Patents Assigned to Service
  • Acousto-optical device based on phonon-induced polaritonic band gaps
    Patent number: 7209603
    Abstract: The device comprises an optical waveguide and an acoustic wave generating device. The waveguide has an optical band gap and a sharp electronic transition (e.g. an excitonic transition) in the band gap, and the acoustic wave generating device generates acoustic waves within the waveguide. Light passing through the waveguide is of a frequency within the band gap of the waveguide and is nearly resonant with the sharp electronic transition. The wave generating device is arranged to generate acoustic waves so as to induce optical band gas in the polariton spectrum, thereby affecting the transmission of the light passing through the waveguide, the transmission of which is thereby affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignees: University College Cardiff Consultants Limited, Cambridge University Technical Services Limited
    Inventors: Peter Brent Littlewood, Alexander L. Ivanov
  • Combined growth factor-deleted and thymidine kinase-deleted vaccinia virus vector
    Patent number: 7208313
    Abstract: A composition of matter comprising a vaccinia virus expression vector with a negative thymidine kinase phenotype and a negative vaccinia virus growth factor phenotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: J. Andrea McCart, David L. Bartlett, Bernard Moss
  • Auscultatory training system
    Patent number: 7209796
    Abstract: According to a disclosed embodiment, an auscultatory training apparatus includes a database of pre-recorded physiological sounds stored on a computer for playing on a playback system. A user-friendly, graphical user interface software program is stored on the computer for use with a conventional computer mouse. The program allows a user to select one of the pre-recorded sounds for playback. In addition, the program is operable to generate an inverse model of the playback system in the form of a digital filter. If employed by the user, the inverse model processes the selected sound to cancel the distortions of the playback system so that the sound is accurately reproduced in the playback system. The program also permits the extraction of a specific sound component from a pre-recorded sound so that only the extracted sound component is audible during playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Inventors: Walter G. McKinney, Jeff S. Reynolds, Kimberly A. Friend, William T. Goldsmith, David G. Frazer
  • Electronic tripping device for low-voltage circuit breakers
    Patent number: 7208852
    Abstract: An electronic tripping device for low-voltage circuit-breakers comprises means for detection and calculation of a ground-fault current operatively connected to tripping means of said circuit-breaker. The means for detection and calculation comprise: current-sensor means, which supply, for each pole, a signal proportional to the current; means for detection of the sign of the current, which, for each pole, supply a signal representing the sign of the current; current-rectifying means, which, for each pole, supply a rectified signal proportional to the current circulating in said pole; and first numerical-processing means, which supply a value with sign representing a ground fault by means of a numerical-processing operation comprising the multiplication of the signal representing the sign by the corresponding rectified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Severino Colombo, Antonio Maria Gabello
  • Production of attenuated parainfluenza virus vaccines from cloned nucleotide sequences
    Patent number: 7208161
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotide molecules provide recombinant PIV genomes and antigenomes for production of recombinant PIV vaccines. The recombinant genome or antigenome can be expressed with a nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), and a large (L) polymerase protein to produce isolated infectious PIV particles. The recombinant PIV genome and antigenome can be modified to produce desired changes, for example to incorporate attenuating mutations from biologically derived PIV mutants or to create chimeric PIV clones, to generate attenuated, immunogenic viruses for vaccine use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Brian R. Murphy, Peter L. Collins, Anna P. Durbin, Mario H. Skiadopoulos, Tao Tao
  • Vibration based power generator
    Patent number: 7208845
    Abstract: A vibration based power generator. In a described embodiment, an electrical power generating system includes a vibrating assembly including a vortex shedding device which sheds vortices in response to fluid flow across the vibrating assembly. A generator generates electrical power in response to vibration of the vibrating assembly. The vortex shedding device sheds the vortices at a frequency which is substantially equal to a resonant frequency of the vibrating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Masters, Brooks Radighieri, Marcel Huigsloot, Gert Muller, Andries Du Plessis, Marthinus Van Schoor, Matt Schaefer, Chris Ludlow
  • Laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument
    Patent number: 7207990
    Abstract: A laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument can apply a large closure force between its jaws without damaging the small yoke assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Sherwood Services Ag
    Inventors: Michael John Lands, Stephen Wade Lukianow, Donald Robert Loeffler, James Steven Cunnigham, Kate Ryland Lawes, Daniel Lee Trimberger, II, Mathew Erle Mitchell, Jenifer Serafin Kennedy
  • Methods and compositions for use with spacer fluids used in subterranean well bores
    Patent number: 7207387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to spacer fluids used in subterranean operations and, more particularly, to spacer fluids that comprise water-soluble relative permeability modifiers and methods of using the spacer fluids in subterranean operations. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of displacing a first fluid from a well bore that comprises introducing the first fluid into the well bore; and displacing the first fluid with a spacer fluid, the spacer fluid comprising water, and a water-soluble relative permeability modifier comprising a hydrophobically modified polymer or a hydrophilically modified polymer. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a spacer fluid that comprises water, and a water-soluble relative permeability modifier comprising a hydrophobically modified polymer or a hydrophilically modified polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry S. Eoff, B. Raghava Reddy, Eldon D. Dalrymple
  • System, method and apparatus for petrophysical and geophysical measurements at the drilling bit
    Patent number: 7207215
    Abstract: Measurement of petrophysical and geophysical data of formations in a wellbore using a long gauge bit having at least one sensor therewith. The at least one sensor may be installed in at least one flute of the long gauge bit and/or in the long gauge portion thereof. Data for creating images of the formations are obtained at or near the bottom of the borehole and proximate to the long gauge bit used for drilling the borehole. Orientation of the long gauge bit is also available on a real time basis. Magnetic and/or gravitational sensors may be used in determining bit orientation. The flutes of the long gauge bit and the long gauge portion thereof may have standard inserts to accommodate various types of different sensors and electronic packages therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Spross, Paul F. Rodney
  • Systems and methods for automatically establishing merchant accounts for transaction card usage
    Patent number: 7207479
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically establishing merchant accounts for transaction card usage. More specifically, the systems and methods allow an agent to automatically apply for and automatically receive approval for a merchant to transact commerce with customers who use a transaction card. Moreover, the systems and methods provide real-time information, such as approval or denial notifications and reports to an agent. In addition, the systems and methods provide secure file transfers between an agent and a transaction card issuer/processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Abner E. Moreau, Jr., Gintas P. Balodis
  • Method and system for facilitation of wireless e-commerce transactions
    Patent number: 7209903
    Abstract: A method for facilitating a wireless transaction includes receiving, by a transaction fulfillment system, a transaction request from a transaction requester and verifying an identity of the transaction requester. After verifying the identity of the transaction requester, a transaction code is communicated from the transaction fulfillment system to a wireless communication device. After receiving the transaction code, the transaction code is optically scanned from a visual display of the wireless communication device by the transaction fulfillment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: CTECH Global Services Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Malik Mamdani, Curtis Grant, Patrick Johnson, Kevin Bomar, Tim Whatley
  • Medical pump with lockout system
    Publication number: 20070088269
    Abstract: A pumping apparatus for administering fluids to a patient. The pump apparatus includes a pump, a controller, and a user interface operatively connected to the controller having a plurality of push buttons for providing inputs to the controller when the push buttons are depressed in an unlock state of the pump. At least some of the inputs are capable of causing the controller to change operation of the pump. At least one of the plurality of push buttons has multiple functionality and is operable when depressed and released in the unlock state of the pump to provide an input for use in affecting the operation of the controller. The one push button is operable when depressed and held in a depressed position for a predetermined time interval in the unlock state of the pump to initiate a lockout state of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Sherwood Services AG
    Inventors: Matthew Valego, Christopher Knauper, Joel Wiesner
  • System and Method for Providing Technology Data Integration Services
    Publication number: 20070088742
    Abstract: The management and integration of data and categorizing and reporting the results thereof are accomplished by using at least three information levels of the data path, which comprise a transactions level, an extraction, transformation and load level, and a business information level. At the transformation and load level, data are collected from applications residing at the transactions level and extractions and calculations are performed on the collected data. The results are deposited into a data pool and presented to consumers using components residing at the business information level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Business Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Coughlin, Raheem Hasan, William McNamara, Craig Shea, James Jimenez
  • Core/shell nanoparticles suitable for(f)ret-assays
    Publication number: 20070087195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to luminescent inorganic nanoparticles comprising (a) a core made from a first metal salt or oxide being surrounded by (b) a shell made from a second metal salt or oxide being luminescent and having non-semiconductor properties. These particles can be advantageously used in (fluorescence) resonance energy transfer ((F)RET)-based bioassays in view of their higher (F)RET efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicants: Nanosolutions GMBH, Bayer Technology Services GMBH
    Inventors: Christiane Meyer, Markus Haase, Werner Hoheisel, Kerstin Bohmann
  • In situ assembling of protein microarrays
    Publication number: 20070087356
    Abstract: The invention provides a microarray and methods for producing a protein microarray. The array comprises multiple nucleic acid molecules immobilized on a substrate, each comprising (i) a protein-binding domain and (ii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a fusion protein comprising a polypeptide of interest and a DNA-binding protein that binds the protein-binding domain, and one or more fusion proteins produced from the multiple nucleic acid molecules. Each fusion protein is immobilized on the substrate via binding to a nucleic acid sequence comprising the protein-binding domain present on the nucleic acid molecule from which the fusion protein is produced or on the substrate. The invention also provides a method of analyzing protein interactions with, for example, other proteins, lipids and drugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Government of the USA, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services
    Inventors: Deb Chatterjee, Kalavathy Sitaraman, James Hartley, Cassio Baptista, David Munroe
  • System and method for calculating savings
    Publication number: 20070088642
    Abstract: A system and method for calculating savings using a savings calculator for calculating savings realized over a period of time for several travel-related categories of expenses using respective pre-defined formulas and for producing a savings summary report and worksheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services, Co., Inc
    Inventors: Brian Bender, Richard Chinitz, Michael Hoherchak, Lynne Madorsky, Irfan Pirmohamed, Gail Richards
  • Safety tank level gauging system
    Publication number: 20070084283
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed to automate the measurement of the fluid levels of individual tanks used at the work site of an oil well. An ultrasonic transducer may be removably attached to each tank at the site. The fluid level of each tank may be determined from the time elapsed from the transmission of an ultrasonic signal from the transducer and when a signal reflected from the fluid is received at the transducer. The transducer may wirelessly transmit a signal representative of the fluid level to a receiving unit. The receiving unit may be able to instantaneously determine the overall fluid flow rate from the tanks based on the fluid levels when compared to previous fluid levels. The transducers may take fluid level measurements at regular intervals or may make measurements only when directed by the receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: BJ Services Company
    Inventors: Bradley Carlson, Ronnie Hughes
  • Credit card case with quick-release latch
    Patent number: 7204366
    Abstract: A credit card case or fob with an integrated quick-release latch is provided that may be unclipped readily from a key loop, key chain or other device. The quick-release credit card case includes upper and lower cover portions and a pivot member for connecting the upper and lower cover portions. The pivot member is adapted to have at least one card mounted thereon so as to permit pivotal rotation of the card relative to the upper and lower cover portions. The upper and lower cover portions each have a slot in an outer surface thereof at mateably aligned locations to permit insertion of a key chain loop therein. A latch mounted on at least one of the cover portions is selectively movable to alternate positions exposing the radially outwardly facing opening of the slot in said cover portions and closing said radially outwardly facing opening of the slot in said cover portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Discover Financial Services LLC
    Inventors: David W. Nelms, Rodney A. Dawson
  • Cloned DNA sequences related to the genomic RNA of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) and proteins encoded by said LAV genomic RNA
    Patent number: 7205102
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of lymphadenopathy virus which has been designated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1). This invention relates to a diagnostic means and method to detect the presence of DNA, RNA or antibodies of the lymphadenopathy retrovirus associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome or of the lymphadenopathy syndrome by the use of DNA fragments or the peptides encoded by said DNA fragments. The invention further relates to the DNA fragments, vectors comprising them and the proteins expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignees: Institut Pasteur, The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Luc Montagnier, Solange Chamaret, Claudine Axler-Blin, Francoise Rey, Marie-Therese Nugeyre, Jacques Gruest, legal representative, Charles Dauguet, Willy Rozenbaum, Christine Rouzioux, Francois Brun-Vezinet, Jean-Claude Chermann, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Robert C. Gallo, Mikulas Popovic, Mangalasseril G. Sarngadharan, Jacqueline Gruest, deceased
  • Quinazolinone containing pharmaceutical compositions for prevention of neovascularization and for treating malignancies
    Patent number: RE39574
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition for attenuating neovascularization and treating malignancies, including a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound having a formula: wherein: R1 is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, nitro, benzo, lower alkyl, phenyl and lower alkoxy; R2 is a member of the group consisting of hydroxy, acetoxy, and lower alkoxy, and R3 is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkenoxy carbonyl; as active ingredient therein, in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignees: Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development Company Ltd., Agricultural Research Organization Ministry of Agriculture
    Inventors: Mark Pines, Israel Vlodavsky, Arnon Nagler, Hua-Quan Mian