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Patent No. 5719655

System for magnetically attaching templeless eyewear to a person

A system of eyewear that eliminates the need for hinges on the frames of the eyewear.

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Assignee: The University of Akron


Location: Akron, OH
No. of applications: 12

Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20080287653METHOD FOR PRODUCING INHIBITORS AND INHIBITORS FORMED THEREFROM
The present invention relates to methods for producing inhibitors for protein deacetylases, and to the compounds and/or products produced by such methods. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for producing inhibitors for human class III protein de...
11/20/2008
20080286815SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ASSAY FOR HUMAN HISTONE DEACETYLASE 8
The present invention relates to the development of a novel assay for determining the activity of human histone deactylase 8 (HDAC8). As shown in FIG. 3, thioactyl-lysine-containing peptide is used as the substrate for the HDAC8-catalyzed dethioacetylation reacti...
11/20/2008
20080280137ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE-POLYMER MATERIALS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS
The invention is directed to carbon nanostructure composite systems which may be useful for various applications, including as dry adhesives, electronics and display technologies, or in a wide variety of other areas where organized nanostructures may be formed and integ...
11/13/2008
20080266557High Contrast Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
The present invention relates generally to the field of spectroscopy, and more particularly to tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy that provides an enhanced contrast-ratio of a near-field Raman signal to a background signal. The near-field Raman signal is captured from a sm...
10/30/2008
20080262367GENERAL DIAGNOSTIC AND REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS OF DISCRETE HERMITE FUNCTIONS TO DIGITAL DATA
The present invention relates to general diagnostic and real-time applications of discrete Hermite functions to digital data. More specifically, the invention relates to methods and systems for the application of dilated discrete digital Hermite functions (DDHF) to biom...
10/23/2008
20080241885PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CELLULASE
Various methods for the production of cellulase are disclosed. In one embodiment the method for producing cellulase includes contacting a culture comprising a sophorolipid producer and a cellulase producer with a substrate that is consumed by the sophorolipid producer. ...
10/02/2008
20080237934Method and Device For Producing Electrospun Fibers and Fibers Produced Thereby
The present invention relates to methods for producing fibers made from one or more polymers or polymer composites, and to structures that can be produced from such fibers. In one embodiment, the fibers of the present invention are nanofibers. The present invention also...
10/02/2008
20080242178Flexible Ceramic Fibers and a Process For Making Same
The present invention is generally directed to ceramic fibers, which when employed in sheets to provide flexibility and to methods for making same. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to ceramic fibers that are heat and chemical resistant, and to a method f...
10/02/2008
20080233006Method and Apparatus For Determining the Oxygen Permeability of a Polymer
The present invention is relates to an apparatus and method for the determination of the oxygen gas permeability of a polymer. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for determining the oxygen gas permeability of a polymer membrane (...
09/25/2008
20080177483METHOD OF EVALUATING SURFACE DEFORMATION
The present invention generally relates to methods for rapidly calculating the surface displacement that results from an arbitrarily shaped load on the surface of a layered substrate. Some embodiments include sparse direct calculations of surface displacement in combina...
07/24/2008
20080053951Method of transferring patterned non-densely packed interfacial particle films onto substrates
A process for transferring patterned non-densely packed interfacial particle films onto substrates by providing a substrate, modifying the substrate so that it is non-water wetting, providing an interfacial film of charged particles, applying a surface modifying procedu...
03/06/2008
20080015284Electrically-Conducting Polymers, a Method for Preparing Electrically-Conducting Polymers, and a Method for Controlling Electrical Conductivity of Polymers
A method for controlling electrical conductivity of a polymeric composition and a polymeric composition including a polymeric resin, a conductive filler and an effective amount of a dispersion-control agent that promotes generally-uniform arrangement of the conductive f...
01/17/2008
 
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