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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169680 | Polymers responsive to radiation pressures Polymers that undergo a reversible phase change in response to being exposed to a light from a laser having a radiation pressure greater than a threshold level. The phase changeable polymers have the ability to reduce the intensity of the laser and can advantageousl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8153850 | Integrated biofuel production system According to an embodiment, a biomass conversion subsystem produces methane and/or alcohol and residual biomass. A pyrolysis or a gasification subsystem is used to produce thermal energy and/or process gasses. The thermal energy may be stored thermal energy in the f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148547 | C-substituted diindolylmethane compositions and methods for the treatment of multiple cancers The present embodiment of the invention is generally directed to compositions comprising suspensions of poorly water soluble compounds recrystallized in nanoparticulate sizes ranging from 0.1 to 5 μm. In addition, the embodiment of the invention is directed to meth... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8137955 | Method for heat recovery from pre-treated biomass According to one embodiment, a method for heat treatment of a biomass includes allowing biomass in a pretreatment reactor to undergo a pre-treatment reaction process. The pre-treatment reaction process yields pretreated biomass along with soluble components. A first... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124386 | Methods and systems for biomass conversion to carboxylic acids and alcohols The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem operable to produce a fermentation broth containing carboxylic acid salts ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124107 | Antibodies recognizing a highly expressed putative antigen of CA-MRSA and methods of use The present invention provides MSCRAMM® proteins from S. aureus which are putative highly-expressed antigens from methicillin-resistant S. aureus, including communit-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), and these antigens can thus be utilized in methods of gene... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120436 | System and method for implementing an oscillator In one embodiment, a system for generating an oscillating signal includes a transconductance amplifier comprising a single-ended output and a differential input. The system also includes only one feedback loop coupled to the transconductance amplifier. The feedback ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119653 | Belactosin derivatives as therapeutic agents/biological probes and their synthesis Derivatives of belactosin and their synthesis are disclosed. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention exhibit anti-cancer, antiviral, antibiotic, and/or auto-immune therapeutic abilities. In general, methods of synthesis disclosed herein allow for ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113121 | Guideway system to roadway interchange system According to one embodiment, a transport interchange system includes a roadway that intersects a guideway system such that the roadway is discontinuous across the guideway system. A guideway vehicle is provided that transports an intermodal container over the guidew... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105776 | Breed-specific haplotypes for polled phenotypes in cattle The presence of horns within commercial cattle populations increases the chances of injuries. The Polled (hornless) condition in cattle has existed since domestication, and it has been selected by breeders because of its economic importance and ease of management. A... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101838 | Water-soluble nanoparticles with controlled aggregate sizes A method of forming dispersed water-soluble quantum dots and tuning water-soluble quantum dot aggregate size by providing a plurality of water-soluble quantum dots in a dispersion, the plurality of water-soluble quantum dots are modified with an amphiphilic polymer,... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8088923 | Cyclic-fused beta-lactones and their synthesis The present invention provides a concise synthetic method for generating lactam-fused beta-lactones that feature, in some embodiments, a tertiary fused carbinol, quaternary carbons, and a reactive beta-lactone moiety available for further reactions. The present inve... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088773 | Therapeutic compositions and methods The present invention relates in general to therapeutic compositions and methods of use. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the field of eye health. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the prevention and treatment of macular degeneration by... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088595 | Method for glucose monitoring using fluorescence quenching This disclosure relates to a method of measuring a glucose concentration metric or a glucose metric in a patient by contacting an implantable glucose-sensing device with a test sample, which may be in the patient, under conditions that permit a sugar-binding molecul... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074998 | Annular seals for non-contact sealing of fluids in turbomachinery According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an annular seal generally includes a hollow member having two ends and an inner surface. The hollow member has a number of depressions formed in and extending around its inner surface. Each of the depressions having a d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073052 | Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for transmission over unreliable channels A system and method for video coding. Energy-concentrating transform operations are performed on video data to obtain transformed data. Nested scalar quantization is performed on the transformed data to generate blocks of coset indices. Bit planes of the blocks of c... | 12/06/2011 |
| D649369 | Student desk with stool | 11/29/2011 |
| D649368 | Student desk with seat | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065592 | Multi-source data encoding, transmission and decoding using slepian-wolf codes based on channel code partitioning System and method for designing Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate a plurality of sub-matrices corresponding respectively to a plurality of correlated data sources. The partitioning is performed in accordan... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8022586 | Electric machine having rotor and stator configurations According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electric machine comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has at least one stator pole with a first leg and a second leg. The rotor has at least one rotor pole. The rotor rotates relate to the stator. The at... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8008640 | Maxim electron scatter chamber The present invention includes a system, methods and apparatus for sterilization of an object (e.g., food products). The present invention takes advantage of the electron scatter that occurs when electron beam is applied onto a surface. The present invention is capa... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974325 | Methods and apparatus for generating terahertz radiation Apparatus and methods for generating radiation via difference frequency generation (DFG). In one exemplary implementation, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) has a significant second-order nonlinear susceptibility (χ(2)) integrated in an active region of the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973217 | Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as OMT promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transg... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962536 | System and method for remote monitoring and controlling of facility energy consumption A method for remote monitoring and controlling of energy consumption of a facility includes receiving energy consumption data associated with the facility at a processor disposed remotely from the facility. The method also includes receiving environmental data assoc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7950250 | Jet ejector system and method According to one embodiment of the invention, a jet ejector method includes providing a primary jet ejector having a primary inlet stream, coupling one or more secondary jet ejectors to the primary jet ejector such that all of the jet ejectors are in a cascaded arra... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7912147 | Compress-forward coding with N-PSK modulation for the half-duplex Gaussian relay channel Systems and methods that implement compress-forward (CF) coding with N-PSK modulation for the relay channel are disclosed, where N is greater than or equal to two. In the CF scheme, Wyner-Ziv coding is applied at the relay to exploit the joint statistics between sig... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7883075 | Tension guardrail terminal A terminal portion of a guardrail safety system includes a terminal portion of a guardrail beam having a downstream end and upstream end. The terminal portion of the guardrail beam slopes from a height appropriate for redirecting an errant vehicle to a height proxim... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7871366 | Device for the modulation of cardiac end diastolic volume The present invention provides methods, systems, kits and devices that reduce dyskinesis and hypokinesis. For example, the direct compression cardiac device may be positioned about at least a portion of a heart, and includes a resilient inner panel in contact with a... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7867716 | High temperature ion channels and pores The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for stochastic sensing of an analyte to a protein pore. The protein pore may be an engineer protein pore, such as an ion channel at temperatures above 55° C. and even as high as near 100° C. The analyt... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865321 | Arcing event detection Methods for detecting electrical arcing on an electrical power system are provided, as well as systems and computer program products for carrying out the method. The method includes the steps of: a) obtaining data indicative of the temporal behavior of a signal whic... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7855272 | SDRE protein from and diagnostic kits including same An isolated extracellular matrix-binding protein, designated as SdrE and its corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibiti... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7850974 | Bioinformatic method for identifying surface-anchored proteins from gram-positive bacteria and proteins obtained thereby A bioinformatic method for identifying and isolating proteins and peptides with MSCRAMM®-like characteristics from Gram positive bacteria, such as Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Bacillus bacteria, and proteins and peptides obtained th... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7834151 | SDRD protein from and diagnostic kits including same An isolated extracellular matrix-binding protein, designated as SdrD and its corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibiti... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7820417 | Methods and systems for biomass conversion to carboxylic acids and alcohols The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem operable to produce a fermentation broth containing carboxylic acid salts ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7816494 | SdrC protein from and diagnostic kits including same An isolated extracellular matrix-binding protein, designated as SdrC and its corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibiti... | 10/19/2010 |
| RE41682 | Apparatus and method for direct measurement of absorption and scattering coefficients in situ An apparatus for measuring an absorption coefficient includes a first diffusive material, a second diffusive material inside the first diffusive material separated from the first diffusive material by a cavity, and a transparent material proximate to an inner surfac... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7780099 | High-efficiency jet ejector and propulsive jet According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for altering fluid flow includes a main body having a first fluid flowing therethrough, a plurality of conduits disposed within the main body to form a plurality of flow paths, and a nozzle directing a second fl... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779326 | Multi-source data encoding, transmission and decoding using Slepian-Wolf codes based on channel code partitioning System and method for designing Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate a plurality of sub-matrices corresponding respectively to a plurality of correlated data sources. The partitioning is performed in accordan... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777096 | Isolation of proteins involved in posttranscriptional gene silencing and methods of use The present disclosure includes methods of using viral and plant proteins to regulate silencing in plants such as monocots. Some embodiments include methods of increasing expression of transgenes in plants. Such methods may include selecting a protein involved in po... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7754946 | Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as JAS promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transg... | 07/13/2010 |
