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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185551 | Disk-resident streaming dictionary A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, wit... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182804 | Engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages and methods of uses thereof The present invention provides engineered bacteriophages that express at least one biofilm degrading enzyme on their surface and uses thereof for degrading bacterial biofilms. The invention also provides genetically engineered bacteriophages expressing the biofilm d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182464 | Method for intravesical drug delivery Implant devices for intravesical administration and local drug delivery. The device has a body which includes a hollow tube formed of a biocompatible material; at least one reservoir in the tube which contains a drug; and one or more apertures through which the drug... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174181 | Quantum dot white and colored light-emitting devices A light-emitting device comprising a population of quantum dots (QDs) embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the QDs to emit secondary light and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the QDs is chosen to allow light of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173384 | Methods for analyzing or processing a heparin sample The invention relates to methods and products for analyzing or processing a heparin sample. In one embodiment, the methods comprise contacting the sample with heparinase I, heparinase II and heparinase III, determining the amount of a signature component in the samp... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173010 | Method of dry reforming a reactant gas with intermetallic catalyst The invention relates to materials used as electrodes and/or catalysts, as well as methods associated with the same. The materials may comprise an alloy or intermetallic compound of a transition metal (e.g., Ni) and a metal additive (e.g., Sn). The transition metal ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172790 | Needle-free injector device with autoloading capability A needle-free transdermal transport device includes a chamber (900) for holding the substance to be injected, a nozzle (910) in fluid communication with the chamber, and a drug reservoir (950) for storing the substance to be transferred to the c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172784 | Compositions, methods, and devices for treating liver disease Described are compositions and methods for treating liver disease, e.g., acute liver disease, using bone marrow-derived stem cells and bone marrow-derived stem cell conditioned media. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171915 | Fuel management system for variable ethanol octane enhancement of gasoline engines Fuel management system for efficient operation of a spark ignition gasoline engine. Injectors inject an anti-knock agent such as ethanol directly into a cylinder of the engine. A fuel management microprocessor system controls injection of the anti-knock agent so as ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168879 | Solar thermoelectric conversion Systems and methods utilizing solar-electrical generators are discussed. Solar-electrical generators are disclosed having a radiation-capture structure and one or more thermoelectric converters. Heat produced in a capture structure via impingement of solar radiation... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168326 | Battery structures, self-organizing structures and related methods An energy storage device includes a first electrode comprising a first material and a second electrode comprising a second material, at least a portion of the first and second materials forming an interpenetrating network when dispersed in an electrolyte, the electr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164384 | Asymmetric multilevel outphasing architecture for RF amplifiers A radio frequency (RF) circuit includes a power supply configured to generate a plurality of voltages, a plurality of power amplifiers, each having an RF output port and a power supply input port, a switch network having a plurality of input ports coupled to the pow... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163374 | Formation of close-packed sphere arrays in V-shaped grooves The present invention relates to the self-assembly of a spherical-morphology block copolymer into V-shaped grooves of a substrate. Although spherical morphology block copolymers typically form a body-centered cubic system (bcc) sphere array in bulk, the V-shaped gro... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160404 | High speed and low loss GeSi/Si electro-absorption light modulator and method of fabrication using selective growth An optoelectronic device includes an input waveguide structure that receives an input optical signal. A GeSi/Si waveguide structure receives from the input waveguide the input optical signal and performs selective optoelectronic operations on the input optical signa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159680 | Single-transducer, three-dimensional laser imaging system and method Disclosed herein are a system and method for three-dimensional imaging using a single transducer. A laser in a transmitter emits a sequence of short pulses, each of which is at a different center wavelength (frequency). A dispersive element in the transmitter spatia... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158437 | Luminescent detection of hydrazine and hydrazine derivatives The present invention generally relates to methods for modulating the optical properties of a luminescent polymer via interaction with a species (e.g., an analyte). In some cases, the present invention provides methods for determination of an analyte by monitoring a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158338 | Resist sensitizer Methods and compositions for enhancing the sensitivity of a resist composition are disclosed. In one aspect, compositions for use with a matrix material (e.g., a lithographically sensitive polymeric material) can be formulated with an acid generator and a sensitizer... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158193 | Highly luminescent color-selective nanocrystalline materials A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155113 | Processing data in a parallel processing environment An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles, and a plurality of interface modules coupled to the switches of a subset of the tiles. Each tile comprises a processor, and a switch including switching circuitry to forward data over data paths from other tiles t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154729 | Near field detector for integrated surface plasmon resonance biosensor applications A near-field surface plasmon detector is provided. The near-field surface plasmon detector includes one or more semiconductor layers that absorb one or more surface plasmons of thin metal films in the vicinity of the semiconductor layer. The surface plasmons are exc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154063 | Ultrafast and ultrasensitive novel photodetectors A photodetector is provided that includes a FET structure with a channel structure having one or more nanowire structures. Noble metal nanoparticles are positioned on the channel structure so as to produce a functionalized channel structure. The functionalized chann... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153233 | Patterned coatings having extreme wetting properties and methods of making A surface with superhydrophobic and hydrophilic or superhydrophilic regions can be made. The hydrophilic or superhydrophilic regions can selective collect water on the surface. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153119 | Engineered enzymatically active bacteriophage and methods for dispersing biofilms The present invention is directed to engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages that are both capable of killing the bacteria by lysis and dispersing the bacterial biofilm because they have been also engineered to express biofilm-degrading enzymes, particularly ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149265 | Holographic video display system A holographic video display comprises a monochromatic light source, a video signal generator, guided-wave acousto-optic modulators for diffracting light according to signals received from the video signal generator, a vertical scanning subsystem, and an optical path... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148985 | Method for reducing maximum local specific absorption rate in magnetic resonance imaging A method for reducing maximum local specific absorption rate (“SAR”) in a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system is disclosed. More specifically, a plurality of candidate radio frequency (“RF”) pulses are designed and the manner in which they are appl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148159 | System and methods for stretching polynucleotides Apparatus and methods are described for achieving uniform stretching of polynucleotides in hybrid electrophoretic-gel, micro-constricting microfluidic channels. Polynucleotides in normally relaxed configurations are driven by an electric field along a microfluidic c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148013 | Conductive lithium storage electrode A compound comprising a composition Ax(M′1-aM″a)y(XD4)z, Ax(M′1-aM″a)y(DXD4)z, or Ax(M′1-aM″a | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148009 | Reticulated and controlled porosity battery structures The effective ionic conductivity in a composite structure is believed to decrease rapidly with volume fraction. A system, such as a bipolar device or energy storage device, has structures or components in which the diffusion length or path that electrodes or ions mu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148001 | Devices for storing energy in the mechanical deformation of nanotube molecules and recovering the energy from mechanically deformed nanotube molecules An energy storage device includes at least one nanotube. An energy storage mechanism converts energy external to the device into the appropriate levels of strain on the at least one nanotube to produce stored energy, and an energy recovery mechanism converts the ene... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147914 | Orientation-controlled self-assembled nanolithography using a block copolymer Disclosed is a structure made of a trench patterned substrate having a pre-determined trench period and a pre-determined mesa to trench width ratio, and a block copolymer on top of the trench patterned substrate. The block copolymer has at least an organic block and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146568 | Fuel management system for variable ethanol octane enhancement of gasoline engines Fuel management system for efficient operation of a spark ignition gasoline engine. Injectors inject an anti-knock agent such as ethanol directly into a cylinder of the engine. A fuel management microprocessor system controls injection of the anti-knock agent so as ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145457 | Method and apparatus for modeling deformation of a deformable body embossed with a stamp Hot embossing may be more advantageous than other polymer microfabrication processes. An example embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and corresponding apparatus for developing a computationally inexpensive viscoelastic model for the hot embossing... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143601 | Nanoscale imaging via absorption modulation An imaging system is provided. The imaging system includes a sample to be scanned by the imaging system. An absorbance modulation layer (AML) is positioned in close proximity to the sample and is physically separate from the sample. One or more sub-wavelength apertu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143368 | Disposable medical supplies from hydrolytically biodegradable plastics Hydrolytically degradable polymers in the form of biodegradable disposable medical devices for use in medicine and laboratories such as syringes, test tubes, catheters, tubing, trays, medical fabrics, and gloves are described. The devices are formed in whole or in p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143234 | Uridine administration improves phosphatide synthesis, synaptic transmission and cognitive function The present invention provides methods of improving a cognitive function or a neurological function, treating or ameliorating a decline in a cognitive function or a neurological function, increasing cytidine levels, or treating a neurological disorder in a subject, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143042 | Biodegradable elastomers The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-link... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140143 | Washable wearable biosensor A washable, wearable biosensor that can gather sensor data, communicate the sensed data by wireless protocols, and permits the analysis of sensed data in real-time as a person goes about their normal lifestyle activities. The biosensor can be worn in multiple positi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138843 | Gated ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter with shaped quantization noise Described is a compact, lower power gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter that achieves first order noise shaping of quantization noise using a digital implementation. The gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter includes a plurality of delay stages... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137925 | Methods and compositions for protein labeling using lipoic acid ligases The invention provides compositions and methods of use thereof for labeling peptide and proteins in vitro or in vivo. The methods described herein employ lipoic acid ligase or mutants thereof, and lipoic acid analogs recognized by lipoic acid ligase and lipoic acid ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135128 | Animatronic creatures that act as intermediaries between human users and a telephone system An animatronic telephone agent consisting of a communications subsystem connected to a wired or wireless telephone network for receiving incoming telephone calls, and a robotic automaton coupled to the communications subsystem and responsive to incoming telephone ca... | 03/13/2012 |
