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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060246613 | Electroluminescent devices An electroluminescent device comprising: a first charge carrier injecting layer for injecting positive charge carriers; a second charge carrier injecting layer for injecting negative charge carriers; and a light-emissive layer located between the charge carrier injectin... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060239408 | Multiple-position x-ray tube for diffractometer An x-ray source provides both a line focus output and a point focus output, and is mounted on a rotatable support to allow easy changing between the two. A housing has ports at different angular positions relative to an anode, and each port has an associated optic appro... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060239921 | REAL TIME VASCULAR IMAGING DURING SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT The invention provides methods and systems for imaging vessels in a subject. In certain embodiments the vessels may be associated with a solid organ transplant. ... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060233942 | Stent coating apparatus and method A coating system for coating a stent with a medication, the stent being mounted on a balloon on a catheter, the system having an applicator device including a fluid ejection nozzle, a reservoir and a pressure wave actuating arrangement. The nozzle has an opening configu... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060233387 | Artificial ambiance processing system An apparatus and method simulates more accurately the natural statistics of a physical reverberation process. A new filter design is provided having a comb shaped group delay. Gain minimums at a plurality of frequencies are combined with a delay line to create a constan... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060226357 | Measuring methods for ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometers The invention relates to measuring methods and corresponding measuring cells for ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometers (FTMS). The invention provides measuring methods with measuring cells, the ends of which each incorporate a large number of trapping electrodes, D... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060229733 | Surface-modified implants An osteogenic implant with improved osteointegration properties, this implant being made of titanium metal or a titanium-based alloy and being suitable for implantation in bones, said implant having a roughened surface, which in the hydroxylated state has been at least ... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060222729 | Continuous production of molded plastic containers A system for making plastic containers includes a source for providing a continuous stream of molten plastic, and a cutter for severing a continuing series of individual mold charges from the continuous molten plastic stream. A compression molder includes a plurality of... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060219709 | Heating systems and methods Heating systems and methods for inductive heating or a combination of resistive and inductive heating. A heater coil is inductively coupled to an article and a current signal is supplied to the heater coil. The heater coil generates a magnetic flux, based on the applied... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060223030 | Helical dental implant A helical dental implant has a multi-turn thread around the periphery of the implant body, the thread turns of which body have a variable depth which varies continuously around the periphery of the implant body. The depth of the thread turns runs around the periphery of... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060216672 | Jaw implant A jaw implant has an implant body (30) which is attached by a screw (35) to an implant top portion (34). A borehole in the implant top portion forms a passage for the shaft of the screw and a supporting area for the screw head. The supporting area i... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060218557 | Method and apparatus for switching between per-thread and per-processor resource pools in multi-threaded programs In a multi-processor multi-threaded computer system, resources are dynamically assigned during program operation to either threads or processors in such a manner that resource usage is maximized. In one embodiment, the choice of whether to assign resources to threads or... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060217801 | Device with engineered surface architecture coating for controlled drug release In one embodiment of the present invention a coating topology, or engineered surface architecture that may be referred to as a microdroplet deposited engineered surface architecture is provided. A plurality of drops are placed on the stent with the purpose, of building ... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060217797 | Asymmetric drug eluting hemodialysis graft A hemodialysis graft has one end provided with a deposit containing an anti-stenotic agent. The coated end is connected to a vein to provide protection against stenosis occurring at the venous anastomosis. ... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060212275 | Method and device for correcting a spectrum A method is provided for correcting at least one portion of a spectrum, in particular a Raman spectrum, by eliminating a baseline which is due to a perturbing spectrum, in particular due to a fluorescence spectrum, superimposed on the spectrum, wherein i) a convex envel... | 09/21/2006 |
| 20060205581 | Automated system and method for blood components separation and processing A blood processing centrifuge comprising: a rotor having an axis of rotation and being controllably spun around the axis, a mechanism for processing whole blood within the rotor while spinning, a computer controlling blood processing operations, the computer being mount... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060205995 | Apparatus and method for treating female urinary incontinence The present invention provides a surgical implant and method for supporting the urethra where the implant includes a suburethral support suspended between two soft tissue anchors. The surgical implant is introduced into at least one incision made on the upper wall of a ... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060198861 | Flexible ultra-low permeability transport system and method A system and method for long-term storage of a commodity in a weight range of 10-2000 kilograms includes hermetic sealing of an ultra-low permeability, easily transportable, flexible long-term storage container. The long-term storage container may also be treated using ... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060192557 | Apparatus and probe head for determining a quantitative property of a sample substance by means of magnetic resonance An apparatus for determining a quantitative property of a sample substance by means of magnetic resonance is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a conveyor for conveying sample containers containing the sample substance through a measuring station. The measuring station ... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060192103 | Ion mobility spectrometer and its method of operation The invention relates to an ion mobility spectrometer in which a measuring tube, a filter and a transport device are connected to form a circulatory gas system, with a gas inlet which introduces ambient gas for analysis into the measuring tube of the ion mobility spectr... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060192100 | Ion fragmentation by reaction with neutral particles The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the fragmentation of large molecules, especially biopolymers. The invention consists in reacting analyte ions with excited or radical neutral particles, whereby, at least in the case of bombardment of analyte ions with... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060186331 | Ion fragmentation by electron transfer in ion traps The invention relates to a method and instrument for the fragmentation of large molecular analyte ions, preferably biopolymer ions, by reactions between multiply charged positive analyte ions and negative reactant ions in RF quadrupole ion traps. Some of these reactions... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060186329 | Apparatus and method for the transport of ions into a vacuum The invention relates to methods and devices for the transport of ions generated in gases near atmospheric pressure into the vacuum system of a mass spectrometer. Instead of the single capillary customary in commercial instruments, the invention uses a multichannel plat... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060188561 | Pharmaceutical compositions for lipophilic drugs Stable solutions of lipophilic drugs, such as cyclosporin, forming a polar lipid self-emulsifying drug delivery system. The solutions can include lipophilic drugs, such as cyclosporin, dissolved in a polar lipid, such as having a C6-C12 fatty acid ... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060186332 | Laser systems for the ionization of a sample by matrix-assisted laser desorption in mass spectrometric analysis The invention relates to a laser system for the ionization of a sample by matrix-assisted laser desorption in mass spectrometric analysis. The invention consists in providing an adjustable laser system which, in one setting, generates a single intensity peak on the samp... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060186794 | Electroluminescent devices with electrode protection A method of manufacturing an electroluminescent device which has an anode and a cathode and arranged between the anode and the cathode a light emissive layer, also includes an anode protection layer which protects the anode against the effects of converting a precursor ... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060184132 | Hypodermic syringe A syringe (1), including: a syringe casing (2), and a syringe body (3) within the casing (2) and defining a chamber (4) for holding a charge of liquid. The syringe body (3) is controllably moveable relative to the casing. A holl... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060175283 | Plastic container with improved petaloidal base A molded plastic cylindrical container has a petaloidal base with a plurality of feet for supporting the container. A plurality of spacings are between the feet, with at least one of the spacings or one of the feet being of a different size or shape than the other spaci... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060176057 | NMR probe circuit with nodal impedance bridge A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe circuit is used with a sample coil tuned to a primary frequency f1. The circuit is arranged to have a plurality of points of electric field minima at the f1 frequency. One or more additional frequencies may ... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060169914 | Ion source using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization An ion source generating ions by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) comprising a MALDI sample support and a solid-state the laser system generating a pulsed laser beam, which has a wavelength in the range between 332 and 342 nanometers and is spatially ... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060172060 | Method and system for coating a medical device using optical drop volume verification A method and apparatus for controlling coating material deposition on to a medical device. Images of material drops in flight are captured and an average single drop volume value is calculated by conversion of the captured drop images to a volume measurement. The averag... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060165752 | Coated stent Stents with coatings comprising a combination of a restenosis inhibitor comprising an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and a carrier. Also provided are methods of coating stents with a combination of an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and a carrier. A preferred example of a rest... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060161678 | Method and apparatus for implementing high-performance, scaleable data processing and storage systems A data system architecture is described that allows multiple processing and storage resources to be connected to multiple clients so as 1) to distribute the clients' workload efficiently across the available resources; and 2) to enable scaleable expansion, both in terms... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060161642 | Method and apparatus for implementing high-performance, scaleable data processing and storage systems A data system architecture is described that allows multiple processing and storage resources to be connected to multiple clients so as 1) to distribute the clients' workload efficiently across the available resources; and 2) to enable scaleable expansion, both in terms... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060156976 | Stent coating device The present invention is a method and device, which is suitable for use in an operating theater just prior to implantation, for selectively applying a medical coating to an implantable medical device, for example a stent. Disclosed is a device for use with a stent deplo... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060147395 | Protein formulation The present invention relates to a new and improved low-concentration formulation of an active enamel substance, such as an enamel matrix, enamel matrix derivative and/or an enamel matrix protein, intended to be used as therapeutic, as prophylactic and/or as cosmetic ag... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060134394 | Flexible substrates for organic devices A transparent or substantially transparent formable and/or flexible component for use as an outer protective element in an electronic or opto electronic device including at least one electrically active organic layer, which component is a composite structure comprising ... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060131906 | Hand tool for dentistry and dental prosthetics A hand tool for dentistry and/or dental prosthetics, having a grip part which defines a main axis and, in the direction of the main axis, comprises a front end area and a rear end area. The grip part has, in the front end area, an open receiving recess in which the coll... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060127527 | Non-coaxial injection molding valve flow control In an injection molding machine having upstream and downstream channels communicating with each other for delivering fluid material to one or more mold cavities, apparatus for controlling delivery of the melt material from the channels to the one or more mold cavities, ... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060119253 | Organic light-emitting devices An organic light-emitting device comprising a light-emissive organic layer interposed between first and second electrodes for injecting charge carriers into the light-emissive organic layer, at least one of said first and second electrodes comprising a plurality of laye... | 06/08/2006 |
