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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176620 | Aluminum oxide particle strengthened niobium-tin superconducting composite wire A composite superconducting wire and a method of manufacturing the wire is disclosed. Nano-particle dispersion strengthened copper is co-drawn with Niobium rod to produce DSC-1Nb wire. n numbers of DSC-1Nb wires are then stacked in a hollow DSC tube and drawn to for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8161843 | Damping motor and control approach for mitigating torsional backlash, damping critical geartrain speeds, and providing improved torque control in mechanical gears A torque damper motor connected to the output side of a mechanical gear system. The damper motor, along with its associated control system, mitigates backlash problems, reduced torsional resonance, and provides improved output torque control. In the preferred embodi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8071255 | Hydrophobic fluorinated polyelectrolyte complex films and associated methods A fuel cell comprising a proton transporting membrane is provided. The proton transporting membrane comprises a polyelectrolyte film comprising a multilayer comprising an interpenetrating network of a net positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer comprising repeat ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8058364 | Method for functionalization of nanoscale fibers and nanoscale fiber films A method is provided for functionalizing nanoscale fibers including reacting a plurality of nanoscale fibers with at least one epoxide monomer to chemically bond the at least one epoxide monomer to surfaces of the nanoscale fibers to form functionalized nanoscale fi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8020456 | Sensor and a method of making a sensor A sensor is provided, which includes a plurality of conducting elements spaced apart from each other and at least one deformable electrolyte bridge contacting each of the conducting elements at one or more contact points having an aggregate contact area. Upon format... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020029 | Method and apparatus for rendering game assets in distributed systems The invention includes a method and apparatus for attempting to synchronize delivery of information at a plurality of receiving systems. The method includes generating, at a sending system, a plurality of current messages adapted for rendering an asset within an app... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7998755 | System and assay for detection of cardiac markers for assessing acute myocardial infarction Assay systems and methods are provided for detecting a target antigen in a physiological fluid (e.g., blood, serum, or urine). The method includes linking via a first antibody a magnetic microparticle to the target antigen in the physiological fluid; linking via a s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7989221 | Assays and systems for rapid detection of pathogens Assay systems and methods are provided for detecting a target pathogen, such as a microorganism (e.g., bacterium, bacterial toxin) which may be present in a fluid or other location. The method can include linking a magnetic microparticle to a first epitope of the ta... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7960179 | Analytical method for protein mapping using hydrogen/deuterium exchange Analytical methods using hydrogen/deuterium exchange are provided which reduce or eliminate the back-exchange of deuterium for hydrogen. The methods, which are useful in protein and peptide mapping, include the steps of (a) providing a peptide or protein comprising ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955535 | Method for fabricating macroscale films comprising multiple-walled nanotubes A technique is provided for the fabrication of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) and carbon nanofiber (CNF) film materials. The method includes mixing a relatively small amount of single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) with larger amounts of MWNTs and CNFs, which enables... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7923168 | Microjet reactant delivery system for use in fuel cells A new reactant delivery system for delivering reactants to the membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell. The invention uses a plurality of small holes to propel high-velocity streams of reactant gases (“microjets”) against an impingement plate. The microjets a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7910722 | RNAi therapeutic for treatment of hepatitis C infection Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) or small hairpin RNA (shRNAs) and compositions comprising same are provided that specifically target human cyclophilin A (CyPA) to effectively inhibit Hepatitis C (HCV) infection in a cell. Such siRNA and shRNAs may have a length of f... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895730 | Method of controlling effective impedance in a superconducting cable A method of controlling the effective impedance of a low-impedance high-temperature superconducting cable (“HTS cable”). Passive or active control circuitry is used to create a current in the shielding conductor of the HTS cable which opposes the current in the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7863892 | Multiple SQUID magnetometer Multiple SQUID magnetometers that include at least two SQUID loops, each of which is composed of at least two Josephson Junctions connected in parallel with superconducting wires, are provided. The SQUID loops are fabricated such that they share a common Josephson J... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7862322 | Resin infusion between double flexible tooling system A resin infusion system uses a housing that has an upper flexible diaphragm and a lower flexible diaphragm such that the two diaphragms form a cavity. A fiber reinforcement mat is positioned within the cavity. A mold is positioned below the lower diaphragm. A flow p... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7835872 | Robust deconvolution of complex mixtures by covariance spectroscopy Methods and systems are provided for the deconvolution of the NMR spectrum of a mixture into individual components and spin systems by combining covariance total correlation spectroscopy (TOCSY) spectra with covariance NMR. The method may include obtaining a 2D TOCS... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7819988 | Method of producing cobalt-platinum magnetic alloys with improved magnetic properties A method for processing CoPt alloys with improved magnetic properties. The method includes sealing a sample of a CoPt alloy in an evacuated quartz tube, and heating the alloy to a temperature of approximately 1000 degrees C. to homogenize the alloy for approximately... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813563 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for compression, digital watermarking, and other digital signal processing for audio and/or video applications Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for digital signal processing, which may include obtaining a first set of digitized coefficients from source data and determining a best-fit distribution of a generalized Gaussian distribution for the set ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805012 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for image processing, sensor processing, and other signal processing using general parametric families of distributions Methods and systems are disclosed for signal processing. A method includes receiving a plurality of digitized coefficients determining a best-fit distribution of a general family of distributions for the plurality of digitized coefficients, and providing a character... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7803262 | Alignment of carbon nanotubes using magnetic particles Methods are provided for aligning carbon nanotubes and for making a composite material comprising aligned carbon nanotubes. The method for aligning carbon nanotubes comprises adsorbing magnetic nanoparticles to carbon nanotubes dispersed in a fluid medium to form a ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788035 | Systems and methods for determining turbulence and turbulent mixing in the free atmosphere Systems may methods may be provided for determining turbulent mixing characteristics. The systems and methods may include obtaining sounding data associated with an atmospheric column and determining first vertical potential temperature profiles from the sounding da... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7765342 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for packing instructions into register files Embodiments of the present invention may provide for architectural and compiler approaches to optimizing processors by packing instructions into instruction register files. The approaches may include providing at least one instruction register file, identifying a pl... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760529 | Systems and methods for digital transport of paramagnetic particles on magnetic garnet films Systems and methods are provided for digital transport of paramagnetic particles. The systems and methods may include providing a magnetic garnet film having a plurality of magnetic domain walls, disposing a liquid solution on a surface of the magnetic garnet film, ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7722752 | Variable charge films for controlling microfluidic flow A microfluidic device for carrying a liquid, the device comprising a microfluidic channel having an interior wall and a polyelectrolyte film on the interior wall whereby liquid carried by the channel contacts the polyelectrolyte film, the polyelectrolyte film having... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7713629 | Hydrophobic fluorinated polyelectrolyte complex films and associated methods A polyelectrolyte film is provided, the polyelectrolyte film comprises an interpenetrating network of a net positively charged polymer and a net negatively charged polymer, wherein the net positively charged polymer, the net negatively charged polymer, or both conta... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7708161 | Light-weight vacuum chamber and applications thereof A vacuum chamber with an innovative wall structure. Instead of a conventional homogenous wall structure, the invention uses an array of internally-pressurized, thin-walled cells to contain an enclosed volume. The walls are arranged so that when a vacuum is present i... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7652396 | Systems and methods for improving the ability of a power delivery system to withstand multiple failure events The invention is directed to systems and methods for enhancing the ability of a power delivery system to withstand the occurrence of multiple failure events. Specifically, the invention is directed to a power delivery system employing a web-type network topology for... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7641829 | Method for mechanically chopping carbon nanotube and nanoscale fibrous materials Methods are provided for mechanically chopping nanotubes and other nanoscale fibrous materials. The method includes forming a macroscale article which include the nanoscale fibers, and then mechanically cutting the macroscale article into a finely divided form. In o... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7609139 | Split Florida-helix magnet An electromagnet having at least one access port oriented perpendicularly to the electromagnet's central axis. The magnet has a conventional helical winding along its central axis. However, at some point along the length of the axis, the pitch of the helical winding... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7601542 | Analytical method for protein mapping using hydrogen/deuterium exchange Analytical methods using hydrogen/deuterium exchange are provided which reduce or eliminate the back-exchange of deuterium for hydrogen. The methods, which are useful in protein and peptide mapping, include the steps of (a) providing a peptide or protein comprising ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7527980 | Indirect detection of cardiac markers for assessing acute myocardial infarction Assay systems and methods are provided for detecting a target antigen in a physiological fluid (e.g., blood, serum, or urine). The method includes linking via a first antibody a magnetic microparticle to the target antigen in the physiological fluid; linking via a s... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527979 | Devices and methods for rapid detection of pathogens Assay systems and methods are provided for detecting a target pathogen, such as a microorganism (e.g., bacterium, bacterial toxin) which may be present in a fluid or other location. The method can include linking a magnetic microparticle to a first epitope of the ta... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7459542 | Separation of albumin from protein samples The present invention generally relates to methods for separating albumin from samples comprising albumin and other proteins based on the pI of albumin. More particularly, the methods relate to forming an aqueous combination comprising the sample and an anion or a c... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459121 | Method for continuous fabrication of carbon nanotube networks or membrane materials Methods and devices are provided for the continuous production of a network of nanotubes or other nanoscale fibers. The method includes making a suspension of nanoscale fibers dispersed in a liquid medium, optionally with surfactant and/or sonication, and filtering ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7427908 | Magnetic shimming configuration with optimized turn geometry and electrical circuitry A magnetic shimming configuration for a high-field magnet having optimized turn geometry and electrical circuitry. The present invention accomplishes this by combining the corrective functionalities of the standard X and ZX shims into two single, simplified electric... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7381534 | Purified linear epitopes from cashew nuts, nucleic acids encoding therefor, and associated methods Disclosed are major allergenic proteins in cashew nut, which are legumin-like proteins and 2S albumins. Also disclosed is a polypeptide allergen in the 7S superfamily, which includes vicilin-like and sucrose binding proteins. Several linear epitopes of the cashew nu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380435 | Lab animal tracker and deterministic shocker A deterministic shocker holds a test animal within an enclosure on a grid floor of electrodes such that a controller places a small current across each electrode and measures the electrical resistance of each electrode. The electrode with the lowest resistance stron... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365142 | Polyelectrolyte complex films for analytical and membrane separation of chiral compounds The present invention is directed to enantioselective polyelectrolyte complex films. Further, said films may be free or isolated membranes, or coatings on substrates such a porous substrates, capillary tubes, chromatographic packing material, and monolithic stationa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358378 | Processes for the preparation of paclitaxel The present invention provides processes for the production of paclitaxel. Paclitaxel is produced by protecting the C(7) and the C(10) hydroxy groups of 10-DAB with a bridging silicon-based protecting group. The resulting 7,10-protected 10-DAB derivative is then der... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7285421 | Apparatus for capillary electrophoresis and associated method An apparatus and method for capillary zone electrophoresis includes a polyelectrolyte multilayer positioned in a capillary tube for analytical separations of macromolecules. The capillary comprises a passage defined by passage walls comprising fused silica. The poly... | 10/23/2007 |
