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| 8101158 | Methods for treating cerebrovascular disease comprising administering an agent that inhibits prokineticin receptor activity The present invention relates to a method of identifying agents that modulate prokineticin receptors, particularly, in the brain. Such agents are useful in the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, including cerebral ischemia, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7944448 | Apparatus and method for socially intelligent virtual entity An agent that receives an input event and outputs Emotion_Response messages based on personality trait indices and emotional state indices is disclosed. The agent has a social response generator that receives an input event, an output from an emotional state registe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939621 | Oligocarbonate molecular transporters A cyclic carbonate monomer, including: wherein R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, linear or branched, substit... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7190175 | Orthogonal microwave imaging probe A microwave imaging microscope and associated probe, or a read head. The probe or the read head includes a sensor unit with three fixed electrodes, preferably a stimulating electrode surrounding a sensing electrode and isolated by a grounded electrode. Circuitry cou... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7101684 | Modified modular polyketide synthase Modular polyketide synthases modified so as not to incorporate natural starter units can be used for clean synthesis of novel polyketides. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7048716 | MR-compatible devices A catheter is used for medical treatments within an organism. The catheter comprises at least one lumen. Within the at least one lumen are at least two microcatheters, with at least one of the at least two microcatheters being connected to a source of liquid materia... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6710189 | Method to produce novel polyketides A polyketide, or an antibiotic which is obtainable from the polyketide by a method comprising treating the polyketide with a culture medium conditioned by Saccharopolyspora erythraea, selected from the group consisting of: | 03/23/2004 |
| 6551782 | Patched genes and uses related thereto Methods for isolating patched genes, particularly mammalian patched genes, including the mouse and human patched genes, as well as invertebrate patched genes and sequences, are provided. Decreased expression of patched is associated with the occurrence of... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6531299 | Cell-free synthesis of polyketides Cell-free systems which effect the production of polyketides employing modular polyketide synthases are described. Libraries of new and/or known polyketides may also be produced in cell-free systems employing aromatic PKS, modular PKS or both.... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6261816 | Method to produce novel polyketides Modified PKS gene clusters which produce novel polyketides in an efficient system in a host cell or in a cell free extract are described.... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6080555 | Synthesis of polyketides from diketides Cell-free systems which effect the production of polyketides employing modular polyketide synthases are described. Libraries of new and/or known polyketides may also be produced in cell-free systems employing aromatic PKS, modular PKS or both.... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6066721 | Method to produce novel polyketides Modified PKS gene clusters which produce novel polyketides in an efficient system in a host cell or in a cell free extract are described.... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6052647 | Method and system for automatic control of vehicles based on carrier phase differential GPS Described is an automatic control system for land (and possible marine) vehicles based on carrier phase differential GPS (CPGPS). The system relies on CPGPS to determine vehicle position and attitude very precisely (position to within 1 cm and attitude to... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5961984 | Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I envelope protein and human monoclonal antibodies specific therefor Isolated and purified envelope protein of HTLV-I is provided devoid of non-envelope protein of HTLV-I and having substantially the same conformation as the envelope protein in native HTLV-I. The protein is produced recombinantly using a dual vaccinia/T7 p... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5935797 | Interaction of MHC Class II proteins with members of the PCNA family of proteins Present invention based on the identification of the molecular interaction that forms the basis of the immunosuppressive activity of peptides comprising residues 71-80 of an MHC Class II protein (Class II peptides). Specifically the present invention disc... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5877509 | Quantum well exciton-polariton light emitting diode A light emitting device made of semiconducting materials. The device has an optical microcavity which supports a resonant mode of predetermined photon energy. Within the cavity is a quantum well of predetermined thickness and energy depth. The quantum wel... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5802856 | Multizone bake/chill thermal cycling module A thermal cycling module includes an array of thermoelectric devices 36! divided into multiple zones A, B, C, D! independently controlled by corresponding variable power supplies 56, 58, 60, 62!. The thermoelectric devices 36! provide localized, p... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5801598 | High-power RF load A compact high-power RF load comprises a series of very low Q resonators, or chokes 16!, in a circular waveguide 10!. The sequence of chokes absorb the RF power gradually in a short distance while keeping the bandwidth relatively wide. A polarizer 1... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796314 | Active high-power RF switch and pulse compression system A high-power RF switching device employs a semiconductor wafer positioned in the third port of a three-port RF device. A controllable source of directed energy, such as a suitable laser or electron beam, is aimed at the semiconductor material. When the so... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5793900 | Generating categorical depth maps using passive defocus sensing A method is disclosed for generating a categorical depth map of a scene using passive defocus sensing. In a preferred embodiment three synchronized CCD cameras focused at different distances detect three images of the same scene. An image processor partit... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5789748 | Low voltage electron beam system An electron beam system provides low aberration, 10 nm resolution at 100 eV landing energy. The system comprises a lens unit 46! having a built-in semiconductor junction detector 58!. The detector surrounds the sample-side of a focusing electrode 48... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5777255 | Efficient synthesis of musical tones having nonlinear excitations An efficient digital waveguide synthesizer is disclosed for simulating the tones produced by a non-linearly excited vibrational element coupled to a resonator, such as in a piano. In a preferred embodiment, the synthesizer creates an excitation pulse from... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5748513 | Method for inharmonic tone generation using a coupled mode digital filter A coupled mode digital filter which simulates any number of arbitrarily tuned modes coupled together so as to share the same loss element at a junction loaded by an arbitrary impedance function is formed from the combination of one first order allpass fil... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5739396 | Asymmetric ligands useful for transition metal catalyzed bond forming reactions Ligands useful for transition metal catalyzed bond forming reactions are provided with a metal binding portion having at least one metal binding moiety ##STR1## wherein Ar and Ar' each is an aryl or a heteroaryl. These ligands may be prepared by... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5732113 | Timing and frequency synchronization of OFDM signals A method and apparatus achieves rapid timing synchronization, carrier frequency synchronization, and sampling rate synchronization of a receiver to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. The method uses two OFDM training symbols to ob... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5726659 | Multipath calibration in GPS pseudorange measurements Novel techniques are disclosed for eliminating multipath errors, including mean bias errors, in pseudorange measurements made by conventional global positioning system receivers. By correlating the multipath signals of different satellites at their cross-... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5710883 | Hypertext document transport mechanism for firewall-compatible distributed world-wide web publishing A method is disclosed for publishing a hypertext file set on a world-wide web server machine by packaging the hypertext file set as an e-mail message on a client machine, transporting the e-mail message over the internet from the client machine to the wor... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5683438 | Apparatus and method for core body warming of mammals experiencing hypothermia The invention presents an apparatus and a method for core body warming of hypothermic mammals. The apparatus has an enclosing element to be placed around a predetermined body portion of a mammal in a vacuum-tight manner and a vacuum system connected to th... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5641961 | Application of electrothermal feedback for high resolution cryogenic particle detection using a transition edge sensor A novel type of superconducting transition edge sensor is described. The sensor comprises a primary heat sink maintained at a constant temperature and a resistive means, such as a superconducting film, in thermal contact with the primary heat sink. The te... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5640698 | Radio frequency signal reception using frequency shifting by discrete-time sub-sampling down-conversion An RF communications receiver permits greater integration on standard silicon chips and consumes less power than previous receivers. Sub-sampling and discrete-time signal processing techniques are used to frequency down-convert, filter, amplify, and selec... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634199 | Method of subspace beamforming using adaptive transmitting antennas with feedback A method is disclosed for using feedback to reduce crosstalk between mobile receivers in a wireless communications system comprising an adaptive transmitting antenna array. Feedback signals from the receivers are time-averaged and used to calculate a set ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5556582 | Injection molding gate flow control The invention provides methods and apparatus in which mold material flows through a gate into a mold cavity that defines the shape of a desired part. An adjustable valve is provided that is operable to change dynamically the effective size of the gate to ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5548543 | Computationally efficient linear-phase finite impulse response filter A discrete-time filter processes digital signals according to a specified function. It has a linear-phase response if all frequencies experience the same time delay when passing through the filter. In this invention computationally efficient digital filte... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5535116 | Flat cache-only multi-processor architectures A flat directory organization is used to create a flat cache-only multi-processor architecture. Directory memories are uniformly distributed among all the processor nodes. Every valid memory partition has an associated physical address, which is used to d... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5316913 | Neutrophil LECAM-1 as indicator of neutrophil activation Methods and compositions are provided for determining neutrophil activation in a mammalian host by detecting the presence of shed LECAM-1 in the blood. By employing a monoclonal antibody which binds to a common epitope of lymphocyte and neutrophil LECAM-1... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5248912 | Integrated scanning tunneling microscope There is disclosed herein an integrated scanning tunneling microscope and an integrated piezoelectric transducer and methods for making both. The device consists of one or two arm piezoelectric bimorph cantilevers formed by micromachining using standard i... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5171400 | Method of producing crystalline rods having regions of reversed dominant ferroelectric polarity and method for clarifying such a rod A method of growing a single crystal rod with regions of reversed dominant ferroelectric polarities (poling the same) is described. It is a variation of laser-heated pedestal growth. The microscopic growth rate of the crystal is modulated to incorporate i... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5074629 | Integrated variable focal length lens and its applications A variable focal length lens integrated onto a silicon wafer. A light transmitting material such as gas or liquid is entrapped in a cavity in the wafer. The cavity has a flexible, light transmitting wall. The wall provides one surface of the lens. When th... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5027360 | High power continuous wave injection-locked solid state laser A high power injection-locked laser system (10) is disclosed which includes master and slave lasers (12, 14) both of which are solid state lasers having continuous wave outputs. The slave laser has an output power at least ten times greater than the maste... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5017266 | Method of making an integrated scanning tunneling microscope There is disclosed herein an integrated scanning tunneling microscope and an integrated piezoelectric transducer and methods for making both. The device consists of one or two arm piezoelectric bimorph cantilevers formed by micromachining using standard i... | 05/21/1991 |
