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| US 08496585 | Lu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian-Yu Lu (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Yu Lu (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for producing an image using an imaging system includes a) transmitting at least one signal of energy toward an object to be imaged by using two transmitters having the same output amplitude but of an opposite sign, or by using one transmitter to perform the task; b) exciting at least one transducer element to produce limited-diffraction array beams or their square-wave approximations with two levels of quantitations for both sine and cosine functions, c) weighting the received signals spatially with limited-diffraction array beams, their square-wave approximations, or spatial Fourier transform, and d) digitizing and then transferring received signals through high-speed optical fibers to a system for image reconstructions. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162001 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496606 | Leonard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward F. Leonard (Bronxville, New York); Ilan K. Reich (New York, New York); Stanley Cortell (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Leonard (Bronxville, New York); Ilan K. Reich (New York, New York); Stanley Cortell (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A membraneless separation device can be applied to a variety of treatments, such as the ultrafiltration of blood for a patient with end stage renal disease. An ultrafiltration device can include a membraneless separation device, which separates an incoming blood flow into a substantially cytoplasmic body-free plasma flow and remaining fraction, and a dialysate-free second stage, which selectively removes excess fluid, toxins and other substances from the plasma flow and returns the processed plasma to the membraneless separation device. A treatment protocol can include ultrafiltering blood of a patient using the ultrafiltration device and performing a secondary treatment on the blood of the patient at a reduced frequency compared to the ultrafiltering. The membraneless separation device can also be applied to treatment, analysis, and/or exchange of plasma from blood, or combined with conventional dialyzers to perform dialysis on a cytoplasmic body-free plasma fraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866017 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496844 | Strouse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey F. Strouse (Tallahassee, Florida); Derek D. Lovingood (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High quantum yield InP nanocrystals are used in the bio-technology, bio-medical, and photovoltaic, specifically IV, III-V and III-VI nanocrystal technological applications. InP nanocrystals typically require post-generation HF treatment. Combining microwave methodologies with the presence of a fluorinated ionic liquid allows Fluorine ion etching without the hazards accompanying HF. Growing the InP nanocrystals in the presence of the ionic liquid allows in-situ etching to be achieved. The optimization of the PL QY is achieved by balancing growth and etching rates in the reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645876 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496870 | Shih et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Huidong Li (Marlton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Huidong Li (Marlton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of making lead-free piezoelectric ceramic films. Specifically, the invention is directed to a method for fabricating lead-free piezoelectric free standing films having enhanced piezoelectric properties. The films may be used for a number of applications including incorporation in microelectronic devices such as energy harvesting devices and sensor technologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/494772 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496874 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barry N. Gellman (North Easton, Massachusetts); Andrew Koert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Zhongjun Wu (Woodstock, Maryland); Juntao Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Bartley P. Griffith (Gibson Island, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thoratec LLC (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry N. Gellman (North Easton, Massachusetts); Andrew Koert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Zhongjun Wu (Woodstock, Maryland); Juntao Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Bartley P. Griffith (Gibson Island, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated centrifugal blood pump-oxygenator (1) which has a housing (2) with a top (3) having a blood inlet (4), a blood outlet (5) and a gas inlet (6), and a bottom (7) having a rotational body (8) being rotatably arranged in a rotor-housing (9) of the bottom (7). The integrated centrifugal blood pump-oxygenator (1) further has an oxygenator membrane (10) provided in an interior (11) of the housing (2), wherein in the operation state oxygen (12) is transferred from the gas inlet (6) through the oxygenator membrane (10) to a gas outlet (13) and blood (14) is brought in direct contact with the oxygenator membrane (10) by pumping the blood (14) with the rotational body (8) from the blood inlet (4) to the blood outlet (5). The rotational body (8) is magnetically journalled in a contact-free manner with respect to the rotor-housing (9). There is an extracorporeal life support system (1000), and a method of de-bubbling and priming a extracorporeal life support system (1000). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999707 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497066 | Levenson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Levenson (Chicago, Illinois); Anatoliy Melnikov (Glenview, Illinois); Roumen Balabanov (Chicago, Illinois); Dusan Stefoski (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Levenson (Chicago, Illinois); Anatoliy Melnikov (Glenview, Illinois); Roumen Balabanov (Chicago, Illinois); Dusan Stefoski (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA methylation-based test for efficiency of treatments is based on a plurality of genes. The test is suitable for monitoring treatment of subjects with neurological diseases, e.g., multiple sclerosis (MS); with cancer, e.g., breast and ovarian cancer, and with other diseases for which methylation of biomarkers differs in the diseased compared to the non-diseased state. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631622 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497118 | Jensen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Jensen (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Jensen (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric transmembrane immunoreceptors, named “zetakines,” comprised of an extracellular domain comprising a soluble receptor ligand linked to a support region capable of tethering the extracellular domain to a cell surface, a transmembrane region and an intracellular signalling domain. Zetakines, when expressed on the surface of T lymphocytes, direct T cell activity to those specific cells expressing a receptor for which the soluble receptor ligand is specific. Zetakine chimeric immunoreceptors represent a novel extension of antibody-based immunoreceptors for redirecting the antigen specificity of T cells, with application to treatment of a variety of cancers, particularly via the autocrin/paracrine cytokine systems utilized by human maligancy. In a preferred embodiment is a glioma-specific immunoreceptor comprising the extracellular targetting domain of the IL-13Rα2-specific IL-13 mutant IL-13(E13Y) linked to the Fc region of IgG, the transmembrane domain of human CD4, and the human CD3 zeta chain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570032 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497122 | Ory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel S. Ory (St. Louis, Missouri); Forbes D. Porter (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Ory (St. Louis, Missouri); Forbes D. Porter (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for screening or diagnosing subjects for disorders involving accumulation of one or more oxysterols such as cytotoxic oxysterol accumulation, Niemann-Pick C(NPC) disease, lysosomal storage diseases, cholesterol trafficking diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Also provided are methods for methods for screening or diagnosing subjects (including infants and neonatal subjects) for NPC disease, methods for monitoring the progression, remission, and clinical status of NPC disease, and methods for evaluating the efficacy of therapeutic treatment of NPC disease. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/385529 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497131 | Natan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Natan (San Carlos, California); Sharron Gaynor Penn (San Carlos, California); R. Griffith Freeman (Mountain View, California); Gabriela Chakarova (San Jose, California); William E. Doering (Mountain View, California); Ian D. Walton (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Becton, Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Natan (San Carlos, California); Sharron Gaynor Penn (San Carlos, California); R. Griffith Freeman (Mountain View, California); Gabriela Chakarova (San Jose, California); William E. Doering (Mountain View, California); Ian D. Walton (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy-Active Composite Nanoparticles (SACN) comprising: core/shell nanoparticles comprising nanoparticle cores covered with shells, wherein the cores and the shells may comprise the same or different materials; at least one Raman-active reporter molecule associated with said core/shell nanoparticle; and an SiO2 encapsulant which encapsulates the core/shell nanoparticle and the at least one Raman-active reporter molecule, are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113601 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497246 | Pardridge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Armagen Technologies, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating or diagnosing CNS disorders by systemic administration of therapeutic or diagnostic protein compositions that are capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, in some embodiments in both directions, while allowing their activity once across the barrier to remain substantially intact. The agents are transported across the blood-brain barrier via one or more endogenous receptor-mediated transport systems. Also provided are methods for manufacturing the compositions used in the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/841594 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497292 | Jamieson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon A. Jamieson, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Katherine L. B. Borden (St. Laurent, Canada); Biljana Culjkovic (Montreal, Canada); Alex Kentsis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translational Therapeutics, Inc. (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Jamieson, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Katherine L. B. Borden (St. Laurent, Canada); Biljana Culjkovic (Montreal, Canada); Alex Kentsis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for inhibiting eukaryotic translation initiation factor. Such methods and compositions may be used alone or in conjunction with other therapies, such as gene therapies, for inhibiting cell proliferation and/or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163449 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497350 | Hageman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory S. Hageman (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Hageman (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Factor H gene polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with an elevated or a reduced risk of AMD. The invention provides methods and reagents for diagnosis and treatment of AMD. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/479716 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497354 | Ferrone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xinhui Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas P. Conrads (Reston, Virginia); Elvira Favoino (Bari, Italy); Brian L. Hood (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xinhui Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas P. Conrads (Reston, Virginia); Elvira Favoino (Bari, Italy); Brian L. Hood (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated monoclonal antibodies are disclosed herein that specifically bind endoplasmin. In some embodiments these antibodies are fully human. Recombinant nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acids, and host cells transformed with these expression vectors are also disclosed herein. In several embodiments the disclosed antibodies are of use for detecting and/or treating tumors that express endoplasmin, such as melanoma, breast cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, renal cancer, lung cancer, glioma, bladder cancer, ovarian cancer or pancreatic cancer. In one example, the tumor is a melanoma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161432 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497361 | Madrid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Madrid (San Francisco, California); Bryan Glaser (San Francisco, California); Jeremiah Malerich (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Madrid (San Francisco, California); Bryan Glaser (San Francisco, California); Jeremiah Malerich (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aminocoumarin conjugated to a fluorescent label through a secondary amine, is operative as a fluorescent polarization probe of the DNA gyrase B or topoisomerase IV E subunit. The probe is used for detecting topoisomerase inhibitor binding by fluorescence polarization, particularly in a high-through put topoisomerase inhibitor assay. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215175 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/50 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497385 | Wender |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Wender (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Wender (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Biologically active compounds related to the bryostatin family of compounds, including methods of utilizing the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200620 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497767 | Hollis, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph LeRoy Hollis, Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Butterfly Haptics, LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph LeRoy Hollis, Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses a haptic interface system that uses Lorentz forces to provide magnetic levitation for a handle which can be manipulated by a person, typically a computer user. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712772 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/407.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497914 | Mistretta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Justin Mertes-Mistretta (Middleton, Wisconsin); Erick Oberstar (Madison, Wisconsin); Ethan Brodsky (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Justin Mertes-Mistretta (Middleton, Wisconsin); Erick Oberstar (Madison, Wisconsin); Ethan Brodsky (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A night vision device and method for filtering a series of image frames that depict a moving subject, which thereby improves the signal-to-noise ratio of each image frame, is provided. A composite image is formed for each image frame by combining pixel values in a current image frame with pixel values in composite images corresponding to image frames acquired before the current image frame. Additionally, pixels values in image frames acquired subsequent to the acquisition of the current image frame are included when forming the composite image. A bi-directional recursive filter is used to weight the contributions from the previous composite images and subsequent image frames with a decay constant. Motion of the imaging system is optionally compensated for by establishing a moving reference frame and shifting the image frames to account for this motion; thus, registering the image frames before filtering the current image frame. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538433 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497992 | Ye et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingyong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jason E. Gestwicki (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingyong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jason E. Gestwicki (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining whether interaction occurs between a trial substance and a target substance. The system includes a photonic crystal sensor having a photonic crystal structure and a defect member disposed adjacent the photonic crystal structure. The defect member defines an operative surface able to receive the target substance and the trial substance. The system further includes a light source that inputs a light signal to the photonic crystal structure and the defect member. The light signal is internally reflected, and a resultant output signal is outputted. The output signal relates to whether the trial substance interacts with the target substance at the operative surface. Furthermore, the system includes an identity detector that identifies the trial substance that interacts with the target substance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/616457 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498465 | Xing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Jing Wang (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Jing Wang (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A binary image reconstruction method is provided to identify metal objects in a computer tomography (CT) image. The method includes providing a suitably programmed computer, providing a CT image, where the CT image includes intensity data, and the suitably programmed computer is used to determine a first range of attenuation coefficient values and a second range of attenuation coefficient values in the intensity data, where when a difference between the first range of attenuation coefficient values and the second range of attenuation coefficient values is less than a pre-determined gradient threshold value, a boundary of a metal object in the CT image is determined. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924327 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498507 | Pologe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonas Alexander Pologe (Boulder, Colorado); Theodore Philip Delianides (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kestrel Labs, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Alexander Pologe (Boulder, Colorado); Theodore Philip Delianides (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a light launching portion of a photoplethysmographic device having a laser (20) light source and a light guide (40). The coupled end of the light guide (40) includes an anti-reflection coating (30a) to prevent or minimize the back reflection of light emitted by the laser (20). This minimizes the extent to which back reflected light can re-enter the laser and adversely alter the optical output properties of the laser (20) and additionally minimizes the associated light loss thus helping to maximize the optical coupling efficiency. Other embodiments are described and shown. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107004 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/38 |
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| US 08498689 | Lake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David S. Lake (Rochester, Minnesota); Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota); Jeffrey S. McAllister (St. Paul, Minnesota); Nelson Ramirez (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Lake (Rochester, Minnesota); Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota); Jeffrey S. McAllister (St. Paul, Minnesota); Nelson Ramirez (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for capturing motion information in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment. A light sink in the MRI environment may detect light emitted from a plurality of light sources. Each of the plurality of light sources may emit light of a different frequency. Further, each of the plurality of light sources may be located at a different spatial position in the MRI environment. The detected light may be analyzed. A change in spatial position of the light sink may be computed based on the analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612143 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498699 | Wells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathon D. Wells (Seattle, Washington); Mark P. Bendett (Kirkland, Washington); James S. Webb (Seattle, Washington); Charles A. Lemaire (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Austin R. Duke (Nashville, Tennessee); E. Duco Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee); Peter E. Konrad (Nashville, Tennessee); Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Company (Bethesda, Maryland); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathon D. Wells (Seattle, Washington); Mark P. Bendett (Kirkland, Washington); James S. Webb (Seattle, Washington); Charles A. Lemaire (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Austin R. Duke (Nashville, Tennessee); E. Duco Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee); Peter E. Konrad (Nashville, Tennessee); Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for stimulating animal tissue (for example to trigger a nerve action potential (NAP) signal in a human patient) by application of both electrical and optical signals for treatment and diagnosis purposes. The application of an electrical signal before or simultaneously to the application of a NAP-triggering optical signal allows the use of a lower amount of optical power or energy than would otherwise be needed if an optical signal alone was used for the same purpose and effectiveness. The application of the electrical signal may precondition the nerve tissue such that a lower-power optical signal can be used to trigger the desired NAP, which otherwise would take a higher-power optical signal were the electric signal not applied. Some embodiments include an implanted nerve interface having a plurality of closely spaced electrodes placed transversely and/or longitudinally to the nerve and a plurality of optical emitters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/013816 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/3 |
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| US 08498713 | McClure et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Sanjay Gaikwad (Valencia, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Scott M. Loftin (Rosamond, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Sanjay Gaikwad (Valencia, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Scott M. Loftin (Rosamond, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a visor for retinal stimulation of visually impaired subjects. The visor comprises a frame, an external coil, a camera and a mounting system. A connector allows the external coil to be positioned along a first direction. A sliding device allows the external coil to be positioned along a second direction. Positioning of the visor on a subject's nose allows the external coil to be positioned along a third direction. Positioning of the external coil along the first, second or third direction is useful to maximize coupling RF coupling between the external coil and an internal coil implanted on a subject wearing the visor. |
| FILED | Sunday, October 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926039 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498823 | Al-Hashimi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stelzer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ioan Andricioaei (Irvine, California); Aaron Frank (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stelzer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ioan Andricioaei (Irvine, California); Aaron Frank (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating putative ligand structures capable of altering the activity of a target effector molecule comprise: constructing an elongated monomer of the target effector molecule; constructing a three dimensional model of the target effector molecule under the influence of elongation using empirical three dimensional data, the model including a conformation revealing the binding portion of the target effector molecule to a putative ligand structure; generating a plurality of computational models of the target effector molecule; filtering the plurality of computational models against the three dimensional model created experimentally using a reiterative simulation analysis algorithm operable to identify and select a plurality of computational models having a root-mean square deviation below a predetermined threshold when compared to the three dimensional model of the target effector molecule; screening a plurality of ligands to rank the binding strength of each ligand with the plurality of computational models selected and selecting one or more ligands based on the ranking. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/120064 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08495767 | Berglund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Berglund (Lebanon, Connecticut); Reed Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Berglund (Lebanon, Connecticut); Reed Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hazardous materials protective garment may use a two-stage evaporative cooling process to ease heat strain on the wearer of the garment. The garment may include an impermeable inner layer and a wicking outer layer. One or more reservoirs may be disposed interior to the inner layer for collecting condensed and/or unevaporated sweat. One or more pumps may move the sweat to the exterior of the impermeable layer for distribution in the wicking layer and evaporation from the garment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/481292 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08495922 | Li-Jones |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xu Li-Jones (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu Li-Jones (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sampling system for ground level aircraft engine PM emission measurements has been developed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/176122 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08495945 | Kirchner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Kirchner (Ridgecrest, California); Mallory Boyd (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kirchner (Ridgecrest, California); Mallory Boyd (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that provides wireless power transfer between a weapon and a platform. A method for loading, testing, targeting, and launching a weapon. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565267 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08495973 | Poshusta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Poshusta (Broomfield, Colorado); Douwe Bruinsma (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Poshusta (Broomfield, Colorado); Douwe Bruinsma (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a thin film vaporizer. The vaporizer includes a primary body having an inlet, an outlet, and an internal surface therebetween. The inlet, outlet and internal surface defining a gas passage between the inlet and the outlet. A first liquid provider is disposed proximate to the inlet and structured and arranged to provide liquid flow upon at least a portion of the internal surface. A first vaporizing zone is provided downstream from the first liquid provider and structured and arranged to provide wetting of the provided liquid flow upon at least a portion of the internal surface. The first vaporizing zone is further structured and arranged with the gas passage to permit vaporizing of the liquid and mixing with a first gas received from the inlet about contemporaneously. A heat source is thermally coupled to the first vaporization so as to apply heat by conduction, convection, radiation and or combinations thereof. An associated method of use and fuel cell incorporating the thin film vaporizer are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611851 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid heaters and vaporizers 122/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496650 | Sramek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher K. Sramek (Stanford, California); Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher K. Sramek (Stanford, California); Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The safe therapeutic window for laser medicine tends to decrease as pulse length decreases. This problem is addressed by use of beam shapes and/or pulse shapes that improve temperature uniformity in the treated tissue. A beam shape with an adjustable on-axis intensity minimum improves spatial temperature uniformity in treated tissue. A pulse shape with a relatively intense early part (to set the temperature rise), followed by a less intense late part having decreasing intensity with time (to maintain a constant or nearly constant temperature rise) improves temporal temperature uniformity in the treated tissue. A therapeutic window (TW) of at least 3 is often required to provide a sufficient safety margin in practice. In one experiment, it was demonstrated that the minimum pulse length to provide a TW of 3 could be decreased from 20 ms to 10 ms following these principles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/653652 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497028 | Tryon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian S. Tryon (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David A. Litton (West Hartford, Connecticut); Benjamin Joseph Zimmerman (Enfield, Connecticut); Russell A. Beers (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. Tryon (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David A. Litton (West Hartford, Connecticut); Benjamin Joseph Zimmerman (Enfield, Connecticut); Russell A. Beers (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating system for a turbine engine component having a substrate includes a multi-layer bond coat applied to the substrate. The multi-layer bond coat has an oxidation resistant layer and a spallation resistant layer deposited over the oxidation resistant layer. Processes for forming the coating system are described. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/987319 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497467 | Toliver |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling an optical filter is provided. The system and method includes dithering a delay of an optical path within an optical filter unit cell, measuring a position of a filter zero, measuring a position of a filter pole, or measuring positions of both a filter zero and a filter pole by observing an output of the unit cell when the delay is dithered, and using the measurement as feedback for maintaining the position of the filter zero at a desired position, maintaining the position of the filter pole at a desired position, or maintaining the positions of both the filter zero and the filter pole at desired positions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639331 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497479 | Garman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Garman (Long Beach, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Garman (Long Beach, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal infrared camera may be used under a wide variety of target-scene radiation conditions, with interchangeable or zoom lenses requiring matching or different size cold stops. A variable aperture assembly of a thermal infrared camera integrates a rigid open truss-like framework that's capped by an aperture ring and bottomed by a driving ring, and a radiation shield, located inside the framework, that contains an aperture ring at an upper side. A plurality of blades that collectively define an aperture positioned between the upper aperture rings. Opposite blade ends are coupled to respective ones of the two aperture rings, permitting pivotal movement in one ring and radial movement in the other ring, when the rings are rotated relative to one another, to change the size of the formed aperture. Both refractive and reflective infrared telescopes may be retro-fitted with variable aperture devices to enhance infrared imaging performance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/311517 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497552 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor buffer layer having a first conductivity type and a semiconductor mesa having the first conductivity type on a surface of the buffer layer. In addition, a current shifting region having a second conductivity type may be provided adjacent a corner between the semiconductor mesa and the semiconductor buffer layer, and the first and second conductivity types may be different conductivity types. Related methods are also discussed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512281 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497631 | Eden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Meng Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Brian Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Meng Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Brian Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microplasma device includes a substrate and either or both of a microchannel or microcavity defined in a polymer layer supported by the substrate. Electrodes arranged with respect to the polymer material can excite a plasma in a discharge medium contained in the microchannel or the microcavity or both. A method of forming a microplasma device places a curable polymer material between a mold having a negative volume impression of microcavities and/or microchannels and a substrate. The polymer is cured and then the mold is separated from the solid polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698264 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498350 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin A. Stern (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Thomas E. Young (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Mark A. Gloudemans (Fort Wayne, Indiana); David E. Mussmann (Spencerville, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A. Stern (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Thomas E. Young (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Mark A. Gloudemans (Fort Wayne, Indiana); David E. Mussmann (Spencerville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless radio transceiver system configured to transmit and receive a communications signal waveform having a time division multiple access physical layer structure and which includes a sequence of orthogonal frequency division multiple access symbols. The transceiver provides transmit diversity through space-time coding and the use of orthogonal channel probes from each transmitter. The waveform is packet based and contains a packet header definition that supports local receiver synchronization. Examples of the waveform also incorporate transmission security features. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/762619 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498440 | Parkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An eartip made of a resilient body with an eartip core inside the open center of the body, and a tether attached to the eartip core at an attachment region along the length of the core. A free end of the tether extends outward from the eartip, allowing a wearer to remove the eartip from their ear by pulling on the tether. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221515 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498465 | Xing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Jing Wang (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Jing Wang (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A binary image reconstruction method is provided to identify metal objects in a computer tomography (CT) image. The method includes providing a suitably programmed computer, providing a CT image, where the CT image includes intensity data, and the suitably programmed computer is used to determine a first range of attenuation coefficient values and a second range of attenuation coefficient values in the intensity data, where when a difference between the first range of attenuation coefficient values and the second range of attenuation coefficient values is less than a pre-determined gradient threshold value, a boundary of a metal object in the CT image is determined. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924327 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498480 | Bentrem |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank W. Bentrem (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank W. Bentrem (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A computationally efficient image segmentation method is provided that processes a grayscale digital image to more clearly show textures in the underlying object shown in the digital image. A grayscale digital image is converted to an intensity matrix based on the brightness of the pixels in the image, where each matrix element represents a pixel in the digital image and has a value corresponding to the intensity, i.e., the brightness, of that pixel. The value of each matrix element is compared to the value of its nearest neighbor matrix element, and the pixel represented by the matrix element is categorized as being “dark” or “bright” based on its value, and is categorized as being “smooth” or “rough” based on the values of the nearest neighbor matrix elements. As each pixel is categorized, it is assigned a shading level corresponding to the brightness/texture matrix element value. A processed image having only the assigned shading levels is then produced, with the processed image indicating textures of the underlying object shown in the original grayscale digital image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711395 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498863 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tianyu Wang (Roswell, Georgia); Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianyu Wang (Roswell, Georgia); Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to co-channel audio source separation. In one embodiment a first frequency-related representation of plural regions of the acoustic signal is prepared over time, and a two-dimensional transform of plural two-dimensional localized regions of the first frequency-related representation, each less than an entire frequency range of the first frequency related representation, is obtained to provide a two-dimensional compressed frequency-related representation with respect to each two dimensional localized region. For each of the plural regions, at least one pitch is identified. The pitch from the plural regions is processed to provide multiple pitch estimates over time. In another embodiment, a mixed acoustic signal is processed by localizing multiple time-frequency regions of a spectrogram of the mixed acoustic signal to obtain one or more acoustic properties. A separate pitch estimate of each of the multiple acoustic signals at a time point are provided by combining the one or more acoustic properties. At least one of the multiple acoustic signals is recovered using the separate pitch estimates. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875950 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498952 | Ferringer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods may include receiving a respective plurality of objective function values for each chromosome data structure of a population, where the respective plurality of objective function values are obtained based upon an evaluation of each chromosome data structure; mapping the respective objective function values to respective epsilon values, where the respective epsilon values define a respective address associated with the plurality of objective functions; and performing non-domination sorting of the population to generate a reduced population of chromosome data structures; and performing epsilon non-dominated sorting to identify an elite set of addresses, where the prior steps are performed for a current generation, where the elite set of addresses are compared to a prior elite set of addresses for a predetermined number of prior generations to determine one or more variance values, where the one or more variance values are utilized to determine whether a current job of an evolutionary algorithm is to be halted. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550817 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499022 | Long et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Combining multiple clusterings arises in various important data mining scenarios. However, finding a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings is a challenging task because there is no explicit correspondence between the classes from different clusterings. Provided is a framework based on soft correspondence to directly address the correspondence problem in combining multiple clusterings. Under this framework, an algorithm iteratively computes the consensus clustering and correspondence matrices using multiplicative updating rules. This algorithm provides a final consensus clustering as well as correspondence matrices that gives intuitive interpretation of the relations between the consensus clustering and each clustering from clustering ensembles. Extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of this framework as well as the algorithm for discovering a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476100 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499029 | 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 | A mechanism is provided for managing a process-to-process communication request. A call is received in an operating system from an application in the data processing system. The operating system passes the call to a host fabric interface controller in the data processing system without processing the call. The host fabric interface controller processes the call using state information associated with the call. The call is processed by the host fabric interface controller without intervention by the operating system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/342559 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499124 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Alvan W. Ng (Austin, Tennessee); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Alvan W. Ng (Austin, Tennessee); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A victim cache memory includes a cache array, a cache directory of contents of the cache array, and a cache controller that controls operation of the victim cache memory. The cache controller, responsive to receiving a castout command identifying a victim cache line castout from another cache memory, causes the victim cache line to be held in the cache array. If the other cache memory is a higher level cache in the cache hierarchy of the processor core, the cache controller marks the victim cache line in the cache directory so that it is less likely to be evicted by a replacement policy of the victim cache, and otherwise, marks the victim cache line in the cache directory so that it is more likely to be evicted by the replacement policy of the victim cache. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336048 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499203 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Configurable alert delivery in a distributed processing system include for each alert generated by an incident analyzer, applying active alert filters to the alert; wherein applying the active alert filters to the alert includes: creating a list of all active alert filters and a set of all active listeners; and for each active alert filter, running the active alert filter; if the active alert filter indicates that the alert should not go to one or more of the active listeners, removing the one or more active listeners from the set of all active listeners; if the active listeners set is empty, stopping processing of the alert; and if the active listeners set is not empty, selecting, by the incident analyzer, the next active alert filter from the active alert filter list. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679219 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499248 | Keel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Erich Keel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Erich Keel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides collaboration and exchange of information among a group of users based on creation, sharing and exchange of information objects (IOs). The system further provides hosted conversation among users through the use of IOs. A unique IO layout and a number of information views through which IOs can be viewed are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563416 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499285 | Schneider |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric R. Schneider (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric R. Schneider (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system comprises a memory configured to store software instructions; a set of registers; and a processing unit configured to temporarily store passed parameters in the set of registers during execution of the software instructions, the processing unit is further configured to skip save and restore operations when executing a logging function to log the passed parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851207 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499292 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jim Challenger (White Plains, New York); Bugra Gedik (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Grimm (New York, New York); Martin J. Hirzel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Soule (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jim Challenger (White Plains, New York); Bugra Gedik (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Grimm (New York, New York); Martin J. Hirzel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Soule (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual execution environment (VEE) for a streaming Intermediate Language (IL), wherein the streaming IL represents a streaming program, communicates streaming data in queues, stores data-at-rest in variables, and determines data by functions, where inputs are read from the queues and the variables, and outputs are written to the queues and the variables. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719364 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08495872 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, gas is compressed to store energy and/or expanded to recover energy to or from high pressures, and the gas is exchanges heat with a heat-exchange fluid that is thermally conditioned at low pressures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211440 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08495982 | Laster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Elizabeth R. Colore (Cave Creek, Arizona); David A. Little (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Elizabeth R. Colore (Cave Creek, Arizona); David A. Little (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel shroud assembly (100) into which fuel (118) is injected for mixing with an air stream (120) in a fuel manifold. The shroud assembly (100) comprises a plurality of parallel fuel scoops (102) each receiving the injected fuel (118). The fuel stream (118) flows through each scoop (102), exiting at an open scoop end (114A). The air stream (120) flows between scoops, creating a shear region proximate each scoop end (114A) where the fuel exits. The shear causes mixing of the air (120) and the fuel (118) streams, wherein the degree of mixing is not dependent on the momentum ratio of the air (120) or fuel (118) streams. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788300 |
| ART UNIT | 3783 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/184.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496033 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Comminution process of wood veneer to produce wood particles, by feeding wood veneer in a direction of travel substantially normal to grain through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of veneer travel, wherein the cutting discs have a uniform thickness (Td), to produce wood particles characterized by a length dimension (L) substantially equal to the Td and aligned substantially parallel to grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) substantially equal to the veneer thickness (Tv) and aligned normal to W and L, wherein the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces with end checking between crosscut fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690986 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Woodworking 144/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496443 | Campbell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian X. Campbell (Oviedo, Florida); Daniel O. Davies (Palm City, Florida); Darryl Eng (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian X. Campbell (Oviedo, Florida); Daniel O. Davies (Palm City, Florida); Darryl Eng (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil (22E-H) extends from a shank (23E-H). A platform (30E-H) brackets or surrounds a first portion of the shank (23E-H). Opposed teeth (33, 35) extend laterally from the platform (30E-H) to engage respective slots (50) in a disk. Opposed teeth (25, 27) extend laterally from a second portion of the shank (29) that extends below the platform (30E-H) to engage other slots (52) in the disk. Thus the platform (30E-H) and the shank (23E-H) independently support their own centrifugal loads via their respective teeth. The platform may be formed in two portions (32E-H, 34E-H), that are bonded to each other at matching end-walls (37) and/or via pins (36G) passing through the shank (23E-H). Coolant channels (41, 43) may pass through the shank beside the pins (36G). |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793935 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496831 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer Ly (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer Ly (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for removing water from organic compounds, especially polar compounds such as alcohols. The processes include a membrane-based dehydration step, using a membrane that has a dioxole-based polymer selective layer or the like and a hydrophilic selective layer, and can operate even when the stream to be treated has a high water content, such as 10 wt % or more. The processes are particularly useful for dehydrating ethanol. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/897675 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496909 | Ramkumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shwetha Ramkumar (Columbus, Ohio); Liang-Shih Fan (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shwetha Ramkumar (Columbus, Ohio); Liang-Shih Fan (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing hydrogen comprising the steps of: (i) gasifying a fuel into a raw synthesis gas comprising CO, hydrogen, steam, sulfur and halide contaminants in the form of H2S, COS, and HX, wherein X is a halide; (ii) passing the raw synthesis gas through a water gas shift reactor (WGSR) into which CaO and steam are injected, the CaO reacting with the shifted gas to remove CO2, sulfur and halides in a solid-phase calcium-containing product comprising CaCO3, CaS and CaX2; (iii) separating the solid-phase calcium-containing product from an enriched gaseous hydrogen product; and (iv) regenerating the CaO by calcining the solid-phase calcium-containing product at a condition selected from the group consisting of: in the presence of steam, in the presence of CO2, in the presence of synthesis gas, in the presence of H2 and O2, under partial vacuum, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123746 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497019 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant biomass particles coated with a bioactive agent such as a fertilizer or pesticide, characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to a grain direction and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. In particular, the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585949 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497020 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Wood particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein: the wood particles are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L; the L×H dimensions define two side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers; the W×H dimensions define two cross-grain end surfaces characterized individually as aligned either normal to the grain or oblique to the grain; the L×W dimensions define two substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces; and, a majority of the W×H surfaces in the mixture of wood particles have end checking. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739690 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497021 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Brian D'Urso (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Brian D'Urso (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Superoleophilic particles and surfaces and methods of making the same are described. The superoleophilic particles can include porous particles having a hydrophobic coating layer deposited thereon. The coated porous particles are characterized by particle sizes ranging from at least 100 nm to about 10 μm and a plurality of nanopores. Some of the nanopores provide flow through porosity. The superoleophilic particles also include oil pinned within the nanopores of the porous particles The plurality of porous particles can include (i) particles including a plurality of spaced apart nanostructured features comprising a contiguous, protrusive material, (ii) diatomaceous earth particles, or (iii) both. The surfaces can include the superoleophilic particles coupled to the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901072 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497069 | Hutchison, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clyde A. Hutchison, III (Rockville, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (Reisterstown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clyde A. Hutchison, III (Rockville, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (Reisterstown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, e.g., to a method for amplifying a small number of copies (e.g. a single copy) of a single-stranded circular DNA molecule (e.g. having a size of about 5-6 kb) by an isothermal rolling circle mechanism, using random or partially random primers and a F29-type DNA polymerase. The method, which can also be used for amplifying DNAs by non-rolling types of multiple displacement amplification, comprises incubating the reaction components in a small volume, e.g. about 10 μl or less, such as about 0.6 μl or less. The degree of amplification can be about 109 fold, or higher. A method for cell-free cloning of DNA, using the rolling circle amplification method of the invention, is described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/919515 |
| 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 08497110 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Emily D. Henriksen (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Emily D. Henriksen (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading, cleaving, or removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, chitin, polyhydroxybutyrate, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927504 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497115 | Maiyuran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suchindra Maiyuran (Gold River, California); Ana Fidantsef (Davis, California); Howard Brody (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suchindra Maiyuran (Gold River, California); Ana Fidantsef (Davis, California); Howard Brody (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing a polypeptide, comprising: (a) cultivating a fungal host cell in a medium conducive for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the fungal host cell comprises a nucleic acid construct comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide operably linked to a second nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide, wherein the first nucleotide sequence is foreign to the second nucleotide sequence and the 3′ end of the first nucleotide sequence is immediately upstream of the initiator codon of the second nucleotide sequence. The present invention also relates to the isolated signal peptide sequences and to constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising the signal peptide sequences operably linked to nucleotide sequences encoding polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/350384 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497359 | Fenn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Fenn (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mark P. Bowman (New Kensington, Pennsylvania); Steven R. Zawacky (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ellor J. Van Buskirk (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Kamarchik (Saxonburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Fenn (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mark P. Bowman (New Kensington, Pennsylvania); Steven R. Zawacky (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ellor J. Van Buskirk (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Kamarchik (Saxonburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A cationic electrodepositable coating composition is disclosed. The present invention in directed to a cationic electrodepositable coating composition comprising a lignin-containing cationic salt resin, that comprises (A) the reaction product of: lignin, an amine, and a carbonyl compound; (B) the reaction product of lignin, epichlorohydrin, and an amine; or (C) combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/714141 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497386 | Silks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilan Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilan Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of producing C8-C15 hydrocarbons. comprising providing a ketone starting material; providing an aldol starting material comprising chloromethylfurfural; mixing the ketone starting material and the aldol starting material in a reaction in the presence of a proline-containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of Zn(Pro)2, Yb(Pro)3, and combinations thereof, or a catalyst having one of the structures (I), (II) or (III), and in the presence of a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises water and is substantially free of organic solvents, where (I), (II) and (III) respectively are: where R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl moiety, X=(OH) and n=2. In (III), X may be CH2, sulfur or selenium, M may be Zn, Mg, or a lanthanide, and R1 and R2 each independently may be a methyl, ethyl, phenyl moiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/557338 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/498 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497473 | Kertesz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray ion (ESI) source and method capable of ionizing an analyte molecule without oxidizing or reducing the analyte of interest. The ESI source can include an emitter having a liquid conduit, a working electrode having a liquid contacting surface, a spray tip, a secondary working electrode, and a charge storage coating covering partially or fully the liquid contacting surface of the working electrode. The liquid conduit, the working electrode and the secondary working electrode can be in liquid communication. The electrospray ion source can also include a counter electrode proximate to, but separated from, said spray tip. The electrospray ion source can also include a power system for applying a voltage difference between the working electrodes and a counter-electrode. The power system can deliver pulsed voltage changes to the working electrodes during operation of said electrospray ion source to minimize the surface potential of the charge storage coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/207783 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497487 | Milas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mirko Milas (Baden, Switzerland); Yimei Zhu (Stony Brook, New York); Jonathan David Rameau (Coram, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mirko Milas (Baden, Switzerland); Yimei Zhu (Stony Brook, New York); Jonathan David Rameau (Coram, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample holder for holding a sample to be observed for research purposes, particularly in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), generally includes an external alignment part for directing a light beam in a predetermined beam direction, a sample holder body in optical communication with the external alignment part and a sample support member disposed at a distal end of the sample holder body opposite the external alignment part for holding a sample to be analyzed. The sample holder body defines an internal conduit for the light beam and the sample support member includes a light beam positioner for directing the light beam between the sample holder body and the sample held by the sample support member. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/398623 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/440.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497617 | Dang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dang Dinh Dang (Garden Grove, California); Rolf Blissenbach (Rolling Hills Estates, California); David Schauer (New Ulm, Minnesota); John Wattleworth (Mankato, Minnesota); Michael Milani (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Erik Hatch (Cypress, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dang Dinh Dang (Garden Grove, California); Rolf Blissenbach (Rolling Hills Estates, California); David Schauer (New Ulm, Minnesota); John Wattleworth (Mankato, Minnesota); Michael Milani (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Erik Hatch (Cypress, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of slots, and a conductor. The plurality of slots are formed within the stator core. The conductor is disposed continuously within at least two of the plurality of openings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/503623 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497747 | Wojciechowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth E. Wojciechowski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Wojciechowski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) filter is disclosed which has a plurality of lattice networks formed on a substrate and electrically connected together in parallel. Each lattice network has a series resonant frequency and a shunt resonant frequency provided by one or more contour-mode resonators in the lattice network. Different types of contour-mode resonators including single input, single output resonators, differential resonators, balun resonators, and ring resonators can be used in MEM filter. The MEM filter can have a center frequency in the range of 10 MHz-10 GHz, with a filter bandwidth of up to about 1% when all of the lattice networks have the same series resonant frequency and the same shunt resonant frequency. The filter bandwidth can be increased up to about 5% by using unique series and shunt resonant frequencies for the lattice networks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039029 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498097 | Gogotsi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yury Gogotsi (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Patrice Simon (Toulouse, France); Celine Largeot (Chorey les Beavne, France); Cristelle Portet (Grenoble, France); John Chmiola (Berkeley, California); Pierre-Louis Taberna (Escalquens, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yury Gogotsi (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Patrice Simon (Toulouse, France); Celine Largeot (Chorey les Beavne, France); Cristelle Portet (Grenoble, France); John Chmiola (Berkeley, California); Pierre-Louis Taberna (Escalquens, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are supercapacitor materials comprising compositions having pores that are optimally sized to maximize capacitance. Also disclosed are related methods for fabricating such supercapacitors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864774 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498746 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Robert James (Lynn, Massachusetts); John McDermott (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Piche (Austin, Texas); Fred Pickard (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Neel J. Parikh (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NeuCo, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Robert James (Lynn, Massachusetts); John McDermott (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Piche (Austin, Texas); Fred Pickard (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Neel J. Parikh (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A sootblowing control system that uses predictive models to bridge the gap between sootblower operation and boiler performance goals. The system uses predictive modeling and heuristics (rules) associated with different zones in a boiler to determine an optimal sequence of sootblower operations and achieve boiler performance targets. The system performs the sootblower optimization while observing any operational constraints placed on the sootblowers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/606311 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08495872 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, gas is compressed to store energy and/or expanded to recover energy to or from high pressures, and the gas is exchanges heat with a heat-exchange fluid that is thermally conditioned at low pressures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211440 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496323 | Grzybowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bartosz A. Grzybowski (Evanston, Illinois); Rafal Klajn (Rehovot, Israel); Paul J. Wesson (Chicago, Illinois); Kyle J. M. Bishop (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bartosz A. Grzybowski (Evanston, Illinois); Rafal Klajn (Rehovot, Israel); Paul J. Wesson (Chicago, Illinois); Kyle J. M. Bishop (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-erasing inks in which both the printing and self-erasure of color images can be controlled by the dynamic/non-equilibrium aggregation of photoresponsive surface-coated nanoparticles contained in a carrier film are provided. The aggregation is a reversible aggregation that is triggered by a photo-induced transformation in ligands within the surface coating on the nanoparticles. Methods for forming images using the inks are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775953 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496844 | Strouse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey F. Strouse (Tallahassee, Florida); Derek D. Lovingood (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High quantum yield InP nanocrystals are used in the bio-technology, bio-medical, and photovoltaic, specifically IV, III-V and III-VI nanocrystal technological applications. InP nanocrystals typically require post-generation HF treatment. Combining microwave methodologies with the presence of a fluorinated ionic liquid allows Fluorine ion etching without the hazards accompanying HF. Growing the InP nanocrystals in the presence of the ionic liquid allows in-situ etching to be achieved. The optimization of the PL QY is achieved by balancing growth and etching rates in the reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645876 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497292 | Jamieson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon A. Jamieson, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Katherine L. B. Borden (St. Laurent, Canada); Biljana Culjkovic (Montreal, Canada); Alex Kentsis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translational Therapeutics, Inc. (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Jamieson, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Katherine L. B. Borden (St. Laurent, Canada); Biljana Culjkovic (Montreal, Canada); Alex Kentsis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for inhibiting eukaryotic translation initiation factor. Such methods and compositions may be used alone or in conjunction with other therapies, such as gene therapies, for inhibiting cell proliferation and/or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163449 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497767 | Hollis, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph LeRoy Hollis, Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Butterfly Haptics, LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph LeRoy Hollis, Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses a haptic interface system that uses Lorentz forces to provide magnetic levitation for a handle which can be manipulated by a person, typically a computer user. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712772 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/407.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498097 | Gogotsi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yury Gogotsi (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Patrice Simon (Toulouse, France); Celine Largeot (Chorey les Beavne, France); Cristelle Portet (Grenoble, France); John Chmiola (Berkeley, California); Pierre-Louis Taberna (Escalquens, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yury Gogotsi (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Patrice Simon (Toulouse, France); Celine Largeot (Chorey les Beavne, France); Cristelle Portet (Grenoble, France); John Chmiola (Berkeley, California); Pierre-Louis Taberna (Escalquens, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are supercapacitor materials comprising compositions having pores that are optimally sized to maximize capacitance. Also disclosed are related methods for fabricating such supercapacitors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864774 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498458 | Schuckers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephanie Schuckers (Canton, New York); Aditya Abhyankar (Maharashtra, India); Lawrence Hornak (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie Schuckers (Canton, New York); Aditya Abhyankar (Maharashtra, India); Lawrence Hornak (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a plurality of image analysis data of a fingerprint image; condensing the plurality of image analysis data; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the condensed data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/313444 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498592 | Mishra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arunesh Mishra (Mountain View, California); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arunesh Mishra (Mountain View, California); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved battery life for mobile wireless devices communicating using standard network protocols is obtained by measuring an energy profile of the transmitter circuitry with respect to transmission rate and transmission energy and adjusting operating conditions according to measured or deduced error rates. Additional energy savings are obtained reducing the total number of bits transmitted using payload compression and header truncation making use of application layer communications between the remote device and a power-unconstrained proxy device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555379 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/127.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498823 | Al-Hashimi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stelzer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ioan Andricioaei (Irvine, California); Aaron Frank (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew Stelzer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ioan Andricioaei (Irvine, California); Aaron Frank (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating putative ligand structures capable of altering the activity of a target effector molecule comprise: constructing an elongated monomer of the target effector molecule; constructing a three dimensional model of the target effector molecule under the influence of elongation using empirical three dimensional data, the model including a conformation revealing the binding portion of the target effector molecule to a putative ligand structure; generating a plurality of computational models of the target effector molecule; filtering the plurality of computational models against the three dimensional model created experimentally using a reiterative simulation analysis algorithm operable to identify and select a plurality of computational models having a root-mean square deviation below a predetermined threshold when compared to the three dimensional model of the target effector molecule; screening a plurality of ligands to rank the binding strength of each ligand with the plurality of computational models selected and selecting one or more ligands based on the ranking. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/120064 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08496033 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Comminution process of wood veneer to produce wood particles, by feeding wood veneer in a direction of travel substantially normal to grain through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of veneer travel, wherein the cutting discs have a uniform thickness (Td), to produce wood particles characterized by a length dimension (L) substantially equal to the Td and aligned substantially parallel to grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) substantially equal to the veneer thickness (Tv) and aligned normal to W and L, wherein the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces with end checking between crosscut fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690986 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Woodworking 144/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496874 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barry N. Gellman (North Easton, Massachusetts); Andrew Koert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Zhongjun Wu (Woodstock, Maryland); Juntao Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Bartley P. Griffith (Gibson Island, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thoratec LLC (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry N. Gellman (North Easton, Massachusetts); Andrew Koert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Zhongjun Wu (Woodstock, Maryland); Juntao Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Bartley P. Griffith (Gibson Island, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated centrifugal blood pump-oxygenator (1) which has a housing (2) with a top (3) having a blood inlet (4), a blood outlet (5) and a gas inlet (6), and a bottom (7) having a rotational body (8) being rotatably arranged in a rotor-housing (9) of the bottom (7). The integrated centrifugal blood pump-oxygenator (1) further has an oxygenator membrane (10) provided in an interior (11) of the housing (2), wherein in the operation state oxygen (12) is transferred from the gas inlet (6) through the oxygenator membrane (10) to a gas outlet (13) and blood (14) is brought in direct contact with the oxygenator membrane (10) by pumping the blood (14) with the rotational body (8) from the blood inlet (4) to the blood outlet (5). The rotational body (8) is magnetically journalled in a contact-free manner with respect to the rotor-housing (9). There is an extracorporeal life support system (1000), and a method of de-bubbling and priming a extracorporeal life support system (1000). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999707 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497019 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant biomass particles coated with a bioactive agent such as a fertilizer or pesticide, characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to a grain direction and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. In particular, the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585949 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497020 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Wood particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein: the wood particles are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L; the L×H dimensions define two side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers; the W×H dimensions define two cross-grain end surfaces characterized individually as aligned either normal to the grain or oblique to the grain; the L×W dimensions define two substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces; and, a majority of the W×H surfaces in the mixture of wood particles have end checking. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739690 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497225 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a composite electrode having a specific surface area of at least 100 m2/gm for use in an electrochemical capacitor. The method comprises (a) providing exfoliated graphite flakes that are substantially interconnected to form a porous, conductive graphite network comprising pores; and (b) incorporating an electrochemically active material into at least a pore of the graphite network to form the composite electrode. The exfoliated graphite flakes are preferably obtained from the intercalation and exfoliation of a laminar graphite material selected from natural graphite, spheroidal graphite, synthetic graphite, highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, meso-carbon micro-bead, carbon/graphite fiber, carbon/graphite whisker, carbon/graphite nano-fiber, carbon nano-tube, or a combination thereof. A supercapacitor featuring such a composite electrode exhibits an exceptionally high capacitance value and low equivalent series resistance. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895588 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497479 | Garman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Garman (Long Beach, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Garman (Long Beach, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal infrared camera may be used under a wide variety of target-scene radiation conditions, with interchangeable or zoom lenses requiring matching or different size cold stops. A variable aperture assembly of a thermal infrared camera integrates a rigid open truss-like framework that's capped by an aperture ring and bottomed by a driving ring, and a radiation shield, located inside the framework, that contains an aperture ring at an upper side. A plurality of blades that collectively define an aperture positioned between the upper aperture rings. Opposite blade ends are coupled to respective ones of the two aperture rings, permitting pivotal movement in one ring and radial movement in the other ring, when the rings are rotated relative to one another, to change the size of the formed aperture. Both refractive and reflective infrared telescopes may be retro-fitted with variable aperture devices to enhance infrared imaging performance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/311517 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498440 | Parkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An eartip made of a resilient body with an eartip core inside the open center of the body, and a tether attached to the eartip core at an attachment region along the length of the core. A free end of the tether extends outward from the eartip, allowing a wearer to remove the eartip from their ear by pulling on the tether. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/221515 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08497029 | Gentleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Molly Maureen Gentleman (Niskayuna, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Margaret Louise Blohm (Schenectady, New York); Mohan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Molly Maureen Gentleman (Niskayuna, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Margaret Louise Blohm (Schenectady, New York); Mohan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials. The oxide materials described herein as a class typically contain one or more of ytterbia (Yb2O3) and europia (Eu2O3). The oxides may further contain other additives, such as oxides of gadolinium (Gd), samarium (Sm), dysprosium (Dy), or terbium (Tb). In certain embodiments the oxide, in addition to the ytterbia and/or europia, further comprises lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), or neodymium (Nd). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246949 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497064 | McGall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glenn H. McGall (Palo Alto, California); Anthony D. Barone (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn H. McGall (Palo Alto, California); Anthony D. Barone (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid labeling compounds are disclosed. The compounds are synthesized by condensing a heterocyclic derivative with a cyclic group (e.g. a ribofuranose derivative). The labeling compounds are suitable for enzymatic attachment to a nucleic acid, either terminally or internally, to provide a mechanism of nucleic acid detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286870 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497131 | Natan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Natan (San Carlos, California); Sharron Gaynor Penn (San Carlos, California); R. Griffith Freeman (Mountain View, California); Gabriela Chakarova (San Jose, California); William E. Doering (Mountain View, California); Ian D. Walton (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Becton, Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Natan (San Carlos, California); Sharron Gaynor Penn (San Carlos, California); R. Griffith Freeman (Mountain View, California); Gabriela Chakarova (San Jose, California); William E. Doering (Mountain View, California); Ian D. Walton (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy-Active Composite Nanoparticles (SACN) comprising: core/shell nanoparticles comprising nanoparticle cores covered with shells, wherein the cores and the shells may comprise the same or different materials; at least one Raman-active reporter molecule associated with said core/shell nanoparticle; and an SiO2 encapsulant which encapsulates the core/shell nanoparticle and the at least one Raman-active reporter molecule, are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113601 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497934 | Milnes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas B. Milnes (Beverly, Massachusetts); Douglas P. Hart (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas B. Milnes (Beverly, Massachusetts); Douglas P. Hart (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An actively addressable aperture disposed ahead of the rear surface of a camera lens allows the camera to capture a full-resolution, five-dimensional (5D) light field that describes every possible view from every possible angle of the scene being imaged. Shifting the aperture over the entire aperture plane and acquiring an image at each step yields a 2D grid of 2D images of the scene, otherwise known as a 4D parameterized light field. Estimating the 3D depth of the objects in the imaged scene yields a 3D model with 2D surface irradiance patterns, which is the full, non-parameterized 5D light field. The 5D light field can be used to display perspective changes in a way that mimics cognitive processing of the same scene or object. 5D light fields can also be used to create high-precision, 3D depth maps suitable for 3D movies, interactive displays, machine vision, and other applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952670 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498948 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglass Huang (Fairport, New York); Steven Paul Spiwak (Webster, New York); K. Bradley Paxton (Webster, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADI, LLC (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglass Huang (Fairport, New York); Steven Paul Spiwak (Webster, New York); K. Bradley Paxton (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Production data classified from a data source, such as a plurality of handprinted forms, is compared to provisional truth data independently classified from the same data source for constructing master truth data. The production data is compared to the master truth data for evaluating the quality with which the production data was classified. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/846909 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08495972 | Pound et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joe M. Pound (Ingram, Texas); Gary R. Earl (Kerrville, Texas); Randy W. Ryan, Jr. (Harper, Texas); Gordon K. Shelley (Kerrville, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe M. Pound (Ingram, Texas); Gary R. Earl (Kerrville, Texas); Randy W. Ryan, Jr. (Harper, Texas); Gordon K. Shelley (Kerrville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The injection system provides an automated means to safely inject a target animal. In the preferred embodiment, the automated injection system injects an animal with a radio frequency identification device (RFID). The automated injection system includes a baiting station with multiple sensors that confirm the position of a target animal and initiate the injection process. A controller actively controls the injection process and records the identification data associated with each injected animal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845281 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496831 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer Ly (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Jennifer Ly (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for removing water from organic compounds, especially polar compounds such as alcohols. The processes include a membrane-based dehydration step, using a membrane that has a dioxole-based polymer selective layer or the like and a hydrophilic selective layer, and can operate even when the stream to be treated has a high water content, such as 10 wt % or more. The processes are particularly useful for dehydrating ethanol. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/897675 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08497249 | De Lucca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony J. De Lucca (Metairie, Louisiana); Stephen M. Boue (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. De Lucca (Metairie, Louisiana); Stephen M. Boue (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | CAY-1 is a fungicidal saponin from the cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens) fruit. The saponins 1081 and 919, closely elute with, and are close structural relatives of, CAY-1. Saponin 1081 is poorly antifungal while 919 has no antifungal properties. Nongerminated and germinating conidia of Aspergilus flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani, and F. verticilioides were tested against pure CAY-1 and CAY-1:1081:919 at ratios of 8:1:1, 6:2:2 and 4:3:3 and efficacy was determined after various incubation times. Pure CAY-1 and all saponin mixtures were significantly (p<0.001) lethal to the germinating conidia of A. flavus, A. niger, and F. solani. All saponin mixtures were equal or superior to pure CAY-1 in antifungal properties. Mixtures of the naturally occurring inactive or poorly fungicidal saponins with reduced levels of CAY-1 display superior fungicidal properties when compared to pure CAY-1 at the same dose levels. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572821 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP23785 | LaBonte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Don R. LaBonte (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Arthur Q. Villordon (Monroe, Louisiana); Tara Smith (Chase, Louisiana); Christopher A. Clark (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Through The LSU AgCenter (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don R. LaBonte (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Arthur Q. Villordon (Monroe, Louisiana); Tara Smith (Chase, Louisiana); Christopher A. Clark (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A new variety of sweetpotato identified as ‘07-146’ is disclosed having disease resistance to fusarium wilt, rhizopus soft rot, and Streptomyces soil rot, an orange flesh, and high yield characteristics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373631 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08496077 | Nesnas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Issa A. D. Nesnas (Pasadena, California); Jaret B. Matthews (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey E. Edlund (Pasadena, California); Joel Burdick (Pasadena, California); Pablo Abad-Manterola (Lake Forest, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Issa A. D. Nesnas (Pasadena, California); Jaret B. Matthews (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey E. Edlund (Pasadena, California); Joel Burdick (Pasadena, California); Pablo Abad-Manterola (Lake Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic two-wheeled vehicle comprising a connection body interposed between the two wheels are described. A drum can be coaxially located in a central region of the connection body and can support a hollow arm projecting radially from the drum. A tether can be inserted in the arm and connected to a second drum. Instruments and sensors can be accommodated in a case housed inside each wheel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096391 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/7.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08496864 | Langley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick T. Langley (Laurel, Maryland); Fazle E. Siddique (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick T. Langley (Laurel, Maryland); Fazle E. Siddique (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of cyclically heating and cooling an article formed of a static dissipative ETFE resin, such as to reduce an electrical resistivity and/or to increase a tensile strength of the article, and methods of irradiating an article formed of a static dissipative ETFE resin, such as to increase a tensile strength of the article. Also disclosed herein are articles formed of a static dissipative ETFE resin, and processed in accordance with methods disclosed herein. Such an article may include, for example and without limitation, a cable strap to wrap, support, and/or secure one or more wires or cables, such as a cable tie. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777312 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498741 | Ihrke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris A. Ihrke (Hartland, Michigan); Lyndon Bridgwater (Houston, Texas); David M. Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Scott R. Askew (Houston, Texas); Myron A. Diftler (Houston, Texas); Vienny Nguyen (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations (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) | Chris A. Ihrke (Hartland, Michigan); Lyndon Bridgwater (Houston, Texas); David M. Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Scott R. Askew (Houston, Texas); Myron A. Diftler (Houston, Texas); Vienny Nguyen (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A humanoid robot includes a torso, a pair of arms, a neck, a head, a wrist joint assembly, and a control system. The arms and the neck movably extend from the torso. Each of the arms includes a lower arm and a hand that is rotatable relative to the lower arm. The wrist joint assembly is operatively defined between the lower arm and the hand. The wrist joint assembly includes a yaw axis and a pitch axis. The pitch axis is disposed in a spaced relationship to the yaw axis such that the axes are generally perpendicular. The pitch axis extends between the yaw axis and the lower arm. The hand is rotatable relative to the lower arm about each of the yaw axis and the pitch axis. The control system is configured for determining a yaw angle and a pitch angle of the wrist joint assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564088 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08498756 | Sarver |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George L. Sarver (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Adminstrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George L. Sarver (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reusable space flight launch system is configured to eliminate complex descent and landing systems from the space flight hardware and move them to maneuverable ground based systems. Precision landing of the reusable space flight hardware is enabled using a simple, light weight aerodynamic device on board the flight hardware such as a parachute, and one or more translating ground based vehicles such as a hovercraft that include active speed, orientation and directional control. The ground based vehicle maneuvers itself into position beneath the descending flight hardware, matching its speed and direction and captures the flight hardware. The ground based vehicle will contain propulsion, command and GN&C functionality as well as space flight hardware landing cushioning and retaining hardware. The ground based vehicle propulsion system enables longitudinal and transverse maneuverability independent of its physical heading. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213022 |
| 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 71/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08497473 | Kertesz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray ion (ESI) source and method capable of ionizing an analyte molecule without oxidizing or reducing the analyte of interest. The ESI source can include an emitter having a liquid conduit, a working electrode having a liquid contacting surface, a spray tip, a secondary working electrode, and a charge storage coating covering partially or fully the liquid contacting surface of the working electrode. The liquid conduit, the working electrode and the secondary working electrode can be in liquid communication. The electrospray ion source can also include a counter electrode proximate to, but separated from, said spray tip. The electrospray ion source can also include a power system for applying a voltage difference between the working electrodes and a counter-electrode. The power system can deliver pulsed voltage changes to the working electrodes during operation of said electrospray ion source to minimize the surface potential of the charge storage coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/207783 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08499292 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jim Challenger (White Plains, New York); Bugra Gedik (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Grimm (New York, New York); Martin J. Hirzel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Soule (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jim Challenger (White Plains, New York); Bugra Gedik (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Grimm (New York, New York); Martin J. Hirzel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert Soule (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual execution environment (VEE) for a streaming Intermediate Language (IL), wherein the streaming IL represents a streaming program, communicates streaming data in queues, stores data-at-rest in variables, and determines data by functions, where inputs are read from the queues and the variables, and outputs are written to the queues and the variables. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719364 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08498454 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Yan Tong (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Yan Tong (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for optimizing object recognition is disclosed. The technique includes receiving at least one image of an object and at least one reference image. The technique further includes identifying at least one performance metric corresponding to an object recognition task. The identified performance metric is optimized to generate the corresponding optimized performance metric by determining an optimal subspace based on a determined objective function corresponding to the object recognition task and a difference between the received image and the corresponding reference image. Subsequently, the technique includes comparing the received image with the reference image based on the optimized performance metric for performing the object recognition task. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627039 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08497135 | Klinefelter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary R. Klinefelter (Fuguay-Varina, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary R. Klinefelter (Fuguay-Varina, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Oral, topical and injectable contraceptives, which are based on sperm protein 22 kDa (SP22) polypeptides and antibodies and infertility diagnostics and kits are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/279135 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/514 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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