Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170173 | Passive emergency feedwater system A power module assembly includes a reactor vessel containing a reactor core surrounded by a primary coolant. A containment vessel is adapted to be submerged in a containment cooling pool and to prohibit a release of the primary coolant outside of the containment ves... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7964848 | Skin contamination dosimeter A technique and device provides absolute skin dosimetry in real time at multiple tissue depths simultaneously. The device uses a phoswich detector which has multiple scintillators embedded at different depths within a non-scintillating material. A digital pulse proc... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7683334 | Simultaneous beta and gamma spectroscopy A phoswich radiation detector for simultaneous spectroscopy of beta rays and gamma rays includes three scintillators with different decay time characteristics. Two of the three scintillators are used for beta detection and the third scintillator is used for gamma de... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7655832 | Rapid-throughput teleost regeneration assay The present invention provides a method of simultaneously screening at least two candidate agents for an activity affecting regeneration of an embryonic teleost. According to this method, for each agent, a fin of the embryonic teleost is amputated. Next, the amputat... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7565340 | Methods for assisting computer users performing multiple tasks A method for assisting multi-tasking computer users includes receiving from a user a specification of a task being performed by the user or an indication of completion of a task, collecting state changes in multiple executing programs, predicting a current task bein... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7447310 | Lean multiplication of multi-precision numbers over GF(2) Multi-precision multiplication methods over GF(2m) include representing a first polynomial and a second polynomial as an array of n words. A recursive algorithm may be used to iteratively decompose the multiplication into a weighted sum of smaller subprod... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7401109 | Multiplication of multi-precision numbers having a size of a power of two Multi-precision multiplication methods include storing a first operand and a second operand as a first array and a second array of n words. A first weighted sum is determined from multiple subproducts of corresponding words of the first operand and the second operan... | 07/15/2008 |
| 6958401 | Method for synthesizing epothilones and epothilone analogs A method for making epothilones and epothilone analogs is described, as are novel compounds made by the method. One embodiment of the method was used to synthesize epothilone B by a convergent approach that entailed Wittig coupling of an ylide derived from phosphoni... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6733784 | Coated, platform-generating tablet An expanding tablet is described comprising a drug release controlling membrane material. After swallowing, the tablet hydrates and expands such that the membrane ruptures to directly expose some surfaces of the core tablet to hydrating and eroding liquids, thus gen... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6720005 | Coated, platform-generating tablet An expanding tablet is described comprising a drug release controlling membrane material. After swallowing, the tablet hydrates and expands such that the membrane ruptures to directly expose some surfaces of the core tablet to hydrating and eroding liquids, thus gen... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6672502 | Method for making devices having intermetallic structures and intermetallic devices made thereby A method and system for making a monolithic intermetallic structure are presented. The structure is made from lamina blanks which comprise multiple layers of metals which are patternable, or intermetallic lamina blanks that are patternable. Lamina blanks ... | 01/06/2004 |
