Patents and Patent Applications from University of California System


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US20090313723 Methods for altering organ mass, controlling fertility and enhancing asexual reproduction in plants  
The invention provides methods of altering organ mass, controlling fertility and enhancing asexual reproduction in plants through the modulation of plant growth and cell proliferation. The methods...
US20090313576 PHRASE-DRIVEN GRAMMAR FOR DATA VISUALIZATION  
A data visualization system may allow an untrained user to easily, rapidly, and unambiguously specify the content and format of a report about information. A user interface may present to a user...
US20090313353 COPYRIGHTED CONTENT DELIVERY OVER P2P FILE-SHARING NETWORKS  
A copyright protection system for large scale content delivery over peer-to-peer P2P networks is disclosed. The system may integrate the complementary protections of a peer authorization protocol...
US20090312646 OPTICAL DETECTION OF SEIZURE, A PRE-SEIZURE STATE, AND CEREBRAL EDEMA AND OPTICAL FIBER DETECTION OF THE SAME  
A method for using optical parameters to monitor for a physiological event and/or a state prior to the physiological event includes the steps of: illuminating neural tissue with diagnostic light of...
US20090312400 Methods for Therapy of Neurodegenerative Disease of the Brain  
A specific clinical protocol for use toward therapy of defective, diseased and damaged cholinergic neurons in the mammalian brain, of particular usefulness for treatment of neurodegenerative...
US20090312324 Compositions and Methods Related to RAD51 Inactivation in the Treatment of Neoplastic Diseases, and Especially CML  
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and in particular imatinib resistant CML is treated using compositions and methods in which a Rad51-inhibitor and a kinase inhibitor are administered. Most...
US20090311201 LIPOXIN ANALOGS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE  
This invention provides new lipoxin analogs, compositions containing analogs, and methods of using these compounds and compositions for treating and preventing oral inflammation, including...
US20090311181 Engineered Anti-Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA) Antibodies for Cancer Targeting  
The invention provides novel humanized antibody fragments that specifically bind prostate cell-surface antigen (PSCA), a protein which is overexpressed in variety of cancers, including prostate,...
US20090310833 Determining Orientation of Cilia in Connective Tissue  
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining an orientation of a cilium relative to a characteristic of the shape of the cell from which the cilium projects....
US20090310651 SPREAD-SPECTRUM RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD  
Receivers and reception methods conduct spread spectrum reception using the energy of multiple bits, preferably a substantial number of bits, in a packet for correct alignment of the spreading code...
US20090310640 MOCVD GROWTH TECHNIQUE FOR PLANAR SEMIPOLAR (Al, In, Ga, B)N BASED LIGHT EMITTING DIODES  
A III-nitride optoelectronic device comprising a light emitting diode (LED) or laser diode with a peak emission wavelength longer than 500 nm. The III-nitride device has a dislocation density,...
US20090309725 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURITY BREACH DETECTION  
A system for detecting and classifying a security breach may include at least one sensor configured to detect seismic vibration from a source, and to generate an output signal that represents the...
US20090309676 Tunable Multiwalled Nanotube Resonator  
A tunable nanoscale resonator has potential applications in precise mass, force, position, and frequency measurement. One embodiment of this device consists of a specially prepared multiwalled...
US20090308252 BIFUNCTIONAL ACTIVE SITES FOR ADSORPTION OF NOx  
Immobilized nitronyl nitroxide active sites on the surface of a porous inorganic oxide support act as efficient and rapid oxidants for NO, reacting with >99% of the NO under flow conditions...
PP20552 Strawberry plant named ���Portola���  
This invention relates to a new and distinctive day-neutral type strawberry designated as ‘Portola’.‘Portola’ is a day-neutral (everbearing) cultivar similar to ‘Diamante’ (U.S. Plant...
7634087 Systems and methods for identity-based encryption and related cryptographic techniques  
A method and system for encrypting a first piece of information M to be sent by a sender [ 100 ] to a receiver [ 110 ] allows both sender and receiver to compute a secret message key using...
7633894 Scheduling methods for wireless networks  
The invention concerns routing, scheduling, and power control methods for single and multi-hop wireless networks. A multi-hop network is one in which source and destination nodes may communicate...
7632814 HYD1 peptides as anti-cancer agents  
The present invention concerns fragments and variants of the HYD1 peptide; polynucleotides encoding the peptides; host cells genetically modified with the polynucleotides; vectors comprising the...
US20090306772 Ocular Scaffolds and Methods for Subretinal Repair of Bruch's Membrane  
The present invention provides ocular scaffolds composed of poly (e-caprolactone) configured to be inserted into the sub-retinal space of a subject, as well as methods for treating eye disease...
US20090306355 Preparation of 3,3'-diamino-4,4'-azoxyfurazan, 3,3'-4,4'-azofurazan, and pressed articles  
A method for preparing essentially pure 3,3′-diamino-4,4′-azoxyfurazan (“DAAF”) that involves reacting an aqueous solution that includes 3,4-diaminofurazan (“DAF”) with OXONE™ (i.e....
US20090306225 AURIS FORMULATIONS FOR TREATING OTIC DISEASES AND CONDITIONS  
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of otic disorders with immunomodulating agents and auris pressure modulators. In these methods, the auris compositions and...
US20090306021 ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY FOR BACTERIAL INFECTIONS  
The disclosure provides compounds and methods to treat bacterial pathogenesis, and demonstrates that the S. aureus pigment is a virulence factor and potential novel target for antimicrobial therapy.
US20090305985 Immunomodulatory Agents For Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases  
The present invention provides methods and compositions suitable for treating inflammatory disorders such as allergy, asthma, artherosclerosis, autoimmune disease, infection, injury, meningitis,...
US20090305946 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND IMPROVING NORMAL MEMORY  
The disclosure relates generally to neurodegenerative disorders and more specifically to a group of presenilin/G-protein/c-src binding polypeptides and methods of use for modulating signaling and...
US20090305446 HIGH EFFICIENCY LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) WITH OPTIMIZED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL EXTRACTOR  
A high efficiency, and possibly highly directional, light emitting diode (LED) with an optimized photonic crystal extractor. The LED is comprised of a substrate, a buffer layer grown on the...
US20090305309 Methods and Compositions for Detecting Neoplastic Cells  
Methods and compositions for identifying neoplastic cells in a biological sample are provided.
US20090305241 DNA demethylases and uses thereof  
Polypeptides with DNA demethylase activity as well as methods of their use are provided.
US20090304695 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER BY INHIBITING WNT SIGNALING  
This invention relates to methods of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells that overexpress a Wnt protein. The methods comprise contacting the cell with an agent that inhibits binding of the Wnt...
US20090304654 METHODS FOR ISOLATING ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS AND THERAPEUTIC USE THEREOF  
The application discloses adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ADSC) and related compositions and methods. ADSCs are useful for (i) production of insulin producing cells, (ii) treatment of diabetes,...
US20090303249 HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE EDITING  
A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the...
US20090302866 ANALYTICAL SCANNING EVANESCENT MICROWAVE MICROSCOPE AND CONTROL STAGE  
A scanning evanescent microwave microscope (SEMM) that uses near-field evanescent electromagnetic waves to probe sample properties is disclosed. The SEMM is capable of high resolution imaging and...
US20090302228 DEVICE FOR QUANTIFICATION OF RADIOISOTOPE CONCENTRATIONS IN A MICRO-FLUIDIC PLATFORM  
A micro-fluidic device has a micro-fluidic circuit layer and a charged-particle detection layer disposed proximate the micro-fluidic circuit layer. The micro-fluidic device is constructed to...
US20090301971 TREATED BOTTOM ASH MEDIUM AND METHOD OF ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM DRINKING WATER  
A method for low-cost arsenic removal from drinking water using chemically prepared bottom ash pre-treated with ferrous sulfate and then sodium hydroxide. Deposits on the surface of particles of...
US20090301193 FREQUENCY TUNING OF DISC RESONATOR GYROSCOPES VIA RESONATOR MASS PERTURBATION BASED ON AN IDENTIFIED MODEL  
Techniques for reducing the frequency split between the Coriolis-coupled modes in disc resonator gyroscopes (DRGs) by perturbing the mass distribution on the disc resonator based on an identified...
7629640 Two bit/four bit SONOS flash memory cell  
Charge migration in a SONOS memory cell is eliminated by physically separating nitride layer storage sites with dielectric material. Increased storage in a cell is realized with a double gate...
7629448 Compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores  
Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a...
7629437 Fluorogenic materials and uses thereof  
A method is presented for the preparation and use of fluorogenic peptide substrates that allows for the configuration of general substrate libraries to rapidly identify the primary and extended...
7629380 Antitumor agents  
The present invention provides compounds of the general formula I: wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , and R 6 have any of the values defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically...
7628959 Hydrogen gas sensor  
A hydrogen gas sensor and/or switch fabricated from arrays nanowires composed of metal or metal alloys that have stable metal hydride phases. The sensor and/or switch response times make it quite...
7628766 Lower extremity enhancer  
A lower extremity enhancer to be worn by a user to enable the user to carry a load includes two leg supports having a plurality of jointed links. Proximal ends of the leg supports are connected to...
US20090298707 SPARSE MATRIX SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIFIC LIGANDS OR TARGETS  
In certain embodiments, this invention pertains to the creation of “Sparse Matrix” libraries of compounds. The sparse matrix libraries of this invention typically span an n-dimensional...
US20090298188 MEASUREMENT OF A DICARBOXYLATE IN URINE SAMPLES AS A NOVEL BIOMARKER OF KIDNEY DAMAGE  
The present invention relates in general to the discovery of urinary succinate as a novel biomarker of kidney disease. More specifically, the invention provides for the measurement of succinate in...
US20090297533 CONTROLLED RELEASE IMMUNOMODULATOR COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OTIC DISORDERS  
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of otic disorders with immunomodulating agent compositions and formulations administered locally to an individual afflicted with an...
US20090297443 Labeled ALPHA4BETA2 Ligands and Methods Therefor  
Contemplated compositions and methods are employed to bind in vitro and in vivo to an α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in a highly selective manner. Where such compounds are labeled,...
US20090294775 HEXAGONAL WURTZITE TYPE EPITAXIAL LAYER POSSESSING A LOW ALKALI-METAL CONCENTRATION AND METHOD OF CREATING THE SAME  
A method of obtaining a hexagonal würtzite type epitaxial layer with a low impurity concentration of alkali-metal by using a hexagonal würtzite substrate possessing a higher impurity...
US20090294424 SELF-SEEDED SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASER PEENING METHOD  
A method of operating a laser to obtain an output pulse having a single wavelength, comprises inducing an intracavity loss into a laser resonator having an amount that prevents oscillation during a...
US20090294303 method for identifying compounds that affect a transport of a protein through menbrane trafficking pathway  
Resistive-sensors are provided wherein networks or nanoframeworks of conducting polymer nanowires are electrochemically grown from pre-polymer solutions in the junction gap located between...
US20090293928 Process For Altering Thermoelectric Properties Of A Material  
A process for altering the thermoelectric properties of an electrically conductive material is provided. The process includes providing an electrically conducting material and a substrate. The...
US20090293348 EFFICIENT AND SELECTIVE CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO METHANOL, DIMETHYL ETHER AND DERIVED PRODUCTS  
An efficient and environmentally beneficial method of recycling and producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial...
RE41029 Endovascular electrolytically detachable wire and tip for the formation of thrombus in arteries, veins, aneurysms, vascular malformations and arteriovenous fistulas  
An artery, vein, aneurysms vascular malformation or arterial fistula is occluded through endovascular occlusion by the endovascular insertion of a platinum wire and/or tip into the vascular cavity....