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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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| US 08539775 | Wong |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yates Wong (Humboldt, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yates Wong (Humboldt, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for removing particulate matter from gas turbine engines during operation are provided. Gas turbine engines are also provided. The particulate matter is suspended in a primary gas flow stream passing through an engine flowpath. A flowpath surface of the engine flowpath is electrostatically charged to a first polarity to thereby impart an electrostatic charge of the first polarity to the particulate matter. A bleed discharge duct is electrostatically charged to a second polarity and intersects the engine flowpath to define a bleed air flowpath. The second polarity is opposite to the first polarity. A bleed port is in fluid communication with the bleed discharge duct and has an outlet exterior of the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/426337 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08539840 | Ariessohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enertechnix, Inc (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus or device for collecting aerosol particles from a gas stream, having a collector body enclosing a collector channel, a particle trap in the collector channel, and an injection duct for injecting a discrete microdroplet of an elution reagent. The particle trap may be a centrifugal impactor, a bluff body impactor, or an electrostatic impactor. Aerosol particles are deposited on the surface during collection and are subsequently eluted with a microdroplet or a series of microdroplets as a concentrated liquid sample so that the sample can be analyzed in situ or conveyed to a detector for analysis. The collector serves as an aerosol-to-liquid conversion module as part of an apparatus for detecting and analyzing aerosol particles, and may be used in an integrated environmental threat assessment system, for example for characterization of aerosolized chemical and biological weapons, or for industrial or environmental monitoring. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/099295 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/860 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08539854 | Popa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan O. Popa (Roanoke, Texas); Rakesh Murthy (Arlington, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan O. Popa (Roanoke, Texas); Rakesh Murthy (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Robots, and atomic force microscopes including robots, that utilize in-plane actuators to provide large out-of-plane working volumes and forces. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587314 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/490.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08539875 | Hoadley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Hoadley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert Knochenhaur (Billerica, Massachusetts); Thieu Truong (North Easton, Massachusetts); Gary Anderson (Leominster, Massachusetts); Michael Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hoadley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert Knochenhaur (Billerica, Massachusetts); Thieu Truong (North Easton, Massachusetts); Gary Anderson (Leominster, Massachusetts); Michael Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A net deployment system which, in one example, includes lengthy housing with a channel therein, a net folded in the channel, a lengthy bladder fixed to the housing and in the channel behind the net, attachments between the net and the bladder, and at least one inflator charge for inflating the bladder to deploy the net out of the channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/596472 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540038 | Ullman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart G. Ullman (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart G. Ullman (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A track assembly and vehicle for omnidirectional travel. The track assembly includes a driving arrangement and two or more closed loop linking members connected to the driving arrangement. The track assembly also includes freely rotatable rollers for contacting a surface, the rollers supported on the closed loop linking members. The rollers travel a roller path defined by the motion of the closed loop linking members. An omnidirectional vehicle includes two or more track assemblies. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319917 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540434 | Kruchowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James N. Kruchowski (Rochester, Minnesota); Vladimir Sokolov (Rocheser, Minnesota); Mark A. Nelson (Oronoco, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Kruchowski (Rochester, Minnesota); Vladimir Sokolov (Rocheser, Minnesota); Mark A. Nelson (Oronoco, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A connector assembly for optically coupling a first optical device mounted on a first substrate to a second optical device mounted on a second substrate, where the first and second substrates are orthogonally oriented to each other, is presented. The connector assembly includes two connectors. The first connector has an optical waveguide array. The optical waveguide array further includes multiple parallel optical waveguides that are continuously redirected by a mirror oriented at a 45 degree angle to the optical waveguides. Likewise, the second connector also has an optical waveguide array further include multiple parallel optical waveguides continuously redirected by a mirror oriented at a 45 degree angle to the optical waveguides. The first connector is oriented orthogonally to the second connector and the first and second connectors are optically welded together in a back-to-back configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/143997 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540484 | Hollman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy M. Hollman (San Diego, California); Kevin K. Taft (La Mesa, California); Gordon F. Jewess (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Hollman (San Diego, California); Kevin K. Taft (La Mesa, California); Gordon F. Jewess (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wedge-type diffuser includes a diffuser floor and a plurality of wedge-shaped vanes. The wedge-shaped vanes extend from the diffuser floor and have a top surface, a leading edge and a trailing edge. Each of the wedge-shaped vanes has a slot extending from the trailing edge toward the leading edge. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/842167 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/208.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540959 | Ziegler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk J. Ziegler (Gainesville, Florida); Urs Rauwald (Bramen, Germany); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Zhenning Gu (Sugar Land, Texas); Irene Morin Marek (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk J. Ziegler (Gainesville, Florida); Urs Rauwald (Bramen, Germany); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Zhenning Gu (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some embodiments, the present invention provides a method for attaining short carbon nanotubes utilizing electron beam irradiation, for example, of a carbon nanotube sample. The sample may be pretreated, for example by oxonation. The pretreatment may introduce defects to the sidewalls of the nanotubes. The method is shown to produces nanotubes with a distribution of lengths, with the majority of lengths shorter than 100 tun. Further, the median length of the nanotubes is between about 20 nm and about 100 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299634 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541031 | Mount et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew S. Mount (Mountain Rest, South Carolina); Neeraj V. Gohad (Clemson, South Carolina); Douglas C. Hansen (Dayton, Ohio); Karolyn Mueller (Dayton, Ohio); Mary Beth Johnstone (Clemson, South Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew S. Mount (Mountain Rest, South Carolina); Neeraj V. Gohad (Clemson, South Carolina); Douglas C. Hansen (Dayton, Ohio); Karolyn Mueller (Dayton, Ohio); Mary Beth Johnstone (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are articles comprising layered nanocrystalline calcite and methods for forming nanocrystalline calcite layers and compositions comprising nanocrystalline calcite layers. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631526 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541058 | Fisher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy S. Fisher (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen L. Hodson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Baratunde A. Cola (Atlanta, Georgia); Thiruvelu Bhuvana (Chennai, India); Giridhar Kulkarni (Bangalore, India) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Fisher (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen L. Hodson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Baratunde A. Cola (Atlanta, Georgia); Thiruvelu Bhuvana (Chennai, India); Giridhar Kulkarni (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays are attractive thermal interface materials with high compliance and conductance that can remain effective over a wide temperature range. Disclosed herein are CNT interface structures in which free CNT ends are bonded using palladium hexadecanethiolate Pd(SC16H35)2 to an opposing substrate (one-sided interface) or opposing CNT array (two-sided interface) to enhance contact conductance while maintaining a compliant joint. The palladium weld is mechanically stable at high temperatures. A transient photoacoustic (PA) method is used to measure the thermal resistance of the palladium bonded CNT interfaces. The interfaces were bonded at moderate pressures and then tested at 34 kPa using the PA technique. At an interface temperature of approximately 250° C., one-sided and two-sided palladium bonded interfaces achieved thermal resistances near 10 mm2 K/W and 5 mm2 K/W, respectively. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719759 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/376.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541066 | Her et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tsing-Hua Her (Charlotte, North Carolina); Haitao Zhang (Charlotte, North Carolina); Mingzhen Tang (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsing-Hua Her (Charlotte, North Carolina); Haitao Zhang (Charlotte, North Carolina); Mingzhen Tang (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a system for the light-induced directed self-assembly (LIDSA) of periodic sub-wavelength nanostructures, including: a light source for delivering a beam of photons; a reaction chamber disposed adjacent to the light source; a gas including one or more precursor materials disposed within the reaction chamber; and a substrate disposed within the reaction chamber, wherein the substrate is positioned and configured to receive the beam of photons; wherein the beam of photons causes a periodic sub-wavelength nanostructure of one or more constituents of the one or more precursor materials to form on a surface of the substrate. In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention also provides an associated method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323729 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541091 | Kismarton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Max U. Kismarton (Renton, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max U. Kismarton (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite leg for a landing gear assembly includes a composite compression cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in compression, and a tension cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in tension. At least some of the fibers are oriented at +α and −α with respect to a longitudinal axis of the leg, where α is between 2 and 8 degrees. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/429630 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541169 | Srivastava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shiv Srivastava (Potomac, Maryland); Albert Dobi (Columbia, Maryland); Taduru Sreenath (Germantown, Maryland); Gyorgy Petrovics (Bethesda, Maryland); Chen Sun (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiv Srivastava (Potomac, Maryland); Albert Dobi (Columbia, Maryland); Taduru Sreenath (Germantown, Maryland); Gyorgy Petrovics (Bethesda, Maryland); Chen Sun (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure describes alterations in ERG gene expression. ERG isoforms and promoter sequence of the ERG gene that are involved in, or associated with, prostate cancer are provided. The disclosure further provides therapeutic compositions and methods of detecting, diagnosing, prognosing, and treating prostate cancer, including biomarkers for detecting the expression of two or more of the following genes: PSA/KLK3, PMEPA1, NKX3.1, ODC1, AMD1, and ERG. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444903 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541322 | Barrera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Zhang (Houston, Texas); Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Jong Dae Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Mary Lou Margrave (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Zhang (Houston, Texas); Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Johm L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Jong Dae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of functionalizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs), particularly single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), with organosilane species, wherein such functionalization enables fabrication of advanced polymer composites. The present invention is also directed toward the functionalized CNTs, advanced CNT-polymer composites made with such functionalized CNTs, and methods of making such advanced CNT-polymer composites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576134 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541349 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | T. Danny Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); John Broadhead (East Point, Florida); Xinqing Ma (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Danny Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); John Broadhead (East Point, Florida); Xinqing Ma (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Lubricant-hard-ductile composite coating compositions and methods of making the same are provided. In embodiment, a composite coating composition comprises: a lubricant phase for providing lubrication to a surface; a hard ceramic phase for providing structural integrity and wear resistance to the surface; and a ductile metal phase for providing ductility to the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/858750 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541713 | Dugan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical instrument for light incoming along a principal optical axis includes a glass block and a subsurface object within the glass block. The subsurface object includes an arrangement of object marks. Each object mark includes a plurality of scattering layers stacked against the principal optical axis of the incoming light. First and second scattering layers of the plurality of scattering layers have different polarization responses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/707638 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541720 | Schwerer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. Schwerer (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Schwerer (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a temperature sensing apparatus includes a temperature sensor disposed in a structure at a first depth from a first surface of the structure. A heat flux sensor is also disposed in the structure at substantially the same depth as the first depth. A measurement circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor and the heat flux sensor. The measurement circuit calculates a surface temperature of the first surface based on a temperature of the temperature sensor and a heat flow of the heat flux sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/084811 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541769 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Marcus O. Freitag (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Marcus O. Freitag (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A single crystalline silicon carbide layer can be grown on a single crystalline sapphire substrate. Subsequently, a graphene layer can be formed by conversion of a surface layer of the single crystalline silicon layer during an anneal at an elevated temperature in an ultrahigh vacuum environment. Alternately, a graphene layer can be deposited on an exposed surface of the single crystalline silicon carbide layer. A graphene layer can also be formed directly on a surface of a sapphire substrate or directly on a surface of a silicon carbide substrate. Still alternately, a graphene layer can be formed on a silicon carbide layer on a semiconductor substrate. The commercial availability of sapphire substrates and semiconductor substrates with a diameter of six inches or more allows formation of a graphene layer on a commercially scalable substrate for low cost manufacturing of devices employing a graphene layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942490 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541787 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | High power wide band-gap MOSFET-gated bipolar junction transistors (“MGT”) are provided that include a first wide band-gap bipolar junction transistor (“BJT”) having a first collector, a first emitter and a first base, a wide band-gap MOSFET having a source region that is configured to provide a current to the base of the first wide band-gap BJT and a second wide band-gap BJT having a second collector that is electrically connected to the first collector, a second emitter that is electrically connected to the first emitter, and a second base that is electrically connected to the first base. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/503430 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541810 | Steckel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan S. Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vladimir Bulović (Lexington, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusettts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vladimir Bulović (Lexington, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal includes a core including a first semiconductor material and an overcoating including a second semiconductor material. A monodisperse population of the nanocrystals emits blue light over a narrow range of wavelengths with a high quantum efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/297968 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541817 | Fareed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qhalid Fareed (Irmo, South Carolina); Vinod Adivarahan (Columbia, South Carolina); Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nitek, Inc. (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qhalid Fareed (Irmo, South Carolina); Vinod Adivarahan (Columbia, South Carolina); Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved high breakdown voltage semiconductor device and method for manufacturing is provided. The device has a substrate and a AlaGa1-aN layer on the substrate wherein 0.1≦a≦1.00. A GaN layer is on the AlaGa1-aN layer. An In1-bGabN/GaN channel layer is on the GaN layer wherein 0.1≦b≦1.00. A AlcIndGa1-c-dN spacer layer is on the In1-bGabN/GaN layer wherein 0.1≦c≦1.00 and 0.0≦d≦0.99. A AleIn1-eN nested superlattice barrier layer is on the AlcIndGa1-c-dN spacer layer wherein 0.10≦e≦0.99. A AlfIngGa1-f-gN leakage suppression layer is on the AleIn1-eN barrier layer wherein 0.1≦f≦0.99 and 0.1≦g≦0.99 wherein the leakage suppression layer decreases leakage current and increases breakdown voltage during high voltage operation. A superstructure, preferably with metallic electrodes, is on the AlfIngGa1-f-gN leakage suppression layer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/941332 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541926 | Pulskamp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Leesburg, Virginia); Fay D. Sharman (Ridgley, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Leesburg, Virginia); Daniel C. Judy (Ridgley, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano/micro electro-mechanical relay, comprising an at least one normally open (NO) nano/micro relay switch and an at least one normally closed (NC) nano/micro relay switch. Both the NC nano/micro relay switch and the NO nano/micro relay switch can be switched between their respective normal relay switch positions and their respective actuated relay switch positions. An at least one nano/micro actuator including an at least one piezoelectric stack layer being attached to an at least one elastic layer, wherein the at least one piezoelectric stack layer contracts to deflect the at least one elastic layer, and thereby actuate the at least one nano/micro contact bar to simultaneously switch the NC nano/micro relay switch and the NO nano/micro relay switch between their respective normal relay switch position and their respective actuated relay switch positions. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/169374 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541946 | Eden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Jason D. Readle (Channahon, Illinois); Jekwon Yoon (Paju-si, South Korea); Andrew Price (Savoy, Illinois); Jeffrey Putney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Jason D. Readle (Channahon, Illinois); Jekwon Yoon (Paju-si, South Korea); Andrew Price (Savoy, Illinois); Jeffrey Putney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred embodiments of the invention provide microcavity plasma lamps having a plurality of metal and metal oxide layers defining a plurality of arrays of microcavities and encapsulated thin metal electrodes. Packaging encloses the plurality of metal and metal oxide layers in plasma medium. The metal and metal oxide layers are configured and arranged to vary the electric field strength and total gas pressure (E/p) in the lamp. The invention also provides methods of manufacturing a microcavity plasma lamp that simultaneously evacuate the volume within the packaging and a volume surrounding the packaging to maintain an insignificant or zero pressure differential across the packaging. The packaging is backfilled with a plasma medium while also maintaining an insignificant or zero pressure differential across the packaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/640884 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/631 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542023 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942732 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542347 | Sandler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dave Sandler (San Diego, California); Brett Spivey (Carlsbad, California); Louis Cuellar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Fairchild (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave Sandler (San Diego, California); Brett Spivey (Carlsbad, California); Louis Cuellar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Fairchild (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A super-resolution telescope. A target is illuminated with at least three laser beams, each beam having a slightly different frequency so as to produce an illumination pattern comprised of several sets of straight interference fringes which sweep across the target. The frequencies of the illumination beams are chosen so that each pair of beams has a unique beat frequency, and the corresponding fringe pattern for each pair sweeps over the target at a unique speed. By collecting a series of images, and demodulating them at the various beat frequencies, the downshifted spatial frequencies can be identified, correctly up-shifted, and fitted together with a set of special Fourier transform based algorithms to reconstruct high-resolution images. Applicants have performed laboratory experiments that this invention can provide resolution substantially better than diffraction limited resolution. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381021 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542355 | Fattal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Fattal (Mountain View, California); Jingjing Li (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Fattal (Mountain View, California); Jingjing Li (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light amplifying device for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy is disclosed herein. The device includes a dielectric layer having two opposed surfaces. A refractive index of the dielectric layer is higher than a refractive index of a material or environment directly adjacent thereto. At least one opening is formed in one of the two opposed surfaces of the dielectric layer, and at least one nano-antenna is established on the one of the two opposed surfaces of the dielectric layer. A gain region is positioned in the dielectric layer or adjacent to another of the two opposed surfaces of the dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/383078 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542364 | Keith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory W Keith (Glendale, Arizona); Derek Mead (Scottsdale, Arizona); Douglas E. Smith (Phoenix, Arizona); Norman Gerard Tarleton (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W Keith (Glendale, Arizona); Derek Mead (Scottsdale, Arizona); Douglas E. Smith (Phoenix, Arizona); Norman Gerard Tarleton (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic gyroscope includes a light source, an optical coupler in optical communication with the light source, with the optical coupler configured to receive an optical signal from the light source, an optical modulator in optical communication with the optical coupler, and a fiber optic coil in optical communication with the optical modulator. A demodulator is configured to receive an optical signal from the optical coupler and convert the optical signal to an electrical signal. A loop closure electronics module is configured to receive the electrical signal from the demodulator. A bias modulator is responsive to an output from the loop closure electronics module and is configured to output a modulation signal to the optical modulator. A first crosstalk filter network is operatively coupled to the demodulator, and a second crosstalk filter network is operatively coupled to the bias modulator. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/640931 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542365 | Pruessner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcel W. Pruessner (Silver Spring, Maryland); Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Virginia); William S Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcel W. Pruessner (Silver Spring, Maryland); Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Virginia); William S Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in mass of a microbridge in a mass sensor can be sensed by applying a time-varying amplitude modulated electrostatic force to excite the microbridge into resonance at the frequency of amplitude modulation. An optical energy is then transmitted at a wavelength close to a resonant wavelength of a Fabry-Perot microcavity, which is formed by etching a movable reflective mirror into a region of the microbridge and by etching a fixed reflective minor in a region spaced apart from the microbridge. The two mirrors are interconnected by an optical waveguide. The movable mirror and fixed mirror reflect the optical energy to a receiver, and a change in the Fabry-Perot microcavity's reflectivity is interferometrically determined. The change in reflectivity indicates a change in the microbridge's resonant frequency due to increased mass of the microbridge resulting from sorption of a target chemical by a layer of chemoselective material deposited on the microbridge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729482 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542475 | Lanagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Lanagan (State College, Pennsylvania); Carlo Pantano (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania); Hoi Kwan Lee (State College, Pennsylvania); Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan (State College, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Smith (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Lanagan (State College, Pennsylvania); Carlo Pantano (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania); Hoi Kwan Lee (State College, Pennsylvania); Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan (State College, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Smith (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A self healing high energy glass capacitor is provided. The capacitor can have a glass layer with a top surface and a bottom surface. A top sacrificial layer can extend across the top surface and a bottom sacrificial layer can extend across the bottom surface. In addition, a top electrode can extend across the top sacrificial layer and a bottom electrode can extend across the bottom sacrificial layer. In some instances the glass capacitor has an energy breakdown of at least 6 joules per cubic centimeter. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/900976 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542579 | Rong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beiyu Rong (Austin, Texas); Anthony Ephremides (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beiyu Rong (Austin, Texas); Anthony Ephremides (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | User cooperation in wireless networks implemented on the Network Protocol layer level attains a higher stable throughput and improved transmission delay. The cooperation is designed between a set of source user nodes transmitting to a common destination, where users with channels providing a higher successful delivery probability, in addition to their own traffic, relay packets of other source users whose transmissions to the destination fails. Each source user node is provided with an ample queue buffer having capacity to accumulate packets inadvertently received from other users in the system in addition to its own packets. Ranking mechanism facilitates in determining the “quality” of wireless channels, and the Acknowledgement mechanism facilitates in coordination of the transmissions in the system. The nodes exchange information on the queues status, and decision is made by a scheduling controller on the priority of transmission. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948520 |
| ART UNIT | 2413 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542724 | Blackmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fletcher A. Blackmon (Forestdale, Massachusetts); Ethem M. Sozer (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); John G. Proakis (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fletcher A. Blackmon (Forestdale, Massachusetts); Ethem M. Sozer (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); John G. Proakis (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An iterative joint Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) decision feedback equalizer and turbo decoder includes a turbo decoder portion and a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) portion. The DFE receives input signals and processes these input signals to generate an estimated symbol sequence that is communicated to the turbo decoder portion. The estimated symbol sequence is also communicated to the feedback portion of the DFE. The feedback portion of the DFE includes a symbol-by-symbol detector and a feedback filter. The soft decoder output values generated by the turbo decoder portion are communicated to the feedback portion of the DFE and are combined with the coded output as log likelihood ratio values in a multipass, iterative fashion whereby the equalizer and decoder are linked via iterative feedback to provide communication performance enhancement. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880418 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542916 | Tognoli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of analyzing at least one dataset having temporal and spatial content is provided. A method includes the steps of applying a colorimetric mapping to the dataset based on the spatial content (500), segmenting the dataset (618) into one of a plurality of patterns based on a spatio-temporal analysis of the dataset (604, 606), and analyzing characteristics of each of the plurality of patterns (612-622). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500187 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542924 | Blain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheryl A. Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Carolus M. Cobb (Slidell, Louisiana); Alan Weidemann (Carriere, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl A. Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Carolus M. Cobb (Slidell, Louisiana); Alan Weidemann (Carriere, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for creating an ordered set of boundary data by transforming data from remotely sensed imagery of shorelines is provided. A feature data set and an edge data set are transformed into a set of 3-point boundary segments having a specific head and tail point and the segments are ordered from tail to head in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner relative to the water. Once the 3-point segments are created they are easily linked together into larger segments. These large multi-point segments in turn are linked together to create a closed loop in a predetermined direction, for example, but not limited to, the shorelines for rivers or coastal areas. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539451 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543068 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiao Y. Wang (Ithaca, New York); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao Y. Wang (Ithaca, New York); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A transceiver node includes a pulse coupled oscillator in an integrated circuit, which can synchronize with other nodes to generate a global clock subsequently used to facilitate synchronous communications between individual nodes. Known potential uses include a low power sensor node radio for an ad-hoc network for military applications and medical applications such as ingestible and implantable radios, self powered radios, and medical monitoring systems such as cardiac and neural monitoring patches. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670682 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543256 | Karafiath |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabor Karafiath (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Karafiath (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | According to typical practice of the present invention, a vehicle is remotely controlled and is travelable both in water and on land. The vehicle has two liquid-containment components that are situated generally one above the other. Pumping devices bring about transfer of cargo liquid (e.g., fuel or water) from either component to the other component. In accordance with the liquid transfer, the vehicle turns over, about its longitudinal axis, between two generally opposite buoyant positions, each of which is stable and viable for marine navigation. When the flow of the liquid sufficiently shifts weight from one component to the other, the vehicle inverts; that is, the emptying component flips from the bottom to the top, and the filling component flips from the top to the bottom. One of the buoyant positions of the vehicle is characterized by wheels for amphibiously transitioning the vehicle from water travel to land travel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157754 |
| 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 08543265 | Ekhaguere et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David E. Ekhaguere (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rick E. Annati (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Derick L. Gerlock (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas Birkel (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Ekhaguere (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rick E. Annati (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Derick L. Gerlock (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas Birkel (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation are presented. In a preferred embodiment, a UAV is configured with at least one flight corridor and flight path, and a first UAV flight plan is calculated. During operation of the first UAV flight plan, the UAV visually detects an obstacle, and calculates a second UAV flight plan to avoid the obstacle. Furthermore, during operation of either the first or the second UAV flight plan, the UAV acoustically detects an unknown aircraft, and calculates a third UAV flight plan to avoid the unknown aircraft. Additionally, the UAV may calculate a new flight plan based on other input, such as information received from a ground control station. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254158 |
| 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 71/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543266 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rongsheng Li (Hacienda Heights, California); Tung-Ching Tsao (Torrance, California); Arunkumar P. Nayak (Van Nuys, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongsheng Li (Hacienda Heights, California); Tung-Ching Tsao (Torrance, California); Arunkumar P. Nayak (Van Nuys, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described herein for using a modified Kalman filter to generate attitude error corrections. Attitude measurements are received from primary and secondary attitude sensors of a satellite or other spacecraft. Attitude error correction values for the attitude measurements from the primary attitude sensors are calculated based on the attitude measurements from the secondary attitude sensors using expanded equations derived for a subset of a plurality of block sub-matrices partitioned from the matrices of a Kalman filter, with the remaining of the plurality of block sub-matrices being pre-calculated and programmed into a flight computer of the spacecraft. The propagation of covariance is accomplished via a single step execution of the method irrespective of the secondary attitude sensor measurement period. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/251785 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543342 | Keith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William L. Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Jeff Dusek (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Jeff Dusek (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided to directly measure the flow noise characteristics of both acoustic sensors and accelerometers mounted in a towed array hose. Sensors can be mounted in a full-scale diameter array module test apparatus and can be subjected to high Reynolds number flow fields that have the physical features of at-sea towing conditions. Additionally, rapid re-design of sensor mountings, hose materials, and actual sensors can be accomplished and evaluated. The parameters of internal tension and flow speed can vary independently in order to determine their importance. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894686 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543357 | Marandos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Marandos (Bloomington, Indiana); Grady Patterson (Greer, South Carolina); Kenneth Leeson (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Marandos (Bloomington, Indiana); Grady Patterson (Greer, South Carolina); Kenneth Leeson (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for characterization of a directed beam of electromagnetic radiation is provided. An exemplary embodiment of the invention can include an apparatus and measuring technique method which uses a model for blackbody radiation that includes consideration all the degrees of freedom due to translation, vibration, and rotation of molecules or atoms that make up the absorber and a heat transfer term which averages the behavior of all the atoms of the material as a function of temperature. This apparatus and method provides an advantage of increased accuracy, substantial reductions of time required for processing, simplification of measuring processes, and reduction required equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/983230 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543579 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Range query techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data stream processing systems. In one aspect of the invention, a technique is provided for indexing continual range queries for use in data stream processing. For example, a technique for use in processing a data stream comprises obtaining at least one range query to be associated with the data stream, and building a range query index based on the at least one range query using one or more virtual constructs such that the query index is adaptive to one or more changes in a distribution of range query sizes. The step/operation of building the range query index may further comprise building the range query index such that the range query index accommodates one or more changes in query positions outside a monitoring area of the at least one range query. In another aspect of the invention, a technique is provided for incrementally processing continual range queries against moving objects. For example, a technique for evaluating one and more continual range queries over one and more moving objects comprises maintaining a query index with one and more containment-encoded virtual constructs associated with the one and more continual range queries over the one and more moving objects, and incrementally evaluating the one or more continual range queries using the query index. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155221 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/743 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543691 | Waxler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P Waxler (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Matthew Galligan (Delran, New Jersey); Bruce Waldron (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P Waxler (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Matthew Galligan (Delran, New Jersey); Bruce Waldron (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method involves receiving a requested response from a remote computer system, comparing the requested response to a plurality of stored responses from computer systems representing a plurality of different operating systems, hardware platforms, and software platforms, and loading one or more operating system-specific, hardware platform-specific, and software platform-specific command modules onto the remote computer system based upon the comparison. The command modules may be configured to provide the remote computer system access to operating system-specific, hardware platform-specific, and software platform-specific diagnostics tools, as well as specific configuration management tools. The specific diagnostics tools may be configured to ascertain targeted information about the remote computer system including health status of the remote computer system hardware, such as memory, processor, and hard drive, and installed software, such as the health status of running software, installed patches, and installed applications. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/018098 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543769 | Rajamony et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided in a virtual machine monitor for fine grained cache allocation in a shared cache. The mechanism partitions a cache tag into a most significant bit (MSB) portion and a least significant bit (LSB) portion. The MSB portion of the tags is shared among the cache lines in a set. The LSB portion of the tags is private, one per cache line. The mechanism allows software to set the MSB portion of tags in a cache to allocate sets of cache lines. The cache controller determines whether a cache line is locked based on the MSB portion of the tag. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509752 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08544087 | Eskin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Andrew Oliver Arnold (New York City, New York); Michael Prerau (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Leonid Portnoy (Brooklyn, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustess of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Andrew Oliver Arnold (New York City, New York); Michael Prerau (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Leonid Portnoy (Brooklyn, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for unsupervised anomaly detection, which are algorithms that are designed to process unlabeled data. Data elements are mapped to a feature space which is typically a vector space |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022425 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08539840 | Ariessohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enertechnix, Inc (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus or device for collecting aerosol particles from a gas stream, having a collector body enclosing a collector channel, a particle trap in the collector channel, and an injection duct for injecting a discrete microdroplet of an elution reagent. The particle trap may be a centrifugal impactor, a bluff body impactor, or an electrostatic impactor. Aerosol particles are deposited on the surface during collection and are subsequently eluted with a microdroplet or a series of microdroplets as a concentrated liquid sample so that the sample can be analyzed in situ or conveyed to a detector for analysis. The collector serves as an aerosol-to-liquid conversion module as part of an apparatus for detecting and analyzing aerosol particles, and may be used in an integrated environmental threat assessment system, for example for characterization of aerosolized chemical and biological weapons, or for industrial or environmental monitoring. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/099295 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/860 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540369 | Haeri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad Haeri (Syracuse, New York); Eduardo Solessio (Syracuse, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Haeri (Syracuse, New York); Eduardo Solessio (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An LED variable light source of this invention includes a super luminescent LED for generating a continuous light signal having a logarithmically controllable light intensity maintainable over a broad spectral range. The LED variable light source also includes a light lens for receiving and focusing the generated continuous light signal and a controller for controlling the light signal's intensity and frequency range via a driver interface, constructed and arranged to allow a user to input LED variable light source control inputs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673611 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540641 | Kroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Kroll (Orono, Minnesota); Elise P. Brock (Minneapolis, Minnesota); James A. Meyer (Shoreview, Minnesota); Marc A. Seaberg (Bloomington, Minnesota); Thomas G. Hudson (Excelsior, Minnesota); E. Andrew Wood (Rochester, Minnesota); Gary A. Stein (Oakdale, Minnesota); James A. Levine (Orono, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gruve Technologies, Inc. (Andover, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Kroll (Orono, Minnesota); Elise P. Brock (Minneapolis, Minnesota); James A. Meyer (Shoreview, Minnesota); Marc A. Seaberg (Bloomington, Minnesota); Thomas G. Hudson (Excelsior, Minnesota); E. Andrew Wood (Rochester, Minnesota); Gary A. Stein (Oakdale, Minnesota); James A. Levine (Orono, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A weight management system comprised of a body worn device which interfaces periodically with a computer. The established weight goals of the user are translated by the computer into daily activity targets and downloaded into the device. The device monitors the user's activity, offering progress status toward the daily activity target. Further, the device alerts the user of excessive sedentary periods which depress metabolic indicators. The activity targets, allowed length of sedentary periods and suggested activities to reach goal are specific to the individual based on their biometrics and living environment. The computer provides historical tracking of activity for motivational and coaching purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491306 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540657 | Brock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenny V. Brock (Notasulga, Alabama); Sara Ziska (Opelika, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenny V. Brock (Notasulga, Alabama); Sara Ziska (Opelika, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of and apparatuses for equine plasma collection are provided. Modified plasmapheresis instruments and modified disposable plasmapheresis tubing are introduced. By using the modified procedures and instruments, a high-speed, high volume, continuous-flow process of automated equine plasmapheresis is developed. The modified closed systems remove whole blood from the donor horses, separate plasma from the cellular components of blood, and simultaneously returning concentrated cells back to the donor horses. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614298 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/6.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540892 | Strouse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey F. Strouse (Tallahassee, Florida); Derek D. Lovingood (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High quantum yield InP nanocrystals are used in the bio-technology, bio-medical, and photovoltaic, specifically IV, III-V and III-VI nanocrystal technological applications. InP nanocrystals typically require post-generation HF treatment. Combining microwave methodologies with the presence of a fluorinated ionic liquid allows Fluorine ion etching without the hazards accompanying HF. Growing the InP nanocrystals in the presence of the ionic liquid allows in-situ etching to be achieved. The optimization of the PL QY is achieved by balancing growth and etching rates in the reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645898 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540964 | Livingston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a polyvalent vaccine comprising at least two conjugated antigens selected from a group containing glycolipid antigen, polysaccharide antigen, mucin antigen, glycosylated mucin antigen and an appropriate adjuvant. This invention also provides a multivalent vaccine comprising at least two of the following: glycosylated MUC-1-32mer, Globo H, GM2, Ley, Tn(c), sTN(c), and TF(c). This invention provides the vaccine above, wherein the adjuvant is saponin-based adjuvant. This invention provides a method for inducing immune response in a subject comprising administering an effective amount of the vaccine above to the subject. Finally, this invention provides a method for treating cancer in a subject comprising administering an appropriate amount of the vaccine above to the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/314521 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.570 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541006 | Leid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey G. Leid (Flagstaff, Arizona); Timothy L. Vail (Parks, Arizona); Jennifer M. Kofonow (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mark E. Shirtliff (Ellicott City, Maryland); Rebecca A. Brady (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate acting for and on behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey G. Leid (Flagstaff, Arizona); Timothy L. Vail (Parks, Arizona); Jennifer M. Kofonow (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mark E. Shirtliff (Ellicott City, Maryland); Rebecca A. Brady (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and kits for biofilm detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/671398 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/237.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541008 | Edwards, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John E. Edwards, Jr. (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Scott G. Filler (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Donald C. Sheppard (Marina Del Rey, California); Ashraf S. Ibrahim (Playa Del Rey, California); Yue Fu (La Habra, California); Bradley J. Spellberg (Ranchos Palos Verdes, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Edwards, Jr. (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Scott G. Filler (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Donald C. Sheppard (Marina Del Rey, California); Ashraf S. Ibrahim (Playa Del Rey, California); Yue Fu (La Habra, California); Bradley J. Spellberg (Ranchos Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Candida albicans bloodstream infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Filament formation and adherence to host cells are critical virulence factors of C. albicans. Multiple filamentation regulatory pathways have been discovered, however the downstream effectors of these regulatory pathways remain unknown. The cell surface proteins in the ALS group are downstream effectors of the filamentation regulatory pathway. Particularly, Als1p mediates adherence to endothelial cells in vitro and is required for virulence. The blocking of adherence by the organism is described resulting from the use of a composition and method disclosed herein. Specifically, a pharmaceutical composition comprised of a gene, gene product, or specific antibody to the ALS gene family is administered as a vaccine to generate an immune response capable of blocking adherence of the organism. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245802 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/274.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541060 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Haeshin Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Haeshin Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a surface-independent surface-modifying multifunctional biocoating and methods of application thereof. The method comprises contacting at least a portion of a substrate with an alkaline solution comprising a surface-modifying agent (SMA) such as dopamine so as to modify the substrate surface to include at least one reactive moiety. In another version of the invention, a secondary reactive moiety is applied to the SMA-treated substrate to yield a surface-modified substrate having a specific functionality. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875237 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541167 | Buller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Mark Buller (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Mark Buller (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides kits, methods and compositions of matter which improve the safety of vaccination. By combining the administration of antiviral drugs, particularly ester derivatives of cidofovir, with the administration of viral vaccines, particularly the variola vaccine DryVax, side effects of the vaccine are diminished without significantly affecting the effectiveness of the vaccine. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569963 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541175 | Wehrman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tom Wehrman (Fremont, California); Helen M. Blau (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Wehrman (Fremont, California); Helen M. Blau (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for detecting molecular interactions are provided. Aspects of the invention include the use of a reduced affinity enzyme complementation reporter system. Also provided are systems and kits for use in practicing embodiments of the methods. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/717579 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541176 | Pamula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to droplet-based surface modification and washing. According to one embodiment, a method of modifying a surface on a droplet microactuator is provided, wherein the method includes executing one or more droplet operations to bring a droplet comprising a surface-modifying agent into contact with the surface. According to another embodiment, a droplet microactuator is provided and includes a sample or reagent immobilized on a surface thereof and arranged such that a droplet on the droplet microactuator may contact the surface. According to yet another embodiment, a method of removing a substance from a surface to which the substance is bound is provided, the method including conducting one or more droplet operations to contact a droplet with the surface, the droplet comprising a solution for eluting the substance from the surface |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113385 |
| 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 08541181 | Bresnick |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anne Reba Bresnick (Pelham, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne Reba Bresnick (Pelham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for determining if cells of a tumor in an organ or a tissue in a subject are likely to invade another organ or tissue in the subject and for determining if a cancer in a subject is likely to metastasize. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/419805 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08541192 | D'Andrea |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan D. D'Andrea (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. D'Andrea (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods used to identify new inhibitors of USP1 deubiquitinase. The inhibitors can be identified by contacting isolated USP1 with a test compound in the presence of monoubiquitinated proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), monoubiquitinated human Fanconi anemia group D2 (FANCD2), or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin, and detecting the deubiquitination of said PCNA, FANCD2, or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin using an antibody or fluorescence, wherein a decrease in the deubiquitination of said PCNA, FANCD2, or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin in the presence of the test compound relative to the absence of the test compound identifies said test compound as an inhibitor of USP1 deubiquitinase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835559 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541203 | Daugherty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Nancy Stagliano (Santa Barbara, California); Jerry Thomas (Goleta, California); James W. West (Santa Barbara, California); Jason Sagert (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Nancy Stagliano (Santa Barbara, California); Jerry Thomas (Goleta, California); James W. West (Santa Barbara, California); Jason Sagert (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Activatable binding polypeptides (ABPs), which contain a target binding moiety (TBM), a masking moiety (MM), and a cleavable moiety (CM) are provided. Activatable antibody compositions, which contain a TBM containing an antigen binding domain (ABD), a MM and a CM are provided. Furthermore, ABPs which contain a first TBM, a second TBM and a CM are provided. The ABPs exhibit an “activatable” conformation such that at least one of the TBMs is less accessible to target when uncleaved than after cleavage of the CM in the presence of a cleaving agent capable of cleaving the CM. Further provided are libraries of candidate ABPs, methods of screening to identify such ABPs, and methods of use. Further provided are ABPs having TBMs that bind VEGF, CTLA-4, or VCAM, ABPs having a first TBM that binds VEGF and a second TBM that binds FGF, as well as compositions and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/411416 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541218 | Barany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Weiguo Cao (New York, New York); Jie Tong (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Weiguo Cao (New York, New York); Jie Tong (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a mutant thermostable ligase having substantially higher fidelity than either T4 ligase or Thermus thermophilus ligase. The ligase of the present invention is a mutant of a wild-type thermostable ligase having a histidine adjacent a KXDG motif, where the mutant thermostable ligase has a mutation in its amino sequence where the histidine adjacent the KXDG motif in the wild-type thermostable ligase is replaced with an arginine, and wherein X is any amino acid. The DNA molecule encoding this enzyme as well as expression systems and host cells containing it are also disclosed. The thermostable ligase of the present invention is useful in carrying out a ligase detection reaction process and a ligase chain reaction process. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167048 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541221 | Switzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William M. Switzer (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Walid Heneine (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas M. Folks (Helotes, Texas); Nathan D. Wolfe (Los Angeles, California); Donald S. Burke (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eitel Mpoudi Ngole (Yaoundé, Cameroon) |
| 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); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Switzer (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Walid Heneine (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas M. Folks (Helotes, Texas); Nathan D. Wolfe (Los Angeles, California); Donald S. Burke (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eitel Mpoudi Ngole (Yaoundé, Cameroon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to the isolation and identification of the primate T-lymphotropic viruses, HTLV-3 and HTLV-4. The diversity of HTLVs was investigated among central Africans reporting contact with NHP blood and body fluids through hunting, butchering, and keeping primate pets. Herein it is shown that this population is infected with a variety of HTLVs, including two retroviruses; HTLV-4 is the first member of a novel phylogenetic lineage that is distinct from all known HTLVs and STLVs; HTLV-3 falls within the genetic diversity of STLV-3, a group that has not previously been seen in humans. The present disclosure also relates to vectors and vaccines for use in humans against infection and disease. The disclosure further relates to a variety of bioassays and kits for the detection and diagnosis of infection with and diseases caused by HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 and related viruses. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829125 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541229 | Court et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald L. Court (Frederick, Maryland); Costantino Nina (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Court (Frederick, Maryland); Costantino Nina (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Lambda phages that can be used to introduce recombineering functions into host cells are disclosed. Also disclosed are plasmids that can be used to confer recombineering functions to a variety of strains of E. coli and to other bacteria, including Salmonella, Pseudomonas, Cyanobacteria, Spirochaetes. These plasmids and phages can be isolated in vitro and can be used to transform bacterial cells, such as gram negative bacteria. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688764 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541231 | Varki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Anna Maria Hedlund (San Diego, California); Dzung Nguyen (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Anna Maria Hedlund (San Diego, California); Dzung Nguyen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The application is in the field of transgenic (non-human) organisms, sialic acid chemistry, metabolism and antigenicity. More particularly, the invention is related to a method to produce Neu5Gc-free animals and products therefrom comprising disrupting the CMAH gene and thereby reducing or eliminating Neu5Gc from biological material of non-humans. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528507 |
| 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 435/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541236 | Heinecke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay W. Heinecke (Seattle, Washington); John F. Oram (Seattle, Washington); Michael N. Oda (Fairfield, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); The Children's Hospital and Research Center At Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Heinecke (Seattle, Washington); John F. Oram (Seattle, Washington); Michael N. Oda (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides isolated oxidation resistant mutant apoA-I polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence substantially homologous to SEQ ID NO:4, the mutant apoA-I polypeptide comprising a combination of: (1) a conservative amino acid substitution at residue Tyr192; and (2) at least one conservative amino acid substitution at residue Met86, Met112, or Met148, wherein the mutant apoA-I polypeptide is resistant to modification by an oxidizing agent. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of promoting cholesterol efflux activity in a mammalian subject in need thereof, the method comprising the step of administering an effective amount of an oxidation resistant apoA-I agonist to the subject to promote cholesterol efflux. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952044 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541243 | Whitehead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Steven Whitehead (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Ian A. Blair (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Steven Whitehead (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Ian A. Blair (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for measuring the levels of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF), tetrahydrofolate (THF), and 5,10-MTHF in a biological sample. The method includes employing an isotope dilution liquid chromatography-multiple reaction monitoring/mass spectrometry (LC-MRM/MS) methodology. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/002758 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541345 | Berger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shelley L. Berger (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Jerome Govin (Pontarlier, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelley L. Berger (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Jerome Govin (Pontarlier, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions comprising a S. cerevisiae yeast library, and methods of identifying an epigenetic marker for the diagnosis of infertility or a disorder associated with gametogenesis in an individual. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948552 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541371 | Schmid-Schonbein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geert W. Schmid-Schonbein (Del Mar, California); Frank A. DeLano (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geert W. Schmid-Schonbein (Del Mar, California); Frank A. DeLano (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, methods and lavages are disclosed for prevention or treatment of shock, particularly cecal ligation or cecal inoculation shock, by administering a specific therapeutic agent, which is able to use smaller volumes of reagent to achieve partial to complete inhibition, than other previously described techniques. The agent includes a combination of enzyme inhibitor, cytotoxic lipid binding protein, and antibiotic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989242 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541377 | Michael et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott F. Michael (Estero, Florida); Sharon Isern (Estero, Florida); Robert Garry (New Orleans, Louisiana); Ram Samudrala (Mukilteo, Washington); Joshua Costin (Naples, Florida); Ekachai Jenwitheesuk (Ratchaburi, Thailand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott F. Michael (Estero, Florida); Sharon Isern (Estero, Florida); Robert Garry (New Orleans, Louisiana); Ram Samudrala (Mukilteo, Washington); Joshua Costin (Naples, Florida); Ekachai Jenwitheesuk (Ratchaburi, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates peptide entry inhibitors and methods of determining such inhibitors that are bindable to regions of viruses having class II E proteins, such as the dengue virus E protein, as candidates for in vivo anti-viral compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/668828 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541384 | Tolentino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Tolentino (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Samuel Jotham Reich (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Tolentino (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Samuel Jotham Reich (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA interference using small interfering RNAs which are specific for the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene and the VEGF receptor genes Flt-1 and Flk-1/KDR inhibit expression of these genes. Diseases which involve antiogenesis stimulated by overexpression of VEGF, such as diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration and many types of cancer, can be treated by administering the small interfering RNAs. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423025 |
| 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 08541385 | Stoffel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Markus Stoffel (Zurich, Switzerland); Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York); Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus Stoffel (Zurich, Switzerland); Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to chemically modified oligonuceotides useful for modulating expression of microRNAs and pre-microRNAs. More particularly, the invention relates to single stranded chemically modified oligonuceotides for inhibiting microRNA and pre-microRNA expression and to methods of making and using the modified oligonucleotides. Also included in the invention are compositions and methods for silencing microRNAs in the central nervous system. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/714863 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541386 | Klein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Klein (Tampa, Florida); Tracy Sherwood (Riverview, Florida); Liang Nong (Tampa, Florida); Cathy Newton (Land O'Lakes, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Klein (Tampa, Florida); Tracy Sherwood (Riverview, Florida); Liang Nong (Tampa, Florida); Cathy Newton (Land O'Lakes, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) is expressed in B lymphocytes and is involved in immune regulation. Mouse splenic B cells express three CB2 transcripts utilizing two different first exons. Human peripheral blood B cells express one CB2 transcript utilizing one first exon. Alignment of sequenced RACE products to either the mouse or human genome reveals that isolated transcripts contain previously unidentified transcriptional start sites (TSS). B cells from mouse and human preferentially express one transcript, exon 1a in mouse and exon 1 in human. Multiple CB2 TSSs are utilized in mouse splenic B cells and one TSS in human peripheral blood B cells. The defining of the receptor gene TSSs in these cells provides materials and methods for therapeutically regulating immune function, including antibody isotype switching, using compounds such as inhibitory nucleic acids that down-regulate expression of the B cell CB2 gene (e.g., RNAi molecules). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859744 |
| 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 08541415 | Emert-Sedlak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lori Emert-Sedlak (Cranberry Twp., Pennsylvania); Toshiaki Kodama (Sunnyvale, California); Billy W. Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Weixiang Dai (Morgantown, West Virginia); Ronald P. Trible (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas E. Smithgall (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori Emert-Sedlak (Cranberry Twp., Pennsylvania); Toshiaki Kodama (Sunnyvale, California); Billy W. Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Weixiang Dai (Morgantown, West Virginia); Ronald P. Trible (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas E. Smithgall (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Drug candidates for inhibition of HIV-I replication can target Src family kinases (SFK), such as Hck, that interact with Nef protein of the virus. Compounds characterized by such inhibitory activity were identified via an assay for kinase activity of an SFK in a Nef:SFK complex. Illustrative of inhibitors identified using the kinase assay are various 2,3-diaminoquinaxolines and furo[2,3-d]pyrimidines. The inventive inhibitors were found to arrest HIV-I viral replication in vitro. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/988501 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541460 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Use of a new class of phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 (PDK-1) inhibitors of formula I for inducing apoptosis in unwanted rapidly proliferating cells, for treating, inhibiting, or delaying the onset of cancer, and for preventing restenosis in a subject that has undergone an angioplasty or stent: wherein X is selected from the group consisting of alkyl and haloalkyl; Ar is an aryl radical selected from the group consisting of phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl, anthryl, phenanthryl, and fluorenyl; and wherein Ar is optionally substituted with one or more radicals selected from the group consisting of halo, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 haloalkyl, azido, C1-C4 azidoalkyl, aryl, akylaryl, haloaryl, haloalkylaryl, and combinations thereof; and R is selected from the group consisting of nitrile, acetonitrile, ethylnitrile, propylnitrile, carboxamide, amidine, tetrazole, oxime, hydrazone, acetamidine, aminoacetamide, guanidine, and urea. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118788 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541476 | Koumenis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Constantinos Koumenis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brian E. Lally (Miami, Florida); Steven Kridel (Clemmons, North Carolina); Gary D. Kao (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Adeboye Adejare (Mantua, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Constantinos Koumenis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brian E. Lally (Miami, Florida); Steven Kridel (Clemmons, North Carolina); Gary D. Kao (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Adeboye Adejare (Mantua, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises compounds, compositions and methods of use for sensitizing cancer cells, tumors, neoplasms, and malignancies to the effects of ionizing radiation used in the treatment of cancer. The invention further comprises a method of identifying novel radiosensitizing compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/677478 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541547 | Darnell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert B. Darnell (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Darnell (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptide vaccines, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and associated methodologies that promote the immune-mediated regression of tumors expressing an onconeural antigen, e.g. a cdr-2 antigen, HuD antigen. The cancer peptide vaccines of the present invention are antigenic peptides capable of being faithfully presented on the MHC I complex of a target cell or antigen presenting cell. This external cellular presentation of these peptides promotes a specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated immune response against tumor cells expressing these proteins, thereby, inducing immunological reactivity. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465391 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541550 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112705 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08541567 — Transition state structure of 5′-methylthioadenosine/s-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidases
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of designing a putative inhibitor of a 5′-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase. The methods comprise designing a chemically stable compound that resembles the charge and geometry of the 5′-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase transition state. Also provided are methods of inhibiting 5′-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidases using the inhibitors found by the above methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/988651 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541570 | Gee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyle R. Gee (Springfield, Oregon); Brian Agnew (Eugene, Oregon); Adrian Salic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle R. Gee (Springfield, Oregon); Brian Agnew (Eugene, Oregon); Adrian Salic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in vitro and in vivo. Certain methods are provided that include a [3+2] cycloaddition between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent attached to a label. Other methods are provided that include a Staudinger ligation between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent comprising a substituted triarylphosphine attached to a label. Such methods do not require fixation and denaturation and therefore can be applied to the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in living cells and in organisms. Also provided are methods for measuring cellular proliferation. In these methods, the amount of label incorporated into the DNA is measured as an indication of cellular proliferation. The methods of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications including clinical diagnosis of diseases and disorders in which cellular proliferation is involved, toxicity assays, and as a tool for the study of chromosomes' ultrastructures. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785999 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/28.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541586 | Wentland |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark P. Wentland (Watervliet, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Wentland (Watervliet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 8-Substituted-2,6-methano-3-benzazocines of general structure are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/215392 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541625 | Popik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Andrei A. Poloukhtine (Scottsdale, Arizona); Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Andrei A. Poloukhtine (Scottsdale, Arizona); Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclic alkynes (e.g., cyclooctynes such as dibenzocyclooctynes) can be photochemically generated from cyclopropenones as disclosed herein. The cyclic alkynes can be reacted (e.g., in situ) with materials having alkyne-reactive groups (e.g., azide groups in a “click” reaction). In preferred embodiments, the generation and reaction of the cyclic alkyne can proceed in the absence of a catalyst (e.g., Cu(I)). These reactions can be useful, for example, for the selective labeling of living cells that are metabolically modified with azido-containing surface monosaccharides, or for light-directed surface patterning. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567509 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541646 | Stevens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean Stevens (San Diego, California); Andrew J. Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Richard Flavell (Guilford, Connecticut); Elizabeth Eynon (New Haven, Connecticut); Jorge Galan (New Haven, Connecticut); Tim Willinger (New Haven, Connecticut); Markus Manz (Zurich, Switzerland); Anthony Rongvaux (New Haven, Connecticut); George D. Yancopoulos (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Bellinzona, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Stevens (San Diego, California); Andrew J. Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Richard Flavell (Guilford, Connecticut); Elizabeth Eynon (New Haven, Connecticut); Jorge Galan (New Haven, Connecticut); Tim Willinger (New Haven, Connecticut); Markus Manz (Zurich, Switzerland); Anthony Rongvaux (New Haven, Connecticut); George D. Yancopoulos (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mouse with a humanization of the mIL-3 gene and the mGM-CSF gene, a knockout of a mRAG gene, and a knockout of a mIl2rg subunit gene; and optionally a humanization of the TPO gene is described. A RAG/Il2rg KO/hTPO knock-in mouse is described. A mouse engrafted with human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that maintains a human immune cell (HIC) population derived from the HSCs and that is infectable by a human pathogen, e.g., S. typhi or M. tuberculosis is described. A mouse that models a human pathogen infection that is poorly modeled in mice is described, e.g., a mouse that models a human mycobacterial infection, wherein the mouse develops one or more granulomas comprising human immune cells. A mouse that comprises a human hematopoietic malignancy that originates from an early human hematopoietic cells is described, e.g., a myeloid leukemia or a myeloproliferative neoplasia. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/897517 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541649 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies a novel family of kinases regulated by brassinosteroids, referred to as BRKs (brassinosteroid regulated kinases) or BSKs (brassinosteroid signaling kinases). The present invention provides methods for modulating the response of a plant cell to a brassinosteroid using BRKs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506895 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541670 | Emamian |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Effat Emamian (Short Hills, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Effat Emamian (Short Hills, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibiting the activity of an enzyme, for example, Protein Kinase B, p70S6K and/or Abl using the catalytic subunit of Protein Kinase A (PKAc), or at least one PKAc fragment or variant PKAc fragment thereof. In this regard, methods for preventing or treating cancer or a neurodegenerative disease or disorder are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560914 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542023 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942732 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542024 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. A sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) circuit and a sensing material disposed over a sensing region. The sensing region comprises at least a portion of the LCR circuit. Temperature-dependent response coefficients of inductance L, capacitance C, and resistance R properties of the LCR circuit and the sensing material are at least approximately 5 percent different from one another. The difference in the temperature-dependent response coefficients of the properties of the LCR circuit and the sensing material enables the sensor to selectively detect analyte fluids from an analyzed fluid mixture substantially independent of temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/977599 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542916 | Tognoli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of analyzing at least one dataset having temporal and spatial content is provided. A method includes the steps of applying a colorimetric mapping to the dataset based on the spatial content (500), segmenting the dataset (618) into one of a plurality of patterns based on a spatio-temporal analysis of the dataset (604, 606), and analyzing characteristics of each of the plurality of patterns (612-622). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500187 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 08539763 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Jon Bessette (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Alexander Bell (Kensington, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Arne La Ven (Hampton, New Hampshire); Adam Rauwerdink (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Jon Bessette (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Alexander Bell (Kensington, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Arne La Ven (Hampton, New Hampshire); Adam Rauwerdink (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, foam is compressed to store energy and/or expanded to recover energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/755636 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08539773 | Ziminsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel/air mixing tube for use in a fuel/air mixing tube bundle is provided. The fuel/air mixing tube includes an outer tube wall extending axially along a tube axis between an inlet end and an exit end, the outer tube wall having a thickness extending between an inner tube surface having a inner diameter and an outer tube surface having an outer tube diameter. The tube further includes at least one fuel injection hole having a fuel injection hole diameter extending through the outer tube wall, the fuel injection hole having an injection angle relative to the tube axis. The invention provides good fuel air mixing with low combustion generated NOx and low flow pressure loss translating to a high gas turbine efficiency, that is durable, and resistant to flame holding and flash back. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365382 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540209 | Hensel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Peter Hensel (Morgantown, West Virginia); Nathaniel Black (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); Jimmy Dean Thorton (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jeffrey Stuart Vipperman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David N. Lambeth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William W. Clark (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Peter Hensel (Morgantown, West Virginia); Nathaniel Black (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); Jimmy Dean Thorton (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jeffrey Stuart Vipperman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David N. Lambeth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William W. Clark (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow modulation valve has a slidably translating hollow armature with at least one energizable coil wound around and fixably attached to the hollow armature. The energizable coil or coils are influenced by at least one permanent magnet surrounding the hollow armature and supported by an outer casing. Lorentz forces on the energizable coils which are translated to the hollow armature, increase or decrease the flow area to provide flow throttling action. The extent of hollow armature translation depends on the value of current supplied and the direction of translation depends on the direction of current flow. The compact nature of the flow modulation valve combined with the high forces afforded by the actuator design provide a flow modulation valve which is highly responsive to high-rate input control signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/233659 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540488 | 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 damping structure for a turbomachine rotor. The damping structure including an elongated snubber element including a first snubber end rigidly attached to a first blade and extending toward an adjacent second blade, and an opposite second snubber end positioned adjacent to a cooperating surface associated with the second blade. The snubber element has a centerline extending radially inwardly in a direction from the first blade toward the second blade along at least a portion of the snubber element between the first and second snubber ends. Rotational movement of the rotor effects relative movement between the second snubber end and the cooperating surface to position the second snubber end in frictional engagement with the cooperating surface with a predetermined damping force determined by a centrifugal force on the snubber element. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637106 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540542 | Geohegan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Bruce Geohegan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Alexander A. Puretzky (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bin Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Matthew Garrett (Sandston, Virginia); Bin Zhao (Easley, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bruce Geohegan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Alexander A. Puretzky (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bin Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Matthew Garrett (Sandston, Virginia); Bin Zhao (Easley, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in one embodiment, provides a method of forming an organic electric device that includes providing a plurality of carbon nanostructures; and dispersing the plurality of carbon nanostructures in a polymeric matrix to provide a polymeric composite, wherein when the plurality of carbon nanostructures are present at a first concentration an interface of the plurality of carbon nanostructures and the polymeric matrix is characterized by charge transport when an external energy is applied, and when the plurality of carbon nanostructures are present at a second concentration the interface of the plurality of carbon nanostructures and the polymeric matrix are characterized by exciton dissociation when an external energy is applied, wherein the first concentration is less than the second concentration. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083122 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540796 | van Swol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank B. van Swol (Tijeras, New Mexico); Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); James E. Miller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sivakumar R. Challa (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank B. van Swol (Tijeras, New Mexico); Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); James E. Miller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sivakumar R. Challa (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Durable porous metal nanostructures comprising thin metal nanosheets that are metastable under some conditions that commonly produce rapid reduction in surface area due to sintering and/or Ostwald ripening. The invention further comprises the method for making such durable porous metal nanostructures. Durable, high-surface area nanostructures result from the formation of persistent durable holes or pores in metal nanosheets formed from dendritic nanosheets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107803 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541129 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Willow Springs, Illinois); Katarina J. Ruscic (Chicago, Illinois); Devin N. Sears (Spruce Grove, Canada); Luis J. Smith (Westborough, Massachusetts); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Willow Springs, Illinois); Katarina J. Ruscic (Chicago, Illinois); Devin N. Sears (Spruce Grove, Canada); Luis J. Smith (Westborough, Massachusetts); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a physicochemically-active porous membrane for electrochemical cells that purports dual functions: an electronic insulator (separator) and a unidirectional ion-transporter (electrolyte). The electrochemical cell membrane is activated for the transport of ions by contiguous ion coordination sites on the interior two-dimensional surfaces of the trans-membrane unidirectional pores. One dimension of the pore surface has a macroscopic length (1 nm-1000 μm) and is directed parallel to the direction of an electric field, which is produced between the cathode and the anode electrodes of an electrochemical cell. The membrane material is designed to have physicochemical interaction with ions. Control of the extent of the interactions between the ions and the interior pore walls of the membrane and other materials, chemicals, or structures contained within the pores provides adjustability of the ionic conductivity of the membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838608 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541146 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wen Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tetsuo Kawamura (Toyota, Japan); Tetsuo Nagami (Nagoya, Japan); Hiroaki Takahashi (Toyota, Japan); John Muldoon (Saline, Michigan); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James E. Miller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Hickner (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Craig Medforth (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Erlanger, Kentucky); Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota, Japan); Sandia Corporation, Operator of Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tetsuo Kawamura (Toyota, Japan); Tetsuo Nagami (Nagoya, Japan); Hiroaki Takahashi (Toyota, Japan); John Muldoon (Saline, Michigan); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James E. Miller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Hickner (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Craig Medforth (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of preparing metal particles on a support material, including platinum-containing nanoparticles on a carbon support. Such materials can be used as electrocatalysts, for example as improved electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEM-FCs). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329853 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541252 | Tansu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Helen M. Chan (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Richard P. Vinci (Easton, Pennsylvania); Yik-Khoon Ee (Mountain View, California); Jeffrey Biser (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Helen M. Chan (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Richard P. Vinci (Easton, Pennsylvania); Yik-Khoon Ee (Mountain View, California); Jeffrey Biser (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of an abbreviated GaN growth mode on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire substrates, which utilizes a process of using 15 nm low temperature GaN buffer and bypassing etch-back and recovery processes during epitaxy, enables the growth of high-quality GaN template on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire. The GaN template grown on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire by employing abbreviated growth mode has two orders of magnitude lower threading dislocation density than that of conventional GaN template grown on planar sapphire. The use of abbreviated growth mode also leads to significant reduction in cost of the epitaxy. The growths and characteristics of InGaN quantum wells (QWs) light emitting diodes (LEDs) on both templates were compared. The InGaN QWs LEDs grown on the nano-patterned AGOG sapphire demonstrated at least a 24% enhancement of output power enhancement over that of LEDs grown on conventional GaN templates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/972418 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541327 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peizhen Kathy Lu (Blacksburg, Virginia); Manoj Kumar Mahapatra (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peizhen Kathy Lu (Blacksburg, Virginia); Manoj Kumar Mahapatra (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A glass composition consisting essentially of about 10-45 mole percent of SrO; about 35-75 mole percent SiO2; one or more compounds from the group of compounds consisting of La2O3, Al2O3, B2O3, and Ni; the La2O3 less than about 20 mole percent; the Al2O3 less than about 25 mole percent; the B2O3 less than about 15 mole percent; and the Ni less than about 5 mole percent. Preferably, the glass is substantially free of barium oxide, calcium oxide, magnesia, and alkali oxide. Preferably, the glass is used as a seal in a solid oxide fuel/electrolyzer cell (SOFC) stack. The SOFC stack comprises a plurality of SOFCs connected by one or more interconnect and manifold materials and sealed by the glass. Preferably, each SOFC comprises an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278438 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541517 | Klaehn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Firth, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Firth, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Stable, high performance polymer compositions including polybenzimidazole (PBI) and a melamine-formaldehyde polymer, such as methylated, poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde), for forming structures such as films, fibers and bulky structures. The polymer compositions may be formed by combining polybenzimidazole with the melamine-formaldehyde polymer to form a precursor. The polybenzimidazole may be reacted and/or intertwined with the melamine-formaldehyde polymer to form the polymer composition. For example, a stable, free-standing film having a thickness of, for example, between about 5 μm and about 30 μm may be formed from the polymer composition. Such films may be used as gas separation membranes and may be submerged into water for extended periods without crazing and cracking. The polymer composition may also be used as a coating on substrates, such as metal and ceramics, or may be used for spinning fibers. Precursors for forming such polymer compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/045195 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541649 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies a novel family of kinases regulated by brassinosteroids, referred to as BRKs (brassinosteroid regulated kinases) or BSKs (brassinosteroid signaling kinases). The present invention provides methods for modulating the response of a plant cell to a brassinosteroid using BRKs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506895 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541651 | Wogulis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Wogulis (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Wogulis (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to variants of a parent cellobiohydrolase II. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908339 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541737 | Ibrahim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington); David C. Prior (Hermiston, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington); David C. Prior (Hermiston, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A collision cell is disclosed that provides ion activation in various selective modes. Ion activation is performed inside selected segments of a segmented quadrupole that provides maximum optimum capture and collection of fragmentation products. The invention provides collisional cooling of precursor ions as well as product fragments and further allows effective transmission of ions through a high pressure interface into a coupled mass analysis instrument. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769268 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541875 | Bennion et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Bennion (Littleton, Colorado); Jason Lustbader (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Bennion (Littleton, Colorado); Jason Lustbader (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments discussed herein are directed to a power semiconductor packaging that removes heat from a semiconductor package through one or more cooling zones that are located in a laterally oriented position with respect to the semiconductor package. Additional embodiments are directed to circuit elements that are constructed from one or more modular power semiconductor packages. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/249706 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541940 | Moran-Mirabal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose M. Moran-Mirabal (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); George G. Malliaras (Ithaca, New York); Héctor D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York); Jason D. Slinker (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose M. Moran-Mirabal (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); George G. Malliaras (Ithaca, New York); Héctor D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York); Jason D. Slinker (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention teaches electrospun light-emitting fibers made from ionic transition metal complexes (“iTMCs”) such as [Ru(bpy)3]2+(PF6−)2]/PEO mixtures with dimensions in the 10.0 nm to 5.0 micron range and capable of highly localized light emission at low operating voltages such as 3-4 V with turn-on voltages approaching the band-gap limit of the organic semiconductor that may be used as point source light emitters on a chip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/337977 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542489 | Arney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susanne Arney (Highland Park, New Jersey); Jen-Hau Cheng (New Providence, New Jersey); Paul R. Kolodner (Hoboken, New Jersey); Krishna-Murty Kota-Venkata (Springfield, New Jersey); William Scofield (Batavia, Illinois); Todd R. Salamon (New Providence, New Jersey); Maria E. Simon (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susanne Arney (Highland Park, New Jersey); Jen-Hau Cheng (New Providence, New Jersey); Paul R. Kolodner (Hoboken, New Jersey); Krishna-Murty Kota-Venkata (Springfield, New Jersey); William Scofield (Batavia, Illinois); Todd R. Salamon (New Providence, New Jersey); Maria E. Simon (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a rack having a row of shelves, each shelf supporting an electronics circuit board, each one of the circuit boards being manually removable from the shelve supporting the one of the circuit boards and having a local heat source thereon. The apparatus also comprises a cooler attached to the rack and being able to circulate a cooling fluid around a channel forming a closed loop. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of heat conduits, each heat conduit being located over a corresponding one of the circuit boards and forming a path to transport heat from the local heat source of the corresponding one of the circuit boards to the cooler. Each heat conduit is configured to be manually detachable from the cooler or the circuit board, without breaking a circulation pathway of the fluid through the cooler. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101509 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543722 | Dozsa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabor J. Dozsa (Ardsley, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Esslingen, Germany); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor J. Dozsa (Ardsley, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Esslingen, Germany); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, a send thread receives an identifier that identifies a destination node and a pointer to data. The send thread creates a first send request in response to the receipt of the identifier and the data pointer. The send thread selects a selected channel from among a plurality of channels. The selected channel comprises a selected hand-off queue and an identification of a selected message unit. Each of the channels identifies a different message unit. The selected hand-off queue is randomly accessible. If the selected hand-off queue contains an available entry, the send thread adds the first send request to the selected hand-off queue. If the selected hand-off queue does not contain an available entry, the send thread removes a second send request from the selected hand-off queue and sends the second send request to the selected message unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/750363 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543738 | Salapura et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Valentina Salapura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valentina Salapura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Hardware support for software controlled reconfiguration of performance counters may include a plurality of performance counters collecting one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A storage element stores data value representing a time interval, and a timer element reads the data value and detects expiration of the time interval based on the data value and generates a signal. A plurality of configuration registers stores a set of performance counter configurations. A state machine receives the signal and selects a configuration register from the plurality of configuration registers for reconfiguring the one or more performance counters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/564270 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08539725 | Memari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali M. Memari (State College, Pennsylvania); Paul A. Kremer (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard A. Behr (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali M. Memari (State College, Pennsylvania); Paul A. Kremer (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard A. Behr (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Architectural glass panels for use in a wide variety of building wall systems, such as curtain walls and storefronts, which have improved resistance to damage from earthquake and/or other loads that could cause horizontal racking movements of architectural glass panels within their glazing frames are disclosed. Embodiments include various types of architectural glass panels that have material removed at panel corners and are fabricated with smooth edge contours in the corner regions. A preferred embodiment includes various types of architectural glass panels that have rounded corners with or without finished edges. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/233670 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/204.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08539763 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Jon Bessette (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Alexander Bell (Kensington, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Arne La Ven (Hampton, New Hampshire); Adam Rauwerdink (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Jon Bessette (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Alexander Bell (Kensington, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Arne La Ven (Hampton, New Hampshire); Adam Rauwerdink (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, foam is compressed to store energy and/or expanded to recover energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/755636 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540892 | Strouse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey F. Strouse (Tallahassee, Florida); Derek D. Lovingood (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High quantum yield InP nanocrystals are used in the bio-technology, bio-medical, and photovoltaic, specifically IV, III-V and III-VI nanocrystal technological applications. InP nanocrystals typically require post-generation HF treatment. Combining microwave methodologies with the presence of a fluorinated ionic liquid allows Fluorine ion etching without the hazards accompanying HF. Growing the InP nanocrystals in the presence of the ionic liquid allows in-situ etching to be achieved. The optimization of the PL QY is achieved by balancing growth and etching rates in the reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645898 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540967 | Barrett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony G. M. Barrett (London, United Kingdom); Evan R. Trivedi (Evanston, Illinois); Brian M. Hoffman (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hoffman/Barrett, L.L.C. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony G. M. Barrett (London, United Kingdom); Evan R. Trivedi (Evanston, Illinois); Brian M. Hoffman (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrazines capable of localizing in a tumor of a mammal are disclosed. The porphyrazines are used in methods of imaging a tumor and in methods of treating tumors, either alone or in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent and/or radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/062031 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540976 | Leonard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Klein Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin); Kenneth Berry Sloan (Gainesville, Florida); Kenneth Boone Wagener (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Klein Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin); Kenneth Berry Sloan (Gainesville, Florida); Kenneth Boone Wagener (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A poly(non-conjugated diene) based sunscreen has a plurality of repeating units where each repeating unit has at least one UV absorbing chromophore that is situated between and connected by chains to two mono-ene units where each UV absorbing chromophore absorb UVA and UVB light. The poly(non-conjugated diene) based sunscreen can be included with a vehicle for application to the skin to prevent sunburn. The poly(non-conjugated diene) based sunscreen can be prepared by acyclic diene metathesis polymerization. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257775 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541252 | Tansu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Helen M. Chan (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Richard P. Vinci (Easton, Pennsylvania); Yik-Khoon Ee (Mountain View, California); Jeffrey Biser (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Helen M. Chan (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Richard P. Vinci (Easton, Pennsylvania); Yik-Khoon Ee (Mountain View, California); Jeffrey Biser (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of an abbreviated GaN growth mode on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire substrates, which utilizes a process of using 15 nm low temperature GaN buffer and bypassing etch-back and recovery processes during epitaxy, enables the growth of high-quality GaN template on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire. The GaN template grown on nano-patterned AGOG sapphire by employing abbreviated growth mode has two orders of magnitude lower threading dislocation density than that of conventional GaN template grown on planar sapphire. The use of abbreviated growth mode also leads to significant reduction in cost of the epitaxy. The growths and characteristics of InGaN quantum wells (QWs) light emitting diodes (LEDs) on both templates were compared. The InGaN QWs LEDs grown on the nano-patterned AGOG sapphire demonstrated at least a 24% enhancement of output power enhancement over that of LEDs grown on conventional GaN templates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/972418 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541337 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rong-Cai Xie (Anqing, China PRC); Jian-Ku Shang (Mahomet, Illinois); Pinggui Wu (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Cai Xie (Anqing, China PRC); Jian-Ku Shang (Mahomet, Illinois); Pinggui Wu (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A quaternary oxide includes a dopant metal, a dopant nonmetal, titanium, and oxygen. The atomic ratio of titanium, oxygen and dopant nonmetal may be 1:0.5-1.99:0.01-1.5. Quaternary oxides may be used in catalytic compositions, in coatings for disinfecting surfaces and in coatings for self-cleaning surfaces. A method of making a quaternary oxide includes combining ingredients including a titanium source, a dopant nonmetal source, a dopant metal salt, and a polar organic solvent to form a reaction mixture; and heating the reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/978255 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541563 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Edmund Taylor (Lakewood, Colorado); Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Nathan A. Ekborg (Beverly, Massachusetts); Michael Howard (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Edmund Taylor (Lakewood, Colorado); Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Nathan A. Ekborg (Beverly, Massachusetts); Michael Howard (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465714 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541625 | Popik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Andrei A. Poloukhtine (Scottsdale, Arizona); Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Andrei A. Poloukhtine (Scottsdale, Arizona); Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclic alkynes (e.g., cyclooctynes such as dibenzocyclooctynes) can be photochemically generated from cyclopropenones as disclosed herein. The cyclic alkynes can be reacted (e.g., in situ) with materials having alkyne-reactive groups (e.g., azide groups in a “click” reaction). In preferred embodiments, the generation and reaction of the cyclic alkyne can proceed in the absence of a catalyst (e.g., Cu(I)). These reactions can be useful, for example, for the selective labeling of living cells that are metabolically modified with azido-containing surface monosaccharides, or for light-directed surface patterning. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567509 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541649 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Yong Wang (Stanford, California); Wenqiang Tang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies a novel family of kinases regulated by brassinosteroids, referred to as BRKs (brassinosteroid regulated kinases) or BSKs (brassinosteroid signaling kinases). The present invention provides methods for modulating the response of a plant cell to a brassinosteroid using BRKs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506895 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541776 | Bandaru et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prabhakar R. Bandaru (San Diego, California); Joel Hollingsworth (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhakar R. Bandaru (San Diego, California); Joel Hollingsworth (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved memory devices that include one or more nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes or other nanostructures, as well as systems and devices incorporating such improved memory devices, are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the improved memory device is of a nonvolatile type such as a flash memory device, and employs a pair of triodes that form a memory cell, where each triode employs at least one carbon nanotube. Also disclosed are methods of operating and fabricating such improved memory devices. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/094850 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541810 | Steckel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan S. Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vladimir Bulović (Lexington, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusettts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Seth Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vladimir Bulović (Lexington, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal includes a core including a first semiconductor material and an overcoating including a second semiconductor material. A monodisperse population of the nanocrystals emits blue light over a narrow range of wavelengths with a high quantum efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/297968 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541940 | Moran-Mirabal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose M. Moran-Mirabal (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); George G. Malliaras (Ithaca, New York); Héctor D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York); Jason D. Slinker (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose M. Moran-Mirabal (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); George G. Malliaras (Ithaca, New York); Héctor D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York); Jason D. Slinker (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention teaches electrospun light-emitting fibers made from ionic transition metal complexes (“iTMCs”) such as [Ru(bpy)3]2+(PF6−)2]/PEO mixtures with dimensions in the 10.0 nm to 5.0 micron range and capable of highly localized light emission at low operating voltages such as 3-4 V with turn-on voltages approaching the band-gap limit of the organic semiconductor that may be used as point source light emitters on a chip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/337977 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542540 | Kan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin C. Kan (Ithaca, New York); Tuo-Hung Hou (Chia-Yi, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin C. Kan (Ithaca, New York); Tuo-Hung Hou (Chia-Yi, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of tunneling barriers and methods for same can embed modules exhibiting a monodispersion characteristic into a dielectric layer (e.g., between first and second layers forming a dielectric layer). In one embodiment, by embedding C60 molecules inbetween first and second insulating layers forming a dielectric layer, a field sensitive tunneling barrier can be implemented. In one embodiment, the tunneling barrier can be between a floating gate and a channel in a semiconductor structure. In one embodiment, a tunneling film can be used in nonvolatile memory applications where C60 provides accessible energy levels to prompt resonant tunneling through the dielectric layer upon voltage application. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748253 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/185.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542618 | Sivakumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raghupathy Sivakumar (Alpharetta, Georgia); Yeonsik Jeong (Dunwoody, Georgia); Sandeep Kakumanu (Atlanta, Georgia); Cheng-Lin Tsao (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raghupathy Sivakumar (Alpharetta, Georgia); Yeonsik Jeong (Dunwoody, Georgia); Sandeep Kakumanu (Atlanta, Georgia); Cheng-Lin Tsao (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods of improving protocol performance are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a block of frames to another communication device, and upon completion of the transmitting, requesting an acknowledgement of the transmitted block from the another communication device. The method further includes receiving the acknowledgement and adjusting the number of frames in the block based on information from the received acknowledgement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939930 |
| ART UNIT | 2467 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542636 | Qiu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lili Qiu (Austin, Texas); Yin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lili Qiu (Austin, Texas); Yin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method provides an electronic content to a vehicle from access point(s) within a network using a controller. The controller divides the electronic content into one or more files wherein each file contains at least one packet, and generates two or more random linear combinations of the packets within each file. For each file, each random linear combination of the packets is replicated to a different access point within the network. The electronic content is provided to the vehicle using at least one of the different access points. The controller can also determine a set of nearest trajectories for the vehicle in a location database that match a recent location history for the vehicle. For each determined nearest trajectory, one or more mobility trajectories are determined for the vehicle, and a set of access points are determined that correspond to the determined mobility trajectories for the vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, January 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/983884 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08542916 | Tognoli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuelle Tognoli (Boca Raton, Florida); J. A. Scott Kelso (Boynton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of analyzing at least one dataset having temporal and spatial content is provided. A method includes the steps of applying a colorimetric mapping to the dataset based on the spatial content (500), segmenting the dataset (618) into one of a plurality of patterns based on a spatio-temporal analysis of the dataset (604, 606), and analyzing characteristics of each of the plurality of patterns (612-622). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500187 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08540847 | Castor |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trevor Percival Castor (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aphios Corporation (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor Percival Castor (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to apparatus and methods for the substantially continuous processing of cellulosic biomasses with a supercritical, critical or near critical fluid to produce ethanol, bio-fuels and high value end products. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198355 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541166 | Hnasko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert M. Hnasko (Port Costa, California); Cathrin E. Bruederle (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Hnasko (Port Costa, California); Cathrin E. Bruederle (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide sequences that specifically bind infectious prion protein for the generation of antibodies and therapeutic agents are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571275 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541626 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Jackson (Morton, Illinois); Steven C. Cermak (Galesburg, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Jackson (Morton, Illinois); Steven C. Cermak (Galesburg, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Ketones may be produced in high yields from glycerides of short chain fatty acids by reaction with a carboxylic acid. The reaction is conducted in the presence of a catalyst and under conditions effective for ketonization of decanoate with the carboxylic acid to produce free ketones. Reaction of a glyceride comprising at least one ester of decanoic acid with a carboxylic acid selected from acetic acid and/or propionic acid produces 2-undecanone and/or 3-dodecanone, respectively. Catalysts of the formula FemCenAlpOx, wherein m is between about 0.2 to about 0.6, n is about 0.2, p is between about 0.6 to about 0.2, and x is greater than 0, produce significantly higher yields of the ketones than other known metal oxides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/356731 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08541001 | Netravali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil N. Netravali (Ithaca, New York); Kaiyan Qiu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil N. Netravali (Ithaca, New York); Kaiyan Qiu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | ‘Green’ composites are fabricated using resins, such as soy-based resins, and reinforced with crystalline high strength bacterial cellulose (BC) fibers. Bacterial cellulose is produced by providing a bacterial cellulose-producing bacterium such as Acetobacter xylinum; providing an inexpensive bacteria nutritional medium; culturing the bacterium in the bacteria nutritional medium under conditions to produce bacterial cellulose; and isolating bacterial cellulose produced by cultured bacteria from the bacteria nutritional medium. The bacteria nutritional medium comprises an inexpensive carbon source that is a plant-based seed extract. The seed extract is derived from a plant-based seed comprising soluble sugars. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321145 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/195.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541563 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Edmund Taylor (Lakewood, Colorado); Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Nathan A. Ekborg (Beverly, Massachusetts); Michael Howard (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Edmund Taylor (Lakewood, Colorado); Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven Wayne Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Nathan A. Ekborg (Beverly, Massachusetts); Michael Howard (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465714 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08543356 | Migdall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Lee Migdall (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Serery Polykov (Germantown, Maryland); Sae Woo Nam (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersberg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Lee Migdall (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Serery Polykov (Germantown, Maryland); Sae Woo Nam (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide an inexpensive and fast pulse characterization platform capable of real time operation, suitable for acquisition of single-photon data. Embodiments of the present invention include both a digital multi-channel data acquisition instrument and an analog pulse acquisition instrument suitable for a wide range of applications in physics laboratories. An FPGA performs multi-channel acquisition in real time, time stamps single events, and determines if the events fit a predetermined signature, which causes the events to be categorized as a coincidence. The indications of coincidences are then communicated to a host computer for further processing as desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354516 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08539840 | Ariessohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enertechnix, Inc (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C Ariessohn (Lake Tapps, Washington); Igor V Novosselov (Seattle, Washington); Evan Dengler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus or device for collecting aerosol particles from a gas stream, having a collector body enclosing a collector channel, a particle trap in the collector channel, and an injection duct for injecting a discrete microdroplet of an elution reagent. The particle trap may be a centrifugal impactor, a bluff body impactor, or an electrostatic impactor. Aerosol particles are deposited on the surface during collection and are subsequently eluted with a microdroplet or a series of microdroplets as a concentrated liquid sample so that the sample can be analyzed in situ or conveyed to a detector for analysis. The collector serves as an aerosol-to-liquid conversion module as part of an apparatus for detecting and analyzing aerosol particles, and may be used in an integrated environmental threat assessment system, for example for characterization of aerosolized chemical and biological weapons, or for industrial or environmental monitoring. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/099295 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/860 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08540651 | Pfeffer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence E. Pfeffer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Suzanne M. Wendelken (Arlington, Massachusetts); Adam T. Fulford (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrea K. Webb (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Pfeffer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Suzanne M. Wendelken (Arlington, Massachusetts); Adam T. Fulford (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrea K. Webb (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, a physiological or behavioral signal is derived from a vertical force resulting from the entire weight of a subject. A system for measuring physiological and behavioral signals in a human subject may include a measurement platform for bearing the subject, at least one force sensor for measuring vertical force imparted by an entire weight of the subject, and a signal processor for deriving at least one physiological or behavioral signal, such as a ballistocardiogram, from the measured force. The force sensor(s) may support the measurement platform and be disposed between the measurement platform and a support surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/883451 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08540959 | Ziegler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk J. Ziegler (Gainesville, Florida); Urs Rauwald (Bramen, Germany); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Zhenning Gu (Sugar Land, Texas); Irene Morin Marek (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk J. Ziegler (Gainesville, Florida); Urs Rauwald (Bramen, Germany); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Zhenning Gu (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some embodiments, the present invention provides a method for attaining short carbon nanotubes utilizing electron beam irradiation, for example, of a carbon nanotube sample. The sample may be pretreated, for example by oxonation. The pretreatment may introduce defects to the sidewalls of the nanotubes. The method is shown to produces nanotubes with a distribution of lengths, with the majority of lengths shorter than 100 tun. Further, the median length of the nanotubes is between about 20 nm and about 100 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299634 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541322 | Barrera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Zhang (Houston, Texas); Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Jong Dae Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Mary Lou Margrave (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Zhang (Houston, Texas); Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Johm L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Jong Dae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of functionalizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs), particularly single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), with organosilane species, wherein such functionalization enables fabrication of advanced polymer composites. The present invention is also directed toward the functionalized CNTs, advanced CNT-polymer composites made with such functionalized CNTs, and methods of making such advanced CNT-polymer composites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576134 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08540040 | Simula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Raymond Simula (Hancock, Michigan); Luke Stephen Luskin (Hubbell, Michigan); David Jon McKinstry (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GSE Technologies, LLC (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Raymond Simula (Hancock, Michigan); Luke Stephen Luskin (Hubbell, Michigan); David Jon McKinstry (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a multi-purpose ground vehicle (10) that may serve as a platform (12) for carrying a payload (14). The vehicle has a chassis (16) and a suspension (18) mounted to the chassis (16) for varying ride height and for influencing a response of the chassis (16) to underlying terrain. Track modules (22, 24, 26, 28) are associated for the suspension. These modules (22, 24, 26, 28) can be reoriented independently of each other. Preferably, at least some of the track modules (22, 24, 26, 28) include a band track (38) that circumscribe one or more wheels (30, 32) that are associated with a given track module (22, 24, 26, 28). |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936137 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08541550 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112705 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08543477 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Anthony Love (Stockbridge, Georgia); Lantanya Neale Mauriello (Suwanee, Georgia); Nesta Valerie Reckord-Yarde (Lithonia, Georgia); Susan Lynne Robertson (Decatur, Georgia); Robert Williams (Decatur, Georgia); Donald E. Nelson (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Anthony Love (Stockbridge, Georgia); Lantanya Neale Mauriello (Suwanee, Georgia); Nesta Valerie Reckord-Yarde (Lithonia, Georgia); Susan Lynne Robertson (Decatur, Georgia); Robert Williams (Decatur, Georgia); Donald E. Nelson (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Value tracking of automated clearing house (“ACH”) payments processed by an ACH operator includes receiving an ACH file for ACH processing. The ACH file comprises ACH payments originated by a remote sending point on behalf of a sending customer. A sum value of the ACH payments is added to a value of prior payments processed for the sending customer during a specified time period to obtain an accumulated payment value. The accumulated payment value is compared to a pre-established payment cap to determine whether the accumulated payment value exceeds the payment cap. The ACH payments are processed in response to a determination that the accumulated payment value does not exceed the payment cap. Whether to override the payment cap can be determined in response to a determination that the accumulated payment value exceeds the payment cap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953754 |
| ART UNIT | 3692 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08543579 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Range query techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data stream processing systems. In one aspect of the invention, a technique is provided for indexing continual range queries for use in data stream processing. For example, a technique for use in processing a data stream comprises obtaining at least one range query to be associated with the data stream, and building a range query index based on the at least one range query using one or more virtual constructs such that the query index is adaptive to one or more changes in a distribution of range query sizes. The step/operation of building the range query index may further comprise building the range query index such that the range query index accommodates one or more changes in query positions outside a monitoring area of the at least one range query. In another aspect of the invention, a technique is provided for incrementally processing continual range queries against moving objects. For example, a technique for evaluating one and more continual range queries over one and more moving objects comprises maintaining a query index with one and more containment-encoded virtual constructs associated with the one and more continual range queries over the one and more moving objects, and incrementally evaluating the one or more continual range queries using the query index. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155221 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/743 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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