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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7055094 | Virtual tags and the process of virtual tagging utilizing user feedback in transformation rules The present invention relates to a method and system for transformation of an electronic document through learning transformation rules during training from the original electronic document using visual user feedback and applying the learned transformation rules to ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6764837 | Agrobacterium tumefaciens rpoA gene The present invention is directed to a method for expression of at least one heterologous gene in a host cell comprising transforming a host cell with at least one nucleic acid construct comprising a complete α subunit of an RNA polymerase or a portion thereof of a... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6746180 | Remediation of contaminates including low bioavailability hydrocarbons A method of treatment of a contaminated material contaminated with an organic compound. The method includes treating the contaminate with a chemical oxidation step and a bioremediation step. The chemical oxidation step includes treating the contaminate with the foll... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6710515 | Integrated tunable surface acoustic wave technology and sensors provided thereby The present invention provides a ZnO based tunable surface acoustic wave (SAW), preferably monolithically integrated tunable SAW (MITSAW) device. The MITSAW comprises a ZnO/MgxZn1−xO quantum well structure and piezoelectric ZnO thin film epit... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6664961 | Resample and composite engine for real-time volume rendering The present invention is a digital electronic system for rendering a volume image in real time. The system accelerators the processing of voxels through early ray termination and space leaping techniques in the projection guided ray casting of the voxels.... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6626840 | Method and system for detecting vascular conditions using an occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph A method and system are provided for detecting various vascular conditions using an occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph. The system includes data acquisition hardware, including the occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph, for obtaining arterial and endothelial f... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6621192 | Integrated tunable surface acoustic wave technology and sensors provided thereby The present invention provides a ZnO based tunable surface acoustic wave (SAW), preferably monolithically integrated tunable SAW (MITSAW) device. The MITSAW comprises a ZnO/Mgx Zn1-x O quantum well structure and piezoelectric ZnO thi... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6617306 | Carrier for in vivo delivery of a therapeutic agent A carrier for in vivo delivery of a therapeutic agent comprising a thiol group is provided, wherein the therapeutic agent is conjugated to the carrier via a biodegradable disulfide bond. Since extracellular fluids in vivo do not provide the appropriate en... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6579573 | Nanostructured feeds for thermal spray systems, method of manufacture, and coatings formed therefrom This invention relates to methods whereby nanoparticle liquid suspensions are used in conventional thermal spray deposition for the fabrication of high-quality nanostructured coatings. Ultrasound is used for disintegration of the as-synthesized particle a... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6559736 | Integrated tunable surface acoustic wave with quantum well structure technology and systems provided thereby A ZnO monolithically integrated tunable surface acoustic wave (MITSAW) device uses tunable acousto-electric and acouso-optic interaction between surface acoustic waves (SAW) and a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a ZnO/Mgx Zn1-x | 05/06/2003 |
| 6541893 | Programmable surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter A novel programmable SAW filter with switchable multi-element interdigital transducers (IDTs) controlled by a microprocessor or a computer is provided that realizes the tunability of both center frequency and bandwidth of the SAW filter. The filter posses... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6517802 | Methods of synthesis for nanostructured oxides and hydroxides A chemical synthetic route for nanostructured materials that is scalable to large volume production, comprising spray atomization of a reactant solution into a precursor solution to form a nanostructured oxide or hydroxide precipitate. The precipitate is ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6472586 | Nuclear-encoded transcription system in plastids of higher plants The present invention provides novel DNA constructs and methods for stably transforming the plastids of higher plants. The constructs described herein contain unique promoters that are transcribed by both nuclear encoded plastid polymerases and plastid en... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6390986 | Classification of heart rate variability patterns in diabetics using cepstral analysis An encoding and classification method is provided which is capable of comprehensively featuring relevant spectral information for the early detection of diabetes-induced cardiac autonomic neuropathy using the LP-cepstral discriminant classifier for quick,... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6379393 | Prosthetic, orthotic, and other rehabilitative robotic assistive devices actuated by smart materials The present invention is directed to state-of-the-art medical devices using smart materials and related emerging technologies under development for robotics. In particular, the present invention is directed to the development of rehabilitative (i.e. prost... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6338719 | Method and system for detecting vascular conditions using an occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph A method and system are provided for detecting various vascular conditions using an occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph. The system includes data acquisition hardware, including the occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph, for obtaining arterial and endothelial f... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6307147 | Organic dyes for photovoltaic cells and for photoconductive electrophotography systems Photovoltaic cells disclosed comprising a structure according to formula I as shown below: ##STR1## wherein R1, R4, R8, R11, R15, R18, R22, and R25 are selected from t... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6277448 | Thermal spray method for the formation of nanostructured coatings This invention relates to methods whereby nanoparticle precursor solutions are used in conventional thermal spray deposition for the fabrication of high-quality nanostructured coatings. The method allows combining nanoparticle synthesis, melting, and quen... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6247154 | Method and apparatus for combined stuck-at fault and partial-scanned delay-fault built-in self test This invention relates to a method and apparatus for combined stuck-fault testing and partial scan delay-fault built-in self testing (BIST). For partial scan delay-fault BIST, the circuit is modeled for breaking all flip-flop feedback cycles in the circui... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6240448 | Method and system for audio access to information in a wide area computer network Method and system for representing different types of information on a wide area network in a form suitable for access over an audio interface (12). Audio enabled pages (29) are created to link particular text data, which data can be from the World Wide W... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6225076 | Crystal of bacterial core RNA polymerase and methods of use thereof A detailed three dimensional structure for a bacterial core RNA polymerase is provided. Crystals of the bacterial core RNA polymerase are also included in the invention. The present invention further provides procedures for identifying agents that can inh... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6217629 | Phosphate sulfur fertilizer particles and methods for making same Provided herein are novel porous phosphate sulfur fertilizer particles which are in a continuous phase, and have applications in supplying soluble phosphates to plants and crops, thus increasing the yield of such crops. Also provided are novel methods of ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6162189 | Ankle rehabilitation system The present invention relates to a system for rehabilitating an ankle in which a mobile platform receives a patient's foot. The mobile platform can be moved in six degrees of freedom. The position and orientation of the mobile platform is measured in rela... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5935790 | Method for detecting a predisposition to susceptibility to toxic effects of drugs and poisons The present invention relates to methods for diagnosis of susceptibility to neurotoxicity or the pathological effects of neurotoxicity based on detection of a genetic marker in an individual. The present invention is directed generally to methods and asso... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5921679 | Method of chaotic mixing and improved stirred tank reactors The invention provides a method and apparatus for efficiently achieving a homogeneous mixture of fluid components by introducing said components having a Reynolds number of between about ࣘ1 to about 500 into a vessel and continuously perturbing the mixi... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5912161 | Enzymes for the production of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid Mutants of 2,5-diketo-D-gluconic acid reductase A, an enzyme used to produce 2-keto-L-gulonic acid, a precursor of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) are prepared by site-directed mutagenesis. These mutants have increased catalytic activity, increased expression l... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5839103 | Speaker verification system using decision fusion logic The present invention relates to a pattern recognition system which uses data fusion to combine data from a plurality of extracted features and a plurality of classifiers. Speaker patterns can be accurately verified with the combination of discriminant ba... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5815627 | Co-axial hollow core waveguide A rugged flexible hollow-fiber waveguide that permits preservation of good transverse spatial coherence of input infrared laser radiation and that transmits substantial power of such radiation, with low attenuation. The present invention preferably compri... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5795761 | Mutants of 2,5-diketo-D-gluconic acid (2,5-DKG) reductase A Mutants of 2,5-diketo-D-gluconic acid reductase A an enzyme used to produce 2-keto-L-gluconic acid, a precursor of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), are prepared by site-directed mutagenesis. These mutants may exhibit one or more of the following characteristics... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5741668 | Expression of a gene for a modified green-fluorescent protein A pre-coelenterazine peptide comprising a modified A. victoria GFP having an amino acid sequence in which Ser65 is replaced with Tyr. There is further provided a polynucleotide encoding the pre-coelenterazine peptide, allowing synthesis of larg... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5724072 | Computer-implemented method and apparatus for automatic curved labeling of point features A computer-implemented method and apparatus for automatically labeling maps in accordance with predefined label criteria provides automated labeling of any number of different types of maps with point, line and region features. For automatically labeling ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5706392 | Perceptual speech coder and method Simultaneous and temporal masking of digital speech data is applied to an MBE-based speech coding technique to achieve additional, substantial compression of coded speech over existing coding techniques, while enabling synthesis of coded speech with minim... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5697186 | Flocculated microbial inoculants for delivery of agriculturally beneficial microorganisms Flocculated bacterial cells are utilized as high-density crop inoculants and delivery systems for one or more agriculturally beneficial microorganisms. The flocculated form of bacteria, such as Azospirillum and Rhizobium, possess superior survivability un... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5665354 | Bacillus licheniformis producing antifungal agents and uses thereof for control of phytopathogenic fungi A Bacillus licheniformis producing an antifungal principle active against a wide variety of plant pathogenic fungi has been isolated. The microorganism was obtained from the rhizosphere of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). The type isolate, strain P... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5666466 | Method and apparatus for speaker recognition using selected spectral information A method and apparatus are disclosed for robust, text-independent (and text-dependent) speaker recognition in which identification of a speaker is based on selected spectral information from the speaker's voice. Traditionally, speaker recognition systems ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5651808 | Carbothermic reaction process for making nanophase WC-Co powders A new carbothermic reaction process is described for the thermochemical processing of nanophase WC-Co powders. The process permits shorter reaction times, reduced temperatures, and finer microstructures compared to conventional processing methods. The pro... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5589381 | Bacillus licheniformis producing antifungal agents and uses thereof for control of phytopathogenic fungi A Bacillus licheniformis producing an antifungal principle active against a wide variety of plant pathogenic fungi has been isolated. The microorganism was obtained from the rhizosphere of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). The type isolate, strain P... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5589154 | Methods for the prevention or treatment of vascular hemorrhaging and Alzheimer's disease Methods for preventing or treating vascular hemorrhaging such as that incident to thrombolytic therapy, or characteristic of Alzheimer's and related diseases are provided. Such methods provide improved thrombolytic therapy to individuals who receive such ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5583025 | Enzymes for the production of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid Mutants of 2,5-diketo-D-gluconic acid reductase A, an enzyme used to produce 2-keto-L-gulonic acid, a precursor of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) are prepared by site-directed mutagenesis. These mutants have increased catalytic activity, increased expression l... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5567471 | Coherent, flexible, coated-bore hollow-fiber waveguide, and method of making same A rugged flexible hollow-fiber waveguide that permits preservation of good transverse spatial coherence of input infrared laser radiation and that transmits substantial power of such radiation, with low attenuation. The present invention preferably compri... | 10/22/1996 |
