US Patents from 2001 - 2006

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2006

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
Motion Organized Simultaneous Acquisition with Interactive Control for Fast Real-Time Navigator Guided Imaging	7,123,757	Vladimir N. Kolmogorov, Yi Wang, Ramin Zabih
Synthetic nucleic acid molecule for imparting multiple traits	7,122,720	Dennis Gonsalves, Gustavo Munoz
SPP-EP	7,119,154	Geoffrey W. Coates, Jun Tian
Triarylcation Antibiotics from Environmental DNA	7,115,753	Jon C. Clardy, Sean F. Brady, Jo Handelsman, Robert M. Goodman, Doreen E. Gillespie, Alan D. Bettermann
High-Index Contrast Distributed Bragg Reflector	7,113,673	Michael Lipson, Vilson Rosa de Almeida
Pseudomonas Syringae Harpins and Their Uses	7,109,397	Alan R. Collmer, Adela Ramos
Electrospray Emitter For Microfluidic Channel	7,105,810	Jun Kameska, Harold G. Craighead
DNA Molecules and Polypeptides of Pseudomonas Syringae HRP Pathogenicity Island and Their Uses	7,102,059	Alan R. Collmer, James R. Alfano, Amy O Charkowski
Dendritic Based Macromolecules	7,101,937	Jean M. Frechet, Craig J. Hawker, Karen Wooley
Electrofusion Microelectrode	7,101,703	Gianpiero D. Palermo
Low Voltage High-Speed Differential Logic Devices and Method of Use Thereof	7,098,697	Daniel Kucharski, Kevin Kornegay
Detection of Nucleic Acid Sequence Differences Using Coupled Ligase Detection and Polymerase Chain Reactions	7,097,980	Francis Barany, Matthew Lubin, George Barany, Robert P. Hammer
Method of Treating Polycythemia Vera	7,094,785	Richard T. Silver
High Temperature Sicn and Sic-Type Nanostructure Ceramic Material from Block Copolymer Mesophases	7,087,656	Carlos Garcia, Ulrich Wiesner
Recombinant Multivalent Viral Vaccine	7,087,234	Fredric W. Scott, Liangbiao "George" Hu, Christopher K. Ngichabe, Joseph J. Esposito
Isolated nucleic acid molecules relating to papaya fruit ripening	7,084,321	Maria Salomé Soares Pais, Dennis Gonsalves, Aladje Baldé
Detection of Nucleic Acid Sequence Differences Using Ligase Detection Reaction with Addressable Arrays	7,083,917	Francis Barany, Herman Blok, Monib Zirvi, Joseph P Day, Norman P. Gerry, Robert P. Hammer, Nancy E. Witkowski, Maria Kempe
Fibers From Polymer Nanoclay Nanocomposites by Electrospinning	7,083,854	Yong Lak Joo, Huajun Zhou
System and method for continuous casting of a molten material	7,082,986	Paul H. Steen
Electrospray emitter for microfluidic channel	7,081,622	Jun Kameoka, Harold G. Craighead
Papaya ringspot virus genes	7,078,586	Dennis Gonsalves, Chu-Hui Chiang, Paula F. Tennant, Carol V. Gonsalves, Nonglak Sarindu, Manoel Teixeira Souza, Jr., Osmar Nickel, Gustavo Alberto Fermin-Munoz, Sanjay Saxena, Wenqi Cai
Method to control the ripening of papaya fruit and confer disease resistance to papaya plants	7,071,377	Dennis Gonsalves, Aladje Baldé, Maria Salomé Soares Pais, Chu-Hui Chiang
Canine erythropoietin gene and recombinant protein	7,067,477	James N. MacLeod
Scalable nano-transistor and memory using back-side trapping	7,057,234	Sandip Tiwari
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules	7,056,676	Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules	7,056,661	Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Chemoreceptive semiconductor structure	7,053,439	Edwin Kan, Bradley A. Minch
Method for sequencing nucleic acid molecules	7,052,847	Jonas Korlach, Watt W. Webb, Michael Levene, Stephen Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu Foquet
Precision ultrasound measurement for intraocular lens placement	7,048,690	Jackson D. Coleman, Ronald J. Silverman, Mark J. Rondeau
Modified antibodies to prostate-specific membrane antigen and uses thereof	7,045,605	Neil Bander, Francis J. Carr, Anita Hamilton
Three dimensional high aspect ratio micromachining	7,045,466	Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Xiaojun T. Huang, Noel C. MacDonald
Ruminal fluid inoculation of calves	7,045,149	Thomas V. Muscato, James B. Russell
DNA encoding Pseudomonas Syringae hypersensitive response elicitor and its use	7,045,123	Alan Collmer, Amy Charkowski, James R. Alfano
Low-voltage, low-power transimpedance amplifier architecture	7,042,295	Drew Guckenberger, Kevin T. Kornegay
Oomycete-resistant transgenic plants by virtue of pathogen-induced expression of a heterologous hypersensitive response elicitor	7,041,876	Steven V. Beer, David W. Bauer
Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition	7,041,694	Andrew J. Dannenberg
Carbon dioxide as an aid in pasteurization	7,041,327	Joseph H. Hotchkiss, Christopher R. Loss
Mutant purine nucleoside phosphorylase proteins and cellular delivery thereof	7,037,718	Steven E. Ealick, William B. Parker, John A. Secrist, III, Eric J. Sorscher
Method of inducing neuronal production in the brain and spinal cord	7,037,493	Steven A. Goldman, Abdellatif Benraiss
Throat support device and methods of using same	7,036,460	Norm G. Ducharme, Richard P. Hackett, J. Brett Woodie
Independent-tree Ad Hoc Multicast Routing	7,035,937	Zygmunt J. Haas, S. Sajama
Method for Sequencing Nucleic Acid Molecules	7,033,764	Watt W. Webb, Jonas Korlach, Michael Levene, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu E. Foquet
Methods and systems for concurrent paging of mobile users in cellular networks	7,031,731	Rung-Hung Gau, Zygmunt J. Haas
Controlled nucleic acid delivery systems	7,030,097	William Mark Saltzman, Dan Luo, Hong Shen, Kim Woodrow-Mumford, Nadya D. Belcheva
DNA encoding Erwinia Amylovora hypersensitive response elicitor and its use	7,029,667	Jihyun Francis Kim, Steven V. Beer
Diagnostic and protective antigen gene sequences of ichthyophthirius	7,026,156	Theodore G. Clark, Harry W. Dickerson, Jr., Tian-Long Lin
Overexpression of phytase genes in yeast systems	7,026,150	Xingen Lei
Functionalized poly (ethylene-co-syndiotactic propylene)	7,022,774	Lewis J. Fetters, Geoffrey W. Coates
Small scale wires with microelectromechanical devices	7,022,617	Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Noel C. MacDonald
Protective immunity or immunological tolerance induced with RNA particularly total cellular RNA	7,015,204	Richard D. Granstein
Coupled polymerase chain reaction-restriction-endonuclease digestion-ligase detection reaction process	7,014,994	Francis Barany, Joseph P. Day, Robert P. Hammer, Donald E. Bergstrom
Waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes	7,013,054	Michael J. Levene, Jonas Korlach, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Watt W. Webb
Real-time software receiver	7,010,060	Brent M. Ledvina, Mark L. Psiaki, Steven P. Powell, Paul M. Kintner, Jr.
Isolated peptides which bind to HLA-C molecules and uses thereof	7,009,035	Sacha Gnjatic, Lloyd J. Old, Yasuhiro Nagata, Elke Jager, Yao-Tseng Chen, Alexander Knuth
Methods for drug discovery, disease treatment, and diagnosis using metabolomics	7,005,255	Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, Bruce Kristal
Method and apparatus for anatomically tailored k-space sampling and recessed elliptical view ordering for bolus-enhanced 3D MR angiography	7,003,343	Richard Watts, Yi Wang, Martin R. Prince
Air flow monitoring and control system with reduced false alarms	7,001,263	William A. Shaben
Use of a nucleic acid encoding a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide to enhance growth in plants	6,998,515	Dewen Qiu, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Apple Tree Rootstock Named 'G.935'	PP17,063	James N. Cummins, Herb S. Aldwinckle, Terence Lee Robinson, Gennaro Fazio
Strawberry plant named `Clancy`	PP16,571	Courtney A. Weber, John C. Sanford, Kevin E. Maloney
Strawberry plant named `L'Amour`	PP16,480	Courtney A. Weber, John C. Sanford, Kevin E. Maloney

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2005

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
Methods for designing specific ion channel blockers	6,979,547	Xin-Yun Huang
Phosphatases with improved phytase activity	6,974,690	Xingen Lei
Reversing or preventing premature vascular senescence	6,967,219	Steven S. Gross, Michael S. Goligorsky
Methods and compositions for inhibiting HIV infectivity and blocking chemokine activity	6,964,763	Andrea Rene Crombie, Ralph L. Nachman, Jeffrey C. Laurence
Genes for male accessory gland proteins in Drosophila melanogaster	6,955,897	Mariana F. Wolfner, Oliver Lung, Khanh-Uyen Tram
Electronic gain cell based charge sensor	6,953,958	Gregory T. Baxter, Sandip Tiwari
Highly doped III-nitride semiconductors	6,953,740	William J. Schaff, Jeonghyun Hwang
Method of making water stress or salt stress tolerant transgenic cereal plants	6,951,971	Ray J. Wu, Tuan-Hua David Ho
High fidelity thermostable ligase and uses thereof	6,949,370	Francis Barany, Weiguo Cao, Jie Tong
Electrical device including dielectric layer formed by direct patterning process	6,946,736	Karen K. Gleason, Christopher Ober, Daniel Herr
Method of enhancing bone density	6,939,540	Ronald G. Crystal, Chisa Hidaka, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, Bernard A. Rawlins, Imre Kovesdi
Miniaturized holographic fourier transform spectrometer with digital aberration correction	6,930,781	Nikolay I. Agladze, Albert J. Sievers
Cabbage proteinase inhibitor gene confers resistance against plant pests	6,927,322	C. Neal Stewart, Roxanne M. Broadway
Low dose IL-2 for potentiation of immunity	6,921,530	Kendall A. Smith
Dual chamber micropump having checkvalves	6,921,253	Michael Shuler, Aaron Sin
Zero-mode clad waveguides for performing spectroscopy with confined effective observation volumes	6,917,726	Michael J. Levene, Jonas Korlach, Stephen W. Turner, Harold G. Craighead, Watt W. Webb
Hydrogel-forming system with hydrophobic and hydrophilic components	6,916,857	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
Grapevine leafroll virus proteins and their uses	6,916,617	Dennis Gonsalves, Kai-Shu Ling
Intracardiac detection and control of repolarization alternans	6,915,156	David J. Christini, Kenneth M. Stein, Bruce B. Lerman
Method and system for optimizing layered communication protocols	6,914,910	Robert Van Renesse, Mark Rayden
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding cancer associated antigens, the antigens per se, and uses thereof	6,911,529	Dirk Jager, Elizabeth Stockert, Matthew Scanlan, Ali Gure, Elke Jager, Alexander Knuth, Lloyd Old, Yao-tseng Chen
Hydrogel entrapping therapeutic agent and stent with coating comprising this	6,905,700	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
DNA constructs and methods to impart resistance to at least one virus on plants	6,903,248	Sheng-Zhi Pang, Dennis Gonsalves, Fuh-Jyh Jan
Constitutive α-Tubulin promoter from coffee plants and uses thereof	6,903,247	Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
Multiple mechanical resonator parametric device	6,900,575	Anatoli Olkhovets, Dustin W. Carr, Harold G. Craighead, Jeeak M. Parpia
Measurement of protective genes in allograft rejection	6,900,015	Yingyos Avihingsanon, Nali Ma, Terry B. Strom, Miguel C. Soares, Christiane Ferran, Manikkam Suthanthiran
Biocontrol for plants with Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas putida, and Sporobolomyces roseus	6,896,883	Gary C. Bergstrom, Wilmar Corio da Luz
Betulinol derivatives	6,890,533	Arkadiy L. Bomshteyn, Premila Rathnam, Brij B. Saxena
Highly doped III-nitride semiconductors	6,888,170	William J. Schaff, Jeonghyun Hwang
Method and compositions for reducing cardiac dysfunctions with a selective histamine H3 receptor agonist	6,884,809	Roberto Levi, Randi B. Silver
Diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus by automated processing of MR images	6,882,876	Aziz M. Ulug
Animal model for flaviviridae infection	6,878,364	Edward J. Dubovi, Bud C. Tennant, James R. Jacob
DNA polymerase III holoenzyme	6,875,852	Michael E. O'Donnell
In vitro production of haploid germ cells	6,872,569	Dong Ryul Lee, Michael T. Kaproth, John E. Parks
Rapidly cleavable sumo fusion protein expression system for difficult to express proteins	6,872,551	Christopher D. Lima, Elena Mossessova
Spectrometer sample generating and injecting system using a microliter nebulizer	6,859,272	Michael A. Rutzke, Steven D. Sweat
Hypersensitive response elicitor fragments which are active but do not elicit a hypersensitive response	6,858,707	Zhong-Min Wei, Hao Fan, Jennifer J. Stephens, Steven V. Beer, Ron J. Laby
Grapevine leafroll virus (type 2) proteins and their uses	6,858,426	Hai-Ying Zhu, Kai-Shu Ling, Dennis Gonsalves
Hypersensitive response elicitor from Erwinia amylovora, its use, and encoding gene	6,855,683	Adam J. Bogdanove, Jihyun Francis Kim, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Catalytic carbonylation of three and four membered heterocycles	6,852,865	Geoffrey W. Coates, Yutan D. Y. L. Getzler, Peter Wolczanski, Viswanath Mahadevan
DNA molecules and polypeptides of Pseudomonas syringae Hrp pathogenicity island and their uses	6,852,835	Alan Collmer, James R. Alfano, Amy O. Charkowski
Detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using the ligase detection reaction with addressable arrays	6,852,487	Francis Barany, George Barany, Robert P. Hammer, Maria Kempe, Herman Blok, Monib Zirvi
Recombinant expression of heterologous nucleic acids in protozoa	6,846,481	Jacek Gaertig, Harry W. Dickerson, Jr., Theodore G. Clark
Site-directed mutagenesis of Escherichia coli phytase	6,841,370	Xingen Lei
Use of multiphoton excitation through optical fibers for fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with optical biopsy needles and endoscopes	6,839,586	Watt W. Webb

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2004

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
IgM antibodies to the 70 kDa heat shock protein as a marker for cytomegalovirus infection	6,828,113	Steven S. Witkin
Preparation of fagopyritols and uses therefor	6,825,173	Ralph L. Obendorf, Marcin Horbowicz
Adenovirus gene expression system	6,824,770	Erik S. Falck-Pedersen
Tospovirus resistance in plants	6,818,804	Dennis Gonsalves, Sheng-Zhi Pang
Laser-induced cell lysis system	6,815,209	Antje J. Baeummer, Mohit D. Dhawan
Anti-amyloid peptide antibody based diagnosis and treatment of a neurological disease or disorder	6,815,175	Marc E. Weksler, Paul Szabo
Discovery, localization, harvest, and propagation of an FGF2 and BDNF-responsive population of neural and neuronal progenitor cells in the adult human forebrain	6,812,027	Steven A. Goldman, Maiken Nedergaard
Flavorful low-fat cheese	6,808,735	David M. Barbano, Brandon K. Nelson, Christine Cholish-Nicklas
Insect sodium channels from insecticide-susceptible and insecticide-resistant house flies	6,800,435	David M. Soderlund, Douglas C. Knipple, Patricia J. Ingles
Detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using coupled ligase detection and polymerase chain reactions	6,797,470	Francis Barany, Matthew Lubin, George Barany, Robert P. Hammer
Colon cancer antigen panel	6,794,501	Yao-Tseng Chen, Lloyd J. Old, Matthew J. Scanlan, Elisabeth Stockert
Single crystal silicon micromirror and array	6,794,217	Seung B. Lee, Noel C. MacDonald
Method and apparatus for measuring and correcting motion effects using navigator echoes	6,791,323	Yi Wang, Thanh D. Nguyen
Rin gene compositions and methods for use thereof	6,787,687	James Giovannoni, Steven Tanksley, Veeraragavan Padmanabhan, Diane Ruezinsky, Julie Vrebalov, Ruth White
Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex catalysts, highly syndiotactic polypropylene by a chain-end control mechanism, block copolymers containing this	6,787,624	Geoffrey W. Coates, Jun Tian, Phillip D. Hustad
Pharmacotherapy for vascular dysfunction associated with deficient nitric oxide bioactivity	6,784,178	Steven S. Gross, Caroline L. Jones
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding cancer associated antigens, the antigens per se, and uses thereof	6,774,226	Dirk Jager, Elizabeth Stockert, Matthew Scanlan, Ali Gure, Elke Jager, Alexander Knuth, Lloyd Old, Yao-tseng Chen
Method of forming dual exposure glass layer structures	6,773,950	David M. Tanenbaum, Yi-Fan Chen
Method and apparatus for collecting and expressing geographically-referenced data	6,772,142	Steven T. Kelling, Ronald M. Beloin, John W. Fitzpatrick, Frank B. Gill, Roger L. Slothower, Thomas A. Fredericks
Treatment and diagnosis of prostate cancer	6,767,711	Neil H. Bander
NOR gene compositions and methods for use thereof	6,762,347	James Giovannoni, Steven Tanksley, Julia Vrebalov, Frederick Noensie
Gene controlling fruit size and cell division in plants	6,756,524	Steven D. Tanksley
Monolithic nanofluid sieving structures for DNA manipulation	6,753,200	Harold G. Craighead, Stephen W. Turner
DNA constructs and methods to impart resistance to papaya ringspot virus on plants	6,750,382	Sheng-Zhi Pang, Dennis Gonsalves, Fuh-Jyh Jan
Polymer material with stable non-wetting surface	6,750,296	Christopher K. Ober, Maoliang Xiang, Kenneth J. Wynne
System and method for fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts	6,744,923	Ramin D. Zabih, Olga Veksler, Yuri Boykov
Embedded metal nanocrystals	6,743,709	Edwin C. Kan, Zengtao Liu, Venkatasubraman Narayanan
Method of using heat-depolymerizable polycarbonate sacrificial layer to create nano-fluidic devices	6,743,570	Cindy K. Harnett, Harold G. Craighead, Geoff Coates
Methods for modulation of oocyte activation	6,737,272	Richard Kuo, Gregory Baxter, David Epel
Heartbeat failure detector method and apparatus	6,728,781	Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, Sam Toueg
Automatic detection of pulmonary nodules on volumetric computed tomography images using a local density maximum algorithm	6,728,334	Binsheng Zhao
Transmission line structures for use as phase shifters and switches	6,727,778	Thomas D. Kudrle, Hercules P. Neves, Damien C. Rodger, Noel C. MacDonald
Nucleic acid encoding a fragment of bovine luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor	6,723,556	Brij B. Saxena, Premila Rathnam
Rupestris stem pitting associated virus nucleic acids, proteins, and their uses	6,716,967	Dennis Gonsalves, Baozhong Meng
Hydrogel entrapping therapeutic agent and stent with coating comprising this	6,716,445	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
Hydrogel-forming system with hydrophobic and hydrophilic components	6,709,668	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
Detection of epithelial cell cancers and precancerous conditions	6,706,506	Lorraine J. Gudas, Xiaojio Guo
Compounds useful in pain management	6,703,483	Peter Schiller
Canine erythropoietin gene and recombinant protein	6,696,411	James N. MacLeod
Method for separating cells	6,692,957	Steven A. Goldman, Hong Wu
Nucleotide sequences encoding mammalian calcium activated chloride channel-adhesion molecules	6,692,939	Benedicht U. Pauli, Randolph C. Elble, Achim D. Gruber
Failure detector with consensus protocol	6,687,847	Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, Sam Toueg
Induction of resistance to virus diseases by transformation of plants with a plant virus	6,649,813	Milton Zaitlin, Daniel Golemboski, George Lomonossoff

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2003

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
Method of treating hepatitis delta virus infection	6,670,342	John L. Casey, Brent E. Korba, Paul J. Cote, John L. Gerin, Bud C. Tennant, Chung K. Chu
REM sleep augmentation with extra-ocular light	6,669,627	Scott S. Campbell, Patricia J. Murphy
Grapevine fanleaf virus resistance in grapevine expressing grapevine fanleaf virus coat protein	6,667,426	Dennis Gonsalves, Baodi Xue, Tania Krastanova, Kai-Shu Ling, Marc Fuchs
Cellular microbead filter for use in water recirculating system	6,666,965	Michael B. Timmons
Tomato gene.Sw-5 conferring resistance to Tospoviruses	6,664,447	Steven D. Tanksley, Sergio H. Brommonschenkel
Determining viral load in double negative T cells	6,664,042	David N. Posnett
Method for isolation of cells from a solution	6,653,129	Neil H. Bander, Leonard Michael Glode, Chang In Suh
Enhanced biologically based chronotropic biosensing	6,650,919	Jay M. Edelberg, David J. Christini
High-energy pulse compression using phase shifts produced by the cascade quadriatic nonlinearity	6,650,466	Frank Wise, Qian Liejia, Xiang Liu
Treatment and diagnosis of cancer	6,649,163	Neil H. Bander
Embedded metal nanocrystals	6,646,302	Edwin C. Kan, Zengtao Liu, Venkatasubraman Narayanan
Cells engineered to contain genes of interest without expressed bacterial sequences and materials and methods therefor	6,645,767	Manuel J. Villa, Susan A. Henry
Superparamagnetic nanostructured materials	6,645,626	Carlos Garcia, Ulrich B. Wiesner
Use of angiotensin II inhibitors to prevent malignancies associated with immunosuppression	6,641,811	Manikkam Suthanthiran, Mary Maluccio
System and method for sensing magnetic fields based on movement	6,639,403	Alexander B. Temnykh, Richard V. E. Lovelace
Grapevine leafroll virus proteins and their uses	6,638,720	Dennis Gonsalves, Kai-Shu Ling
Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic function	6,635,475	John D. Helmann
Entropic trapping and sieving of molecules	6,635,163	Jongyoon Han, Harold G. Craighead
Microfiltration of skim milk for cheese making and whey proteins	6,623,781	Syed S. H. Rizvi, Randall L. Brandsma
Phloem-loading-specific promoter	6,613,960	E. Robert Turgeon
Syndiotactic poly(lactic acid)	6,608,170	Geoffrey W. Coates
Adenoviral vectors with tandem fiber proteins	6,599,737	Erik S. Falck-Pedersen
Recombinant constructs and systems for secretion of proteins via type III secretion systems	6,596,509	David W. Bauer, Steven V. Beer, Adam J. Bogdanove, Alan Collmer, Jong Hyun Ham
Method of propagating chicken infectious anemia virus	6,593,134	Bruce W. Calnek, Benjamin Lucio-Martinez, Carol Cardona, Raymond W. Harris, Karel A. Schat
Biodegradable polyhydric alcohol esters	6,592,895	Meidong Lang, Chih-Chang Chu
Sort stream stabilizer for flow cytometer	6,587,203	Christopher Colon
Hypersensitive response elicitor fragments eliciting a hypersensitive response and uses thereof	6,583,107	Ron J. Laby, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding cancer associated antigen, the antigen itself, and uses thereof	6,576,756	Yao-Tseng Chen, Ali Gure, Solam Tsang, Elisabeth Stockert, Elke Jger, Knuth Alexander, Lloyd J. Old
Filtration-detection device and method of use	6,576,460	Antje J. Baeumner, Richard A. Montagna
Chimeric adenovirus fiber protein	6,576,456	Thomas J. Wickham, Erik Falck-Pedersen, Petrus W. Roelvink, Joseph T. Bruder, Jason Gall, Imre Kovesdi
Thermostable DNA ligase mutants	6,576,453	Francis Barany, Jianying Luo, Marilyn Khanna, Donald E. Bergstrom
Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex catalysts, highly syndiotactic polypropylene by a chain-end control mechanism, block copolymers containing this	6,562,930	Geoffrey W. Coates, Jun Tian, Phillip D. Hustad
Methodology for predicting and/or diagnosing disease	6,558,955	Bruce S. Kristal, Wayne R. Matson, Paul E. Milbury
Grapevine leafroll virus proteins and their uses	6,558,953	Dennis Gonsalves, Kai-Shu Ling
Methods for amplifying and sequencing nucleic acid molecules using a three component polymerase	6,555,349	Michael E. O'Donnell
Removable marking system	6,653,265	Frank S. Rossi, Eva Gussack
Combinations of fungal cell wall degrading enzyme and fungal cell membrane affecting compound	6,512,166	Gary E. Harman, Matteo Lorito, Antonio Di Pietro, Christopher K. Hayes, Felice Scala, Christian P. Kubicek
Induction of resistance to virus diseases by transformation of plants with a plant virus replicase gene	6,649,813	Milton Zaitlin, Daniel Golemboski, George Lomonossoff
Lamp utilizing fiber for enhanced starting field	6,628,079	Czeslaw Golkowski, David Hammer, Byungmoo Song, Yonglai Tian, Miodrag Cekic, Michael G. Ury, Douglas A. Kirkpatrick
Multihelical composite spring	6,612,556	Petru Petrina
Folded floating-gate differential pair amplifier	6,600,363	Bradley A. Minch
Low temperature semiconductor layering and three-dimensional electronic circuits using the layering	6,600,173	Sandip Tiwari
Electrostatically charged microstructures	6,597,048	Edwin C. Kan
Hydrogel-forming system with hydrophobic and hydrophilic components	6,583,219	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
Use of multiphoton excitation through optical fibers for fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with optical biopsy needles and endoscopes	6,580,941	Watt W. Webb
Feline immunodeficiency virus nucleotide sequence	6,579,527	Margaret C. Barr, Roger J. Avery, Claudia A. Sutton, Fan Long, Lily Zou
Method for topographical patterning of materials	6,559,474	Harold G. Craighead, Bojan Ilic
(CAG)/Q expansion disorders	6,548,243	Arthur J. L. Cooper, John P. Blass
Method for assessing blood flow and apparatus thereof	6,547,731	D. Jackson Coleman, Katherine W. Ferrara, Dustin E. Kruse, Ronald H. Silverman
Mammalian soluble adenylyl cyclase	6,544,768	Jochen Buck, Lonny R. Levin
Single crystal silicon micromirror and array	6,541,831	Seung B. Lee, Noel C. MacDonald
Nutritional supplement for cerebral metabolic insufficiencies	6,537,969	John P. Blass
Feedback mechanism for deep brain stimulation	6,539,263	Nicholas D. Schiff, Keith Purpura, Steven Kalik
Preparing isotactic stereoblock poly(lactic acid)	6,538,101	Geoffrey W. Coates, Tina M. Ovitt
Dense backplane cell for configurable logic	6,534,819	Sandip Tiwari, Arvind Kumar
Accelerating identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms and alignment of clones in genomic sequencing	6,534,293	Francis Barany, Jianzhao Liu, Brian W. Kirk, Monib Zirvi, Norman P. Gerry, Philip B. Paty
Crystalline frap complex	6,532,437	Jon C. Clardy, Jungwon Choi
Method of inhibiting and immune response to a recombinant vector	6,525,029	Erik S. Falck-Pedersen, Keith Elkon
Truncated forms of NY-ESO-1 protein	6,525,177	Elisabeth Stockert, Elke Jger, Yao-tseng Chen, Matthew Scanlan, Knuth Alexander, Lloyd J. Old
Multiple site delivery of adenoviral vector directly into muscle for the induction of angiogenesis	6,518,255	Todd K. Rosengart, Ronald G. Crystal
Mechanically resonant nanostructures	6,515,751	Harold G. Craighead, Dustin W. Carr, Lidija Sekaric
Enzymes with improved phytase activity	6,511,699	Xingen Lei
DNA molecule encoding for cellular uptake of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and uses thereof	6,509,151	Lee W. Riley
Solventless, resistless direct dielectric patterning	6,509,138	Karen K. Gleason, Christopher Ober, Daniel Herr
Remote sensing gene therapy delivery device and method of administering a therapeutic solution to a heart	6,508,802	Todd K. Rosengart, Ronald G. Crystal
Detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using the ligase detection reaction with addressable arrays	6,506,594	Francis Barany, Norman P. Gerry, Nancy E. Witowski, Joseph Day, Robert P. Hammer, George Barany
Isolated peptides which bind to HLA-C molecules and uses thereof	6,506,875	Sacha Gnjatic, Lloyd J. Old, Yasuhiro Nagata, Elke Jager, Yao-Tseng Chen, Alexander Knuth
Elastomeric functional biodegradable copolyester amides and copolyester urethanes	6,503,538	Chih-Chang Chu, Ramaz Katsarava
Plum tree named "Kenmore Plum"	PP14,020	John P. Watson, Judith Watson
Plum tree named "Jayfree Plum"	PP13,881	John P. Watson, Judith Watson

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2002

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
Parametric resonance in microelectromechanical structures	6,497,141	Kimberly L. Turner, Noel C. MacDonald
Preparation of fagopyritols and uses therefor	6,492,341	Ralph L. Obendorf, Marcin Horbowicz
Methods and compounds for treating autoimmune and vascular disease	6,491,922	John L. Ho
Treating inflammatory diseases of the head and neck with cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors	6,486,203	Andrew J. Dannenberg
Recombinant constructs and techniques for delivering to eucaryotic cells bacterial proteins that are secreted via type III secretion systems	6,485,977	Alan Collmer, Steven V. Beer
Microfiltration of skim milk for cheese making and whey proteins	6,485,762	Syed S. H. Rizvi, Randall L. Brandsma
Single step process for epitaxial lateral overgrowth of nitride based materials	6,478,871	James R. Shealy, Joseph A. Smart
Miniaturized fluid transfer device	6,478,238	Timothy Wachs, Jack D. Henion
Dextran-maleic acid monoesters and hydrogels based thereon	6,476,204	Sin-Hee Kim, Che-Youb Won, Chih-Chang Chu
Suspended moving channels and channel actuators for microfluidic applications and method for making	6,462,391	John M. Chong, Noel C. MacDonald
Multivalent RNA aptamers and their expression in multicellular organisms	6,458,559	Hua Shi, John T. Lis
Optoelectronic packaging	6,456,766	Kevin A. Shaw, James S. Sutherland
Overexpression of phytase genes in yeast systems	6,451,572	Xingen Lei
Enhanced reverse transcriptase polymerase chain assay to detect MN in patients with renal cell carcinoma	6,451,532	James M. McKiernan, Ihor S. Sawczuk, Ralph Buttyan, Neil H. Bander
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding cancer associated antigens, the antigens per se, and uses thereof	6,448,073	Dirk Jager, Elizabeth Stockert, Matthew Scanlan, Ali Gure, Elke Jager, Alexander Knuth, Lloyd Old, Yao-tseng Chen
Renal cancer associated antigens and uses therefor	6,440,663	Matthew J. Scanlan, Elisabeth Stockert, Yao-Tseng Chen, Lloyd J. Old, Elke Jager, Alex Knuth
Unitary microcapiliary and waveguide structure and method of fabrication	6,438,279	Harold G. Craighead, Mathieu E. Foquet, Warren Wright
Image subregion querying using color correlograms	6,430,312	Jing Huang, Shanmugasundaram Ravi Kumar, Mandar Mitra, Wei-Jing Zhu
Rice actin 2 promoter and intron and methods for use thereof	6,429,357	David McElroy, Ray Wu
Identification of congenital stationary night blindness in dogs	6,428,958	Gustavo D. Aguirre, Gregory M. Acland, Kunal Ray
Mammalian and human REC2	6,410,226	Eric B. Kmiec, William K. Holloman, Michael C. Rice, Sheryl T. Smith, Zhigang Shu
Sensor-assisted aloha for wireless networks	6,404,750	Stephen B. Wicker, Terrence L. Fine
Human actin regulatory proteins and methods for detection, diagnosis and treatment of different stages of carcinogenesis	6,403,766	Joel D. Pardee
Treating cancers associated with overexpression of HER-2/neu	6,403,630	Andrew J. Dannenberg, Kotha Subbaramaiah
Isolated nucleic acid molecules associated with colon, renal, and stomach cancer and methods of using these	6,403,373	Matthew J. Scanlan, Yao-Tseng Chen, Elisabeth Stockert, Lloyd J. Old
Methods of identifying peptide agonists or negative antagonists of a G protein coupled receptor	6,403,305	Marvin C. Gershengorn, Elizabeth Geras-Raaka, Daniel R. Nussenzveig
DNA molecule encoding for cellular uptake of mycobacterium tuberculosis and uses thereof	6,399,764	Lee W. Riley
Rupestris stem pitting associated virus nucleic acids, proteins, and their uses	6,399,308	Dennis Gonsalves, Baozhong Meng
Detection of Rupestris stem pitting associated virus	6,395,490	Dennis Gonsalves, Baozhong Meng
Reliable time delay-constrained cluster computing	6,393,581	Roy Friedman, Kenneth P. Birman, Srinivasan Keshav, Werner Vogels
Hydrogel-forming system with hydrophobic and hydrophilic components	6,388,047	Chee-Youb Won, Yeli Zhang, Chih-Chang Chu
Macrocyclic polyamine lactones and derivatives thereof and their use as arthropod repellents	6,384,026	Frank C. Schroeder, Jay J. Farmer, Thomas Eisner, Scott R. Smedley
Microfabrication of a nuclear transfer array for high-throughput animal cloning	6,383,813	Gregory T. Baxter, Richard C. Kuo
Genes for male accessory gland proteins in drosophila melanogaster	6,380,159	Mariana F. Wolfner, Oliver Lung, Khanh-Uyen Tram
Using block copolymers as supercritical fluid developable photoresists	6,379,874	Christopher K. Ober, Jianguo Wang
Controlled release of doxorubicin	6,369,037	Sin-Hee Kim, Chih-Chang Chu
Parasite-derived resistance	6,365,396	Stephen A. Johnston, John C. Sanford
Receptors that regulate cell signaling relating to chemokines	6,365,356	Marvin C. Gershengorn
Liposome-enhanced test device and method	6,358,752	Richard Allen Durst, Richard A. Montagna, Antje J. Bumner, Sui Ti A. Siebert, Geoffrey S. Rule
Acyclic monomers which when cured are reworkable through thermal decomposition	6,355,702	Christopher K. Ober, Kenji Ogino
Multi-photon laser microscopy	6,344,653	Watt W. Webb, Chris Xu
Trench isolation for micromechanical devices	6,342,430	Scott G. Adams, Kevin A. Shaw, Russell Y. Webb, Bryan W. Reed, Noel C. MacDonald, Timothy J. Davis
SSX family proteins	6,339,140	Ali O. Gure, Ozlem Tureci, Ugur Sahin, Solam Tsang, Matthew J. Scanlan, Alexander Knuth, Michael Pfreundschuh, Lloyd J. Old, Yao-Tseng Chen
Methods for determining breast cancer and melanoma by assaying for a plurality of antigens associated therewith	6,338,947	Ugur Sahin, zlem Treci, Yao-Tseng Chen, Lloyd J. Old, Michael Pfreundschuh
Electrothermally actuated vibromotor	6,338,249	Minfan Pai, Norman C. Tien
Solidago plant named `Dansolgold`	PP12,443	Gabriel Danziger
Method and apparatus for altering material	RE37,537	Regan W. Stinnett, John B. Greenly

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2001

Patent Title	Patent #	Inventor(s)
Use of hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide from Clavibacter michiganensis for disease resistance, growth enhancement and insect control	6,333,302	Steven V. Beer, Jerry L. Butler
High throughput OMPVE apparatus	6,332,928	J. Richard Shealy, Barry P. Butterfield
Tospovirus resistance in plants	6,329,568	Dennis Gonsalves, Sheng-Zhi Pang
Method of inducing angiogenesis	6,329,348	Ronald G. Crystal, Todd K. Rosengart
Fabrication of periodic surface structures with nanometer-scale spacings	6,329,070	Stephen L. Sass, Christopher K. Ober, Yuri Suzuki
Composition for tissue welding and method of use	6,323,037	Antonio Lauto, Dix P. Poppas
Minimally invasive gene therapy delivery and method	6,322,536	Todd K. Rosengart, Ronald G. Crystal
Web-based video-editing method and system using a high-performance multimedia software library	6,320,600	Brian C. Smith, Wei-Tsang Ooi
Method of enhancing the delivery of nucleic acids using silica nanoparticles	6,319,715	Dan Luo, W. Mark Saltzman, Ernest Han, Nadya Belcheva
Synthesis of stereospecific and atactic poly(lactic acid)s	6,316,590	Geoffrey W. Coates, Ming Cheng, Bradley M. Chamberlain
Method and apparatus for ultrasound corneal scanning	6,315,727	D. Jackson Coleman, Dan Z. Reinstein, Ronald H. Silverman
High fidelity detection of nucleic acid differences by ligase detection reaction	6,312,892	Francis Barany, Jianying Luo, Marilyn Khanna, Donald E. Bergstrom
Nucleotide sequences encoding mammalian calcium activated chloride channel-adhesion molecules	6,309,857	Benedicht U. Pauli, Randolph C. Elble, Achim D. Gruber
Motion amplification based sensors	6,309,077	Mohammed T. A. Saif, Noel C. MacDonald
Routing and mobility management protocols for ad-hoc networks	6,304,556	Zygmunt J. Haas
Hyperbranched polyesters and polyamides	6,300,424	Jean M. J. Frechet, Craig J. Hawker, Kathryn Uhrich
Activated ras interaction assay	6,300,081	Stephen J. Taylor, David Shalloway
Isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding cancer associated antigen, the antigen itself, and uses thereof	6,297,364	Yao-Tseng Chen, Ali Gure, Solam Tsang, Elisabeth Stockert, Elke Jager, Knuth Alexander, Lloyd J. Old
Ruminal fluid inoculation of calves	6,296,879	Thomas V. Muscato, James B. Russell
Artificial diet and method using an artificial diet, for mass rearing of insects	6,293,223	Bernd Blossey, Debra Eberts
Treating cancers associated with overexpression of class I family of receptor tyrosine kinases	6,291,496	Andrew J. Dannenberg, Kotha Subbaramaiah
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding SSX family members and thereof	6,291,658	Ali O. Gure, Ozlem Tureci, Ugur Sahin, Solam Tsang, Matthew J. Scanlan, Alexander Knuth, Michael Pfreundschuh, Lloyd J. Old, Yao-Tseng Chen
Method of altering nutritional components of milk produced by a lactating animal	6,288,114	Dale E. Bauman, Mark A. McGuire, Mikko Griinari, P. Yvan Chouinard
Methods for determining presence of cancer in a sample by determining expression of an SSX gene	6,287,756	Ozlem Tureci, Yao-Tseng Chen, Ugur Sahin, Ali O. Gure, Lloyd J. Old, Michael Pfreundschuh
Synthetic media for the production of malolactic starter cultures	6,284,518	Thomas Henick-Kling, Sibylle Krieger
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) nucleotide sequence	6,284,253	Margaret C. Barr, Roger J. Avery, Claudia A. Sutton
Human origin of replication complex genes and uses thereof	6,281,347	Michael O'Donnell, Frank Dean, Irena Bruck
Enhancement of growth in plants	6,277,814	Dewen Qiu, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Blocking induction of tetrahydrobiopterin to block induction of nitric oxide synthesis	6,274,581	Steven S. Gross
Detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using coupled ligase detection and polymerase chain reactions	6,268,148	Francis Barany, Matthew Lubin, Phillip Belgrader
Method for protecting a mammalian host against infection by Brucella	6,264,952	Frederick M. Enright, Alexander J. Winter, Gerhardt G. Schurig, John H. Wyckoff, III
Hypersensitive response elicitor from Erwinia amylovora and its use	6,262,018	Jihyun Francis Kim, Steven V. Beer
Isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an esophageal cancer associated antigen	6,255,470	Yao-tseng Chen, Matthew Scanlan, Ali Gure, Lloyd J. Old
Method for determining status of a cancerous condition by determining antibodies to NY-ESO-1 in a patient sample	6,251,603	Elke Jager, Elisabeth Stockert, Lloyd J. Old, Alexander Knuth
Purified chitinases and use thereof	6,251,390	Gary E. Harman, Roxanne M. Broadway, Arne Tronsmo, Matteo Lorito, Christopher K. Hayes, Antonio Di Pietro
Liposome-enhanced immunoassay and test device	6,248,596	Richard Allen Durst, Stuart Graham Reeves, Sui Ti Atienza Siebert
Image indexing using color correlograms	6,246,790	Jing Huang, Shanmugasundaram Ravi Kumar, Mandar Mitra, Wei-Jing Zhu
Method for separating cells	6,245,564	Steven A. Goldman, Hong Wu
Recombinant multivalent viral vaccine	6,241,989	Fred W. Scott, Christopher K. Ngichabe, Liangbiao Hu, Joseph J. Esposito
Trench isolation for micromechanical devices	6,239,473	Scott G. Adams, Kevin A. Shaw, Russell Y. Webb, Bryan W. Reed, Noel C. MacDonald, Timothy J. Davis
Hypersensitive response induced resistance in plants by seed treatment with a hypersensitive response elicitor	6,235,974	Dewen Qiu, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Recombinant helix modification recognition proteins and uses thereof	6,232,095	Eric B. Kmiec, William K. Holloman, David Gerhold
Treatments based on discovery that nitric oxide synthase is a paraquat diaphorase	6,231,894	Jonathan S. Stamler, Brian J. Day, Steven S. Gross, Owen W. Griffith
Method for performing magnetic resonance angiography with dynamic k-space sampling	6,230,040	Yi Wang, Howard M. Lee
Hypersensitive response elicitor from Erwinia amylovora, its use, and encoding gene	6,228,644	Adam J. Bogdanove, Jihyun Francis Kim, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
Method for preparing silicate-polymer composite	6,225,374	Richard A. Vaia, Oliver K. Tse, Emmanuel P. Giannelis
Ordered arrays via metal-initiated self-assembly of ligand containing dendrimers and bridging ligands	6,224,935	Diego Diaz, Gregory D. Storrier, Kazutake Takada, Stefan Bernhard, Hector D. Abruna
DNA molecule fragments encoding for cellular uptake of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and uses thereof	6,224,881	Lee W. Riley, Pele Chong
Process for reconstituting the polymerase III* and other subassemblies of E. coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme from peptide subunits	6,221,642	Michael E. O'Donnell
High throughput OMVPE apparatus	6,217,937	J. Richard Shealy
DNA molecule encoding for cellular uptake of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and uses thereof	6,214,543	Lee W. Riley
Multiple optical channels for chemical analysis	6,214,246	Harold G. Craighead
Rec 2 kinase	6,210,916	Pamela A. Havre, Michael C. Rice, William K. Holloman, Eric B. Kmiec
Method and system for masking the overhead of protocol layering	6,208,651	Robbert Van Renesse, Mark Hayden
Identification of congenital stationary night blindness in dogs	6,201,114	Gustavo D. Aguirre, Gregory M. Acland, Kunal Ray
Method of screening agents as candidates for drugs or sources of drugs	6,200,760	Andrew J. Dannenberg, Kotha J. Subbaramaiah, David S. Pasco
Microelectromechanical accelerometer for automotive applications	6,199,874	Gregory J. Galvin, Timothy J. Davis, Noel C. MacDonald
Coronary magnetic resonance angiography using motion matched acquisition	6,198,959	Yi Wang
Grapevine leafroll virus (type 2) proteins and their uses	6,197,948	Hai-Ying Zhu, Kai-Shu Ling, Dennis Gonsalves
Compounds with substituted cyclic hydrocarbon moieties linked by secondary or tertiary oxycarbonyl containing moiety providing reworkable cured thermosets	6,197,122	Christopher K. Ober, Hilmar Koerner
Particle-mediated bombardment of DNA sequences into tissue to induce an immune response	6,194,389	Stephen A. Johnston, R. Sanders Williams, John C. Sanford, Sandra G. McElligott
Optical polarization sensing apparatus and method	6,188,477	Chuan Pu, Yu Hwa Lo
Substituted isoquinolines as ultra short acting neuromuscular blockers	6,187,789	Eric Cleveland Bigham, Grady Evan Boswell, John Joseph Savarese, Roy Archibald Swaringen, Jr., Sanjay Shashikant Patel, Eric Eugene Boros, Robert Anthony Mook, Jr., Vincente Samano
Methods of evaluating transplant rejection	6,187,534	Terry B. Strom, Lauro Vasconcellos, Manikkam Suthanthiran
Methods for growing defect-free heteroepitaxial layers	6,184,144	Yu-Hwa Lo
Motion amplification based sensors	6,183,097	Mohammed T. A. Saif, Noel C. MacDonald
Method and system for comparing data objects using joint histograms	6,181,817	Ramin D. Zabih, Gregory S. Pass
Suspended moving channels and channel actuators for microfluidic applications and method for making	6,180,536	John M. Chong, Noel C. MacDonald
Substituted isoquinolines as ultra short acting neuromuscular blockers	6,177,445	Eric Cleveland Bigham, Grady Evan Boswell, John Joseph Savarese, Roy Archibald Swaringen, Jr., Sanjay Shashikant Patel, Eric Eugene Boros, Robert Anthony Mook, Jr., Vincente Samano
DNA molecule conferring on Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance against antimicrobial reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates	6,177,086	Lee W. Riley, Carl F. Nathan, Sabine Ehrt
REC2 kinase	6,174,694	Pamela A. Havre, Michael C. Rice, William K. Holloman, Eric B. Kmiec
Bovine viral diarrhea virus serum antigen capture	6,174,667	Roy Huchzermeier, Edward Joseph Dubovi
GBacterial resistance in grapevine	6,172,280	Thomas J. Burr, Dennis Gonsalves, Sheng-Zhi Pang
Micromechanical accelerometer for automotive applications	6,170,332	Noel C. MacDonald, Kevin A. Shaw, Scott G. Adams
Pulsed ion beam source	RE37,100