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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110042351 | METHOD FOR PREPARING ULTRAFLAT, ATOMICALLY PERFECT AREAS ON LARGE REGIONS OF A CRYSTAL SURFACE BY HETEROEPITAXY DEPOSITION A novel method of forming large atomically flat areas is described in which a crystalline substrate having a stepped surface is exposed to a vapor of another material to deposit a material onto the substrate, which material under appropriate conditions self arranges to ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110006837 | Graphene Device, Method of Investigating Graphene, and Method of Operating Graphene Device The present invention provides for a graphene device comprising: a first gate structure, a second gate structure that is transparent or semi-transparent, and a bilayer graphene coupled to the first and second gate structures, the bilayer graphene situated at least parti... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001478 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF LIVING SYSTEMS BY REMOTE DETECTION A novel approach to magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed. Blood flowing through a living system is prepolarized, and then encoded. The polarization can be achieved using permanent or superconducting magnets. The polarization may be carried out upstream of the region ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100266156 | OPTICAL SEDIMENTATION RECORDER A robotic optical sedimentation recorder is described for the recordation of carbon flux in the oceans wherein both POC and PIC particles are captured at the open end of a submersible sampling platform, the captured particles allowed to drift down onto a collection plat... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264917 | DETECTION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE SIGNALS USING A MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSOR A method and apparatus are described wherein a micro sample of a fluidic material may be assayed without sample contamination using NMR techniques, in combination with magnetoresistive sensors. The fluidic material to be assayed is first subject to pre-polarization, in ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264016 | VERY LOW PRESSURE HIGH POWER IMPULSE TRIGGERED MAGNETRON SPUTTERING A method and apparatus are described for very low pressure high powered magnetron sputtering of a coating onto a substrate. By the method of this invention, both substrate and coating target material are placed into an evacuable chamber, and the chamber pumped to vacuum... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100239488 | Controlled Placement and Orientation of Nanostructures A method for controlled deposition and orientation of molecular sized nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) on substrates is disclosed. The method comprised: forming a thin layer of polymer coating on a substrate; exposing a selected portion of the thin layer of polymer ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100225989 | PHASE CHANGE DEVICE A phase change material is applied as a very thin film to a transparent substrate such as glass, which material when switched from the amorphous to the crystalline state and back again can affect the reflectivity/transmittance of the combined substrate-coating system. W... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100214034 | High Frequency Nanotube Oscillator A tunable nanostructure such as a nanotube is used to make an electromechanical oscillator. The mechanically oscillating nanotube can be provided with inertial clamps in the form of metal beads. The metal beads serve to clamp the nanotube so that the fundamental resonan... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205855 | Host Cells and Methods for Producing 3-Methyl-2-buten-1-ol, 3-Methyl-3-buten-1-ol, and 3-Methyl-butan-1-ol The invention provides for a method for producing a 5-carbon alcohol in a genetically modified host cell. In one embodiment, the method comprises culturing a genetically modified host cell which expresses a first enzyme capable of catalyzing the dephosphorylation of an ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100204951 | METHOD TO DETERMINE THERMAL PROFILES OF NANOSCALE CIRCUITRY A platform that can measure the thermal profiles of devices with nanoscale resolution has been developed. The system measures the local temperature by using an array of nanoscale thermometers. This process can be observed in real time using a high resolution imagining t... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100198063 | Multi-Modality Phantoms and Methods for Co-registration of Dual PET-Transrectal Ultrasound Prostate Imaging Herein are described methods and tools for acquiring accurately co-registered PET and TRUS images, as well as the construction and use of PET-TRUS prostate phantoms. Ultrasound imaging with a transrectal probe provides anatomical detail in the prostate region that can b... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100181528 | SOLID SOLUTION LITHIUM ALLOY CERMET ANODES A metal-ceramic composite (“cermet”) has been produced by a chemical reaction between a lithium compound and another metal. The cermet has advantageous physical properties, high surface area relative to lithium metal or its alloys, and is easily formed into a desire... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100180491 | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Isoprenyl Alkanoates The invention provides for a method of producing an isoprenyl alkanoate in a genetically modified host cell. In one embodiment, the method comprises culturing a genetically modified host cell which expresses an enzyme capable of catalyzing the esterification of an isopr... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100179243 | Biodegradable Synthetic Bone Composites The invention provides for a biodegradable synthetic bone composition comprising a biodegradable hydrogel polymer scaffold comprising a plurality of hydrolytically unstable linkages, and an inorganic component; such as a biodegradable poly(hydroxyethylmethacrylate)/hydr... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100170148 | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Fatty Acid Derived Compounds The present invention provides for a method of producing one or more fatty acid derived compounds in a genetically modified host cell which does not naturally produce the one or more derived fatty acid derived compounds. The invention provides for the biosynthesis of fa... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100167251 | HUMAN TORSO PHANTOM FOR IMAGING OF HEART WITH REALISTIC MODES OF CARDIAC AND RESPIRATORY MOTION A human torso phantom and its construction, wherein the phantom mimics respiratory and cardiac cycles in a human allowing acquisition of medical imaging data under conditions simulating patient cardiac and respiratory motion.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167118 | HIGH-DISCHARGE-RATE LITHIUM ION BATTERY The present invention provides for a lithium ion battery and process for creating such, comprising higher binder to carbon conductor ratios than presently used in the industry. The battery is characterized by much lower interfacial resistances at the anode and cathode a... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167004 | SOLID STATE THERMAL RECTIFIER Thermal rectifiers using linear nanostructures as core thermal conductors have been fabricated. A high mass density material is added preferentially to one end of the nanostructures to produce an axially non-uniform mass distribution. The resulting nanoscale system cond... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100143915 | Cells Modified or Altered for a Rice-diverged Glycosyltransferase The present invention provides for a cell comprising a modified or altered enzymatic activity of a rice-diverged glycosyltransferase (GT).... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100140219 | ELECTROSTATIC FORCE ASSISTED DEPOSITION OF GRAPHENE An embodiment of a method of depositing graphene includes bringing a stamp into contact with a substrate over a contact area. The stamp has at least a few layers of the graphene covering the contact area. An electric field is developed over the contact area. The stamp i... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100102811 | NMR, MRI, and Spectroscopic MRI in Inhomogeneous Fields A method for locally creating effectively homogeneous or “clean” magnetic field gradients (of high uniformity) for imaging (with NMR, MRI, or spectroscopic MRI) both in in-situ and ex-situ systems with high degrees of inhomogeneous field strength. The method of imag... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100101934 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTROKINETIC CO-GENERATION OF HYDROGEN AND ELECTRIC POWER FROM LIQUID WATER MICROJETS A method and apparatus for producing both a gas and electrical power from a flowing liquid, the method comprising: a) providing a source liquid containing ions that when neutralized form a gas; b) providing a velocity to the source liquid relative to a solid material to... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100075428 | Monolithic Multinozzle Emitters for Nanoelectrospray Mass Spectrometry Novel and significantly simplified procedures for fabrication of fully integrated nanoelectrospray emitters have been described. For nanofabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters (NM2 emitters), a bottom up approach using silicon nanowires on a silicon slive... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100066252 | SPIRAL RF-INDUCTION ANTENNA BASED ION SOURCE FOR NEUTRON GENERATORS An ion source for the generation of hydrogen or deuterium ions is disclosed, said source suitable for the generation of D-D and D-T neutrons, wherein the body of the ion source is cylindrical, and disposed at one end of the ion source opposite the extraction plate, is a... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100062000 | Rhamm, a Co-Receptor and Its Interactions with Other Receptors in Cancer Cell Motility and the Identification of Cancer Prognitor Cell Populations CD44 is an integral hyaluronan receptor that can either promote or inhibit motogenic signaling in tumor cells. Rhamm is a non-integral cell surface (CD168) and intracellular hyaluronan binding protein that promotes cell motility in vitro and whose expression is strongly... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100055441 | MICROWAVE PLASMA CVD OF NANO STRUCTURED TIN/CARBON COMPOSITES A method for forming a graphitic tin-carbon composite at low temperatures is described. The method involves using microwave radiation to produce a neutral gas plasma in a reactor cell. At least one organo tin precursor material in the reactor cell forms a tin-carbon fil... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100051879 | Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanotubes A plasma treatment has been used to modify the surface of BNNTs. In one example, the surface of the BNNT has been modified using ammonia plasma to include amine functional groups. Amine functionalization allows BNNTs to be soluble in chloroform, which had not been possi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100051079 | Complex Oxides Useful for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion The invention provides for a thermoelectric system comprising a substrate comprising a first complex oxide, wherein the substrate is optionally embedded with a second complex oxide. The thermoelectric system can be used for thermoelectric power generation or thermoelect... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100050772 | Nanomechanical Resonance Detector An embodiment of a nanomechanical frequency detector includes a support structure and a plurality of elongated nanostructures coupled to the support structure. Each of the elongated nanostructures has a particular resonant frequency. The plurality of elongated nanostruc... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100050303 | Antimicrobial Agents from Microbial Genomes We describe a method for mining microbial genomes to discover antimicrobial genes and proteins having broad spectrum of activity. Also described are antimicrobial genes and their expression products from various microbial genomes that were found using this method. The p... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100037674 | Test Surfaces Useful for Calibration of Surface Profilometers The present invention provides for test surfaces and methods for calibration of surface profilometers, including interferometric and atomic force microscopes. Calibration is performed using a specially designed test surface, or the Binary Pseudo-random (BPR) grating (ar... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034828 | Method of Increasing Radiation Sensitivity by Inhibition of Beta One Integrin A method for increasing or monitoring apoptosis in tumor cells by the co-administration of ionizing radiation and an anti-integrin antibody. Increasing apoptosis reduces tumor growth in vivo and in a cell culture model. The antibody is directed against the beta-1 integr... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100025573 | 5 NS OR LESS NEUTRON AND GAMMA PULSE GENERATOR A fast nuclear particle generator is described, useful for highly penetrating particle beam inspection equipment, that is capable of generating pulses of 5 ns or less, which pulses may comprise neutrons of various energies, gammas of various energies, or a mixture of ne... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100022000 | Increasing Cell Culture Population Doublings for Long-Term Growth of Finite Life Span Human Cell Cultures Cell culture media formulations for culturing human epithelial cells are herein described. Also described are methods of increasing population doublings in a cell culture of finite life span human epithelial cells and prolonging the life span of human cell cultures. Usi... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100015526 | Molecular Heterostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage The present invention provides for a metal-molecule heterostructure comprising (a) a plurality of metal, semimetallic or semiconducting nanoparticles, and (b) a plurality of electrically conductive organic molecules interspersed among the nanoparticles. The metal-molecu... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090318533 | Annexin A9 (ANXA9) Biomarker and Therapeutic Target in Epithelial Cancer Amplification of the ANXA9 gene in human chromosomal region 1q21 in epithelial cancers indicates a likelihood of both in vivo drug resistance and metastasis, and serves as a biomarker indicating these aspects of the disease. ANXA9 can also serve as a therapeutic target.... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090309676 | Tunable Multiwalled Nanotube Resonator A tunable nanoscale resonator has potential applications in precise mass, force, position, and frequency measurement. One embodiment of this device consists of a specially prepared multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) suspended between a metal electrode and a mobile, piez... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090291270 | Graphene-based structure, method of suspending graphene membrane, and method of depositing material onto graphene membrane An embodiment of a method of suspending a graphene membrane across a gap in a support structure includes attaching graphene to a substrate. A pre-fabricated support structure having the gap is attached to the graphene. The graphene and the pre-fabricated support structu... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287004 | Method of Converting a Polyol to an Olefin A method of preparing an olefin comprising: reacting a polyol in the presence of a carboxylic acid, such that an olefin is produced by the deoxygenation of the polyol. The reacting step can comprise (a) providing a composition comprising the polyol, (b) heating the comp... | 11/19/2009 |
