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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6821778 | Methods for using dendritic cells to activate gamma/delta-T cell receptor-positive T cells This invention relates to methods of using human dendritic cells to present antigens for the induction of antigen-specific T cell-mediated immune responses. In particular, it relates to the isolation of dendritic cells from human blood, exposing the cells to antigen... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6787776 | Gas sensor for ammonia, carbon dioxide and water A system and method utilizing a radiation source with a wavelength near 2 μm (preferably 1993 nm) to measure the presence of ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor using spectroscopic techniques and a reduced measurement pressure is provided. Using radiation subst... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6277835 | Method of tumor treatment The present invention provides methods for treating mammalian cancer tumors, preferably solid tumors, comprising administering to a mammal in need of such treatment an effective amount of a 1,2,4-benzotriazine oxide as defined in Formula I or pharmacologi... | 08/21/2001 |
| 5827415 | Oxygen sensor A self-contained, integrated-structure, miniature, electrochemical-type oxygen sensor is described which uses an oxygen ion conducting solid electrolyte. An encapsulated metal-metal oxide reference electrode on one surface of the solid electrolyte provide... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5793513 | Fiber optics digital communication system and method using an optical resonator for optical signal processing The invented method and devices address signal regeneration and all-optical switching in optical fiber transmission lines. In modern optical networks, after several stages of optical amplification, the noise accumulation requires regeneration e.g. transla... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5747254 | Promotion of high specificity molecular assembly This invention relates to an improvement in promoting the rate of association for high specificity binding pairs used in a variety of industrial, research and medical applications. These pairs include enzyme/substrate, complementary polynucleotide and ant... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5670502 | Method of tumor treatment The present invention provides methods for treating mammalian cancer tumors, preferably solid tumors, comprising administering to a mammal in need of such treatment an effective amount of a 1,2,4-benzotriazine oxide as defined in Formula I or pharmacologi... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5514578 | Polynucleotides encoding insect steroid hormone receptor polypeptides and cells transformed with same Polynucleotide sequences which encode ecdysone receptors have been isolated and expressed in host cells.... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5474911 | Promotion of high specificity molecular assembly This invention relates to an improvement in promoting the rate of association for high specificity binding pairs used in a variety of industrial, research and medical applications. These pairs include enzyme/substrate, complementary polynucleotide and ant... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5383049 | Elliptically polarizing adjustable phase insertion device An insertion device for extracting polarized electromagnetic energy from a beam of particles is disclosed. The insertion device includes four linear arrays of magnets which are aligned with the particle beam. The magnetic field strength to which the parti... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5340985 | Mixed field radiation dosimeter A dosimeter for use in mixed radiation fields is disclosed. The dosimeter consisting of a single element may be used in a photon-neutron field if the energies of the photons and neutrons are known. In a mixed photon-neutron-beta radiation field of unknown... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5338842 | Yersinia INV nucleic acids Novel methods and microorganisms are provided, where novel genetic mammalian cell invasive capability is imparted to a microorganism by the introduction of an exogenous inv gene. The resulting organisms are then capable of binding to mammalian cells and a... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5239066 | Yersinia ail nucleic acids Nucleic acids encoding all or part of a Yersinia ail gene are provided. The nucleic acid comprises at least 50 base pairs of a Yersinia ail gene in isolated form or consists or a fragment consisting essentially of at least 50 base pairs but not more than ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5194256 | Purified human cytomegalovirus protein A purified human CMV virion protein that has a molecular weight of approximately 86,000 daltons by SDS-PAGE and exhibits in vivo immunizing activity and a murine monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to the protein and exhibits complement-independen... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5139682 | Zeolite enhanced organic biotransformation An improved method of removing contaminants from gas or liquids is disclosed. The contaminated fluid is brought into contact with a zeolite. The zeolite is then transferred to a vessel containing a bacterial culture which is used to regenerate the zeolite... | 08/18/1992 |
| 4951294 | Diode pumped modelocked solid state laser In a three-mirror optical resonator, solid state laser, the gain member is a thin slab, such as Nd:glass, disposed at Brewsters angle to minimize insertion loss. The gain slab is disposed at a beam waist in a confocal arm of the optical resonator. Optical... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4914663 | Generation of short high peak power pulses from an injection mode-locked Q-switched laser oscillator In a laser generator for generating short high peak power pulses of lasant radiation, a mode-locked laser oscillator generator generates a train of short pulses to be amplified. The pulses to be amplified, as of 10 ps pulse width, are temporally spaced by... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4898748 | Method for enhancing chemical reactivity in thermal plasma processes A method for enhancing a chemical reaction is provided by forming a plasma that includes at least one multiatomic reactant, flowing the plasma into a reaction zone, and then elevating an electron temperature of the plasma by at least about 1,000° Kelvin.... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4863713 | Method and system for administering therapeutic and diagnostic agents A method and system for localizing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent to an internal target site. The system includes (1) an epitopic compound, (2) a binding protein which is effective to bind specifically with the compound and capable of localizing select... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4695459 | Method of treating autoimmune diseases that are mediated by Leu3/CD4 phenotype T cells Certain autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus may be prevented or attenuated by in vivo treatment with a complement-fixing anti-Leu3 (CD4) antibody that is cytotoxic to Leu3 (CD4) phenotype ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4668629 | Human hybridomas, precursors and products Human monoclonal antibody compositions, human-human monoclonal hybridoma cells, human myeloma cells, human antibody genes and their uses. Human myeloma cells are developed for fusing with immunized lymphoid cells to provide stable human-human hybridoma st... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4601541 | Fiber optic directional coupler Apparatus and method of manufacture for coupling optical power between two strands of fiber optic material in a given direction of propagation. The coupler employs generally parallel, intersecting strands of fiber optic material having the cladding remove... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4554510 | Switching fiber optic amplifier A fiber optic amplifier utilizes a crystal fiber of laser material to bidirectionally amplify light signals. This amplifier permits the application of both pumping illumination and the signal to be amplified to the end of the crystal fiber to avoid the di... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4530603 | Stabilized fiber optic sensor A fiber optic sensor comprises a length of optical fiber, forming a loop, and a fiber optic directional coupler for optically closing the loop. The loop and coupler form a resonant cavity for light circulating therethrough. A PZT cylinder, about which the... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4456377 | Multimode fiber optic rotation sensor A fiber optic rotation sensor utilizes multimode optical fiber to improve power coupling and reduce coherent back scattering. A multimode light source such as a light emitting diode can be used. The system is economical and environmentally stable.... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4389090 | Fiber optic polarization controller Fiber optic device for controlling the state of polarization of light. In one embodiment, a strand of fiber optic material is bent into a generally planar coil of relatively tight radius to stress the material and form a birefringent medium having princip... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4302204 | Transfer and detection of nucleic acids Improvements in the transfer and detection of separated nucleic acids, both RNA and DNA, are provided. For analysis of large DNA, the molecular weight segregated fractions of DNA are depurinated and fragmented to provide fractions having less than about 2... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4292145 | Electrodeposition of molten silicon Silicon dioxide is dissolved in a molten electrolytic bath, preferably comprising barium oxide and barium fluoride. A direct current is passed between an anode and a cathode in the bath to reduce the dissolved silicon dioxide to non-alloyed silicon in mol... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4271041 | High surface area molybdenum oxycarbide catalysts Novel, high specific surface area molybdenum oxycarbide catalysts are disclosed. They are prepared by the vapor condensation of molybdenum hexacarbonyl and catalyze the reaction of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to form hydrocarbons. Carburization of the mo... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4213060 | Tunable infrared source employing Raman mixing A tunable source of infrared radiation is obtained by irradiating an assemblage of Raman active gaseous atoms or molecules with a high intensity pumping beam of coherent radiation at a pump frequency ωp to stimulate the generation of Stokes wa... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4189431 | Alkinyl terminating groups in biogenetic-like cyclizations to steroids Polyenine compounds are provided having the naturally occurring geometry and a group which in the presence of acid initiates a carbocation cyclization to a steroid or A-nor-steroid structure, particularly the pregnane parent structure. The compounds are f... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4136062 | Highly active Pd-Au catalyst A highly active catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation reactions made up of Pd-Au alloy particles containing about 40 to 80 aromatic percent Au and ranging from 15 to 40 A in size, said particles being supported in an amount of from about 1.5 to 10 weight... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4129599 | A-Norsteroids Method is provided for cyclization of polyunsaturated substituted acylic or monocarbocyclic initiator group containing compound having an endocyclic double bond with a chalcogen atom in the allylic position of the initiator group and having at least two s... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4088124 | Method for treating premature infants Method for imparting compensatory vestibular-proprioceptive stimulation to a premature infant to prevent apnea in which the infant is placed on a waterbed and random oscillations of low amplitude and predetermined frequency are generated in the bed by an ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4075491 | Position sensitive X-ray or γ-ray detector and 3-D tomography using same A fan-shaped beam of penetrating radiation, such as X-ray or γ-ray radiation, is directed through a slice of the body to be analyzed to a position sensitive detector for deriving a shadowgraph of transmission or absorption of the penetrating radiation by... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4075492 | Fan beam X- or γ-ray 3-D tomography A fan-shaped beam of penetrating radiation, such as X-ray or γ-ray radiation, is directed through a slice of the body to be analyzed to a position sensitive detector for deriving a shadowgraph of transmission or absorption of the penetrating radiation by... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4063538 | Ignition timing control method and apparatus A method and apparatus for controlling the ignition timing in an internal combustion engine. The angular position of peak cylinder pressure is measured and to the extent such angular position deviates from a preselected set point, the time of spark igniti... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4064185 | Olefinically unsaturated substituents at C-11 of steroid cyclization precursors Compositions are provided as well as methods for preparing the compositions which serve as cyclization precursors for the preparation of C-11 alkenyl substituted steroids and nor-steroids. The alkenyl group may be converted after cyclization to a variety ... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4055603 | Alkinyl terminating groups in biogenetic-like cyclizations to steroids Polyenine compounds are provided having the naturally occurring geometry and a group which in the presence of acid initiates a carbocation cyclization to a steroid or A-nor-steroid structure, particularly the pregnane parent structure. The compounds are f... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4048684 | Infant waterbed An infant waterbed for use in an incubator is disclosed that comprises a tray, a flexible mattress that sits in the tray and holds a fluid, such as water, that is capable of supporting an infant, a cover that fits over the top of the tray to separate the ... | 09/20/1977 |
