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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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| US 08429857 | Melrose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul T. Melrose (Orono, Maine); Richard F. Nye (Old Town, Maine); Ashley E. Tower (Bangor, Maine); Laurent R. Parent (Veazie, Maine); Robert T. O'Neil (Orono, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Melrose (Orono, Maine); Richard F. Nye (Old Town, Maine); Ashley E. Tower (Bangor, Maine); Laurent R. Parent (Veazie, Maine); Robert T. O'Neil (Orono, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A blast and ballistic protective wall assembly for use on an exterior of a container includes a frame having four corner posts, two lower side members having fork lift openings formed therethrough, two upper side members, two lower cross members, two upper cross members, lower corner castings attached to the lower ends of the corner posts, and upper corner castings attached to the upper ends of the corner posts, the frame supporting side walls, end walls, and a roof of the container. The blast and ballistic protective wall assembly further includes an attachment member attached to a portion of the frame and a plurality of composite panels. One end of each panel is attached to the attachment member, and the other end of the panel is attached to another panel, a portion of the frame, or another attachment member. Each panel is thereby attached to a wall of the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059748 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/79.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430029 | Bohnet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Bohnet (Herndon, Virginia); Yeshayahu S. Goldstein (Gaitherburg, Maryland); Mark H. Machina (Leesburg, Virginia); Kristopher P. Mount (Falls Church, Virginia); Kenneth W. Mitchell (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Bohnet (Herndon, Virginia); Yeshayahu S. Goldstein (Gaitherburg, Maryland); Mark H. Machina (Leesburg, Virginia); Kristopher P. Mount (Falls Church, Virginia); Kenneth W. Mitchell (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertial delay mechanism for use in an explosive projectile is provided. The delay mechanism consists of an inertial delay fuse that is precise, doesn't require sensitive primary explosives and doesn't utilize electronic circuitry. The inertial delay fuse includes a free sliding charge element that strikes an anvil located opposite to the sliding charge element. A delay gap is provided between the sliding charge element and the anvil. Upon impact, the sliding charge element slides forward and impacts the anvil, thereby inducing a shock wave in an initiator charge that subsequently results in detonation of main charges. The design is mechanically simple and robust enough to withstand severe g-loading forces that occur during firing and penetration of a projectile. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023320 |
| 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 12/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430036 | Machina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark H. Machina (Leesburg, Virginia); Michael Raleigh (Alexandria, Virginia); Kristopher P. Mount (Falls Church, Virginia); Kenneth W. Mitchell (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael A. Bohnet (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Machina (Leesburg, Virginia); Michael Raleigh (Alexandria, Virginia); Kristopher P. Mount (Falls Church, Virginia); Kenneth W. Mitchell (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael A. Bohnet (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for firing multiple projectiles in a parallel or diverging manner is provided. The system can comprise tail-end portions of projectiles that add structure to a cartridge, provide for efficient combustion, allow projectiles to transition from a straight configuration in the cartridge to a splayed configuration in a chamber, and ensure complete evacuation of the chamber. The system can include a tail-end portion of a particular projectile with openings that distribute energy from combustion of an ignition charge, facilitating firing of multiple projectiles. A tail-end portion of a projectile can include a ball joint upon which the body portion of the projectile moves causing an angle between the body portion and the tail-end portion. A space can exist in the body portion adjacent to the ball joint to allow off-center shifting of the body portion with respect to the ball joint. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585868 |
| 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 12/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430049 | Tureaud et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vehicle Control Technologies, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for launching and recovering at least one water vehicle includes a frame supported by a base. The base may be mounted to the deck of a boat. The frame includes an elongate stand for supporting the water vehicle. The frame is mounted for being moved relative to the base between a stowed position and a deployed position, so that a rear end of the stand is at a lower elevation in the deployed position than in the stowed position. A guide is carried by the frame and adapted for being moved back and forth along the stand. The guide is for mechanically guiding the water vehicle along the stand. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460048 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430601 | Chadwick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Chadwick (San Diego, California); Adriane Q. Wotawa-Bergen (San Diego, California); Jeffrey A. Kagan (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Chadwick (San Diego, California); Adriane Q. Wotawa-Bergen (San Diego, California); Jeffrey A. Kagan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for burying fabric cloth in marine sediment includes a sled having first and second ends and a partially open bottom surface proximate to the second end. A fabric deployer is coupled to and extended from the sled adjacent to the second end. A sediment disruption device resides opposite the fabric deployer and faces the first end. The fabric deployer is a tubular structure having a slot therein extending lengthwise along the tubular structure facing away from the first end. A fabric cloth is disposed on an axle within the tubular structure so a distal end of the cloth protrudes from the slot. An electronics package is releaseably secured adjacent to the second end by a release mechanism and to the end of the cloth by a tether. A cathode may be connected to the electronics package, forming, with a buried fabric cloth anode, a microbial fuel cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019938 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430686 | Sheehan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Howard M. Sheehan (Bloomfield, New York); Michael D. Stevens (Avon, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard M. Sheehan (Bloomfield, New York); Michael D. Stevens (Avon, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connector assembly includes a connector body having a connector longitudinal axis. A wing portion integrally connected to the connector body has an aperture with an aperture longitudinal axis oriented parallel to the connector longitudinal axis. A pin is fixed in the wing portion aperture having a pin portion extending away from the wing portion such that a pin longitudinal axis is oriented parallel to the connector longitudinal axis. A threaded connection portion axially extends from the connector body co-axial to the connector longitudinal axis. A panel nut is threaded onto the threaded connection portion to retain a panel between the panel nut and the connector body with the threaded connection portion extending through a panel aperture. The pin is received in a panel bore in an installed condition preventing connector assembly axial rotation with respect to the connector longitudinal axis when torque is applied to the panel nut. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959489 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430938 | Miller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven P. Miller (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Miller (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | According to typical inventive practice, an algorithm controls a reformer in order to produce a pure hydrogen stream for a hydrogen-using device. The inventive algorithmic feedback control maintains the permeate hydrogen stream at a permeate pressure setpoint. Pressure measurements are performed of the permeate hydrogen stream. Control data (e.g., including a “lookup” table) establishes at least three output levels (scaled from zero output to maximum output) of the permeate hydrogen stream and, for each output level, five variable setpoints (air flow rate, hydrocarbon flow rate, and steam flow rate preceding the reformer reaction; steam flow rate preceding the water-gas shift reaction; shaft rotational speed in the energy recovery device). The pressure signals and the control data are processed to determine the optimal output level and the associated variable setpoints. Control signals are sent to adjust the variables to the determined variable setpoints. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894637 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430960 | Sumakeris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina); Michael James Paisley (Garner, North Carolina); Michael John O'Loughlin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina); Michael James Paisley (Garner, North Carolina); Michael John O'Loughlin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Parasitic deposits are controlled in a deposition system for depositing a film on a substrate, the deposition system of the type defining a reaction chamber for receiving the substrate and including a process gas in the reaction chamber and an interior surface contiguous with the reaction chamber. Such control is provided by flowing a buffer gas between the interior surface and at least a portion of the process gas to form a gas barrier layer such that the gas barrier layer inhibits contact between the interior surface and components of the process gas. A deposition system for depositing a film on a substrate using a process gas includes a reaction chamber adapted to receive the substrate and the process gas. The system further includes an interior surface contiguous with the reaction chamber. A buffer gas supply system is adapted to supply a flow of a buffer gas between the interior surface and at least a portion of the process gas such that the flow of the buffer gas forms a gas barrier layer to inhibit contact between the interior surface and components of the process gas when the process gas is disposed in the reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512800 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431071 | Imam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | M Ashraf Imam (Great Falls, Virginia); Arne W Fliflet (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washigton, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M Ashraf Imam (Great Falls, Virginia); Arne W Fliflet (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sintering by: placing a compacted metal powder inside a cylindrically-shaped susceptor and in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum, and applying microwave or millimeter-wave energy to the powder until the powder is sintered. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870037 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431080 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang Liu (Winnetka, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kee Ryu (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Winnetka, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kee Ryu (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscale polymer-based apparatus comprises a substrate formed from a first polymer material and at least one active region integrated with the substrate. The at least one active region is patterned from a second polymer material that is modified to perform at least one function within the at least one active region. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809757 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431116 | Richardson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Richardson (Bozeman, Montana); Thomas S. Vedvick (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas R. Foubert (Bozeman, Montana); William T. Tino (Belgrade, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Vaccines (Montana), Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Richardson (Bozeman, Montana); Thomas S. Vedvick (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas R. Foubert (Bozeman, Montana); William T. Tino (Belgrade, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antigenic and vaccine compositions comprising Norovirus antigens and adjuvants, in particular, mixtures of monovalent VLPs and mixtures of multivalent VLPs, and to a process for the production of both monovalent and multivalent VLPs, the VLPs comprising capsid proteins from one or more Norovirus genogroups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816495 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431176 | Racicot et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Racicot (Hopedale, Massachusetts); Nicole Favreau (Waltham, Massachusetts); Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Racicot (Hopedale, Massachusetts); Nicole Favreau (Waltham, Massachusetts); Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a separated fraction of a reaction product of an enzymatically catalyzed polymerization of a flavonoid. The separated fraction is highly resistant to oxidation and is useful in numerous applications such as an antioxidant in food products and medical applications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/641368 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431340 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605217 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431390 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287398 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431406 | Tew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Raja Shunmugam (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Tew (Amherst, Massachusetts); Raja Shunmugam (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Terpyridine-substituted compounds, compositions and/or related methods, as can be used to selectively detect a wide range of analytes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229466 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431409 | Meinhart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, devices and systems that utilize free-surface fluidics and SERS for analyte detection with high sensitivity and specificity. The molecules can be airborne agents, including but not limited to explosives, narcotics, hazardous chemicals, or other chemical species. The free-surface fluidic architecture is created using an open microchannel, and exhibits a large surface to volume ratio. The free-surface fluidic interface can filter interferent molecules, while concentrating airborne analyte molecules. The microchannel flow enables controlled aggregation of SERS-active probe particles in the flow, thereby enhancing the detector's sensitivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/564698 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431506 | Neltner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Neltner (Boulder, Colorado); Angela Belcher (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Neltner (Boulder, Colorado); Angela Belcher (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a metal oxide nanoparticle comprising contacting an aqueous solution of a metal salt with an oxidant. The method is safe, environmentally benign, and uses readily available precursors. The size of the nanoparticles, which can be as small as 1 nm or smaller, can be controlled by selecting appropriate conditions. The method is compatible with biologically derived scaffolds, such as virus particles chosen to bind a desired material. The resulting nanoparticles can be porous and provide advantageous properties as a catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911340 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431816 | Kempa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Brighton, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Brighton, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for solar conversion using nanoscale cometal structures are disclosed herein. The cometal structures may be coaxial and coplanar. A nanoscale optics apparatus for use as a solar cell comprises a plurality of nanoscale cometal structures each including a photovoltaic material located between a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor. A method of fabricating solar cells comprises preparing a plurality of nanoscale planar structures; coating a plurality of planar surfaces of the plurality of planar structures with a photovoltaic semiconductor while leaving space between the plurality of planar surfaces; and coating the photovoltaic semiconductor with an outer electrical conductor layer, wherein a portion of the outer electrical conductor layer is located between the planar structures to form coplanar structures. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092512 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431962 | Heying et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Heying (Fullerton, California); Ioulia Smorchkova (Lakewood, California); Vincent Gambin (Gardena, California); Robert Coffie (Camarillo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Heying (Fullerton, California); Ioulia Smorchkova (Lakewood, California); Vincent Gambin (Gardena, California); Robert Coffie (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nitride-based FET device that provides reduced electron trapping and gate current leakage. The device includes a relatively thick passivation layer to reduce traps caused by device processing and a thin passivation layer below the gate terminal to reduce gate current leakage. The device includes semiconductor device layers deposited on a substrate. A plurality of passivation layers are deposited on the semiconductor device layers, where at least two of the layers are made of a different dielectric material to provide an etch stop. One or more of the passivation layers can be removed using the interfaces between the layers as an etch stop so that the distance between the gate terminal and the semiconductor device layers can be tightly controlled, where the distance can be made very thin to increase device performance and reduce gate current leakage. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952527 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431995 | Fuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas C Fuller (North Hills, New York); Steve Koester (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas C Fuller (North Hills, New York); Steve Koester (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating recessed drain regions of aggressively scaled CMOS devices. In this method a processing sequence of plasma etch, deposition, followed by plasma etch is used to controllably form recessed regions of the drain in the channel of a thin body, much less than 40 nm, device to enable subsequent epitaxial growth of SiGe, SiC, or other materials, and a consequent increase in the device and ring oscillator performance. A Field Effect Transistor device is also provided, which includes: a buried oxide layer; a silicon layer above the buried oxide layer; an isotropically recessed drain region; and a gate stack which includes a gate dielectric, a conductive material, and a spacer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779087 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432009 | Apalkov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Xueti Tang (Fremont, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Grandis, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Xueti Tang (Fremont, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device are described. The magnetic junction includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the pinned layer and the free layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. At least one of the pinned layer and the free layer includes a magnetic substructure. The magnetic substructure includes at least two magnetic layers interleaved with at least one insertion layer. Each insertion layer includes at least one of Cr, Ta, Ti, W, Ru, V, Cu, Mg, aluminum oxide, and MgO. The magnetic layers are exchange coupled. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011849 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432153 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shalabh Gupta (Los Angeles, California); Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Ali Motafakker-Fard (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalabh Gupta (Los Angeles, California); Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Ali Motafakker-Fard (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-stretched enhanced recording scope (TiSER) is described using time stretch analog-to-digital conversion in a real-time burst mode. A chirped optical signal is modulated in response to receiving segments of an input signal. The optical signal with its modulated input signal, is stretched through an optical medium and digitized to represent the waveform segment. TiSER provides ultra-fast real-time sampling within short segment bursts of the original input signal while providing an ability to detect non-repetitive events. Methods and apparatus are also described for providing real-time information about inter-symbol information (ISI), rapidly determining bit-error rates (BER), performing time-domain reflectometry (TDR), generating eye diagrams for serial data, facilitating digital correction of data, clock recovery, optical carrier phase recovery, and otherwise increasing the speed and/or accuracy of a diverse range of high-speed signal measurement and processing activities. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623359 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432239 | Bozler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); Craig L. Keast (Groton, Massachusetts); Jeremy Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); Craig L. Keast (Groton, Massachusetts); Jeremy Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electromechanical system switch includes a substrate and a plurality of actuating electrodes formed the substrate wherein each actuating electrode is activatable. A cantilever beam has a first end and a second end and a plurality of stops formed thereon. The plurality of stops engages the substrate between the plurality of actuating electrode. A contact area is formed in the substrate and located to engage the second end of the cantilever beam. A voltage source applies a voltage to each actuating electrode independently in a sequence from an actuating electrode located adjacent to the first end of the cantilever beam to an actuating electrode located adjacent to the second end of the cantilever beam so that the plurality of stops sequentially engage the substrate between the plurality of actuating electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943146 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432436 | Debevec et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California); Andrew Jones (Los Angeles, California); Mark Bolas (Los Angeles, California); Ian McDowall (Woodside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California); Andrew Jones (Los Angeles, California); Mark Bolas (Los Angeles, California); Ian McDowall (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An interactive, autostereoscopic system for displaying an object in 3D includes a mirror configured to spin around a vertical axis when actuated by a motor, a high speed video projector, and a processing system including a graphics card interfaced to the video projector. An anisotropic reflector is bonded onto an inclined surface of the mirror. The video projector projects video signals of the object from the projector onto the inclined surface of the mirror while the mirror is spinning, so that light rays representing the video signals are redirected toward a field of view of a 360 degree range. The processing system renders the redirected light rays so as to interactively generate a horizontal-parallax 3D display of the object. Vertical parallax can be included in the display by adjusting vertically the displayed views of the object, in response to tracking of viewer motion by a tracking system. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105120 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432533 | Fourkas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Erez H. Gershgoren (Lapid, Israel); Linjie Li (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hana Hwang (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univ. of MD. at College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Erez H. Gershgoren (Lapid, Israel); Linjie Li (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hana Hwang (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for photolithography is provided. The system includes a photoresist comprising a photoinitiator and a prepolymer resin. The system further includes a first light source operable to generate at least a first beam of light which is focused on a first area of the photoresist. The first beam of light is configured to excite the photoinitiator. The system further includes a second light source operable to generate at least a second beam of light which is focused on a second area of the photoresist, the second beam of light configured to deactivate at least temporarily the photoinitiator excited by the first beam of light. The first area and second area overlap at least partially. A time difference of at least 10 ns exists between the photoinitiator being excited by the first beam of light and the photoinitiator initiating polymerization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652410 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432805 | Agarwal |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil Agarwal (North Potomoc, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaSat, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil Agarwal (North Potomoc, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth and frequencies among different beams. Bandwidth request data may be received and compiled from the terminals. The satellite may be configured with different beam coverage areas, and may dynamically allocate bandwidth and particular frequency channels to different beam coverage areas based on the requests. In each of a series of one or more epochs, and according to the bandwidth requests, there may be allocations among carrier groups, traffic classes, and particular terminals. The setup of slot structure and selection of modes for particular terminals is also addressed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615488 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432949 | Rawlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Terry Rawlins (Reading, Massachusetts); David B. Oakes (Reading, Massachusetts); Seonkyung Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Steven J. Davis (Londonderry, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Terry Rawlins (Reading, Massachusetts); David B. Oakes (Reading, Massachusetts); Seonkyung Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Steven J. Davis (Londonderry, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser device includes an optical resonator, a microwave driven discharge device, and a source for a second gas. The microwave driven discharge device is disposed relative to the optical resonator. The microwave driven discharge device operates at a discharge power and gas flow rate to produce a selected amount of energetic singlet oxygen metastables flowing in the direction of the optical resonator. The second source for the second gas is disposed between the optical resonator and the microwave driven discharge device. The second gas reacts with the selected amount of energetic singlet oxygen metastables to form an excited species in an amount sufficient to support lasing of the excited species in the optical resonator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881987 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432974 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Chen (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based method and system for compressing digital hyperspectral or multispectral image data. The method includes initially reducing the plurality of spectral bands of the hyperspectral data to a smaller number of spectral bands using principal component analysis, determining an optimum compression ratio for each of the smaller number of spectral bands for use in a wavelet transform, and subsequently compressing the smaller number of spectral bands spatially using the wavelet transform with the optimum compression ratios. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834334 |
| ART UNIT | 2483 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433008 | Kumar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A RF receiver that comprises: (i) a complex mixer for converting a version of the RF signal to a complex baseband signal comprising an in-phase component and a quadrature component; (ii) one or more analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) connected to the complex mixer for digitizing the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the complex baseband signal; and (iii) a digital signal processor (DSP) connected the one or more ADCs. The DSP is programmed to mitigate interference in the complex baseband signal by a process that comprises the steps of: (i) performing at least one cross correlation operation involving L-length segments of the digitized in-phase and quadrature components of the complex baseband signal; and (ii) concatenating the cross-correlated L-length segments of the digitized in-phase and quadrature components of the complex baseband signal to produce digitized interference mitigated in-phase and quadrature components of the complex baseband signal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537516 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433117 | Hacker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henry Hacker (McGregor, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Hacker (McGregor, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method that captures a diagnostic image of a retina having at least one lesion, wherein the lesion includes a plurality of spots to be treated. Information is received from a user interface, wherein the information includes a duration, intensity, and/or wavelength of treatment for each of the spots. A real-time image of the retina is captured; and, a composite image is created by linking the diagnostic image to the real-time image. At least one updated real-time image of the retina is obtained using eye tracking and/or image stabilization; and, an annotated image is created by modifying the composite image based on the updated real-time image. A localized laser beam is delivered to each of the spots according to the information, the composite image, and the annotated image. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/130380 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433167 | Falkenstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Falkenstein (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian L Justus (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Falkenstein (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian L Justus (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a holey fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The holey fiber can transmit light by total internal reflection or by Bragg diffraction, can be single mode or multimode and can have solid core or a hollow core. The holey fiber has outside diameter typically of 20 microns to 5 mm, a hollow core of a diameter typically of 0.2 micron to 150 microns and longitudinal channels therethrough of a diameter typically of 0.1 micron to 150 microns. The channels are disposed in a desired arrangement with center-to-center distance variation of less than about 2% along the length of the fiber and the cross-section thereof is round that varies less than about 2%. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689584 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433198 | McFadden |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. McFadden (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. McFadden (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for enabling detection of a modulated optical source involve one or more modulated optical signals shifted, i.e., demodulated optically, to one or more base band signals that are detectable by one or more low-frequency detectors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628129 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433199 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406918 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433460 | Recchia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Recchia (Succasunna, New Jersey); Wilfredo Toledo (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey); Jason Cahayla (West Miliford, New Jersey); Eric Scheper (Mt. Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Recchia (Succasunna, New Jersey); Wilfredo Toledo (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey); Jason Cahayla (West Miliford, New Jersey); Eric Scheper (Mt. Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An onboard sensor suite generally includes two main components: a proximity sensor suite for measuring the projectile muzzle velocity; and a pressure sensor suite for measuring the projectile airspeed. The flight velocity of the projectile can then be estimated with a high degree of accuracy using either the muzzle velocity by itself or the airspeed by itself, or, in a preferred embodiment, by using both the muzzle velocity and the airspeed. The proximity sensor suite includes proximity sensors that are mounted along a projectile body; a wire harness; and an onboard computer or CPU. The pressure sensor suite includes a Pitot pressure transducer and two static pressure transducers that are mounted within the projectile body; a wire harness; and a CPU. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943214 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433556 | Fraser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Fraser (Santa Monica, California); Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Fraser (Santa Monica, California); Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for aligning words in parallel segments is provided. A first probability distribution of word alignments within a first corpus comprising unaligned word-level parallel segments according to a model estimate is calculated. The model estimate is modified according to the first probability distribution. One or more sub-models associated with the modified model estimate are discriminatively re-ranked according to word-level annotated parallel segments. A second probability distribution of the word alignments within the first corpus is calculated according to the re-ranked sub-models associated with the modified model estimate. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/592450 |
| ART UNIT | 2659 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433662 | Ferringer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Ronald Scott Clifton (Leesburg, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Ronald Scott Clifton (Leesburg, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for a core management system for parallel processing of an evolutionary algorithm. The systems and methods may include identifying, for a processing environment, a plurality of arriving processors available for utilization; configuring a first number of the plurality of arriving processors as master processors for the processing environment; configuring a respective second number of the plurality of arriving processors as slave processors, where each master processor is assigned one or more of the slave processors for the processing environment, where each master processor maintains timing data associated with available processing resources at the respective master processor, where each master processor is operative to calculate a respective target number of slaves based upon the respective timing data; and reconfiguring a current number of slave processors assigned to one or more respective master processors based upon the respective timing data calculated for the one or more respective master processors. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550724 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433715 | Mirhaji |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Parsa Mirhaji (Pearland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parsa Mirhaji (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of methods and systems for informatics systems are disclosed. Such informatics systems may utilize a unifying format to represent text to facilitate linking between data from the text and one or more ontologies, and the commensurate ability to mine such data. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928489 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433885 | Burger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Doug Burger (Austin, Texas); Stephen W. Keckler (Austin, Texas); Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doug Burger (Austin, Texas); Stephen W. Keckler (Austin, Texas); Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples of a system, method and computer accessible medium are provided to generate a predicate prediction for a distributed multi-core architecture. Using such system, method and computer accessible medium, it is possible to intelligently encode approximate predicate path information on branch instructions. Using this statically generated information, distributed predicate predictors can generate dynamic predicate histories that can facilitate an accurate prediction of high-confidence predicates, while minimizing the communication between the cores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556440 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433959 | Garfinkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simson Leon Garfinkel (Arlington, Virginia); Alexander Joseph Nelson (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simson Leon Garfinkel (Arlington, Virginia); Alexander Joseph Nelson (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for rapidly characterizing the forensic contents of a digital storage device using statistical drive sampling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876416 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/718 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08434087 | Degenaro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing distributed computer data stream acceleration devices is provided that utilizes distributed acceleration devices on nodes within the computing system to process inquiries by programs executing on the computing system. The available nodes and available acceleration devices in the computing system are identified. In addition, a plurality of virtual acceleration device definitions is created. Each virtual acceleration device definition includes attributes used to configure at least one of the plurality of identified acceleration devices. When an inquiry containing an identification of computing system resources to be used in processing the inquiry is received, at least one virtual acceleration device definition that is capable of configuring an acceleration device in accordance with the computing system resources identified by the inquiry is identified. That acceleration device is configured in accordance with the identified virtual acceleration device definition and is used to process the inquiry. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201456 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08430832 | 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 | 12/827601 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431134 | Ades et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia); Gowrisankar Rajam (Tucker, Georgia); Sandra Steiner (Atlanta, Georgia); George M. Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Nikkoj Melnick (Braselton, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Joseph E. Martinez (Morrow, Georgia); Julie M. Skinner (Schwenksville, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia); Gowrisankar Rajam (Tucker, Georgia); Sandra Steiner (Atlanta, Georgia); George M. Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Nikkoj Melnick (Braselton, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Joseph E. Martinez (Morrow, Georgia); Julie M. Skinner (Schwenksville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing opsonophagocytosis of a pathogen of interest are disclosed. The disclosed methods include administering to a subject an isolated P4 peptide, which includes the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 1 and optionally an isolated opsonic antibody or a fragment thereof that specifically binds to an antigen present on the surface of the pathogen of interest. In some examples isolated complement protein or a fragment thereof (for example, a C3a, C3b, iC3b, C3d, C4b, or C5a fragment of a complement protein) is also administered. Compositions containing isolated P4 peptide and one or more isolated opsonic antibodies or a fragment thereof that specifically binds to an antigen present of the surface of a pathogen of interest are also disclosed. In some examples, the compositions also include isolated complement protein or fragment thereof, such as one or more of C3a, C3b, iC3b, C3d, C4b, or C5a. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/056522 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431162 | Zuba-Surma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ewa K. Zuba-Surma (Louisville, Kentucky); Buddhadeb Dawn (Louisville, Kentucky); Ahmed Abdel-Latif (Lexington, Kentucky); Roberto Bolli (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ewa K. Zuba-Surma (Louisville, Kentucky); Buddhadeb Dawn (Louisville, Kentucky); Ahmed Abdel-Latif (Lexington, Kentucky); Roberto Bolli (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides an isolated subpopulation of bone marrow-derived adherent stem cells that are purified from bone marrow-derived adherent cells. Also provided are methods for isolating the subpopulation of bone marrow-derived adherent stem cells from bone marrow-derived adherent cells and for using the isolated subpopulation of bone marrow-derived adherent stem cells for treating tissue and/or organ damage in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261344 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431340 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605217 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431342 | Croce |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269407 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431353 | Gjerset et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruth A. Gjerset (San Diego, California); Keya Bandyopadhyay (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RG Biopharma LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruth A. Gjerset (San Diego, California); Keya Bandyopadhyay (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining the sensitivity or enhancing the sensitivity of cells to the effects of topoisomerase I inhibitors. Also disclosed are methods and compositions for inducing cell death, apoptosis and/or growth arrest which may be used for tumor suppression. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/898872 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431356 | Thomas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David D. Thomas (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Razvan L. Cornea (Woodbury, Minnesota); Krisztina M. Zsebo (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Celladon Corporation (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Thomas (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Razvan L. Cornea (Woodbury, Minnesota); Krisztina M. Zsebo (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for identifying molecules capable of modulating SERCA, the SERCA-PLB complex or the microenvironment of the complex. An exemplary assay provided herein is fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). Also provided herein are FRET assays that are optimized for high-throughput screening (HTS) for identifying small molecules that modulate SERCA or the SERCA-PLB complex. Further provided are kits for carrying out said methods for identifying molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/145787 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431357 | Birnbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eva R. Birnbaum (Los Alamos, Arizona); Rebecca L. E. Miller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Lori J. Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jennifer A. Berger (White Rock, New Mexico); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caldera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Los Alamas, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva R. Birnbaum (Los Alamos, Arizona); Rebecca L. E. Miller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Lori J. Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jennifer A. Berger (White Rock, New Mexico); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method and apparatus for measuring the removal of analyte from a cell. One or more cells are provided, comprising at least 10 picograms of an analyte within a volume defined by the area of an x-ray excitation beam and a depth of a depth of five times the 1/e attenuation depth for at least one characteristic x-ray signal of the analyte as attenuated by water. At least a of portion of the analyte is removed from the cells; and the analyte is measured using x-ray fluorescence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496532 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431361 | Ballard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jimmy D. Ballard (Norman, Oklahoma); Elaine E. Hamm (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Jordi M. Melton (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy D. Ballard (Norman, Oklahoma); Elaine E. Hamm (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Jordi M. Melton (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention provides isolated nucleotide sequences that encode Clostridium difficile toxin B, wherein the isolated nucleotide sequences have been optimized for improved expression of the toxin B in a bacterial cell. Other embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of expressing recombinant Clostridium difficile toxin B in a bacterial cell from the isolated nucleotide sequences of the present invention. In other embodiments, the present invention pertains to bacterial cells that comprise the isolated nucleotide sequences of the present invention. In further embodiments, the invention pertains to isolated peptides of recombinant Clostridium difficile toxin B that were derived from the isolated nucleotide sequences of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/885356 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431388 | Heyduk |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally provides three-component molecular biosensors. The molecular biosensors are useful in several methods including in the identification and quantification of target molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830958 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431390 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287398 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431396 | Anand-Apte |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bela Anand-Apte (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bela Anand-Apte (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified polypeptide includes about 10 to about 40 amino acids and has an amino acid sequence corresponding to a portion of SEQ ID NO: 2. The polypeptide can inhibit binding of VEGF to VEGFR2 of cells that express VEGFR2. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/529650 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431397 | Robinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey); Michael R Rosen (New York, New York); Ira S. Cohen (Stony Brook, New York); Peter R. Brink (Setauket, New York); Glenn Gaudette (Holden, Massachusetts); Irina Potapova (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey); Michael R Rosen (New York, New York); Ira S. Cohen (Stony Brook, New York); Peter R. Brink (Setauket, New York); Glenn Gaudette (Holden, Massachusetts); Irina Potapova (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a subject afflicted with a cardiac disorder, in vivo, comprises (i) inducing differentiation of a progenitor cell, in vitro, to a cardiogenic cell; and (ii) administering a therapeutically effective amount of the cardiogenic cell of step (i) to the subject, thereby treating the cardiac disorder in the subject. This invention further provides related articles of manufacture and methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227533 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431522 | Costa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Costa (Oak Park, Illinois); Pradip Raychaudhuri (Oak Park, Illinois); Xinhe Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Vladimir Kalinichenko (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Michael Major (Chicago, Illinois); I-Ching Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Costa (Oak Park, Illinois); Pradip Raychaudhuri (Oak Park, Illinois); Xinhe Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Vladimir Kalinichenko (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Michael Major (Chicago, Illinois); I-Ching Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell proliferation by inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization in a tumor cell. The invention also provides methods for preventing tumor progression in an animal comprising inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell growth in an animal comprising inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization in tumor cells in the animal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871560 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431527 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Truman R. Brown (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York); Francis Kappler (Phila, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Truman R. Brown (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York); Francis Kappler (Phila, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a class of compounds which inhibit the enzymatic conversion of fructose-lysine into fructose-lysine-3-phosphate in an ATP dependent reaction in a newly discovered metabolic pathway. According to the normal functioning on this pathway, fructose-lysine-3-phosphate (FL3P) is broken down to form free lysine, inorganic phosphate and 3-deoxyglucosone (3DG), the latter being a reactive protein modifying agent. 3DG can be detoxified by reduction to 3-deoxyfructose (3DF), or it can react with endogenous proteins to form advanced glycation end-product modified proteins (AGE-proteins) Also disclosed are therapeutic methods of using such inhibitors to alleviate deleterious effects of 3DG. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911195 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431529 | Pellecchia |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compound having the general structure A or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: Het-L-P (A) wherein Het is an aromatic moiety comprising a heterocyclic structure mimicking ATP, P is a docking site derived peptide or a docking site peptide mimetic, and L is a linking moiety, wherein L links the ATP mimetic to the docking site peptide moiety. The compounds having the general structure A can serve as inhibitors of kinases, such as the kinases JNK, Erk and p38. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970813 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431538 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Kyle V. Butler (Washington, Illinois); Jay H. Kalin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Kyle V. Butler (Washington, Illinois); Jay H. Kalin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Histone deacetylases inhibitors (HDACIs) and compositions containing the same are disclosed. Methods of treating diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of HDAC provides a benefit, like a cancer, a neurodegenerative disorder, a neurological disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, malaria, an autoimmune disease, autism, and inflammation, also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/384724 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/20.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431542 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Da-Zhi Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jianfu Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Da-Zhi Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jianfu Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in myocytes. Also provided are cells comprising the compositions of the presently disclosed subject matter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/086109 |
| 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 08431546 | Donald |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlton D. Donald (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phigenix, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlton D. Donald (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method of treating cancer in a subject by inhibiting expression of PAX2. An example of a cancer treated by the present method is prostate cancer. In the cancer treatment methods disclosed, the method of inhibiting expression of PAX2 can be by administration of a nucleic acid encoding an siRNA for PAX2. A method of treating cancer in a subject by administering DEFB1 is also provided. Similarly, provided is a method of treating cancer in a subject by increasing expression of DEFB1 in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010867 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431555 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arthur G. Schwartz (Perkasie, Pennsylvania); John R. Williams (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur G. Schwartz (Perkasie, Pennsylvania); John R. Williams (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to formulations of poorly water soluble pharmaceutical agents of Formula I and II. The present invention also relates to compositions containing compounds of Formula I or II, and glucocorticoids, and methods for reducing side effects from glucocorticoid treatment by co-administration of compounds of Formula I and II. The compositions herein are useful for the treatment of diabetes and obesity related diseases including metabolic syndrome. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494928 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431558 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); Nicholas J. Agard (Berkeley, California); Jennifer A. Prescher (Berkeley, California); Jeremy Michael Baskin (Berkeley, California); Ellen May Sletten (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); Nicholas J. Agard (Berkeley, California); Jennifer A. Prescher (Berkeley, California); Jeremy Michael Baskin (Berkeley, California); Ellen May Sletten (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides modified cycloalkyne compounds; and method of use of such compounds in modifying biomolecules. The present invention features a cycloaddition reaction that can be carried out under physiological conditions. In general, the invention involves reacting a modified cycloalkyne with an azide moiety on a target biomolecule, generating a covalently modified biomolecule. The selectivity of the reaction and its compatibility with aqueous environments provide for its application in vivo (e.g., on the cell surface or intracellularly) and in vitro (e.g., synthesis of peptides and other polymers, production of modified (e.g., labeled) amino acids). |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049034 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431561 | Boss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerry Boss (La Jolla, California); Vijay Sharma (Encinitas, California); Kate E. Broderick (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerry Boss (La Jolla, California); Vijay Sharma (Encinitas, California); Kate E. Broderick (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating disease states in a subject caused or exacerbated by the presence of excess nitric oxide (NO) or excess cyanide are provided. Methods for alleviating the symptoms of a disease state in a subject caused or exacerbated by the presence of excess nitric oxide (NO) or excess cyanide in the subject are also provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising cobinamide and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/630049 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431582 | 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 | 13/571667 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/259.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431611 | Brando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lorraine V. Brando (Baltimore, Maryland); Gary H. Posner (Baltimore, Maryland); John G. D'Angelo (Lindenhurst, New York); Robert H. Yolken (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher P. Hencken (Baltimore, Maryland); Lauren Woodard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine V. Brando (Baltimore, Maryland); Gary H. Posner (Baltimore, Maryland); John G. D'Angelo (Lindenhurst, New York); Robert H. Yolken (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher P. Hencken (Baltimore, Maryland); Lauren Woodard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides improved derivatives of artemisinin; pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds; methods for preparing these compounds and compositions; methods of using these compounds and compositions for preventing, controlling or treating infectious diseases including but not limited to parasitic infectious diseases such as T. gondii infection, trypanosome parasite infection, plasmodia parasite infection, and cryptosporidium parasite infection; methods for preventing, controlling or treating toxoplasma infection; and methods for treating psychiatric disorders associated with toxoplasma infection including but not limited to schizophrenia using the disclosed compounds and compositions alone or in combination with one or more antipsychotic drugs. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/445499 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431626 | Bowman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Hee Young Park (Asan-si, South Korea); Christopher J. Kloxin (Newark, Delaware); Ahmed S. Abuelyaman (Woodbury, Minnesota); Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Hee Young Park (Asan-si, South Korea); Christopher J. Kloxin (Newark, Delaware); Ahmed S. Abuelyaman (Woodbury, Minnesota); Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Dental compositions and disulfide monomers described. The disulfide monomer comprises a disulfide backbone group wherein each of the sulfur atoms are bonded to a group terminating with an ethylenically unsaturated norbornyl group; and at least one other monomer comprising at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/110898 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431690 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiong J. Wang (Reston, Virginia); Kenichi Hanada (Bethesda, Maryland); James C. Yang (Silver Spring, 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) | Qiong J. Wang (Reston, Virginia); Kenichi Hanada (Bethesda, Maryland); James C. Yang (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated or purified T cell receptor (TCR) having antigenic specificity for a cancer antigen, e.g., a renal cell carcinoma antigen, wherein the TCR recognizes the cancer antigen in a major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-independent manner. Also provided are related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, isolated host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions. The invention further provides a method of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a host using the inventive TCRs or related materials. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870941 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431768 | Mumm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey S. Mumm (St. Louis, Missouri); Eric H. Schroeter (Troy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Mumm (St. Louis, Missouri); Eric H. Schroeter (Troy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system including: (i) a methodology for targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish; (ii) a methodology for regional cellular ablation in zebrafish. These methodologies are used to identify drug compounds that influence cellular regeneration for the purpose of developing therapies for degenerative conditions. Transgenic zebrafish disclosed herein contain transgenic constructs composed of: (i) cell and/or tissue-type specific regulatory elements (e.g. promoter and/or enhancer regions) which delimit expression of operably linked gene product(s) to discrete cellular populations; (ii) a gene product that promotes cellular ablation composed of a pro-drug conversion system capable of converting nontoxic pro-drugs into cytotoxic drugs, which is expressed alone or in connection with; (iii) a reporter gene product that allows selective detection of cells expressing the reporter—both prior to (initial cells) and following cellular ablation (regenerated cells). |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287372 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431770 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic avians which produce proteins in their oviduct tissue having modified oligosaccharide structures and methods of making such avians are disclosed herein. The invention also includes the modified proteins produced in the transgenic birds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319396 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431888 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Kennedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Pei (Agoura Hills, California); Qiang Li (Saginaw, Michigan); Mike S. Lee (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Valaskovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kennedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Pei (Agoura Hills, California); Qiang Li (Saginaw, Michigan); Mike S. Lee (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Valaskovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Droplets or plugs within multiphase microfluidic systems have rapidly gained interest as a way to manipulate samples and chemical reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale. Chemical analysis of the plugs remains a challenge. It has been discovered that nanoliter plugs of sample separated by air or oil can be analyzed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry when pumped directly into a fused silica nanospray emitter nozzle. Using leu-enkephalin in methanol and 1% acetic acid in water (50:50 v:v) as a model sample, we found carry-over between plugs was <0.1% and relative standard deviation of signal for a series of plugs was 3%. Detection limits were 1 nM. Sample analysis rates of 0.8 Hz were achieved by pumping 13 nL samples separated by 3 mm long air gaps in a 75 μm inner diameter tube. Analysis rates were limited by the scan time of the ion trap mass spectrometer. The system provides a robust, rapid, and information-rich method for chemical analysis of sample in segmented flow systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/378858 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431904 | Lewellen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas K. Lewellen (Port Ludlow, Washington); Robert S. Miyaoka (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Lewellen (Port Ludlow, Washington); Robert S. Miyaoka (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved processing electronic hardware are disclosed that facilitate the efficient processing of PET system data, while enhancing accuracy and compatibility of PET systems with other analytical methods (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging). Improvements include the use of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for summing, by row, column, and diagonal, the output signals from an array of photodetectors in the PET system. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/125962 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432166 | Worters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pauline W. Worters (Menlo Park, California); Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pauline W. Worters (Menlo Park, California); Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance imaging system or method is provided including a balanced steady-state free-precession transient imaging (transient bSSFP) device capable of increasing the overall signal during transient bSSFP acquisition by fully or better utilization of the magnetization through variable RF flip angles. The transient bSSFP device is capable of generating a series of echoes with a desired transverse magnetization profile MT. It is further capable of generating RF pulses each having a distinct RF flip angle for each of the echoes in the series of echoes. The transient bSSFP device is coupled to a computer capable of calculating the distinct RF flip angle for the nth echo in the series of echoes. The computer calculation utilizes a program encoding an analytical inversion of the Bloch equation. Once the RF flip angle is calculated, it is used by the transient bSSFP device in the generation of the nth echo. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/660676 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433392 | Riederer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an MRI system for imaging of a subject over extended field-of-view (FOV) that employs both accelerated data acquisition, which is employed while the subject is stationary, and traditional data acquisition, which is employed while the subject is moved through the MRI system. This approach provides improved spatial resolution and time efficiency compared to traditional extended FOV imaging techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122586 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433523 | Basile |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alison Jane Basile (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alison Jane Basile (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Clinical samples can be analyzed using microparticles to determine the serodiagnosis of a viral infection from two candidate viral infections of the same viral group. Serodiagnosis can be determined via a pooled population of subsets of microparticles, with the particles in the pooled population having a bound viral group-reactive antibody and the particles in each subset having at least one characteristic classification parameter that distinguishes between subsets. Viral antigens of antibodies of interest in the same viral-class as the viral group-reactive antibody can be bound to the viral group-reactive antibody on the microparticles, and subsequently exposed to a clinical sample. Binding and labeling can be used. Automated analysis of data from multiplexed flow analysis can determine the presence or absence of antibodies of interest in the sample, thereby diagnosing for two candidate viral infections in a single assay. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/093671 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08429915 | Hadley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Allan Hadley (Greer, South Carolina); David Kenton Felling (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allan Hadley (Greer, South Carolina); David Kenton Felling (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector is provided, including a fuel injector body, a plurality of fuel vanes, and a plurality of fuel pegs. The injector body includes a manifold and an inlet. The manifold is configured for receiving fuel, and the inlet is configured for receiving air. The fuel vanes are located within the injector body and are positioned in a direction that is generally parallel with a longitudinal axis of the injector body to orient the air flowing from the inlet. The plurality of fuel pegs are fluidly connected to the manifold and are arranged within the plurality of fuel vanes. The plurality of fuel pegs are each spaced at a distance that is about equal between each of the plurality of fuel pegs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/274826 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08429987 | Linker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin L. Linker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Hunter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles A. Brusseau (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Linker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Hunter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles A. Brusseau (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A portal, system and method for screening an object for a target substance is provided. The portal includes an inflatable bladder expandable to form a test space for receiving the object and a plurality of nozzles positioned about the inflatable bladder. The nozzles are in fluid communication with a fluid source for directing air over the object whereby samples are removed from the object for examination. A collector is operatively connected to the inflatable bladder for collecting the samples removed from the object. A detector is operatively connected to the collector for examining the removed samples for the presence of the target substance. At least one preconcentrator may be operatively connected to the collector for concentrating the samples collected thereby. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/636852 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431072 | Muralidharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yukinori Yamamoto (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yukinori Yamamoto (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An austenitic stainless steel alloy consisting essentially of, in terms of weight percent ranges 0.15-0.5C; 8-37Ni; 10-25Cr; 2.5-5Al; greater than 0.6, up to 2.5 total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta; up to 3Mo; up to 3Co; up to 1W; up to 3Cu; up to 15Mn; up to 2Si; up to 0.15B; up to 0.05P; up to 1 total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Ce, Hf, and Zr; <0.3Ti+V; <0.03N; and, balance Fe, where the weight percent Fe is greater than the weight percent Ni, and wherein the alloy forms an external continuous scale comprising alumina, and a stable essentially single phase FCC austenitic matrix microstructure, the austenitic matrix being essentially delta-ferrite free and essentially BCC-phase-free. A method of making austenitic stainless steel alloys is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/114745 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431197 | Fritz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory M. Fritz (Pikesville, Maryland); Robert Allen Knepper (Baltimore, Maryland); Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); John S. Sze (Saratoga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Fritz (Pikesville, Maryland); Robert Allen Knepper (Baltimore, Maryland); Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); John S. Sze (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An energetic composite having a plurality of reactive particles each having a reactive multilayer construction formed by successively depositing reactive layers on a rod-shaped substrate having a longitudinal axis, dividing the reactive-layer-deposited rod-shaped substrate into a plurality of substantially uniform longitudinal segments, and removing the rod-shaped substrate from the longitudinal segments, so that the reactive particles have a controlled, substantially uniform, cylindrically curved or otherwise rod-contoured geometry which facilitates handling and improves its packing fraction, while the reactant multilayer construction controls the stability, reactivity and energy density of the energetic composite. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605281 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431253 | Burrell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexander H. Mueller (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Hongmei Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexander H. Mueller (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Hongmei Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer-assisted deposition process for deposition of epitaxial cubic metal nitride films and the like is presented. The process includes solutions of one or more metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for the one or more metal precursor. After a coating operation, the resultant coating is heated at high temperatures under a suitable atmosphere to yield metal nitride films and the like. Such films can be used as templates for the development of high quality cubic GaN based electronic devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321705 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/697 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431362 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Gagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Hanshu Ding (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/661691 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431373 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Yi (Charlotte, Michigan); Susanne Kleff (Okemos, Michigan); Michael V. Guettler (Holt, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Biotechnology Institute (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yi (Charlotte, Michigan); Susanne Kleff (Okemos, Michigan); Michael V. Guettler (Holt, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are recombinant microorganisms for producing organic acids. The recombinant microorganisms express a polypeptide that has the enzymatic activity of an enzyme that is utilized in the pentose phosphate cycle. The recombinant microorganism may include recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes that has been transformed to express a Zwischenferment (Zwf) gene. The recombinant microorganisms may be useful in fermentation processes for producing organic acids such as succinic acid and lactic acid. Also disclosed are novel plasmids that are useful for transforming microorganisms to produce recombinant microorganisms that express enzymes such as Zwf. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/328894 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431374 | Hawkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew C. Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); David A. Glassner (Littleton, Colorado); Thomas Buelter (Denver, Colorado); James Wade (San Diego, California); Peter Meinhold (Denver, Colorado); Matthew W. Peters (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Patrick R. Gruber (Longmont, Colorado); William A. Evanko (Golden, Colorado); Aristos A. Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Marco Landwehr (Magdeburg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); David A. Glassner (Littleton, Colorado); Thomas Buelter (Denver, Colorado); James Wade (San Diego, California); Peter Meinhold (Denver, Colorado); Matthew W. Peters (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Patrick R. Gruber (Longmont, Colorado); William A. Evanko (Golden, Colorado); Aristos A. Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Marco Landwehr (Magdeburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing a biofuel are provided. Also provided are biocatalysts that convert a feedstock to a biofuel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263436 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431379 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kastli D. Schaller (Ammon, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kastli D. Schaller (Ammon, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and variations thereof are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading xylotriose, xylobiose, and/or arabinofuranose-substituted xylan using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and variations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802911 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431391 | Siryk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yury Paul Siryk (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Ivan Peter Balytski (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Volodymyr George Korolyov (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Olexiy Nick Klishyn (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Vitaly Nick Lnianiy (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Yury Alex Lyakh (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Victor Valery Rogulin (Pavlograd, Ukraine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yury Paul Siryk (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Ivan Peter Balytski (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Volodymyr George Korolyov (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Olexiy Nick Klishyn (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Vitaly Nick Lnianiy (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Yury Alex Lyakh (Pavlograd, Ukraine); Victor Valery Rogulin (Pavlograd, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | A plant for producing an oxygen-containing additive for liquid motor fuels comprises an anaerobic fermentation vessel, a gasholder, a system for removal of sulphuretted hydrogen, and a hotwell. The plant further comprises an aerobic fermentation vessel, a device for liquid substance pumping, a device for liquid aeration with an oxygen-containing gas, a removal system of solid mass residue after fermentation, a gas distribution device; a device for heavy gases utilization; a device for ammonia adsorption by water; a liquid-gas mixer; a cavity mixer, a system that serves superficial active and dispersant matters and a cooler; all of these being connected to each other by pipelines. The technical result being the implementation of a process for producing an oxygen containing additive, which after being added to liquid motor fuels, provides an ecologically beneficial component for motor fuels by ensuring the stability of composition fuel properties during long-term storage. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/606151 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — 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 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431640 | Curran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes composite materials containing a polymer material and a nanoscale material dispersed in the polymer material. The nanoscale materials may be biologically synthesized, such as tellurium nanorods synthesized by Bacillus selenitireducens. Composite materials of the present disclosure may have optical limiting properties and find use in optical limiting devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610612 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431689 | Kiplinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jaqueline L. Kiplinger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thibault Cantat (Issy les Moulineaux, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamas, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaqueline L. Kiplinger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thibault Cantat (Issy les Moulineaux, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of producing anhydrous thorium(IV) tetrahalide complexes, utilizing Th(NO3)4(H2O)x, where x is at least 4, as a reagent; method of producing thorium-containing complexes utilizing ThCl4(DME)2 as a precursor; method of producing purified ThCl4(ligand)x compounds, where x is from 2 to 9; and novel compounds having the structures: |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778891 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431815 | Hoffbauer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Todd L. Williamson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Todd L. Williamson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic devices and methods of making photovoltaic devices comprising at least one compositionally graded photoactive layer, said method comprising providing a substrate; growing onto the substrate a uniform intrinsic photoactive layer having one surface disposed upon the substrate and an opposing second surface, said intrinsic photoactive layer consisting essentially of In1-xAxN,; wherein: i. 0≦x≦1; ii. A is gallium, aluminum, or combinations thereof; and iii. x is at least 0 on one surface of the intrinsic photoactive layer and is compositionally graded throughout the layer to reach a value of 1 or less on the opposing second surface of the layer; wherein said intrinsic photoactive layer is isothermally grown by means of energetic neutral atom beam lithography and epitaxy at a temperature of 600° C. or less using neutral nitrogen atoms having a kinetic energy of from about 1.0 eV to about 5.0 eV, and wherein the intrinsic photoactive layer is grown at a rate of from about 5 nm/min to about 100 nm/min. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644915 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432119 | Barkman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Barkman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edwin F. Babelay, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kevin Scott Smith (Huntersville, North Carolina); Thomas S. Assaid (Matthews, North Carolina); Justin T. McFarland (Fort Mill, South Carolina); David A. Tursky (Greensboro, North Carolina); Bethany Woody (Charlotte, North Carolina); David Adams (Keene, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Barkman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edwin F. Babelay, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kevin Scott Smith (Huntersville, North Carolina); Thomas S. Assaid (Matthews, North Carolina); Justin T. McFarland (Fort Mill, South Carolina); David A. Tursky (Greensboro, North Carolina); Bethany Woody (Charlotte, North Carolina); David Adams (Keene, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are various systems and methods for assessing and improving the capability of a machine tool. The disclosure applies to machine tools having at least one slide configured to move along a motion axis. Various patterns of dynamic excitation commands are employed to drive the one or more slides, typically involving repetitive short distance displacements. A quantification of a measurable merit of machine tool response to the one or more patterns of dynamic excitation commands is typically derived for the machine tool. Examples of measurable merits of machine tool performance include workpiece surface finish, and the ability to generate chips of the desired length. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760159 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08432835 | Dirks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Dirks (Livermore, California); Diane Gomes (Manteca, California); Corbin J. Stewart (Pleasanton, California); Robert A. Fischer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Dirks (Livermore, California); Diane Gomes (Manteca, California); Corbin J. Stewart (Pleasanton, California); Robert A. Fischer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples of systems described herein include videoconferencing systems having audio/visual components coupled to a codec. The codec may be configured by a control system. Communication networks having different security levels may be alternately coupled to the codec following appropriate configuration by the control system. The control system may also be coupled to the communication networks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699439 |
| ART UNIT | 2653 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433199 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406918 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433536 | Zettl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Gavi E. Begtrup (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Gavi E. Begtrup (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A platform that can measure the thermal profiles of devices with nanoscale resolution has been developed. The system measures the local temperature by using an array of nanoscale thermometers. This process can be observed in real time using a high resolution imagining technique such as electron microscopy. The platform can operate at extremely high temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/526714 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08434160 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Todd A. Sulchek (Oakland, California); Stuart C. Feigin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Todd A. Sulchek (Oakland, California); Stuart C. Feigin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed chemical detection system for detecting a target material, such as an explosive material, can include a cantilevered probe, a probe heater coupled to the cantilevered probe, and a piezoelectric element disposed on the cantilevered probe. The piezoelectric element can be configured as a detector and/or an actuator. Detection can include, for example, detecting a movement of the cantilevered probe or a property of the cantilevered probe. The movement or a change in the property of the cantilevered probe can occur, for example, by adsorption of the target material, desorption of the target material, reaction of the target material and/or phase change of the target material. Examples of detectable movements and properties include temperature shifts, impedance shifts, and resonant frequency shifts of the cantilevered probe. The overall chemical detection system can be incorporated, for example, into a handheld explosive material detection system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539604 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08434161 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Todd A. Sulchek (Oakland, California); Stuart C. Feigin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Todd A. Sulchek (Oakland, California); Stuart C. Feigin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed chemical detection system for detecting a target material, such as an explosive material, can include a cantilevered probe, a probe heater coupled to the cantilevered probe, and a piezoelectric element disposed on the cantilevered probe. The piezoelectric element can be configured as a detector and/or an actuator. Detection can include, for example, detecting a movement of the cantilevered probe or a property of the cantilevered probe. The movement or a change in the property of the cantilevered probe can occur, for example, by adsorption of the target material, desorption of the target material, reaction of the target material and/or phase change of the target material. Examples of detectable movements and properties include temperature shifts, impedance shifts, and resonant frequency shifts of the cantilevered probe. The overall chemical detection system can be incorporated, for example, into a handheld explosive material detection system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539608 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08430558 | Yakhshi Tafti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ehsan Yakhshi Tafti (Oviedo, Florida); Hyoung Jin Cho (Oviedo, Florida); Ranganathan Kumar (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ehsan Yakhshi Tafti (Oviedo, Florida); Hyoung Jin Cho (Oviedo, Florida); Ranganathan Kumar (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromixing apparatus includes a mixing microchannel formed in a top surface of a substrate having a channel length and a variable channel width defined by a first sidewall surface and an opposing second sidewall surface. The channel width varies from a minimum channel width h to a maximum channel width H in a ratio of H:h≧1.1:1.0. A first inlet is for injecting a first fluid into the mixing microchannel and a second inlet for injecting a second fluid into the mixing microchannel. The first and second fluid flow in a flow direction in the mixing microchannel along the channel length. The first sidewall surface includes first curved surface portions and the second sidewall surface includes a second curved surface portions. The plurality of first curved surface portions and plurality of second curved surface portions are non-overlapping to provide the variable channel width. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553241 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431041 | Osinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Scintillator material comprising nanoparticles (nanocrystals) comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) wherein the nanoparticles exhibit room-temperature scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise Pb3O2I2. The scintillator nanoparticles can comprise PbIOH in generally equiatomic proportions or non-equiatomic variants thereof that exhibit scintillation under gamma irradiation. The scintillator nanoparticles have a particle dimension in the range of about 5 to about 100 nm. Microparticles (microcrystals) also are provided comprising lead (Pb), iodine (I), and optionally one or both of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) grown in a nanoparticle colloidal solution over time to a particle dimension greater than 0.1 μm, such as about 2 microns. A heterogeneous scintillator material is provided comprising core/shell nanoparticles having a highly hygroscopic or deliquescent halide-based core activated with trivalent Ln3+ or divalent Ln2+ lanthanide ions (Ln=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) and a stable non-hygroscopic shell thereon. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise highly hygroscopic lanthanide halide (LaBr3, LuI3) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic LaF3 shells. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise deliquescent alkaline earth halide (SrI2, BaI2) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic (SrF2, BaF2) shells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386503 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4H0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431102 | Kaner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Sarah H. Tolbert (Encino, California); Abby Kavner (Santa Monica, California); Jenn-Ming Yang (Encino, California); Michelle B. Weinberger (Kensington, Maryland); Robert W. Cumberland (Malibu, California); John J. Gilman (Los Angeles, California); Hsiu-Ying Chung (Pingtung, Taiwan); Jonathan B. Levine (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Sarah H. Tolbert (Encino, California); Abby Kavner (Santa Monica, California); Jenn-Ming Yang (Encino, California); Michelle B. Weinberger (Kensington, Maryland); Robert W. Cumberland (Malibu, California); John J. Gilman (Los Angeles, California); Hsiu-Ying Chung (Pingtung, Taiwan); Jonathan B. Levine (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are rhenium boride compounds having desirable characteristics for a variety of applications, ranging from abrasives and cutting tools to protective coatings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423949 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431409 | Meinhart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, devices and systems that utilize free-surface fluidics and SERS for analyte detection with high sensitivity and specificity. The molecules can be airborne agents, including but not limited to explosives, narcotics, hazardous chemicals, or other chemical species. The free-surface fluidic architecture is created using an open microchannel, and exhibits a large surface to volume ratio. The free-surface fluidic interface can filter interferent molecules, while concentrating airborne analyte molecules. The microchannel flow enables controlled aggregation of SERS-active probe particles in the flow, thereby enhancing the detector's sensitivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/564698 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431666 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Yongmoon Kwon (Weston, Florida); Suresh Jewrajka (Bankura, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Yongmoon Kwon (Weston, Florida); Suresh Jewrajka (Bankura, India) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to injectible polyisobutylene polymer compounds. More specifically, the present invention relates to injectible polyisobutylene polymer compounds that are designed for various biological and medical applications. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to injectible functionalized polyisobutylene polymer compounds that are designed for various biological and medical applications. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to injectible cyanoacrylate-functionalized polyisobutylene polymer compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/529113 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431884 | Grier |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for micromanipulation of objects of any shape. The method and system creates various forms of holographic optical traps for a variety of commercial purposes. Some alternate forms of traps include a dark form of optical traps, optical vortices with different helical winding numbers and optical traps with variable phase profiles imprinted thereon. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928178 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431888 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Kennedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Pei (Agoura Hills, California); Qiang Li (Saginaw, Michigan); Mike S. Lee (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Valaskovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kennedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Pei (Agoura Hills, California); Qiang Li (Saginaw, Michigan); Mike S. Lee (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Valaskovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Droplets or plugs within multiphase microfluidic systems have rapidly gained interest as a way to manipulate samples and chemical reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale. Chemical analysis of the plugs remains a challenge. It has been discovered that nanoliter plugs of sample separated by air or oil can be analyzed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry when pumped directly into a fused silica nanospray emitter nozzle. Using leu-enkephalin in methanol and 1% acetic acid in water (50:50 v:v) as a model sample, we found carry-over between plugs was <0.1% and relative standard deviation of signal for a series of plugs was 3%. Detection limits were 1 nM. Sample analysis rates of 0.8 Hz were achieved by pumping 13 nL samples separated by 3 mm long air gaps in a 75 μm inner diameter tube. Analysis rates were limited by the scan time of the ion trap mass spectrometer. The system provides a robust, rapid, and information-rich method for chemical analysis of sample in segmented flow systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/378858 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433199 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V. Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406918 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433796 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Daniel Ramsbrock (Glen Allen, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Daniel Ramsbrock (Glen Allen, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments locate a botmaster on a network. A honeynet host is configured to join a botnet and generate a watermarked packet flow by applying a watermark to an outgoing packet flow in response to commands from the botmaster. The watermark is applied to the outgoing packet flow by: choosing distinct packets from the outgoing packet flow; forming packet pair(s) from the distinct packets, that include a reference packet and an encoding packet; and encoding bits in the watermark to the packet pair(s) by increasing the length of the encoding packet when watermark bits have a predetermined value. The cooperating node(s) are configured to: inspect passing packet flows for the watermarked packet flow and generate tracking information related to detection of the watermarked packet flow. The path determination processor is configured to analyze the tracking information to locate a path taken by the watermarked packet flow. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441076 |
| ART UNIT | 2446 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08429950 | Wright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Wright (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Don Wright and Associates, L.L.C. (Georgetown, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Wright (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A field olfactometer includes a mixing chamber connected to a mask. A sample flow path is defined through the olfactometer as is a diluent flow path. The sample flow path extends from a sample air inlet to a sample air outlet which is open to the mixing chamber. The diluent flow path extends from a diluent air inlet to a diluent air outlet which is also open to the mixing chamber. The sample flow path and diluent flow path are isolated from one another so that the sample air flowing through the sample flow path and diluent air flowing through the diluent flow path cannot mix until the two streams of air exit their respective flow path and enter the mixing chamber where the two streams mix thoroughly prior to reaching the mask. The diluent flow path includes a filter medium to remove odor-causing chemicals from ambient air drawn through the diluent flow path. A flow indicator arrangement provides a suitable indication when the flow rate at one or more points in the olfactometer reaches a predetermined value corresponding to a target dilution of diluent air to sample air. Different flow characteristics along the sample flow path as compared to the diluent flow path produces a gradually decreasing dilution ratio as a user inhales nasally at an increasing rate through the mask. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851432 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430025 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive tall grass biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of at least (0.22×Pp×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression platen can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/195374 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430049 | Tureaud et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vehicle Control Technologies, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for launching and recovering at least one water vehicle includes a frame supported by a base. The base may be mounted to the deck of a boat. The frame includes an elongate stand for supporting the water vehicle. The frame is mounted for being moved relative to the base between a stowed position and a deployed position, so that a rear end of the stand is at a lower elevation in the deployed position than in the stowed position. A guide is carried by the frame and adapted for being moved back and forth along the stand. The guide is for mechanically guiding the water vehicle along the stand. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460048 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431388 | Heyduk |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally provides three-component molecular biosensors. The molecular biosensors are useful in several methods including in the identification and quantification of target molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830958 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431770 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic avians which produce proteins in their oviduct tissue having modified oligosaccharide structures and methods of making such avians are disclosed herein. The invention also includes the modified proteins produced in the transgenic birds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319396 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431774 | Cramer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carole L. Cramer (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Maureen C. Dolan (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Giuliana Medrano (Jonesboro, Arkansas); David N. Radin (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arkansas-Jonesboro (State University, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carole L. Cramer (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Maureen C. Dolan (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Giuliana Medrano (Jonesboro, Arkansas); David N. Radin (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a plant-based production of biologically active avian interleukin-12 protein and functional units for increasing the protective and/or immunological response in an animal, for use as an adjuvant with a vaccine to control avian infectious diseases, and methods of producing and using the same. Specifically, avian interleukin-12 was produced from a plant-based expression system and demonstrated that it stimulates production of immune responses in birds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574598 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08429950 | Wright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Wright (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Don Wright and Associates, L.L.C. (Georgetown, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Wright (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A field olfactometer includes a mixing chamber connected to a mask. A sample flow path is defined through the olfactometer as is a diluent flow path. The sample flow path extends from a sample air inlet to a sample air outlet which is open to the mixing chamber. The diluent flow path extends from a diluent air inlet to a diluent air outlet which is also open to the mixing chamber. The sample flow path and diluent flow path are isolated from one another so that the sample air flowing through the sample flow path and diluent air flowing through the diluent flow path cannot mix until the two streams of air exit their respective flow path and enter the mixing chamber where the two streams mix thoroughly prior to reaching the mask. The diluent flow path includes a filter medium to remove odor-causing chemicals from ambient air drawn through the diluent flow path. A flow indicator arrangement provides a suitable indication when the flow rate at one or more points in the olfactometer reaches a predetermined value corresponding to a target dilution of diluent air to sample air. Different flow characteristics along the sample flow path as compared to the diluent flow path produces a gradually decreasing dilution ratio as a user inhales nasally at an increasing rate through the mask. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851432 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08430025 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive tall grass biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of at least (0.22×Pp×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression platen can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/195374 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431174 | Damodaran |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Srinivasan Damodaran (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivasan Damodaran (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Shown is a method of selectively separating milk fat globule membrane fragments and milk fat globules from whey. The method includes the steps of adding to whey an amount of a whey-soluble zinc salt and adjusting the pH of the whey to be less than 6.0. The amount of zinc salt added to the whey is sufficient to cause milk fat globule membrane fragments and milk fat globules contained in the whey to precipitate selectively from the whey. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/247324 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431346 | Beever et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Edward Beever (Mansfield, Illinois); Brandy Michele Marron (Fithian, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agrigenomics, Inc. (Mansfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Edward Beever (Mansfield, Illinois); Brandy Michele Marron (Fithian, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, materials and kits for analyzing DNA samples from bovine to determine whether the animal is a recessive carrier of a genetic mutation that is associated with arthrogryposis multiplex (AM). DNA-containing samples are analyzed by genetic testing to determine whether or not a deletion mutation is present in one of the alleles that are responsible for the AM genetic mutation. In an aspect the deletion encompasses the entirety of the ISG15 ubiquitin-like modifier (ISG15) gene. In an aspect the deletion further encompasses one or both of the 5′ regulatory region of the hairy and enhancer split 4 (HES4) and of the agrin (AGRN) gene and of the first two exons of the AGRN gene. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/642028 |
| 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 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431774 | Cramer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carole L. Cramer (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Maureen C. Dolan (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Giuliana Medrano (Jonesboro, Arkansas); David N. Radin (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arkansas-Jonesboro (State University, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carole L. Cramer (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Maureen C. Dolan (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Giuliana Medrano (Jonesboro, Arkansas); David N. Radin (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a plant-based production of biologically active avian interleukin-12 protein and functional units for increasing the protective and/or immunological response in an animal, for use as an adjuvant with a vaccine to control avian infectious diseases, and methods of producing and using the same. Specifically, avian interleukin-12 was produced from a plant-based expression system and demonstrated that it stimulates production of immune responses in birds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574598 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08432533 | Fourkas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Erez H. Gershgoren (Lapid, Israel); Linjie Li (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hana Hwang (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univ. of MD. at College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Erez H. Gershgoren (Lapid, Israel); Linjie Li (Silver Spring, Maryland); Hana Hwang (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for photolithography is provided. The system includes a photoresist comprising a photoinitiator and a prepolymer resin. The system further includes a first light source operable to generate at least a first beam of light which is focused on a first area of the photoresist. The first beam of light is configured to excite the photoinitiator. The system further includes a second light source operable to generate at least a second beam of light which is focused on a second area of the photoresist, the second beam of light configured to deactivate at least temporarily the photoinitiator excited by the first beam of light. The first area and second area overlap at least partially. A time difference of at least 10 ns exists between the photoinitiator being excited by the first beam of light and the photoinitiator initiating polymerization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652410 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433070 | Habif |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Lenahan Habif (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Lenahan Habif (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described in which both a quantum key distribution (QKD) transmitter and QKD receiver may keep both of their two-path interferometers stable, with regard to path length drift, relative to an internal reference laser are described. Systems and methods are also proposed whereby the transmitter interferometer may have only a single path (e.g., Sagnac interferometers). The systems and methods described herein may greatly improve the performance of quantum cryptographic transceivers that may make use of these systems and methods. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781446 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08433669 | Amini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Brian K. Foo (Los Angeles, California); Deepak S. Turaga (Nanuet, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Brian K. Foo (Los Angeles, California); Deepak S. Turaga (Nanuet, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for configuring a classifier structure includes receiving a classifier structure for identifying a feature of input data, adding a plurality of operating points to a parent binary classifier of the classifier structure, and setting the operating points to minimize a total cost based on resources available to the classifier structure. Each operating point controls how data is classified by the parent binary classifier for distribution to the child binary classifiers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939849 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08434087 | Degenaro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing distributed computer data stream acceleration devices is provided that utilizes distributed acceleration devices on nodes within the computing system to process inquiries by programs executing on the computing system. The available nodes and available acceleration devices in the computing system are identified. In addition, a plurality of virtual acceleration device definitions is created. Each virtual acceleration device definition includes attributes used to configure at least one of the plurality of identified acceleration devices. When an inquiry containing an identification of computing system resources to be used in processing the inquiry is received, at least one virtual acceleration device definition that is capable of configuring an acceleration device in accordance with the computing system resources identified by the inquiry is identified. That acceleration device is configured in accordance with the identified virtual acceleration device definition and is used to process the inquiry. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201456 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08430526 | Gigioli, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George William Gigioli, Jr. (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George William Gigioli, Jr. (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for producing a spatially uniform irradiance in an image plane are provided. The apparatus includes an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) which generate light (i.e., an image). The apparatus combines the outputs of an array of the LEDs in such a way as to produce a spatially uniform irradiance in an image plane some distance away. The apparatus includes an array of lenslets to form images of the emitting areas of the individual LEDs. The lenslets have a magnification, size and spacing such that the images produced by the respective LEDs are adjacent to one another and not overlapping. The irradiance distribution in the image plane is equivalent to an image of an LED whose emitting area is equal to the total area of the LED array, and whose total power is equal to the total power of the LEDs in the LED array. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201358 |
| ART UNIT | 2885 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431340 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605217 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431390 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287398 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08430327 | Woodard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| 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) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless sensing system includes a sensor made from an electrical conductor shaped to form an open-circuit, electrically-conductive spiral trace having inductance and capacitance. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the sensor resonates to generate a harmonic response having a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth. A magnetic field response recorder wirelessly transmits the time-varying magnetic field to the sensor and wirelessly detects the sensor's response frequency, amplitude and bandwidth. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671089 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08431640 | Curran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes composite materials containing a polymer material and a nanoscale material dispersed in the polymer material. The nanoscale materials may be biologically synthesized, such as tellurium nanorods synthesized by Bacillus selenitireducens. Composite materials of the present disclosure may have optical limiting properties and find use in optical limiting devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610612 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08432306 | Stagliano, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Stagliano, Jr. (Woodstock, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Propagation Research Associates, Inc. (Marietta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Stagliano, Jr. (Woodstock, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for predicting the probability of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, ‘frequent’, more than 2 strikes per minute on average, cloud to ground lightning strikes, and/or ‘numerous’, more than 4 strikes per minute on average, through the use of polarimetric radar is presented. The data volume created by the polarimetric radar is processed to identify the type of hydrometeors in each range cell. For each vertical column, the maximum height of the graupel is compared to the lowest height of ice crystals in the volume. In the event that the lowest height of ice crystals is ambiguous, the height of the temperature where ice crystals form, −10° C., may be substituted for the lowest height of the ice crystals. Probability density functions are applied to the height difference to determine the probability of cloud to ground lightning within the column. Lightning probability product data are displayed on a visualization system in a georeferenced manner providing georeferenced lightning warnings. A forecast of the probabilities of cloud-to-ground lightning is determined by simple translation using storm track properties. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905762 |
| 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 342/26.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08431640 | Curran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Sampath Dias (Houston, Texas); Werner Blau (Dublin, Ireland); Jun Wang (Dublin, Ireland); Ronald S. Oremland (Brisbane, California); Shaun Baesman (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes composite materials containing a polymer material and a nanoscale material dispersed in the polymer material. The nanoscale materials may be biologically synthesized, such as tellurium nanorods synthesized by Bacillus selenitireducens. Composite materials of the present disclosure may have optical limiting properties and find use in optical limiting devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610612 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 08431387 | LaBarre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Donald LaBarre (Suquamish, Washington); Jay Lewis Gerlach (Kenmore, Washington); Bernhard Hans Weigl (Seattle, Washington); Gonzalo Jose Domingo-Villegas (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Program for Appropriate Technology In Health (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Donald LaBarre (Suquamish, Washington); Jay Lewis Gerlach (Kenmore, Washington); Bernhard Hans Weigl (Seattle, Washington); Gonzalo Jose Domingo-Villegas (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Exothermic and/or endothermic chemical reactions in combination with phase change materials can produce output temperature(s) within strict tolerances without requiring expensive and complicated external equipment to generate and maintain an output temperature. Similarly, an exothermic phase change material, which generates heat as a consequence of crystallizing a supercooled liquid, can generate heat at a constant temperature, without requiring expensive and complicated external equipment, as a consequence of the liquid form of the exothermic phase change material being in equilibrium with the solid form of the exothermic phase change material. Numerous biological and chemical processes and/or diagnostic devices require a constant temperature or temperatures for set periods of time. An example completely non-instrumented diagnostic platform based on nucleic acid amplification is described, which is particularly suited for use in developing countries that may not have access to expensive and complicated external equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134965 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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