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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049417 | High brightness excimer lamp A high brightness excimer light source has an elongated tube containing an excimer-forming gas and electrodes for exciting the gas to form a plasma, and thus create excimers such as a rare gas halogen excimer or a rare gas excimer. Light emitted from the excimer pro... | 11/01/2011 |
| PP22219 | Interspecific hybrid dogwood tree designated ‘KF 111-1’ An advanced generation interspecific hybrid of Cornus kousa and C. florida that is distinguished by its exceptionally high vigor, attractive foliage, very floriferous display of white floral bracts, high level of winter hardiness, tolerance of drought ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8039149 | Bismuth oxyfluoride based nanocomposites as electrode materials The present invention relates to bismuth oxyfluoride nanocomposites used as positive electrodes in primary and rechargeable electromechanical energy storage systems. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8029770 | Caffeine salt complexes and methods for using the same in the prevention or treatment of cancer The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing a caffeine salt complex and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in methods for preventing or treating cancer or solar dermatitis. Methods for inducing apoptosis or inhibiting prolifera... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7385103 | Animal model, cells, and treatment for malignant melanoma The present invention provides transgenic non-human animal models and cell lines which express a metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 in a melanocyte-specific manner and, as a result, exhibit a predisposition to the development of melanoma. The invention further teache... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7479672 | Power junction field effect power transistor with highly vertical channel and uniform channel opening A semiconductor vertical junction field effect power transistor formed by a semiconductor structure having top and bottom surfaces and including a plurality of semiconductor layers with predetermined doping concentrations and thicknesses and comprising at least a bo... | 01/20/2009 |
| PP19273 | Peach tree named ‘NJF18’ A new and distinct peach variety of Prunus persica named ‘NJF18’ is provided. This variety is distinguished from other peach varieties by its unique combination of showy flowers that are medium in width, flat fruit that ripen in early midseason with mottl... | 09/30/2008 |
| PP18997 | Peach tree named ‘NJF16’ A new and distinct peach variety of Prunus persica named ‘NJF16’ is provided. This variety is distinguished from other peach varieties by its unique combination of large, showy, light pink flowers, flat fruit that ripen in early midseason, bright golden-y... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7329506 | Apparatuses and methods for determining protease activity The present invention relates to compositions and an apparatuses for determining protease activity. The compositions of the invention contain a reporter protein fused to at least one protease cleavage sequence, and a linker for attaching the protease cleavage sequen... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7150967 | Fluorescent tags for amino acid and nucleic acid analysis Methods and kits for labeling and detecting thiol containing species and nucleic acids using mercurimethyl-dihydropsoralen compounds and derivatives thereof which intercalate nucleic acids and are highly reactive with thiol containing species are provided. Fluoresce... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7105511 | Fluorescent fused-ring triazoles that inhibit cell proliferation and uses thereof Fused-ring triazole compounds which inhibit proliferation of cells and exhibit a unique and intense fluorescence are provided. Also provided are methods for synthesizing these compounds and methods for using these compounds to inhibit cell proliferation and infectio... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7022290 | System structure for in situ x-ray study of electrochemical cell component performance A structural system for accurately reproducible in situ x-ray studies of operating rechargeable electrochemical battery cell electrode components comprises an hermetically sealed cell component enclosure incorporating an x-ray transmissive window member of beryllium... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015023 | Compositions and methods for detection of active proteases A novel assay system is disclosed for detecting the presence or amount of selected active proteases in biological samples. The assay system utilizes a chimeric protease detector protein composed of three domains: (1) a repressor domain, (2) a protease cleavage domai... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6905864 | Paenibacillus naphthalenovorans that degrades naphthalene Polyaromatic hydrocarbons are found in contaminated soils and groundwater and are a large class of compounds for which treatment by bioremediation is sought. Accordingly, indigenous organisms that can degrade polyaromatic hydrocarbon are needed. Presented are strain... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6821508 | Composition and method for topical nail treatment The invention discloses a composition comprising a sulfur-containing glycine residue combined with urea to increase the permeation of an active agent or drug through human nail tissue. The invention further provides methods of applying the composition to a nail surf... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6815163 | Methods and kits for screening nucleic acid duplex stability Simple methods and kits for determining thermodynamic stability of nucleic acid duplexes and single polynucleotide polymorphisms via competitive equillibria are provided. ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 5900207 | Solid freeform fabrication methods A fused deposition process is used to form three-dimensional solid objects from a mixture including a particulate composition dispersed in a binder. The article is formed by depositing the mixture in repeated layers of predefined thickness, with each laye... | 05/04/1999 |
