train. Braking and other methods for improved efficiency of such trains are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731326 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Railway rolling stock 15/26.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08409827 | Stewart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel fusion protein comprising a nitrate reductase (NR) and a truncated hemoglobin N (trHbN) domain. The fusion protein may be used for bioremediation of nitric oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184037 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE44124 | Lovell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Lovell (Isle of Wight, United Kingdom); Craig Turchi (Lakewood, Colorado); Thomas E. Broderick (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novinda, Inc. (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lovell (Isle of Wight, United Kingdom); Craig Turchi (Lakewood, Colorado); Thomas E. Broderick (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A regenerable, high-capacity sorbent for removal of mercury from flue gas and processes and systems for making and using the sorbent. A phyllosilicate substrate, for example vermiculite or montmorillinite, acts as an inexpensive support to a thin layer for a polyvalent metal sulfide, ensuring that more of the metal sulfide is engaged in the sorption process. The sorbent is prepared by ion exchange between the silicate substrate material and a solution containing one or more of a group of polyvalent metals including tin (both Sn(II) and Sn(IV)), iron (both Fe(II) and Fe(III)), titanium, manganese, zirconium and molybdenum, dissolved as salts, to produce an exchanged substrate. Controlled reaction of a sulfide ion source with the one or more polyvalent metals that are exchanged on the silicate substrate produces the sorbent. The sorbent is used to absorb elemental mercury or oxidized mercury species such as mercuric chloride from flue gas containing acid gases (e.g., SO2, NO and NO2, and HCl) and other gases over a wide range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/608123 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08407931 | Humphrey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Humphrey (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Humphrey (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Snake trap primarily designed to capture relatively long and heavy snakes such as the Burmese Python. The trap is specifically configured to avoid inadvertently capturing non-targeted animals by using at least two weight/pressure-sensing plates. Each pressure plate has an independent release mechanism so that both pressure plates must be in a depressed position to spring the trap. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896034 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410194 | Orts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William J. Orts (Burlingame, California); Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Syed Hussain Imam (Walnut Creek, California); Robert E. Sojka (Twin Falls, Idaho); C. Steven Sikes (Eugene, Oregon); Mark A. Hochwalt (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Orts (Burlingame, California); Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Syed Hussain Imam (Walnut Creek, California); Robert E. Sojka (Twin Falls, Idaho); C. Steven Sikes (Eugene, Oregon); Mark A. Hochwalt (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The biopolymer additive, in combination with water, functions as a soil conditioner that affects soil erosion and water infiltration. The biopolymer additive is derived from complex galactomannon-rich succulent plants. The succulent-derived (biopolymer) additive (SDA) may be used alone or in combination with polymers and copolymers of polyacrylamide (PAM). The combination of the SDA and PAM has a synergistic effect so that the resulting composition yields unexpected results and is a more effective treatment than either SDA or the PAM alone. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757498 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410257 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Akita, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Akita, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288987 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08408271 | Hussain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Khalid X. Hussain (Kansas City, Missouri); David C. Faulkner (Saltford Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid X. Hussain (Kansas City, Missouri); David C. Faulkner (Saltford Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus, and method for removing pressure adhesive indicia, such as labels or stamps, from their backing and affixing the same to a target substrate is provided. The automated process affixes stamps, for example, to the target substrate with both speed and precision of placement. Desired stamps can be selectively removed from a backing, for example, can be placed on variable locations upon the target substrate, and can be affixed in the desired orientation with precise spacing between stamps. The precision of affixation afforded by this system is commensurate with philatelic standards and is suitable for all pressure adhesive indicia where rapid and precise placement is desired for aesthetic or other reasons. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701402 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412534 | Amonette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas M. Amonette (Greenfield, Indiana); John J. Sadler (Deinkirk, Maryland); John F. Gullo (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Amonette (Greenfield, Indiana); John J. Sadler (Deinkirk, Maryland); John F. Gullo (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for manifesting mailpieces. processing mailpieces from a mail system, and certifying a mail system are provided. A mailpiece is received at a manifest mailing system and mailing information from the mailpiece is obtained. A manifest of the mailpiece is created and the mailpiece is then delivered using the manifest. Based on a certification of the mail system. an accuracy of a portion of the manifest may be selectively determined. Based on the accuracy of the portion of the manifest. the mailpieces are then conditionally delivered using the manifest. To determine a certification. test information may be provided to a mail system. A manifest generated by the mail system is then received. The accuracy of the manifest based on the test information is determine and a certification level is then assigned to the mail system. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/450468 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08412641 | Zeisset et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin A. Zeisset (Pocahontas, Illinois); Harry W. Aldstadt (Woodbridge, Virginia); Janice Caldwell (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Zeisset (Pocahontas, Illinois); Harry W. Aldstadt (Woodbridge, Virginia); Janice Caldwell (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for assigning mail items to carriers, comprising at least one server containing a mail assignment engine. The mail assignment engine is operative to receive delivery data from the mail processors, determine routes for delivery using the delivery data and a set of business rules, assign the mail items to carriers based on the determined routes, and transmit mail item assignment information to the mail processors. The mail assignment engine may determine the routes using a database including files for active, planned, and closed routes. The mail assignment engine may also use business rules, which may comprise cost consideration, delivery options, and route delay information. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632934 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08409846 | Hassanein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Waleed Hassanein (Andover, Massachusetts); Shukri F. Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Michael D. Crittenden (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waleed Hassanein (Andover, Massachusetts); Shukri F. Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Michael D. Crittenden (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, systems/devices and media are provided for maintaining a harvested organ in a functioning and viable state prior to implantation. The organ perfusion apparatus includes a preservation chamber for storing the organ during the preservation period. A perfusion circuit is provided having a first line for providing an oxygenated fluid to the organ, and a second line for carrying depleted fluid away from the organ. The perfusion apparatus also includes a device operably associated with the perfusion circuit for maintaining the organ at a substantially normothermic temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060906 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/284.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08410138 | Wyss-Coray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Mary J. Tanga (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Mary J. Tanga (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for treatment and prevention of disorders and conditions characterized by reduced TGF-β signaling are described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323679 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08409827 | Stewart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer J. Stewart (Milton, Delaware); Kathryn J. Coyne (Milford, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel fusion protein comprising a nitrate reductase (NR) and a truncated hemoglobin N (trHbN) domain. The fusion protein may be used for bioremediation of nitric oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184037 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08409411 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shalini Prasad (Portland, Oregon); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Prasad (Portland, Oregon); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors include nano-porous alumina membranes that are sensitized by immobilization of antibodies in the nano-pores. The nano-membranes can be sensitized to respond to a single target compound, or different portions of the nano-membrane can be differently sensitized. Capture of the target compound can be detected based on a spectral signature associated with electrical conductance in the nano-pores. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634367 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08410055 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Li (Altadena, California); Mei Chen (Altadena, California); David T. Woodley (Altadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Li (Altadena, California); Mei Chen (Altadena, California); David T. Woodley (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wound healing composition comprising an amount of heat shock protein effective to promote wound healing and a method thereof to apply the composition. A preferred heat shock protein is either full-length hsp90α or the middle domain plus the charged sequence of hsp90α. The composition is topically applied to skin wounds, covering the outer surface of the wound. The heat shock protein acts by promoting migration of both human epidermal keratinocyte and dermal fibroblasts to the wound in order to close, heal, and remodel the wound. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/210200 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08411490 | Lawson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Lawson (Haymarket, Virginia); Edward Maher (Manassas, Virginia); Shankarnarayana Ramaswamy (Chantilly, Virginia); Tri Minh Hoang (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Lawson (Haymarket, Virginia); Edward Maher (Manassas, Virginia); Shankarnarayana Ramaswamy (Chantilly, Virginia); Tri Minh Hoang (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sense amplifier for static random access memories is disclosed. The sense amplifier includes a pair of inverters cross-coupled to each other. The sense amplifier also includes means for equalizing the charges within the pair of inverters before performing a sense operation, and means for sensing a current difference between a bitline and its complement from a memory cell during the sense operation. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890430 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08413080 | Somerstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen F. Somerstein (Mountain View, California); Martina J. Reale (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Somerstein (Mountain View, California); Martina J. Reale (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for creating an apodization mask is disclosed. According to the method, a grid is created for the pattern. The grid includes a number of elements. Each element is processed to determine whether the element is to be made transmissive based on a predetermined local optical density and a random value. The predetermined local optical density and the random value are associated with the element. The random value is generated on a random basis. Each element is further processed to determine whether the position of the element is to be shifted. The positional shift is determined on a random basis. The grid with the processed elements is then used to make an apodization mask. The apodization mask may be used in an optical instrument, such as, an interferometer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212749 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08413237 | O'Rourke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul F. O'Rourke (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Robert J. Shanley (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. O'Rourke (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Robert J. Shanley (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of simulating vulnerability are provided. In an example, multi-stage vulnerability across multiple systems may be simulated by first simulating a probing of at least one intermediate entity, the at least one intermediate entity connected to a target system, second simulating a probing of the target system if the first simulated probing is successful and generating an attack graph based on the results of the first and second simulating steps. In another example, multi-system vulnerability may be simulated by receiving a plurality of attributes associated with vulnerabilities of a plurality of systems within a network, the plurality of systems including at least one target system and generating an attack graph including one or more attack chains based at least in part on the received plurality of attributes. In another example, system (e.g., single-system) vulnerability may be simulated by first simulating whether vulnerabilities exploited from a first system state cause a transition to a second system state, the second system state having a higher-privilege level than the first system state within a target system and generating an attack graph based at least in part on the results of the simulation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584598 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
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