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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 16, 2013
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| US 08484836 | Lanzara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giulia Lanzara (Palo Alto, California); Fu-Kuo Chang (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giulia Lanzara (Palo Alto, California); Fu-Kuo Chang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit connector is extendable for a variety of applications. In connection with various embodiments, an electrical connector has first and second ends connected to respective circuit nodes in an integrated circuit device. The connector is bundled between the circuit nodes (e.g., substantially all of the connector is located between nodes), and is extended from such a bundled state in which the first and second connected ends are separated by a first proximate distance. The connector is applied in an extended state in which the first and second connected ends are separated by a second distance that is greater than the first proximate distance by at least two orders of magnitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208139 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/831 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08484943 | Cunha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francisco J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut); Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francisco J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut); Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprises a bypass duct, a turbine case, a turbine exhaust ring and a splash plate. The turbine case is formed along a radially inner margin of the bypass duct, and the turbine exhaust ring is coaxially disposed within the turbine case. The splash plate extends axially along the turbine exhaust ring, radially spaced between the turbine exhaust ring and the turbine case. There are cooling fluid apertures in the turbine case to provide cooling fluid flow from the bypass duct onto the splash plate, and impingement holes in the splash plate to provide impingement flow onto the turbine exhaust ring. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/283752 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08485045 | Kudo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rance Tetsuo Kudo (Newbury Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rance Tetsuo Kudo (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system(s) and method(s) of testing the foam delivery system(s) of fire suppression systems. Systems are adapted to test the foam delivery system of a fire suppression system under test while minimizing the release of foam to the environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/372712 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08485084 | Cannon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Cannon (Lenox, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as a represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Cannon (Lenox, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive armor that includes a casing having a plurality of walls, a back, and a cavity formed therebetween; a cover that closes the cavity and forms a strike face; a filler placed within the cavity, the filler comprising a disruptive material; and an explosive. To defeat projectile or projectile related threats, the reactive armor substantially, but not necessarily wholly, implements laterally oriented force mechanisms, erosion mechanisms, and bulking mechanisms, e.g., explosive forces, with respect to the strike face. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559381 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486421 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A substituted Norovirus capsid protein monomer, having only the P-domain and called an antigen-Norovirus P-domain monomer, includes a foreign antigen inserted into one or more of three surface loops present on each P-domain monomer by molecular cloning. The antigen-P-domain monomer can assemble spontaneously into an octahedral form, called an antigen-Norovirus P-particle, that is composed of 24 copies of the antigen-P-domain monomer. Each substituted P-domain monomer will contain one to three copies of the foreign antigen, for a total of 24-72 antigen copies on each antigen-P-particle. The antigen-P-particle is useful in methods for diagnosing, immunizing and treating individuals infected with a foreign virus, for example Rotavirus, and can serve as a carrier for presentation of foreign antigens for development of novel vaccines against many infectious and non-infectious diseases. The substituted Norovirus P-particles can be readily produced in E. coli and yeast, are highly stable and tolerate a wide range of physio-chemical conditions. A modified Norovirus P-domain monomer includes one or more restriction recognition sites inserted within one or more of the three loops of the P-domain monomers, to provide user-friendly cloning cassettes for conveniently inserting candidate foreign antigens into the surface loops. The P-particle-VP8 chimeras may also serve as a dual vaccine against both rotavirus and norovirus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797396 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/216.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486691 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device useful in determining the efficacy of a chemical sterilization process includes a dead end cavity closed by an access cap having a port coupled to a challenge tube defining the only path by which a substantial quantity of sterilant can reach the cavity. A biological indicator is located within the cavity and a chemical indicator is also provided. These indicators, and particularly the biological indicator, provide an indication of whether chemical sterilant would reach all interior exposed surfaces of a load in sufficient concentrations to adequately sterilize the load. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758288 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486693 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dongsu Park (Houston, Texas); David Spencer (Houston, Texas); Natalia Lapteva (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongsu Park (Houston, Texas); David Spencer (Houston, Texas); Natalia Lapteva (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified antigen presenting cells provided herein have improved lifespan and immunogenicity compared to unmodified antigen presenting cells, and are useful for immunotherapy. The modified antigen presenting cells express an altered protein kinase, referred to herein as “Akt.” The altered Akt associates with the cell membrane with greater frequency than unaltered Akt, and is referred to herein as “membrane-targeted Akt.” |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/622501 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486833 | Bruzewicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a variety of microfluidic devices and solid, typically electrically conductive devices that can be formed using such devices as molds. In certain embodiments, the devices that are formed comprise conductive pathways formed by solidifying a liquid metal present in one or more microfluidic channels (such devices hereinafter referred to as “microsolidic” devices). In certain such devices, in which electrical connections can be formed and/or reformed between regions in a microfluidic structure; in some cases, the devices/circuits formed may be flexible and/or involve flexible electrical components. In certain embodiments, the solid metal wires/conductive pathways formed in microfluidic channel(s) may remain contained within the microfluidic structure. In certain such embodiments, the conductive pathways formed may be located in proximity to other microfluidic channel(s) of the structure that carry flowing fluid, such that the conductive pathway can create energy (e.g. electromagnetic and/or thermal energy) that interacts withy and/or affects the flowing fluid and/or a component contained therein or carried thereby. In other embodiments, a microsolidic structure may be removed from a microfluidic mold to form a stand-alone structure. In certain embodiments, the solid metal structures formed may interact with light energy incident upon a structure or may be used to fabricate a light-weight electrode. Another aspect of the invention relates to the formation of self-assembled structures that may comprise these electrically conductive pathways/connections. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920483 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/675 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487079 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for using mitochondria-targeted electron scavengers as anti-inflammatory agents. The mitochondria-targeted electron scavenger comprises a free radical-scavenging group covalently linked to a mitochondria-targeting group derived from a hemigramicidin moiety. The mitochondria-targeted electron scavenger can be used to treat medical conditions associated with acute or chronic inflammation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188369 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487226 | Biswell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian L. Biswell (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Biswell (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Guided airborne weapons fired in a salvo against multiple targets are deconflicted by performing a scene correlation of multiple cued targets to TLOs acquired by the seeker's imaging sensor to track a target package. If the weapon is provided with a multimode seeker, target cues for a common designated target and a common SAL code are provided to each weapon. Each weapon uses its SAL sensor to detect and process a SAL return to verify the common SAL code and augment their scene correlations by fixing the TLO track file of the common designated target to the cued track file associated with the designated target. At terminal, each weapon commits to a particular target by referencing its assigned target to the tracked target package. Correlation to multiple targets in the target package makes the acquisition and tracking process more robust and reduces targeting ambiguity. Furthermore, a single SAL designation can improve the tracking of all the weapons to their respective targets. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/050600 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487506 | Baird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Baird (Rolla, Missouri); Sergey Shkuratov (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loki Incorporated (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Baird (Rolla, Missouri); Sergey Shkuratov (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A first energy generating system comprises a ferromagnetic generator coupled to a voltage controlled switch. The ferromagnetic generator includes a ferromagnetic element generating a magnetic field and positioned within a pulse generating coil and near an explosive charge. Detonation of the explosive charge decreases the magnetic field and induces a pulse of electric energy in the pulse generating coil. When the magnitude of the electric energy reaches a certain level, the voltage controlled switch closes. A second energy generating system comprises a flux compression generator coupled to a voltage controlled switch. The flux compression generator includes a inductance coil generating a magnetic field within a metallic armature that includes an explosive charge. Detonation of the explosive charge changes the magnetic field and induces a pulse of electric energy in the inductance coil. When the magnitude of the electric energy reaches a certain level, the voltage controlled switch closes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/478052 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487605 | Dea |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A real time Schumann frequency (approximately 6-10 Hz) band-based, lightning strike detector system is described, comprising: first and second sensor systems, each sensor system comprising: first and second magnetic field sensors, each sensor having a preferential directional sensitivity, wherein the sensors are arranged with their preferential directional sensitivity substantially orthogonal to each other; signal lines coupled to the sensors; an amplifier to coupled to the signal lines; an output of the amplifier coupled to a processor; and power source coupled to the amplifier and processor, wherein the first and second sensor systems are separated from each other by at least 400 miles, and wherein each sensor system upon detection of a Schumann frequency from a lightning strike provides a respective orientation angle, wherein an intersection of the angles of orientation following a great circle path indicates a location of the lightning strike. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/151526 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487699 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Jay Kozak Adams (Potomac, Maryland); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Jay Kozak Adams (Potomac, Maryland); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is an inductive compensating network coupled between the differential inputs of an operational amplifier circuit. The inductive compensating network includes at least one inductive element having an inductance value selected so as to provide proper compensation of the operational amplifier circuit. Also described is a feedback compensation scheme which adjusts loop characteristics by introducing zeros into a system with the addition of inductive or capacitive elements in a feedback path. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188986 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487763 | Dagher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine); Anthony M. Viselli (Bangor, Maine); Bruce E. Segee (Old Town, Maine); Ryan E. Fisher (Milford, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Maine System Board Of Trustees (Bangor, Maine); Maine Secure Composites, LLC (Orono, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine); Anthony M. Viselli (Bangor, Maine); Bruce E. Segee (Old Town, Maine); Ryan E. Fisher (Milford, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A breach detection system for a container includes at least two panels having a first electrical circuit mounted thereto. The panels are configured for attachment to a container. The first electrical circuit is configured to detect an intrusion through any portion of the panel and generate an intrusion signal when the intrusion occurs. A connector electrically connects the first electrical circuits of two panels of the container. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/642054 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/550 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487796 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Jason N. Laska (Houston, Texas); Petros T. Boufounos (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark A. Davenport (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Jason N. Laska (Houston, Texas); Petros T. Boufounos (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark A. Davenport (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of measuring a signal using compressed sensing to produce a sequence of blocks of measurements, applying a gain to one of the blocks of measurements, adjusting the gain based upon a deviation of a saturation rate of the one of the blocks of measurements from a predetermined nonzero saturation rate and applying the adjusted gain to a second of the blocks of measurements. Alternatively, a method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of applying a gain to a signal, computing a saturation rate of the signal and adjusting the gain based upon a difference between the saturation rate of the signal and a predetermined nonzero saturation rate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033188 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487824 | Josypenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertically polarized dipole or bicone antenna is positioned cylindrically with in many cylindrical layers of polarizing grids that slowly rotate the incident field to cross 0 degrees, i.e., 90 degrees to the horizon, and to attenuate or minimize the effects of gain nulls from reflections off of the innermost grid layer. Such an antenna is used for detecting both horizontal and vertical polarized signals over a broad bandwidth whereby the response to both polarizations is equal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880361 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487832 | Lam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas Hagop Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington); Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); John Stephen Derov (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas Hagop Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington); Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); John Stephen Derov (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are present for steering a radio frequency beam. The radio frequency beam is emitted from an array of antenna elements at a first angle into a lens at a location for the lens. The first angle of the radio frequency beam is changed to a second angle when the radio frequency beam exits the lens. The second angle changes when the location at which the radio frequency beam enters the lens changes. The second angle of the radio frequency beam is changed to a third angle when the radio frequency beam with the second angle passes through a negative index metamaterial lens located over the lens. |
| FILED | Monday, January 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689003 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487933 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ting Song (Clarksburg, Maryland); Vincent B. Ho (N. Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting Song (Clarksburg, Maryland); Vincent B. Ho (N. Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method of mapping of multiple regional center point trajectory movements of cavity walls is provided in which images are acquired and a region-of-interest is identified in each of the images. The region-of-interest is divided into a plurality of distinct regions and a regional center point for each of the regions is located in the images. For each regional center point, a center point trajectory is determined based on variances in position of the center points from each other in the images. The center point trajectory of each regional center point is decomposed into radial and circumferential components so as to isolate radial component of the center point trajectory for each regional center point in each of the images and radial motion versus time curves are displayed for each regional center point based on the determined radial component for each regional center point in each of the images. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/961159 |
| 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 345/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488119 | Herzinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska); University of Nebraska Board of Regents (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of applying an ellipsometer or polarimeter system which operates in a frequency range between 300 GHz or lower and extending to higher than at least 1 Tera-hertz (THz), and preferably through the Infra-red (IR) range up to, and higher than 100 THz; wherein the ellipsometer or polarimeter system includes a source such as a backward wave oscillator, a Smith-Purcell cell, a free electron laser, an FTIR source or a solid state device; and a detector such as a Golay cell a bolometer or a solid state detector; and preferably includes at least one odd-bounce polarization state image rotating system and a polarizer, and at least one compensator and/or modulator, in addition to an analyzer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802734 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488123 | Clark |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank O. Clark (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical detector senses the intensity of scattered light reflected by a surface coupled to a vibration source. If the vibration source is operating, the coupled surface vibrates at the same frequency. Incident light reflected by the surface is modulated by the vibration at a hypertemporal frequency. The detector produces a direct electrical current as a temporal function of the detected modulated light intensity. A transimpedance amplifier converts the current into a voltage. A voltage amplifier amplifies the voltage. An analog-to-digital converter converts the amplified voltage into digital signal. A digital signal processor converts the digital signal into a function of power spectral density and frequency using Fourier transform and principle component analyses. The vibration signature of the vibration source, if present, is discerned from a graphical display of the foregoing function. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646627 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488247 | Cai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenshan Cai (Sunnyvale, California); Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Indiana); Uday K. Chettiar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander V. Kildishev (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenshan Cai (Sunnyvale, California); Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Indiana); Uday K. Chettiar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander V. Kildishev (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An object is disposed such that the apparatus is between the object and an observer. The appearance of the object is altered and, in the limit, the object cannot be observed, and the background appears unobstructed. The apparatus is formed of a metamaterial where the properties of the metamaterial are varied as a function of distance from the interfaces. The metamaterial may be fabricated as a composite material having a dielectric component and inclusions of particles of sub-wavelength size, and may also include a gain medium. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573610 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488370 | Venugopal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameer M. Venugopal (San Jose, California); David R. Allee (Phoenix, Arizona); Lawrence T Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nazanin Darbanian (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer M. Venugopal (San Jose, California); David R. Allee (Phoenix, Arizona); Lawrence T Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nazanin Darbanian (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments and examples of differential threshold voltage non-volatile memories and related methods are described herein. Other embodiments, examples thereof, and related methods are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083405 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488414 | Ruffa |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An active sonar system for detecting objects in water includes: a transmitter capable of generating and transmitting an acoustic signal having acoustic pressure pulses; a cable extending from the transmitter into the water, the cable including a hose filled with hydraulic fluid receiving the acoustic pressure pulses from the transmitter, a water blocking layer and cable wire; and a winch assembly including a winch drum for deploying and retrieving the cable into and out of water. A flattened hydraulic chamber section of the hose is secured within the winch drum with acoustic transducers mounted on either side of the flattened chamber section, so that the acoustic transducers act as pistons to generate acoustic pressure onto the hydraulic fluid for generation along a length of the cable. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/884348 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488635 | Goldberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia); Brian J. Cole (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia); Brian J. Cole (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An actively Q-switched laser based on UV illumination mitigates pyroelectric effects in lithium niobate. An exemplary embodiment comprises a pump source; a dichroic mirror having one end optically facing said pump source; a gain medium optically facing another end of said dichroic mirror; a polarizer having one end optically facing another end of said gain medium; a quarter wave plate having one end optically facing another end of said polarizer; and a electro-optic crystal having one end optically facing said quarter wave plate, at least one side of said electro-optic crystal being electrically connected to Q-switch driver to have the crystal function as a Q-switch. A UV illumination source illuminates a side surface of said electrical-optic crystal with UV light. An output mirror receives an output from said Q-switch and produces a laser emission. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857896 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488638 | Goldberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Belvoir, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact solid state laser that generates multiple wavelengths and multiple beams that are parallel, i.e., bore-sighted relative to each other, is disclosed. Each of the multiple laser beams can be at a different wavelength, pulse energy, pulse length, repetition rate and average power. Each of the laser beams can be turned on or off independently. The laser is comprised of an optically segmented gain section, common laser resonator with common surface segmented cavity mirrors, optically segmented pump laser, and different intra-cavity elements in each laser segment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/733394 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488646 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Igor Karagodsy (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Vadim Karagodsky (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Enhanced reflectivity High-Contrast Gratings are described which operate in different medium. An HCG is described with a deep/buried metallization layer separated at a distance of least three to four grating thicknesses from the grating. Reflective bandwidth of the HCG is substantially increased, such as by a factor or five, by inclusion of the deep/buried metallization layer. An HCG is described which provides high reflectivity, even when embedded into materials of a moderate to high index of refraction, such as semiconductor material. Vertical cavity surface emitting laser embodiments are described which utilize these reflectivity enhancements, and preferably utilize HCG reflectors for top and/or bottom mirrors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593375 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488654 | Black |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Black (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Microdesign, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Black (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for spread-spectrum communication includes forming a complex valued chipping sequence and then using the complex valued chipping sequence to spread or despread data. According to another method, a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) radio performs the steps of receiving a radio-frequency signal and then identifying frequencies within the radio-frequency signal which are associated with noise sources. The DSSS radio then self-adjusts to reduce effects of the noise sources or to reduce interference created by the radio upon other communication channels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565225 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488877 | Owechko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Swarup Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Ronald T. Azuma (Santa Monica, California); Jim Nelson (Sumner, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Swarup Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Ronald T. Azuma (Santa Monica, California); Jim Nelson (Sumner, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for object recognition in colorized point clouds. The system includes an implicit geometry engine that is configured to receive three-dimensional (3D) colorized cloud point data regarding a 3D object of interest and to convert the cloud point data into implicit representations. The engine also generates geometric features. A geometric grammar block is included to generate object cues and recognize geometric objects using geometric tokens and grammars based on object taxonomy. A visual attention cueing block is included to generate object cues based on 3D geometric properties. Finally, an object recognition block is included to perform a local search for objects using cues from the cueing block and the geometric grammar block and to classify the 3D object of interest as a particular object upon a classifier reaching a predetermined threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592836 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488917 | Manipatruni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A doping profile for a modulator facilitates rapidly changing the carrier density in a waveguide. The carrier density change causes rapid changes in the index of refraction of the waveguide. Example modulators include a ring modulator and a Mach Zender modulator. A charge reciprocating section may be provided to control the amount of injected charge. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566412 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488921 | Doany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Daniel Michael Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Benjamin Giles Lee (New York, New York); Petar Pepeljugoski (Tarrytown, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Daniel Michael Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Benjamin Giles Lee (New York, New York); Petar Pepeljugoski (Tarrytown, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for coupling to a plurality of multicore optical fiber strands. A first plurality of optoelectronic devices is provided on a surface of a substrate, the first optoelectronic devices being arranged in a 2D array pattern that corresponds to a 2D array pattern corresponding to different light cores of a first multicore optical fiber. A second plurality of optoelectronic devices is provided on the surface of the substrate, the second optoelectronic devices being arranged in a 2D array pattern that corresponds to a 2D array pattern corresponding to different light cores of a second multicore optical fiber. Each optoelectronic device on the substrate surface provides one of a receive function and a transmit function for interacting with a corresponding core of a multicore optical fiber strand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105104 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488967 | Etemad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shahab Etemad (Warren, New Jersey); Thomas Banwell (Howell, New Jersey); Janet Jackel (Holmdel, New Jersey); Ronald Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey); Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahab Etemad (Warren, New Jersey); Thomas Banwell (Howell, New Jersey); Janet Jackel (Holmdel, New Jersey); Ronald Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey); Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for transporting encrypted data having a transmitter and a receiver is provided. The transmitter generates a sequence of optical pulses, which are copied and output as identical channels. The identical channels are modulated by a plurality of modulators using data to generate a modulated data signal. Respective spectral phase encoders coupled to each of the plurality of data modulators encode respective modulated data signals using a plurality of mutually orthogonal phase codes that are individually associated with the respective spectral phase encoder. These encoded data signals are combined and code-scrambling by a spectral phase scrambler using a scramble code as an encryption key to generate an encrypted signal. A receiver reverses the encryption to extract the data. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492817 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489086 | Black |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Black (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Microdesign, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Black (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication is provided which includes receiving a transmitted radio signal at a powerline wherein the powerline functions as a receiving antenna for the wirelessly transmitted radio signal. The powerline is coupled to an input of a radio receiver using a coupler to communicate the radio signal to the radio receiver. For calibration purposes a second antenna not coupled to powerline may be used. A method for powerline communication across transformers, open circuit breakers, and other devices is also provided. In addition, a method of monitoring a device connected to a powerline is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/344821 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489256 | Yakimenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oleg Yakimenko (Seaside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Yakimenko (Seaside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described that involves performing the following with a parafoil's control unit composed of electronic circuitry while the control unit is being transported with a parafoil: determining a desired exit of a turn; determining a desired time for the turn; determining the parafoil's actual entrance for the turn; determining an arc between the actual entrance and the desired exit; and, incorporating said arc as said parafoil's planned flight trajectory through said turn. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083516 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489269 | Galligan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Galligan (Delran, New Jersey); Bruce J. Waldron (Newton, Pennsylvania); John P. Waxler (Dresher, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Galligan (Delran, New Jersey); Bruce J. Waldron (Newton, Pennsylvania); John P. Waxler (Dresher, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A graphic user interface (GUI) display of computer status is provided across multiple computer platforms. A computer and physical layout are identified and this information is used to provide a desired set of displays. Data is parsed from an output from the computer and is stored in a data store in a predetermined common format as a part of a collection of parsed data. A graphic display depicting a physical layout of at least one aspect of a computer or the physical layout is provided along with data retrieved from the collection of parsed data and corresponding to the computer associated with the display depicting the physical layout in accordance with the identification of the computer and physical layout. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/086982 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/29.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489648 | Rubin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention is a computer-implemented system for designing software-based components for systems of systems including multiple software-based components saved in a relational database where the functions of each software component are defined by one or more examples of its operation using a natural language. Each software component is assigned a searchable, unique free-text field such that each of the components have multiple indexed levels in a literal restriction path. The system further includes means for retrieval, synthesis, substitution, reuse and modification of the components at every level of the multiple levels, including means for defining a new software component. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/005670 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489662 | Poklemba |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John James Poklemba (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John James Poklemba (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for implementing a multirate digital interpolating filter. According to an example embodiment of the invention, the method includes sampling symbol data from one sample per symbol to N samples per symbol, wherein sampling includes: convolving the symbol data with a decimated finite impulse response (FIR) aperture impulse response coefficient set, convolving the symbol data with one or more shifted decimated FIR aperture impulse response coefficient sets, and summing the convolution results to produce interpolated bandlimited data. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718099 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489796 | Blanton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robin Blanton (Grosse Ile, Michigan); Roger Leon Van Elslander (Warren, Michigan); David Such (Greenwood, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dearborn Group, Inc. (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin Blanton (Grosse Ile, Michigan); Roger Leon Van Elslander (Warren, Michigan); David Such (Greenwood, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a wireless protocol adapter assembly for diagnostics, analysis, and monitoring. The wireless protocol adapter assembly provides a common connection interface between a sealed common electronics package and a plurality of vehicle connectors that access a plurality of vehicle networks respectively for translating and transferring signals between the plurality of in-vehicle networks and a host computer. The common connection interface allows the vehicle connector compatible with a particular vehicle type to be coupled to the common electronics package. The common electronics package can recognizes when it is connected to a vehicle network running a particular protocol and automatically switch to that protocol. A wireless protocol adapter board having a standard connection pinning arrangement allows wireless links to be changed or altered as wireless standards change and evolve. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460399 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489819 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units coupled by an interconnect fabric. In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from a first lower level cache of a first processing unit, and a target lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units is selected based upon architectural proximity of the target lower level cache to a home system memory to which the address of the victim cache line is assigned. The first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric a lateral castout (LCO) command that identifies the victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache and indicates that the target lower level cache is an intended destination. In response to a coherence response indicating success of the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340511 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489859 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Performing a deterministic reduction operation in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes, each of which includes computer processors and a CAU (Collectives Acceleration Unit) that couples computer processors to one another for data communications, including organizing processors and a CAU into a branched tree topology in which the CAU is a root and the processors are children; receiving, from each of the processors in any order, dummy contribution data, where each processor is restricted from sending any other data to the root CAU prior to receiving an acknowledgement of receipt from the root CAU; sending, by the root CAU to the processors in the branched tree topology, in a predefined order, acknowledgements of receipt of the dummy contribution data; receiving, by the root CAU from the processors in the predefined order, the processors' contribution data to the reduction operation; and reducing, by the root CAU, the processors' contribution data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790037 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489863 | Bishop et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Wilson Bishop (Newark Valley, New York); Mary Douglass Brown (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey Carl Brownscheidle (Winooski, Vermont); Robert Allen Cordes (Austin, Texas); Maureen Anne Delaney (Burlington, Vermont); Jafar Nahidi (Round Rock, Texas); Dung Quoc Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Joel Abraham Silberman (Somers, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wilson Bishop (Newark Valley, New York); Mary Douglass Brown (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey Carl Brownscheidle (Winooski, Vermont); Robert Allen Cordes (Austin, Texas); Maureen Anne Delaney (Burlington, Vermont); Jafar Nahidi (Round Rock, Texas); Dung Quoc Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Joel Abraham Silberman (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An information handling system includes a processor with an instruction issue queue (IQ) that may perform age tracking operations. The issue queue IQ maintains or stores instructions that may issue out-of-order in an internal data store (IDS). The IDS organizes instructions in a queue position (QPOS) addressing arrangement. An age matrix of the IQ maintains a record of relative instruction aging for those instructions within the IDS. The age matrix updates latches or other memory cell data to reflect the changes in IDS instruction ages during a dispatch operation into the IQ. During dispatch of one or more instructions, the age matrix may update only those latches that require data change to reflect changing IDS instruction ages. The age matrix employs row and column data and clock controls to individually update those latches requiring update. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451055 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489919 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Dan W. Patterson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Dan W. Patterson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of circuits for processors with multiple redundancy techniques for mitigating radiation errors are described herein. Other embodiments and related methods and examples are also described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626495 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489957 | Wesel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Wesel (Manhattan Beach, California); Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Yuan-Mao Chang (Santa Monica, California); Andres I. Vila Casado (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Wesel (Manhattan Beach, California); Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Yuan-Mao Chang (Santa Monica, California); Andres I. Vila Casado (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Low density parity check (LDPC) decoders are described utilizing a sequential schedule called Zigzag LBP (Z-LBP), for a layered belief propagation (LBP) architecture. Z-LBP has a lower computational complexity per iteration than variable-node-centric LBP (V-LBP), while being simpler than flooding and check-node-centric LBP (C-LBP). For QC-LDPC codes where the sub-matrices can have at most one “1” per column and one “1” per row, Z-LBP can perform partially-parallel decoding with the same performance as C-LBP. The decoder comprises a control circuit and memory coupled to a parity check matrix. Message passage is performed within Z-LBP in a first direction on odd iterations, and in a second direction on even iterations. As a result, a smaller parity check matrix can be utilized, while convergence can be more readily attained. The inventive method and apparatus can also be implemented for partially-parallel architectures. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900741 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489967 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for processing streaming data at high sustained data rates. These mechanisms receive a plurality of data elements over a plurality of non-sequential communication channels and write the plurality of data elements directly to the file system of the data processing system in an unassembled manner. The mechanisms determining whether to perform a data scrubbing operation or not based on history information indicative of whether data elements in the plurality of data elements are being received in a substantially sequential manner. The mechanisms perform a data scrubbing operation, in response to a determination to perform data scrubbing, to identify any missing data elements in the plurality of data elements written to the file system and assemble the plurality of data elements into a plurality of data streams in response to results of the data scrubbing indicating that there are no missing data elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438227 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490035 | Grbic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Grbic (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gurkan Gok (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Grbic (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gurkan Gok (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Tensor transmission-line metamaterial unit cells are formed that allow the creation of any number of optic/electromagnetic devices. A desired electromagnetic distribution of the device is determined, from which effective material parameters capable of creating that desired distribution are obtained, for example, through a transformation optics/electromagnetics process. These effective material parameters are then linked to lumped or distributed circuit networks that achieve the desired distribution. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945798 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490049 | Bouillet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New Jersey); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New Jersey); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, including: receiving a software requirement; and constructing a workflow template that can satisfy the software requirement, wherein the workflow template comprises a plurality of processing stages, wherein each processing stage includes at least one component class and each component class includes at least one component, and wherein an output of each processing stage is described by a processing goal pattern that is described by a set of tags and facets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252156 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490054 | Dattathreya |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Macam S. Dattathreya (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Macam S. Dattathreya (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for tracking and notifying related software, modules, and configuration files during software development and maintenance. A database, software build programming, a software module tracker, requirements management tools, and software source code that includes a comments area are implemented in connection with user interfacing to provide the method. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/243514 |
| ART UNIT | 4167 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490072 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sunjay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, 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); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sunjay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for partitioning an operator flow graph are provided. The techniques include receiving source code for a stream processing application, wherein the source code comprises an operator flow graph, wherein the operator flow graph comprises a plurality of operators, receiving profiling data associated with the plurality of operators and one or more processing requirements of the operators, defining a candidate partition as a coalescing of one or more of the operators into one or more sets of processing elements (PEs), using the profiling data to create one or more candidate partitions of the processing elements, using the one or more candidate partitions to choose a desired partitioning of the operator flow graph, and compiling the source code into an executable code based on the desired partitioning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489805 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08486055 | Knox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne H. Knox (Pittsford, New York); Li Ding (Rochester, New York); Krystel R. Huxlin (Rush, New York); Jay F. Kunzler (Canandaigua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bausch and Lomb Incorporated (Rochester, New York); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne H. Knox (Pittsford, New York); Li Ding (Rochester, New York); Krystel R. Huxlin (Rush, New York); Jay F. Kunzler (Canandaigua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for modifying the refractive index of ocular tissues. The method comprises irradiating select regions of ocular tissue with a visible or near-IR laser. The irradiation results in the formation of structures in the ocular tissue, characterized by a change in refractive index, and which exhibit little or no scattering loss. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146976 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486065 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fred T. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Dieter Haemmerich (Madison, Wisconsin); John G. Webster (Madison, Wisconsin); Andrew S. Wright (Madison, Wisconsin); Chris D. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Mahvi (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred T. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Dieter Haemmerich (Madison, Wisconsin); John G. Webster (Madison, Wisconsin); Andrew S. Wright (Madison, Wisconsin); Chris D. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Mahvi (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient ablation with multiple electrodes is obtained by rapidly switching electric power to the electrodes. In this way, shielding effects caused by the field around each electrode which would otherwise create cool spots, are avoided. Complex inter-electrode current flows are also avoided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167681 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486370 | Carpenter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard D. Carpenter (Suisun City, California); Mirela Andrei (Ploiesti, Romania); Ruiwu Liu (Sacramento, California); Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Mark J. Kurth (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Carpenter (Suisun City, California); Mirela Andrei (Ploiesti, Romania); Ruiwu Liu (Sacramento, California); Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Mark J. Kurth (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides α4β1 integrin ligands that display high binding affinity, specificity, and stability. The ligands comprise a peptide having n independently selected amino acids, wherein at least one amino acid is an unnatural amino acid or a D-amino acid, and wherein n is an integer of from 3 to 20. Methods are provided for administering the ligands for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases. Also provided are methods for administering the ligands for imaging a tumor, organ, or tissue in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/440219 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486383 | Smaldone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald Smaldone (Setauket, New York); Rany Condos (Beechurst, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Smaldone (Setauket, New York); Rany Condos (Beechurst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a pulmonary disease such as, for instance idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), mixed connective tissue disease and asthma, comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374308 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486391 | Thorpe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Sophia Ran (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Sophia Ran (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are the surprising discoveries that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are stable and specific markers accessible on the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels, and that the administration of an anti-aminophospholipid antibody alone is sufficient to induce thrombosis, tumor necrosis and tumor regression in vivo. This invention therefore provides anti-aminophospholipid antibody-based methods and compositions for use in the specific destruction of tumor blood vessels and in the treatment of solid tumors. Although various antibody conjugates and combinations are thus provided, the use of naked, or unconjugated, anti-phosphatidylserine antibodies is a particularly important aspect of the invention, due to simplicity and effectiveness of the approach. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329293 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 |
08486393 — Monoclonal antibodies for CSPG4 for the diagnosis and treatment of basal breast carcinoma
| US 08486393 | Ferrone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xinhui Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xinhui Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | It is disclosed herein that condroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4), also known as high molecular weight melanoma associated antigen, is overexpressed on basal breast carcinoma cells (BBC), specifically triple negative basal breast carcinoma cells (TNBC). Methods for detecting basal breast cancer in a subject are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed for inhibiting the growth of a basal breast cancer cell. These methods include contacting the basal breast cancer cell with an effective amount of an antibody that specifically binds CSPG4. Additional treatment methods, and the use of antibody panels, are also described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119428 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08486408 | Hossain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad S. Hossain (Norcross, Georgia); Andrew T. Gewitz (Smyrna, Georgia); John D. Roback (Smyrna, Georgia); Edmund K. Waller (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad S. Hossain (Norcross, Georgia); Andrew T. Gewitz (Smyrna, Georgia); John D. Roback (Smyrna, Georgia); Edmund K. Waller (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for treating or preventing graft versus host disease in a subject. The methods include selecting a subject in need of treatment for graft versus host disease; and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a TLR5 agonist such as a flagellin polypeptide, or a polynucleotide encoding the flagellin, thereby treating or preventing graft versus host disease in the subject. Methods are also disclosed for reducing susceptibility to an opportunistic infection in a subject who is a bone marrow transplant recipient. The methods include selecting a subject who has had a bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell transplant; and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a TLR5 agonist such as a flagellin polypeptide or a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide, and administering to the subject an effective amount antigen of the opportunistic infection, thereby reducing the susceptibility to the opportunistic infection in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/121016 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/172.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486410 | Awasthi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanjay Awasthi (Arlington, Texas); Sharad S. Singhal (Arlington, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjay Awasthi (Arlington, Texas); Sharad S. Singhal (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing a proteoliposome comprise the step of contacting a liposome with an effective portion of RalBP1 to create a proteoliposome. RalBP1 is effective for the protection and treatment of mammals and the environment against the accumulation of toxic compounds and prevents accumulation of one or more toxic compounds, reduces the concentration of toxic compounds, and protects against further contamination with one or more toxic compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741447 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486411 | Dean |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deborah Dean (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah Dean (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of classifying an epitope displayed by a polypeptide; a method of determining the presence of an epitope on a polypeptide encoded by a test nucleotide sequence; and a method of generating a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that exhibits a selected epitope. The present invention provides antigenic polypeptides that display selected epitope(s); chimeric macromolecules comprising such polypeptides; and compositions comprising the antigenic polypeptides or chimeric macromolecules. The present invention further provides methods of inducing an immune response to a Chlamydia. The present invention further provides arrays of nucleic acids, arrays of polypeptides, and arrays of antibodies, which arrays are useful in identification and/or classification of a Chlamydia. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/064327 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486412 | Knutson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith L. Knutson (Rochester, Minnesota); Lynn C. Hartmann (Rochester, Minnesota); Kimberly R. Kalli (Dover, Minnesota); Christopher J. Krco (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith L. Knutson (Rochester, Minnesota); Lynn C. Hartmann (Rochester, Minnesota); Kimberly R. Kalli (Dover, Minnesota); Christopher J. Krco (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to assessing immunity to folate receptors. For example, methods and materials for assessing FRα immunity in a mammal are provided. This document also provides methods and materials related to stimulating immunity to folate receptors. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/303054 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486413 | Pohlmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paula R. Pohlmann (Nashville, Tennessee); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Carlos L. Arteaga (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula R. Pohlmann (Nashville, Tennessee); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Carlos L. Arteaga (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns antibodies that react immunologically with an epitope comprising VDKSRWQQG (SEQ ID NO: 1), including those that bind to cancer cells, and methods relating thereto. In particular, the antibodies that react immunologically with a particular epitope found in anti-tumor antigen antibodies are not only indicative of favorable therapy using the anti-tumor antigen antibodies, but are therapeutic in and of themselves. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/314841 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486414 | Reed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington); Rhea N. Coler (Seattle, Washington); Gregory C. Ireton (Seattle, Washington); Sylvie Bertholet (Siena, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infectious Disease Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Reed (Bellevue, Washington); Rhea N. Coler (Seattle, Washington); Gregory C. Ireton (Seattle, Washington); Sylvie Bertholet (Siena, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and fusion proteins containing at least two Mycobacterium sp. antigens, and polynucleotides encoding such compositions and fusion proteins. The invention also relates to methods for their use in the treatment, prevention and/or diagnosis of tuberculosis infection. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594806 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486421 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ming Tan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A substituted Norovirus capsid protein monomer, having only the P-domain and called an antigen-Norovirus P-domain monomer, includes a foreign antigen inserted into one or more of three surface loops present on each P-domain monomer by molecular cloning. The antigen-P-domain monomer can assemble spontaneously into an octahedral form, called an antigen-Norovirus P-particle, that is composed of 24 copies of the antigen-P-domain monomer. Each substituted P-domain monomer will contain one to three copies of the foreign antigen, for a total of 24-72 antigen copies on each antigen-P-particle. The antigen-P-particle is useful in methods for diagnosing, immunizing and treating individuals infected with a foreign virus, for example Rotavirus, and can serve as a carrier for presentation of foreign antigens for development of novel vaccines against many infectious and non-infectious diseases. The substituted Norovirus P-particles can be readily produced in E. coli and yeast, are highly stable and tolerate a wide range of physio-chemical conditions. A modified Norovirus P-domain monomer includes one or more restriction recognition sites inserted within one or more of the three loops of the P-domain monomers, to provide user-friendly cloning cassettes for conveniently inserting candidate foreign antigens into the surface loops. The P-particle-VP8 chimeras may also serve as a dual vaccine against both rotavirus and norovirus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797396 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/216.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486619 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Tim R. Mosmann (Pittsford, New York); David Topham (Pittsford, New York); Charles R. Mace (Auburn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Tim R. Mosmann (Pittsford, New York); David Topham (Pittsford, New York); Charles R. Mace (Auburn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor chip for detecting an immune response against an influenza virus, the sensor chip including a substrate having a surface and a plurality of hemagglutinin polypeptides bound to discrete locations on the surface of the substrate, each hemagglutinin polypeptide having a hemagglutinin epitope. Detection devices containing the sensor chip and methods of detecting influenza immune responses are also described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434438 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486624 | Scherer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleu (Montreal, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleu (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene (EPM2A) that is deleted or mutated in people with Lafora's disease is described. The EPM2A gene encodes a protein having an active catalytic site of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. Many different sequence mutations as well as several microdeletions in EPM2A have been found that co-segregate with Lafora's disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/979262 |
| 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 08486635 | Hutton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael L. Hutton (Newton, Massachusetts); Matthew Charles Baker (Jacksonville, Florida); Jennifer Mae Gass (Atlantic Beach, Florida); Rosa Rademakers (Ponte Vedra, Florida); Jason Eriksen (Houston, Texas); Stuart M. Pickering-Brown (Derbyshire, United Kingdom); Ian Reid Alexander Mackenzie (Vancouver, Canada); Howard Feldman (Vancouver, Canada); Samir Kumar-Singh (Edegem, Belgium); Christine Van Broeckhoven (Edegem, Belgium); Marc Cruts (Antwerp, Belgium); Ashley Diane Cannon (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota); The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada); The University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom); VIB VZW (Zwijnaarde, Belgium); Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Hutton (Newton, Massachusetts); Matthew Charles Baker (Jacksonville, Florida); Jennifer Mae Gass (Atlantic Beach, Florida); Rosa Rademakers (Ponte Vedra, Florida); Jason Eriksen (Houston, Texas); Stuart M. Pickering-Brown (Derbyshire, United Kingdom); Ian Reid Alexander Mackenzie (Vancouver, Canada); Howard Feldman (Vancouver, Canada); Samir Kumar-Singh (Edegem, Belgium); Christine Van Broeckhoven (Edegem, Belgium); Marc Cruts (Antwerp, Belgium); Ashley Diane Cannon (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This document relates to methods and materials for detecting mutations that can be linked to dementia. For example, methods and materials for detecting one or more mutations within PGRN nucleic acid are provided. This document also provides methods and materials for detecting the level of progranulin expression. In addition, this document relates to methods and materials for treating mammals having a neurodegenerative disorder (e.g., dementia). For example, methods and materials for increasing PGRN polypeptide levels in mammals are provided, as are methods and materials for identifying agents that can be used to increase PGRN polypeptide levels in mammals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302691 |
| 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 08486640 | Fleshner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip R. Fleshner (Los Angeles, California); Eric A. Vasiliauskas (Manhattan Beach, California); Gil Melmed (Los Angeles, California); Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip R. Fleshner (Los Angeles, California); Eric A. Vasiliauskas (Manhattan Beach, California); Gil Melmed (Los Angeles, California); Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A common long term problem after Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis (IPAA) is the inflammation of the pouch, called pouchitis. Additionally, about 5-10% of patients undergoing IPAA with a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis at the time of surgery are subsequently diagnosed with Crohn's disease. In one embodiment, the present invention provides methods of diagnosing and predicting susceptibility to pouchitis after IPAA by detecting the presence or absence of pANCA and/or Cbir1 Flagellin expression. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/530390 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 08486643 | Sabatini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Sabatini (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Do-Hyung Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dos Sarbassov (Pearland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Sabatini (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Do-Hyung Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dos Sarbassov (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated raptor nucleic acid molecules of mammalian origin (e.g., human) and complements, portions and variants thereof. Another aspect of the invention are isolated raptor polypeptides of mammalian origin and portions thereof, and antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof that specifically bind a raptor polypeptide. The present invention also relates to constructs and host cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules described herein. In addition, the present invention relates to uses of the nucleic acid and polypeptide molecules provided herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900289 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 08486651 | Hegde |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashmi Hegde (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashmi Hegde (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel mechanistic pathway and methods related to this pathway for the identification of compounds for the treatment of diseases involving cell proliferation, invasion and/or metastasis such as cancer. In particular, the instant invention relates to the phosphatase activity of Eya and the Eya-Six complex as a target for identifying novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of proliferative, invasive and/or metastatic disorders, and compositions identified using the methods disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/133593 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486691 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device useful in determining the efficacy of a chemical sterilization process includes a dead end cavity closed by an access cap having a port coupled to a challenge tube defining the only path by which a substantial quantity of sterilant can reach the cavity. A biological indicator is located within the cavity and a chemical indicator is also provided. These indicators, and particularly the biological indicator, provide an indication of whether chemical sterilant would reach all interior exposed surfaces of a load in sufficient concentrations to adequately sterilize the load. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758288 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486833 | Bruzewicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a variety of microfluidic devices and solid, typically electrically conductive devices that can be formed using such devices as molds. In certain embodiments, the devices that are formed comprise conductive pathways formed by solidifying a liquid metal present in one or more microfluidic channels (such devices hereinafter referred to as “microsolidic” devices). In certain such devices, in which electrical connections can be formed and/or reformed between regions in a microfluidic structure; in some cases, the devices/circuits formed may be flexible and/or involve flexible electrical components. In certain embodiments, the solid metal wires/conductive pathways formed in microfluidic channel(s) may remain contained within the microfluidic structure. In certain such embodiments, the conductive pathways formed may be located in proximity to other microfluidic channel(s) of the structure that carry flowing fluid, such that the conductive pathway can create energy (e.g. electromagnetic and/or thermal energy) that interacts withy and/or affects the flowing fluid and/or a component contained therein or carried thereby. In other embodiments, a microsolidic structure may be removed from a microfluidic mold to form a stand-alone structure. In certain embodiments, the solid metal structures formed may interact with light energy incident upon a structure or may be used to fabricate a light-weight electrode. Another aspect of the invention relates to the formation of self-assembled structures that may comprise these electrically conductive pathways/connections. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920483 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/675 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486865 | Weissman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Weissman (San Francisco, California); Nicholas Ingolia (San Francisco, California); Sina Ghaemmaghami (San Francisco, California); John Newman (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Weissman (San Francisco, California); Nicholas Ingolia (San Francisco, California); Sina Ghaemmaghami (San Francisco, California); John Newman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for, inter alia, detecting nucleic acid molecules resistant to degradation, such as a plurality of RNA molecules bound to a ribosome, using various technologies including deep sequencing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611817 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486911 | Okada et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hideho Okada (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Kohanbash (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kotaro Sasaki (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hideho Okada (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary Kohanbash (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kotaro Sasaki (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the identification of miRNAs (miRs) that are up-regulated in Th1 cells compared to Th2 cells (referred to herein as Th1-associated miRs). In particular, the miR-17-92 gene cluster was found to exhibit significantly greater expression in Th1 cells. Over-expression of miR-17-92 in T cells promotes the Th1 phenotype. Thus, the use of Th1-associated miRs for cancer immunotherapy is described. Provided herein are isolated T cells containing a heterologous nucleic acid molecule encoding a Th1-associated miR, such as the miR17-92 gene cluster, or a portion thereof. Further provided is a method of treating cancer in a subject by administering to the subject an isolated T cell as disclosed herein. Also provided is a method of treating a subject with cancer by transfecting isolated T cells obtained from the subject with a heterologous nucleic acid molecule encoding a Th1-associated miR and administering the transfected T cells to the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/568457 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486912 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method of decreasing expression of MAFB in a subject having a cancer and/or myeloproliferative disorder associated with overexpression of a MAFB gene product where an effective amount of at least one miR-130a gene product or an isolated variant or biologically-active fragment thereof is administered to the subject sufficient to decrease expression of the MAFB gene product in the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595200 |
| 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 08486913 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method of decreasing expression of HOXA1 in a subject having a cancer and/or myeloproliferative disorder associated with overexpression of a HOXA1 gene product where an effective amount of at least one miR-10a gene product or an isolated variant or biologically-active fragment thereof is administered to the subject sufficient to decrease expression of the HOXA1 gene product in the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595204 |
| 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 08486921 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason D. Brubaker (Cheshire, Connecticut); Cuixiang Sun (Arlington, Massachusetts); Qiu Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason D. Brubaker (Cheshire, Connecticut); Cuixiang Sun (Arlington, Massachusetts); Qiu Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The modular synthesis of tetracyclines and tetracycline analogs described provides an efficient and enantioselective route to a variety of tetracycline analogs and polycyclines previously inaccessible via earlier tetra-cycline syntheses and semi-synthetic methods. These analogs may be used as anti-microbial agents or anti-pro liferative agents in the treatment of diseases of humans or other animals. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296223 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486957 | Salsbury, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Freddie R. Salsbury, Jr. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Karin D. Scarpinato (Clemmons, North Carolina); S. Bruce King (Walnut Cove, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Freddie R. Salsbury, Jr. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Karin D. Scarpinato (Clemmons, North Carolina); S. Bruce King (Walnut Cove, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating cancer in a subject in need thereof comprises administering said subject reserpine, yohimbine, an analog thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, in an amount effective to treat the cancer. Compounds and compositions useful for carrying out the method are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711306 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486981 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaomeng Wang (Saline, Michigan); Jianyong Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Collins (Medford, Massachusetts); Beth Levant (Kansas City, Missouri); James H. Woods (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaomeng Wang (Saline, Michigan); Jianyong Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Collins (Medford, Massachusetts); Beth Levant (Kansas City, Missouri); James H. Woods (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Potent and selective ligands for the dopamine 3 (D3) receptor are disclosed. The D3 receptor ligands have a structural formula: wherein R1 is C1-6 alkyl or C3-6cycloalkyl; or wherein R2 is substituted with one or two halogen(s) or OC1-3alkyl. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406803 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487006 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jung San Huang (St. Louis, Missouri); Shuan Shian Huang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auxagen, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri); Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung San Huang (St. Louis, Missouri); Shuan Shian Huang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of enhancing TGF-β signaling in a subject comprising administering to said subject a clathrin-dependent endocytosis inhibitor in an amount sufficient to enhance TGF-β signaling. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a method of treating a condition associated with decreased TGF-β signaling in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to said patient a clathrin-dependent endocytosis inhibitor in a therapeutically effective amount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560136 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/166 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/04 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487075 | Watkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); David R. Hillyard (Salt Lake City, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); David R. Hillyard (Salt Lake City, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/367839 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487077 | Olma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sebastian Olma (Munster, Germany); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian Olma (Munster, Germany); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous single pot synthesis of [18F]SFB is set forth. The [18F]SFB produced with this method is then used, for example, to label a peptide or an engineered antibody fragment (diabody) targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) as representative examples of labeled compounds for use as an injectable composition to locate abnormal tissue, specifically tumors within an animal or human using a PET scan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/063741 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487079 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for using mitochondria-targeted electron scavengers as anti-inflammatory agents. The mitochondria-targeted electron scavenger comprises a free radical-scavenging group covalently linked to a mitochondria-targeting group derived from a hemigramicidin moiety. The mitochondria-targeted electron scavenger can be used to treat medical conditions associated with acute or chronic inflammation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188369 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487100 | Prossnitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric R Prossnitz (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sergey E Tkatchenko (San Diego, California); Chetana M Revankar (Arlington, Virginia); Larry A Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey B Arterburn (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Daniel F Cimino (Tijeras, New Mexico); Tudor I Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cristian-George Bologa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexandor Kiselyov (San Diego, California); Susan M Young (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric R Prossnitz (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sergey E Tkatchenko (San Diego, California); Chetana M Revankar (Arlington, Virginia); Larry A Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey B Arterburn (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Daniel F Cimino (Tijeras, New Mexico); Tudor I Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cristian-George Bologa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexandor Kiselyov (San Diego, California); Susan M Young (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention is in the field of molecular biology/pharmacology and provides compounds which modulate the effects of GPR30 as well as the classical estrogen receptors alpha and beta (ERα and ERβ). These compounds may function as agonists and/or antagonists of one or more of the disclosed estrogen receptors. Diseases which are mediated through one or more of these receptors include cancer (particularly breast, reproductive and other hormone-dependent cancers, leukemia, colon cancer, prostate cancer), reproductive (genito-urological) including endometreitis, prostatitis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, bladder control, hormone-related disorders, hearing disorders, cardiovascular conditions including hot flashes and profuse sweating, hypertension, stroke, obesity, osteoporosis, hematologic diseases, vascular diseases or conditions such as venous thrombosis, atherosclerosis, among numerous others and disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system, including depression, insomnia, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, neurodegenerative disoders such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, as well as inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, coeliac (celiac) disease and related disorders of the intestine. A contraceptive indication to prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy after intercourse is a further aspect of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967871 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487131 | Pellecchia |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is disclosed. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, methods for preparing and methods for using this compound or composition for treating a variety of diseases, including cancer and inflammation are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960349 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487137 | Guire et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick E. Guire (Hopkins, Minnesota); Kristin Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota); Jie Wen (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Surface Technologies, LLC (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick E. Guire (Hopkins, Minnesota); Kristin Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota); Jie Wen (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes novel crosslinking compounds that include photoactivatable moieties. Several families of compounds are disclosed that can include one or more hydrophilic moieties that help to solubilize the compounds in aqueous environments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831673 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/303 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487699 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Jay Kozak Adams (Potomac, Maryland); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Jay Kozak Adams (Potomac, Maryland); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is an inductive compensating network coupled between the differential inputs of an operational amplifier circuit. The inductive compensating network includes at least one inductive element having an inductance value selected so as to provide proper compensation of the operational amplifier circuit. Also described is a feedback compensation scheme which adjusts loop characteristics by introducing zeros into a system with the addition of inductive or capacitive elements in a feedback path. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188986 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488895 | Muller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew S. Muller (Bloomington, Indiana); Ann E. Elsner (Bloomington, Indiana); Benno L. Petrig (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Muller (Bloomington, Indiana); Ann E. Elsner (Bloomington, Indiana); Benno L. Petrig (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight digital imaging device uses a slit scanning arrangement to obtain an image of the eye, in particular the retina. In at least one embodiment, a digital retinal imaging device includes an illumination source operable to produce a source beam, wherein the source beam defines an illumination pathway, a scanning mechanism operable to cause a scanning motion of the illumination pathway in one dimension with respect to a target, an optical element situated within the illumination pathway, the optical element operable to focus the illumination pathway into an illumination slit at a plane conjugate to the target, wherein the illumination slit is slit shaped, a first two dimensional detector array operable to detect illumination returning from the target and acquire one or more data sets from the detected illumination, wherein the returning illumination defines a detection pathway, and a shaping mechanism positioned within the illumination pathway, wherein the shaping mechanism shapes the source beam into at least one arc at a plane conjugate to the pupil. In at least one exemplary embodiment, the digital retinal imaging device is operable to minimize at least one aberration from the optical element or an unwanted reflection from the target or a reflection from a device. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643491 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488973 | Avenson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brad D. Avenson (Pflugerville, Texas); Caesar T. Garcia (Austin, Texas); Neal Allen Hall (Austin, Texas); Abidin Guclu Onaran (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Audio, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad D. Avenson (Pflugerville, Texas); Caesar T. Garcia (Austin, Texas); Neal Allen Hall (Austin, Texas); Abidin Guclu Onaran (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for performing signal processing for an optical microphone. First and second signals corresponding to at least two beams may be generated or received. The first and second signals may be complementary, and may be based on signals provided by one or more photo detectors that receive the at least two beams after the beams return from a sensing structure. The first signal and the second signal may be subtracted to produce a third signal. A position of the sensing structure may be adjusted to cause the third signal to reach a first value, where the adjusting may be performed based on the third signal, and an audio output signal may be provided based on the third signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025066 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489186 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rupak Mukherjee (Charleston, South Carolina); Francis Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rupak Mukherjee (Charleston, South Carolina); Francis Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are devices and methods for treating a subject having a myocardial condition using sub-threshold electrical stimulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128191 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489193 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Daomin Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Boon-Khai Ng (Alhambra, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Satinderpall Singh Pannu (Pleasanton, California); James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Phillipe John Tabada (Roseville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Daomin Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Boon-Khai Ng (Alhambra, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Satinderpall Singh Pannu (Pleasanton, California); James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Phillipe John Tabada (Roseville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible circuit electrode array, which comprises: a polymer base layer; metal traces deposited on said polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue; a polymer top layer deposited on said polymer base layer and said metal traces; and a partial or entire coating of the base and top layer by a soft polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/460495 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489202 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil H. Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil H. Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable electrode having a strong, adherent surface coating of iridium oxide or titanium nitride on a platinum surface, where the platinum surface has a surface area of at least five times that of a smooth shiny platinum surface of the same geometry. The iridium oxide coating may be formed on platinum by a physical deposition process, such as sputtering. A gradient coating of iridium oxide ranging in composition from pure platinum to pure iridium oxide is produced by sputtering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489777 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489638 | Kuszmaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (, Massachusetts); Research Foundation of State University of New York (, New York); Rutgers University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, with full transactional semantics, at a rate that is faster than one insertion per disk-head movement. Keys can be looked up with only a logarithmic number of transfers, even for keys that have been recently inserted or deleted. Queries can be performed on ranges of key-value pairs, including recently inserted or deleted pairs, at a constant fraction of the bandwidth of the disk. The dictionary employs indirect logging for physical block logging. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476826 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/790 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08484953 | Gonze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust system that processes exhaust generated by an engine is provided. The system generally includes a particulate filter (PF) that filters particulates from the exhaust wherein an upstream end of the PF receives exhaust from the engine. A grid of electrically resistive material is applied to an exterior upstream surface of the PF and selectively heats exhaust passing through the grid to initiate combustion of particulates within the PF. A catalyst coating is applied to the PF that increases a temperature of the combustion of the particulates within the PF. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/876136 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08485787 | Marra |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil (30) and fabrication process for turbine blades with cooling channels (26). Tapered tubes (32A-32D) are bonded together in a parallel sequence, forming a leading edge (21), a trailing edge (22), and pressure and suction side walls (23, 24) connected by internal ribs (25). The tapered tubes may be extruded without camber to simplify the extrusion process, then bonded along matching surfaces (34), forming a non-cambered airfoil (28), which may be cambered in a hot forming process and cut (48) to length. The tubes may have tapered walls that are thinner at the blade tip (T1) than at the base (T2), reducing mass. A cap (50) may be attached to the blade tip. A mounting lug (58) may be forged (60) on the airfoil base and then machined, completing the blade for mounting in a turbine rotor disk. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555096 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486287 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ji Zhu (El Cerrito, California); Jeff Grunes (Aloha, Oregon); Yang-Kyu Choi (Albany, California); Jeffrey Bokor (Oakland, California); Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Zhu (El Cerrito, California); Jeff Grunes (Aloha, Oregon); Yang-Kyu Choi (Albany, California); Jeffrey Bokor (Oakland, California); Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabrication methods disclosed herein provide for a nanoscale structure or a pattern comprising a plurality of nanostructures of specific predetermined position, shape and composition, including nanostructure arrays having large area at high throughput necessary for industrial production. The resultant nanostracture patterns are useful for nanostructure arrays, specifically sensor and catalytic arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/599106 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486300 | Gundiah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a lanthanide-doped strontium barium mixed halide useful for detecting nuclear material. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986103 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4H0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486301 | Berry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dushyant Shekhawat (Morgantown, West Virginia); Mark Smith (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel Haynes (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dushyant Shekhawat (Morgantown, West Virginia); Mark Smith (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel Haynes (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method of utilizing a catalyst system for an oxidation process on a gaseous hydrocarbon stream with a mitigation of carbon accumulation. The system is comprised of a catalytically active phase deposited onto an oxygen conducting phase, with or without supplemental support. The catalytically active phase has a specified crystal structure where at least one catalytically active metal is a cation within the crystal structure and coordinated with oxygen atoms within the crystal structure. The catalyst system employs an optimum coverage ratio for a given set of oxidation conditions, based on a specified hydrocarbon conversion and a carbon deposition limit. Specific embodiments of the catalyst system are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/028303 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486580 | Tucker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael C. Tucker (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (Moraga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Tucker (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides electrochemical device structures having integrated seals, and methods of fabricating them. According to various embodiments the structures include a thin, supported electrolyte film with the electrolyte sealed to the support. The perimeter of the support is self-sealed during fabrication. The perimeter can then be independently sealed to a manifold or other device, e.g., via an external seal. According to various embodiments, the external seal does not contact the electrolyte, thereby eliminating the restrictions on the sealing method and materials imposed by sealing against the electrolyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/988297 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486582 | Stephens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth V. Stephens (Kennewick, Washington); Xin Sun (Richland, Washington); Wenning Liu (S. Pasadena, California); Jeffry W. Stevenson (Richland, Washington); Wayne Surdoval (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mohammad A. Khaleel (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface modification to prevent oxide scale spallation is disclosed. The surface modification includes a ferritic stainless steel substrate having a modified surface. A cross-section of the modified surface exhibits a periodic morphology. The periodic morphology does not exceed a critical buckling length, which is equivalent to the length of a wave attribute observed in the cross section periodic morphology. The modified surface can be created using at least one of the following processes: shot peening, surface blasting and surface grinding. A coating can be applied to the modified surface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625134 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486667 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl7, and the corresponding EGVII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVII, recombinant EGVII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286955 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486680 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin A. Gray (San Diego, California); Reinhard Dirmeier (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BP Corporation North America Inc. (Houston, Texas); Verenium Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Gray (San Diego, California); Reinhard Dirmeier (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to enzymes having xylanase, mannanase and/or glucanase activity, e.g., catalyzing hydrolysis of internal β-1,4-xylosidic linkages or endo-β-1,4-glucanase linkages; and/or degrading a linear polysaccharide beta-1,4-xylan into xylose. Thus, the invention provides methods and processes for breaking down hemicellulose, which is a major component of the cell wall of plants, including methods and processes for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses in any plant or wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/681604 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486703 | Van Berkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Clinton, Tennessee); Mariam S. Elnaggar (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Clinton, Tennessee); Mariam S. Elnaggar (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a chemical composition of a specimen is described. The method can include providing a probe comprising an outer capillary tube and an inner capillary tube disposed co-axially within the outer capillary tube, where the inner and outer capillary tubes define a solvent capillary and a sampling capillary in fluid communication with one another at a distal end of the probe; contacting a target site on a surface of a specimen with a solvent in fluid communication with the probe; maintaining a plug volume proximate a solvent-specimen interface, wherein the plug volume is in fluid communication with the probe; draining plug sampling fluid from the plug volume through the sampling capillary; and analyzing a chemical composition of the plug sampling fluid with an analytical instrument. A system for performing the method is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894872 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486710 | Antel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Joseph Antel (München-Eching, Germany); Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan (Niskayuna, New York); Stephen Adam Solovitz (Croton on Hudson, New York); Nishant Vats (Jharkhand, India); Subhrajit Dey (Karnataka, India); Robert Michael Orenstein (Atlanta, Georgia); Matthew Moorman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Nisakayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Joseph Antel (München-Eching, Germany); Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan (Niskayuna, New York); Stephen Adam Solovitz (Croton on Hudson, New York); Nishant Vats (Jharkhand, India); Subhrajit Dey (Karnataka, India); Robert Michael Orenstein (Atlanta, Georgia); Matthew Moorman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring a lower heating value of a gaseous fuel. The method includes mixing a gaseous fuel with air to provide a combustible air-fuel mixture. The air-fuel mixture is directed to flow across a flow surface of a first micro-hotplate maintained at a constant temperature. A change in power required to maintain a constant temperature of the first micro-hotplate flow surface due to a convective and conductive heat transfer from the first micro-hotplate flow surface to the air-fuel mixture is measured. The air-fuel mixture is directed to flow across a flow surface of a second micro-hotplate maintained at a constant temperature. The air-fuel mixture is combusted as the air-fuel mixture flows across the second micro-hotplate flow surface. A change in power required to maintain a constant temperature of the second micro-hotplate flow surface due to the combustion of the air-fuel mixture is measured. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299588 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486713 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall W. Nelson (Phoenix, Arizona); Peter Williams (Phoenix, Arizona); Jennifer Reeve Krone (Granbury, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall W. Nelson (Phoenix, Arizona); Peter Williams (Phoenix, Arizona); Jennifer Reeve Krone (Granbury, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Rapid mass spectrometric immunoassay methods for detecting and/or quantifying antibody and antigen analytes utilizing affinity capture to isolate the analytes and internal reference species (for quantification) followed by mass spectrometric analysis of the isolated analyte/internal reference species. Quantification is obtained by normalizing and calibrating obtained mass spectrum against the mass spectrum obtained for an antibody/antigen of known concentration. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/421633 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 24/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486864 | Aytug et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ozgur Polat (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ozgur Polat (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for producing a phase-separated layer useful as a flux pinning substrate for a superconducting film, wherein the method includes subjecting at least a first and a second target material to a sputtering deposition technique in order that a phase-separated layer is deposited epitaxially on a primary substrate containing an ordered surface layer. The invention is also directed to a method for producing a superconducting tape containing pinning defects therein by depositing a superconducting film on a phase-separated layer produced by the method described above. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/648748 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487028 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hongmei Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Qingwen Li (Suzhou Jiangsu, China PRC); Eve Bauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony Keiran Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongmei Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Qingwen Li (Suzhou Jiangsu, China PRC); Eve Bauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony Keiran Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotubes were prepared by coating a substrate with a coating solution including a suitable solvent, a soluble polymer, a metal precursor having a first metal selected from iron, nickel, cobalt, and molybdenum, and optionally a second metal selected from aluminum and magnesium, and also a binding agent that forms a complex with the first metal and a complex with the second metal. The coated substrate was exposed to a reducing atmosphere at elevated temperature, and then to a hydrocarbon in the reducing atmosphere. The result was decomposition of the polymer and formation of carbon nanotubes on the substrate. The carbon nanotubes were often in the form of an array on the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589875 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487077 | Olma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sebastian Olma (Munster, Germany); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian Olma (Munster, Germany); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous single pot synthesis of [18F]SFB is set forth. The [18F]SFB produced with this method is then used, for example, to label a peptide or an engineered antibody fragment (diabody) targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) as representative examples of labeled compounds for use as an injectable composition to locate abnormal tissue, specifically tumors within an animal or human using a PET scan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/063741 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487084 | Gang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oleg Gang (South Setauket, New York); Dmytro Nykypanchuk (Westbury, New York); Mathew Maye (Binghampton, New York); Daniel van der Lelie (Shoreham, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Gang (South Setauket, New York); Dmytro Nykypanchuk (Westbury, New York); Mathew Maye (Binghampton, New York); Daniel van der Lelie (Shoreham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, DNA-capped nanoparticles are used to define a degree of crystalline order in assemblies thereof. In some embodiments, thermodynamically reversible and stable body-centered cubic (bcc) structures, with particles occupying <˜10% of the unit cell, are formed. Designs and pathways amenable to the crystallization of particle assemblies are identified. In some embodiments, a plasmonic crystal is provided. In some aspects, a method for controlling the properties of particle assemblages is provided. In some embodiments a catalyst is formed from nanoparticles linked by nucleic acid sequences and forming an open crystal structure with catalytically active agents attached to the crystal on its surface or in interstices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418355 |
| 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 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487159 | Somleva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mariya N. Somleva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kristi D. Snell (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Beaulieu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bradley Garrison (Fulton, Maryland); Nii Patterson (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariya N. Somleva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kristi D. Snell (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Beaulieu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bradley Garrison (Fulton, Maryland); Nii Patterson (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic plants, plant material, and plant cells for synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates, preferably poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (also referred to a as PHB) are provided. Preferred plants that can be genetically engineered to produce PHB include plants that do not normally produce storage products such as oils and carbohydrates, and plants that have a C4 NAD-malic enzyme photosynthetic pathway. Such plants also advantageously produce lignocellulosic biomass that can be converted into biofuels. An exemplary plant that can be genetically engineered to produce PHB and produce lignocellulosic biomass is switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L. A preferred cultivar of switchgrass is Alamo. Other suitable cultivars of switchgrass include but are not limited to Blackwell, Kanlow, Nebraska 28, Pathfinder, Cave-in-Rock, Shelter and Trailblazer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431428 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487178 | Singh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Joseph Singh (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Joseph Singh (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric material including a body centered cubic filled skutterudite having the formula AxFeyNizSb12, where A is an alkaline earth element, x is no more than approximately 1.0, and the sum of y and z is approximately equal to 4.0. The alkaline earth element includes guest atoms selected from the group consisting of Be, Mb, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra and combinations thereof. The filled skutterudite is shown to have properties suitable for a wide variety of thermoelectric applications. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006499 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487244 | Vertes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271435 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487246 | Vertes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559943 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487283 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jae-Hwang Lee (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Kai-Ming Ho (Ames, Iowa); Kristen P. Constant (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jae-Hwang Lee (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Kai-Ming Ho (Ames, Iowa); Kristen P. Constant (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-channel polarized thermal emitter (PTE) is presented. The multi-channel PTE can emit polarized thermal radiation without using a polarizer at normal emergence. The multi-channel PTE consists of two layers of metallic gratings on a monolithic and homogeneous metallic plate. It can be fabricated by a low-cost soft lithography technique called two-polymer microtransfer molding. The spectral positions of the mid-infrared (MIR) radiation peaks can be tuned by changing the periodicity of the gratings and the spectral separation between peaks are tuned by changing the mutual angle between the orientations of the two gratings. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288742 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/504.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487489 | Palafox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pepe Palafox (Albany, New York); William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); Lembit Salasoo (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pepe Palafox (Albany, New York); William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); Lembit Salasoo (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an apparatus, for example, for use with a rotating electric machine, that includes a housing. The housing can include a housing main portion and a housing end portion. The housing main portion can be configured to be disposed proximal to a body portion of a stator section of an electric machine. The housing main portion can define a main fluid channel that is configured to conduct fluid therethrough. The housing end portion can receive fluid from said main fluid channel and direct fluid into contact with a winding end portion of a conductive winding of the stator section. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847725 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487556 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David U. L. Yu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Yan Luo (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duly Research Inc. (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David U. L. Yu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Yan Luo (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An rf linear accelerator for producing an electron beam. The outer wall of the rf cavity of said linear accelerator being perforated to allow gas inside said rf cavity to flow to a pressure chamber surrounding said rf cavity and having means of ultra high vacuum pumping of the cathode of said rf linear accelerator. Said rf linear accelerator is used to accelerate polarized or unpolarized electrons produced by a photocathode, or to accelerate thermally heated electrons produced by a thermionic cathode, or to accelerate rf heated field emission electrons produced by a field emission cathode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932891 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487993 | Cunningham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark F. Cunningham (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Lorenzo Fabris (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy F. Gee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Frezghi H. Ghebretati, Jr. (Sunnyvale, California); James S. Goddard (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas P. Karnowski (Knoxville, Tennessee); Klaus-peter Ziock (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Cunningham (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Lorenzo Fabris (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy F. Gee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Frezghi H. Ghebretati, Jr. (Sunnyvale, California); James S. Goddard (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas P. Karnowski (Knoxville, Tennessee); Klaus-peter Ziock (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple homography transformations corresponding to different heights are generated in the field of view. A group of salient points within a common estimated height range is identified in a time series of video images of a moving object. Inter-salient point distances are measured for the group of salient points under the multiple homography transformations corresponding to the different heights. Variations in the inter-salient point distances under the multiple homography transformations are compared. The height of the group of salient points is estimated to be the height corresponding to the homography transformation that minimizes the variations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511362 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488315 | Herron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Hayden Herron (Redondo Beach, California); Brooks S. Mann (Redondo Beach, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Hayden Herron (Redondo Beach, California); Brooks S. Mann (Redondo Beach, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manifold is provided for supporting a power module assembly with a plurality of power modules. The manifold includes a first manifold section. The first face of the first manifold section is configured to receive the first power module, and the second face of the first manifold section defines a first cavity with a first baseplate thermally coupled to the first power module. The first face of the second manifold section is configured to receive the second power module, and the second face of the second manifold section defines a second cavity with a second baseplate thermally coupled to the second power module. The second face of the first manifold section and the second face of the second manifold section are coupled together such that the first cavity and the second cavity form a coolant channel. The first cavity is at least partially staggered with respect to second cavity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543271 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/689 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488863 | Boucheron |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laura E. Boucheron (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura E. Boucheron (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantitative object and spatial arrangement-level analysis of tissue are detailed using expert (pathologist) input to guide the classification process. A two-step method is disclosed for imaging tissue, by classifying one or more biological materials, e.g. nuclei, cytoplasm, and stroma, in the tissue into one or more identified classes on a pixel-by-pixel basis, and segmenting the identified classes to agglomerate one or more sets of identified pixels into segmented regions. Typically, the one or more biological materials comprises nuclear material, cytoplasm material, and stromal material. The method further allows a user to markup the image subsequent to the classification to re-classify said materials. The markup is performed via a graphic user interface to edit designated regions in the image. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/266450 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490071 | Eichenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John A. Gunnels (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John A. Gunnels (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for optimizing code to perform prefetching of data into a shared memory of a computing device that is shared by a plurality of threads that execute on the computing device. A memory stream of a portion of code that is shared by the plurality of threads is identified. A set of prefetch instructions is distributed across the plurality of threads. Prefetch instructions are inserted into the instruction sequences of the plurality of threads such that each instruction sequence has a separate sub-portion of the set of prefetch instructions, thereby generating optimized code. Executable code is generated based on the optimized code and stored in a storage device. The executable code, when executed, performs the prefetches associated with the distributed set of prefetch instructions in a shared manner across the plurality of threads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/773454 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490112 | Faraj |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Algorithm selection for data communications in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints, each endpoint including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI, including associating in the PAMI data communications algorithms and bit masks; receiving in an origin endpoint of the PAMI a collective instruction, the instruction specifying transmission of a data communications message from the origin endpoint to a target endpoint; constructing a bit mask for the received collective instruction; selecting, from among the associated algorithms and bit masks, a data communications algorithm in dependence upon the constructed bit mask; and executing the collective instruction, transmitting, according to the selected data communications algorithm from the origin endpoint to the target endpoint, the data communications message. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959539 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08485983 | Gouma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pelagia-Irene Gouma (Port Jefferson, New York); Sanford R. Simon (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pelagia-Irene Gouma (Port Jefferson, New York); Sanford R. Simon (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is for detecting the presence of selected gaseous compounds indicative of a medical condition includes a probe having one or more sensor elements having a conductivity which is responsive to the presence of selected gaseous compounds, at least one sensor element containing a transition metal oxide selected from the group consisting of WO3, beta-MoO3 and UO2; and means for measuring the conductivity of each said sensor element. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/351171 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486348 | Bellan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leon M. Bellan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Elizabeth A. Strychalski (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon M. Bellan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Elizabeth A. Strychalski (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is made by forming sacrificial fibers on a substrate mold. The fibers and mold are covered with a first material. The substrate mold is removed, and the covered fibers are then removed to form channels in the first material. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914675 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486636 | Enzelberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Markus M. Enzelberger (Planegg, Germany); Jian Liu (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus M. Enzelberger (Planegg, Germany); Jian Liu (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic devices and methods using the same in various types of thermal cycling reactions. Certain devices include a rotary microfluidic channel and a plurality of temperature regions at different locations along the rotary microfluidic channel at which temperature is regulated. Solution can be repeatedly passed through the temperature regions such that the solution is exposed to different temperatures. Other microfluidic devices include an array of reaction chambers formed by intersecting vertical and horizontal flow channels, with the ability to regulate temperature at the reaction chambers. The microfluidic devices can be used to conduct a number of different analyses, including various primer extension reactions and nucleic acid amplification reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/947774 |
| 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 08486708 | Zang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ling Zang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yanke Che (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Zang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yanke Che (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescence sensory material with high sensitivity, selectivity, and photostability has been developed for vapor probing of organic amines. The sensory material is a perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxyl compound having amine binding groups and the following formula where A and A′ are independently chosen from N—R1, N—R2, and O such that both A and A′ are not O, and R1 through R10 are amine binding moieties, solubility enhancing groups, or hydrogen such that at least one of R1 through R10 is an amine binding moiety. This perylene compound can optionally be formed into well-defined nanofibers. Upon deposition onto a substrate, the entangled nanofibers form a meshlike, highly porous film, which enables expedient diffusion of gaseous analyte molecules within the film matrix, leading to a milliseconds response for vapor sensing. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696952 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486709 | Strano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. Strano (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jong-Ho Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jinqing Zhang (Hangzhou, China PRC); Daniel A. Heller (Rye Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jong-Ho Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jinqing Zhang (Hangzhou, China PRC); Daniel A. Heller (Rye Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods related to optical nanosensors comprising photoluminescent nanostructures are generally described. Generally, the nanosensors comprise a photoluminescent nanostructure and a polymer that interacts with the photoluminescent nanostructure. In some cases, the interaction between the polymer and the nanostructure can be non-covalent (e.g., via van der Waals interactions). The nanosensors comprising a polymer and a photoluminescent nanostructure may be particularly useful in determining the presence and/or concentration of relatively small molecules, in some embodiments. In addition, in some instances the nanosensors may be capable of determining relatively low concentrations of analytes, in some cases determining as little as a single molecule. In some embodiments, the interaction between the analyte and the nanosensor (e.g., between the analyte and the photoluminescent nanostructure) can be reversible, which may allow, for example, for the reuse of a nanosensor after it has been exposed to an analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/860752 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486833 | Bruzewicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek A. Bruzewicz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mila Boncheva-Bettex (Ecublens, Switzerland); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andres Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a variety of microfluidic devices and solid, typically electrically conductive devices that can be formed using such devices as molds. In certain embodiments, the devices that are formed comprise conductive pathways formed by solidifying a liquid metal present in one or more microfluidic channels (such devices hereinafter referred to as “microsolidic” devices). In certain such devices, in which electrical connections can be formed and/or reformed between regions in a microfluidic structure; in some cases, the devices/circuits formed may be flexible and/or involve flexible electrical components. In certain embodiments, the solid metal wires/conductive pathways formed in microfluidic channel(s) may remain contained within the microfluidic structure. In certain such embodiments, the conductive pathways formed may be located in proximity to other microfluidic channel(s) of the structure that carry flowing fluid, such that the conductive pathway can create energy (e.g. electromagnetic and/or thermal energy) that interacts withy and/or affects the flowing fluid and/or a component contained therein or carried thereby. In other embodiments, a microsolidic structure may be removed from a microfluidic mold to form a stand-alone structure. In certain embodiments, the solid metal structures formed may interact with light energy incident upon a structure or may be used to fabricate a light-weight electrode. Another aspect of the invention relates to the formation of self-assembled structures that may comprise these electrically conductive pathways/connections. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920483 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/675 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487244 | Vertes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271435 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487246 | Vertes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559943 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487296 | Grebel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haim Grebel (Livingston, New Jersey); Amrita Banerjee (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haim Grebel (Livingston, New Jersey); Amrita Banerjee (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, devices, systems and/or articles related to techniques for forming a graphene film on a substrate, and the resulting graphene layers and graphenated substrates are generally disclosed. Some example techniques may be embodied as methods or processes for forming graphene. Some other example techniques may be embodied as devices employed to manipulate, treat, or otherwise process substrates, graphite, graphene and/or graphenated substrates as described herein. Graphene layers and graphenated substrates produced by the various techniques and devices provided herein are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626077 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487715 | Mohanty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Los Angeles, California); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Los Angeles, California); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A bank of nano electromechanical integrated circuit filters. The bank of integrated circuit filters comprising a silicon substrate; a sacrificial layer; a device layer including at least two resonators, wherein the at least two resonators include sub-micro excitable elements and wherein the at least two resonators posses a fundamental mode frequency as well as a collective mode frequency and wherein the collective mode frequency of the at least two resonators is determined by the fundamental frequency of the sub-micron elements. At least one switch connects to the bank of integrated circuit filters. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311143 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487796 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Jason N. Laska (Houston, Texas); Petros T. Boufounos (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark A. Davenport (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Jason N. Laska (Houston, Texas); Petros T. Boufounos (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark A. Davenport (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of measuring a signal using compressed sensing to produce a sequence of blocks of measurements, applying a gain to one of the blocks of measurements, adjusting the gain based upon a deviation of a saturation rate of the one of the blocks of measurements from a predetermined nonzero saturation rate and applying the adjusted gain to a second of the blocks of measurements. Alternatively, a method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of applying a gain to a signal, computing a saturation rate of the signal and adjusting the gain based upon a difference between the saturation rate of the signal and a predetermined nonzero saturation rate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033188 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488119 | Herzinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska); University of Nebraska Board of Regents (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of applying an ellipsometer or polarimeter system which operates in a frequency range between 300 GHz or lower and extending to higher than at least 1 Tera-hertz (THz), and preferably through the Infra-red (IR) range up to, and higher than 100 THz; wherein the ellipsometer or polarimeter system includes a source such as a backward wave oscillator, a Smith-Purcell cell, a free electron laser, an FTIR source or a solid state device; and a detector such as a Golay cell a bolometer or a solid state detector; and preferably includes at least one odd-bounce polarization state image rotating system and a polarizer, and at least one compensator and/or modulator, in addition to an analyzer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802734 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488646 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Igor Karagodsy (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Vadim Karagodsky (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Enhanced reflectivity High-Contrast Gratings are described which operate in different medium. An HCG is described with a deep/buried metallization layer separated at a distance of least three to four grating thicknesses from the grating. Reflective bandwidth of the HCG is substantially increased, such as by a factor or five, by inclusion of the deep/buried metallization layer. An HCG is described which provides high reflectivity, even when embedded into materials of a moderate to high index of refraction, such as semiconductor material. Vertical cavity surface emitting laser embodiments are described which utilize these reflectivity enhancements, and preferably utilize HCG reflectors for top and/or bottom mirrors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593375 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488917 | Manipatruni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A doping profile for a modulator facilitates rapidly changing the carrier density in a waveguide. The carrier density change causes rapid changes in the index of refraction of the waveguide. Example modulators include a ring modulator and a Mach Zender modulator. A charge reciprocating section may be provided to control the amount of injected charge. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566412 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489528 | Chowdhary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Girish V. Chowdhary (Atlanta, Georgia); Eric N. Johnson (Atlanta, Georgia); Seung Min Oh (Daejon, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Girish V. Chowdhary (Atlanta, Georgia); Eric N. Johnson (Atlanta, Georgia); Seung Min Oh (Daejon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the invention are neural network adaptive control systems and methods configured to concurrently consider both recorded and current data, so that persistent excitation is not required. A neural network adaptive control system of the present invention can specifically select and record data that has as many linearly independent elements as the dimension of the basis of the uncertainty. Using this recorded data along with current data, the neural network adaptive control system can guarantee global exponential parameter convergence in adaptive parameter estimation problems. Other embodiments of the neural network adaptive control system are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845567 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489638 | Kuszmaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (, Massachusetts); Research Foundation of State University of New York (, New York); Rutgers University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, with full transactional semantics, at a rate that is faster than one insertion per disk-head movement. Keys can be looked up with only a logarithmic number of transfers, even for keys that have been recently inserted or deleted. Queries can be performed on ranges of key-value pairs, including recently inserted or deleted pairs, at a constant fraction of the bandwidth of the disk. The dictionary employs indirect logging for physical block logging. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476826 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/790 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08484980 | Trefny et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J Trefny (Olmsted Township, Ohio); Vance F Dippold (Lakewood, 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) | Charles J Trefny (Olmsted Township, Ohio); Vance F Dippold (Lakewood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new dual-mode ramjet combustor used for operation over a wide flight Mach number range is described. Subsonic combustion mode is usable to lower flight Mach numbers than current dual-mode scramjets. High speed mode is characterized by supersonic combustion in a free-jet that traverses the subsonic combustion chamber to a variable nozzle throat. Although a variable combustor exit aperture is required, the need for fuel staging to accommodate the combustion process is eliminated. Local heating from shock-boundary-layer interactions on combustor walls is also eliminated. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894346 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486371 | Ye et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jing Yong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); Cheng Frank Zhong (Sunnyvale, Michigan); James R. Baker (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Yong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); Cheng Frank Zhong (Sunnyvale, Michigan); James R. Baker (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus of multi-dye analysis of particles using flow cytometer. The method includes dying particles to be detected using two or more dyes; urging the particles through a capillary in a non-uniform flow; exciting a first of the particles within the capillary using a multiphoton excitation laser beam causing the two or more dyes each to fluoresce thereby producing a first output signal and a second output signal respectively; and detecting the first output signal and the second output signal. A second of the particles within the capillary being excited using the multiphoton excitation laser beam causing the two or more dyes each to fluoresce thereby producing a third output signal and a forth output signal respectively. The method finally includes comparing a ratio of the first output signal and the second output signal to a ratio of the third output signal and the forth output signal to detect a desired change in the particles. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662835 |
| 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 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487249 | Gershman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Gershman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruce Block (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Martin Rubin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thomas Zurbuchen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Gershman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruce Block (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Martin Rubin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thomas Zurbuchen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The apparatus introduces a second adjustable resonant point in a QMS at a frequency that is close to a multiple of the fundamental frequency by adjusting driving point impedance characteristics of the QMS. The apparatus measures the first and second resonant point of the QMS to account for changes in the operational characteristics of the QMS. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326085 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487623 | Penanen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Konstantin I. Penanen (Glendale, California); Byeong H. Eom (Pasadena, California); Inseob Hahn (La Crescenta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin I. Penanen (Glendale, California); Byeong H. Eom (Pasadena, California); Inseob Hahn (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods are disclosed. They include a portable low field (SQUID)-based MRI instrument and a portable low field SQUID-based MRI system to be operated under a bed where a subject is adapted to be located. Also disclosed is a method of distributing wires on an image encoding coil system adapted to be used with an NMR or MRI device for analyzing a sample or subject and a second order superconducting gradiometer adapted to be used with a low field SQUID-based MRI device as a sensing component for an MRI signal related to a subject or sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090931 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489181 | Schipper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California); Sorin V. Dusan (Sunnyvale, California); Charles C. Jorgensen (Palo Alto, California); Eugene Belousof (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California); Sorin V. Dusan (Sunnyvale, California); Charles C. Jorgensen (Palo Alto, California); Eugene Belousof (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and associated system for use of statistical parameters based on peak amplitudes and/or time interval lengths and/or depolarization-repolarization vector angles and/or depolarization-repolarization vector lengths for PQRST electrical signals associated with heart waves, to identify a person. The statistical parameters, estimated to be at least 192, serve as biometric indicia, to authenticate, or to decline to authenticate, an asserted identity of a candidate person. |
| FILED | Friday, January 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319220 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489239 | Abdallah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muhammad E Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert J. Platt, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew J Reiland (Oxford, Michigan); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); Myron A Diftler (Houston, Texas); Philip A Strawser (Houston, Texas); Chris A. Ihrke (Hartland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad E Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert J. Platt, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew J Reiland (Oxford, Michigan); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); Myron A Diftler (Houston, Texas); Philip A Strawser (Houston, Texas); Chris A. Ihrke (Hartland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic system includes a tendon-driven finger and a control system. The system controls the finger via a force-based control law when a tension sensor is available, and via a position-based control law when a sensor is not available. Multiple tendons may each have a corresponding sensor. The system selectively injects a compliance value into the position-based control law when only some sensors are available. A control system includes a host machine and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a control process, which is executed by the host machine to control the finger via the force- or position-based control law. A method for controlling the finger includes determining the availability of a tension sensor(s), and selectively controlling the finger, using the control system, via the force or position-based control law. The position control law allows the control system to resist disturbances while nominally maintaining the initial state of internal tendon tensions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916803 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08489260 | Acikmese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Behcet Acikmese (Altadena, California); James C. L. Blackmore (Los Angeles, California); Daniel P. Scharf (Altadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behcet Acikmese (Altadena, California); James C. L. Blackmore (Los Angeles, California); Daniel P. Scharf (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for landing a spacecraft having thrusters with non-convex constraints is described. The method first computes a solution to a minimum error landing problem for a convexified constraints, then applies that solution to a minimum fuel landing problem for convexified constraints. The result is a solution that is a minimum error and minimum fuel solution that is also a feasible solution to the analogous system with non-convex thruster constraints. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639874 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — 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 71/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08486699 | Talbot et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil C. Talbot (Clarksville, Maryland); Thomas J. Caperna (Arnold, Maryland); Ryan Willard (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil C. Talbot (Clarksville, Maryland); Thomas J. Caperna (Arnold, Maryland); Ryan Willard (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Two cell lines, PICM-19H and PICM-19B, were derived from the bipotent ARS-PICM-19 pig liver stem cell line. The unipotent porcine stem cell line PICM-19H differentiates exclusively into hepatocytes and can be induced to express CYP450 enzymes. The growth rate and cell density in culture, morphological features, and hepatocyte detoxification functions, i.e., inducible CYP450 activity, ammonia clearance, and urea production of the PICM-19H cells were evaluated for their application in artificial liver devices. PICM-19H cells contain numerous mitochondria, Golgi apparatus, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, vesicular bodies and occasional lipid vacuoles and display inducible CYP450 activity, clear ammonia, and produce urea in a glutamine-free medium. The data indicate that both cell lines, either together or alone, may be useful as the cellular substrate for an artificial liver device. The results demonstrate the potential for the use of PICM-19H cells in drug biotransformation and toxicity testing. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154631 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486875 | Bredsguard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jakob Bredsguard (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosynthetic Technologies, LLC (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jakob Bredsguard (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compounds of the formula: in which n is an integer equal to or greater than 1; R2 is selected from hydrogen and optionally substituted alkyl that is saturated or unsaturated, and branched or unbranched; and R1, R3, and R4, independently for each occurrence, are selected from optionally substituted alkyl that is saturated or unsaturated, and branched or unbranched, wherein compositions comprising the compounds are characterized by particular combinations of values for estolide number, kinematic viscosity, and pour point. Also provided are compositions containing the compounds and methods of making both the compounds and compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/711388 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486887 | Adang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates in part to the discovery that a fragment from a cadherin of the western corn rootworm enhances Cry3 toxicity to larvae of naturally susceptible species. The subject invention also relates in part to the discovery that a cadherin fragment from a beetle enhances Cry3Aa and Cry3Bb toxicity to coleopteran larvae, particularly those in the family Chrysomelidae. Such cadherin fragments are referred to as Bt Boosters (BtBs). The subject invention can be extended to the use of BtBs with other coleopteran-toxic Cry proteins for controlling a wide range of coleopterans. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672974 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/4.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487159 | Somleva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mariya N. Somleva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kristi D. Snell (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Beaulieu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bradley Garrison (Fulton, Maryland); Nii Patterson (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariya N. Somleva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kristi D. Snell (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Beaulieu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bradley Garrison (Fulton, Maryland); Nii Patterson (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic plants, plant material, and plant cells for synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates, preferably poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (also referred to a as PHB) are provided. Preferred plants that can be genetically engineered to produce PHB include plants that do not normally produce storage products such as oils and carbohydrates, and plants that have a C4 NAD-malic enzyme photosynthetic pathway. Such plants also advantageously produce lignocellulosic biomass that can be converted into biofuels. An exemplary plant that can be genetically engineered to produce PHB and produce lignocellulosic biomass is switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L. A preferred cultivar of switchgrass is Alamo. Other suitable cultivars of switchgrass include but are not limited to Blackwell, Kanlow, Nebraska 28, Pathfinder, Cave-in-Rock, Shelter and Trailblazer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431428 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487167 | Morris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig F. Morris (Pullman, Washington); Leonard R. Joppa (Fargo, North Dakota); Marco C. Simeone (Viterbo, Italy); Domenico Lafiandra (Montefiascone, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig F. Morris (Pullman, Washington); Leonard R. Joppa (Fargo, North Dakota); Marco C. Simeone (Viterbo, Italy); Domenico Lafiandra (Montefiascone, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to non-transgenic tetraploid wheat plants having soft textured endosperm, methods for constructing said non-transgenic plants using cytogenetics and classical breeding techniques, endosperm therefrom and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538858 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/320.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08488921 | Doany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Daniel Michael Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Benjamin Giles Lee (New York, New York); Petar Pepeljugoski (Tarrytown, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Daniel Michael Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Benjamin Giles Lee (New York, New York); Petar Pepeljugoski (Tarrytown, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for coupling to a plurality of multicore optical fiber strands. A first plurality of optoelectronic devices is provided on a surface of a substrate, the first optoelectronic devices being arranged in a 2D array pattern that corresponds to a 2D array pattern corresponding to different light cores of a first multicore optical fiber. A second plurality of optoelectronic devices is provided on the surface of the substrate, the second optoelectronic devices being arranged in a 2D array pattern that corresponds to a 2D array pattern corresponding to different light cores of a second multicore optical fiber. Each optoelectronic device on the substrate surface provides one of a receive function and a transmit function for interacting with a corresponding core of a multicore optical fiber strand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105104 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490049 | Bouillet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New Jersey); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New Jersey); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, including: receiving a software requirement; and constructing a workflow template that can satisfy the software requirement, wherein the workflow template comprises a plurality of processing stages, wherein each processing stage includes at least one component class and each component class includes at least one component, and wherein an output of each processing stage is described by a processing goal pattern that is described by a set of tags and facets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252156 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08490072 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sunjay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, 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); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sunjay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Goldens Bridge, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for partitioning an operator flow graph are provided. The techniques include receiving source code for a stream processing application, wherein the source code comprises an operator flow graph, wherein the operator flow graph comprises a plurality of operators, receiving profiling data associated with the plurality of operators and one or more processing requirements of the operators, defining a candidate partition as a coalescing of one or more of the operators into one or more sets of processing elements (PEs), using the profiling data to create one or more candidate partitions of the processing elements, using the one or more candidate partitions to choose a desired partitioning of the operator flow graph, and compiling the source code into an executable code based on the desired partitioning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489805 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08486691 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device useful in determining the efficacy of a chemical sterilization process includes a dead end cavity closed by an access cap having a port coupled to a challenge tube defining the only path by which a substantial quantity of sterilant can reach the cavity. A biological indicator is located within the cavity and a chemical indicator is also provided. These indicators, and particularly the biological indicator, provide an indication of whether chemical sterilant would reach all interior exposed surfaces of a load in sufficient concentrations to adequately sterilize the load. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758288 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487556 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David U. L. Yu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Yan Luo (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duly Research Inc. (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David U. L. Yu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Yan Luo (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An rf linear accelerator for producing an electron beam. The outer wall of the rf cavity of said linear accelerator being perforated to allow gas inside said rf cavity to flow to a pressure chamber surrounding said rf cavity and having means of ultra high vacuum pumping of the cathode of said rf linear accelerator. Said rf linear accelerator is used to accelerate polarized or unpolarized electrons produced by a photocathode, or to accelerate thermally heated electrons produced by a thermionic cathode, or to accelerate rf heated field emission electrons produced by a field emission cathode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932891 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488119 | Herzinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska); University of Nebraska Board of Regents (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig M. Herzinger (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Martin M. Liphardt (Lincoln, Nebraska); John A. Woollam (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of applying an ellipsometer or polarimeter system which operates in a frequency range between 300 GHz or lower and extending to higher than at least 1 Tera-hertz (THz), and preferably through the Infra-red (IR) range up to, and higher than 100 THz; wherein the ellipsometer or polarimeter system includes a source such as a backward wave oscillator, a Smith-Purcell cell, a free electron laser, an FTIR source or a solid state device; and a detector such as a Golay cell a bolometer or a solid state detector; and preferably includes at least one odd-bounce polarization state image rotating system and a polarizer, and at least one compensator and/or modulator, in addition to an analyzer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802734 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08486304 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Dasarao K. Murti (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Dasarao K. Murti (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition including a polymer and a liquid, wherein the polymer exhibits lower solubility in the liquid at room temperature but exhibits greater solubility in the liquid at an elevated temperature, wherein the composition gels when the elevated temperature is lowered to a first lower temperature without agitation, wherein the viscosity of the composition results from a process comprising (a) dissolving at the elevated temperature at least a portion of the polymer in the liquid; (b) lowering the temperature of the composition from the elevated temperature to the first lower temperature; and (c) agitating the composition to disrupt any gelling, wherein the agitating commences at any time prior to, simultaneous with, or subsequent to the lowering the elevated temperature of the composition to the first lower temperature, wherein the amount of the polymer dissolved in the liquid at the elevated temperature ranges from about 0.2% to about 5% based on the total weight of the polymer and the liquid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288480 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486623 | Monforte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph A. Monforte (Berkeley, California); Christopher H. Becker (Palo Alto, California); Daniel J. Pollart (Menlo Park, California); Thomas A. Shaler (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sequenom, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Monforte (Berkeley, California); Christopher H. Becker (Palo Alto, California); Daniel J. Pollart (Menlo Park, California); Thomas A. Shaler (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Releasable tag reagents for use in the detection and analysis of target molecules, particular in mass spectrometric analyzes are provided. Also provided are methods of detection that employ releasable tag reagents. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583587 |
| 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 |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08485978 | Linder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Paul Linder (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Paul Linder (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for noninvasively monitoring baroreflex response and nominal blood volume are disclosed herein. Software and methods for evaluating morphological features of a photoplethysmogram (PPG) obtained using a pulse oximeter allow for the affirmative detection and quantification of the baroreflex response from data obtained during orthostatic stress tests, lower body negative pressure chamber tests and treadmill stress tests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624065 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486300 | Gundiah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a lanthanide-doped strontium barium mixed halide useful for detecting nuclear material. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986103 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4H0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08488845 | Tang et al. |
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| FUNDED BY |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Tang (Denver, Colorado); Richard Clelland (Boulder, Colorado); Jacek Grodecki (Thornton, Colorado); Seth Malitz (Aurora, Colorado); Joshua Nolting (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geoeye Solutions Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Tang (Denver, Colorado); Richard Clelland (Boulder, Colorado); Jacek Grodecki (Thornton, Colorado); Seth Malitz (Aurora, Colorado); Joshua Nolting (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for editing a vector set associated with an extracted linear feature in a remotely sensed image, the vector set defining a path and being tied to a geographical location. The method includes displaying the path in a graphical display. Once the user activates a smart editing tool, the user establishes a region of influence centered around a cursor. The region of influence is configured to respond to cursor movements. The user specifies a point near the path and moves the cursor to it, bringing the region of influence along. Any error in the vector set of the path is automatically corrected in real time using image-based logic. The user then previews the correction on the graphical display and implements it, updating the path. The updated path is displayed in real time in the graphical display. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417568 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08488877 | Owechko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Swarup Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Ronald T. Azuma (Santa Monica, California); Jim Nelson (Sumner, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Swarup Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Ronald T. Azuma (Santa Monica, California); Jim Nelson (Sumner, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for object recognition in colorized point clouds. The system includes an implicit geometry engine that is configured to receive three-dimensional (3D) colorized cloud point data regarding a 3D object of interest and to convert the cloud point data into implicit representations. The engine also generates geometric features. A geometric grammar block is included to generate object cues and recognize geometric objects using geometric tokens and grammars based on object taxonomy. A visual attention cueing block is included to generate object cues based on 3D geometric properties. Finally, an object recognition block is included to perform a local search for objects using cues from the cueing block and the geometric grammar block and to classify the 3D object of interest as a particular object upon a classifier reaching a predetermined threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592836 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08485978 | Linder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Paul Linder (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Paul Linder (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for noninvasively monitoring baroreflex response and nominal blood volume are disclosed herein. Software and methods for evaluating morphological features of a photoplethysmogram (PPG) obtained using a pulse oximeter allow for the affirmative detection and quantification of the baroreflex response from data obtained during orthostatic stress tests, lower body negative pressure chamber tests and treadmill stress tests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624065 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08489316 | Hedges et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher A. Hedges (Greentown, Indiana); James E. Bormann (Kokomo, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Hedges (Greentown, Indiana); James E. Bormann (Kokomo, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A map matching method for a vehicle safety warning system (VSWS) is provided. The method includes the steps of a) determining if intelligent transportation system (ITS) map data is available, b) determining a vehicle location and a vehicle heading, c) determining an envelope area around a road feature defined by the ITS map data, d) determining a segment heading for a segment of the road feature, e) determining a separation distance between the vehicle location and the segment if the vehicle location is located within the envelope area, the segment heading is substantially similar to the vehicle heading, and optionally, the segment elevation is substantially similar to the vehicle elevation, and f) map matching the vehicle location to the segment if the separation distance is less than a threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/535957 |
| 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 71/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08486624 | Scherer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleu (Montreal, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleu (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene (EPM2A) that is deleted or mutated in people with Lafora's disease is described. The EPM2A gene encodes a protein having an active catalytic site of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. Many different sequence mutations as well as several microdeletions in EPM2A have been found that co-segregate with Lafora's disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/979262 |
| 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 |
U.S. State Government
| US 08488370 | Venugopal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameer M. Venugopal (San Jose, California); David R. Allee (Phoenix, Arizona); Lawrence T Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nazanin Darbanian (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer M. Venugopal (San Jose, California); David R. Allee (Phoenix, Arizona); Lawrence T Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nazanin Darbanian (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments and examples of differential threshold voltage non-volatile memories and related methods are described herein. Other embodiments, examples thereof, and related methods are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083405 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08489520 | Kuebert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608951 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08484787 | Voyiadjis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Z. Voyiadjis (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sherif El-Tawil (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanics College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Z. Voyiadjis (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sherif El-Tawil (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for protecting supporting structures, such as those of a bridge or other such marine supporting structure, from the force of an impact of a vehicle/vessel. Such a system includes a plurality of modular components arranged in series and configured to dissipate the energy of the force through the progressive buckling of one or more of the modular components. Each modular component contains an energy dissipation unit that includes a plurality of adjacent cells. The energy of the force is dissipated in the buckling of the walls of the cells of the energy dissipation units through the formation of one or more plastic hinges and/or volume reduction of the cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729779 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Bridges 014/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08485032 | Starzynski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John S. Starzynski (North Bend, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Starzynski (North Bend, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An accelerometer for reducing undesired attraction or repulsion forces between a proof mass and a cover. An exemplary accelerometer includes a proof mass, a base, a flexure that flexibly attaches the proof mass to the base, at least one double-ended tuning fork (DETF) attached at one end to the proof mass and at another end to the base, and a housing structure that encloses the proof mass within a cavity. A layer of graphene is located on at least a portion of the nonconductive surfaces within the housing structure. The nonconductive surfaces include a surface on the proof mass, the housing structure, the base, the flexure, or the DETF. The layer of graphene is attached to a heat sink and/or to an electrical charge dissipation component. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/047008 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486305 | Zinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alfred A. Zinn (Palo Alto, California); Paul P. Lu (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred A. Zinn (Palo Alto, California); Paul P. Lu (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating copper nanoparticles includes heating a copper salt solution that includes a copper salt, an N,N-dialkylethylenediamine, and a C6-C18 alkylamine in an organic solvent to a temperature between about 30° C. to about 50° C.; heating a reducing agent solution that includes a reducing agent, an N,N-dialkylethylenediamine, and a C6-C18 alkylamine in an organic solvent to a temperature between about 30° C. to about 50° C.; and adding the heated copper salt solution to the heated reducing agent solution, thereby producing copper nanoparticles. A composition includes copper nanoparticles, a C6-C18 alkylamine and an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine ligand. Such copper nanoparticles in this composition have a fusion temperature between about 100° C. to about 200° C. A surfactant system for the stabilizing copper nanoparticles includes an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine and a C6-C18 alkylamine. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813463 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08486569 | Usrey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Monica L. Usrey (Madison, Wisconsin); Xin Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jose A. Pena Hueso (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monica L. Usrey (Madison, Wisconsin); Xin Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jose A. Pena Hueso (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are lithium/carbon monofluoride batteries suitable for long term use at highly elevated temperatures. Organosilicon electrolytes having low vapor pressure and high flash points are used, along with lithium salts and ceramic separators. Methods of using these batteries at high temperatures are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776922 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487289 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Minxian Max Zhang (Mountain View, California); Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Minxian Max Zhang (Mountain View, California); Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically actuated device includes a reactive metal layer, a first electrode established in contact with the reactive metal layer, an insulating material layer established in contact with the first electrode or the reactive metal layer, an active region established on the insulating material layer, and a second electrode established on the active region. A conductive nano-channel is formed through a thickness of the insulating material layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/899210 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08487979 | Busch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a detection system that provides for background removal from a field of view (FOV) of spectra. A panoramic field of regard may be partitioned into a large number of FOV's. An FOV may include spectra including that of a target substance. Such detection may require removing the spectra other than that of the target. This may amount to removal of the background with an estimated background developed from spectra of one or more FOV's which may be similar to the background of the FOV with the target. An estimation of the background may be a sum of a number of FOV spectra where each spectrum is assigned a weight, the total amount of the weights being one. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/324709 |
| ART UNIT | 2483 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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