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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8114567 | Polyol photosensitizers, carrier gas UV laser ablation sensitizers, and other additives and methods for making and using same Disclosed are photosensitizers that include a polyol moiety covalently bonded to a fused aromatic moiety. Also disclosed is a method for improving UV laser ablation performance of a coating, such as a cationic UV curable coating, by incorporating an oxalyl-containin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8097741 | Hybrid coatings prepared from glycidyl carbamate resins The invention relates to solvent-containing two-component polyurethane moisture cured hybrid sol-gel coating formulation comprising 1) an epoxy-functional binder with carbamate functionality and 2) a blended curing component comprising at least one sol gel precursor... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8071706 | Siloxane polymer containing tethered levofloxacin A polymer that is a polysiloxane polymer has Levofloxacin groups, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, attached via linkers. The linkers may be hydrolytically labile thereby providing a manner of releasing the Levofloxacin from the polymer. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8062729 | Polymeric material with surface microdomains A polymeric material may be prepared by reacting a composition that includes polyol, polyisocyanate, and polyorganosiloxane having functional groups capable of reacting with the polyisocyanate, wherein the polymeric material has a surface which includes raised micro... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8053535 | Polysiloxanes with anti-fouling activity Anti-fouling materials may include one or more of a number of suitable copolymers (e.g., block copolymers, graft copolymers, etc.) which provide biocidal and/or fouling release characteristics. The copolymers may include a polysiloxane backbone with one or more poly... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8034974 | Beta-amino acids and methods intermediates for making same Disclosed are β-amino acids that are unsubstituted in the β position; that are substituted in the β position with an aryl group; that are substituted in the α position with an aryl group; that bear two substituents in the α position; and/or that are substituted... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8017795 | Radiation curable polymer films having improved laser ablation properties and radiation curable sensitizers therefor Disclosed are coating formulations that include a copolyester and a vinyl ether in which the copolyester is produced by copolymerizing a monomer composition that includes a fused aromatic diacid monomer, an unsaturated diacid monomer, and a polyol. Also disclosed ar... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7989074 | Thermoset siloxane-urethane fouling release coatings A polymeric material may be prepared by reacting a mixture comprising an amino functional polyorganosiloxane, polyisocyanate, and polyol. The polyol may comprise a hydroxy-functional poly(meth)acrylate. The polymeric material may be used as a coating for a substrate... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7956639 | Intelligent cellular electronic structures An apparatus and method controlling cellular automata containing a plurality of cascaded circuit cells having logic units. The cells are interleaved in groups toward supporting multiple directions, for example quad cells in which each cells of the quad is directed i... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7888452 | Low band gap semiconducting polymers The invention provides a polymer of formula I: wherein A, B, D, E, R1, and R2 have any of the values defined in the specification, as well as electrical devices comprising such polymers. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7836090 | Method and system for data mining of very large spatial datasets using vertical set inner products A system and method for performing and accelerating cluster analysis of large data sets is presented. The data set is formatted into binary bit Sequential (bSQ) format and then structured into a Peano Count tree (P-tree) format which represents a lossless tree repre... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7799434 | Functionalized polysiloxane polymers Polysiloxanes terminated with one or more hydroxy functional carbamate groups are provided. The polymers may have the formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, C... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7776956 | Water dispersible epoxy urethane compounds and coating compositions The invention relates to novel aqueous coating compositions containing epoxy urethane (glycidyl carbamate) functional resin. An aqueous coating composition comprises a polyfunctional oligomer having at least two epoxy urethane functional groups and a polyalkylene ox... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771833 | Anti-fouling materials containing cationic polysiloxanes Polyamine cross-linked polysiloxanes, such as functionalized polysiloxane cross-linked with a polyalkylenepolyamine are described herein. The polyamine cross-linked polysiloxanes may be used in an antifouling composition to prevent biological fouling in marine envir... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7652204 | Breeding of resistant tetraploid wheat The invention relates to a method of producing Fusarium resistant tetraploid wheat by crossing a hexaploid Fusarium resistant wheat with a teraploid durum wheat. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7572217 | System and method for providing cardiac support and promoting myocardial recovery A system for providing cardiac support to a patient and for promoting myocardial repair and recovery, comprises a device for connecting to a vasculature of the patient and a control module. The device includes a pump, defining a blood-receiving volume, and a cannula... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7544722 | Polymeric materials with anti-fouling activity An anti-fouling material useful to prevent fouling of structure exposed to a water environment includes a copolymer having a carbon and/or silicone backbone with a pendant biocidal group and, optionally, a pendant fouling release group. ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7449537 | Antineoplastic polyalkoxyalkylsiloxanes and methods of use thereof Polyaminofunctional alkoxy polysiloxanes which exhibit antineoplastic activity are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions including an effective amount of a polyaminofunctional alkoxy polysiloxane and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are also disclosed.... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7088765 | Vector calibration system An exemplary signal processing system determines vector mismatch between a plurality of signal paths. Advantageously, the system can determine mismatch across a range of frequencies. A signal generator of the system can provide a periodic calibration signal having a... | 08/08/2006 |
| PP16570 | Pekin lilac tree named ‘SunDak’ ‘SunDak’ is a new cultivar of Syringa pekinensis, Pekin lilac tree. This new cultivar has a coppery-orange exfoliating bark pattern that separates into shaggy curls; large, abundantly produced creamy-white flower panicles; attractive seed capsules; uprigh... | 05/23/2006 |
| PP15944 | Birch tree name ‘VerDale’ ‘VerDale’ is a new cultivar of Betula platyphylla, Asian white birch. This new cultivar has white bark and dark green leaves in addition to being highly resistant to bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius Gory). ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6941303 | System and method for organizing, compressing and structuring data for data mining readiness A system and method to take data, which is in the form of an n-dimensional array of binary data where the binary data is comprised of bits that are identified by a bit position within the n-dimensional array, and create one file for each bit position of the binary d... | 09/06/2005 |
| PP15768 | Betula papyrifera named ‘Varen’ ‘Varen’ is a new cultivar of Betula papyrifera birch tree. This new cultivar has exceptional clear white bark and dark green leaves. ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6851662 | On-the-go sugar sensor for determining sugar content during harvesting An on-the-go sensor for determining the sugar content of an agricultural product, such as a sugar beet, during harvesting or at other times. The sensor is coupled to a harvester/defoliator and uses a knife to slice a cross-section from the crown of the sugar beet du... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845326 | Optical sensor for analyzing a stream of an agricultural product to determine its constituents An optical sensor for use in measuring constituents of an agricultural product. An optical sensing window passes a stream of the agricultural product, and a radiation source irradiates the stream as it passes through the optical sensing window. A receiver receives r... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6818739 | Somatostatins Novel somatostatin polypeptides derived from Oncorhynchus mykiss, polynucleotides encoding novel somatostatin polypeptides, and methods for identifying bioactive modified somatostatin polypeptides. ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6482912 | Method of preparing aminofunctional alkoxy polysiloxanes A method of preparing a aminofunctional alkoxy polysiloxane is disclosed. The method includes reacting a polyhydrosiloxane with an alcohol reactant containing an aminoalcohol to form the aminofunctional alkoxy polysiloxane. Linear and cyclic aminofunction... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6420494 | Curable coating composition with siloxane reactive diluents A curable composition having an epoxy component and an organosilane component. The epoxy component includes at least one epoxy compound having two or more epoxide functional groups. The organosilane component includes at least one organosilane compound ha... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6239995 | Resonant-boost-input three-phase power factor corrector with a low current stress on switches A three phase AC-DC power conversion circuit is provided. The circuit includes a plurality of input inductors and capacitors and output capacitors. A high frequency current source is operably connected between the input and output of the circuit and opera... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6087128 | DNA encoding an avian E. coli iss A nucleic acid sequence encoding an avian E. coli iss gene and an Iss polypeptide encoded thereby are disclosed. Methods for detecting and using such sequences are also provided as are immunogenic compositions and vaccines.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5939554 | Diarylaminopropanediol and diarylmethyl-oxazolidinone compounds A method for preparing a diarylalanine compound is provided. The method includes reacting a diarylaminopropanediol with a reducing agent to form a diarylaminopropanol compound and/or contacting a serine ester derivative with an aryl metal reagent to form ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5828452 | Spectroscopic system with a single converter and method for removing overlap in time of detected emissions A spectroscopic system that processes spatially dispersed electromagnetic emissions at a number of wavelengths from a test material. The spectroscopic system includes a converter that generates an electrical signal that is proportional to the intensity of... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5380931 | Oxidative cleavage of polyethylenically unsaturated compound to produce carboxylic acid A method of oxidatively cleaving polyethylenically unsaturated compound having a pair of carbon atoms ethylenically bonded to other carbon atoms but singly bonded to each other or a pair of carbon atoms ethylenically bonded to other carbon atoms but separ... | 01/10/1995 |
