Patents Represented by Attorney Mathews, Collins, Shepherd & McKay, P.A.
  • Patent number: 6952478
    Abstract: The present invention provides permutation instructions which can be used in software executed in a programmable processor for solving permutation problems in cryptography, multimedia and other applications. The permute instructions are based on an omega-flip network comprising at least two stages in which each stage can perform the function of either an omega network stage or a flip network stage. Intermediate sequences of bits are defined that an initial sequence of bits from a source register are transformed into. Each intermediate sequence of bits is used as input to a subsequent permutation instruction. Permutation instructions are determined for permuting the initial source sequence of bits into one or more intermediate sequence of bits until a desired sequence is obtained. The intermediate sequences of bits are determined by configuration bits. The permutation instructions form a permutation instruction sequence, of at least one instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Teleputers, LLC
    Inventors: Ruby B. Lee, Xiao Yang
  • Patent number: 6936435
    Abstract: The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimulates LuxQ luminescence genes, and is believed also to stimulate a variety of pathogenesis related genes in the bacterial species that produce it. A new class of bacterial genes is involved in the biosynthesis of autoinducer-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignees: Princeton University, University Technologies Internat.
    Inventors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Michael G. Surette
  • Patent number: 6921653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crystals of the Escherichia coli MurG, a membrane-associated UDP-glycosyltransferase involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. The present invention also relates to three-dimensional atomic coordinates of the MurG protein, three-dimensional structures of the protein, and images thereof. The present invention relates to methods of crystallizing MurG proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Princeton University
    Inventors: Suzanne Walker, Sha Ha
  • Patent number: 6919770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for using end resonances of highly spin-polarized alkali metal vapors for an atomic clock, magnetometer or other system. A left end resonance involves a transition from the quantum state of minimum spin angular momentum along the direction of the magnetic field. A right end resonance involves a transition from the quantum state of maximum spin angular momentum along the direction of the magnetic field. For each quantum state of extreme spin there are two end resonances, a microwave resonance and a Zeeman resonance. The microwave resonance is especially useful for atomic clocks, but it can also be used in magnetometers. The low frequency Zeeman resonance is useful for magnetometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Princeton University
    Inventors: William Happer, Daniel K. Walter
  • Patent number: 6900346
    Abstract: A method for the decomposition of a Michael type adduct, characterized by causing a Michael type adduct to react in the presence of an N-oxyl compound thereby decomposing the Michael type adduct into acrylic acid and/or the acrylic ester and/or the alcohol and a method for the production of acrylic acid and/or the acrylic ester, characterized by comprising a step of recovering a Michael type adduct formed in the process for the production of acrylic acid or acrylic ester and a step of decomposing the recovered Michael type adduct by the method of decomposition mentioned above. This invention, therefore, allows promotion of efficient utilization of the raw materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Fumio Shibusawa, Naoki Serata, Kazuhiko Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6899452
    Abstract: An apparatus for the preparation and supply of a polymerization inhibitor which constantly effects stable supply of a polymerization inhibitor solution adjusted to a prescribed concentration and enables a compound handled at the next step to be prevented from polymerization is provided. The apparatus for the preparation and supply of a polymerization inhibitor has at least two tanks and a stirring device, a liquid level detector, a polymerization inhibitor input port, a concentration-adjusting liquid input port, and a polymerization inhibitor solution feed opening, each being installed in at least one of said tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Hamamoto, Takeshi Nishimura, Kazuhiko Sakamoto, Kunihiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6891046
    Abstract: The invention provides a new process for the preparation of polypyrrolinones (I) of various sizes which have found to be useful peptidomimetics. One aspect of the invention is a new process utilizing ?-amino-?-substituted-valerolactones as synthons. A second aspect of the invention is a process for the synthesis of polypyrrolinones using solid-phase techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Inventors: Amos B. Smith, III, Ralph F. Hirschmann, Hu Liu, Hiroyuki Ikumura
  • Patent number: 6887493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved controlled release system that can encapsulate different flavors, sensory markers, and active ingredients, or combinations of flavors, sensory markers and various active ingredients and release multiple active ingredients in a consecutive manner, one after the other. The controlled delivery system of the present invention is substantially free-flowing powder formed of solid hydrophobic nanospheres that are encapsulated in a moisture sensitive microspheres. The flavors, and active ingredients encapsulated in the hydrophobic nanospheres, in the water sensitive microsphere, or in both the nano and the microsphere. The flavors and active ingredients encapsulated in the nanospheres can be the same or different from those encapsulated in the microspheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventors: Adi Shefer, Samuel David Shefer
  • Patent number: 6888780
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system to simultaneously use the microwave and Zeeman end resonances associated with the same sublevel of maximum (or minimum) azimuthal quantum number m to lock both the atomic clock frequency and the magnetic field to definite values. This eliminates the concern about the field dependence of the end-resonance frequency. In an embodiment of the system of the present invention, alkali metal vapor is pumped with circularly-polarized D1 laser light that is intensity-modulated at appropriate resonance frequencies, thereby providing coherent population trapping (CPT) resonances. In another embodiment, pumping with constant-intensity circularly-polarized D1 laser light enhances magnetic resonances that are excited by alternating magnetic fields oscillating at appropriate resonance frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Princeton University
    Inventors: William Happer, Nicholas N. Kuzma
  • Patent number: 6878850
    Abstract: The present invention provides the preparation and use of halophosphine-transition metal complex as catalysts for cross-coupling reaction to produce substituted aromatic heterocycles, biaryls and arylamines by reacting pyridyl halides or aryl halides with arylboronic acids or amines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: CombiPhos Catalysts, Inc
    Inventor: George Y. Li
  • Patent number: 6871583
    Abstract: The method of the present invention for handling scrap tires, includes a step of providing a compacting apparatus to a scrap tire generator, such as a tire retailer. Before compacting the tires, the tire can be marked with a unique identifier assigned to every tire generator. By marking the scrap tires with a unique identifier, the scrap tires can be tracked on their way to the final destination. The compacting apparatus provides volume reduction of the scrap tires individually into a form that can have a reduction of at least fifty percent of original cubic volume. The tires can be pinched to maintain the compacted tire in the compacted form and prevent the compacted tire from regaining its original shape. The compacted scrap tires can be accumulated inside a tire collection enclosure, such as a trailer or dumpster. The collected tires can be transported with much more weight efficient loads of the tires to a transfer station, a recycling facility, or an end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: PHD, LLC
    Inventors: Fred G. Devlin, III, Robert Proniewski
  • Patent number: 6873215
    Abstract: A power down system and method for an integrated circuit that enables a power down mode to be maintained for a predetermined time is described herein. The power down system comprises an oscillator, a low power oscillator and an oscillator control circuit controlling both the oscillator and the low power oscillator. The oscillator control circuit including at least one real time counter. The oscillator control circuit being so configured that the oscillator is energized when said oscillator control circuit is in a normal mode and that, when a power down signal is received: a) the oscillator control circuit measures an oscillation frequency of the low power oscillator, b) the oscillator control circuit uses the measured oscillation frequency of the low power oscillator to set the real time counter so as to maintain the power down mode for the predetermined time, c) the oscillator control circuit turns off the oscillator and uses the low power oscillator for the duration of the power down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: ENQ Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Devries, Ralph Dickson Mason
  • Patent number: 6870066
    Abstract: A method for the decomposition of a Michael type adduct of an acrylic acid and/or an acrylic ester represented by the following formula [I] or [II] is disclosed, wherein decomposing the Michael type adduct in the presence of at least one copper salt and at least one metal salt selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal salt and an alkaline earth metal salt into an acrylic acid and/or an acrylic ester and/or an alcohol. CH2?CHCOO(—X—COO)n—R1??[I] R2—O(—X—COO)m—R3??[II] (wherein n and m denote an integer in the range of 1-5, R1, R2, and R3 independently denote a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and —X— denotes —CH2CH2— or —CH(CH3)—, and —X— may be identical or different when n is 2 or more).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., LTD
    Inventors: Fumio Shibusawa, Naoki Serata, Kazuhiko Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6864067
    Abstract: The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimulates LuxQ luminescence genes, and is believed also to stimulate a variety of pathogenesis related genes in the bacterial species that produce it. A new class of bacterial genes is involved in the biosynthesis of autoinducer-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignees: University Technologies International, Princeton University
    Inventors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Michael G. Surette
  • Patent number: 6858579
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a compound comprising the amino acid sequence AMVSE, wherein said compound does not comprise the amino acid sequence EQEYVQTV. Preferably the compound contains 5-11 amino acids. The compound is used in the manufacture of a medicament or pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting leukocyte migration, or treating or preventing inflammation and/or inflammatory response/disease from such conditions as gout, gouty arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, reperfusion injury or damage, stroke, myocardial infarction, septic shock, or a skin disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: William Harvey Research Limited
    Inventors: Mauro Perritti, Roderick Flower
  • Patent number: 6848501
    Abstract: In an apparatus provided with a plate type heat exchanger as a heater and/or a cooler and operated to treat a gas containing an easily blocking substance, a method for preventing the plate type heat exchanger from being blocked is disclosed which is characterized by i) setting the width of a flow path on a plate of the plate type heat exchanger in the apparatus in a range of 6-25 mm and ii) setting the average flow rate of the gas passing the plate type heat exchanger in the apparatus per unit cross-sectional area of the flow path on the plate in the range of 3-15 m/s. In the exchange of heat of an easily blocking substance by the use of a plate type heat exchanger, a method for preventing the plate type heat exchanger from blockage is disclosed which has the plate type heat exchanger provided in the port for introducing a gas containing an easily blocking substance with a gas dispersion plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., LTD
    Inventors: Harunori Hirao, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Sei Nakahara, Osamu Dodo, Tetsuji Mitsumoto, Takeshi Nishimura, Kazuhiko Sakamoto, Hiroo Iwato
  • Patent number: 6846071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink supply apparatus for an inkjet printer in which ink can continuously supplied to each cartridge of a large-scale inkjet printer. In the inkjet printer, since it is not necessary to replace the cartridge, it is very economical. Also, since ink is continuously and automatically supplied to each cartridge, the efficiency and workability can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Hanlim Mechatronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeong-Won Rhee
  • Patent number: 6844423
    Abstract: The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimulates LuxQ luminescence genes, and is believed also to stimulate a variety of pathogenesis related genes in the bacterial species that produce it. A new class of bacterial genes is involved in the biosynthesis of autoinducer-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignees: Princeton University, University Technologies Transfer International
    Inventors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Michael G. Surette
  • Patent number: 6834149
    Abstract: An optical quantitative detection device comprising: an optical quantitative detection device comprising: a nonlinear/birefringent waveguide sensor with a top surface for interacting with a target molecule, wherein optical excitation of the sensor enables quantitative, spectral discrimination of the target molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Xoetronics, LLC
    Inventors: Nikolaus Dietz, Frank L. Madarasz, David Peter Krivoshik
  • Patent number: D511023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventor: Ok-Nam Cho