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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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| US 08438835 | Perveiler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Andrew Perveiler (West Chester, Ohio); Malcolm Kenneth MacLean (Mason, Ohio); Ross Michael Lcon (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Andrew Perveiler (West Chester, Ohio); Malcolm Kenneth MacLean (Mason, Ohio); Ross Michael Lcon (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling a gas turbine engine includes providing at least one heat exchanger assembly including a heat exchanger and a lobed mixer extending downstream from the heat exchanger, wherein the mixer includes a plurality of lobes that each define a first chute and at least one second chute that extends between each pair of adjacent spaced-apart lobes, and coupling the at least one heat exchanger assembly within a bypass duct of the engine such that the at least one heat exchanger assembly is coupled to at least one of an outer engine casing and an inner engine casing of the turbine engine. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830341 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08438930 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey J. Rogers (Centennial, Colorado); Paul R. Brennan (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Launch Alliance, LLC (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Rogers (Centennial, Colorado); Paul R. Brennan (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid/gas interface pressure accumulator and mechanical filter device is especially adapted for use within a propellant utilization monitoring system of a space launch vehicle. The device provides a retrofit solution for overcoming problems associated with liquid entering a pressure sensing lines and pressure noises that collectively harm the ability to accurately measure fuel and oxidizer levels. One device is attached to each fuel and oxidizer tank of the launch vehicle. Each device includes a housing and an internal sensing chamber that is used to accumulate liquid before it can enter a pressure sensing communication line connected to a pressure sensing transducer. The construction of the device also allows filtering of undesirable pressure noises due to vibration, pressure pulsations, and other vibratory events that occur during operation of the space vehicle. The device is also selectively tunable to filter out certain frequencies and frequency ranges/bands. The invention in other aspects includes methods of improving pressure sensing applications in a propellant utilization monitoring system. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350704 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08438977 | Paulic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Paulic (Arlington, Virginia); Robert M. Krass (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Paulic (Arlington, Virginia); Robert M. Krass (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A supercavitating projectile is disclosed that has deployable fins. The fins are pivotally coupled to the body of the projectile. The fins have two primary states: stowed within a recess at the surface of the projectile and deployed to a radially-extended position relative to the body of the projectile. The fins deploy as the projectile leaves its launch tube. The fins function as a control surface, interacting with the wall of the vapor cavity in which the supercavitating projectile travels. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344245 |
| 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 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439595 | Chaparro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jordan E. Chaparro (King George, Virginia); Michael R. Duncan (Washington, North Carolina); John R. Durbin (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jordan E. Chaparro (King George, Virginia); Michael R. Duncan (Washington, North Carolina); John R. Durbin (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle restraining system using an electrical impulse to disable the control system of a targeted vehicle including a roadway module placed at a location to engage the targeted vehicle for delivering the electrical impulse to the vehicle; a roadside module for generating the energy required for the electrical impulse and delivering the energy to the roadway module; and an operator interface module for operating the restraining system. In addition, a method of disabling the control system of a vehicle by delivering an electrical impulse to the vehicle includes the steps of charging a vehicle restraining system; setting the charged vehicle restraining system to disable the next encountered vehicle; detecting the next encountered vehicle, and delivering the electrical impulse to the targeted vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/385462 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439631 | Bartolomeo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark E. Bartolomeo (Brownsburg, Indiana); Gregory Blake (Noblesville, Indiana); Randal L. Renback (Pittsboro, Indiana); Tony R. McKenney (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Bartolomeo (Brownsburg, Indiana); Gregory Blake (Noblesville, Indiana); Randal L. Renback (Pittsboro, Indiana); Tony R. McKenney (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A shaft coupling arrangement and a corresponding method for coupling shafts are disclosed herein. The shaft coupling arrangement includes an input shaft operable to rotate about a first axis. The shaft coupling arrangement also includes an output shaft operable to rotate about a second axis. The shaft coupling arrangement also includes a gearing arrangement operable to engage the input and output shafts together for rotation in the same angular direction at different angular speeds. In one embodiment of the invention, the gearing arrangement includes a plurality of nested bevel gears. In another embodiment of the invention, the gearing arrangement can include a single layshaft. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205425 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/122.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439635 | Uskert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Christopher Uskert (Carmel, Indiana); Darrell Curtis Harris (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Christopher Uskert (Carmel, Indiana); Darrell Curtis Harris (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for locking a composite component such as blade or vane of a turbine engine is disclosed herein. The disclosed lock can also be used generally to fix the position of composite structures. The lock includes a first locking member including a first structure operable to at least partially fix the first locking member along an axis of a slot for receiving a blade or a vane. The lock also includes a second locking member including a second structure operable to engage the blade or vane. The first and second locking members are slidably engaged with one another along mating ramped surfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463440 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439639 | Joe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher R. Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Eric A. Hudson (Harwinton, Connecticut); Keith A. Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Eric A. Hudson (Harwinton, Connecticut); Keith A. Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine component having a filter mounted adjacent an impingement cavity to filter particles out of a secondary cooling airflow outboard of a cooling channel in communication with the secondary cooling airflow. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036267 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439644 | O'Hearn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason L. O'Hearn (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Andrew S. Aggarwala (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason L. O'Hearn (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Andrew S. Aggarwala (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil includes a leading edge surface that includes a non-continuous curvature distribution. A stagnation region of the airfoil includes a curvature larger than adjacent segments to reduce heat transfer into the airfoil. The reduced curvature in the stagnation region is surrounded by the adjacent segments with larger curvatures to tailor the airfoil surface to provide a desired balance between heat transfer properties and aerodynamic performance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/953290 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/223.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440021 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fan Yang (Piscataway, New Jersey); Richard Lunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fan Yang (Piscataway, New Jersey); Richard Lunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides apparatus and methods for organic continuum vapor deposition of organic materials on large area substrates. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467468 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440045 | Bremmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Robert A. Lacko (Oxford, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); Paul H. Denavit (Woodbridge, Connecticut); William E. Hovan (Oxford, Connecticut); Edward J. Fabian (Oxford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Robert A. Lacko (Oxford, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); Paul H. Denavit (Woodbridge, Connecticut); William E. Hovan (Oxford, Connecticut); Edward J. Fabian (Oxford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a conformal deltoid noodle includes providing a composite prepreg material having a predetermined length and a width, the predetermined length being aligned along a longitudinal axis; subjecting the composite prepreg material to a cutting process to form a notched section coextensive along the predetermined length; and rolling the composite prepreg material along its width to create the conformal deltoid noodle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/232267 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440062 | Kidwell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A Kidwell (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Kidwell (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature, lightweight, inexpensive, environmental monitoring system containing a number of sensors that can simultaneously and continuously monitor fluorescence, absorbance, conductivity, temperature, and several ions. Sensors that monitor similar parameters can cross-check data to increase the likelihood that a problem with the water will be discovered. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402271 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440202 | Simmons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Monika Simmons (Germantown, Maryland); Kevin R. Porter (Boyds, Maryland); Wellington Sun (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monika Simmons (Germantown, Maryland); Kevin R. Porter (Boyds, Maryland); Wellington Sun (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for the induction of an immune response to dengue virus. The method of inducing an immune response against dengue virus comprises administration of a non-replicating immunogen followed by a boost with a tetravalent live attenuated viral vaccine. Another aspect of the inventive subject matter is a method of inducing an immune response against dengue virus using a heterologous prime-boost regimen with the priming immunogen comprising a DNA expression system, an adenovirus expression vector or a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon system and the boosting immunogen comprising the same without the DNA expression system. Each expression system contains DNA sequences encoding dengue viral proteins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281473 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440423 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method comprising the use of microorganisms for nanotoxicity study and bioremediation. In some embodiment, the microorganisms are bacterial organisms such as Gram negative bacteria, which are used as model organisms to study the nanotoxicity of the fullerene compounds: E. coli W3110, a human related enterobacterium and Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, an environmentally important bacterium with versatile metabolism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525875 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440467 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yubao Li (Houston, Texas); Alexander Sinitskiy (Ryazan, Russian Federation) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yubao Li (Houston, Texas); Alexander Sinitskiy (Ryazan, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic devices comprising a dielectric material, at least one carbon sheet, and two electrode terminals are described herein. The devices exhibit non-linear current-versus-voltage response over a voltage sweep range in various embodiments. Uses of the electronic devices as two-terminal memory devices, logic units, and sensors are disclosed. Processes for making the electronic devices are disclosed. Methods for using the electronic devices in analytical methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240673 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440546 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/113504 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440850 | Kolel-Veetil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are the compounds shown below. Each R is an organic group, Cb is a carborane group, and —C6H4— is phenylene. The value of each m is a nonnegative integer, q is 0 or 1, with the proviso that if q is 0 then m is 0 or 1, p is a positive integer, r is a positive integer, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 10. Also disclosed are methods of making and crosslinking the compounds. —{SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m-[Cb-SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m]p—C≡C—C6H4—C≡C}— —{SiR2—(O—SiR2)m—C≡C—C6H4—C≡C}n—; —{SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m—[C≡C—C6H4—C≡C—SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m]p-Cb-[SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m-Cb]r}- |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/433676 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440905 | LeSuer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. LeSuer (Chicago, Illinois); Kristy L. Mardis (Flossmoor, Illinois); Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. LeSuer (Chicago, Illinois); Kristy L. Mardis (Flossmoor, Illinois); Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A dye-sensitized semiconductor includes a semiconductor, and a copper(I) coordination compound comprising 2,9-dialkyl-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthrolinedisulfonate, on the semiconductor. The dye-sensitized semiconductor may be used as part of a photoanode in a solar cell, which also contains a counter-electrode, and a conductive medium containing a redox-active mediator, in contact with and separating the photoanode and the counter-electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/567462 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440933 | Marcus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harris L. Marcus (Storrs, Connecticut); Robin Bright (Fiskdale, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harris L. Marcus (Storrs, Connecticut); Robin Bright (Fiskdale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and/or controlling laser drilling processes based on atomic emission spectral emissions that are collected in real time during laser drilling. The systems and methods may be used to monitor and control laser drilling operations across a range of materials, e.g., metals (including alloys) and ceramics, and may be used to identify spectral characteristics that signify hole completion and to manage/discontinue laser drilling operations based thereon. The ability to precisely monitor for hole completion provides the important advantage of reducing unnecessary laser pulses, which otherwise could reduce manufacturing efficiency and/or increase thermal or mechanical damage to the component material. The systems and methods may also be employed to control laser drilling operations so as to enhance hole quality and/or to implement corrective action when/if necessary to ensure that laser drilling operations yield high quality drilled holes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761868 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440952 | Jalali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Keisuke Goda (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Kin-Man Tsia (Ma On Shan, China Hong Kong) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Keisuke Goda (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Kin-Man Tsia (Ma On Shan, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for ultrafast real-time optical imaging that can be used for imaging dynamic events such as microfluidics or laser surgery is provided. The apparatus and methods encode spatial information from a sample into a back reflection of a two-dimensional spectral brush that is generated with a two-dimensional disperser and a light source that is mapped in to the time domain with a temporal disperser. The temporal waveform is preferably captured by an optical detector, converted to an electrical signal that is digitized and processed to provide two dimensional and three dimensional images. The produced signals can be optically or electronically amplified. Detection may be improved with correlation matching against a database in the time domain or the spatial domain. Embodiments for endoscopy, microscopy and simultaneous imaging and laser ablation with a single fiber are illustrated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/621496 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440958 | Bandyopadhyay |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater data transmission system including arrays of nano-meter scaled photon emitters and sensors on an outer surface of an underwater platform. For the emitters, a laser is pulsed to correlate with data packets, providing a beam of photons at a prescribed frequency. Nano-scaled collecting lenses channel the incoming photons to photo-receptors located at a focal plane for the frequency at the base of each lens. A coating on the lenses absorbs photons at the frequency that are not aligned with the longitudinal axes of the lenses or tubes. Nano-wires connect the photo-receptors to a light intensity integrator. The integrator integrates the intensity over a surface area. The output of the integrator is fed to a signal processor to track and process the arriving digital packets. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161912 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440970 | Zewail |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565678 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440992 | Levy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable device and a method of creating, erasing, or reconfiguring the device are provided. At an interface between a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, an electrically conductive, quasi one- or zero-dimensional electron gas is present such that the interface presents an electrically conductive region that is non-volatile. The second insulating layer is of a thickness to allow metal-insulator transitions upon the application of a first external electric field. The electrically conductive region is subject to erasing upon application of a second external electric field. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107242 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440993 | Levy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable device and a method of creating, erasing, or reconfiguring the device are provided. At an interface between a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, an electrically conductive, quasi one- or zero-dimensional electron gas is present such that the interface presents an electrically conductive region that is non-volatile. The second insulating layer is of a thickness to allow metal-insulator transitions upon the application of a first external electric field. The electrically conductive region is subject to erasing upon application of a second external electric field. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/173487 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440997 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deli Wang (San Diego, California); Cesare Soci (La Jolla, California); Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Arthur Zhang (San Diego, California); David Aplin (Wisbech, United Kingdom); Lingquan Wang (Santa Clara, California); Shadi Dayeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xin Yu Bao (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deli Wang (San Diego, California); Cesare Soci (La Jolla, California); Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Arthur Zhang (San Diego, California); David Aplin (Wisbech, United Kingdom); Lingquan Wang (Santa Clara, California); Shadi Dayeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xin Yu Bao (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 1D nanowire photodetector device includes a nanowire that is individually contacted by electrodes for applying a longitudinal electric field which drives the photocurrent. An intrinsic radial electric field to inhibits photo-carrier recombination, thus enhancing the photocurrent response. Circuits of 1D nanowire include groups of photodetectors addressed by their individual 1D nanowire electrode contacts. Placement of 1D nanostructures is accomplished with registration onto a substrate. A substrate is patterned with a material, e.g., photoresist, and trenches are formed in the patterning material at predetermined locations for the placement of 1D nanostructures. The 1D nanostructures are aligned in a liquid suspension, and then transferred into the trenches from the liquid suspension. Removal of the patterning material places the 1D nanostructures in predetermined, registered positions on the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/528701 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441081 | Arora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Jay Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wyatt E. Tenhaeff (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William Jay Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wyatt E. Tenhaeff (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention relates to an ultrathin micro-electromechanical chemical sensing device which uses swelling or straining of a reactive organic material for sensing. In certain embodiments, the device comprises a contact on-off switch chemical sensor. For example, the device can comprises a small gap separating two electrodes, wherein the gap can be closed as a result of the swelling or stressing of an organic polymer coating on one or both sides of the gap. In certain embodiments, the swelling or stressing is due to the organic polymer reacting with a target analyte. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507283 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441396 | Parmet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darryl I. Parmet (Tampa, Florida); Jamal Haque (Clearwater, Florida); Mark D. DuBois (Brandon, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl I. Parmet (Tampa, Florida); Jamal Haque (Clearwater, Florida); Mark D. DuBois (Brandon, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of providing error tolerant robust simplex wireless data for systems employing time correlated data transfer are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: sensors that produce samples of time correlated data; and a node coupled to the sensors by a wireless link. The link comprises a primary stream for simplex transmission of data packets, and a secondary stream for simplex transmission of delayed data packets, the delayed data packets a delayed retransmission of the time correlated data. When the node receives a first data packet from a first sensor via the primary stream, the data receiving node check validity. When the first data packet is corrupted, the node validity checks a second data packet received via the secondary stream. When both packets contain corrupted data, the node builds a reconstructed plurality of sequential time correlated data samples based on non-corrupted data samples from within the data packets. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/156967 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441625 | Wick, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter L. Wick, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter L. Wick, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for characterizing a laser beam profile is provided. The method includes disposing a laser target, moving the surface of the target, directing a laser to emit the beam at the surface, measuring a reflection from the surface as intensities, and averaging the intensities. The target's surface is disposed substantially perpendicular to an incident direction. The surface is reflective at a wavelength corresponding to the laser beam. The travel direction is substantially parallel to the surface. The laser beam travels along said incident direction to the surface. The reflection represents a plurality of intensities having a distribution of positions along the surface and during a temporal interval. The intensities are averaged over the temporal interval for each position of the distribution to produce an analyzed beam profile. Each position corresponds to a speed along the travel direction based on movement of the surface. The surface can be preferably spun along an axis substantially parallel to the incident beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932933 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442078 | Stolyarov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Stolyarov (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lei Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Paris, France); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Stolyarov (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lei Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Paris, France); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The laser includes an optical fiber including a cavity containing a microfluidic gain medium bounded by a composite structure of alternating layers of high and low index materials forming an axially invariant, rotationally symmetric photonic bandgap cavity. The optical fiber also includes at least one microfluidic channel containing liquid crystal modulators in the fiber cladding extending in an axial direction and further includes a pair of electrodes flanking the microfluidic channel. An electrical potential across the pair of electrodes will rotate the liquid crystal molecules to rotate the linearly polarized state of light emitted from the cavity. An external linear polarizer is disposed around the fiber to modulate azimuthal laser intensity distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323059 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442083 | Wells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan P. Wells (Marina Del Rey, California); James C. Camparo (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan P. Wells (Marina Del Rey, California); James C. Camparo (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for stabilizing laser frequency based on an isoclinic point of an atomic or molecular medium are provided herein. A system may include: a transmission cell containing a gas and configured to transmit light from the laser, the gas having an absorption spectrum with an isoclinic point; a photodiode generating an output based on an amplitude of transmitted laser light; and circuitry configured to tune the frequency of the laser to the isoclinic point of the absorption spectrum based on the output. The absorption spectrum may have first and second overlapping peaks respectively corresponding to first and second transitions of the gas, the isoclinic point being a saddle point between the first and second peaks. The first and second peaks may have substantially equal amplitude as one another and/or may broaden substantially equally as each other as a function of a physical parameter of the gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281323 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442091 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Paoyei Chen (McKinney, Texas); Paul A. Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Thomas M. Spinka (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Paoyei Chen (McKinney, Texas); Paul A. Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Thomas M. Spinka (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides microchannel lasers having a microplasma gain medium. Lasers of the invention can be formed in semiconductor materials, and can also be formed in polymer materials. In a microlaser of the invention, high density plasmas are produced in microchannels. The microplasma acts as a gain medium with the electrodes sustaining the plasma in the microchannel. Reflectors are used with the microchannel for obtaining optical feedback to obtain lasing in the microplasma gain medium in devices of the invention for a wide range of atomic and molecular species. Several atomic and molecular gain media will produce sufficiently high gain coefficients that reflectors (mirrors) are not necessary. Microlasers of the invention are based on microplasma generation in channels of various geometries. Preferred embodiment microlaser designs can be fabricated in semiconductor materials, such as Si wafers, by standard photolithographic techniques, or in polymers by replica molding. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/682977 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442172 | Dokania et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajeev K. Dokania (Ithaca, New York); Xiao Y. Wang (Ithaca, New York); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commerce (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev K. Dokania (Ithaca, New York); Xiao Y. Wang (Ithaca, New York); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a communications system, node and method of operation for forming a wireless network from independently operating nodes that have the ability to self-synchronize with each other, independently determine master and slave modes of operation to cooperate as a network, and independently vary those functions to adjust to changes in the network. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560501 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442272 | Sundheimer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brent James Sundheimer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent James Sundheimer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture and method for performing post-BLOB analysis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/160118 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442360 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Anna Barklund (Kirkland, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GigOptix, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Anna Barklund (Kirkland, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A low resistivity hybrid organic-inorganic material may include a proportion of charge traps including a trap element indirectly covalently bonded to a donor or acceptor element. The trap element may include tin. The donor or acceptor element may include indium and/or antimony. Bonding includes cross-linking via oxygen bonds and via organic cross-linkers. The material may be formed as a hybrid sol-gel. The material may have optical transmission and refractive index characteristics. The material may be formed as optical cladding proximal to a non-linear optical layer, and may form a portion of a second order nonlinear optical device. The second order nonlinear optical device may include and electro-optic device including an organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612540 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442432 | 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 | 12/615512 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442690 | Goldstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Goldstein (Washington, New Jersey); George Daniel Hadden (Plymouth, Minnesota); Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Sunil Menon (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Goldstein (Washington, New Jersey); George Daniel Hadden (Plymouth, Minnesota); Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Sunil Menon (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and devices are provided that allow more efficient transfer and processing of sensor information in a hierarchical data system. The system provides for a plurality of component area managers (CAM), each of the CAMS being in operable communication with at least one of a plurality of transducers that monitors a phenomena of a component and in operable communication with a data bus. A CAM comprises a processor in operable communication with the at least one transducer of the plurality of transducers, wherein the first processor is configured to record data generated by the at least one transducer of the plurality of transducers, to reduce the recorded data, to place the reduced data on the data bus. The system also includes a transducer selection module controlled by the first processor by which the first processor selects one of the plurality of transducers to record and a rolling buffer in operable communication with the first processor and in operable communication with the at least one transducer by which to record the data generated by the at least one transducer of the plurality in a first-in-first-out manner. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493750 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442701 | Blechen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Charles Henry Blechen (Redmond, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Charles Henry Blechen (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and computer program product are present for operating an aircraft. A roll angle limit is identified using a load factor selected to allow a lateral maneuvering capability of the aircraft by forming an identified roll angle limit in response to vertical maneuvering of the aircraft. The vertical maneuvering of the aircraft is performed using the identified roll angle limit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244257 |
| 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 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442750 | Tran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nghia X. Tran (San Diego, California); Michael Bruch (San Diego, California); Rich Adams (Chula Vista, California); Aaron B. Burmeister (San Diego, California); Amin Rahimi (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nghia X. Tran (San Diego, California); Michael Bruch (San Diego, California); Rich Adams (Chula Vista, California); Aaron B. Burmeister (San Diego, California); Amin Rahimi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A traffic control system can include a remote control station and a plurality of traffic control assets. Each asset is networked to the control station with a radiofrequency (RF) transceiver and an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU can receive commands from the control station. In response, ECU can activate a light, or an audio device that is located on the traffic control asset. To move and position the traffic control asset can include at least two wheels and a corresponding motor for each wheel, which can be operated by the ECU to maneuver the traffic control asset according to the user's needs. The traffic asset can be a stop sign or a traffic cone. In some instances, the traffic control asset can have a flat configuration, for convenient storage and a deployed configuration, which can be established from the control station. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006261 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442808 | Kalns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John E. Kalns (San Antonio, Texas); Darren J. Michael (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hyperion Biotechnology (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Kalns (San Antonio, Texas); Darren J. Michael (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for identifying a subject in a fatigued state, a subject recovering from a fatigued state and/or a subject having an increased likelihood of performing a physical activity at a sufficient level by detecting and/or quantitating, in a sample from the subject, one or more biomarkers associated with fatigue and/or physical performance capability. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879551 |
| 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: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442839 | Yen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Yen (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaocong Fan (State College, Pennsylvania); Shuang Sun (University Park, Pennsylvania); Michael McNeese (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Yen (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaocong Fan (State College, Pennsylvania); Shuang Sun (University Park, Pennsylvania); Michael McNeese (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Collaborative agents for simulating teamwork (CAST) are provided with a recognition-primed decision (RPD) model, thereby enhancing analysis through linking and sharing information using knowledge and experience distributed among team members. The RPD model is integrated within a CAST architecture to the extent that agents can proactively seek and fuse information to enhance the quality and timeliness of the decision-making process. The approach, which is applicable to both human assistants and virtual teammates, can approximately track human's decision-making process and effectively interact with human users. A disclosed example relates to teams of agents analyzing terrorist activities. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181146 |
| ART UNIT | 3629 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442977 | McCloskey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ben A. Miller (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ben A. Miller (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process includes receiving an archive of video data comprising a plurality of archive descriptor types, and applying a query to the archive. The query includes a number of N query descriptor types for a query object. The process further includes determining a difference between each query descriptor type and corresponding descriptor types of the archive, and storing each difference as a point in an N dimensional space. The process further includes identifying an archive object that is similar to the query object as a function of proximities of the differences to an origin of the N dimensional space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706177 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443024 | Chou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason T. Chou (St. Paul, Minnesota); Todd S. Rose (Redondo Beach, California); Josh A. Conway (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason T. Chou (St. Paul, Minnesota); Todd S. Rose (Redondo Beach, California); Josh A. Conway (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time domain filter receives a double sideband (DSB) input in the frequency domain and compresses this input into a time domain signal filtered by a time gate for providing a time filtered signal that is then expanded back into the frequency domain as a single sideband (SSB) output with one sideband being filtered by the time gate for translating DSB signals into SSB signals well suited for communicating chirped modulated signals as SSB signals along an electrical line or optical fiber without dispersive nulling of the communicated signal. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978251 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443034 | Koushanfar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Miodrag Potkonjak (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Empire Technology Development, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Miodrag Potkonjak (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are generally described for selecting input vectors that reduce or minimize leakage current for a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) with the same design, but that differ due to manufacturing variability. In various embodiments, the techniques include determining at least one starting input vector that reduces leakage current in a respective one of N instances of the ICs, and selecting from the determined at least one starting input vector of each respective one of the N instances, a set R of representative input vectors. Some of the embodiments then use each of the representative input vectors in the set R to determine at least a particular input vector to apply to input terminals of an IC in the plurality of ICs to reduce or minimize leakage current in the IC. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/479584 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443101 | Geissler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Karl Geissler (Stafford, Virginia); John Colin McEachen (Carmel, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Karl Geissler (Stafford, Virginia); John Colin McEachen (Carmel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for steganography and steganalytic techniques are provided for effecting embedded communications in a variety of communication environments. One aspect may include an embedded transmitter for inserting embedded data into a packet and an embedded receiver for receiving the packet via, for example, a packetized communication network such as the Internet. Various aspects of the present invention provide robust communications with optimized throughput and may include various error handlers to maximize performance and ensure transfer of incorrupt data. A method for identifying and blocking embedded communications is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757429 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443146 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for performing cache injection includes monitoring an instruction stream for a specific instruction sequence. Addresses on a bus are then monitored, at a cache, in response to detecting the specific instruction sequence a determined number of times. Ownership of input/output data on the bus is then acquired by the cache when an address on the bus (that is associated with the input/output data) corresponds to an address of a data block stored in the cache. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/212961 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443441 | Stolfo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Shlomo Herskop (Brooklyn, New York); Manasi Bhattacharyya (Flushing, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Shlomo Herskop (Brooklyn, New York); Manasi Bhattacharyya (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods of detecting an occurrence of a violation of an email security policy of a computer system. A model relating to the transmission of prior emails through the computer system is defined which is derived from statistics relating to the prior emails. For selected emails to be analyzed, statistics concerning the selected email are gathered. Such statistics may refer to the behavior or other features of the selected emails, attachments to emails, or email accounts. The determination of whether a violation of an email security policy has occurred is performed by applying the model of prior email transmission to the statistics relating to the selected email. The model may be statistical or probabilistic. A model of prior email transmission may include grouping email recipients into cliques. A determination of a violation of a security policy may occur if email recipients for a particular email are in more than one clique. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633493 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08439683 | Puri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manika Puri (Fremont, California); Zhiwei Zhu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jeffrey Lubin (Princeton, New Jersey); Tom Pschar (Ringoes, New Jersey); Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Harpreet S. Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manika Puri (Fremont, California); Zhiwei Zhu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jeffrey Lubin (Princeton, New Jersey); Tom Pschar (Ringoes, New Jersey); Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Harpreet S. Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for analyzing at least one food item on a food plate is disclosed. A plurality of images of the food plate is received by an image capturing device. A description of the at least one food item on the food plate is received by a recognition device. The description is at least one of a voice description and a text description. At least one processor extracts a list of food items from the description; classifies and segments the at least one food item from the list using color and texture features derived from the plurality of images; and estimates the volume of the classified and segmented at least one food item. The processor is also configured to estimate the caloric content of the at least one food item. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683124 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440060 | Zhou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode surface coating for manufacturing the electrode surface coating comprising a conductive substrate; and one or more surface coatings comprising one or more of the following metals titanium, niobium, tantalum, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, or gold, or an alloy of two or more metals, or a combination of two or more alloys or metal layers thereof having an increase in the surface area of 5 times to 500 times of the corresponding surface area resulting from the basic geometric shape. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181541 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/290.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440063 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in concentrating a species of interest and/or controlling liquid flow in a device. The methods make use of a device comprising a fluidic chip comprising a planar array of channels through which a liquid comprising a species of interest can be made to pass with at least one rigid substrate connected thereto such that at least a portion of a surface of the substrate bounds the channels, and a high aspect ratio ion-selective membrane is embedded within the chip, attached to at least a portion of the channels. The device comprises a unit to induce an electric field in the channel and a unit to induce an electrokinetic or pressure driven flow in the channel. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409447 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440129 | Lichtensteiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lukas Lichtensteiger (Zurich, Switzerland); Christian Pfeffer (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lukas Lichtensteiger (Zurich, Switzerland); Christian Pfeffer (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for producing a free-standing solid state layer, a solid state material is provided having at least one surface available for layer formation thereon and a layer of polymer is formed on the available surface. The solid state material and polymer layer are then exposed to a change in local temperature from a first temperature that is no greater than about 300° C. to a second temperature below about room temperature to cause the solid state material to fracture along a plane at a depth in the material, to produce at least one free-standing solid state layer from the solid state material. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/740373 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440184 | Georgiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GMA Technologies LLC (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer are described, and, more preferably, to the treatment of cancers that do not express, or are otherwise deficient in, argininosuccinate synthetase, with enzymes that deplete L-Arginine in serum. In one embodiment, the present invention contemplates an arginase protein, such as a human Arginase I protein, comprising at least one amino acid substitution and a metal cofactor, said protein comprising an increased catalytic activity when compared with a native human Arginase I. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610685 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440185 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland); Koji Tamada (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland); Koji Tamada (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for preventing, reducing or inhibiting immunologic disorders are provided. Suitable compositions include one or more LIGHT-HVEM antagonists. LIGHT-HVEM antagonists include compounds that inhibit, reduce, or block the biological activity or expression of LIGHT and/or HVEM. LIGHT-HVEM antagonists can reduce or inhibit the binding of LIGHT to HVEM, but do not significantly modulate the binding of LTβ to LTβR. Suitable compositions include antibodies and antibody fragments, decoy polypeptides, small molecule inhibitors and inhibitory nucleic acids. Methods for using LIGHT-HVEM antagonists to reduce or inhibit T cell activation and survival are also provided. Therapeutic uses for LIGHT-HVEM antagonists to prevent or treat immunologic diseases and disorders including graft rejection, graft-versus-host disease, inflammatory immune responses, and autoimmune disorders are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/964599 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440204 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Joseph Jacobson (Madison, Wisconsin); Guangyun Lin (Madison, Wisconsin); Raymond C. Stevens (La Jolla, California); Jerome Dupuy (Saint Quentin sur Isere, France); P{dot over (a)}l Erik Gustav Stenmark (Stockholm, Sweden); William H. Tepp (Stoughton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Joseph Jacobson (Madison, Wisconsin); Guangyun Lin (Madison, Wisconsin); Raymond C. Stevens (La Jolla, California); Jerome Dupuy (Saint Quentin sur Isere, France); P{dot over (a)}l Erik Gustav Stenmark (Stockholm, Sweden); William H. Tepp (Stoughton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel subtype of type A botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT/A) is disclosed in the application. Methods to purify the neurotoxin as well as uses thereof are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769754 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440206 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing an immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are disclosed herein. In several examples, the immune response is a protective immune response. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for preventing an infection with Mtb, or treating an infection with Mtb. Pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/332150 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guangming Zhong (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangming Zhong (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides Chlamydia proteins and methods of use in diagnostic and detection assays as well as in treatment and immunization protocols. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598075 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440229 | Trogler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Trogler (Del Mar, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Davorka Messmer (San Diego, California); Johan Ulrik Lind (Copenhagen E, Denmark); Kristina K. P. Mitchell (San Diego, California); Jian Yang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Trogler (Del Mar, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Davorka Messmer (San Diego, California); Johan Ulrik Lind (Copenhagen E, Denmark); Kristina K. P. Mitchell (San Diego, California); Jian Yang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provide hollow nanospheres and methods of making and using the same. The methods and compositions of the disclosure are useful for drug delivery and gene transfer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673224 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440235 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Songgang Town, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Songgang Town, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453765 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/583 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440392 | Pamula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Allen Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Jeremy Rouse (Raleigh, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Allen Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Jeremy Rouse (Raleigh, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of conducting a droplet-based enzymatic assay is provided. The method generally makes use of a droplet actuator. A droplet comprising an enzyme of interest is provided on the droplet actuator along with a droplet comprising a substrate which is potentially modified in the presence of the enzyme. The method involves executing droplet operations on the droplet actuator to combine the droplets, thereby yielding an assay droplet, and detecting modification of the substrate by the enzyme in the assay droplet on the droplet actuator. The enzyme of interest may, for example, be a potentially mutated or improperly folded enzyme exhibiting altered enzyme activity as compared to a corresponding normal enzyme. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531844 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08440393 | Birrer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Birrer (Mt. Airy, Maryland); Tomas A. Bonome (Washington, District of Columbia); Anil Sood (Pearland, Texas); Chunhua Lu (Missouri City, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Birrer (Mt. Airy, Maryland); Tomas A. Bonome (Washington, District of Columbia); Anil Sood (Pearland, Texas); Chunhua Lu (Missouri City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gene profiling signature for ovarian tumor endothelial cells is disclosed herein. The gene signature can be used to diagnosis or prognosis an ovarian tumor, identify agents to treat an ovarian tumor, to predict the metastatic potential of an ovarian tumor and to determine the effectiveness of ovarian tumor treatments. Thus, methods are provided for identifying agents that can be used to treat ovarian cancer, for determining the effectiveness of an ovarian tumor treatment, or to diagnose or prognose an ovarian tumor. Methods of treatment are also disclosed which include administering a composition that includes a specific binding agent that specifically binds to one of the disclosed ovarian endothelial cell tumor-associated molecules and inhibits ovarian tumor in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541729 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440397 | Drmanac et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California); Matthew J. Callow (Redwood City, California); Snezana Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California); Matthew J. Callow (Redwood City, California); Snezana Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for acquiring nucleotide sequence information of target sequences using adaptors interspersed in target polynucleotides. The sequence information can be new, e.g. sequencing unknown nucleic acids, re-sequencing, or genotyping. The invention preferably includes methods for inserting a plurality of adaptors at spaced locations within a target polynucleotide or a fragment of a polynucleotide. Such adaptors may serve as platforms for interrogating adjacent sequences using various sequencing chemistries, such as those that identify nucleotides by primer extension, probe ligation, and the like. Encompassed in the invention are methods and compositions for the insertion of known adaptor sequences into target sequences, such that there is an interruption of contiguous target sequence with the adaptors. By sequencing both “upstream” and “downstream” of the adaptors, identification of entire target sequences may be accomplished. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981761 |
| 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 08440399 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (San Rafael, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Novato, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (San Rafael, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546927 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440411 | St. Croix et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brad St. Croix (Frederick, Maryland); Steven Seaman (Martinsburg, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad St. Croix (Frederick, Maryland); Steven Seaman (Martinsburg, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inhibiting pathological angiogenesis in a subject are disclosed. In particular examples, the method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition to a subject wherein the composition includes a specific binding agent that preferentially binds to one or more pathological angiogenesis marker proteins including Vscp, CD276, ETSvg4 (Pea3), CD137(4-1BB), MiRP2, Ubiquitin D (Fat10), Doppel (prion-PLP), Apelin, Plgf, Ptprn (IA-2), CD109, Ankylosis, and collagen VIIIα1. In additional examples, methods to deliver a therapeutic agent to a brain or liver endothelial cell are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/052878 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440415 | Lobanenkov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor V. Lobanenkov (Rockville, Maryland); Elena Pugacheva (Germantown, Maryland); Dmitri Loukinov (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor V. Lobanenkov (Rockville, Maryland); Elena Pugacheva (Germantown, Maryland); Dmitri Loukinov (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting a proliferative disease, such as a disease associated with the abnormal expression of BORIS, in a mammal comprising testing for the expression of a BORIS isoform in the tissue of a mammal that does not express BORIS in the absence of disease, as well as a method of treating or preventing such a disease, isolated or purified BORIS isoform polypeptides and nucleic acids, and kits and arrays comprising same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/478779 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440423 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method comprising the use of microorganisms for nanotoxicity study and bioremediation. In some embodiment, the microorganisms are bacterial organisms such as Gram negative bacteria, which are used as model organisms to study the nanotoxicity of the fullerene compounds: E. coli W3110, a human related enterobacterium and Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, an environmentally important bacterium with versatile metabolism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525875 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
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| US 08440430 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley, California); Enbo Ma (Berkeley, California); Ian J. MacRae (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley, California); Enbo Ma (Berkeley, California); Ian J. MacRae (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified Dicer polypeptide is provided, which modified Dicer polypeptide exhibits enhanced catalytic activity. Also provided is a method for producing small regulatory RNAs from a dsRNA, involving contacting a dsRNA with a subject modified Dicer. Small regulatory RNAs produced by a subject method find use in a variety of applications, including research and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/922428 |
| 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 435/91.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440461 | Thomson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Junying Yu (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Junying Yu (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for reprogramming a somatic cell to pluripotency by administering into the somatic cell at least one or a plurality of potency-determining factors. The invention also relates to pluripotent cell populations obtained using a reprogramming method. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053440 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440610 | Yaffe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael B. Yaffe (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Isaac A. Manke (New York, New York); Hans Christian Reinhardt (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Yaffe (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Isaac A. Manke (New York, New York); Hans Christian Reinhardt (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cellular proliferative disorders, e.g., in patients having one or more p53-deficient cells, screening assays for identifying such compounds, and methods for treating such disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789239 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440617 | Velazquez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omaida C. Velazquez (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Katherine A. Gallagher (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omaida C. Velazquez (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Katherine A. Gallagher (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for treating chronic dermal ulcers using hyperbaric treatment in combination with progenitor cells and chemokine homing factors. Specifically, the invention relates to treatment of chronic wounds resulting from diabetes mellitus using compositions comprising EPC and SDF-1A, under hyperbaric condition to accelerate wound healing. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/532422 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440627 | Kuliopulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Athan Kuliopulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Lidija Covic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nicole Kaneider (Innsbruck, Austria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Athan Kuliopulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Lidija Covic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nicole Kaneider (Innsbruck, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and in particular to GPCR agonists and antagonists, use of these compounds and their pharmaceutical compositions, e.g., in the treatment, modulation and/or prevention of physiological conditions associated with GPCRs, such as in treating conditions in which chemokine receptors play a role, e.g., sepsis, arthritis, inflammation and autoimmune diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/667042 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/20.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440636 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a microRNA family, designated miR-29a-c, that is a key regulator of fibrosis in cardiac tissue. The inventors show that members of the miR-29 family are down-regulated in the heart tissue in response to stress, and are up-regulated in heart tissue of mice that are resistant to both stress and fibrosis. Also provided are methods of modulating expression and activity of the miR-29 family of miRNAs as a treatment for fibrotic disease, including cardiac hypertrophy, skeletal muscle fibrosis other fibrosis related diseases and collagen loss-related disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/671445 |
| 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 08440638 | Denu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Denu (McFarland, Wisconsin); Andrew M. Scharenberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Denu (McFarland, Wisconsin); Andrew M. Scharenberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed which are effective for modulating glucose homeostasis, calcium ion flux and cell death in target cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658069 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440695 | Kastan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael B. Kastan (Cordova, Tennessee); Clay F. Semenkovich (Ladue, Missouri); Jochen Schneider (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Kastan (Cordova, Tennessee); Clay F. Semenkovich (Ladue, Missouri); Jochen Schneider (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating certain metabolic processes and for treating a variety of disorders associated with metabolic syndrome, including insulin related disorders, ischemia, oxidative stress, atherosclerosis, hypertension, obesity, abnormal lipid metabolism, and stroke by administering an effective dose of a chloroquine compound. The invention also provides methods and compositions relating to administering an effective dose of a chloroquine compound in combination with at least a second pharmaceutically active ingredient or compound including an antihyperglycemic diabetes treatment, an antihypertensive agent, an antithrombotic agent, and/or an inhibitor of cholesterol synthesis or absorption. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/093198 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440705 | Lindquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tiago Outeiro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard Labaudinière (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tiago Outeiro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard Labaudinière (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment or amelioration of one or more symptoms of α-synuclein toxicity, α-synuclein mediated diseases or diseases in which α-synuclein fibrils are a symptom or cause of the disease. In one embodiment, the compounds for use in the compositions and methods are heteroaryl acylguanidines, heteroarylhydrazones, dihydropyridones, heteroaryl and aryl styryl ketones, and heteroarylpyrazoles. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/575481 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440800 | Chalmers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey J. Chalmers (Columbus, Ohio); James F. Rathman (Columbus, Ohio); Weiwei Hu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Chalmers (Columbus, Ohio); James F. Rathman (Columbus, Ohio); Weiwei Hu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for reducing gas-cell surface interface damage include a protective composition having at least sugar moiety where the sugar moiety provides a hydrophilic component to the protective composition. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/438681 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440810 | Breaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Ali Nahvi (New Haven, Connecticut); Narasimhan Sudarsan (New Haven, Connecticut); Margaret S. Ebert (Hopewell, New Jersey); Wade Winkler (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey E. Barrick (Lansing, Michigan); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Ali Nahvi (New Haven, Connecticut); Narasimhan Sudarsan (New Haven, Connecticut); Margaret S. Ebert (Hopewell, New Jersey); Wade Winkler (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey E. Barrick (Lansing, Michigan); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that certain natural mRNAs serve as metabolite-sensitive genetic switches wherein the RNA directly binds a small organic molecule. This binding process changes the conformation of the mRNA, which causes a change in gene expression by a variety of different mechanisms. Modified versions of these natural “riboswitches” (created by using various nucleic acid engineering strategies) can be employed as designer genetic switches that are controlled by specific effector compounds. Such effector compounds that activate a riboswitch are referred to herein as trigger molecules. The natural switches are targets for antibiotics and other small molecule therapies. In addition, the architecture of riboswitches allows actual pieces of the natural switches to be used to construct new non-immunogenic genetic control elements, for example the aptamer (molecular recognition) domain can be swapped with other non-natural aptamers (or otherwise modified) such that the new recognition domain causes genetic modulation with user-defined effector compounds. The changed switches become part of a therapy regimen—turning on, or off, or regulating protein synthesis. Newly constructed genetic regulation networks can be applied in such areas as living biosensors, metabolic engineering of organisms, and in advanced forms of gene therapy treatments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033174 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440815 | Nahm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Moon H. Nahm (Birmingham, Alabama); In Ho Park (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moon H. Nahm (Birmingham, Alabama); In Ho Park (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a new and emerging serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae designated serotype 6D, and assays and monoclonal antibodies useful in identifying same. Also disclosed is a novel pneumococcal polysaccharide with the repeating unit →2) glucose 1 (1→3) glucose 2 (1→3) rhamnose (1→4) ribitol (5→phosphate. This new serotype may be included in pneumococcal vaccines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/601896 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/123.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440835 | Imperiali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Galen S. Loving (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Galen S. Loving (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to environment-sensitive fluorophores, including environment-sensitive fluorophores for reporting protein/protein and peptide/protein interactions. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to compounds and salts thereof, compositions and methods useful in determining biological interactions. In some cases, the compounds of the present invention are environment-sensitive fluorophores that have spectroscopic behavior that may depend on factors such as the physicochemical properties of the surrounding environment. The compounds of the present invention can be used, in certain embodiments, to monitor ions, small molecules, and biological processes such as protein folding, protein-protein interactions and phosphorylation events. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449785 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440970 | Zewail |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565678 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441624 | Matula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Matula (Kirkland, Washington); Jarred Swalwell (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Matula (Kirkland, Washington); Jarred Swalwell (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Flow cytometry concepts are modified to enable dynamic characterizations of particles to be obtained using optical scattering data. Particles in flow will be introduced into a sample volume. Light scattered by a particle in the sample volume is collected and analyzed. What differentiates the concepts disclosed herein from conventional flow cytometry is the use of an acoustic source that is disposed to direct acoustic energy into the sample volume. As the particle passes through the sample volume, it responds to the acoustic energy, causing changes in the light scattered by the particle. Those changes, which are not measured during conventional flow cytometry, can be analyzed to determine additional physical properties of the particle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528016 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441633 | Truong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thai V. Truong (Pasadena, California); John M. Choi (Tujunga, California); Scott E. Fraser (LaCanada, California); Willy Supatto (Paris, France); David S. Koos (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thai V. Truong (Pasadena, California); John M. Choi (Tujunga, California); Scott E. Fraser (LaCanada, California); Willy Supatto (Paris, France); David S. Koos (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for and method of performing multi-photon light sheet microscopy (MP-LISH), combining multi-photon excited fluorescence with the orthogonal illumination of light sheet microscopy are provided. With live imaging of whole Drosophila and zebrafish embryos, the high performance of MP-LISH compared to current state-of-the-art imaging techniques in maintaining good signal and high spatial resolution deep inside biological tissues (two times deeper than one-photon light sheet microscopy), in acquisition speed (more than one order of magnitude faster than conventional two-photon laser scanning microscopy), and in low phototoxicity are demonstrated. The inherent multi-modality of this new imaging technique is also demonstrated second harmonic generation light sheet microscopy to detect collagen in mouse tail tissue. Together, these properties create the potential for a wide range of applications for MP-LISH in 4D imaging of live biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/915921 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442290 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | C. Daniel Johnson (Scottsdale, Arizona); Michael J. Carston (Rochester, Minnesota); Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Daniel Johnson (Scottsdale, Arizona); Michael J. Carston (Rochester, Minnesota); Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing and displaying colonography image data. First distance tissue pixels representative of tissue within a first distance of gas pixels representative of gas are processed with a first window/level setting to generate a first setting set of image pixels. Second distance tissue pixels representative of tissue within a second distance of the gas pixels are processed with a second window/level setting to generate a second setting set of image pixels. The second distance is a distance greater than the first distance. A colonography image including both the first and second setting sets of image pixels is then displayed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/523465 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442772 | Loring et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeanne F. Loring (Del Mar, California); Franz-Josef Müller (Kiel, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jeanne F. Loring (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne F. Loring (Del Mar, California); Franz-Josef Müller (Kiel, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for classifying stem cells. The disclosure provides a way to define cells using a computational analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806779 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442776 | Lambris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D. Lambris (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Bert J. C. Janssen (Oxford, United Kingdom); Piet Gros (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Lambris (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Bert J. C. Janssen (Oxford, United Kingdom); Piet Gros (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure of C3c in complex with the complement inhibitor, compstatin, and use of this information for rational design or identification of complement-inhibiting drugs are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/663544 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08438851 | Uhm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle assembly for use with a turbine engine is described herein. The fuel nozzle assembly includes a plurality of fuel nozzles positioned within an air plenum defined by a casing. Each of the plurality of fuel nozzles is coupled to a combustion liner defining a combustion chamber. Each of the plurality of fuel nozzles includes a housing that includes an inner surface that defines a cooling fluid plenum and a fuel plenum therein, and a plurality of mixing tubes extending through the housing. Each of the mixing tubes includes an inner surface defining a flow channel extending between the air plenum and the combustion chamber. At least one mixing tube of the plurality of mixing tubes including at least one cooling fluid aperture for channeling a flow of cooling fluid from the cooling fluid plenum to the flow channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/342303 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08438873 | TeGrotenhuis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Paul H. Humble (Kennewick, Washington); Dustin D. Caldwell (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Paul H. Humble (Kennewick, Washington); Dustin D. Caldwell (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for separating fluids are disclosed. We have discovered that, surprisingly, providing an open pore structure between a wick and an open flow channel resulted in superior separation performance. A novel and compact integrated device components for conducting separations are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416924 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439185 | Fitzsimmons |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Andrew Fitzsimmons (Reseda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Andrew Fitzsimmons (Reseda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump for transporting particulate material includes a passageway defined on each side between an inlet and an outlet by a moving wall. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758859 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/626.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439534 | Roe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Michael Roe (Seattle, Washington); Leonard Elliott Klebanoff (Dublin, California); Gerald W. Rea (Underwood, Indiana); Robert A. Drake (Nashville, Indiana); Terry A. Johnson (Livermore, California); Steven John Wingert (Boise, Idaho); Thomas A. Damberger (Fair Oaks, California); Thomas J. Skradski (Oakland, California); Christopher James Radley (El Dorado Hills, California); James M. Oros (Carmichael, California); Paul G. Schuttinger (Orangevale, California); David J. Grupp (Sacramento, California); Stephen Carl Prey (Elk Grove, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Michael Roe (Seattle, Washington); Leonard Elliott Klebanoff (Dublin, California); Gerald W. Rea (Underwood, Indiana); Robert A. Drake (Nashville, Indiana); Terry A. Johnson (Livermore, California); Steven John Wingert (Boise, Idaho); Thomas A. Damberger (Fair Oaks, California); Thomas J. Skradski (Oakland, California); Christopher James Radley (El Dorado Hills, California); James M. Oros (Carmichael, California); Paul G. Schuttinger (Orangevale, California); David J. Grupp (Sacramento, California); Stephen Carl Prey (Elk Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile lighting apparatus includes a portable frame such as a moveable trailer or skid having a light tower thereon. The light tower is moveable from a stowed position to a deployed position. A hydrogen-powered fuel cell is located on the portable frame to provide electrical power to an array of the energy efficient lights located on the light tower. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775085 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439630 | Lemieux et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis H. Lemieux (Casselberry, Florida); Jan P. Smed (Winter Springs, Florida); James P. Williams (Orlando, Florida); Vinay Jonnalagadda (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis H. Lemieux (Casselberry, Florida); Jan P. Smed (Winter Springs, Florida); James P. Williams (Orlando, Florida); Vinay Jonnalagadda (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The monitoring system for a gas turbine engine including a viewing tube assembly having an inner end and an outer end. The inner end is located adjacent to a hot gas flow path within the gas turbine engine and the outer end is located adjacent to an outer casing of the gas turbine engine. An aperture wall is located at the inner end of the viewing tube assembly and an optical element is located within the viewing tube assembly adjacent to the inner end and is spaced from the aperture wall to define a cooling and purge chamber therebetween. An aperture is defined in the aperture wall for passage of light from the hot gas flow path to the optical element. Swirl passages are defined in the viewing tube assembly between the aperture wall and the optical element for passage of cooling air from a location outside the viewing tube assembly into the chamber, wherein swirl passages effect a swirling movement of air in a circumferential direction within the chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727582 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440015 | LaCount et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); John P. Baltrus (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania); Douglas G. Kern (Point Marion, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waynesburg University (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); John P. Baltrus (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania); Douglas G. Kern (Point Marion, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal method to passivate the carbon and/or other components in fly ash significantly decreases adsorption. The passivated carbon remains in the fly ash. Heating the fly ash to about 500 and 800 degrees C. under inert gas conditions sharply decreases the amount of surfactant adsorbed by the fly ash recovered after thermal treatment despite the fact that the carbon content remains in the fly ash. Using oxygen and inert gas mixtures, the present invention shows that a thermal treatment to about 500 degrees C. also sharply decreases the surfactant adsorption of the recovered fly ash even though most of the carbon remains intact. Also, thermal treatment to about 800 degrees C. under these same oxidative conditions shows a sharp decrease in surfactant adsorption of the recovered fly ash due to the fact that the carbon has been removed. This experiment simulates the various “carbon burnout” methods and is not a claim in this method. The present invention provides a thermal method of deactivating high carbon fly ash toward adsorption of AEAs while retaining the fly ash carbon. The fly ash can be used, for example, as a partial Portland cement replacement in air-entrained concrete, in conductive and other concretes, and for other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/803306 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440100 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sesha S. Srinivasan (Tampa, Florida); Michael U. Niemann (Venice, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Tampa, Florida); Elias K. Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sesha S. Srinivasan (Tampa, Florida); Michael U. Niemann (Venice, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Tampa, Florida); Elias K. Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A ternary hydrogen storage system having a constant stoichiometric molar ratio of LiNH2:MgH2:LiBH4 of 2:1:1. It was found that the incorporation of MgH2 particles of approximately 10 nm to 20 nm exhibit a lower initial hydrogen release temperature of 150° C. Furthermore, it is observed that the particle size of LiBNH quaternary hydride has a significant effect on the hydrogen sorption concentration with an optimum size of 28 nm. The as-synthesized hydrides exhibit two main hydrogen release temperatures, one around 160° C. and the other around 300° C., with the main hydrogen release temperature reduced from 310° C. to 270° C., while hydrogen is first reversibly released at temperatures as low as 150° C. with a total hydrogen capacity of 6 wt. % to 8 wt. %. Detailed thermal, capacity, structural and microstructural properties have been demonstrated and correlated with the activation energies of these materials. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422600 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/188.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440104 | Lyons |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Joseph Lyons (Burnt Hills, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Joseph Lyons (Burnt Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A phosphor of formula I is included in a phosphor composition in a lighting apparatus capable of emitting white light, Ca3-x-zSrxCezM12M2AlSiO12 (I) wherein M1 is Hf, Zr, or a combination thereof; M2 is Al, or a combination of Al and Ga; z<3−x; and 0.2>x≧0. The lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source in addition to the phosphor composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582969 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4F0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440107 | Tadd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew R. Tadd (Saline, Michigan); Johannes Schwank (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. Tadd (Saline, Michigan); Johannes Schwank (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytic reforming method is disclosed herein. The method includes sequentially supplying a plurality of feedstocks of variable compositions to a reformer. The method further includes adding a respective predetermined co-reactant to each of the plurality of feedstocks to obtain a substantially constant output from the reformer for the plurality of feedstocks. The respective predetermined co-reactant is based on a C/H/O atomic composition for a respective one of the plurality of feedstocks and a predetermined C/H/O atomic composition for the substantially constant output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952873 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440162 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to nanomaterials and assemblies including, a micrometer-scale spherical aggregate comprising: a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures comprising titanium and oxygen, wherein the one-dimensional nanostructures radiate from a hollow central core thereby forming a spherical aggregate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/004105 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/598 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440331 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Feng Liu (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Liu (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic material is disclosed including a two-dimensional array of carbon atoms and a two-dimensional array of nanoholes patterned in the two-dimensional array of carbon atoms. The magnetic material has long-range magnetic ordering at a temperature below a critical temperature Tc. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921981 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440423 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Yinjie J. Tang (St Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method comprising the use of microorganisms for nanotoxicity study and bioremediation. In some embodiment, the microorganisms are bacterial organisms such as Gram negative bacteria, which are used as model organisms to study the nanotoxicity of the fullerene compounds: E. coli W3110, a human related enterobacterium and Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, an environmentally important bacterium with versatile metabolism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525875 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440451 | Rajgarhia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vineet Rajgarhia (Kingsport, Tennessee); Kari Koivuranta (Helsinki, Finland); Merja Penttilä (Helsinki, Finland); Marja Ilmen (Helsinki, Finland); Pirkko Suominen (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Aristos Aristidou (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Christopher Kenneth Miller (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Stacey Olson (St. Bonifacius, Minnesota); Laura Ruohonen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cargill, Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vineet Rajgarhia (Kingsport, Tennessee); Kari Koivuranta (Helsinki, Finland); Merja Penttilä (Helsinki, Finland); Marja Ilmen (Helsinki, Finland); Pirkko Suominen (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Aristos Aristidou (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Christopher Kenneth Miller (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Stacey Olson (St. Bonifacius, Minnesota); Laura Ruohonen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | Yeast cells are transformed with an exogenous xylose isomerase gene. Additional genetic modifications enhance the ability of the transformed cells to ferment xylose to ethanol or other desired fermentation products. Those modifications include deletion of non-specific or specific aldose reductase gene(s), deletion of xylitol dehydrogenase gene(s) and/or overexpression of xylulokinase. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107881 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440546 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/113504 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440867 | Krause et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore R. Krause (Naperville, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois); Michael J. Chen (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore R. Krause (Naperville, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois); Michael J. Chen (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for producing ethanol, the method comprising establishing an atmosphere containing methanol forming catalyst and ethanol forming catalyst; injecting syngas into the atmosphere at a temperature and for a time sufficient to produce methanol; and contacting the produced methanol with additional syngas at a temperature and for a time sufficient to produce ethanol. The invention also provides an integrated system for producing methanol and ethanol from syngas, the system comprising an atmosphere isolated from the ambient environment; a first catalyst to produce methanol from syngas wherein the first catalyst resides in the atmosphere; a second catalyst to product ethanol from methanol and syngas, wherein the second catalyst resides in the atmosphere; a conduit for introducing syngas to the atmosphere; and a device for removing ethanol from the atmosphere. The exothermicity of the method and system obviates the need for input of additional heat from outside the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848496 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/902.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440906 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Ilan Gur (San Francisco, California); Delia Milliron (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Ilan Gur (San Francisco, California); Delia Milliron (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device having a first electrode layer, a high resistivity transparent film disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode layer, and an inorganic photoactive layer disposed between the first and second electrode layers, wherein the inorganic photoactive layer is disposed in at least partial electrical contact with the high resistivity transparent film, and in at least partial electrical contact with the second electrode. The photoactive layer has a first inorganic material and a second inorganic material different from the first inorganic material, wherein the first and second inorganic materials exhibit a type II band offset energy profile, and wherein the photoactive layer has a first population of nanostructures of a first inorganic material and a second population of nanostructures of a second inorganic material. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/083723 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440963 | Belov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A new pulsed multiple reaction monitoring process and system are disclosed that uses a pulsed ion injection mode for use in conjunction with triple-quadrupole instruments. The pulsed injection mode approach reduces background ion noise at the detector, increases amplitude of the ion signal, and includes a unity duty cycle that provides a significant sensitivity increase for reliable quantitation of proteins/peptides present at attomole levels in highly complex biological mixtures. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871685 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440986 | Gofron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kazimierz Gofron (Plainfield, Illinois); Michael Molitsky (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazimierz Gofron (Plainfield, Illinois); Michael Molitsky (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for on-axis visualization of a target placed in a photon beam, the method comprising: placing the target in the path of the photon beam; selecting a mirror with an external reflecting surface; placing the mirror on a mirror support so that the surface faces the target; placing a reflective microscope so as to collect photons emanating from the target that have been reflected by said surface; counting and analyzing photons collected by the microscope with a CCD camera; and storing and analyzing data collected by the camera. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/766275 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/461.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441720 | Borguet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Borguet (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Oleksandr Isaienko (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Borguet (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Oleksandr Isaienko (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for non-collinear optical parametric ampliffication (NOPA) are provided. Broadband phase matching is achieved with a non-collinear geometry and a divergent signal seed to provide bandwidth gain. A chirp may be introduced into the pump pulse such that the white light seed is amplified in a broad spectral region. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865013 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441927 | Francini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrea Francini (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Francini (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An advance is made over the prior art in accordance with the principles of the present invention that is directed to a new approach for a system and method for a buffer management scheme called Periodic Early Discard (PED). The invention builds on the observation that, in presence of TCP traffic, the length of a queue can be stabilized by selection of an appropriate frequency for packet dropping. For any combination of number of TCP connections and distribution of the respective RTT values, there exists an ideal packet drop frequency that prevents the queue from over-flowing or under-flowing. While the value of the ideal packet drop frequency may quickly change over time and is sensitive to the series of TCP connections affected by past packet losses, and most of all is impossible to compute inline, it is possible to approximate it with a margin of error that allows keeping the queue occupancy within a pre-defined range for extended periods of time. The PED scheme aims at tracking the (unknown) ideal packet drop frequency, adjusting the approximated value based on the evolution of the queue occupancy, with corrections of the approximated packet drop frequency that occur at a timescale that is comparable to the aggregate time constant of the set of TCP connections that traverse the queue. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006142 |
| ART UNIT | 2412 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442182 | Peterson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Per F. Peterson (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Per F. Peterson (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid fluoride salt cooled, high temperature reactor having a reactor vessel with a pebble-bed reactor core. The reactor core comprises a pebble injection inlet located at a bottom end of the reactor core and a pebble defueling outlet located at a top end of the reactor core, an inner reflector, outer reflector, and an annular pebble-bed region disposed in between the inner reflector and outer reflector. The annular pebble-bed region comprises an annular channel configured for receiving pebble fuel at the pebble injection inlet, the pebble fuel comprising a combination of seed and blanket pebbles having a density lower than the coolant such that the pebbles have positive buoyancy and migrate upward in said annular pebble-bed region toward the defueling outlet. The annular pebble-bed region comprises alternating radial layers of seed pebbles and blanket pebbles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184161 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08438927 | Shekhawat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gajendra S. Shekhawat (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Vinayak P. Dravid (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gajendra S. Shekhawat (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Vinayak P. Dravid (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for analyzing a sample is described. The system may include, for example, a light source and a scanning probe microscope probe. The light source may generate a coherent laser beam that is modulated by a waveform of a lower frequency. The modulated laser beam is absorbed by the sample causing thermally induced expansion and resulting in an excitation of acoustic waves. The probe is locally deployed near the sample and detects, in real time, perturbations in the excited acoustic waves to detect surface and buried structures of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896282 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08439283 | Pfeffer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Pfeffer (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jose A. Quevedo (Brick, New Jersey); Juergen Flesch (Rayong, Thailand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey); Orion Engineered Carbons GmbH (Hanau, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Pfeffer (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jose A. Quevedo (Brick, New Jersey); Juergen Flesch (Rayong, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for enhancing fluidization of nanoparticle and/or nanoagglomerates are provided. A fluidization chamber is provided with a fluidizing medium directed in a first fluidizing direction, e.g., upward into and through a bed containing a volume of nanoparticles and/or nanopowders. A second source of air/gas flow is provided with respect to the fluidization chamber, the secondary air/gas flow generally being oppositely directed relative to the fluidizing medium. Turbulence created by the secondary gas flow is advantageously effective to aerate the agglomerates and the shear generated by the jet is advantageously effective to break apart nanoagglomerates and/or reduce the tendency for nanoagglomerates to form or reform. A downwardly directed source of secondary gas flow located near the main gas distributor leads to full fluidization of the entire amount of powder in the column. The oppositely directed fluid flow facilitates powder circulation within the fluidization chamber, thereby enhancing fluidization results. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/361485 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440162 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to nanomaterials and assemblies including, a micrometer-scale spherical aggregate comprising: a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures comprising titanium and oxygen, wherein the one-dimensional nanostructures radiate from a hollow central core thereby forming a spherical aggregate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/004105 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/598 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440166 | Hernandez-Maldonado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Jose N Primera-Pedrozo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Jose N Primera-Pedrozo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A titanium silicate variant named UPRM-5 was prepared using tetraethylammonium hydroxide as a structure-directing agent (SDA). Successful detemplation was achieved via ion exchange with NH4Cl. Effective functionalization was obtained after ion exchanging the detemplated material using SrCl2 and BaCl2. Adsorption of CO2 at 25° C. in Sr- and Ba-UPRM-5 materials activated at different temperatures. For low partial pressures, the observed CO2 adsorption capacities increased as follows: NH4-UPRM-5<Sr-UPRM-5<Ba-UPRM-5. Both the Sr- and Ba-UPRM-5 materials exhibited outstanding selectivity for CO2 over CH4, N2 and O2. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/071465 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440431 | Voytas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel F. Voytas (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Adam J. Bogdanove (Ames, Iowa); Feng Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Voytas (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Adam J. Bogdanove (Ames, Iowa); Feng Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods related to gene targeting (e.g., gene targeting with transcription activator-like effector nucleases; “TALENS”) are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/427040 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440432 | Voytas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel F. Voytas (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Adam J. Bogdanove (Ames, Iowa); Feng Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Voytas (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Adam J. Bogdanove (Ames, Iowa); Feng Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods related to gene targeting (e.g., gene targeting with transcription activator-like effector nucleases; “TALENS”) are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/427137 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440438 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoan Cheng (State College, Pennsylvania); Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoan Cheng (State College, Pennsylvania); Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Increasing competition for fossil fuels, and the need to avoid release carbon dioxide from combustion of these fuels requires development of new and sustainable approaches for energy production and carbon capture. Biological processes for producing methane gas and capturing carbon from carbon dioxide are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include providing an electromethanogenic reactor having an anode, a cathode and a plurality of methanogenic microorganisms disposed on the cathode. Electrons and carbon dioxide are provided to the plurality of methanogenic microorganisms disposed on the cathode. The methanogenic microorganisms reduce the carbon dioxide to produce methane gas, even in the absence of hydrogen and/or organic carbon sources. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488951 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440810 | Breaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Ali Nahvi (New Haven, Connecticut); Narasimhan Sudarsan (New Haven, Connecticut); Margaret S. Ebert (Hopewell, New Jersey); Wade Winkler (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey E. Barrick (Lansing, Michigan); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Ali Nahvi (New Haven, Connecticut); Narasimhan Sudarsan (New Haven, Connecticut); Margaret S. Ebert (Hopewell, New Jersey); Wade Winkler (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey E. Barrick (Lansing, Michigan); John K. Wickiser (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that certain natural mRNAs serve as metabolite-sensitive genetic switches wherein the RNA directly binds a small organic molecule. This binding process changes the conformation of the mRNA, which causes a change in gene expression by a variety of different mechanisms. Modified versions of these natural “riboswitches” (created by using various nucleic acid engineering strategies) can be employed as designer genetic switches that are controlled by specific effector compounds. Such effector compounds that activate a riboswitch are referred to herein as trigger molecules. The natural switches are targets for antibiotics and other small molecule therapies. In addition, the architecture of riboswitches allows actual pieces of the natural switches to be used to construct new non-immunogenic genetic control elements, for example the aptamer (molecular recognition) domain can be swapped with other non-natural aptamers (or otherwise modified) such that the new recognition domain causes genetic modulation with user-defined effector compounds. The changed switches become part of a therapy regimen—turning on, or off, or regulating protein synthesis. Newly constructed genetic regulation networks can be applied in such areas as living biosensors, metabolic engineering of organisms, and in advanced forms of gene therapy treatments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033174 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440835 | Imperiali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Galen S. Loving (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Galen S. Loving (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to environment-sensitive fluorophores, including environment-sensitive fluorophores for reporting protein/protein and peptide/protein interactions. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to compounds and salts thereof, compositions and methods useful in determining biological interactions. In some cases, the compounds of the present invention are environment-sensitive fluorophores that have spectroscopic behavior that may depend on factors such as the physicochemical properties of the surrounding environment. The compounds of the present invention can be used, in certain embodiments, to monitor ions, small molecules, and biological processes such as protein folding, protein-protein interactions and phosphorylation events. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449785 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440970 | Zewail |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565678 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440992 | Levy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable device and a method of creating, erasing, or reconfiguring the device are provided. At an interface between a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, an electrically conductive, quasi one- or zero-dimensional electron gas is present such that the interface presents an electrically conductive region that is non-volatile. The second insulating layer is of a thickness to allow metal-insulator transitions upon the application of a first external electric field. The electrically conductive region is subject to erasing upon application of a second external electric field. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107242 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440993 | Levy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable device and a method of creating, erasing, or reconfiguring the device are provided. At an interface between a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, an electrically conductive, quasi one- or zero-dimensional electron gas is present such that the interface presents an electrically conductive region that is non-volatile. The second insulating layer is of a thickness to allow metal-insulator transitions upon the application of a first external electric field. The electrically conductive region is subject to erasing upon application of a second external electric field. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/173487 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440997 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deli Wang (San Diego, California); Cesare Soci (La Jolla, California); Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Arthur Zhang (San Diego, California); David Aplin (Wisbech, United Kingdom); Lingquan Wang (Santa Clara, California); Shadi Dayeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xin Yu Bao (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deli Wang (San Diego, California); Cesare Soci (La Jolla, California); Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Arthur Zhang (San Diego, California); David Aplin (Wisbech, United Kingdom); Lingquan Wang (Santa Clara, California); Shadi Dayeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xin Yu Bao (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 1D nanowire photodetector device includes a nanowire that is individually contacted by electrodes for applying a longitudinal electric field which drives the photocurrent. An intrinsic radial electric field to inhibits photo-carrier recombination, thus enhancing the photocurrent response. Circuits of 1D nanowire include groups of photodetectors addressed by their individual 1D nanowire electrode contacts. Placement of 1D nanostructures is accomplished with registration onto a substrate. A substrate is patterned with a material, e.g., photoresist, and trenches are formed in the patterning material at predetermined locations for the placement of 1D nanostructures. The 1D nanostructures are aligned in a liquid suspension, and then transferred into the trenches from the liquid suspension. Removal of the patterning material places the 1D nanostructures in predetermined, registered positions on the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/528701 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441018 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent Wing-Ho Lee (Kendall Park, New Jersey); Ioannis Kymissis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Wing-Ho Lee (Kendall Park, New Jersey); Ioannis Kymissis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An indirect bandgap thin film semiconductor circuit can be combined with a compound semiconductor LED such as to provide an active matrix LED array that can have high luminous capabilities such as for a light projector application. In another example, a highly efficient optical detector is achievable through the combination of indirect and direct bandgap semiconductors. Applications can include display technologies, light detection, MEMS, chemical sensors, or piezoelectric systems. An LED array can provide structured illumination, such as for a light and pattern source for projection displays, such as without requiring spatial light modulation (SLM). An example can combine light from separate monolithic light projector chips, such as providing different component colors. An example can provide full color from a single monolithic light projector chip, such as including selectively deposited phosphors, such as to contribute individual component colors to an overall color of a pixel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706502 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441633 | Truong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thai V. Truong (Pasadena, California); John M. Choi (Tujunga, California); Scott E. Fraser (LaCanada, California); Willy Supatto (Paris, France); David S. Koos (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thai V. Truong (Pasadena, California); John M. Choi (Tujunga, California); Scott E. Fraser (LaCanada, California); Willy Supatto (Paris, France); David S. Koos (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for and method of performing multi-photon light sheet microscopy (MP-LISH), combining multi-photon excited fluorescence with the orthogonal illumination of light sheet microscopy are provided. With live imaging of whole Drosophila and zebrafish embryos, the high performance of MP-LISH compared to current state-of-the-art imaging techniques in maintaining good signal and high spatial resolution deep inside biological tissues (two times deeper than one-photon light sheet microscopy), in acquisition speed (more than one order of magnitude faster than conventional two-photon laser scanning microscopy), and in low phototoxicity are demonstrated. The inherent multi-modality of this new imaging technique is also demonstrated second harmonic generation light sheet microscopy to detect collagen in mouse tail tissue. Together, these properties create the potential for a wide range of applications for MP-LISH in 4D imaging of live biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/915921 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441635 | Schubert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Eva Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Daniel Schmidt (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Eva Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Daniel Schmidt (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass sensor is provided for determining the mass of small objects. The mass sensor has a plurality of nanostructures attached to a substrate. The nanostructures and the substrate are irradiated with an electromagnetic wave to determine a first mechanical-electromagnetic resonant frequency of the mass sensor. After a particle is attached to the nanostructures, the substrate and the nanostructures to which the particle is attached are irradiated with an electromagnetic wave to determine a second mechanical-electromagnetic resonant frequency of the mass sensor. A mass of the particle is determined based on a difference between the first and second mechanical-electromagnetic resonant frequencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730166 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442078 | Stolyarov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Stolyarov (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lei Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Paris, France); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Stolyarov (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lei Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabien Sorin (Paris, France); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The laser includes an optical fiber including a cavity containing a microfluidic gain medium bounded by a composite structure of alternating layers of high and low index materials forming an axially invariant, rotationally symmetric photonic bandgap cavity. The optical fiber also includes at least one microfluidic channel containing liquid crystal modulators in the fiber cladding extending in an axial direction and further includes a pair of electrodes flanking the microfluidic channel. An electrical potential across the pair of electrodes will rotate the liquid crystal molecules to rotate the linearly polarized state of light emitted from the cavity. An external linear polarizer is disposed around the fiber to modulate azimuthal laser intensity distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323059 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442368 | Reano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald M. Reano (Columbus, Ohio); Peng Sun (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Reano (Columbus, Ohio); Peng Sun (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Development of Integrated Optical Circuits depends greatly on progress in coupling light to and between chip devices. Exemplary disclosed embodiments provide a system and method of fabricating couplers for optical chips that may allow for access to devices on the entire chip surface. Cantilever couplers comprising optical waveguides are deflected out-of-plane creating access to remote portions of devices. An exemplary system and method may provide waveguides with tunable angles of deflection creating greater flexibility in optical coupling options. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692346 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442780 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jia Lu (Iowa City, Iowa); Xuefeng Zhao (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia Lu (Iowa City, Iowa); Xuefeng Zhao (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The distributive elastic properties in nonlinear structures is characterized using an inverse elastostatic approach of stress analysis using assumed elastic models without knowing the realistic material parameters. Stress distributions are computed independently of strain measurements. A database of pointwise stress and strain data in regions of the nonlinear structure permits the elastic properties of the structure to be characterized point-by-point to provide the property distribution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/459418 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442973 | Cramer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Cramer (San Francisco, California); ChengXiang Zhai (Champaign, Illinois); Xuehua Shen (Urbana, Illinois); Bin Tan (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surf Canyon, Inc. (Oakland, California); The Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Cramer (San Francisco, California); ChengXiang Zhai (Champaign, Illinois); Xuehua Shen (Urbana, Illinois); Bin Tan (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743076 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443034 | Koushanfar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Miodrag Potkonjak (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Empire Technology Development, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Miodrag Potkonjak (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are generally described for selecting input vectors that reduce or minimize leakage current for a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) with the same design, but that differ due to manufacturing variability. In various embodiments, the techniques include determining at least one starting input vector that reduces leakage current in a respective one of N instances of the ICs, and selecting from the determined at least one starting input vector of each respective one of the N instances, a set R of representative input vectors. Some of the embodiments then use each of the representative input vectors in the set R to determine at least a particular input vector to apply to input terminals of an IC in the plurality of ICs to reduce or minimize leakage current in the IC. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/479584 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08439160 | Kolaini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali R. Kolaini (Encino, California); Dennis L. Kern (Lomita, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali R. Kolaini (Encino, California); Dennis L. Kern (Lomita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic suppression system for absorbing and/or scattering acoustic energy comprising a plurality of acoustic targets in a containment is described, the acoustic targets configured to have resonance frequencies allowing the targets to be excited by incoming acoustic waves, the resonance frequencies being adjustable to suppress acoustic energy in a set frequency range. Methods for fabricating and implementing the acoustic suppression system are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/290004 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440166 | Hernandez-Maldonado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Jose N Primera-Pedrozo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Jose N Primera-Pedrozo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A titanium silicate variant named UPRM-5 was prepared using tetraethylammonium hydroxide as a structure-directing agent (SDA). Successful detemplation was achieved via ion exchange with NH4Cl. Effective functionalization was obtained after ion exchanging the detemplated material using SrCl2 and BaCl2. Adsorption of CO2 at 25° C. in Sr- and Ba-UPRM-5 materials activated at different temperatures. For low partial pressures, the observed CO2 adsorption capacities increased as follows: NH4-UPRM-5<Sr-UPRM-5<Ba-UPRM-5. Both the Sr- and Ba-UPRM-5 materials exhibited outstanding selectivity for CO2 over CH4, N2 and O2. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/071465 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440394 | Wainwright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Norman R. Wainwright (Johns Island, South Carolina); Foster T. Jordan (Chapin, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Charles River Laboratories, Inc. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman R. Wainwright (Johns Island, South Carolina); Foster T. Jordan (Chapin, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection and/or quantification of a Gram positive bacterial contaminant in a sample. In particular, the invention provides hemocyte-based preparations, methods of making such hemocyte-based preparations, and methods of using such hemocyte-based preparations for the detection and/or quantification of the Gram positive bacterial contaminant. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083996 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440467 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yubao Li (Houston, Texas); Alexander Sinitskiy (Ryazan, Russian Federation) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yubao Li (Houston, Texas); Alexander Sinitskiy (Ryazan, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic devices comprising a dielectric material, at least one carbon sheet, and two electrode terminals are described herein. The devices exhibit non-linear current-versus-voltage response over a voltage sweep range in various embodiments. Uses of the electronic devices as two-terminal memory devices, logic units, and sensors are disclosed. Processes for making the electronic devices are disclosed. Methods for using the electronic devices in analytical methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240673 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08441255 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Despina Davis (Minden, Louisiana); Ramya Bellamkonda (Ruston, Louisiana); Raja Sekharam Mannam (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Louisiana Tech University Research Foundation, a divison of Louisiana Tech University Foundation, Inc. (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Despina Davis (Minden, Louisiana); Ramya Bellamkonda (Ruston, Louisiana); Raja Sekharam Mannam (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectrically cooled GMR sensor having a first thermoelectric layer with an array of nanowires, wherein the nanowires include a diameter of about 1 nanometer to about 1000 nanometers. A plurality of alternating layers of magnetic and nonmagnetic material are positioned over and extend the nanowires to form a GMR assembly. A second thermoelectric layer is positioned over the GMR assembly and extends the nanowires, such that the nanowires have a length of between about 100 nanometers and about 500 microns. Conductors are placed in contact with the first and second thermoelectric layers for connecting the thermoelectric layers to a voltage source. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/692280 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442684 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald R. Davis (Brighton, Michigan); Nicolaus A. Radford (League City, Texas); Frank Noble Permenter (Webster, Texas); Michael C. Valvo (League City, Texas); R. Scott Askew (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia); Oceaneeering Space Systems (Webster, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Davis (Brighton, Michigan); Nicolaus A. Radford (League City, Texas); Frank Noble Permenter (Webster, Texas); Michael C. Valvo (League City, Texas); R. Scott Askew (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for achieving high-speed torque for a joint of a robot includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a collocated joint processor and high-speed communication bus. The PCBA may also include a power inverter module (PIM) and local sensor conditioning electronics (SCE) for processing sensor data from one or more motor position sensors. Torque control of a motor of the joint is provided via the PCBA as a high-speed torque loop. Each joint processor may be embedded within or collocated with the robotic joint being controlled. Collocation of the joint processor, PIM, and high-speed bus may increase noise immunity of the control system, and the localized processing of sensor data from the joint motor at the joint level may minimize bus cabling to and from each control node. The joint processor may include a field programmable gate array (FPGA). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564076 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08438792 | Schwartz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel A. Schwartz (Danville, Vermont) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Schwartz (Danville, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Rigid insulation products are provided, including a single unitary insulating member having slots for receiving the ends of floor joists. The insulating member may be pre-attached to a wood member, which functions as a joist header, or may be attached to a joist header during construction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/798682 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/92.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440447 | Stone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henry Stone (Colbert, Georgia); Cam Greene (Jefferson, Georgia); Peter Holt (Colbert, Georgia); Richard Gast (Watkinsville, Georgia); Kunho Seo (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Stone (Colbert, Georgia); Cam Greene (Jefferson, Georgia); Peter Holt (Colbert, Georgia); Richard Gast (Watkinsville, Georgia); Kunho Seo (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extraction and concentration of antibodies, antigens, bacteria and virus from biological samples. The method also provides a preparation that is suitable for use as a vaccine. The method includes the addition of liquid carboxylic acids and a centrifugation step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445091 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08440449 | Hughes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Hughes (Peoria, Illinois); Tauseef R. Butt (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); LifeSensors, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Hughes (Peoria, Illinois); Tauseef R. Butt (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae produced by transformation with heterologous polynucleotide sequences coding for xylulokinase (XKS) from Yersinia pestis and xylose isomerase (XI) are capable of xylose utilization. The transformants express these heterologous polynucleotides at a sufficient functional level to grow aerobically on xylose as the sole carbon source. Further transformation of the recombinant yeasts to overexpress one or more of the S cerevisiae genes PIP2, IMG2, MAK5, VPS9, COX10, ALE1, CDC7, and MMS4, permits the yeast to grow anaerobically on xylose as the sole carbon source. When grown under anaerobic conditions on a culture medium comprising both glucose and xylose, the transformed yeast exhibit increased ethanol productivity, with the yeast growing on the xylose to increase their biomass and fermenting the glucose to ethanol. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568071 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08440383 | Bailey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Wilmington, Delaware); Jonathan V. Caspar (Wilmington, Delaware); John Catron, Jr. (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Santa Barbara, California); Thomas C. Felder (Kennett, Pennsylvania); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Roupen Leon Keusseyan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dalen E. Keys (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Nunes (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Gerard O'Neil (Newark, Delaware); Rinaldo Soria Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Nancy G. Tassi (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Wilmington, Delaware); Jonathan V. Caspar (Wilmington, Delaware); John Catron, Jr. (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Santa Barbara, California); Thomas C. Felder (Kennett, Pennsylvania); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Roupen Leon Keusseyan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dalen E. Keys (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Nunes (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Gerard O'Neil (Newark, Delaware); Rinaldo Soria Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Nancy G. Tassi (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal imaging donors are useful for thermal transfer patterning of a metal layer and optionally, a corresponding proximate portion of an additional transfer layer onto a thermal imaging receiver. The compositions are useful for dry fabrication of electronic devices. Also provided are patterned multilayer compositions comprising one or more base film(s), and one or more patterned metal layers. These include electromagnetic interference shields and touchpad sensors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/013876 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443459 | Phan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nghi Phan (Santa Barbara, California); Craig Cusworth (Redding, California); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bruker Nano, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nghi Phan (Santa Barbara, California); Craig Cusworth (Redding, California); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-bandwidth SPM tip scanner includes an objective that is vertically movable within the scan head to increase the depth of focus for the sensing light beam. Movable optics also are preferably provided to permit targeting of the sensing light beam on the SPM's probe and to permit the sensing light beam to track the probe during scanning. The targeting and tracking permit the impingement of a small sensing light beam spot on the probe under direct visual inspection of focused illumination beam of an optical microscope integrated into the SPM and, as a result, permits the use of a relatively small cantilever with a commensurately small resonant frequency. Images can be scanned on large samples having a largest dimension exceeding 7 mm with a resolution of less than 1 Angstrom and while scanning at rates exceeding 30 Hz. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/435086 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08442825 | Sinutko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Sinutko (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Sinutko (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for voice identification including a receiver, a segmenter, a resolver, two advancers, a buffer, and a plurality of IIR resonator digital filters where each IIR filter comprises a set of memory locations or functional equivalent to hold filter specifications, a memory location or functional equivalent to hold the arithmetic reciprocal of the filter's gain, a five cell controller array, several multipliers, an adder, a subtractor, and a logical non-shift register. Each cell of the five cell controller array has five logical states, each acting as a five-position single-pole rotating switch that operates in unison with the four others. Additionally, the device also includes an artificial neural network and a display means. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/200034 |
| ART UNIT | 2659 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08443105 | Finkler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Todd B. Finkler (Crofton, Maryland); Mark A. Shayman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd B. Finkler (Crofton, Maryland); Mark A. Shayman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of routing traffic in a network by receiving the network, assigning a maximum temperature value to gateway nodes, calculating temperature values for router nodes, determining self-utilization values for nodes, determining neighborhood-utilization values for router nodes, determining pressure values for gateway nodes, determining pressure values for router nodes, identifying router node sent traffic, identifying neighboring nodes having higher temperatures than router node, identifying neighboring node with lowest pressure value, sending traffic to neighboring node with lowest pressure value, and stopping if the neighboring node is a gateway node, otherwise identifying the node as a router node and returning to the step of finding neighboring nodes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374638 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08440964 | Berkout et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vadym D Berkout (Rockville, Maryland); Vladimir M. Doroshenko (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Engineering Services, Inc. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadym D Berkout (Rockville, Maryland); Vladimir M. Doroshenko (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for transporting ions along a longitudinal direction in an elevated gas pressure region. The device includes a multipole ion guide having a set of rods positioned along the longitudinal direction on an inscribed diameter equal to or less than 3.5 mm, a voltage source which provides alternating voltages to at least a subset of the rods to create a trapping field in a transverse direction, and a conductance limit having an opening d and placed at the exit of the multipole ion guide. At the end of this configuration near the opening of the conductance limit, a converging continuum gas flow through the conductance limit is provided that transfers the ions collimating near a center of the ion guide into a low gas pressure region. The method injects ions into the elevated gas pressure region of the ion guide, and transports the ions in the converging continuum gas flow into the low gas pressure region. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213787 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08440206 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing an immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are disclosed herein. In several examples, the immune response is a protective immune response. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for preventing an infection with Mtb, or treating an infection with Mtb. Pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/332150 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 08443084 | Challa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prabhakar Challa (Streamwood, Illinois); Jingying Li (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Accenture Global Services Limited (Dublin, Ireland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhakar Challa (Streamwood, Illinois); Jingying Li (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for establishing upgrade paths. In one aspect, a method includes establishing an interim environment and platform, migrating the data from the legacy environment and platform to the interim environment and platform, and migrating the data from the interim environment and platform to the upgraded environment and platform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821276 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08443448 | Brando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danny Brando (Livingston, New Jersey); Joonho Lee (New York, New York); Jia Ye (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danny Brando (Livingston, New Jersey); Joonho Lee (New York, New York); Jia Ye (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing a security check may include using at least one processor to periodically check a status of a flag, generate and store a baseline representation of modules stored on the device where the flag is determined to be set to a first state, and, where the flag is determined to be set to a second state, generate an active representation of modules stored on the first device, compare the active representation of modules to the baseline representation of modules, and, responsive to a determination in the comparing step of a difference between the baseline and active representations of modules, output an alert. The flag status may depend on an association of the device with one of a plurality of authorization policies, each mapped to one of the two states. Results of the comparison may be appended to an activity log of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544652 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 08442360 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Anna Barklund (Kirkland, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GigOptix, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Anna Barklund (Kirkland, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A low resistivity hybrid organic-inorganic material may include a proportion of charge traps including a trap element indirectly covalently bonded to a donor or acceptor element. The trap element may include tin. The donor or acceptor element may include indium and/or antimony. Bonding includes cross-linking via oxygen bonds and via organic cross-linkers. The material may be formed as a hybrid sol-gel. The material may have optical transmission and refractive index characteristics. The material may be formed as optical cladding proximal to a non-linear optical layer, and may form a portion of a second order nonlinear optical device. The second order nonlinear optical device may include and electro-optic device including an organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612540 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08443010 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gale R. Scott (Louisville, Kentucky); Charles V. Fisher (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gale R. Scott (Louisville, Kentucky); Charles V. Fisher (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system for managing information related to a delivery service provider and systems of using such a system. The system and systems provided herein allow a delivery service provider to coordinate with efficiency the volume of mail or packages to be delivered with the carrier resources available to deliver them. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the delivery operation information system tracks quantities of articles, schedules their distribution, and schedules and tracks the work force that distributes the articles. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208383 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/805 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08442057 | Howe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne R. Howe (Irvine, California); Muhammad Akbar Qureshi (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne R. Howe (Irvine, California); Muhammad Akbar Qureshi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A node in a mobile ad-hoc network or other network classifies packets (a) in accordance with a first set of priority levels based on urgency and (b) within each priority level of the first set, in accordance with a second set of priority levels based on importance. The node: (a) queues packets classified at highest priority levels of the first and/or second sets in high-priority output queues; (b) queues packets classified at medium priority levels of the first set in medium-priority output queue(s); and (3) queues packets classified at low priority levels of the first and/or second set in low-priority output queue(s). Using an output priority scheduler, the node serves the packets in order of the priorities of the output queues. In such manner, orthogonal aspects of DiffServ and MLPP can be resolved in a MANET or other network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546233 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442276 | Hamza |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rida M. Hamza (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rida M. Hamza (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer product are presented for identifying a subject by biometric analysis of an eye. First, an image of the iris of a subject to be identified is acquired. Texture enhancements may be done to the image as desired, but are not necessary. Next, the iris image is radially segmented into a selected number of radial segments, for example 200 segments, each segment representing 1.8° of the iris scan. After segmenting, each radial segment is analyzed, and the peaks and valleys of color intensity are detected in the iris radial segment. These detected peaks and valleys are mathematically transformed into a data set used to construct a template. The template represents the subject's scanned and analyzed iris, being constructed of each transformed data set from each of the radial segments. After construction, this template may be stored in a database, or used for matching purposes if the subject is already registered in the database. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372854 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08442330 | Tong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Tong (Schenectady, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NBCUniversal Media, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Tong (Schenectady, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble employs only a small number of manually labeled images from the ensemble and avoids labor-intensive and error-prone object detection, tracking and alignment learning task limitations associated with manual image labeling techniques. A semi-supervised least squares congealing approach is employed to minimize an objective function defined on both labeled and unlabeled images. A shape model is learned on-line to constrain the landmark configuration. A partitioning strategy allows coarse-to-fine landmark estimation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533066 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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