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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 02, 2013
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| US 08474267 | Nager |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Andrew Nager (El Cajon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Andrew Nager (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo machine is provided that includes a turbine nozzle having a wall. The wall provides spaced apart first and second surfaces. A combustor includes a liner having an annular lip that engages one of the first and second surfaces. A floating ring seal is supported by the liner in a slip-fit relationship, for example, using a retainer. The floating ring seal engages the other of the first and second surfaces. The floating ring seal is slidably moveable relative to the liner in a floating direction in response to movement of the liner in a radial direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398670 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08474272 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidney W. K. Yuan (Los Angeles, California); Jee S. Cha (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney W. K. Yuan (Los Angeles, California); Jee S. Cha (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are directed to multistage pulse tube coolers. In some embodiments, one or more stages of the pulse tube cooler may comprise a control valve positioned between the hot end of the pulse tube and the reservoir. Also, in various embodiments, one or more inter-stage control valves may be positioned between the pulse tubes of consecutive stages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611784 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08474362 | Karandikar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prashant G. Karandikar (Avondale, Pennsylvania); Sam Salamone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allyn L. McCormick (Lewes, Delaware); Michael K. Aghajanian (Newark, Delaware); Glen Evans (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | M Cubed Technologies, Inc. (Trumbull, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant G. Karandikar (Avondale, Pennsylvania); Sam Salamone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allyn L. McCormick (Lewes, Delaware); Michael K. Aghajanian (Newark, Delaware); Glen Evans (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A diamond-reinforced SiC ceramic composite material and shaped article. The addition of diamond to the microstructure greatly enhances properties such as hardness and Young's modulus. Such a composite material has considerable promise as an armor material. In particular, significant increases in ballistic performance can be achieved versus a non-diamond-containing composite, particularly versus the M993 threat. Reaction bonded silicon carbide (RBSC) ceramics with 7% diamond were shown to offer ballistic performance levels that matched the best commercial ceramics tested on the program. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313372 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08474390 | Dudt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip John Dudt (Rockville, Maryland); Joseph P Teter (Darnestown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip John Dudt (Rockville, Maryland); Joseph P Teter (Darnestown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A supporting arrangement for a vessel for counteracting compressive loads at an operating temperature. The supporting arrangement also provides inertial stiffening of the hull of the vessel as well as acoustic and vibration damping. The supporting arrangement includes a support structure that is made from a shape memory alloy that contacts and presses against the inner walls of the vessel. The supporting arrangement utilizes the shape recovery properties and/or the internal energy properties of the shape memory alloy support structure to provide reinforcing and damping forces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720161 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/65.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08474516 | Valenzuela |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Javier A. Valenzuela (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mikros Manufacturing, Inc. (Claremont, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier A. Valenzuela (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-channel heat exchanger suited for use in large-area cold plates includes a heat transfer member having winding micro-channels, a manifold, and a cover plate. The micro-channels' winding design is defined by a nonlinear flow axis that may include a plurality of short pitch and small amplitude undulations, which cause the flow to change directions, as well as two or more large amplitude bends that cause the flow to reverse direction. In low flow per unit area applications, the winding micro-channels allow a user to customize the pressure drop to promote good flow distribution, to achieve improved heat transfer uniformity, and to enable the pressure drop to remain above the bubble point of the heat transfer structure to prevent gas blockage. The winding micro-channels also improve the heat transfer coefficient. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188859 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08474553 | Peyvandi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amirpasha Peyvandi (Lansing, Michigan); Parviz Soroushian (Okemos, Michigan); Jue Lu (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metna Co. (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amirpasha Peyvandi (Lansing, Michigan); Parviz Soroushian (Okemos, Michigan); Jue Lu (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invented mechanism comprises more than two (legs) with phase difference (like polygon-shape, ellipse-shape, and etc) between their rotation angles to produce pre-loading for improved adhesion. Two rigid plates covered with adhesives are attached to each phase difference wheel. Each plate connects to the wheels via a hinge embodying a torsional spring, which forces the plate back to its original position after each contact with surface. The phase difference wheels are made of elastic materials for application of controlled pre-loads at contact surfaces during locomotion. The difference between height and width of each wheel as well as the elastic properties of the materials determine the pre-load pressure applied during locomotion. The pre-load pressure is not strongly dependent on the orientation of locomotion. This enables locomotion in vertical, inclined and even upside-down orientation and also in the non-gravity environment. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595223 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475577 | Novosselov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENERTECHNIX, Inc (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerosol sampling intake configured to exclude particles generally greater than 20 microns AD and capture particles of less than about 10 microns AD with high efficiency, independent of weather conditions, through which air is sampled by suction. The intake combines an omnidirectional horizontal segment with diffuser and elbow, the elbow transitioning flow to a vertical segment, the vertical segment with overhanging lip, the centrifugal impactor for self-cleaning operation, thus relieving the dual problems of re-entrainment of particles bouncing from the impactor surface and fouling by particles sticking to the impactor surface. The device is adapted for use on moving vehicles, for sampling at increased windspeeds, or for sampling in rain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069618 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475695 | Carper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas M. Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas M. Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The integral layer provides a ductile interface for attachment locations of a turbine engine component where a metallic surface is adjacent the attachment location. The ductile layer provides a favorable load distribution through the composite at the attachment location, and eliminates the need for a metallic shim. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039934 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475698 | Lytle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin C Lytle (Tacoma, Washington); Trevor N. Zimmerman (Pendleton, South Carolina); Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin C Lytle (Tacoma, Washington); Trevor N. Zimmerman (Pendleton, South Carolina); Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a carbon nanopipe and ensemble of carbon nanopipes, comprising the steps of flowing a carbon precursor over silica fibers and thereby depositing a durable graphitizable carbon coating of tunable thickness of about 10-500 nm onto the silica fibers and etching away the silica fibers to yield a three-dimensional mat of electronically networked, hollow carbon tubules. A carbon nanopipe comprising a durable graphitizable carbon wall of tunable thickness of about 10-500 nm formed by exposing a silica fiber network to a carbon precursor vapor and thereby depositing a carbon film onto the silica fiber network at a temperature suitable for complete pyrolysis of the carbon precursor and removing the silica fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188285 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475705 | Pechenik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Pechenik (Getzville, New York); Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Pechenik (Getzville, New York); Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a unique of class of nano-scale materials for use as protective coatings or barriers against heat as well as material loss due to processes such as corrosion, ablation, erosion, or oxidation. These nano-scale laminated materials are also useful as free-standing components and as substrates, especially for high temperature oxidation-resistant applications. The novel materials of this invention are known as interface-defined nano-laminates (IDnLs), and are fabricated by a new method from ceramic, metallic, and other powders. The laminate layer thickness in an IDnL is smaller than that of ordinary laminates but greater than that of superlattices. Interface-defined nano-laminates are fundamentally different from ordinary laminates in that their properties are defined by interfaces, and not by the properties of the bulk materials comprising individual layers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728293 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475804 | Johansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa M. Johansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Joseph Lehár (Lexington, Massachusetts); Benjamin G. Hoffstrom (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gene G. Olinger (Frederick, Maryland); Andrea R. Stossel (Thurmont, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Fort Detrick, Maryland); Zalicus, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa M. Johansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Joseph Lehár (Lexington, Massachusetts); Benjamin G. Hoffstrom (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gene G. Olinger (Frederick, Maryland); Andrea R. Stossel (Thurmont, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions, methods, and kits useful for the treatment of filovirus-mediated diseases, e.g., hemorrhagic fever caused by Ebola virus, in an animal. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710203 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475919 | Winterhalter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carole A. Winterhalter (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carole A. Winterhalter (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber blend for yarns and fabrics for use in military, fire-fighting, industrial work wear, and first responder protective clothing to provide multifunctional protection to the wearer, the fiber blend including an aramid fiber blend, wool fibers, and electrostatic dissipative fibers, wherein the aramid fiber blend includes meta-aramid fibers, para-aramid fibers and electrostatic dissipative fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008304 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475945 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Paul Sheedy (Vernon, Connecticut); William Werkheiser (East Hartford, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia Kashyap (Middletown, Connecticut); Daniel G. Goberman (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Paul Sheedy (Vernon, Connecticut); William Werkheiser (East Hartford, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia Kashyap (Middletown, Connecticut); Daniel G. Goberman (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite article includes a substrate, at least one protective layer on the substrate and an intermediate layer between the at least one protective layer and the substrate. The intermediate layer includes dense silicon oxycarbide. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/167425 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476005 | Axelrod et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Blake W. Axelrod (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Jessica L. Arlett (South Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake W. Axelrod (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Jessica L. Arlett (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening one or more cells is described; the method includes: (i) providing one or more cells to a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) force sensor; (ii) applying at least one reagent to the one or more cells; and (iii) observing a response of the one or more cells to the reagent with the force sensor, thereby screening the one or more cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364666 |
| 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 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476063 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Plesanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815685 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476083 | Algar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Russ Algar (Alexandria, Virginia); Niko Hildebrandt (Orsay, France); Alan L Huston (Aldie, Virginia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Russ Algar (Alexandria, Virginia); Niko Hildebrandt (Orsay, France); Alan L Huston (Aldie, Virginia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a time-gated, two-step FRET relay effective to provide temporal transference of a prompt FRET pathway, or provide spectro-temporal encoding analytical signals and other information. A FRET relay assembly includes a long lifetime FRET donor (for example, a lanthanide complex), a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) configured as an intermediate acceptor/donor in FRET, and a fluorescent dye configured as a terminal FRET acceptor, wherein the long lifetime FRET donor has an excited state lifetime of at least one microsecond and the QD and fluorescent dye each have excited state lifetimes of less than 100 nanoseconds. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475177 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08476125 — Fabrication technique for high frequency, high power group III nitride electronic devices
| US 08476125 | Khan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | M. Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina); Vinod Adivarahan (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina); Vinod Adivarahan (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabrication methods of a high frequency (sub-micron gate length) operation of AlInGaN/InGaN/GaN MOS-DHFET, and the HFET device resulting from the fabrication methods, are generally disclosed. The method of forming the HFET device generally includes a novel double-recess etching and a pulsed deposition of an ultra-thin, high-quality silicon dioxide layer as the active gate-insulator. The methods of the present invention can be utilized to form any suitable field effect transistor (FET), and are particular suited for forming high electron mobility transistors (HEMT). |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/515997 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476240 | Arispe |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nelson Arispe (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for The Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Arispe (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to amyloid beta (Aβ) channels and the diseases and disorders caused by abnormal activity in these channels, such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, inclusion body myositis, or cerebral amyloid angiopathy. The disclosure provides compositions and methods that block Aβ channel activity and/or reduce Aβ-induced toxicity in a cell. Compositions comprised of compounds having histidine coordinating capacity are used in methods to prevent, reduce, or eliminate damage caused by Aβ ion channels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/933029 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476241 | Cheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat esophogeal adenocarcinoma by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163123 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476313 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert W. Brueggemeier (Dublin, Ohio); Young-Woo Kim (Belmont, Massachusetts); John C. Hackett (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Brueggemeier (Dublin, Ohio); Young-Woo Kim (Belmont, Massachusetts); John C. Hackett (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for treating and prevention of cancer, particularly hormone-dependent breast cancer. Provided are compounds of formula I: wherein X is selected from O, N, S, SO, SO2, and S(CH2)n, wherein n=1-10; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and are selected from H, OH, OCH3, OCH2CH3, OCH2C6H5, NH2, NHCH3, N(CH3)2, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, CH(CH3)2, C(CH3)3, NO2, F, Cl, Br, CF3, SH, SCH3, SCH2CH3, OCOCH3, OCOC(CH3)3, OCOCH2COOH, and CN; and R3 is a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring. Also provided are method for treating or preventing cancer in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a heteroaryl-containing isoflavone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, to a subject in need of treatment. Also provided is a method for the synthesis of 2-substituted isoflavones by first reacting deoxybenzoins with a phase transfer catalyst to provide a 2-(alkylthio)isoflavone; second deprotecting the 2-(alkylthio)isoflavone; and third applying selective debenzylation to form the final compound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471751 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476415 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for rapid solution capture purification of nucleic acids for subsequent analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry which is efficient and cost-effective relative to existing methods. The present invention also provides kits useful for practicing rapid solution capture of nucleic acids so that purified samples are in condition for analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/447623 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476576 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Po Dong (Arcadia, California); Dazeng Feng (Arcadia, California); Ning-Ning Feng (Arcadia, California); Dawei Zheng (Arcadia, California); Mehdi Asghari (San Marino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kotura, Inc. (Monterey Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Po Dong (Arcadia, California); Dazeng Feng (Arcadia, California); Ning-Ning Feng (Arcadia, California); Dawei Zheng (Arcadia, California); Mehdi Asghari (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device includes a light-transmitting medium positioned on a base. The light-transmitting medium defines a waveguide. The optical device also includes a light sensor. The light sensor includes a light-absorbing medium positioned on the base. A portion of the waveguide ends at a facet such that a first portion of a light signal being guided by the wavegide passes through the facet and a second portion of the light signal bypasses the facet and remains in the light-transmitting medium. The light-absorbing medium is positioned on the light-transmitting medium such that the light-transmitting medium is between the light-absorbing medium and the base. Additionally, the light-absorbing medium is positioned on the light-transmitting medium such that the light-absorbing medium receives the first portion of the light signal that passes through the facet. Further, the light-absorbing medium is configured such that the second portion of the light signal is coupled into the light-absorbing medium from the light-transmitting medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799633 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476617 | Dimitrakopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); John A. Ott (Greenwood Lake, New York); Robert L. Wisnierff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); John A. Ott (Greenwood Lake, New York); Robert L. Wisnierff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure having a high Hall mobility is provided that includes a SiC substrate having a miscut angle of 0.1° or less and a graphene layer located on an upper surface of the SiC substrate. Also, provided are semiconductor devices that include a SiC substrate having a miscut angle of 0.1° or less and at least one graphene-containing semiconductor device located atop the SiC substrate. The at least one graphene-containing semiconductor device includes a graphene layer overlying and in contact with an upper surface of the SiC substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030834 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476697 | Cooper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Cooper (West Lafayette, Indiana); Maherin Matin (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Cooper (West Lafayette, Indiana); Maherin Matin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon carbide power MOSFET having a drain region of a first conductivity type, a base region of a second conductivity type above the drain region, and a source region of the first conductivity type adjacent an upper surface of the base region, the base region including a channel extending from the source region through the base region adjacent a gate interface surface thereof, the channel having a length less than approximately 0.6 μm, and the base region having a doping concentration of the second conductivity type sufficiently high that the potential barrier at the source end of the channel is not lowered by the voltage applied to the drain. The MOSFET includes self-aligned base and source regions as well as self-aligned ohmic contacts to the base and source regions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/418028 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476737 | Najafi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sang-Hyun Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sang Woo Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sang-Hyun Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sang Woo Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An environment-resistant module which provides both thermal and vibration isolation for a packaged micromachined or MEMS device is disclosed. A microplatform and a support structure for the microplatform provide the thermal and vibration isolation. The package is both hermetic and vacuum compatible and provides vertical feedthroughs for signal transfer. A micromachined or MEMS device transfer method is also disclosed that can handle a wide variety of individual micromachined or MEMS dies or wafers, in either a hybrid or integrated fashion. The module simultaneously provides both thermal and vibration isolation for the MEMS device using the microplatform and the support structure which may be fabricated from a thin glass wafer that is patterned to create crab-leg shaped suspension tethers or beams. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/273402 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/621 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476749 | Drost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California); David C. Douglas (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California); David C. Douglas (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chip package is described. This chip package includes a stack of semiconductor dies or chips that are offset from each other, thereby defining a terrace with exposed pads. A high-bandwidth ramp component, which is positioned approximately parallel to the terrace, electrically couples to the exposed pads. For example, the ramp component may be electrically coupled to the semiconductor dies using: microsprings, an anisotropic film, and/or solder. Consequently, the electrical contacts may have a conductive, a capacitive or, in general, a complex impedance. Furthermore, the chips and/or the ramp component may be positioned relative to each other using a ball-and-pit alignment technique. By removing the need for costly and area-consuming through-silicon vias (TSVs) in the semiconductor dies, the chip package facilitates chips to be stacked in a manner that provides high bandwidth and low cost. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507349 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476820 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Loren Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Manoj A. G. Namboothiry (Winstom-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Loren Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Manoj A. G. Namboothiry (Winstom-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to lighting technologies and, in particular, to solid state lighting technologies. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a lighting apparatus comprising a first electrode, a radiation transmissive second electrode, and a composite layer disposed between the first and second electrode, the composite layer comprising at least one electric field concentrator and at least one phosphor disposed in a radiation transmissive dielectric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447547 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477061 | Pedersen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard N. Pedersen (Toms River, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard N. Pedersen (Toms River, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system that prevents engagement with neutral aircraft utilizes secondary surveillance radar (SSR) in conjunction with traffic alert collision avoidance systems (TCAS) conventionally found on various commercial aircraft. The system and method provide for detecting interrogating signals sent out by a TCAS system of an interrogating aircraft searching for another aircraft that may pose a threat for collision. The system and method of the invention provide for a base system generating signals responsive to the interrogation signals such that there is a decreasing time difference between the interrogating signals and the responsive signals. The decreasing time difference indicates to the interrogating aircraft that another aircraft is approaching its airspace urging the neutral aircraft to change course and avoid entering a guarded tactical airspace thus avoiding unnecessary engagement of the aircraft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/825983 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477147 | Livingston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Alan Livingston (Alexandria, Virginia); Justin M. Solomon (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Alan Livingston (Alexandria, Virginia); Justin M. Solomon (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of representation and manipulation of surfaces with perceptual geometric features, using a computer graphics rendering system, include executing algorithmic instructions to compute a plurality of vertices, edges and surfaces in a mesh for the purpose of defining representations of surfaces on grids. Normals and distances are determined for triangular surfaces to be considered. Additionally, height fields of a function are defined. A set of feature curves and a set of feature points are determined, based on the defined function. Infinitesimal movements along the representations of the surfaces are determined, along with determinations of properties of representations of continuous surfaces. Additional determinations of perceptual geometric features include determinations such as zero crossings, parabolic curves, flecnodes, ruffles, gutterpoints, conical points and biflecnodes in a given mesh. After these determinations are made, visual representations are rendered which capture perceptually important features for smoothly varying shapes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416716 |
| ART UNIT | 2678 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/581 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477149 | Beato et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Beato (Orlando, Florida); Charles E. Hughes (Maitland, Florida); Mark Colbert (San Mateo, California); Yunjun Zhang (Orlando, Florida); Kazumasa Yamazawa (Nara, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Beato (Orlando, Florida); Charles E. Hughes (Maitland, Florida); Mark Colbert (San Mateo, California); Yunjun Zhang (Orlando, Florida); Kazumasa Yamazawa (Nara, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer readable media for real-time chromakey matting using image statistics. To identify the chroma key spectrum, the system/method executes in three stages. In an off-line training stage, the system performs semi-automatic calibration of the chroma key parameterization. In the real-time classification stage, the system estimates the alpha matte on a GPU. Finally, an optional error minimization stage improves the estimated matte, accounting for misclassifications and signal noise. Given the resulting matte, standard alpha blending composites the virtual scene with the video feed to create the illusion that both worlds coexist. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/752238 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477190 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving platform system suitable for mounting and use on a moving platform, comprising a position system monitoring the location of the moving platform and generating a sequence of time-based position data, a non-line of sight communication system, a high-speed line of sight communication system, and a computer system monitoring the availability of the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system and initiating connections when the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system are available, and receiving the sequence of time-based position data and transmitting the sequence of time-based position data via the at least one of the currently available non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831971 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477226 | Frias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bron R. Frias (Catonsville, Maryland); Nathan Bluzer (Rockville, Maryland); Paul A. Tittel (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bron R. Frias (Catonsville, Maryland); Nathan Bluzer (Rockville, Maryland); Paul A. Tittel (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A charge coupled device imager, which can operate in time delay and integration mode, can be adapted to include variable columns having one or more blocking gates or other barriers that can be independently controlled and used to divide a used portion from an unused portion. The blocking gates may require less power to electrically insulate used from the unused sections. In this regard, an imager's charge handling capacity and dynamic range can be improved, while lowering CCD operating power requirements. Blooming drains can also be included to enhance the functionality of the imager and enable bidirectional imaging capability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730076 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477308 | Haycraft |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Joseph Haycraft (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Joseph Haycraft (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for use on precision refractive index experiments that are performed on individual faces of single crystals or liquid surfaces of material using specific wavelengths of light. The process is used to measure the major and minor axes of the optical indicatrix of a single crystal of material at a very specific wavelength. This process is repeated for each crystal face in order to form a complete picture of the refractive index for the sample. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615183 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477408 | Li |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingjing Li (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingjing Li (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to dynamically and electronically reconfigurable optical devices that can be operated as a lens or prism for incident beams of electromagnetic radiation. The optical devices include a phase-modulation layer (1501) disposed between first and second nanowire layers (1502,1503). Overlapping nanowires can be electronically addressed to implement a selected effective refractive index pattern of one or more regions (1510) of the phase-modulation layer, such that each region refracts a portion of an incident beam of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of interest in order to focus, diverge, or bend the incident beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384259 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477906 | Morse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore F. Morse (Little Compton, Rhode Island); Rajiv Gupta (Wayland, Massachusetts); Carson B. Roberts (Waltham, Massachusetts); Robert D. Chivas (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing for Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Healthcare System, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore F. Morse (Little Compton, Rhode Island); Rajiv Gupta (Wayland, Massachusetts); Carson B. Roberts (Waltham, Massachusetts); Robert D. Chivas (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A bundle of drawn fibers that have X-ray scintillating unagglommerated nanocrystallite particles in plastic or glass cores of down to 0.1 micron spacing and claddings of X-ray absorbing compounds in the cladding composition. Optional is a cover to the bundle that blocks light from leaving the bundle at the X-ray side while allowing X-rays to pass into the cores. To image the light exiting the fiber bundle at the sub-micron level, light expansion is preferable using either a lens system or a fiber bundle expander. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/529867 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478011 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kai Li (Eugene, Oregon); Allen Davis Malony (Eugene, Oregon); Don M. Tucker (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cerebral Data Systems, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Li (Eugene, Oregon); Allen Davis Malony (Eugene, Oregon); Don M. Tucker (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An image segmentation method. An image is defined by voxels representing at least two different structure types A and B, by having corresponding different intensities that may be subject to intensity inhomogeneities. A basic method comprises (a) selecting a first voxel to be classified; (b) defining criteria by which a comparison of the intensity associated with the first voxel with an intensity associated with a second voxel is to be considered to indicate that the first voxel represents structure type B assuming the second voxel represents structure type A; (c) determining a path of voxels passing through the first voxel; (d) defining a maximum distance along the path; and (e) determining whether there is a second voxel on the path, within the maximum distance of the first voxel, such that the intensities associated with the first and second voxels together satisfy the criteria, for potentially classifying the first voxel as representing structure type B. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587225 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478335 | Thomas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan L. Thomas (Bloomington, Indiana); James M. Seals (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan L. Thomas (Bloomington, Indiana); James M. Seals (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for radio communication is provided. The system includes a plurality of radios configured to communicate over a plurality of antennas. A switch assembly provides selective coupling of a radio to an antenna. The switch assembly includes a programmable logic device configured to execute an algorithm to select an antenna configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070326 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/552.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478473 | Adibhatla |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sridhar Adibhatla (Glendale, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sridhar Adibhatla (Glendale, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and systems for controlling an engine are provided. The system includes an engine model programmed to receive engine operating condition values from a plurality of sensors on an engine. The engine model is programmed to determine a plurality of engine operating parameter values. The system also includes a processor configured to compare the operating parameter values to a predetermined allowable range for the operating parameter and control the operation of the engine to facilitate returning the determined operating parameter to the allowable range or maintaining the determined operating parameter within the allowable range, output the determined operating parameter values to a user, and/or generate maintenance requests based on the comparison. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181079 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/29.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478571 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald B. Murphy (Conifer, Colorado); James L. Wolf (Conifer, Colorado); Ramon Krosley (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Design Net Engineering, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald B. Murphy (Conifer, Colorado); James L. Wolf (Conifer, Colorado); Ramon Krosley (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods reduce development, integration and testing time of a spacecraft implemented with one or more reconfigurable processor boards. Mission spacecraft design tools design, configure, simulate and analyze the spacecraft based upon constraints of the mission requirements. The mission spacecraft design tools utilize a database of defined module specifications and firmware components. One or more RPBs are programmed based upon the configuration and interfaced to other end item components defined by the configuration to form the spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848060 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478803 | Bent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Graham A. Bent (Southampton, United Kingdom); Patrick Dantressangle (Chandlers Ford, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Graham A. Bent (Southampton, United Kingdom); Patrick Dantressangle (Chandlers Ford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing a logical statement within a distributed database includes checking, responsive to receipt of a first logical statement for by first database management system node, whether the first logical statement is stored within a segment of the distributed database; and storing, responsive to a determination that the first logical statement is not stored within a segment of the distributed database, storing the first logical statement in at least one of non-unique fact table and unique fact table. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/203789 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/966 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478874 | Branson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for composing a stream servicing environment which considers all stakeholders includes identifying service component requirements needed for processing a data stream, and determining available service elements for processing the stream. Feasible service environments are constructed based upon the available service elements and the service component requirements. Efficiency measures are computed for each feasible service environment considering all stakeholders. A best service environment is determined based upon the efficiency measures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971327 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478875 | Gedik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive in-operator load shedding includes receiving at least two data streams (each comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into respective sliding windows of memory. A throttling fraction is then calculated based on input rates associated with the data streams and on currently available processing resources. Tuples are then selected for processing from the data streams in accordance with the throttling fraction, where the selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within the sliding window. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/164671 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478940 | Giri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akash V. Giri (Austin, Texas); Darin M. Greene (Austin, Texas); Alan G. Singletary (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akash V. Giri (Austin, Texas); Darin M. Greene (Austin, Texas); Alan G. Singletary (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Instruction fetch unit (IFU) verification is improved by dynamically monitoring the current state of the IFU model and detecting any predetermined states of interest. The instruction address sequence is automatically modified to force a selected address to be fetched next by the IFU model. The instruction address sequence may be modified by inserting one or more new instruction addresses, or by jumping to a non-sequential address in the instruction address sequence. In exemplary implementations, the selected address is a corresponding address for an existing instruction already loaded in the IFU cache, or differs only in a specific field from such an address. The instruction address control is preferably accomplished without violating any rules of the processor architecture by sending a flush signal to the IFU model and overwriting an address register corresponding to a next address to be fetched. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476477 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478974 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Matthew Wilson (Utica, New York); Joseph James Sharkey (Deerfield, New York); Michael Joseph Sieffert (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Assured Information Security, Inc. (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Matthew Wilson (Utica, New York); Joseph James Sharkey (Deerfield, New York); Michael Joseph Sieffert (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for reducing the impact of malware during a booting sequence for an interrupt driven computing device are disclosed. One or more parameters associated with an interrupt vector table (IVT) are manipulated to force the computing device into a clean state following a system level portion of the booting sequence. In another embodiment, occurring prior to the loading of an operating system or a call to a non-returnable main( ) function, one or more unused interrupt vectors in an IVT are replaced. A function filter is implemented for one or more interrupt vectors in the IVT to disallow unnecessary interrupt functions from being executed. One or more required interrupt vector functions are replaced with one or more corresponding custom vector functions. One or more memory locations are wiped if the one or more memory locations do not hold at least a portion of the IVT and/or the interrupt vector functions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821845 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08479173 | Hickerson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan G. Hickerson (Cedar Park, Texas); John M. Ludden (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan G. Hickerson (Cedar Park, Texas); John M. Ludden (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Creating one or more irritator threads on one or more processor cores in a multi-threaded multiprocessor data processing system is provided. A test generator generates non-irritator thread code for execution by a non-irritator thread and irritator thread code for execution by one or more irritator threads of the multi-threaded multiprocessor data processing system. A simulation controller instantiates the non-irritator thread to execute the non-irritator thread code and the one or more irritator threads to execute the irritator thread code. The simulation controller determines if the non-irritator thread has finished execution of the entire instruction stream of the non-irritator thread code. Responsive to the non-irritator thread finishing execution of the entire instruction stream of the non-irritator thread code, the non-irritator thread performs an operation to terminate the execution of the irritator thread code by the one or more irritator threads. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/169677 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08479181 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Andrew L. Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Rohit M. Kandekar (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Andrew L. Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Rohit M. Kandekar (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for performing capacity planning for applications running on a computational infrastructure are provided. The techniques include instrumenting an application under development to receive one or more performance metrics under a physical deployment plan, receiving the one or more performance metrics from the computational infrastructure hosting one or more applications that are currently running, using a predictive inference engine to determine how the application under development can be deployed, and using the determination to perform capacity planning for the applications on the computational infrastructure. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697624 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2277 | Broad |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam Raymond Wilson Broad (King George, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Raymond Wilson Broad (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A towable buoyant platform of modular floating segments is provided to serve as a floating target. The platform connects at least one pontoon thereto. The pontoon includes a keel that connects to the hull and a plurality of buoyant modules. The keel extends longitudinally along the platform. Each module has an interface that connects to the keel. Each module also includes first and second longitudinal ends. The first and second ends have a tongue and a groove, respectively. The tongue and groove are slideably connectable to each other, such that fore and aft modules of the plurality attach together. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932932 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2278 | Underbakke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Dean Underbakke (Wasilla, Alaska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Dean Underbakke (Wasilla, Alaska) |
| ABSTRACT | A wire rope tester including a magnetic testing device; the wire rope tester includes a Remote Data Recorder mounted on a sensor head of the magnetic testing device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/038574 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08474978 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Huang (Pasadena, California); Ou Tan (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Huang (Pasadena, California); Ou Tan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for analyzing retinal tomography maps to detect patterns of optic nerve diseases such as glaucoma, optic neuritis, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy are disclosed in this invention. The areas of mapping include the macula centered on the fovea, and the region centered on the optic nerve head. The retinal layers that are analyzed include the nerve fiber, ganglion cell, inner plexiform and inner nuclear layers and their combinations. The overall retinal thickness can also be analyzed. Pattern analysis are applied to the maps to create single parameter for diagnosis and progression analysis of glaucoma and optic neuropathy. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139376 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/12 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475171 | Raber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob Raber (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Raber (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and tools for measuring cognitive ability and/or detecting cognitive impairment or decline. For example, techniques and tools are described that can be used to diagnose or test susceptibility to cognitive impairments in children or in elderly people (such as cognitive impairments associated with Alzheimer's Disease). Techniques and tools are described that can be used to evaluate treatment effects and/or measure cognitive decline over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434297 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475483 | Schmitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory P. Schmitz (Los Gatos, California); Eric C. Miller (Los Gatos, California); Richard T. Chen (Woodland Hills, California); Ming-Ting Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfabrica Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Schmitz (Los Gatos, California); Eric C. Miller (Los Gatos, California); Richard T. Chen (Woodland Hills, California); Ming-Ting Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to the field of tissue removal and more particularly to methods and devices for use in medical applications involving selective tissue removal. One exemplary method includes the steps of providing a tissue cutting instrument capable of distinguishing between target tissue to be removed and non-target tissue, urging the instrument against the target tissue and the non-target tissue, and allowing the instrument to cut the target tissue while automatically avoiding cutting of non-target tissue. Various tools for carrying out this method are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/289994 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475767 | Harrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Harrington (Athens, Georgia); Stephen L. Hajduk (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of George Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Harrington (Athens, Georgia); Stephen L. Hajduk (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of killing, inhibiting the growth, and/or inhibiting the reproduction of kinetoplastid protozoan with hydrophobic signal sequence peptides and compositions including such hydrophobic signal sequence peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282623 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475775 | Brouillette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne J. Brouillette (Pelham, Alabama); Donald D. Muccio (Hoover, Alabama); Venkatram Reddy Atigadda (Birmingham, Alabama); John M. Ruppert (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan M. Ruppert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne J. Brouillette (Pelham, Alabama); Donald D. Muccio (Hoover, Alabama); Venkatram Reddy Atigadda (Birmingham, Alabama); John M. Ruppert (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan M. Ruppert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new retinoid compounds and uses of the compounds in humans and animals for non-neoplastic dermal or inflammatory conditions or disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594177 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475785 | Podack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eckhard R. Podack (Coconut Grove, Florida); Joseph D. Rosenblatt (Hollywood, Florida); Nozomi Yamazaki (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eckhard R. Podack (Coconut Grove, Florida); Koichi Yamazaki (Sapporo, Japan); Joseph D. Rosenblatt (Hollywood, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell-based immunotherapy (e.g., immunization or vaccination) may be improved by frequent administration to a human subject of allogeneic cancer cells secreting a modified heat shock protein (e.g., gp96), depletion of B cells in the subject, or both. Antigen (e.g., epitope derived from neoantigen or tumor antigen of allogeneic or syngeneic cancer cells) may induce a specific immune response in the subject. For example, the epitope bound in an immunogenic complex with the secreted heat shock protein may be obtained from allogeneic cancer cells coexpressing both secreted gp96 and antigen, or from syngeneic cancer cells of the subject expressing only antigen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921151 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475792 | Dall'Acqua et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MedImmune, LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MedImmune, LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Board of Regents, The Texas University System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dall'Acqua (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Leslie S. Johnson (Darnestown, Maryland); Elizabeth Sally Ward Ober (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides molecules, including IgGs, non-IgG immunoglobulins, proteins and non-protein agents, that have increased in vivo half-lives due to the presence of an IgG constant domain, or a portion thereof that binds the FcRn, having one or more amino acid modifications that increase the affinity of the constant domain or fragment for FcRn. Such proteins and molecules with increased half-lives have the advantage that smaller amounts and or less frequent dosing is required in the therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic use of such molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/659144 |
| 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 08475799 | Pinter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abraham Pinter (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Pinter (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated monoclonal antibodies which specifically bind to the C-terminal heptad repeat region of gp41 (HR2) and neutralize an HIV-1 primary isolate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672585 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/160.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475806 | Kawaoka |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes a sequence from a high titer influenza virus isolate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855875 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475807 | Perez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel R. Perez (Olney, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Perez (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described in this application are attenuated strains of avian influenza virus containing temperature sensitive mutations in addition to a genetic tag in the PB1 gene. The attenuated viruses are useful as avian and mammalian vaccine for protective immunity against homologous and heterologous lethal challenges with influenza virus. A genetically modified avian influenza virus backbone is described which can be used as a master donor strain for the generation of live attenuated vaccines for epidemic and pandemic influenza. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381550 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/209.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476022 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego, California); Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego, California); Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an array of nucleic acid colonies, by (a) providing a substrate having a patterned surface of features, wherein the features are spatially separated from each other on the surface of the substrate; (b) contacting the substrate with a solution of different target nucleic acids to seed a subset of the features that contact the solution, wherein each feature in the subset is seeded with a single nucleic acid from the solution, wherein a plurality of the features that contact the solution are not seeded with a nucleic acid from the solution; (c) amplifying the nucleic acids to form a nucleic acid colony at each of the features in the subset; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) to increase the number of the features on the surface that have a nucleic acid colony, thereby making an array of nucleic acid colonies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545682 |
| 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 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476023 | Lazarus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip Lazarus (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Dongxiao Sun (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Lazarus (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Dongxiao Sun (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for aiding in determining therapeutic efficacy of an aromatase inhibitor in a subject are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include detecting expression and/or function of at least one UDP-glucuronosyltransferase having activity to modify at least one aromatase inhibitor and/or metabolite of the aromatase inhibitor by glucuronidation, wherein detection of expression and/or function of the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase is correlated with therapeutic efficacy of the aromatase inhibitor in the subject. Detection of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase expression and/or function includes detection of a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase gene deletion polymorphism in the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852957 |
| 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 435/6.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476025 | Clifford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jane Clifford (Narberth, Pennsylvania); Beatrix A. Olofsson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Crystal M. Kelly (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane Clifford (Narberth, Pennsylvania); Beatrix A. Olofsson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Crystal M. Kelly (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to the discovery that phosphorylation of SP1 (SEQ ID NO.: 2) at serine residue 101 (known herein as phosphoserine101 Sp1) is an important part of a cell's response to DNA damage. This phosphorylation event is important for subsequent Sp1 localization to a site of DNA damage and is correlated with increased cellular viability in response to DNA damage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187187 |
| 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 08476030 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method of reversing or preventing a target cell's resistance to a death receptor agonist. Also provided are methods of screening for biomarkers resistance of and monitoring resistance to death receptor agonists. Also provided are methods of selectively inducing apoptosis in a target cell, treating a subject with cancer, autoimmune or inflammatory diseases, comprising administering compositions provided herein. Further provided are compositions comprising agents that modulate CARD containing proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/356739 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476032 | Granoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); JoAnne Welsch (Emeryville, California); Sanjay Ram (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California); Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, SRL (Siena, Italy); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); JoAnne Welsch (Emeryville, California); Sanjay Ram (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Assays for detection of bactericidal anti-Neisserial antibodies using a factor H polypeptide having a human amino acid sequence that mediates binding to Neisserial factor H binding protein (fHBp) are provided, as well as non-human animal models of Neisserial infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548316 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476043 | Hammock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); In-Hae Kim (Davis, California); Christophe Morisseau (West Sacramento, California); Takaho Watanabe (Kanagawa-ken, Japan); John W. Newman (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); In-Hae Kim (Davis, California); Christophe Morisseau (West Sacramento, California); Takaho Watanabe (Kanagawa-ken, Japan); John W. Newman (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) are provided that incorporate multiple pharmacophores and are useful in the treatment of diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631577 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476063 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Plesanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815685 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476074 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juhua Zhou (Lexington, South Carolina); Mitzi Nagarkatti (Columbia, South Carolina); Prakash Nagarkatti (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting a predisposition to breast cancer in a subject is provided. The method includes detecting in a biological sample from the subject one or more polymorphisms in the sequence of CD44 gene. The presence of one or more polymorphisms in the sequence of CD44 gene indicates that the subject has a predisposition for developing breast cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/735320 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476236 | Hearing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent Hearing (Leesburg, Virginia); Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan); Thierry Passeron (Nice, France) |
| 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) | Vincent Hearing (Leesburg, Virginia); Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan); Thierry Passeron (Nice, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally related to methods of inducing non-palmoplantar skin to develop a palmoplantar phenotype, for example, methods for increasing skin thickness, decreasing skin pigmentation, and/or decreasing hair growth. In particular, disclosed herein are methods of using topical administration of DKK1 to increase skin thickness, decrease skin pigmentation, or reduce hair growth. Also disclosed are topical DKK1 compositions for inducing non-palmoplantar skin to develop a palmoplantar phenotype. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492990 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476241 | Cheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat esophogeal adenocarcinoma by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163123 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476245 | Pourmotabbed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tayebeh Pourmotabbed (Cordova, Tennessee); Hisashi Hasegawa (Niigata, Japan); Chad Batson (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tayebeh Pourmotabbed (Cordova, Tennessee); Hisashi Hasegawa (Niigata, Japan); Chad Batson (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides DNA molecules designed to down regulate the expression of MMP genes in a cell. Also provided are compositions comprising the DNA molecules. The presently disclosed subject matter further provides methods of using the DNA molecules to inhibit metastasis of a cancer cell. The presently disclosed subject matter also provides methods of using the DNA molecules to modulate tumor growth in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390628 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476273 | Hayashi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Hayashi (Ellicott City, Maryland); Alexander Mackerell (Baltimore, Maryland); Younus Mia (Ellicott City, Maryland); Guanjun Xia (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Hayashi (Ellicott City, Maryland); Alexander Mackerell (Baltimore, Maryland); Younus Mia (Ellicott City, Maryland); Guanjun Xia (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides materials and methods for modulating an immune response. The materials and methods may be used to treat diseases associated with an aberrant immune response. In some embodiments, materials and methods of the invention may be used to treat autoimmune diseases, for example, rheumatoid arthritis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674685 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476303 | Redda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kinfe Ken Redda (Tallahassee, Florida); Madhavi Gangapuram (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida A and M University Board of Trustees (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kinfe Ken Redda (Tallahassee, Florida); Madhavi Gangapuram (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The compounds herein disclosed are N-aminopyrrolylmethyltetrahydropyridine analogs that have modifications on the phenyl rings by introducing groups with various electronic properties. These derivatives of N-aminopyrrolylmethyltetrahydropyridines have been shown to have anti-proliferative activity against cells. In particular, the compounds have been found to be effective in inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells, such as cancer cells that originated in breast tissue. Additionally, it has been shown that the novel compounds have IC50 values against the breast cancer cells that are 6-10-fold less than the IC50 of tamoxifen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/307771 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476410 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xinhui Wang (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania); Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinhui Wang (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania); Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are isolated human monoclonal antibodies, and functional fragments thereof, that specifically bind HMW-MAA. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acid molecules, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acid molecules are also disclosed. The antibodies can be used to detect HMW-MAA in a sample. Methods of diagnosing cancer, or confirming a diagnosis of cancer, are disclosed herein that utilize these antibodies. Methods of treating a subject with cancer are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123489 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476415 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for rapid solution capture purification of nucleic acids for subsequent analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry which is efficient and cost-effective relative to existing methods. The present invention also provides kits useful for practicing rapid solution capture of nucleic acids so that purified samples are in condition for analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/447623 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476420 | Showe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Louise Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Malik Yousef (Dabburiya Village, Israel); Steven M. Albelda (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Anil Vachani (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Andrei V. Kossenkov (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Louise Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Malik Yousef (Dabburiya Village, Israel); Steven M. Albelda (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Anil Vachani (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Andrei V. Kossenkov (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for diagnosing lung cancer in a mammalian subject by use of three or more selected genes, e.g., a gene expression profile, from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of the subject which is characteristic of disease, a stage of the disease, or enables prognosis of recurrence of disease. The gene expression profile includes three or more genes of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI or Table VII herein. Detection of changes in expression in the selected genes forming the gene expression profile from that of a reference gene expression profile are correlated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). One composition for use in such diagnosis includes three or more PCR primer-probe sets, wherein each primer-probe set amplifies a different polynucleotide sequence from the gene expression profile. Another composition for similar use contains a plurality of polynucleotides immobilized on a substrate, which probes hybridize to three or more gene expression products from genes in the gene expression profile. Still another composition involves detection of the protein expression products of genes from the gene expression profile. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/745991 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476422 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Eduction on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double -stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216942 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476458 | Marmorstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronen Marmorstein (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Xin Liu (Menlo Park, California); Philip A. Cole (Baltimore, Maryland); Ling Wang (Seattle, Washington); Erin M. Bowers (Baltimore, Maryland); David J. Meyers (Towson, Maryland); Chandrani Mukherjee (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronen Marmorstein (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Xin Liu (Menlo Park, California); Philip A. Cole (Baltimore, Maryland); Ling Wang (Seattle, Washington); Erin M. Bowers (Baltimore, Maryland); David J. Meyers (Towson, Maryland); Chandrani Mukherjee (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for identifying compounds that modulate the activity of p300/CBP. Compounds of the invention are identified by designing or screening for a compound which binds to at least one amino acid residue of the newly identified lysine-CoA inhibitor binding site, L1 loop, electronegative pocket, or electronegative groove of the HAT domain of p300/CBP and testing the compound for its ability to modulate the activity of p300/CBP. Compositions and methods for preventing or treating diseases or disorders associated with p300/CBP are also provided as is a method for producing a semi-synthetic HAT domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/665751 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/365.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476462 | Cairns |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Cairns (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Combinix, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Cairns (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluorescent cyanine and squaraine dyes are described that can be conjugated to analyte molecules of interest such as peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, RNA, DNA, carbohydrates, polymers and small molecules via a sulfonyl or sulfonamide substituent. The new dyes are made via a novel cyanine dye activation procedure that converts the normally stable, water solubilizing sulfonate substituents into a reactive sulfonyl halides. The sulfonyl halides may be directly conjugated to analytes or can be further converted to more stable reactive sulfonamide handles or to water soluble sulfonamides. The general structure of the new dyes is given below where the central linker is an unsaturated carbon chain or an unsaturated chain containing a squaraine moiety. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191937 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476608 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simon A. Morton (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey Dickert (El Sobrante, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon A. Morton (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey Dickert (El Sobrante, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adjustable aperture for limiting the dimension of a beam of energy. In an exemplary embodiment, the aperture includes (1) at least one piezoelectric bender, where a fixed end of the bender is attached to a common support structure via a first attachment and where a movable end of the bender is movable in response to an actuating voltage applied to the bender and (2) at least one blade attached to the movable end of the bender via a second attachment such that the blade is capable of impinging upon the beam. In an exemplary embodiment, the beam of energy is electromagnetic radiation. In an exemplary embodiment, the beam of energy is X-rays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533876 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478381 | Kocaturk |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ozgur Kocaturk (Rockville, 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) | Ozgur Kocaturk (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A guidewire (100) for use with interventional magnetic resonance imaging has a guidewire body (102) having a distal end and a proximal end and reserving a space therein, a dipole antenna (108) disposed in the space reserved within the guidewire body, the dipole antenna being adapted to be electrically connected to a signal processing system through a first signal channel (110) through the proximal end of the guidewire body, and a loop antenna (112) disposed in the space reserved within the guidewire body toward the distal end of the guidewire body, the loop antenna (112) being adapted to be electrically connected to the signal processing system through a second signal channel (114) through the proximal end of the guidewire body. The dipole antenna and the loop antenna are each constructed to receive magnetic resonance imaging signals independently of each other and to transmit received signals through the first and second signal channels, respectively, to be received by the signal processing system. An interventional magnetic resonance imaging system includes an active guidewire. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/810481 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08474255 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); David Chmiel (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Horst Richter (Norwich, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); David Chmiel (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Horst Richter (Norwich, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems compressing and expanding gas is improved via heat exchange between the gas and a heat-transfer fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105986 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475230 | Summers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Archibold Summers (Rolla, Missouri); Klaus Hubert Woelk (Rolla, Missouri); Kenneth Doyle Oglesby (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Grzegorz Galecki (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla, Missouri); Regency Technologies LLC (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Archibold Summers (Rolla, Missouri); Klaus Hubert Woelk (Rolla, Missouri); Kenneth Doyle Oglesby (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Grzegorz Galecki (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An abrasive cutting or drilling system, apparatus and method, which includes an upstream supercritical fluid and/or liquid carrier fluid, abrasive particles, a nozzle and a gaseous or low-density supercritical fluid exhaust abrasive stream. The nozzle includes a throat section and, optionally, a converging inlet section, a divergent discharge section, and a feed section. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589626 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475333 | Roos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Nathaniel Roos (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Brian L. Spohn (Holly, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Nathaniel Roos (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Brian L. Spohn (Holly, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A powertrain system includes a hybrid transmission and an internal combustion engine coupled to an exhaust aftertreatment device. A method for operating the powertrain system includes operating the hybrid transmission to generate tractive torque responsive to an operator torque request with the internal combustion engine in an engine-off state so long as the tractive torque is less than a threshold. The internal combustion engine is operated in an engine-on state at preferred operating conditions to effect light-off of the exhaust aftertreatment device and the hybrid transmission is coincidentally operated to generate tractive torque responsive to the operator torque request when the operator torque request exceeds the threshold. The internal combustion engine is then operated in the engine-on state to generate tractive torque responsive to the operator torque request. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101341 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control 477/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475688 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zonghai Chen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zonghai Chen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Lithium-air cells using poly(ethyleneoxide) (PEO) siloxane-based or poly(ethyleneoxide) phosphate-based electrolytes may be prepared and exhibit improved charge carrying capacity. Such PEO silioxanes and phosphates generally have the formulas Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, IIa, IIb, IIc, where: |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146020 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/519.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475747 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Ernest Johnson (Richland, Washington); Martin David Maloney (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ernest Johnson (Richland, Washington); Martin David Maloney (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing spent TRIZO-coated nuclear fuel may include adding fluoride to complex zirconium present in a dissolved TRIZO-coated fuel. Complexing the zirconium with fluoride may reduce or eliminate the potential for zirconium to interfere with the extraction of uranium and/or transuranics from fission materials in the spent nuclear fuel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484561 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475756 | Westphal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian R. Westphal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert D. Mariani (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Westphal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert D. Mariani (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of UCl3 salt without the use of hazardous chemicals or multiple apparatuses for synthesis and purification is provided. Uranium metal is combined in a reaction vessel with a metal chloride and a eutectic salt- and heated to a first temperature under vacuum conditions to promote reaction of the uranium metal with the metal chloride for the production of a UCl3 salt. After the reaction has run substantially to completion, the furnace is heated to a second temperature under vacuum conditions. The second temperature is sufficiently high to selectively vaporize the chloride salts and distill them into a condenser region. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/082844 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475758 | Laine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David James Krug (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Julien Claudius Marchal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stewart Mccolm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayaterials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David James Krug (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Julien Claudius Marchal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stewart Mccolm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for providing an agricultural waste product having amorphous silica, carbon, and impurities; extracting from the agricultural waste product an amount of the impurities; changing the ratio of carbon to silica; and reducing the silica to a high purity silicon (e.g., to photovoltaic silicon). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057058 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476014 | Yeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hsin-Chih Yeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James Henry Werner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jaswinder Kumar Sharma (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jennifer Suzanne Martinez (Dixon, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsin-Chih Yeh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James Henry Werner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jaswinder Kumar Sharma (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jennifer Suzanne Martinez (Dixon, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybridization probe containing two linear strands of DNA lights up upon hybridization to a target DNA using silver nanoclusters that have been templated onto one of the DNA strands. Hybridization induces proximity between the nanoclusters on one strand and an overhang on the other strand, which results in enhanced fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932321 |
| 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 08476016 | Ashby |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Ashby (Mill Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Taxon Biosciences, Inc. (Tiburon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Ashby (Mill Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for performing surveys of the genetic diversity of a population. The invention also relates to methods for performing genetic analyses of a population. The invention further relates to methods for the creation of databases comprising the survey information and the databases created by these methods. The invention also relates to methods for analyzing the information to correlate the presence of nucleic acid markers with desired parameters in a sample. These methods have application in the fields of geochemical exploration, agriculture, bioremediation, environmental analysis, clinical microbiology, forensic science and medicine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019045 |
| 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 08476048 | Caimi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Perry G Caimi (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); William D Hitz (Wilmington, Delaware); Barry Stieglitz (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Paul V Viitanen (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry G Caimi (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); William D Hitz (Wilmington, Delaware); Barry Stieglitz (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Paul V Viitanen (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Xylose-utilizing, ethanol producing strains of Zymomonas mobilis with improved performance in medium comprising biomass hydrolysate were isolated using an adaptation process. Independently isolated strains were found to have independent mutations in the same coding region. Mutation in this coding may be engineered to confer the improved phenotype. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/316597 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476062 | Greenbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); Miguel Rodriguez, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hairong Qi (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaoling Wang (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); Miguel Rodriguez, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hairong Qi (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaoling Wang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for biosensor-based detection of toxins includes providing at least one time-dependent control signal generated by a biosensor in a gas or liquid medium, and obtaining a time-dependent biosensor signal from the biosensor in the gas or liquid medium to be monitored or analyzed for the presence of one or more toxins selected from chemical, biological or radiological agents. The time-dependent biosensor signal is processed to obtain a plurality of feature vectors using at least one of amplitude statistics and a time-frequency analysis. At least one parameter relating to toxicity of the gas or liquid medium is then determined from the feature vectors based on reference to the control signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/431664 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476119 | Blum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yigal D. Blum (San Jose, California); William Siu-Keung Chu (Newark, California); David Brent MacQueen (Foster City, California); Yijian Shi (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yigal D. Blum (San Jose, California); William Siu-Keung Chu (Newark, California); David Brent MacQueen (Foster City, California); Yijian Shi (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods and materials suitable for use as encapsulation barriers and dielectric layers in electronic devices. In one embodiment, for example, there is provided an electroluminescent device or other electronic device with a dielectric layer comprising alternating layers of a silicon-containing bonding material and a ceramic material. The methods provide, for example, electronic devices with increased stability and shelf-life. The invention is useful, for example, in the field of microelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/202065 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476480 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Brown (Ames, Iowa); Samuel T. Jones (Ames, Iowa); Anthony Pollard (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Brown (Ames, Iowa); Samuel T. Jones (Ames, Iowa); Anthony Pollard (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fractionating bio-oil vapors which involves providing bio-oil vapors comprising bio-oil constituents is described. The bio-oil vapors are cooled in a first stage which comprises a condenser having passages for the bio-oil separated by a heat conducting wall from passages for a coolant. The coolant in the condenser of the first stage is maintained at a substantially constant temperature, set at a temperature in the range of 75 to 100° C., to condense a first liquid fraction of liquefied bio-oil constituents in the condenser of the first stage. The first liquid fraction of liquified bio-oil constituents from the condenser in the first stage is collected. Also described are steps for subsequently recovering further liquid fractions of liquefied bio-oil constituents. Particular compositions of bio-oil condensation products are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551103 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476608 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simon A. Morton (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey Dickert (El Sobrante, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon A. Morton (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey Dickert (El Sobrante, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adjustable aperture for limiting the dimension of a beam of energy. In an exemplary embodiment, the aperture includes (1) at least one piezoelectric bender, where a fixed end of the bender is attached to a common support structure via a first attachment and where a movable end of the bender is movable in response to an actuating voltage applied to the bender and (2) at least one blade attached to the movable end of the bender via a second attachment such that the blade is capable of impinging upon the beam. In an exemplary embodiment, the beam of energy is electromagnetic radiation. In an exemplary embodiment, the beam of energy is X-rays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533876 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476969 | Taubman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew S. Taubman (West Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Taubman (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor-based filter for inhibiting load noise from entering a power supply is disclosed. The filter includes a first transistor having an emitter coupled to a power supply, a collector coupled to a load, and a base. The filter also includes a first capacitor coupled between the base of the first transistor and a ground terminal. The filter further includes an impedance coupled between the base and a node between the collector and the load, or a second transistor and second capacitor. The impedance can be a resistor or an inductor. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/397928 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/552 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476989 | Herron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Hayden Herron (Redondo Beach, California); Douglas S. Carlson (Hawthorne, California); David Tang (Fontana, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Hayden Herron (Redondo Beach, California); Douglas S. Carlson (Hawthorne, California); David Tang (Fontana, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter for an automotive electrical system includes a substrate having first and second conductive members. First and second input terminals are mounted to the substrate. The first input terminal is electrically connected to the first conductive member, and the second input terminal is electrically connected to the second conductive member. A plurality of capacitors are mounted to the substrate. Each of the capacitors is electrically connected to at least one of the first and second conductive members. First and second power connectors are mounted to the substrate. The first power connector is electrically connected to the first conductive member, and the second power connector is electrically connected to the second conductive member. A common mode choke is coupled to the substrate and arranged such that the common mode choke extends around at least a portion of the substrate and the first and second conductive members. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543285 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477304 | Bushaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce A. Bushaw (Richland, Washington); Norman C. Anheier (Richland, Washington); Jon R. Phillips (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Bushaw (Richland, Washington); Norman C. Anheier (Richland, Washington); Jon R. Phillips (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process are disclosed that provide high accuracy and high precision destructive analysis measurements for isotope ratio determination of relative isotope abundance distributions in liquids, solids, and particulate samples. The invention utilizes a collinear probe beam to interrogate a laser ablated plume. This invention provides enhanced single-shot detection sensitivity approaching the femtogram range, and isotope ratios that can be determined at approximately 1% or better precision and accuracy (relative standard deviation). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/050546 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477551 | Mao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel S. Mao (Castro Valley, California); Yanfeng Zhang (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel S. Mao (Castro Valley, California); Yanfeng Zhang (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical memory comprising: a semiconductor wire, a first electrode, a second electrode, a light source, a means for producing a first voltage at the first electrode, a means for producing a second voltage at the second electrode, and a means for determining the presence of an electrical voltage across the first electrode and the second electrode exceeding a predefined voltage. The first voltage, preferably less than 0 volts, different from said second voltage. The semiconductor wire is optically transparent and has a bandgap less than the energy produced by the light source. The light source is optically connected to the semiconductor wire. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically insulated from each other and said semiconductor wire. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288152 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478444 | Fuxman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian M. Fuxman (North Vancouver, Canada); Sebastien Tixier (North Vancouver, Canada); Gregory E. Stewart (North Vancouver, Canada); Frank M. Haran (North Vancouver, Canada); Johan U. Backstrom (North Vancouver, Canada); Kelsey Gerbrandt (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell ASCa Inc. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian M. Fuxman (North Vancouver, Canada); Sebastien Tixier (North Vancouver, Canada); Gregory E. Stewart (North Vancouver, Canada); Frank M. Haran (North Vancouver, Canada); Johan U. Backstrom (North Vancouver, Canada); Kelsey Gerbrandt (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes receiving at least one measurement of a dissolved carbon dioxide concentration of a mixture of fluid containing an autotrophic organism. The method also includes determining an adjustment to one or more manipulated variables using the at least one measurement. The method further includes generating one or more signals to modify the one or more manipulated variables based on the determined adjustment. The one or more manipulated variables could include a carbon dioxide flow rate, an air flow rate, a water temperature, and an agitation level for the mixture. At least one model relates the dissolved carbon dioxide concentration to one or more manipulated variables, and the adjustment could be determined by using the at least one model to drive the dissolved carbon dioxide concentration to at least one target that optimize a goal function. The goal function could be to optimize biomass growth rate, nutrient removal and/or lipid production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985061 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478452 | Pratt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington); Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington); Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for charging and discharging an energy storage device connected to an electrical power distribution system. In one exemplary embodiment, a controller monitors electrical characteristics of an electrical power distribution system and provides an output to a bi-directional charger causing the charger to charge or discharge an energy storage device (e.g., a battery in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)). The controller can help stabilize the electrical power distribution system by increasing the charging rate when there is excess power in the electrical power distribution system (e.g., when the frequency of an AC power grid exceeds an average value), or by discharging power from the energy storage device to stabilize the grid when there is a shortage of power in the electrical power distribution system (e.g., when the frequency of an AC power grid is below an average value). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755260 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478476 | Wiles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew A. Wiles (Royal Oak, Michigan); Craig D. Marriott (Clawson, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Wiles (Royal Oak, Michigan); Craig D. Marriott (Clawson, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and control module includes a pressure sensor data comparison module that compares measured pressure volume signal segments to ideal pressure volume segments. A valve actuation hardware remedy module performs a hardware remedy in response to comparing the measured pressure volume signal segments to the ideal pressure volume segments when a valve actuation hardware failure is detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703430 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/29.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478834 | Blocksome |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for data transfers between nodes in a parallel computer that include: receiving, by an origin DMA on an origin node, a buffer identifier for a buffer containing data for transfer to a target node; sending, by the origin DMA to the target node, a RTS message; transferring, by the origin DMA, a data portion to the target node using a memory FIFO operation that specifies one end of the buffer from which to begin transferring the data; receiving, by the origin DMA, an acknowledgement of the RTS message from the target node; and transferring, by the origin DMA in response to receiving the acknowledgement, any remaining data portion to the target node using a direct put operation that specifies the other end of the buffer from which to begin transferring the data, including initiating the direct put operation without invoking an origin processing core. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/776718 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08474255 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); David Chmiel (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Horst Richter (Norwich, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Alexander Bell (Hanover, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); David Chmiel (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Horst Richter (Norwich, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems compressing and expanding gas is improved via heat exchange between the gas and a heat-transfer fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105986 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475144 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianke Kang (Arlington, Virginia); Gregory W. Auner (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianke Kang (Arlington, Virginia); Gregory W. Auner (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropump device including a first wafer and a second wafer attached to the first wafer. The first and second wafers are configured to define a chamber therebetween having a predetermined volume. A third wafer is attached to the second wafer to define an inlet section and an outlet section in fluid communication with the chamber. At least one of the second and third wafers are formed to define a moveable diaphragm configured to change the predetermined volume of the chamber for pumping a fluid between the inlet section and the outlet section. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239919 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/413.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475703 | Turng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lih-Sheng Turng (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry R. Holmes, Jr. (Cambridge, Wisconsin); Yiyan Peng (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaochun Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lih-Sheng Turng (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry R. Holmes, Jr. (Cambridge, Wisconsin); Yiyan Peng (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaochun Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided of fabricating a composite incorporating fillers. The method includes the steps of depositing the fillers in a matrix material either in a rapid prototyping device or prior to inserting the matrix material into a mold. The mold is positioned at a desired location with respect to an electrical field such that at least a portion of the fillers in the matrix material align in a first direction in response thereto. For producing a heterogeneous composite through a rapid prototyping process, the electrodes are positioned at a desired orientation to align the fillers. Thereafter, at least a portion of the matrix material is cured with desirable filler orientation. The procedure is repeated with the desired filler orientation and distribution being introduced layer by layer within the composite. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688348 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475758 | Laine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David James Krug (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Julien Claudius Marchal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stewart Mccolm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayaterials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David James Krug (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Julien Claudius Marchal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stewart Mccolm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for providing an agricultural waste product having amorphous silica, carbon, and impurities; extracting from the agricultural waste product an amount of the impurities; changing the ratio of carbon to silica; and reducing the silica to a high purity silicon (e.g., to photovoltaic silicon). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057058 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476422 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Eduction on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double -stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216942 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476451 | Ellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan A. Ellman (Oakland, California); Andrew W. Patterson (Oakland, California); Hillary Peltier (Jeanette, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan A. Ellman (Oakland, California); Andrew W. Patterson (Oakland, California); Hillary Peltier (Jeanette, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel tubulysin analogues, methods of making and methods of using such analogues and conjugates thereof. The compounds of the invention are highly potent cell-growth inhibitors have been developed that are smaller and considerably more stable than tubulysin D. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/669364 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476545 | Sommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard E. Hill (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard E. Hill (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A piece of material that includes low-Z elements is classified based on photonic emissions detected from the piece of material. Both XRF spectroscopy and OES techniques, for example, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and spark discharge spectroscopy, may be used to classify the piece of material. A stream of pieces of material are moved along a conveying system into a stimulation and detection area. Each piece of material, in turn, is stimulated with a first and second stimulus, of a same or different type, causing the piece of material to emit emissions, for example, photons, which may include at least one of x-ray photons (i.e., x-rays) and optical emissions. These emissions then are detected by one or to more detectors of a same or different type. The piece of materials is then classified, for example, using a combination of hardware, software and/or firmware, based on the detected emissions, and then sorted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826315 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477149 | Beato et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Beato (Orlando, Florida); Charles E. Hughes (Maitland, Florida); Mark Colbert (San Mateo, California); Yunjun Zhang (Orlando, Florida); Kazumasa Yamazawa (Nara, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Beato (Orlando, Florida); Charles E. Hughes (Maitland, Florida); Mark Colbert (San Mateo, California); Yunjun Zhang (Orlando, Florida); Kazumasa Yamazawa (Nara, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer readable media for real-time chromakey matting using image statistics. To identify the chroma key spectrum, the system/method executes in three stages. In an off-line training stage, the system performs semi-automatic calibration of the chroma key parameterization. In the real-time classification stage, the system estimates the alpha matte on a GPU. Finally, an optional error minimization stage improves the estimated matte, accounting for misclassifications and signal noise. Given the resulting matte, standard alpha blending composites the virtual scene with the video feed to create the illusion that both worlds coexist. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/752238 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478500 | Vahidi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ardalan Vahidi (Greenville, South Carolina); Grant David Mahler (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ardalan Vahidi (Greenville, South Carolina); Grant David Mahler (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for utilizing traffic signal information to reduce wait time at traffic signals and to reduce fuel use is disclosed. Traffic signal timing data can be received from traffic signals or from a central server to determine a reference velocity for a vehicle to travel through a plurality of traffic signals. The reference velocity can then be provided to the driver so that the driver can manually control the vehicle at a velocity close to the reference velocity. The techniques of the present disclosure also can be used in connection with a cruise control system to control the velocity of a vehicle to be close to the reference velocity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/872567 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — 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 71/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478543 | Pierce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niles A. Pierce (South Pasadena, California); Brian R. Wolfe (Pasadena, California); Joseph Zadeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niles A. Pierce (South Pasadena, California); Brian R. Wolfe (Pasadena, California); Joseph Zadeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are systems and processes for designing the sequence of one or more interacting nucleic acid strands intended to adopt a target secondary structure at equilibrium. The target secondary structure is decomposed into a binary tree and candidate mutations are evaluated on leaf nodes of the tree. During a process of leaf optimization, defect-weighted mutation sampling is used to select each candidate mutation position with a probability proportional to its contribution to an ensemble defect of the leaf. Subsequences of the tree are then merged, moving up the tree until a final nucleotide sequence of interest is determined that has the target secondary structure at equilibrium. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/079747 |
| 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 08478642 | Dey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anind K. Dey (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania); James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian D. Ziebart (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anind K. Dey (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania); James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian D. Ziebart (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system method and device for predicting navigational decision-making behavior is provided. The location of a device is used to generate the current location of the device, and a history of past locations of the device. A behavior predicting application predicts the route a drive is going to travel based on driver preferences, such as left-hand turns, avoidance of bridges, etc., as well as the preferred destinations and/or routes traveled in the past. The preferences of a particular driver can be learned by the system to be implemented in the behavior predicting application, or manually input by the driver. The system can employ GPS or other positioning technology to determine the location of the device. The device can be a standard GPS-enabled in-car device, or other portable device such as a cell phone or PDA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581879 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/14.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08479309 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Min-Feng Yu (Champaign, Illinois); Majid Minary-Jolandan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min-Feng Yu (Champaign, Illinois); Majid Minary-Jolandan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and systems for high resolution imaging of a material immersed in liquid by scanning probe microscopy. The methods further relate to imaging a material submersed in liquid by tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM), wherein the AFM has a microfabricated AFM probe comprising a nanoneedle probe connected to a cantilever beam. The nanoneedle probe is immersed in the liquid, and the rest of the AFM probe, including the cantilever beam to which the nanoneedle probe is attached, remains outside the liquid. The cantilever is oscillated and the nanoneedle probe tip taps the material to image the material immersed in liquid. In an aspect, the material is supported on a shaped substrate to provide a spatially-varying immersion depth with specially defined regions for imaging by any of the methods and systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096378 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08476749 | Drost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California); David C. Douglas (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California); David C. Douglas (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chip package is described. This chip package includes a stack of semiconductor dies or chips that are offset from each other, thereby defining a terrace with exposed pads. A high-bandwidth ramp component, which is positioned approximately parallel to the terrace, electrically couples to the exposed pads. For example, the ramp component may be electrically coupled to the semiconductor dies using: microsprings, an anisotropic film, and/or solder. Consequently, the electrical contacts may have a conductive, a capacitive or, in general, a complex impedance. Furthermore, the chips and/or the ramp component may be positioned relative to each other using a ball-and-pit alignment technique. By removing the need for costly and area-consuming through-silicon vias (TSVs) in the semiconductor dies, the chip package facilitates chips to be stacked in a manner that provides high bandwidth and low cost. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507349 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476753 | Colgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Evan G. Colgan (Armonk, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Armonk, New York); Roy R. Yu (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan G. Colgan (Armonk, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Armonk, New York); Roy R. Yu (Armonk, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced 3D integration structure comprises a logic microprocessor chip bonded to a collection of vertically stacked memory slices and an optional set of outer vertical slices comprising optoelectronic devices. Such a device enables both high memory content in close proximity to the logic circuits and a high bandwidth for logic to memory communication. Additionally, the provision of optoelectronic devices in the outer slices of the vertical slice stack enables high bandwidth direct communication between logic processor chips on adjacent enhanced 3D modules mounted next to each other or on adjacent packaging substrates. A method to fabricate such structures comprises using a template assembly which enables wafer format processing of vertical slice stacks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586054 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478340 | Deloatch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daryle D. Deloatch (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryle D. Deloatch (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for and method of determining if a SIM card was removed and reinserted into a device by initially inserting the SIM card into the device, checking for the presence of the SIM card, if the SIM card is present then returning to the second step, if the SIM card is not present then reporting that the SIM card has been removed from the user-definable electronic device, checking for the presence of the SIM card, if the SIM card is not present then returning to the fifth step, and if the SIM card is present then reporting that the SIM card has been reinserted into the device, and returning to the second step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374642 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478874 | Branson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Branson (Rochester, Minnesota); Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zachary A. Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for composing a stream servicing environment which considers all stakeholders includes identifying service component requirements needed for processing a data stream, and determining available service elements for processing the stream. Feasible service environments are constructed based upon the available service elements and the service component requirements. Efficiency measures are computed for each feasible service environment considering all stakeholders. A best service environment is determined based upon the efficiency measures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971327 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478875 | Gedik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive in-operator load shedding includes receiving at least two data streams (each comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into respective sliding windows of memory. A throttling fraction is then calculated based on input rates associated with the data streams and on currently available processing resources. Tuples are then selected for processing from the data streams in accordance with the throttling fraction, where the selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within the sliding window. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/164671 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08479181 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Andrew L. Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Rohit M. Kandekar (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Andrew L. Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Rohit M. Kandekar (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for performing capacity planning for applications running on a computational infrastructure are provided. The techniques include instrumenting an application under development to receive one or more performance metrics under a physical deployment plan, receiving the one or more performance metrics from the computational infrastructure hosting one or more applications that are currently running, using a predictive inference engine to determine how the application under development can be deployed, and using the determination to perform capacity planning for the applications on the computational infrastructure. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697624 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08475807 | Perez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel R. Perez (Olney, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Perez (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described in this application are attenuated strains of avian influenza virus containing temperature sensitive mutations in addition to a genetic tag in the PB1 gene. The attenuated viruses are useful as avian and mammalian vaccine for protective immunity against homologous and heterologous lethal challenges with influenza virus. A genetically modified avian influenza virus backbone is described which can be used as a master donor strain for the generation of live attenuated vaccines for epidemic and pandemic influenza. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381550 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/209.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08475894 | Noble et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Noble (Encinitas, California); John F. Hunt (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Hongmei Gu (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy L. Newburn (San Diego, California); James F. Mahoney (Encinitas, California); Coleen M. Lassegard (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nobel Environmental Technologies Corp. (La Jolla, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriclture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Noble (Encinitas, California); John F. Hunt (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Hongmei Gu (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy L. Newburn (San Diego, California); James F. Mahoney (Encinitas, California); Coleen M. Lassegard (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A honeycomb-shaped panel is formed from a plurality of generally sinusoidally shaped strips of molded fiberboard material each having spaced, oppositely directed flat peaks, the peaks of adjacent strips being secured together to form a plurality of hexagonally shaped cells extending perpendicular to the surfaces of the sheet. The strips may be cut from a single sheet of corrugated fiberboard sheet material and then secured together to form the honeycomb panel, or a plurality of such panels may be secured together face to face with their ribs aligned to form a stack, and selected cuts may be made through the secured, stacked panels to form a plurality of honeycomb panels of desired surface shape and height dimensions. The strips forming the cells are substantially rigid and resistant to collapse of the cells, and form a substantially rigid core when assembled between two flexible fiberboard skins, while the panel is bendable to adopt a desired panel curvature. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412780 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476422 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Eduction on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double -stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216942 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476480 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Brown (Ames, Iowa); Samuel T. Jones (Ames, Iowa); Anthony Pollard (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Brown (Ames, Iowa); Samuel T. Jones (Ames, Iowa); Anthony Pollard (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fractionating bio-oil vapors which involves providing bio-oil vapors comprising bio-oil constituents is described. The bio-oil vapors are cooled in a first stage which comprises a condenser having passages for the bio-oil separated by a heat conducting wall from passages for a coolant. The coolant in the condenser of the first stage is maintained at a substantially constant temperature, set at a temperature in the range of 75 to 100° C., to condense a first liquid fraction of liquefied bio-oil constituents in the condenser of the first stage. The first liquid fraction of liquified bio-oil constituents from the condenser in the first stage is collected. Also described are steps for subsequently recovering further liquid fractions of liquefied bio-oil constituents. Particular compositions of bio-oil condensation products are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551103 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08474207 | Gilbert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A Gilbert (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas N Lavin (Watchung, New Jersey); Houssam Toutanji (Madison, Alabama); David J. Alldredge (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A Gilbert (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas N Lavin (Watchung, New Jersey); Houssam Toutanji (Madison, Alabama); David J. Alldredge (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for reinforced wood structures including framing members and a method to reinforce the connection between structural members to increase the load bearing capacity of framing member intersections by covering the intersecting wood framing members with a layer of a liquid elastomer including polyurea. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/494823 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/309.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476196 | Paul, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John H. Paul, III (St. Petersburg, Florida); David John (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Paul, III (St. Petersburg, Florida); David John (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to compositions, apparatus, and methods for controlling harmful algae and harmful algal bloom (HAB) based on the induction of the programmed cell death (PCD; apoptosis) pathway in the harmful algae, and to kits for determining algal susceptibility to PCD induction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831065 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant protecting and regulating compositions 54/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476545 | Sommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard E. Hill (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard E. Hill (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A piece of material that includes low-Z elements is classified based on photonic emissions detected from the piece of material. Both XRF spectroscopy and OES techniques, for example, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and spark discharge spectroscopy, may be used to classify the piece of material. A stream of pieces of material are moved along a conveying system into a stimulation and detection area. Each piece of material, in turn, is stimulated with a first and second stimulus, of a same or different type, causing the piece of material to emit emissions, for example, photons, which may include at least one of x-ray photons (i.e., x-rays) and optical emissions. These emissions then are detected by one or to more detectors of a same or different type. The piece of materials is then classified, for example, using a combination of hardware, software and/or firmware, based on the detected emissions, and then sorted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/826315 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477840 | Yin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peng Yin (West Windsor, New Jersey); Jill MacDonald Boyce (Manalapan, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomson Research Funding Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Yin (West Windsor, New Jersey); Jill MacDonald Boyce (Manalapan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for encoding video signal data for transmission in a network. The method includes the step of encoding the video signal data at a variable bit rate using at least one of a prioritized structure or a scalable coding structure to obtain a bitstream having a base layer and an enhancement layer. The encoding step encodes the video signal data such that a base layer bitrate is constrained to be less than or equal to a first value over a first time interval, and all of the bitstream, including the base layer and the enhancement layer, is constrained to a bitrate less than or equal to a second value over a second time interval. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992622 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08476063 | Jovanovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Plesanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815685 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08476586 | Misharin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Misharin (Columbia, Maryland); Vladimir M. Doroshenko (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science and Engineering Services, Inc. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Misharin (Columbia, Maryland); Vladimir M. Doroshenko (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometry (MS) method which includes generating in a vicinity of the quadrupole ion trap hydrogen molecules, directing at least part of the hydrogen molecules into the quadrupole ion trap cell, applying AC and DC voltages to quadrupole ion trap cell electrodes to create a combined AC/DC trapping field, placing sample ions inside the quadrupole ion trap cell, cooling at least part of said ions using said hydrogen molecules as a buffer gas, changing the combined AC/DC trapping field to eject the ions from the quadrupole ion trap cell, and detecting the ejected ions. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/168690 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477190 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving platform system suitable for mounting and use on a moving platform, comprising a position system monitoring the location of the moving platform and generating a sequence of time-based position data, a non-line of sight communication system, a high-speed line of sight communication system, and a computer system monitoring the availability of the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system and initiating connections when the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system are available, and receiving the sequence of time-based position data and transmitting the sequence of time-based position data via the at least one of the currently available non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831971 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08474207 | Gilbert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A Gilbert (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas N Lavin (Watchung, New Jersey); Houssam Toutanji (Madison, Alabama); David J. Alldredge (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A Gilbert (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas N Lavin (Watchung, New Jersey); Houssam Toutanji (Madison, Alabama); David J. Alldredge (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for reinforced wood structures including framing members and a method to reinforce the connection between structural members to increase the load bearing capacity of framing member intersections by covering the intersecting wood framing members with a layer of a liquid elastomer including polyurea. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/494823 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/309.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08477190 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York); Scott D. Lawrence (Pittsford, New York); Matt Kusak (Rochester, New York); Kevin G. Willard (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving platform system suitable for mounting and use on a moving platform, comprising a position system monitoring the location of the moving platform and generating a sequence of time-based position data, a non-line of sight communication system, a high-speed line of sight communication system, and a computer system monitoring the availability of the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system and initiating connections when the non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system are available, and receiving the sequence of time-based position data and transmitting the sequence of time-based position data via the at least one of the currently available non-line of sight communication system and the high-speed line of sight communication system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831971 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08478974 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Matthew Wilson (Utica, New York); Joseph James Sharkey (Deerfield, New York); Michael Joseph Sieffert (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Assured Information Security, Inc. (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Matthew Wilson (Utica, New York); Joseph James Sharkey (Deerfield, New York); Michael Joseph Sieffert (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for reducing the impact of malware during a booting sequence for an interrupt driven computing device are disclosed. One or more parameters associated with an interrupt vector table (IVT) are manipulated to force the computing device into a clean state following a system level portion of the booting sequence. In another embodiment, occurring prior to the loading of an operating system or a call to a non-returnable main( ) function, one or more unused interrupt vectors in an IVT are replaced. A function filter is implemented for one or more interrupt vectors in the IVT to disallow unnecessary interrupt functions from being executed. One or more required interrupt vector functions are replaced with one or more corresponding custom vector functions. One or more memory locations are wiped if the one or more memory locations do not hold at least a portion of the IVT and/or the interrupt vector functions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821845 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08478077 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for image alignment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring a facial image of a person and using a discriminative face alignment model to fit a generic facial mesh to the facial image to facilitate locating of facial features. The discriminative face alignment model may include a generative shape model component and a discriminative appearance model component. Further, the discriminative appearance model component may have been trained to estimate a score function that minimizes the angle between a gradient direction and a vector pointing toward a ground-truth shape parameter. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/052097 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08478480 | Mian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Robert W. Foss (Cohoes, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corp. (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Robert W. Foss (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for evaluating a vehicle using infrared data is provided. In particular, evaluation data for the vehicle is obtained, which includes infrared data for a plurality of sides of the vehicle as well as vehicle identification data for distinguishing the vehicle from another vehicle. The infrared data is processed to enhance a set of signal features. Additional non-infrared based data also can be obtained for evaluating the vehicle. The evaluation data is analyzed to determine whether one or more anomalies are present. The anomaly(ies) can be correlated with a possible problem with a component of the vehicle. Data on the anomaly, problem, and/or vehicle identification can be provided for use on another system, such as a remote inspection station, maintenance system, and/or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748714 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 71/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08476979 | Simons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rainee N Simons (North Olmsted, Ohio); Edwin G Wintucky (Willoughby, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainee N Simons (North Olmsted, Ohio); Edwin G Wintucky (Willoughby, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more embodiments of the present invention pertain to an all solid-state microwave power module. The module includes a plurality of solid-state amplifiers configured to amplify a signal using a low power stage, a medium power stage, and a high power stage. The module also includes a power conditioner configured to activate a voltage sequencer (e.g., bias controller) when power is received from a power source. The voltage sequencer is configured to sequentially apply voltage to a gate of each amplifier and sequentially apply voltage to a drain of each amplifier. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/178101 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08476510 | Swager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); William R. Collins (Durango, Colorado); Wiktor Lewandowski (Warsaw, Poland); Ezequiel Schmois (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stefanie Sydlik (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joseph Walish (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John B. Goods (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); William R. Collins (Durango, Colorado); Wiktor Lewandowski (Warsaw, Poland); Ezequiel Schmois (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stefanie Sydlik (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joseph Walish (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John B. Goods (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising and methods for forming functionalized carbon-based nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288734 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanotechnology 977/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08476422 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Eduction on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double -stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216942 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US RE44338 | Kung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hank F. Kung (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel M. Skovronsky (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel M. Skovronsky (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to labeled compounds, and methods of making labeled compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550853 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 02, 2013.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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