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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7884332 | Radiation detector An ionization detector having a grid of electrodes disposed perpendicular to an oscillating voltage. Charge released from an ionization event oscillates in the detector medium at the same frequency as the applied oscillating voltage. The electrode grid is configured... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7741438 | Methods and compositions involving endopeptidases PepO2 and PepO3 The present invention concerns the methods and compositions involving endopeptidase enzymes, especially PepO2 and PepO3 from L. helveticus, and their use in reducing bitterness by cleaving bitter peptides. In particular embodiments of the invention, these met... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7727396 | Anaerobic reactor with auger in the effluent line An upflow anaerobic reactor includes an effluent outlet configured to direct effluent out of the reactor and a fluid-filled gas trap configured to prevent loss of biogas from the vessel. An auger assembly is operably coupled to the effluent outlet to prevent cloggin... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7644890 | Low-energy locking hinge mechanism for deployable devices A low-energy locking hinge mechanism operable with a spacecraft to support a deployable device, and to facilitate the deployment and locking of the deployable device, the hinge mechanism comprising: (a) a support base configured to couple to a structure of the space... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7615155 | Methods for removal of non-digestible matter from an upflow anaerobic digester Methods for steady state operation of an upflow anaerobic digester using organic matter that contains a portion of solid, non-digestible matter include (1) providing an upflow anaerobic digester, (2) providing a bacterial culture in the upflow anaerobic digester for... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7602982 | Method for image coding by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same Methods and systems for encoding, transmitting and decoding digital images by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization are disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a digital image, transforming the digital image into the wa... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599752 | Tuning methods for fractional-order controllers A method for tuning a fractional-order proportional-integral (PI) controller C ( s ) = ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7597921 | Textured whey protein product A textured whey protein product for use as a meat extender, meat analog, or snack food is prepared by thermoplastic extrusion of a composition containing whey protein and optionally an edible polysaccharide, such as cornstarch. Whey protein can also be mixed with ot... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596595 | Efficient unicast-based multicast tree construction and maintenance for multimedia transmission A multi-endpoint communication system comprising communication nodes linked in a tree structure by unicast connections includes a server to receive a request from a new communication node to join the tree structure. The system further includes a node selector to ide... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7464319 | Forward error correction with codeword cross-interleaving and key-based packet compression An encoder encodes each of a plurality of data fragments into an encoded packet comprising a plurality of codewords, each codeword comprising a set of data bytes from the data fragment and at least one error-correction byte derived from the set of data bytes. A plur... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7435754 | Laulimalide microtubule stabilizing agents A method of inhibiting the proliferation of a hyperproliferative mammalian cell having a multiple drug resistant phenotype utilizing an amount of a laulimalide compound effective to disrupt the dynamic state of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization to arre... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7417717 | System and method for improving lidar data fidelity using pixel-aligned lidar/electro-optic data A lidar and digital camera system collect data and generate a three-dimensional image. A lidar generates a laser beam to form a lidar shot and to receive a reflected laser beam to provide range data. A digital camera includes an array of pixels to receive optical ra... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7371733 | Anti bacterial compounds The invention relates to novel paranmycin compounds that have activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria, preferably bacteria that are resistant to other antibiotics. Paranmycins are of the general formula ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7289558 | Infinite impulse response multiplierless digital filter architecture A multiplierless IIR filter incorporates power-of-two coefficients to perform shift operations to reduce space and increase speed. To optimize performance, a genetic algorithm generates the power-of-two coefficients. The filter architecture includes shift registers ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7240562 | Method for modeling material constitutive behavior In modeling material constitutive behavior, a methodology determines tool-chip friction and a position of a stagnation point on a cutting tool. The methodology includes measuring a ratio of cutting force to thrust force and measuring a chip thickness, hch... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7220596 | Real time detection of antigens Antigens can be captured and detected from complex samples, such as food and environmental samples, in about 30 minutes using apparatus and methods that include flow of the samples through a module containing antibodies coupled to beads. The samples flow through the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7069163 | Digital spread spectrum methods and apparatus for testing aircraft wiring A system and method that utilizes direct sequence spread spectrum signal (DSSS) encoding to enable testing of a live wire, wherein an original data signal is modified and then transmitted along the wire, and a reflected signal is collected and analyzed using correla... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6954530 | Echo cancellation filter An echo canceler includes an recursive least squares lattice to whiten a far-end signal s1(t) and provide whitened time delays. The echo canceler further decorrelates a microphone signal based on the whitened time delays to reduce echoes of the far-end si... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6944350 | Method for image coding by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same Methods and systems for encoding, transmitting and decoding digital images by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization are disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a digital image, transforming the digital image into the wa... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6414015 | Laulimalide microtubule stabilizing agents A method of inhibiting the proliferation of a hyperproliferative mammalian cell having a multiple drug resistant phenotype utilizing an amount of a laulimalide compound effective to disrupt the dynamic state of microtubule polymerization and depolymerizat... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6310037 | Method of controlling protozoan infections using syringomycin-family lipodepsipeptides A method for controlling infections caused by protozoans, such as Cryptosporidium parvum, Plasmodium falciparum, and Leishmania donovani. The method comprises using syringomycin-family lipodepsipeptides, preferably syringomycins such as syringomycin E, to... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6306591 | Screening for the molecular defect causing spider lamb syndrome in sheep The present invention relates to the field of sheep genetics. Specifically, it relates to materials and methods used to detect a recessive gene causative for hereditary chondroplasia or "Spider Lamb Syndrome". Disclosed are genetic markers for Spider Lamb... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6141324 | System and method for low latency communication A low latency, high throughput communication system applicable to real-time communications, such as real-time audio and video, controls the total in-transit data between a transmitting application and a receiving application to a target amount using feedb... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6069292 | Process for remediating soils contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and chlorinated phenols A process for removing contaminants from a soil sample including the steps of removing fine soil particles from the soil sample, reducing the amount of contaminants in the fine soil particles by applying a solvent to the fine soil particles to dissolve th... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6033868 | In Vitro biosynthesis of proteins in native conformation A method for the in vitro biosynthesis of proteins in native conformation which improves the technique which is well known in the art by immobilizing on the surface of an affinity matrix at discrete locations a ligand for which the protein being synthesiz... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5998222 | Reconditioning antibiotic-adulterated milk products A method for removing a selected contaminant from a liquid food product is disclosed. A special application of the method is for removing an antibiotic from milk. The method comprises the steps of contacting the milk with a matrix-antibody composition, wh... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5982847 | Compact X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for real-time wear metal analysis of lubrucating oils A compact X-ray fluorescence spectrometer system dedicated to in-line, real-time analysis of wear metal particles in a lubricant used in a lubricating system that comprises a sample chamber, an X-ray source assembly, and an X-ray detector assembly. The sa... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5909513 | Bit allocation for sequence image compression The invention relates to a method and system for allocating bits for representing blocks that are transmitted in an image compression system. In a preferred embodiment, a video telephone communications system includes a video transmitting/receiving (trans... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5872621 | Holographic transmission beam director The present invention applies to the art of wind sensing using lidar, and in particular to the art of detecting the speed of objects such as air-borne particles and molecules in the atmosphere in order to determine the speed and direction of the wind whic... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5830855 | Lipodepsipeptides as antifungal and fungicidal agents Lipodepsipeptides from Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae were evaluated for antifungal activity. Specifically, the in vitro antifungal and fungicidal activities of three cyclic lipodepsinonapeptides syringomycin E, syringotoxin B, and syringostatin A agai... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5796471 | Lidar atmospheric wind detector The present invention is a lidar for detecting characteristics of the atmosphere, and in particular for detecting the speed and direction of objects such as air-borne particles and molecules in the atmosphere in order to determine the speed and direction ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5750496 | Method of controlling cryptosporidium infectons using protease inhibitors A method for controlling infections caused by Cryptosporidium parvum. The method comprises using protease inhibiting compounds, preferably serine protease inhibitors, to inhibit excystation, invasion, and parasite maturation and development. The method is... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5470597 | Ultra-high temperature pasteurization of meat products A method is disclosed for accelerating the ageing process and sterilizing raw meat for extended storage at refrigerated temperatures by treating the meat at ultra-high temperature (UHT), e.g. 900° to 1200° C., for a time sufficient to denature proteins,... | 11/28/1995 |
