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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 03, 2013
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| US 08522426 | Dennis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert H. Dennis (Haverhill, Massachusetts); Amanda Loehr (Tucson, Arizona); Robert E. Morris (Tucson, Arizona); Peter D. Patalano (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Aaron J. Stein (Santa Barbara, California); John Stephens (Oxnard, California); Harold L. Wieck (Tucson, Arizona); Eli Holzman (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Dennis (Haverhill, Massachusetts); Amanda Loehr (Tucson, Arizona); Robert E. Morris (Tucson, Arizona); Peter D. Patalano (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Aaron J. Stein (Santa Barbara, California); John Stephens (Oxnard, California); Harold L. Wieck (Tucson, Arizona); Eli Holzman (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vented BGA package is reconfigured by first applying a continuous bead of adhesive around the perimeter of the package to seal the gap between the lid and substrate. The continuous bead defines a channel through the pressure relief vents to a polarity through-hole in the lid. The BGA package is reflow soldered to a PWB at an elevated temperature using solder flux, clean or no-clean. The IC die achieves elevated temperature pressure relief through the pressure relief vents along the channel and out the polarity through-hole. After reflow a seal is applied to plug the polarity through-hole. The PWB is washed in an aqueous cleaner solution to remove flux residue. The continuous bead of adhesive and the seal form a cleaner solution barrier that prevents the solution from contacting conductors inside the package. The seal may be removed or left intact depending on the operating environment. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794735 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/840 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522511 | Thoren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew D. Thoren (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Joseph C. DiMare (Somerville, Massachusetts); Cameron B. Goddard (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Thoren (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Joseph C. DiMare (Somerville, Massachusetts); Cameron B. Goddard (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for providing a mast system including a telescoping mast having first and second mast sections, the mast having a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, the first mast section including an inner surface having ribs disposed thereon, and, the second mast section including a coupling mechanism to engage the ribs on the first mast section for enabling axial movement of the second mast section with respect to the first mast section. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/973246 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/844 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522560 | Jarmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Jarmon (Kensington, Connecticut); Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Steve Lozyniak (S. Windsor, Connecticut); Bradley C. Johnson (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Jarmon (Kensington, Connecticut); Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Steve Lozyniak (S. Windsor, Connecticut); Bradley C. Johnson (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes an inlet conduit assembly surrounding a gas flow path and a combustor arranged downstream of the inlet conduit assembly. The inlet conduit assembly includes a thermoelectric (TE) device configured to convert heat into electrical energy, a gas flow conduit arranged between the gas flow path and the TE device, and a resilient member configured to bias the TE device into contact with the gas flow conduit. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550150 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522682 | Genson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Genson (College Park, Maryland); Daniel Jean (Odenton, Maryland); John Hendershot (Dunkirk, Maryland); Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland); David Olson (Chesapeake beach, Maryland); Ezra Chen (Potomac, Maryland); Veronica Badescu (Alexandria, Virginia); Anthony Mansfield (Alexandria, Virginia); Troy Caruso (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Genson (College Park, Maryland); Daniel Jean (Odenton, Maryland); John Hendershot (Dunkirk, Maryland); Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland); David Olson (Chesapeake beach, Maryland); Ezra Chen (Potomac, Maryland); Veronica Badescu (Alexandria, Virginia); Anthony Mansfield (Alexandria, Virginia); Troy Caruso (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for explosive systems such as grenades with novel micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) fuze and novel placement of the MEMS fuze providing increased performance, reliability, and safety. The MEMS fuze is disposed towards a rear portion of the explosive system providing superior performance and design flexibility. Further, the explosive system includes electronics configured to implement a launch timer and to sense impact or when the system stops spinning. The present invention includes an operational method improving safety and reliability by preventing detonation until after the launch timer expires, upon impact, or when the explosive system stops spinning. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924797 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522685 | Gold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Jeffrey R. Kraft (Newton, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Jeffrey R. Kraft (Newton, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fragmentation warhead includes a cylindrical fragmenting body, a pair of concentric cylindrical liners within, made of plastic, and an explosive charge disposed within the innermost liner. In one embodiment, one liner provides various “legs” of liner material and the other liner provides various open receptacle areas, into which such legs may come to rest when the liners are slid together and/or rotated relative to one another. Various recessed and/or raised areas of liner material can thus be randomly created by such adjustments, which lead to select fragmentation of the warhead upon detonation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215510 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522772 | Olsen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tracking system for a solar collector assembly array where the tracking system includes a coplanar circular rim structure including multiple circular rims, where each circular rim is fitted around a respective solar collector and where each solar collector has a general shape of a sealed and inflated cylindrical tube housing having a longitudinal center axis and where each solar collector is in a horizontal planar array with respect to each other. The tracking system further includes a first elongated frame structure for supporting the circular rim structure such that all of the circular rims are generally vertically coplanar with one another. The tracking system further includes a cable serially wrapped around each of the respective circular rims to form a closed cable loop where the wrapped cable forms a series of a generally vertical coplanar loops with each loop contacting around a respective rim structure such that at least one generally complete gripping loop is formed on each respective rim. An actuator is attached to the frame structure such that actuator provides a controllable driving force to the closed cable loop to allow for controlled rotation of each solar collector assembly around its respective longitudinal axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/028414 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Stoves and furnaces 126/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08523044 | Belcher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Angela M. Belcher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Chuanbin Mao (Austin, Texas); Daniel J. Solis (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela M. Belcher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Chuanbin Mao (Austin, Texas); Daniel J. Solis (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided in one embodiment is a method of forming an inorganic nanowire, comprising: providing an elongated organic scaffold; providing a plurality of inorganic nanoparticles attached to the organic scaffold along a length of the organic scaffold; and fusing the nanoparticles attached to the organic scaffold to form an inorganic nanowire. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/525637 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08523539 | Gill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brijesh Gill (Houston, Texas); Charles S. Cox, Jr. (Bellaire, Texas); Kevin R. Aroom (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brijesh Gill (Houston, Texas); Charles S. Cox, Jr. (Bellaire, Texas); Kevin R. Aroom (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a multi-disk centrifugal pump suitable for pumping fluids, including biocompatible fluids, such as blood. The design of the pump components is optimized to reduce or eliminate the probability of clotting and hemolysis when pumping blood, and to be energy efficient and resistant to physical shock for portable applications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483287 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/423.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524019 | Fronabarger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Fronabarger (Sun Lakes, Arizona); Michael D. Williams (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (Chandler, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Fronabarger (Sun Lakes, Arizona); Michael D. Williams (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of materials suitable for use as a replacement for Tetrazene and methods of preparing such materials are described. In one embodiment, the material comprises MTX-1, as well as simple salts or complexes derived therefrom. The methods of preparing such materials include combining Tetrazene and an acid to form a suspension, where the acid is nitric acid, sulfuric acid, perchloric acid, or hydrochloric acid. A nitrite salt may be added to the suspension, where the nitrite salt is sodium nitrite, lithium nitrite, potassium nitrite, an aqueous solution of sodium nitrite, an aqueous solution of lithium nitrite, or an aqueous solution of potassium nitrite. In some embodiments, the suspension is stirred until the suspension has a white appearance. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/091708 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524023 | Engelbart |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger W. Engelbart (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger W. Engelbart (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for an armor system are provided. The system includes a first face sheet and a shaped preform extending from the first face sheet. The preform includes a first edge proximate the first face sheet, a sidewall extending from the first edge to a flange extending substantially perpendicularly from the sidewall. The preform circumscribes an area of the first face sheet. The system also includes a tile of armor material complementarily-shaped to fit within the area circumscribed by the preform. The tile is positioned within the preform such that at least a portion of the tile is between the first face sheet and the flange. The system includes a second face sheet covering the preform and the tile on a side opposite from the first face sheet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/825766 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524028 | Barnett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert G. Barnett (Windsor Locks, Connecticut); Jorge E. Hidalgo (East Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrnad Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Barnett (Windsor Locks, Connecticut); Jorge E. Hidalgo (East Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method of sealing a laminate assembly includes preloading a laminate assembly having a plurality of laminations, pressurizing the laminate assembly, and pressurizing an enclosed volume disposed adjacent an end portion of the laminate assembly to hold the laminations in sealed positions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546765 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524109 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoli Tan (Ames, Iowa); Wei Hu (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoli Tan (Ames, Iowa); Wei Hu (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred piezoelectric ceramic material is a BiFeO3—PbZrO3—PbTiO3 ternary solid solution wherein proportions of the constituent perovskite metal oxides are selected so that the material exhibits relatively high Curie temperatures above 380° C. and useful piezoelectric properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928322 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.9PZ |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524155 | Wick |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system for collecting, detecting, and classifying submicron-sized particles in a sample comprising an Integrated Virus Detection System (IVDS) of the type wherein the detecting means includes a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) and condensation particle counter (CPC), the improvement comprising positioning an aerosol collector or an electrostatic collector between the differential mobility analyzer and the condensation particle counter wherein submicron-sized particles from the environmental sample are collected for further analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/673441 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524362 | Ramanath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ganpati Ramanath (Schenectady, New York); Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc (Troy, New York); Rutvik Mehta (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ganpati Ramanath (Schenectady, New York); Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc (Troy, New York); Rutvik Mehta (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to doped pnictogen chalcogenide nanoplates, where each nanoplate comprises a rhombohedral crystal of Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, or Sb2Te3 that is sulfur doped. Another embodiment of the invention is directed to a microwave activated method of preparation of the doped pnictogen chalcogenide nanoplates. Other embodiments of the invention are directed to bulk assemblies or fused films of the doped pnictogen chalcogenide nanoplates and their preparation from the doped pnictogen chalcogenide nanoplates such that the bulk assembly or fused film can be employed in a thermoelectric device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856264 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524398 | Holme et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy P. Holme (San Francisco, California); Friedrich B. Prinz (Woodside, California); Takane Usui (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Holme (San Francisco, California); Friedrich B. Prinz (Woodside, California); Takane Usui (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved energy storage is provided by exploiting two physical effects in combination. The first effect can be referred to as the All-Electron Battery (AEB) effect, and relates to the use of inclusions embedded in a dielectric structure between two electrodes of a capacitor. Electrons can tunnel through the dielectric between the electrodes and the inclusions, thereby increasing the charge storage density relative to a conventional capacitor. The second effect can be referred to as an area enhancement effect, and relates to the use of micro-structuring or nano-structuring on one or both of the electrodes to provide an enhanced interface area relative to the electrode geometrical area. Area enhancement is advantageous for reducing the self-discharge rate of the device. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798102 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524402 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhen He (Los Angeles, California); Kenneth H. Nealson (Los Angeles, California); Florian Mansfeld (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen He (Los Angeles, California); Kenneth H. Nealson (Los Angeles, California); Florian Mansfeld (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbial fuel cell for generating electricity. The microbial fuel cell includes an anode and a cathode electrically coupled to the anode. The anode is in contact with a first fluid including microorganisms capable of catalyzing the oxidation of ammonium. The anode is in contact with a second fluid including microorganisms capable of catalyzing the reduction of nitrite. The anode and the cathode may be housed in a single compartment, and the cathode may rotate with respect to the anode. The microbial fuel cell can be used to remove ammonium from wastewater, to generate electricity, or both. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/464689 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524482 | Wick |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for sampling and separating submicron-sized particles to detect the presence of an agent such as viruses in an environmental sample, which includes collecting means for collecting a sample suspected of containing submicron-sized particles from the environment, size separation means receiving the submicron-sized particles from the collecting means for separating the submicron-sized particles based on size into at least one size range, and a microscale particle counter adapted for counting the size separated submicron-sized particles received from the size separation means. The particle counter includes at least one cantilever each corresponding to submicron-sized particles of a particular size range, wherein the cantilever is deflectable from a first to a second position to permit passage of the submicron-sized particle therethrough, and wherein the corresponding deflection of the cantilever generates a count signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435477 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524506 | Pamula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for sampling a liquid flow are provided. The method includes supplying a continuous liquid flow from a continuous flow fluid input source to a surface along a first flow path. The method additionally includes sampling the continuous liquid flow by performing an electric field-based technique to split off a sample droplet from a portion of the liquid flow, whereby the sample droplet is distinct from the liquid flow and controllable independently of the liquid flow, wherein the electric field-based technique is performed by providing a set of electrodes on the surface and selectively biasing the set of electrodes, whereby the sample droplet is formed on one of the set of electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936289 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524624 | Garcia-Martinez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Javier Garcia-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Garcia-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205151 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524682 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Sooryanarayana Lnu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qi Cao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Sooryanarayana Lnu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qi Cao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic targets for cancer. In particular, the present invention relates to small molecules and nucleic acids that target EZH2 expression in prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778739 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525022 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Ho (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Tim Osedach (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ho (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Tim Osedach (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device includes a heterojunction between different semiconductor materials which are present in charge transporting layers. The device can include laterally-arranged electrodes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/735382 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525090 | Cahayla |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason R. Cahayla (West Milford, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Cahayla (West Milford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile may include a body having an external surface, a stagnation port on the external surface, and a cavity. A spoiler may be translatable in the cavity between a retracted position, wherein the spoiler is substantially completely disposed in the cavity, and an extended position, wherein the spoiler projects from the external surface of the body. A pair of ports may be formed in the walls of the cavity. The pair of ports may be selectively fluidly communicable with the stagnation port. The spoiler may be translatable by pressurizing one of the pair of ports with compressed air and venting the other of the pair of ports. In the extended position, the spoiler may disturb an airstream around the projectile to induce a guidance maneuver for the projectile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821315 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525095 | Huber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tito E. Huber (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Howard University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tito E. Huber (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanothermocouple detector includes a nanowire coupled across two electrodes. The two electrodes are electrically connected to an amplifier. The two electrodes generally have a separation of about five micrometers to about thirty micrometers across which the nanowire is coupled. A focusing element is disposed to admit photons that fall on the focusing element onto the nanowire to heat it. A voltage change across the nanowire caused by the heating of the nanowire by the light is detected by the amplifier. The voltage change corresponds to the energy absorbed from the light by the nanowire. The color of a single photon can be detected using such device. An array of such devices can be used for sensing light on a two-dimensional scale, thereby providing an image showing small variances in the energies of the light impinging upon the detector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321365 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525185 | Goldsmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Goldsmith (Plano, Texas); Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); John A. Carlisle (Romeoville, Illinois); Suresh Sampath (Santa Barbara, California); Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Illinois); Robert W. Carpick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James Hwang (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Derrick C. Mancini (Riverside, Illinois); Chris Gudeman (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Goldsmith (Plano, Texas); Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); John A. Carlisle (Romeoville, Illinois); Suresh Sampath (Santa Barbara, California); Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Illinois); Robert W. Carpick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James Hwang (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Derrick C. Mancini (Riverside, Illinois); Chris Gudeman (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reliable long life RF-MEMS capacitive switch is provided with a dielectric layer comprising a “fast discharge diamond dielectric layer” and enabling rapid switch recovery, dielectric layer charging and discharging that is efficient and effective to enable RF-MEMS switch operation to greater than or equal to 100 billion cycles. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081683 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525228 | Javey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali Javey (Fremont, California); Hyunhyub Ko (Ulsan Metropolitan, South Korea); Kuniharu Takei (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Javey (Fremont, California); Hyunhyub Ko (Ulsan Metropolitan, South Korea); Kuniharu Takei (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor-on-insulator (XOI) structures and methods of fabricating XOI structures are provided. Single-crystalline semiconductor is grown on a source substrate, patterned, and transferred onto a target substrate, such as a Si/SiO2 substrate, thereby assembling an XOI substrate. The transfer process can be conducted through a stamping method or a bonding method. Multiple transfers can be carried out to form heterogenous compound semiconductor devices. The single-crystalline semiconductor can be II-IV or III-V compound semiconductor, such as InAs. A thermal oxide layer can be grown on the patterned single crystalline semiconductor, providing improved electrical characteristics and interface properties. In addition, strain tuning is accomplished via a capping layer formed on the single-crystalline semiconductor before transferring the single-crystalline semiconductor to the target substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/175281 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08525230 — Field-effect transistor with compositionally graded nitride layer on a silicaon substrate
| US 08525230 | Marchand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hugues Marchand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brendan J. Moran (San Jose, California); Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); James S. Speck (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugues Marchand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brendan J. Moran (San Jose, California); Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); James S. Speck (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A field effect transistor including a compositionally graded group-III nitride layer on a silicon substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901988 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525276 | Tchertchian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Clark J. Wagner (Urbana, Illinois); J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of California (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Clark J. Wagner (Urbana, Illinois); J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides combination semiconductor and plasma devices, including transistors and phototransistors. A preferred embodiment hybrid plasma semiconductor device has active solid state semiconductor regions; and a plasma generated in proximity to the active solid state semiconductor regions. Devices of the invention are referred to as hybrid plasma-semiconductor devices, in which a plasma, preferably a microplasma, cooperates with conventional solid state semiconductor device regions to influence or perform a semiconducting function, such as that provided by a transistor. The invention provides a family of hybrid plasma electronic/photonic devices having properties previously unavailable. In transistor devices of the invention, a low temperature, glow discharge is integral to the hybrid transistor. Example preferred devices include hybrid BJT and MOSFET devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817551 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525303 | Arango et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexi Arango (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vanessa Wood (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexi Arango (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vanessa Wood (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a charge transporting layer that includes an inorganic material. The charge transporting layer can be a hole or electron transporting layer. The inorganic material can be an inorganic semiconductor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/666623 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525393 | Grbovic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dragoslav Grbovic (Mountain View, California); Sebastian Osswald (Monterey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dragoslav Grbovic (Mountain View, California); Sebastian Osswald (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bimaterial microelectromechanical system (MEMS) solar power generator device converts radiant energy received from the sun, or other light source, into heat, which is then used to produce electricity through the piezoelectric effect. As the efficiency of piezoelectric materials can often reach up to 90%, the efficiency is greater than that of conventional solar cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349444 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525553 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Yi (Mountain View, California); Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); Minxian Max Zhang (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Yi (Mountain View, California); Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); Minxian Max Zhang (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example, an oxide-based negative differential resistance comparator circuit includes a composite NDR device that includes a first electrode, a first thin film oxide-based negative differential resistance (NDR) layer in contact with the first electrode and a central conductive portion. The composite NDR device also includes a second thin film oxide-based NDR layer disposed adjacent to the first NDR layer and a second electrode. A resistor may be placed in series with the composite NDR device and an electrical energy source can apply applying a voltage across the first electrode and second electrode. The composite NDR device produces a threshold based comparator functionality in the comparator circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/459877 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525564 | Schober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan M. Schober (Huntington Beach, California); Robert C. Schober (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Schober (Huntington Beach, California); Robert C. Schober (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Charge-based charge pumps are described which include a switchable capacitor configured for connection to a voltage source, a ground, and a charge pump output. A first pair of switches include a first switch configured to connect the switchable capacitor to ground and a second switch configured to connect the switchable capacitor to the voltage source. A second pair of switches include a third switch configured to connect a first node, between the switchable capacitor and ground, to the charge pump output, and a fourth switch configured to connect a second node, between the switchable capacitor and the voltage source, to the charge pump output. Locked loop designs, such as phase locked loops or delay locked loops, are described that include charge-based charge pumps. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278003 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525705 | Lopatin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig Michael Lopatin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Michael Lopatin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid rocket motor having a liner surrounding a propellant includes an array of transmitter elements and receiver elements disposed within the liner. Transmitter electronics provide the transmitter elements with a transmit signal and receiver electronics receive the outputs of the receiver elements. The outputs are analyzed to determine any defects in the propellant. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802449 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/999 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525729 | Martin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bonnie G. Martin (Lumberton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie G. Martin (Lumberton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples of an antenna tile and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. An antenna tile may include one or more antenna patch elements, a circuit board, and a support structure. The one or more antenna patch elements may radiate radio frequency (RF) signals, and each of the one or more antenna patch elements may include a conductive layer. The circuit board may be disposed between the one or more antenna patch elements and the support structure. The support structure may include one or more ground cavities. The one or more ground cavities may be integrated into the support structure and may be electrically conductive. The one or more ground cavities may resonate standing waves, and the one or more ground cavities may be disposed below the respective one or more antenna patch elements. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/636189 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525751 | Josypenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A tapered direct fed bifilar helix antenna comprises bifilar antenna elements which helically spiral around an antenna axis to define an outer cylindrical shape of the direct fed bifilar helix antenna. The width of the bifilar antenna elements at the feed end of the antenna is sized to provide the antenna with an approximately fifty ohm characteristic impedance. The individual filar elements taper at a predetermined axial position from a maximum width at the feed end to a minimum width at the end furthest from the feed end. A fifty ohm coaxial cable directly feeds the tapered bifilar antenna elements. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194382 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525832 | Whitaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming mesh data for three-dimensional (3-D) data is provided. Inside/outside (IO) functions are generated based on indicator functions to identify element interfaces between a plurality of elements identified in the 3-D data. An indicator function is defined to represent a volume identified for an element within the 3-D data. A cell indicator function is defined for each element interface based on the IO functions to identify a plurality of types of element interfaces. The cell indicator function identifies points in the 3-D data where a plurality of the generated IO functions evaluate to approximately zero. The types of element interfaces are identified based on a number of elements that coincide at a point in the 3-D data. 3-D point locations are distributed on the identified element interfaces based on the plurality of types of element interfaces and the IO functions. Surface mesh data is generated based on the distributed 3-D point locations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123347 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526097 | Cole |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Boyd Cole (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Boyd Cole (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable bandwidth selector is disclosed. The tunable bandwidth selector may include a plurality of spaced apart electron sheets which selectively separate a first bandwidth from an input spectrum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/626336 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526105 | Brueck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Alburquerque, New Mexico); Yuliya Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Alburquerque, New Mexico); Yuliya Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, there are imaging interferometric microscopes and methods for imaging interferometric microscopy using structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy. Furthermore, there are coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopes and methods for coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopy, wherein imaging interferometric microscopy techniques are applied to get material dependent spectroscopic information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/345267 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/00 (20130101) G02B 21/0032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526219 | Bansal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aditya Bansal (White Plains, New York); Ching-Te K. Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jae-Joon Kim (Austin, Texas); Shih-Hsien Lo (Mount Kisco, New York); Rahul M. Rao (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditya Bansal (White Plains, New York); Ching-Te K. Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jae-Joon Kim (Austin, Texas); Shih-Hsien Lo (Mount Kisco, New York); Rahul M. Rao (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory circuit includes a plurality of bit line structures (each including a true and a complementary bit line), a plurality of word line structures intersecting the plurality of bit line structures to form a plurality of cell locations; and a plurality of cells located at the plurality of cell locations. Each of the cells includes a logical storage element, a first access transistor selectively coupling a given one of the true bit lines to the logical storage element, and a second access transistor selectively coupling a corresponding given one of the complementary bit lines to the logical storage element. One or both of the first and second access transistors are configured with asymmetric current characteristics to enable independent enhancement of READ and WRITE margins. Also included within the 6-T scope are one or more design structures embodied in a machine readable medium, comprising circuits as set forth herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/367495 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526451 | Sundararajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Porto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellow of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Porto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404533 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526471 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Weijian Yang (Berkeley, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Weijian Yang (Berkeley, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A saturable absorber (SA) based on a high-contrast grating (HCG) having a buried layer of quantum structures for absorption, and which is particularly well suited for use in a mode-locked application. The HCG-SA provides three times the bandwidth compared with traditional DBR structures, while exhibiting a lower saturation fluence due to the field enhancement inside the grating. Varying grating bar width over one or two axis provides lensing effects on the optical output, while chirping of the period and duty cycle changes optical phase relationships. Novel VCSEL embodiments with external or internal cavities are described using the HCG-SA. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593407 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526533 | Sen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shreyas Sen (Atlanta, Georgia); Shyam Kumar Devarakond (Atlanta, Georgia); Abhijit Chatterjee (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shreyas Sen (Atlanta, Georgia); Shyam Kumar Devarakond (Atlanta, Georgia); Abhijit Chatterjee (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of measuring I-Q mismatch in a system having a transmitter. The transmitter comprises an in-phase up-converter, a quadrature-phase up-converter, and a power detector. The method of measuring I-Q mismatch comprises measuring an in-phase transmit power at the power detector caused by transmitting an in-phase output signal to the in-phase up-converter, measuring a quadrature-phase transmit power at the power detector caused by transmitting a quadrature-phase output signal to the quadrature-phase up-converter, calculating a transmitter-gain-mismatch as a function of the in-phase transmit power and the quadrature-phase transmit power, measuring an I-Q transmit power at the power detector caused by simultaneously transmitting a gain-mismatch-compensated in-phase output signal to the in-phase up-converter and a gain-mismatch-compensated quadrature-phase output signal to the quadrature-phase up-converter, and calculating a transmitter-phase-mismatch as a function of the I-Q transmit power. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/114178 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526746 | Sankar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pathamadai V. Sankar (Tustin, California); Leonard Anthony Ferrari (Capitola, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pathamadai V. Sankar (Tustin, California); Leonard Anthony Ferrari (Capitola, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the invention provide methods of near lossless data compression based on nonuniform sampling. Alternate embodiments in accordance with the invention improve the compression factor of lossy compression methods by using nonuniform sampling. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404325 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 9/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527113 | Yamauchi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Masao Yamauchi (Boston, Massachusetts); Kent Conway Massey (Villanova, Pennsylvania); David Aaron Lafferty (North Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Masao Yamauchi (Boston, Massachusetts); Kent Conway Massey (Villanova, Pennsylvania); David Aaron Lafferty (North Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing enhanced operator control of a remote vehicle driving at increased speeds comprises: a head-mounted display configured to be worn by the operator and track a position of the operator's head; a head-aimed camera mounted to the remote vehicle via a pan/tilt mechanism and configured to pan and tilt in accordance with the position of the operator's head, the head-aimed camera transmitting video to be displayed to the operator via the head-mounted display; and a computer running a behavior engine, the computer receiving input from the operator and one or more sensors, and being configured to utilize the behavior engine, operator input, sensor input, and one or more autonomous and/or semi-autonomous behaviors to assist the operator in driving the remote vehicle. The remote vehicle includes releasably mounted wheels and high-friction tracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853277 |
| 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 71/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527193 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward M. Brennan (Wenonah, New Jersey); Carl V. Jannetti (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); John B. Stetson (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward M. Brennan (Wenonah, New Jersey); Carl V. Jannetti (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); John B. Stetson (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for determining relative motion between equipment systems positioned on a structure that is subject to deformation due to vibrations, using accelerometers. Relative motion between equipment systems can introduce error into the targeting information provided to a system such as a weapons system, and thus the method facilitates compensation for such relative motion. A method is disclosed in which the raw accelerometer signals are filtered, then combined with attitude signals in a displacement calculation module (DCM). Within the DCM, the signals are manipulated to calculate, for each equipment system, the translational and rotational displacements due to hull modal vibration and the translational and rotational displacements due to force vibration. The sum of these values represent the movement of each of the affected equipment systems. Relative motion between systems is calculated as the difference between the calculated movement values. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/617204 |
| 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 71/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527270 | Precoda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kristin Precoda (Mountain View, California); Horacio Franco (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristin Precoda (Mountain View, California); Horacio Franco (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing interactive translation and dialogue systems. In one embodiment, a method for conducting an interactive dialogue includes receiving an input signal in a first language, where the input signal includes one or more words, processing the words in accordance with a vocabulary, and adjusting a probability relating to at least one of the words in the vocabulary for an output signal. Subsequently, the method may output a translation of the input signal in a second language, in accordance with the vocabulary. In one embodiment, adjusting the probability involves adjusting a probability that the word will be used in actual conversation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847814 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527374 | Thurston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Thurston (Penfield, New York); Christopher E. Piggott (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Thurston (Penfield, New York); Christopher E. Piggott (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An asset management system includes a controller area network bus and a data acquisition module connected to the controller area network bus. The data acquisition module has a plurality of analog input channels. One or more sensor systems are connected to the input channels with the input channels receiving analog signals from the sensor systems. The data acquisition module passively conditions the received analog signals prior to digital conversion. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077775 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527432 | Guo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhen Guo (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen Guo (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Semi-supervised learning plays an important role in machine learning and data mining. The semi-supervised learning problem is approached by developing semiparametric regularization, which attempts to discover the marginal distribution of the data to learn the parametric function through exploiting the geometric distribution of the data. This learned parametric function can then be incorporated into the supervised learning on the available labeled data as the prior knowledge. A semi-supervised learning approach is provided which incorporates the unlabeled data into the supervised learning by a parametric function learned from the whole data including the labeled and unlabeled data. The parametric function reflects the geometric structure of the marginal distribution of the data. Furthermore, the proposed approach which naturally extends to the out-of-sample data is an inductive learning method in nature. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538849 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527438 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Lawrence Jackson (San Jose, California); Dharmendra Shantilal Modha (San Jose, California); Bipin Rajendran (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Lawrence Jackson (San Jose, California); Dharmendra Shantilal Modha (San Jose, California); Bipin Rajendran (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to producing spike-timing dependent plasticity in an ultra-dense synapse cross-bar array for neuromorphic systems. An aspect of the invention includes when an electronic neuron spikes, an alert pulse is sent from the spiking electronic neuron to each electronic neuron connected to the spiking electronic neuron. When the spiking electronic neuron sends the alert pulse, a gate pulse is sent from the spiking electronic neuron to each electronic neuron connected to the spiking electronic neuron. When each electronic neuron receives the alert pulse, a response pulse is sent from each electronic neuron receiving the alert pulse to the spiking electronic neuron. The response pulse is a function of time since a last spiking of the electronic neuron receiving the alert pulse. In addition, the combination of the gate pulse and response pulse is capable increasing or decreasing conductance of a variable state resistor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645479 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527444 | Van Hentenryck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pascal Van Hentenryck (Barrington, Rhode Island); Gregoire Dooms (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pascal Van Hentenryck (Barrington, Rhode Island); Gregoire Dooms (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: receiving, by an input, input data descriptive of a stochastic scheduling optimization problem; generating, by a processor, at least one solution to the stochastic scheduling optimization problem using a one-step anticipatory algorithm, where the one-step anticipatory algorithm is configured to reduce an anticipatory gap of the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, where the anticipatory gap is a measure of stochasticity of the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, where the one-step anticipatory algorithm operates by determining a set of possible decisions for the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, generating a plurality of scenarios and solving the plurality of scenarios to obtain the at least one solution; and outputting, by an output, the generated at least one solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/736002 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527522 | Baron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alex Baron (Canton, Massachusetts); Marjorie Ruth Freedman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ralph M. Weischedel (Canton, Massachusetts); Elizabeth Megan Boschee (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramp Holdings, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Baron (Canton, Massachusetts); Marjorie Ruth Freedman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ralph M. Weischedel (Canton, Massachusetts); Elizabeth Megan Boschee (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to cross-document entity co-reference systems in which naturally occurring entity mentions in a document corpus are analyzed and transformed into name clusters that represent global entities. In a first aspect of the invention, a name variation module analyzes naturally occurring names of entities extracted from the document corpus and provides an initial set of equivalent names that could refer to the same real world entity. In a second aspect of the invention, a disambiguation module takes the initial set of equivalent names and uses an agglomerative clustering algorithm to disambiguate the potentially co-referent named entities. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344871 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527650 | Craft et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Jones Craft (Austin, Texas); Ranadip Das (West Bengal, India); Rajeev Mishra (Karnataka, India); Lance Warren Russell (Rosanky, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Jones Craft (Austin, Texas); Ranadip Das (West Bengal, India); Rajeev Mishra (Karnataka, India); Lance Warren Russell (Rosanky, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for creating a checkpoint of a stream. A stream checkpoint request to create the checkpoint of the stream is received, wherein the stream is used by a process as a communications path, and wherein the communications path is modified by a set of modules. In response to identifying the identity of each module in the set of modules, the identity of each module in the set of modules is stored in the checkpoint. In response to identifying an order of the set of modules, the order of the set of modules is stored in the checkpoint. In response to sending a stream checkpoint message to each module in the set of modules, module data is received from each module in the set of modules to form received module data. The received module data is stored in the checkpoint. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751482 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527675 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen M. Schwartz (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Andrew L. Martin (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen M. Schwartz (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Andrew L. Martin (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for implementing a secure processor data bus are described. One embodiment is a circuit comprising a processor disposed in a processor partition, the circuit further comprising a first set of peripherals disposed in a first peripheral partition; a second set of peripherals disposed in a second peripheral partition physically isolated from the first peripheral partition; a first state control register for controlling access to the first set of peripherals by the processor; and a second state control register for controlling access to the second set of peripherals by the processor. When the first and second state control registers are in a first mode of operation, the processor has read and write access to the first set of peripherals and write only access to the second set of peripherals. When the first and second state control registers are in a second mode of operation, the processor has read and write access to the second set of peripherals and read only access to the first set of peripherals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/191845 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527873 | Braun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam C. Braun (Sunnyvale, California); Jonathan L. Beamer (Menlo Park, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (San Jose, California); Dean C. Chang (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Braun (Sunnyvale, California); Jonathan L. Beamer (Menlo Park, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (San Jose, California); Dean C. Chang (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and cursor positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504131 |
| ART UNIT | 2697 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527946 | Vaziri-Farahani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mandana Vaziri-Farahani (White Plains, New York); Frank Tip (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Stephen J. Fink (Yorktown Heights, New York); Julian T. Dolby (Riverdale, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mandana Vaziri-Farahani (White Plains, New York); Frank Tip (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Stephen J. Fink (Yorktown Heights, New York); Julian T. Dolby (Riverdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a programming model based on a relational view of the heap which defines identity declaratively, obviating the need for equals( ) and hashcode( ) methods. Each element in the heap (called a tuple) belongs to a relation type and relates an immutable identity to mutable state. The model entails a stricter contract: identity never changes during an execution. Objects, values, and singletons arise as special cases of tuples. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682561 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528060 | Di Crescenzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Chatham, New Jersey); Richard J. Lipton (Atlanta, Georgia); Sheldon Walfish (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Chatham, New Jersey); Richard J. Lipton (Atlanta, Georgia); Sheldon Walfish (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient secure password protocols are constructed that remain secure against offline dictionary attacks even when a large, but bounded, part of the storage of a server responsible for password verification is retrieved by an adversary through a remote or local connection. A registration algorithm and a verification algorithm accomplish the goal of defeating a dictionary attack. A password protocol where a server, on input of a login and a password, carefully selects several locations from the password files, properly combines their content according to some special function, and stores the result of this function as a tag that can be associated with this password and used in a verification phase to verify access by users. Two main instantiations of our method are given; in one, a combination of mathematical tools, called dispersers and pairwise-independent hash functions is used to achieve security against adaptive intrusions (dispersers make sure that the password of each user depends on randomly chosen locations in a large password file, and pairwise-independent hash functions help in making this dependency sufficiently random); in a second one, a combination of mathematical tools, called k-wise independent hash functions and locally-computable and strong extractors (k-wise independent hash functions make sure that the locations chosen in the large password file from each password are sufficiently random, and locally-computable and strong extractors are used to combine the contents of these locations to generate a single long random value, which makes verification harder for the adversary to foil). |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644368 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528091 | Bowen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Stylianos Sidiroglou (Astoria, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Stylianos Sidiroglou (Astoria, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for detecting covert malware are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for detecting covert malware in a computing environment is provided, the method comprising: generating simulated user activity outside of the computing environment; conveying the simulated user activity to an application inside the computing environment; and determining whether a decoy corresponding to the simulated user activity has been accessed by an unauthorized entity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/982984 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2282 | Squire et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter N. Squire (Alexandria, Virginia); Robert L. Coons (Milford, Virginia); Allison Popola (King George, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter N. Squire (Alexandria, Virginia); Robert L. Coons (Milford, Virginia); Allison Popola (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method are provided for rapid and hands free switching among plural devices. Signals from such devices include output from plural security cameras, outputs from plural command and control devices, outputs from plural sensors in, e.g., a chemical plant or nuclear power plant, etc. An eye tracker observes changes in an operator's line of sight, thereby inferring a change in the particular one of the plural devices the observer now wishes to observe, and, through an interlock, switches control of that device to the operator. This eliminates the need for the operator to manually switch control, e.g. by keyboard strokes, mouse clicks, or by manually causing lengthy dwell time on the selected device. This in turn makes switching faster, and reduces operator fatigue by considerably reducing physical actions necessary to switch among devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373750 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/211.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08524061 | Utz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Utz (Portola Valley, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California); Michael G. Kattah (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexandre Persat (Metuchen, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Utz (Portola Valley, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California); Michael G. Kattah (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexandre Persat (Metuchen, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Isotachophoresis (ITP) can be employed to simultaneously focus the target and ligand of an assay into the same ITP focus zone. The target and ligand can bind to each other in the ITP focus zone, and then the resulting bound complex can be detected (e.g., by fluorescence). The sensitivity of this approach can be greatly increased by the enhanced concentration of both target and ligand that ITP provides in the focus zone. Since ITP can be performed quickly, the resulting assay is both rapid and sensitive. Markers of bacterial urinary tract infections have been experimentally detected at clinically relevant concentrations with this approach. MicroRNA sequences have also been profiled with this approach, which is clinically relevant because MicroRNA is expected to provide useful markers for disease. In one experiment, miR-122 in human kidney and liver was detected and quantified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373773 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524193 | Madar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igal Madar (Baltimore, Maryland); Hayden T. Ravert (Bel Air, Maryland); Robert Francis Dannals (Sparks, Maryland); Ursula A. Scheffel (Baltimore, Maryland); James J. Frost (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igal Madar (Baltimore, Maryland); Hayden T. Ravert (Bel Air, Maryland); Robert Francis Dannals (Sparks, Maryland); Ursula A. Scheffel (Baltimore, Maryland); James J. Frost (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides lipophilic salts, particularly, lipophilic salts comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable anion and at least one phosphonium or ammonium cation. In certain embodiments, the cation is labeled with one or more radioisotopes. The lipophilic salts of the invention exhibit an affinity for dysfunctional mitochondria, and are useful for the imaging of cardiovascular diseases and disorders. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the lipophilic salts. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/503690 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating an obstructed biological conduit that include administering to the conduit an agent that can degrade extracellular matrix of obstructing tissue. Particular methods include delivery of an enzyme or a mixture of several enzymes to the area or region of obstruction wherein the enzyme(s) have the capability to degrade extracellular matrix components within the obstruction thereby restoring the normal flow of transported fluid through the conduit. The invention also includes prophylactically dilating a section of conduit to minimize the risk of obstruction formation. The invention further includes methods for prolonging patency of hemodialysis access. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/022070 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524230 | Cua et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J. Cua (Boulder Creek, California); Robert A. Kastelein (Portola Valley, California); Van T. Tsai (San Diego, California); Rachel Caspi (Bethesda, Maryland); Phyllis Silver (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. (Rahway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Cua (Boulder Creek, California); Robert A. Kastelein (Portola Valley, California); Van T. Tsai (San Diego, California); Rachel Caspi (Bethesda, Maryland); Phyllis Silver (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods and drug products for treating autoimmune ocular inflammatory disease are disclosed, which involve administration of agents that antagonize one or both of IL-17 and IL-23 activity. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643152 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524239 | Kobayashi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hisataka Kobayashi (Laurel, Maryland); Peter Choyke (Bethesda, Maryland); Makoto Mitsunaga (Rockville, Maryland); Marcelino Bernardo (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secrectary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hisataka Kobayashi (Laurel, Maryland); Peter Choyke (Bethesda, Maryland); Makoto Mitsunaga (Rockville, Maryland); Marcelino Bernardo (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods of killing cells in vitro or in vivo. In particular examples, the method includes contacting a cell having a cell surface protein with a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody-IR700 molecule, wherein the antibody specifically binds to the cell surface protein. In particular examples the antibody recognizes a tumor-specific antigen on the surface of a tumor cell. The cell is subsequently irradiated, such as at a wavelength of 660 to 740 nm at a dose of at least 1 J cm−2, thereby killing the cell. Also provided are wearable devices that include an article of clothing, jewelry, or covering; and an NIR LED incorporated into the article, which can be used with the disclosed methods. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180111 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524247 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xianfu Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles Rupprecht (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianfu Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles Rupprecht (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are recombinant rabies viruses comprising a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding an immunocontraceptive protein, such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) or zona pellucida 3 (ZP3). The recombinant rabies viruses disclosed herein are recovered by reverse genetics, replicate efficiently, elicit rabies virus neutralizing antibodies and immunocontraceptive peptide-specific antibodies in vaccinated animals, and protect vaccinated animals against wild-type rabies virus challenge. Further provided is a method of immunizing a non-human animal against rabies virus infection and simultaneously inhibiting fertility of the animal, comprising administering an immunogenic composition comprising one or more of the recombinant rabies viruses described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/062680 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/205.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524248 | Moore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick S. Moore (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yuan Chang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Huichen Feng (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Brian Buck (Adelphi, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Moore (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yuan Chang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Huichen Feng (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Brian Buck (Adelphi, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated or substantially purified polypeptides, nucleic acids, and virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from a Merkel cell carcinoma virus (MCV), which is a newly-discovered virus. The invention further provides monoclonal antibody molecules that bind to MCV polypeptides. The invention further provides diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic methods relating to the identification, prevention, and treatment of MCV-related diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/808042 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/232.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524311 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer materials make useful materials as electrode array bodies for neural stimulation. They are particularly useful for retinal stimulation to create artificial vision. Regardless of which polymer is used, the basic construction method is the same. A layer of polymer is laid down. A layer of metal is applied to the polymer and patterned to create electrodes and leads for those electrodes. A second layer of polymer is applied over the metal layer and patterned to leave openings for the electrodes, or openings are created later by means such as laser ablation. Hence the array and its supply cable are formed of a single body. A method for manufacturing a flexible circuit electrode array, comprises: a) depositing a metal trace layer on an insulator polymer base layer; b) applying a layer of photoresist on said metal trace layer and patterning said metal trace layer and forming metal traces on said insulator polymer base layer; and c) activating said insulator polymer base layer and depositing a top insulator polymer layer and forming one single insulating polymer layer with said base insulator polymer layer; wherein the insulator polymer layers were treated at a temperature from 80-150° C. and then at a temperature from 230-350° C. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926459 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524444 | Gross et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Gross (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Suzanne Walker Kahne (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jonathan G. Swoboda (Oil City, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Gross (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Suzanne Walker Kahne (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jonathan G. Swoboda (Oil City, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and products for modulating glycosylation of proteins. The invention is useful for identifying therapeutic compounds to treat glycosylation-associated disorders such as neurodegeneration, diabetes, including complications of diabetes such as insulin resistance, nephropathy, microvascular damage, and endothelial dysfunction. The invention is also useful for identifying therapeutic compounds to treat de-glycosylation-associated disorders such as ischemic damage and traumatic injury. The invention also relates in part to assays that are useful for identifying and testing candidate compounds for modulating glycosylation of proteins and also relates in part to compounds to treat glycosylation-associated diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/664559 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524449 | Dertinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York); Sian E. Cairns (Clifton Park, New York); Svetlana L. Avlasevich (Webster, New York); Dorothea K. Torous (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York); Sian E. Cairns (Clifton Park, New York); Svetlana L. Avlasevich (Webster, New York); Dorothea K. Torous (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates a method for the enumeration of mammalian cell micronuclei, while distinguishing micronuclei from the chromatin of dead and dying cells. The method utilizes differential staining of chromatin from dead and dying cells, to distinguish the chromatin from micronuclei and nuclei that can be detected based upon fluorescent emission and light scatter following exposure to an excitatory light source. Counting of micronuclei events relative to the number of nuclei can be used to assess the DNA-damaging potential of a chemical agent, the DNA-damaging potential of a physical agent, the effects of an agent which can modify endogenously-induced DNA damage, and the effects of an agent which can modify exogenously-induced DNA damage. Kits for practicing the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684243 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524453 | Stahl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory L. Stahl (Clinton, Massachusetts); Mary C. Walsh (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory L. Stahl (Clinton, Massachusetts); Mary C. Walsh (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is related, in part, to assays for analyzing the lectin complement pathway (LCP) as well as to compositions and methods related thereto. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/223763 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524455 | Chang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chawnshang Chang (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chawnshang Chang (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to TR4 and aging. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/842569 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524461 | Kalish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcia L. Kalish (Decatur, Georgia); Clement B. Ndongmo (Decatur, Georgia); Chou-Pong Pau (Decatur, Georgia); William M. Switzer (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Thomas M. Folks (Lithonia, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia L. Kalish (Decatur, Georgia); Clement B. Ndongmo (Decatur, Georgia); Chou-Pong Pau (Decatur, Georgia); William M. Switzer (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Thomas M. Folks (Lithonia, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting at least one antibody directed against at least one primate immunodeficiency virus in a biological sample that includes contacting a biological sample with (i) at least one detection multiple antigenic peptide comprising a portion of an immunodominant region of a transmembrane protein of a primate immunodeficiency virus and (ii) at least one differentiation multiple antigenic peptide comprising a portion of a V3-loop of an envelope protein of a primate immunodeficiency virus. Also disclosed is an enzyme immunoassay that includes a first substrate to which are bound at least one of the detection multiple antigenic peptides and a second substrate to which are bound at least one of the differentiation multiple antigenic peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/717276 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524467 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuki Okada (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuki Okada (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying candidate compounds for the treatment of leukemia and diagnostic methods based on histone methylation and HoxA5 promoter activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/161482 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524480 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Julie C. Mitchell (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas J. Rutkoski (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Julie C. Mitchell (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas J. Rutkoski (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to altered forms of members of the RNase A superfamily. An RNase A can be modified to be cytotoxic by altering its amino acid sequence so that it is not bound easily by the ribonuclease inhibitor while still retaining catalytic properties. While earlier work had identified some modifications to RNase A that would result in cytotoxicity, the use of the FADE algorithm for molecular interaction analysis has led to several other locations that were candidates for modification. Some of those modifications did result in RNase A variants with increase cytotoxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559063 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524491 | Cheever et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin A Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington); Mary L Disis (Renton, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington); Mary L Disis (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions for eliciting or enhancing immune reactivity to HER-2/neu protein are disclosed. The compounds include polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding such peptides. The compounds may be used for the prevention or treatment of malignancies in which the HER-2/neu oncogene is associated. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554279 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524498 | Geijsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niels Geijsen (West Newbury, Massachusetts); Christa Buecker (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niels Geijsen (West Newbury, Massachusetts); Christa Buecker (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and compositions described herein are based, in part, on the discovery of a stem cell state in human cells that resembles the morphology observed in murine-derived stem cells. Induction of such a state in human stem cells permits an increase in the efficiency of homologous recombination. Thus, the methods and compositions described herein relate to cells and methods for increasing the efficiency of homologous recombination in human stem cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791696 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08524499 — Regulatory sequences that direct gene expression to spinal motor neurons and uses thereof
| US 08524499 | Goldman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Takahiro Nakano (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Takahiro Nakano (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an enhancer which functions only in human brain and/or spinal cord motor neurons, where the enhancer comprises a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 10, or SEQ ID NO: 16. The enhancer can be utilized as part of a nucleic acid construct which also has a nucleic acid encoding a marker protein or a therapeutic protein, a 3′ control region, and, optionally, a basal promoter, where these components are positioned with respect to one another to permit expression of the marker protein or the therapeutic protein. The enhancer of the present invention is useful in a method of isolating an enriched or purified population of motor neurons from a mixed population of human brain and/or spinal cells. In addition, the enhancer of the present invention can be used in a method of therapeutically targeting motor neurons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984406 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524654 | Blalock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Edwin Blalock (Birmingham, Alabama); Uros V. Djekic (Rockville, Maryland); Patricia L. Jackson (Moody, Alabama); Amit Gaggar (Homewood, Alabama); Brett Noerager (Birmingham, Alabama); Philip J. O'Reilly (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Edwin Blalock (Birmingham, Alabama); Uros V. Djekic (Rockville, Maryland); Patricia L. Jackson (Moody, Alabama); Amit Gaggar (Homewood, Alabama); Brett Noerager (Birmingham, Alabama); Philip J. O'Reilly (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for reducing or preventing neutrophilic inflammation in a subject comprising selecting a subject with or at risk for neutrophilic inflammation and administering to the subject an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of prolyl endopeptidase. Provided herein are also methods for treatment or prevention of diseases associated with neutrophilic inflammation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/601216 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524661 | Patti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary Elizabeth Patti (Newton, Massachusetts); Wanzhu Jin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Allison B. Goldine (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Elizabeth Patti (Newton, Massachusetts); Wanzhu Jin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Allison B. Goldine (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods of improving glycemic control/improving insulin sensitivity by administering an inhibitor of serum response factor (SRF) activity, and methods of identifying new compounds for use in the described methods of treatment. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180124 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/5.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524670 | Volkman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian F. Volkman (Muskego, Wisconsin); Christopher T. Veldkamp (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Francis C. Peterson (Racine, Wisconsin); Thomas Sakmar (New York, New York); Christoph H. Seibert (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian F. Volkman (Muskego, Wisconsin); Christopher T. Veldkamp (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Francis C. Peterson (Racine, Wisconsin); Thomas Sakmar (New York, New York); Christoph H. Seibert (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel CXCL12-α2 locked dimer polypeptide, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of using said dimer in the treatment of cancer, inflammatory disorders, autoimmune disease, and HIV/AIDS. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/956514 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524678 | Watkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Linda May Rothblum Watkins (Boulder, Colorado); Travis Hughes (Boulder, Colorado); Raymond A. Chavez (Alameda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda May Rothblum Watkins (Boulder, Colorado); Travis Hughes (Boulder, Colorado); Raymond A. Chavez (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of delivering transgenes to target cells using plasmids comprising viral inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequences are described. Such plasmids are capable of directing sustained transgene expression in target cells in rats provided that at least one adeno-associated virus (AAV) ITR sequence is present in the plasmid, regardless of whether that ITR is located upstream or downstream of the transgene. In a particular embodiment, plasmids comprising one or more AAV ITR sequence and an IL-10 transgene are shown to be effective in sustained reversal of pain in an animal model of neuropathic pain. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920712 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524682 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Sooryanarayana Lnu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qi Cao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Sooryanarayana Lnu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qi Cao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic targets for cancer. In particular, the present invention relates to small molecules and nucleic acids that target EZH2 expression in prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778739 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524683 | Kranias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Evangelia Kranias (Cincinnati, Ohio); Patricia Rodriguez (Madrid, Spain); Bryan Mitton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evangelia Kranias (Cincinnati, Ohio); Patricia Rodriguez (Madrid, Spain); Bryan Mitton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel nucleic acids which encode novel mutant forms of Inhibitor Protein-1 (I-1). In particular, the I-1 mutant forms comprise altered phosphorylation sites of PKC-α. In addition, the present invention relates to methods of regulating cardiac contractility and function, and for treatment of cardio myopathy and heart failure, which employ the novel nucleic acids and polypeptides. Vectors comprising the novel nucleic acids, Antibodies to the novel proteins, and diagnostic and screening methods associated therewith, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196450 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524692 | Bollag et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wendy Bollag (Martinez, Georgia); Ding Xie (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Health Sciences University Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy Bollag (Martinez, Georgia); Ding Xie (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating a corneal disorder comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a composition containing pharmaceutically effective amount of dioleoylphosphatidylglycerol and/or palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylglycerol and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/068007 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524719 | Ricciardi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert P. Ricciardi (East Marlborough, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Ricciardi (East Marlborough, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of inhibiting replication of a poxvirus by contacting a poxvirus with a compound having formula I, formula XXI, formula XXXII, or formula XLI which in turn reduce, inhibit, or abrogate poxvirus DNA polymerase activity and/or its interaction with its processivity factor. Formula I, formula XXI, formula XXXII, or formula XLI can be utilized to treat humans and animals suffering from a poxvirus infection. Pharmaceutical compositions for treating poxvirus infected subjects are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/590667 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/260.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524731 | Moss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Moss (Chicago, Illinois); Mark Lingen (Oak Park, Illinois); Patrick A. Singleton (Chicago, Illinois); Joe G. N. Garcia (Chicago, Illinois); Chun-Su Yuan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Moss (Chicago, Illinois); Mark Lingen (Oak Park, Illinois); Patrick A. Singleton (Chicago, Illinois); Joe G. N. Garcia (Chicago, Illinois); Chun-Su Yuan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of attenuating, e.g., inhibiting or reducing, cellular proliferation and migration, particularly endothelial cell proliferation and migration, including that associated with angiogenesis, using opioid antagonists, including, but not limited to, those that are peripherally restricted antagonists. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/379010 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524739 | Peyton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a new class of compounds referred to as “reversed chloroquines” (RCQs), which are highly effective against CQR and CQS malaria parasites. RCQs are hybrid molecules, which include an antimalarial quinoline analog (such as chloroquine) moiety and a CQR reversal moiety. Exemplary RCQ chemical structures are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the disclosed RCQ compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions for the treatment of malaria and inhibition of CQR or CQS Plasmodium sp. (such as P. falciparum). |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/093261 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524829 | Mathiowitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edith Mathiowitz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christopher Thanos (Cumberland, Rhode Island); Zhi Liu (Mundelein, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University Research Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Mathiowitz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christopher Thanos (Cumberland, Rhode Island); Zhi Liu (Mundelein, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves methods and products related to the micronization of hydrophobic drugs. A method of micronizing hydrophobic drugs using a set of solutions including an aqueous solution is provided. The invention also relates to products of micronized hydrophobic drugs and related methods of use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140701 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524875 | Sauka-Spengler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (Glendale, California); Sonja J. McKeown (Lower Templestowea, Australia); Paola Betancur (Pasadena, California); Marianne Bronner (La Canada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (Glendale, California); Sonja J. McKeown (Lower Templestowea, Australia); Paola Betancur (Pasadena, California); Marianne Bronner (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA enhancer sequences are provided for use in constructs to identify early stage embryonic cells. The enhancer sequences can be used in parallel with short-hairpin RNA in a vector construct for endogenously regulated gene knockdowns. The disclosed enhancer sequences can be used to isolate a selected population of early stage embryonic cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645431 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524879 | Davidson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Haibin Xia (Iowa City, Iowa); Qinwen Mao (Iowa City, Iowa); Henry Paulson (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan L. Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa); Scott Harper (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Haibin Xia (Iowa City, Iowa); Qinwen Mao (Iowa City, Iowa); Henry Paulson (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan L. Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa); Scott Harper (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA) targeted against nucleic acid sequence that encodes huntingtin or ataxin-1, and methods of using these siRNA molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774019 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524881 | Davidson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Alejandro Mas Monteys (Iowa City, Iowa); Jodi L. McBride (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Alejandro Mas Monteys (Iowa City, Iowa); Jodi L. McBride (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to RNA interference (RNAi) molecules targeted against a nucleic acid sequence, and methods of using these RNAi molecules to reduce off-target toxicity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552454 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524891 | Hammer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Steven A. Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Serhii Pakhomov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Timothy J. Jensen (Mebane, North Carolina); Michael W. Allen (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Irina V. Nesterova (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria da Graça Henriques Vicente (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Steven A. Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Serhii Pakhomov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Timothy J. Jensen (Mebane, North Carolina); Michael W. Allen (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Irina V. Nesterova (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria da Graça Henriques Vicente (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetrically substituted metal-phthalocyanine compounds are disclosed. These compounds and other phthalocyanine-derivatives are used in bioimaging, bioanalysis, FRET and quenching techniques, photodynamic therapy, DNA analysis for cells, proteins, tissues and other biological entities, and other applications. Near-infrared fluorescence minimizes matrix effects typically seen in other methods of analyzing biochemical entities in cells, proteins, tissues and other biological entities. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/995244 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524892 | Lindsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a porphyrin is carried out by: (a) condensing (i) a 1,9-bis(N,N-)dialkylaminomethyl)dipyrromethane of Formula II: with (ii) a dipyrromethane to produce a reaction product; then (b) oxidizing the reaction product; and then (c) optionally demetallating said reaction product to produce the porphyrin. The reaction is particularly useful for making substituted porphyrins with a wide range of substituents at the A and/or B (the 5 and/or 15) positions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/488658 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524899 | Dervan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Christoph A. Briehn (Obertshausen, Germany); Dorte Renneberg (Bern, Switzerland); Philipp Weyermann (Siassach, Switzerland); Raymond Doss (Pasadena, California); Michael Marques (San Mateo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Christoph A. Briehn (Obertshausen, Germany); Dorte Renneberg (Bern, Switzerland); Philipp Weyermann (Siassach, Switzerland); Raymond Doss (Pasadena, California); Michael Marques (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for forming complexes between dsDNA and novel oligomers comprising fused six-membered rings. By appropriate choice of target sequences and oligomers, complexes comprising oligomer-DNA are obtained with high association constants. The formation of complexes can be used for identification of specific dsDNA sequences, for inhibiting gene transcription, and as a therapeutic for inhibiting proliferation of undesired cells or modulation of expression of specific genes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794584 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524947 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hong-Gang Wang (Palmyra, Pennsylvania); Roman Manetsch (Tampa, Florida); Xiangdong Hu (Xi'an, China PRC); Sameer Kulkarni (Tampa, Florida); Jiazhi Sun (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong-Gang Wang (Palmyra, Pennsylvania); Roman Manetsch (Tampa, Florida); Xiangdong Hu (Xi'an, China PRC); Sameer Kulkarni (Tampa, Florida); Jiazhi Sun (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to acylsulfonamides and processes for their preparation. The processes involve a target-guided synthesis approach, whereby a thioacid and a sulfonyl azide are reacted in the presence of a biological target protein, a Bcl-2 family protein, to form the acylsulfonamide. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/867812 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525237 | Weiss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Reginald M. Penner (Newport Beach, California); Jessica A. Arter (Laguna Beach, California); David K. Taggart (Mission Viejo, California); Keith C. Donavan (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Reginald M. Penner (Newport Beach, California); Jessica A. Arter (Laguna Beach, California); David K. Taggart (Mission Viejo, California); Keith C. Donavan (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Grafting M13 bacteriophage into an array of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nanowires generated hybrids of conducting polymers and replicable genetic packages (rgps) such as viruses. The incorporation of rgps into the polymeric backbone of PEDOT occurs during electropolymerization via lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition (LPNE). The resultant arrays of rgps-PEDOT nanowires enable real-time, reagent-free electrochemical biosensing of analytes in physiologically relevant buffers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/251923 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525832 | Whitaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming mesh data for three-dimensional (3-D) data is provided. Inside/outside (IO) functions are generated based on indicator functions to identify element interfaces between a plurality of elements identified in the 3-D data. An indicator function is defined to represent a volume identified for an element within the 3-D data. A cell indicator function is defined for each element interface based on the IO functions to identify a plurality of types of element interfaces. The cell indicator function identifies points in the 3-D data where a plurality of the generated IO functions evaluate to approximately zero. The types of element interfaces are identified based on a number of elements that coincide at a point in the 3-D data. 3-D point locations are distributed on the identified element interfaces based on the plurality of types of element interfaces and the IO functions. Surface mesh data is generated based on the distributed 3-D point locations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123347 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526001 | Gibson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ciencia, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ciencia, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Gibson (Storrs, Connecticut); Ernest F. Guignon (Canton, Connecticut); Michael T. Reilly (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument for measuring and analyzing surface plasmon resonance on a sensor surface has a polarized light source optically connected to the sensor surface by a plurality of optical elements, including in one embodiment an optical telescope that transfers light from a rotatable reflecting surface to the sensor surface. Selective positioning of a cylindrical lens into a first position within the path of light transforms collimated light to a rectangular wedge that is incident upon the sensor surface at numerous angles. In another embodiment, the light source is operated as a laser to excite fluorescence on the sensor surface and the fluorescence is selectively directed to a detector by appropriate optical elements positioned in specific configurations. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751181 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526341 | Cover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mathew B. Cover (Iowa City, Iowa); David R. Andersen (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathew B. Cover (Iowa City, Iowa); David R. Andersen (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for microwave tomography are described. According to various embodiments, signal strength values or other similar quality indications may be analyzed as they are received with packet data over a wireless network. The analysis may be used to determine the presence of a physical object substantially between communicating nodes in the wireless network. An output may be generated based on analyzed data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123346 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526695 | Witschey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Walter R. Witschey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ari Borthakur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ravinder Reddy (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. Witschey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ari Borthakur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ravinder Reddy (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of, and systems for, magnetic resonance imaging of diagnostic mapping of tissues, where sodium mapping is performed individually, as well as in combination with other images of tissue, such as T1ρ, T2, and/or T1-weighted images. In one method embodiment, a sodium image of the tissue is acquired during the same scanning session. Maps are constructed of each of the first and sodium images individually, and in combination, and further facilitate viewing in combination with each other as a single, blended image of the tissue. Maps of the images may be displayed individually or in combination with each other. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/595462 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526737 | Green |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip S. Green (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Green (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a telemanipulation system for manipulating objects located in a workspace at a remote worksite by an operator from an operator's station, such as in a remote surgical system, the remote worksite having a manipulator with an end effector for manipulating an object at the workspace, such as a body cavity, a controller including a hand control at the control operator's station for remote control of the manipulator, an image capture device, such as a camera, and image output device for reproducing a viewable real-time image, the improvement wherein a position sensor associated with the image capture device senses position relative to the end effector and a processor transforms the viewable real-time image into a perspective image with correlated manipulation of the end effector by the hand controller such that the operator can manipulate the end effector and the manipulator as if viewing the workspace in true presence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281342 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526772 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for generating ultrashort optical pulses. Polarized pulses of a near-infrared source are launched substantially along a principle axis of a birefringent photonic crystal fiber characterized by normal dispersion at all wavelengths of transmission of the photonic crystal fiber. Supercontinuum pulses are generated from the photonic crystal fiber and compressed to form compressed pulses. Highly polarized supercontinuum pulses provide for transform-limited compressed pulse durations. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184025 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527034 | Schroder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tobias Schroder (Somerville, Massachusetts); Marcos F. Vidal Melo (Newton, Massachusetts); Guido Musch (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Scott Harris (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jose G. Venegas (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Tilo Winkler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobias Schroder (Somerville, Massachusetts); Marcos F. Vidal Melo (Newton, Massachusetts); Guido Musch (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Scott Harris (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jose G. Venegas (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Tilo Winkler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An input function indicative of a time-activity curve in pulmonary arterial plasma is produced from a series of PET image frames in lieu of manual blood sampling. Two manually acquired blood samples are input along with pixel values of a blood pool region of interest (ROI) in the PET image frames into a two-parameter model of the ROI's time-activity curve. In an iterative process the model converges to accurately indicate the amount of 18F-FDG tracer in the arterial blood. Pulmonary uptake of the tracer is assessed with the PET image frames and the calculated input function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775915 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527056 | Nanduri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Devyani Nanduri (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Jessy Dorn (Los Angeles, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Ione Fine (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devyani Nanduri (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Jessy Dorn (Los Angeles, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Ione Fine (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of electrically stimulating percepts in a patient with a visual prosthesis are discussed. Changes in amplitude of stimulation increase both the perceived brightness and the perceived size of the precept. Changes in frequency of stimulation change the perceived brightness without altering the perceived size of the percept. Hence, a source image may be mapped to a combination of amplitude and frequency that best induces the desired image. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/097534 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527057 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kevin Wilkins (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kevin Wilkins (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an improved package and configuration for an implantable retinal prosthesis. The retinal prosthesis of the present invention includes an electrode array suitable to be mounted in close proximity to a retina, an electronics package and inductive receiving coil mounted next to each other on a strap surrounding the sclera so that the height above the sclera of the prosthesis is minimized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/976650 |
| 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 08527062 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power scheme for an implant on a human or animal body comprises: a charging circuit to provide power to deliver controlled stimulation currents to a body tissue; a capacitive storage arrangement connected with the charging circuit and charged by the charging circuit; a shunting arrangement to limit voltage on the capacitive storage arrangement; a driver array configured to transfer charges from the capacitive storage arrangement to the tissue; and an electrode array connected with the driver array and the tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416824 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527449 | Gajic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ognjen Gajic (Rochester, Minnesota); Vitaly Herasevich (Marshfield, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ognjen Gajic (Rochester, Minnesota); Vitaly Herasevich (Marshfield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented sepsis alerting method is disclosed. The method involves automatically extracting with a computer system, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, information from a electronic medical record, and obtaining with the computer system information about real-time status of the patient. The method also involves using the information from the electronic medical record and the information about the real-time status to determine whether the patient is likely to be suffering from dangerous probability of sepsis, using information from the electronic medical record to determine whether treatment for sepsis is already being provided to the patient, and electronically alerting a caregiver over a network if it is determined that a potentially dangerous level of sepsis exists and that treatment for sepsis is not already being provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940729 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08524525 | LeMieux et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are joined using one or more of a variety of materials and approaches. As consistent with various example embodiments, two or more nanostructures are joined at a junction between the nanostructures. The nanostructures may touch or be nearly touching at the junction, and a joining material is deposited and nucleates at the junction to couple the nanostructures together. In various applications, the nucleated joining material facilitates conductivity (thermal and/or electric) between the nanostructures. In some embodiments, the joining material further enhances conductivity of the nanostructures themselves, such as by growing along the nanostructures and/or doping the nanostructures. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011352 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524527 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); PoChiang Chen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); PoChiang Chen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, materials, apparatus and systems are described for implementing high-performance arsenic (As)-doped indium oxide (In2O3) nanowires for transparent electronics, including their implementation in transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs) and transparent active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLED) displays. In one implementation, a method of fabricating n-type dopant-doped metal oxide nanowires includes dispersing nanoparticle catalysts on a Si/SiO2 substrate. n-type dopant-doped metal oxide nanowires are grown on the Si/SiO2 substrate using a laser ablation process. The laser ablation process can include: placing n-type dopant at an upper stream of a furnace; placing the Si/SiO2 substrate at a down stream end of the furnace; heating the furnace; adding hydrogen to a carrier gas comprising argon and oxygen; flowing the hydrogen added carrier gas over the Si/SiO2 substrate to suppress oxidation processes and incorporate the n-type dopant into the metal oxide nanowires; and cooling the n-type dopant-doped metal oxide nanowires grown on the Si/SiO2 substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891764 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524582 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Cole J. Ritter, III (Palmer Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Cole J. Ritter, III (Palmer Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel silicon-germanium hydride compounds, methods for their synthesis, methods for their deposition, and semiconductor structures made using the novel compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/407195 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524664 | Dores |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert M. Dores (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado Seminary, Which owns and Operates The Univeristy of Denver (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Dores (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of treating overproduction of cortisol in a subject by administering to the subject a peptide that antagonizes adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) to block the activation of melanocortin 2 receptors. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/152233 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/10.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524884 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan P. James (Bellvue, Colorado); Min Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Guy Beauregard (Irvine, California); Rachael Kurkowski Oldinski (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan P. James (Bellvue, Colorado); Min Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Guy Beauregard (Irvine, California); Rachael Kurkowski Oldinski (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An outer layer material having an entanglement comprising an intermingling of cloaked hydrophilic guest and a hydrophobic polymer host, wherein molecules of the guest have been crosslinked with each other. Under certain circumstances, using complexes of the guest may be desirable or even necessary. Prior to intermingling with the guest, a host blend may be produced to include a physical blend of a hydrophobic polymer host and a maleated hydrophobic co-host (preferably, an anhydride functionalized hydrophobic polymer, whereby the polymer so functionalized, is the same as that selected for the host). The intermingling of the guest and host, or host-co-host blend, includes a physical tangling, whether it also comprises crosslinking by primary bonding (e.g., chemical/covalent bonding) there-between. Also a method of producing an outer layer material having such an entanglement, including the steps of: temporarily cloaking at least a portion of the hydrophilic groups of the guest; intermingling at least a portion of the cloaked groups with a porous polymeric structure by diffusing the guest with cloaked groups into at least a portion of the structure's pores; within the pores, crosslinking at least a portion of the molecules of the guest with the guest; and removing the cloaking. Cloaking may be performed by silylation or acylation. Intermingling may be performed by producing a mixture of guest and host, or host blend, (whether in solution, powdered, granular, etc., form); next, a crosslinking of the guest with itself is performed; then, the mixture is molded into the outer layer with or without additional crosslinking of the host to the host. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148598 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/55.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08524886 — Outer layer having entanglement of hydrophobic polymer host and hydrophilic polymer guest
| US 08524886 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan P. James (Bellvue, Colorado); Min Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Guy Beauregard (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan P. James (Bellvue, Colorado); Min Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Guy Beauregard (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An outer layer having an entanglement comprising an intermingling of cloaked hydrophilic guest and a hydrophobic polymer host, wherein molecules of the guest have been crosslinked with each other. Under certain circumstances, using complexes of the guest may be desirable or even necessary. The intermingling of the guest and host includes a physical tangling, whether it also comprises crosslinking by primary bonding (e.g., chemical/covalent bonding) there-between. Also a method of producing an outer layer having such an entanglement, including the steps of: temporarily cloaking at least a portion of the hydrophilic groups of the guest; intermingling at least a portion of the cloaked groups with a porous polymeric structure by diffusing the guest with cloaked groups into at least a portion of the structure's pores; within the pores, crosslinking at least a portion of the molecules of the guest with the guest; and removing the cloaking. Cloaking may be performed by silylation or acylation. Intermingling may be performed by producing a mixture of guest and host (whether in solution, powdered, granular, etc., form); next, a crosslinking of the guest with itself is performed; then, the mixture is molded into the outer layer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/705753 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/55.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524891 | Hammer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Steven A. Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Serhii Pakhomov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Timothy J. Jensen (Mebane, North Carolina); Michael W. Allen (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Irina V. Nesterova (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria da Graça Henriques Vicente (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Steven A. Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Serhii Pakhomov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Timothy J. Jensen (Mebane, North Carolina); Michael W. Allen (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Irina V. Nesterova (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria da Graça Henriques Vicente (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetrically substituted metal-phthalocyanine compounds are disclosed. These compounds and other phthalocyanine-derivatives are used in bioimaging, bioanalysis, FRET and quenching techniques, photodynamic therapy, DNA analysis for cells, proteins, tissues and other biological entities, and other applications. Near-infrared fluorescence minimizes matrix effects typically seen in other methods of analyzing biochemical entities in cells, proteins, tissues and other biological entities. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/995244 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524942 | Pugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Coleen R. Pugh (Akron, Ohio); Anirudha Singh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Coleen R. Pugh (Akron, Ohio); Anirudha Singh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An inimer, and process for making same, having the following formula: wherein X=halogen, nitroxide, thioester; R═H or CH3; and R′=aliphatic, non-aliphatic, linear or branched, mesogenic, non mesogenic, chiral, achiral, hydrocarbon, non-hydrocarbon, selected from fluorocarbon, oligo(oxyethylene) and siloxane substituents, alkyl, aryl, mesogenic group, non-mesogenic group, aliphatic, non-aliphatic, siloxane, perfluoroalkyl, perfluoroaryl, or other fluorocarbon group, and polymers, and the process of making them, from the inimer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444166 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525095 | Huber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tito E. Huber (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Howard University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tito E. Huber (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanothermocouple detector includes a nanowire coupled across two electrodes. The two electrodes are electrically connected to an amplifier. The two electrodes generally have a separation of about five micrometers to about thirty micrometers across which the nanowire is coupled. A focusing element is disposed to admit photons that fall on the focusing element onto the nanowire to heat it. A voltage change across the nanowire caused by the heating of the nanowire by the light is detected by the amplifier. The voltage change corresponds to the energy absorbed from the light by the nanowire. The color of a single photon can be detected using such device. An array of such devices can be used for sensing light on a two-dimensional scale, thereby providing an image showing small variances in the energies of the light impinging upon the detector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321365 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525131 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Onas Bolton (Dearborn, Michigan); Kangwon Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Eun Jeong Jeong (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bong-Gi Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Onas Bolton (Dearborn, Michigan); Kangwon Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Eun Jeong Jeong (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bong-Gi Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions providing metal-independent phosphorescence due to a directed heavy atom effect are provided. Methods of providing a phosphorescent composition are also provided where a directed heavy atom effect is maintained to cause the composition to be phosphorescent. Manufacture of phosphorescent compositions using intermolecular and intramolecular directed heavy atom effects are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/511882 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525228 | Javey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali Javey (Fremont, California); Hyunhyub Ko (Ulsan Metropolitan, South Korea); Kuniharu Takei (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Javey (Fremont, California); Hyunhyub Ko (Ulsan Metropolitan, South Korea); Kuniharu Takei (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor-on-insulator (XOI) structures and methods of fabricating XOI structures are provided. Single-crystalline semiconductor is grown on a source substrate, patterned, and transferred onto a target substrate, such as a Si/SiO2 substrate, thereby assembling an XOI substrate. The transfer process can be conducted through a stamping method or a bonding method. Multiple transfers can be carried out to form heterogenous compound semiconductor devices. The single-crystalline semiconductor can be II-IV or III-V compound semiconductor, such as InAs. A thermal oxide layer can be grown on the patterned single crystalline semiconductor, providing improved electrical characteristics and interface properties. In addition, strain tuning is accomplished via a capping layer formed on the single-crystalline semiconductor before transferring the single-crystalline semiconductor to the target substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/175281 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525237 | Weiss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Reginald M. Penner (Newport Beach, California); Jessica A. Arter (Laguna Beach, California); David K. Taggart (Mission Viejo, California); Keith C. Donavan (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Reginald M. Penner (Newport Beach, California); Jessica A. Arter (Laguna Beach, California); David K. Taggart (Mission Viejo, California); Keith C. Donavan (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Grafting M13 bacteriophage into an array of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nanowires generated hybrids of conducting polymers and replicable genetic packages (rgps) such as viruses. The incorporation of rgps into the polymeric backbone of PEDOT occurs during electropolymerization via lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition (LPNE). The resultant arrays of rgps-PEDOT nanowires enable real-time, reagent-free electrochemical biosensing of analytes in physiologically relevant buffers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/251923 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525279 | Gowrishetty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Usha R. Gowrishetty (Louisville, Kentucky); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usha R. Gowrishetty (Louisville, Kentucky); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide for three-terminal pressure sensors (“3-TPS”), a method of measuring a pressure with a 3-TPS, and a method of manufacturing a 3-TPS. In some embodiments, the 3-TPS includes a semiconducting layer with cavity and a 3-TPS element having at least one piezoresistive layer overlapping at least a portion of the cavity and oriented at an angle selected to provide a desired sensitivity for the 3-TPS. The method of measuring a pressure with a 3-TPS is performed with a 3-TPS that includes an input terminal, first and second output terminals, and a 3-TPS element, the 3-TPS element overlapping at least a portion of a cavity at a predetermined angle. The method comprises providing an input signal to the input terminal of the 3-TPS, determining a difference between two output signals from the respective output terminals of the 3-TPS, and correlating the determined difference to a pressure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794288 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525518 | Qian |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chunqi Qian (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunqi Qian (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Impedance matching between the RF probe and the spectrometer is a standard requirement for NMR probes. Both lumped element and branched transmission line methods are in wide use. Here we propose to use a segmented transmission line structure. It relies upon reflections between transmission lines of different impedances that are serially connected to match the impedance of a coil or resonator to the characteristic impedance of the NMR spectrometer. In an embodiment, two quarter-wave length dielectric slugs are placed within a coaxial transmission line. Adjustment of the positions of the slugs allows the variable tuning and matching needed for NMR probes, eliminating the need for variable capacitors and inductors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605761 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525564 | Schober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan M. Schober (Huntington Beach, California); Robert C. Schober (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Schober (Huntington Beach, California); Robert C. Schober (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Charge-based charge pumps are described which include a switchable capacitor configured for connection to a voltage source, a ground, and a charge pump output. A first pair of switches include a first switch configured to connect the switchable capacitor to ground and a second switch configured to connect the switchable capacitor to the voltage source. A second pair of switches include a third switch configured to connect a first node, between the switchable capacitor and ground, to the charge pump output, and a fourth switch configured to connect a second node, between the switchable capacitor and the voltage source, to the charge pump output. Locked loop designs, such as phase locked loops or delay locked loops, are described that include charge-based charge pumps. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278003 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525724 | Insanic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edin Insanic (Belmont, Massachusetts); Paul Siqueira (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edin Insanic (Belmont, Massachusetts); Paul Siqueira (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods of measuring atmospheric conditions using networked radar systems. A processor receives sensed data from the radar nodes of the network to determine weather conditions within the atmospheric region measured by network. Preferred embodiments use a velocity processor to determine the velocity of the atmosphere in real time for display. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900620 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/26.D00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525778 | Colgate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic device includes a substrate that is subjected to lateral motion such as lateral oscillation with one or more degrees of freedom together with modulation of a friction reducing oscillation in a manner that can create a shear force on the user's finger or on an object on the device. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/589178 |
| ART UNIT | 2694 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525832 | Whitaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross T. Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Miriah Meyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Kirby, II (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming mesh data for three-dimensional (3-D) data is provided. Inside/outside (IO) functions are generated based on indicator functions to identify element interfaces between a plurality of elements identified in the 3-D data. An indicator function is defined to represent a volume identified for an element within the 3-D data. A cell indicator function is defined for each element interface based on the IO functions to identify a plurality of types of element interfaces. The cell indicator function identifies points in the 3-D data where a plurality of the generated IO functions evaluate to approximately zero. The types of element interfaces are identified based on a number of elements that coincide at a point in the 3-D data. 3-D point locations are distributed on the identified element interfaces based on the plurality of types of element interfaces and the IO functions. Surface mesh data is generated based on the distributed 3-D point locations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123347 |
| ART UNIT | 2677 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525998 | Yaqoob et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zahid Yaqoob (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emily McDowell (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid Yaqoob (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emily McDowell (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical phase processing system for a scattering medium. A first beam has a direction and a wavefront and the first beam is configured to enter a holographic recording medium. A scattering medium is illuminated by a signal beam generating at least one scattered beam. An interference pattern is recorded from the at least one scattered beam and the first beam. A second beam is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of the first beam, the second beam having a wavefront and a phase substantially opposite to a phase of the wavefront of the first beam, and the second beam is configured to enter the holographic recording medium. The second beam and the interference pattern interact to generate at least one reconstructed beam having a phase substantially opposite to a phase of the at least one scattered beam, and the at least one reconstructed beam is configured to be viewable through the scattering medium. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886320 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526002 | DeFlores et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lauren DeFlores (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren DeFlores (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and methods for acquiring two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D FT) spectra. Overlap of a collinear pulse pair and probe induce a molecular response which is collected by spectral dispersion of the signal modulated probe beam. Simultaneous collection of the molecular response, pulse timing and characteristics permit real time phasing and rapid acquisition of spectra. Full spectra are acquired as a function of pulse pair timings and numerically transformed to achieve the full frequency-frequency spectrum. This method demonstrates the ability to acquire information on molecular dynamics, couplings and structure in a simple apparatus. Multi-dimensional methods can be used for diagnostic and analytical measurements in the biological, biomedical, and chemical fields. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/676536 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526451 | Sundararajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Porto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellow of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Porto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404533 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526471 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Weijian Yang (Berkeley, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Weijian Yang (Berkeley, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A saturable absorber (SA) based on a high-contrast grating (HCG) having a buried layer of quantum structures for absorption, and which is particularly well suited for use in a mode-locked application. The HCG-SA provides three times the bandwidth compared with traditional DBR structures, while exhibiting a lower saturation fluence due to the field enhancement inside the grating. Varying grating bar width over one or two axis provides lensing effects on the optical output, while chirping of the period and duty cycle changes optical phase relationships. Novel VCSEL embodiments with external or internal cavities are described using the HCG-SA. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593407 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526533 | Sen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shreyas Sen (Atlanta, Georgia); Shyam Kumar Devarakond (Atlanta, Georgia); Abhijit Chatterjee (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shreyas Sen (Atlanta, Georgia); Shyam Kumar Devarakond (Atlanta, Georgia); Abhijit Chatterjee (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of measuring I-Q mismatch in a system having a transmitter. The transmitter comprises an in-phase up-converter, a quadrature-phase up-converter, and a power detector. The method of measuring I-Q mismatch comprises measuring an in-phase transmit power at the power detector caused by transmitting an in-phase output signal to the in-phase up-converter, measuring a quadrature-phase transmit power at the power detector caused by transmitting a quadrature-phase output signal to the quadrature-phase up-converter, calculating a transmitter-gain-mismatch as a function of the in-phase transmit power and the quadrature-phase transmit power, measuring an I-Q transmit power at the power detector caused by simultaneously transmitting a gain-mismatch-compensated in-phase output signal to the in-phase up-converter and a gain-mismatch-compensated quadrature-phase output signal to the quadrature-phase up-converter, and calculating a transmitter-phase-mismatch as a function of the I-Q transmit power. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/114178 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526621 | Rabin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael O. Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher A. Thorpe (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President And Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael O. Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher A. Thorpe (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a Time-Lapse Cryptography Service is provided based on a network of parties. Senders encrypt their messages with this public key whose secret key is not known to anyone—not even a trusted third party—until a predefined and specific future time T+.delta., at which point the secret key is constructed and published. In one example, the secret key can only be known after it is constructed. At or after that time, anyone can decrypt the cipher text using this secret key. In one embodiment, a method for cryptographic encoding is provided, including generation of cryptographic key components by a plurality of parties, where participation of the parties is verified. A public key is constructed from a plurality of key components. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/517088 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526772 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haohua Tu (Savoy, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for generating ultrashort optical pulses. Polarized pulses of a near-infrared source are launched substantially along a principle axis of a birefringent photonic crystal fiber characterized by normal dispersion at all wavelengths of transmission of the photonic crystal fiber. Supercontinuum pulses are generated from the photonic crystal fiber and compressed to form compressed pulses. Highly polarized supercontinuum pulses provide for transform-limited compressed pulse durations. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184025 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527432 | Guo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhen Guo (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen Guo (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Semi-supervised learning plays an important role in machine learning and data mining. The semi-supervised learning problem is approached by developing semiparametric regularization, which attempts to discover the marginal distribution of the data to learn the parametric function through exploiting the geometric distribution of the data. This learned parametric function can then be incorporated into the supervised learning on the available labeled data as the prior knowledge. A semi-supervised learning approach is provided which incorporates the unlabeled data into the supervised learning by a parametric function learned from the whole data including the labeled and unlabeled data. The parametric function reflects the geometric structure of the marginal distribution of the data. Furthermore, the proposed approach which naturally extends to the out-of-sample data is an inductive learning method in nature. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538849 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527444 | Van Hentenryck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pascal Van Hentenryck (Barrington, Rhode Island); Gregoire Dooms (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pascal Van Hentenryck (Barrington, Rhode Island); Gregoire Dooms (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: receiving, by an input, input data descriptive of a stochastic scheduling optimization problem; generating, by a processor, at least one solution to the stochastic scheduling optimization problem using a one-step anticipatory algorithm, where the one-step anticipatory algorithm is configured to reduce an anticipatory gap of the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, where the anticipatory gap is a measure of stochasticity of the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, where the one-step anticipatory algorithm operates by determining a set of possible decisions for the stochastic scheduling optimization problem, generating a plurality of scenarios and solving the plurality of scenarios to obtain the at least one solution; and outputting, by an output, the generated at least one solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/736002 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528091 | Bowen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Stylianos Sidiroglou (Astoria, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Stylianos Sidiroglou (Astoria, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for detecting covert malware are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for detecting covert malware in a computing environment is provided, the method comprising: generating simulated user activity outside of the computing environment; conveying the simulated user activity to an application inside the computing environment; and determining whether a decoy corresponding to the simulated user activity has been accessed by an unauthorized entity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/982984 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08522562 | Ludtka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger A. Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roger A. Jaramillo (Milton, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger A. Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roger A. Jaramillo (Milton, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for magnetically processing a specimen that couples high field strength magnetic fields with the magnetocaloric effect includes a high field strength magnet capable of generating a magnetic field of at least 1 Tesla and a magnetocaloric insert disposed within a bore of the high field strength magnet. A method for magnetically processing a specimen includes positioning a specimen adjacent to a magnetocaloric insert within a bore of a magnet and applying a high field strength magnetic field of at least 1 Tesla to the specimen and to the magnetocaloric insert. The temperature of the specimen changes during the application of the high field strength magnetic field due to the magnetocaloric effect. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198180 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522720 | Boxley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chett Boxley (Park City, Utah); Jessica McKelvie (Sandy, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chett Boxley (Park City, Utah); Jessica McKelvie (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An animal litter composition that includes geopolymerized ash particulates having a network of repeating aluminum-silicon units is described herein. Generally, the animal litter is made from a quantity of a pozzolanic ash mixed with an alkaline activator to initiate a geopolymerization reaction that forms geopolymerized ash. This geopolymerization reaction may occur within a pelletizer. After the geopolymerized ash is formed, it may be dried and sieved to a desired size. These geopolymerized ash particulates may be used to make a non-clumping or clumping animal litter or other absorbing material. Aluminum sulfate, clinoptilolite, silica gel, sodium alginate and mineral oil may be added as additional ingredients. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/270104 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08522817 | Jordan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulation gas recovery and charge apparatus is provided comprising a pump, a connect, an inflatable collection device and at least one valve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/930089 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/565.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08523478 | Swahlan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Swahlan (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jason Wilke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Swahlan (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jason Wilke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An access delay vehicle barrier for stopping unauthorized entry into secure areas by a vehicle ramming attack includes access delay features for preventing and/or delaying an adversary from defeating or compromising the barrier. A horizontally deployed barrier member can include an exterior steel casing, an interior steel reinforcing member and access delay members disposed within the casing and between the casing and the interior reinforcing member. Access delay members can include wooden structural lumber, concrete and/or polymeric members that in combination with the exterior casing and interior reinforcing member act cooperatively to impair an adversarial attach by thermal, mechanical and/or explosive tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477946 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08523525 | Marra |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A snubber associated with a rotatable turbine blade in a turbine engine, the turbine blade including a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall opposed from the pressure wall. The snubber assembly includes a first snubber structure associated with the pressure sidewall of the turbine blade, a second snubber structure associated with the suction sidewall of the turbine blade, and a support structure. The support structure extends through the blade and is rigidly coupled at a first end portion thereof to the first snubber structure and at a second end portion thereof to the second snubber structure. Centrifugal loads exerted by the first and second snubber structures caused by rotation thereof during operation of the engine are at least partially transferred to the support structure, such that centrifugal loads exerted on the pressure and suctions sidewalls of the turbine blade by the first and second snubber structures are reduced. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701041 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/96.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08523735 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pinaki Gupta (Wixom, Michigan); Lawrence A. Kaminsky (White Lake, Michigan); Besim Demirovic (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pinaki Gupta (Wixom, Michigan); Lawrence A. Kaminsky (White Lake, Michigan); Besim Demirovic (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for executing a transmission shift in a hybrid transmission including first and second electric machines includes executing a shift-through-neutral sequence from an initial transmission state to a target transmission state including executing an intermediate shift to neutral. Upon detecting a change in an output torque request while executing the shift-through-neutral sequence, possible recovery shift paths are identified. Available ones of the possible recovery shift paths are identified and a shift cost for each said available recovery shift path is evaluated. The available recovery shift path having a minimum shift cost is selected as a preferred recovery shift path and is executed to achieve a non-neutral transmission state. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402946 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control 477/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524053 | Farmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Frank M. G. Wong (Livermore, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); Xiaoyan (Jane) Ji (Pleasanton, California); Sumner D. Day (Danville, California); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. K. Rivard (Arlington, Virginia); Louis F. Aprigliano (Berlin, Maryland); Leslie K. Kohler (Warren, New Jersey); Robert Bayles (Annandale, Virginia); Edward J. Lemieux (Summerland Key, Florida); Nancy Yang (Lafayette, California); John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Arthur Heuer (Cleveland, Ohio); Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Frank M. G. Wong (Livermore, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); Xiaoyan (Jane) Ji (Pleasanton, California); Sumner D. Day (Danville, California); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. K. Rivard (Arlington, Virginia); Louis F. Aprigliano (Berlin, Maryland); Leslie K. Kohler (Warren, New Jersey); Robert Bayles (Annandale, Virginia); Edward J. Lemieux (Summerland Key, Florida); Nancy Yang (Lafayette, California); John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Arthur Heuer (Cleveland, Ohio); Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of coating a surface comprising providing a source of amorphous metal that contains manganese (1 to 3 atomic %), yttrium (0.1 to 10 atomic %), and silicon (0.3 to 3.1 atomic %) in the range of composition given in parentheses; and that contains the following elements in the specified range of composition given in parentheses: chromium (15 to 20 atomic %), molybdenum (2 to 15 atomic %), tungsten (1 to 3 atomic %), boron (5 to 16 atomic %), carbon (3 to 16 atomic %), and the balance iron; and applying said amorphous metal to the surface by a spray. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/027028 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/298.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524060 | Herr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amy E. Herr (Oakland, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Daniel J. Throckmorton (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy E. Herr (Oakland, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Daniel J. Throckmorton (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-analytical platform for performing electrophoresis-based immunoassays was developed by integrating photopolymerized cross-linked polyacrylamide gels within a microfluidic device. The microfluidic immunoassays are performed by gel electrophoretic separation and quantifying analyte concentration based upon conventional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). To retain biological activity of proteins and maintain intact immune complexes, native PAGE conditions were employed. Both direct (non-competitive) and competitive immunoassay formats are demonstrated in microchips for detecting toxins and biomarkers (cytokines, c-reactive protein) in bodily fluids (serum, saliva, oral fluids). Further, a description of gradient gels fabrication is included, in an effort to describe methods we have developed for further optimization of on-chip PAGE immunoassays. The described chip-based PAGE immunoassay method enables immunoassays that are fast (minutes) and require very small amounts of sample (less than a few microliters). Use of microfabricated chips as a platform enables integration, parallel assays, automation and development of portable devices. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728797 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524064 | Dehlinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dietrich A. Dehlinger (Dublin, California); Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California); Maxim Shusteff (Oakland, California); Christopher G. Bailey (Pleasanton, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dietrich A. Dehlinger (Dublin, California); Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California); Maxim Shusteff (Oakland, California); Christopher G. Bailey (Pleasanton, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectrophoresis apparatus for separating particles from a sample, including an apparatus body; a dielectrophoresis channel in the apparatus body, the dielectrophoresis channel having a central axis, a bottom, a top, a first side, and a second side; a first mesa projecting into the dielectrophoresis channel from the bottom and extending from the first side across the dielectrophoresis channel to the second side, the first mesa extending at an angle to the central axis of the dielectrophoresis channel; a first electrode extending along the first mesa; a second mesa projecting into the dielectrophoresis channel from the bottom and extending from the first side across the dielectrophoresis channel to the second side, the second mesa extending at an angle to the central axis of the dielectrophoresis channel; a space between at least one of the first electrode and the second side or the second electrode and the second side; and a gap between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/843269 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524067 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Joan Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Joan Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing nano-scaled graphene platelets with an average thickness smaller than 30 nm from a layered graphite material. The method comprises (a) forming a carboxylic acid-intercalated graphite compound by an electrochemical reaction; (b) exposing the intercalated graphite compound to a thermal shock to produce exfoliated graphite; and (c) subjecting the exfoliated graphite to a mechanical shearing treatment to produce the nano-scaled graphene platelets. Preferred carboxylic acids are formic acid and acetic acid. The exfoliation step in the instant invention does not involve the evolution of undesirable species, such as NOx and SOx, which are common by-products of exfoliating conventional sulfuric or nitric acid-intercalated graphite compounds. The nano-scaled platelets are candidate reinforcement fillers for polymer nanocomposites. Nano-scaled graphene platelets are much lower-cost alternatives to carbon nano-tubes or carbon nano-fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881388 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524388 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Huimin Luo (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary A. Baker (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Huimin Luo (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary A. Baker (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Protic ionic liquids having a composition of formula (A−)(BH+) wherein A− is a conjugate base of an acid HA, and BH+ is a conjugate acid of a superbase B. In particular embodiments, BH+ is selected from phosphazenium species and guanidinium species encompassed, respectively, by the general formulas: The invention is also directed to films and membranes containing these protic ionic liquids, with particular application as proton exchange membranes for fuel cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690224 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524903 | Corbea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Javier Jesus Concepcion Corbea (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Zuofeng Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jonah Wesley Jurss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph L. Templeton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Paul Hoertz (Morrisville, North Carolina); Thomas J. Meyer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Jesus Concepcion Corbea (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Zuofeng Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jonah Wesley Jurss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph L. Templeton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Paul Hoertz (Morrisville, North Carolina); Thomas J. Meyer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides ruthenium or osmium complexes and their uses as a catalyst for catalytic water oxidation. Another aspect of the invention provides an electrode and photo-electrochemical cells for electrolysis of water molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862538 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524963 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Thomas Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alfred P. Sattelberger (Darrien, Illinois); Hongbo Li (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Thomas Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alfred P. Sattelberger (Darrien, Illinois); Hongbo Li (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid supported organoiridium catalysts, a process for preparing such solid supported organoiridium catalysts, and the use of such solid supported organoiridium catalysts in dehydrogenation reactions of alkanes is provided. The catalysts can be easily recovered and recycled. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079477 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/433 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525185 | Goldsmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Goldsmith (Plano, Texas); Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); John A. Carlisle (Romeoville, Illinois); Suresh Sampath (Santa Barbara, California); Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Illinois); Robert W. Carpick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James Hwang (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Derrick C. Mancini (Riverside, Illinois); Chris Gudeman (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Goldsmith (Plano, Texas); Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); John A. Carlisle (Romeoville, Illinois); Suresh Sampath (Santa Barbara, California); Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Illinois); Robert W. Carpick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James Hwang (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Derrick C. Mancini (Riverside, Illinois); Chris Gudeman (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reliable long life RF-MEMS capacitive switch is provided with a dielectric layer comprising a “fast discharge diamond dielectric layer” and enabling rapid switch recovery, dielectric layer charging and discharging that is efficient and effective to enable RF-MEMS switch operation to greater than or equal to 100 billion cycles. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081683 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525619 | Olsson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed (San Francisco, California); Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mehmet F. Su (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles M. Reinke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed (San Francisco, California); Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mehmet F. Su (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles M. Reinke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A very high-Q, low insertion loss resonator can be achieved by storing many overtone cycles of a lateral acoustic wave (i.e., Lamb wave) in a lithographically defined suspended membrane comprising a low damping resonator material, such as silicon carbide. The high-Q resonator can sets up a Fabry-Perot cavity in a low-damping resonator material using high-reflectivity acoustic end mirrors, which can comprise phononic crystals. The lateral overtone acoustic wave resonator can be electrically transduced by piezoelectric couplers. The resonator Q can be increased without increasing the impedance or insertion loss by storing many cycles or wavelengths in the high-Q resonator material, with much lower damping than the piezoelectric transducer material. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790303 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526002 | DeFlores et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lauren DeFlores (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren DeFlores (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and methods for acquiring two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D FT) spectra. Overlap of a collinear pulse pair and probe induce a molecular response which is collected by spectral dispersion of the signal modulated probe beam. Simultaneous collection of the molecular response, pulse timing and characteristics permit real time phasing and rapid acquisition of spectra. Full spectra are acquired as a function of pulse pair timings and numerically transformed to achieve the full frequency-frequency spectrum. This method demonstrates the ability to acquire information on molecular dynamics, couplings and structure in a simple apparatus. Multi-dimensional methods can be used for diagnostic and analytical measurements in the biological, biomedical, and chemical fields. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/676536 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526560 | Miley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NPL Associates, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NPL Associates, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George H. Miley (Champaign, Illinois); Xiaoling Yang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for producing neutrons, comprising: providing a converter foil comprising deuterium clusters; focusing a laser on the foil with power and energy sufficient to cause deuteron ions to separate from the foil; and striking a surface of a target with the deuteron ions from the converter foil with energy sufficient to cause neutron production by a reaction selected from the group consisting of D-D fusion, D-T fusion, D-metal nuclear spallation, and p-metal. A further method is provided for assembling a plurality of target assemblies for a target injector to be used in the previously mentioned manner. A further method is provided for producing neutrons, comprising: splitting a laser beam into a first beam and a second beam; striking a first surface of a target with the first beam, and an opposite second surface of the target with the second beam with energy sufficient to cause neutron production. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672134 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526561 | Ehst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Ehst (Downers Grove, Illinois); Delbert L. Bowers (Crest Hill, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Ehst (Downers Grove, Illinois); Delbert L. Bowers (Crest Hill, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for producing Cu67 radioisotope suitable for use in medical applications. The method comprises irradiating a metallic zinc-68 (Zn68) target with a high energy gamma ray beam. After irradiation, the Cu67 is isolated from the Zn68 by any suitable method (e.g., chemical and/or physical separation). In a preferred embodiment, the Cu67 is isolated by sublimation of the zinc (e.g., at about 500-700° C. under reduced pressure) to afford a copper residue containing Cu67. The Cu67 can be further purified by chemical means (i.e., dissolution in acid, followed by ion exchange). |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462099 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526566 | Youchison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis L. Youchison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian E. Williams (Pocoima, California); Robert E. Benander (Pacoima, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis L. Youchison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian E. Williams (Pocoima, California); Robert E. Benander (Pacoima, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous nuclear fuel elements for use in advanced high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors (HTGR's), and to processes for fabricating them. Advanced uranium bi-carbide, uranium tri-carbide and uranium carbonitride nuclear fuels can be used. These fuels have high melting temperatures, high thermal conductivity, and high resistance to erosion by hot hydrogen gas. Tri-carbide fuels, such as (U,Zr,Nb)C, can be fabricated using chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) to simultaneously deposit each of the three separate carbides, e.g., UC, ZrC, and NbC in a single CVI step. By using CVI, the nuclear fuel may be deposited inside of a highly porous skeletal structure made of, for example, reticulated vitreous carbon foam. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/850752 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526723 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshman Prasad (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sriram Swaminarayan (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred aspects of the present invention can include receiving a digital image at a processor; segmenting the digital image into a hierarchy of feature layers comprising one or more fine-scale features defining a foreground object embedded in one or more coarser-scale features defining a background to the one or more fine-scale features in the segmentation hierarchy; detecting a first fine-scale foreground feature as an anomaly with respect to a first background feature within which it is embedded; and constructing an anomalous feature layer by synthesizing spatially contiguous anomalous fine-scale features. Additional preferred aspects of the present invention can include detecting non-pervasive changes between sets of images in response at least in part to one or more difference images between the sets of images. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/660672 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527247 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David G. Wilson (Tijeras, New Mexico); Rush D. Robinett, III (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Wilson (Tijeras, New Mexico); Rush D. Robinett, III (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method of determining the pitch stability of an airfoil system, comprising using a computer to numerically integrate a differential equation of motion that includes terms describing PID controller action. In one model, the differential equation characterizes the time-dependent response of the airfoil's pitch angle, α. The computer model calculates limit-cycles of the model, which represent the stability boundaries of the airfoil system. Once the stability boundary is known, feedback control can be implemented, by using, for example, a PID controller to control a feedback actuator. The method allows the PID controller gain constants, KI, Kp, and Kd, to be optimized. This permits operation closer to the stability boundaries, while preventing the physical apparatus from unintentionally crossing the stability boundaries. Operating closer to the stability boundaries permits greater power efficiencies to be extracted from the airfoil system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633045 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527672 | Blocksome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Fencing direct memory access (‘DMA’) data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through DMA controllers operatively coupled to segments of shared random access memory through which the DMA controllers deliver data communications deterministically, including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active DMA instructions for DMA data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic DMA data transfers through a DMA controller and a segment of shared memory; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for DMA data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all DMA instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for DMA data transfers between the two endpoints. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940300 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527740 | Kumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameer Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York); Joseph D. Ratterman (Seattle, Washington); Michael Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas Miller (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer Kumar (Yorktown Heights, New York); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York); Joseph D. Ratterman (Seattle, Washington); Michael Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas Miller (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for enhancing barrier collective synchronization on a computer system comprises a computer system including a data storage device. The computer system includes a program stored in the data storage device and steps of the program being executed by a processor. The system includes providing a plurality of communicators for storing state information for a bather algorithm. Each communicator designates a master core in a multi-processor environment of the computer system. The system allocates or designates one counter for each of a plurality of threads. The system configures a table with a number of entries equal to the maximum number of threads. The system sets a table entry with an ID associated with a communicator when a process thread initiates a collective. The system determines an allocated or designated counter by searching entries in the table. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697164 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528004 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas R. Miller (Albert Lea, Minnesota); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas R. Miller (Albert Lea, Minnesota); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Internode data communications in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes that each include main memory and a messaging unit, the messaging unit including computer memory and coupling compute nodes for data communications, in which, for each compute node at compute node boot time: a messaging unit allocates, in the messaging unit's computer memory, a predefined number of message buffers, each message buffer associated with a process to be initialized on the compute node; receives, prior to initialization of a particular process on the compute node, a data communications message intended for the particular process; and stores the data communications message in the message buffer associated with the particular process. Upon initialization of the particular process, the process establishes a messaging buffer in main memory of the compute node and copies the data communications message from the message buffer of the messaging unit into the message buffer of main memory. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/290642 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08524222 | Jacobsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barry Jacobsen (Bozeman, Montana); Clifford Bradley (Missoula, Montana); Nina K. Zidack (Bozeman, Montana); Rebecca Larson (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana); Montana BioAgriculture, Inc. (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Jacobsen (Bozeman, Montana); Clifford Bradley (Missoula, Montana); Nina K. Zidack (Bozeman, Montana); Rebecca Larson (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inducing systemic acquired resistance to infection in a plant are provided. The methods comprise applying a composition comprising a Bacillus control agent to said plant wherein said plant is capable of producing defense proteins. Also provided are, methods for controlling one or more plant diseases, methods for preventing plant virus transmission, methods for preventing and/or treating soil-borne plant pathogens using the Bacillus control agent of the present invention, and methods of generating bacterial spores. In addition, synergistic biocontrol combinations and methods of using the same are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/175614 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524855 | Tisserat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brent Tisserat (Washington, Illinois); Ronald A. Holser (Athens, Georgia); Rogers E. Harry-O'Kuru (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Tisserat (Washington, Illinois); Ronald A. Holser (Athens, Georgia); Rogers E. Harry-O'Kuru (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Environmentally-friendly, biodegradable polyol:carboxylic acid polyester solid-phase products may be produced utilizing microwave heating. In this process, a di- or tricarboxylic acid is reacted with a polyol such as a glycerol or a sugar alcohol, or an ester thereof with the application of heating by microwave energy. Sufficient microwave heating is provided to esterify the polyol with the carboxylic acids, while removing as steam the water by-product which is generated during the reaction. The polyesters so-produced are resistant to high temperatures and solvents, and may by cured and/or molded. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/472715 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524992 | Foolad |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Majid R. Foolad (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Solanum pimpinellifolium plants which are exceptionally high in fruit lycopene content (˜300-390 μg lycopene/g fresh fruit) are disclosed herein, which may be used in plant breeding to make the tomato plants of the present invention. The invention also discloses genetic markers, which are associated with the trait which may be used in marker-assisted selection for development of plants, lines, or varieties with the trait. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/668859 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08525036 | Mitchell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida); Rod Waits (Sunnyvale, California); Roberto Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas); John R. Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alexander B. Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida); Rod Waits (Sunnyvale, California); Roberto Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas); John R. Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alexander B. Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit assembly (34) resistant to high-temperature and high g centrifugal force is disclosed. A printed circuit board (42) is first fabricated from alumina and has conductive traces of said circuit formed thereon by the use of a thick film gold paste. Active and passive components of the circuit assembly are attached to the printed circuit board by means of gold powder diffused under high temperature. Gold wire is used for bonding between the circuit traces and the active components in order to complete the circuit assembly (34). Also, a method for manufacturing a circuit assembly resistant to elevated temperature is disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/235984 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08527520 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Scott Morton (Washington, District of Columbia); Tim V. Sibley (Washington, District of Columbia); Noam Carl Unger (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Rubinoff (Potomac, Maryland); Anthony Ruiz Davis (Takoma Park, Maryland); Kyle Aveni-Deforge (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Streamsage, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Morton (Washington, District of Columbia); Tim V. Sibley (Washington, District of Columbia); Noam Carl Unger (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Rubinoff (Potomac, Maryland); Anthony Ruiz Davis (Takoma Park, Maryland); Kyle Aveni-Deforge (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving information from timed media files based upon relevance intervals. The method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving this information is based upon relevance intervals so that a portion of a timed media file is returned, which is selected specifically to be relevant to the given information representations, thereby eliminating the need for a manual determination of the relevance and avoiding missing relevant portions. The timed media includes streaming audio, streaming video, timed HTML, animations such as vector-based graphics, slide shows, other timed media, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/347914 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08522861 | Zaffetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Edmund P. Taddey (West Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Edmund P. Taddey (West Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cold plate assembly is provided having a cold plate with a generally planar member that provides a support surface. The support surface is configured to support a heat generating device. A structural member provides attaching features that are configured to secure the cold plate assembly to a support. The cold plate is secured to the structural member by a braze material. In one example, the cold plate assembly is manufactured by arranging multiple sheets with a first braze material provided between the sheets. The multiple sheets comprise a cold plate. The braze material is heated to mechanically join the multiple sheets to one another and the cold plate to the structural member. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748490 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/80.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525460 | Reiland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew J. Reiland (Oxford, Michigan); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Frank Noble Permenter (Webster, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Reiland (Oxford, Michigan); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Frank Noble Permenter (Webster, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An SEA architecture for controlling the torque applied by an SEA that has particular application for controlling the position of a robot link. The SEA architecture includes a motor coupled to one end of an elastic spring and a load coupled to an opposite end of the elastic spring, where the motor drives the load through the spring. The orientation of the shaft of the motor and the load are measured by position sensors. Position signals from the position sensors are sent to an embedded processor that determines the orientation of the load relative to the motor shaft to determine the torque on the spring. The embedded processor receives reference torque signals from a remote controller, and the embedded processor operates a high-speed servo loop about the desired joint torque. The remote controller determines the desired joint torque based on higher order objectives by their impedance or positioning objectives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698832 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08524067 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Joan Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Joan Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing nano-scaled graphene platelets with an average thickness smaller than 30 nm from a layered graphite material. The method comprises (a) forming a carboxylic acid-intercalated graphite compound by an electrochemical reaction; (b) exposing the intercalated graphite compound to a thermal shock to produce exfoliated graphite; and (c) subjecting the exfoliated graphite to a mechanical shearing treatment to produce the nano-scaled graphene platelets. Preferred carboxylic acids are formic acid and acetic acid. The exfoliation step in the instant invention does not involve the evolution of undesirable species, such as NOx and SOx, which are common by-products of exfoliating conventional sulfuric or nitric acid-intercalated graphite compounds. The nano-scaled platelets are candidate reinforcement fillers for polymer nanocomposites. Nano-scaled graphene platelets are much lower-cost alternatives to carbon nano-tubes or carbon nano-fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881388 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526560 | Miley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NPL Associates, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NPL Associates, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George H. Miley (Champaign, Illinois); Xiaoling Yang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for producing neutrons, comprising: providing a converter foil comprising deuterium clusters; focusing a laser on the foil with power and energy sufficient to cause deuteron ions to separate from the foil; and striking a surface of a target with the deuteron ions from the converter foil with energy sufficient to cause neutron production by a reaction selected from the group consisting of D-D fusion, D-T fusion, D-metal nuclear spallation, and p-metal. A further method is provided for assembling a plurality of target assemblies for a target injector to be used in the previously mentioned manner. A further method is provided for producing neutrons, comprising: splitting a laser beam into a first beam and a second beam; striking a first surface of a target with the first beam, and an opposite second surface of the target with the second beam with energy sufficient to cause neutron production. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672134 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08524086 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B. Peterson (Corvallis, Oregon); James R. Curtis (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); Home Dialysis Plus, Ltd. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Peterson (Corvallis, Oregon); James R. Curtis (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods of preparing dialysate for use in a home dialysis system that is compact and light-weight relative to existing systems and consumes relatively low amounts of energy. The method includes coupling a household water stream to a dialysis system; filtering the water stream; heating the water stream to at least about 138 degrees Celsius in a non-batch process to produce a heated water stream; maintaining the heated water stream at or above at least about 138 degrees Celsius for at least about two seconds; cooling the heated water stream to produce a cooled water stream; ultrafiltering the cooled water stream; and mixing dialysate components into the cooled water stream in a non-batch process. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/068038 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08524739 | Peyton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a new class of compounds referred to as “reversed chloroquines” (RCQs), which are highly effective against CQR and CQS malaria parasites. RCQs are hybrid molecules, which include an antimalarial quinoline analog (such as chloroquine) moiety and a CQR reversal moiety. Exemplary RCQ chemical structures are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the disclosed RCQ compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions for the treatment of malaria and inhibition of CQR or CQS Plasmodium sp. (such as P. falciparum). |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/093261 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08524224 | Henson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joan M. Henson (Bozeman, Montana); Kathy B. Sheehan (Bozeman, Montana); Russell J. Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington); Regina S. Redman (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan M. Henson (Bozeman, Montana); Kathy B. Sheehan (Bozeman, Montana); Russell J. Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington); Regina S. Redman (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions of endophytic fungi that confer stress tolerance in inoculated plants, including both monocots and dicots. In particular, Curvularia species, isolated from a host grass Dichanthelium languinosum growing in the geothermal zones of Lassen Volcanic and Yellowstone National Parks, confers such stress tolerance. Upon inoculating a target plant or plant part with endophytic fungi, the resulting plant shows stress tolerance, particularly drought and thermal tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/017849 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08522546 | Gray, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan); Mark Stuhldreher (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan); Mark Stuhldreher (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydraulic brake system includes a piston that separates a first pressure chamber from a second pressure chamber of a cylinder bore. A valve within a piston bore is movable between three positions. In the first position, the first and second pressure chambers are in fluid communication with a low-pressure fluid supply; in the second position, the second pressure chamber is isolated from the first pressure chamber and the low-pressure fluid supply; in the third position, a high-pressure fluid supply is in fluid communication with the second pressure chamber, allowing high-pressure fluid to flow into the second pressure chamber. High pressure in the second pressure chamber moves the boost piston, applying boosted braking pressure to a vehicle brake. Pressure in the second chamber against a surface of the valve biases the valve toward the first position. An accumulator stores pressurized fluid and provides the high-pressure fluid supply, enabling on-demand brake boosting force during engine-off operation of a hybrid vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/215438 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/552 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08524525 | LeMieux et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are joined using one or more of a variety of materials and approaches. As consistent with various example embodiments, two or more nanostructures are joined at a junction between the nanostructures. The nanostructures may touch or be nearly touching at the junction, and a joining material is deposited and nucleates at the junction to couple the nanostructures together. In various applications, the nucleated joining material facilitates conductivity (thermal and/or electric) between the nanostructures. In some embodiments, the joining material further enhances conductivity of the nanostructures themselves, such as by growing along the nanostructures and/or doping the nanostructures. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011352 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08525569 | Bucelot et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Bucelot (Wappingers Falls, New York); Liang-Teck Pang (White Plains, New York); Phillip J. Restle (Katonah, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Bucelot (Wappingers Falls, New York); Liang-Teck Pang (White Plains, New York); Phillip J. Restle (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a clock distribution network for synchronizing global clock signals within a 3D chip stack having two or more strata. On each of the two or more strata, the clock distribution network includes a clock grid having a plurality of sectors for providing the global clock signals to various chip locations, a multiple-level buffered clock tree for driving the clock grid and including at least a root and a plurality of clock buffers, and one or more multiplexers for providing the global clock signals to at least a portion of the buffered clock tree. Inputs of at least some of the plurality of clock buffers on each of the two or more strata are shorted together using chip-to-chip interconnects to reduce skewing of the global clock signals with respect to the various chip locations. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/217335 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 08523848 | Fried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathaniel M. Fried (Concord, North Carolina); Christopher M. Cilip (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel M. Fried (Concord, North Carolina); Christopher M. Cilip (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents novel methods for performing noninvasive vasectomies in animals, including humans, and vasectomy clamps for use in such procedures. The invention further presents an apparatus for use in noninvasive male sterilization procedures. More specifically, the invention presents the application of lasers for noninvasive thermal coagulation and occlusion of the vas. Non-contact cooling of the tissue surface, for example, via cryogen or other cooling spray, prevents scrotal skin burns during the procedure. Both the laser radiation and cooling spray are delivered in a non-contact mode to the tissue. This procedure also preserves the surgical field-of-view, potentially allowing the urologist to visually monitor the skin surface during subsurface heating of the vas and preventing the formation of scrotal skin burns. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123051 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08524454 | Quadros et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward V. Quadros (Brooklyn, New York); Jeffrey M. Sequeira (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward V. Quadros (Brooklyn, New York); Jeffrey M. Sequeira (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the amino acid and polynucleotide sequences of the transcobalamin receptor, as well as modulators of the transcobalamin receptor. Accordingly, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders associated with cobalamin deficiency, including compositions and methods that promote cobalamin uptake. In addition, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the detection, treatment, and prevention of diseases associated with deregulated cell growth, including, e.g., cancer and autoimmune disorders, including compositions and methods that inhibit cobalamin uptake. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296254 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08525110 | Herrero et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Federico Herrero (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Hollis H. Jones (Gassville, Arkansas); Theodore T. Finne (Fairfax, Virginia); Andrew Nicholas (Olney, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Herrero (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Hollis H. Jones (Gassville, Arkansas); Theodore T. Finne (Fairfax, Virginia); Andrew Nicholas (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention pertain to an apparatus that provides four simultaneous ion and neutral measurements as a function of altitude with variable sensitivity for neutral atmospheric species. The variable sensitivity makes it possible to extend the measurements over the altitude range of 100 to more than 700 kilometers. The four instruments included in the apparatus are a neutral wind-temperature spectrometer, an ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer, a neutral mass spectrometer, and an ion mass spectrometer. The neutral wind-temperature spectrometer and ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer are configured to separate O and N2 and O+ from H+ while the neutral mass spectrometer and the ion mass spectrometer are configured to separate mass with a resolution of one in sixty-four to enable metallic ion identification in the lower thermosphere. The energy analyzer features of the wind-temperature spectrometer and ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer also enable the measurement of the thermosphere-to-exosphere transition in the Earth's upper atmosphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/247168 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526270 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dehua Huang (Newport, Rhode Island); Scott K. Mayer (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dehua Huang (Newport, Rhode Island); Scott K. Mayer (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using a deployable, small package acoustic transmitter device is taught, which serves as a standard acoustic source for on-vessel, in-mission field calibration purposes. The method involves deploying an acoustic transmitter device underwater to provide a predefined acoustic energy source for sonar array detection as well as periodic time-coded acoustic signal pulses for tracking and calibration of passive ranging. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228643 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08526733 | Tilton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Tilton (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Tilton (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing image information using a more computationally efficient version of a previously developed HSEG (Hierarchical Segmentation) algorithm. The HSEG algorithm includes iterations intertwining two forms of region growing to produce a set of hierarchically related image segmentations. The first form is a commonly used approach in which regions are grown by merging the most similar spatially adjacent regions. The second form is a unique approach in which regions are grown by also merging spatially non-adjacent regions that are at least as similar as the spatially adjacent regions merged by the first form in the same iteration. The improved HSEG algorithm limits the regions considered for non-adjacent region merging in the second form of operation to regions having at least a minimum number of pixels. This minimum is dynamically controlled to optimize processing efficiency and image segmentation quality. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/150316 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 03, 2013.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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