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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7332271 | Apparatus and methods for parallel processing of micro-volume liquid reactions Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for conducting multiple simultaneous micro-volume chemical and biochemical reactions in an array format. In one embodiment, the format comprises an array of microholes in a substrate. Besides serving as an ordered array o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7306864 | One-shot fabrication of membrane-based electrochemical cell stacks The present invention provides membrane cassettes and stacks thereof which are suitable for a use in a variety of electrochemical and ion exchange applications. The present invention also provides methods of manufacturing the membrane cassettes and stacks of the inv... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7297269 | Cross-flow filtration cassettes and methods for fabrication of same This invention relates generally to filtration cassettes, and, more particularly to methods of fabricating cross-flow filtration cassettes. Cassettes of the invention are characterized, in part, by a series of sealing channels which selectively seal the filtrate and... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7151124 | Enzyme degradable curable resin compositions The present invention provides degradable curable resin compositions containing no or essentially no volatile organic components. Oligomers for forming the coating compositions of the present invention are vinyl dioxolane end-capped oligomers having an enzyme degrad... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7143893 | Multiple pack bottle holder A multiple pack bottle holder capable of supporting one or more bottles is provided, the bottles being enclosed over their top portions. The bottle holder package can support the entire weight of the bottles by surrounding a neck and tapered portion just under the r... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7122007 | Methods of and systems and devices for assessing intracranial pressure non-invasively A non-invasive method and system for assessing intraocular pressure (ICP) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of measuring venous outflow pressure (VOP) using a venous ophthalmodynamometer device (vODM); measuring ophthalmic r central retinal arterial blood... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7100460 | Concentric tube microplate autosample interface In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the invention, a system for obtaining a fluidic sample from a container is presented. The container defines a volume for holding the sample, the volume being closed by a seal. An outer tube has a proximal end and a di... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094346 | Cross-flow filtration cassettes and methods for fabrication of same This invention relates generally to filtration cassettes, and, more particularly to methods of fabricating cross-flow filtration cassettes. Cassettes of the invention are characterized, in part, by an internal porting (e.g., manifolding) feature which eliminates the... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7052796 | Externally manifolded membrane based electrochemical cell stacks The present invention provides membrane cassettes and stacks thereof which are suitable for a use in a variety of electrochemical applications. The invention further provides membrane cassettes which comprise one or more external manifolds which deliver reagents and... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052793 | Composite solid polymer electrolyte membranes The present invention relates to composite solid polymer electrolyte membranes (SPEMs) which include a porous polymer substrate interpenetrated with an ion-conducting material. SPEMs of the present invention are useful in electrochemical applications, including fuel... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7025058 | Metered dose delivery device for liquid and powder agents A delivery device for the delivery of an agent to the mouth, nose or other bodily site of a user. The delivery device includes an aerosol canister that is actuated to expel propellant, which captures and disperses the agent. In a preferred embodiment, the propellant... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6946210 | Electrochemical polymer electrolyte membrane cell stacks and manufacturing methods thereof An improved electrochemical polymer electrolyte membrane cell stack is provided that includes one or more individual fuel cell cassettes, each fuel cell cassette having at least one membrane electrode assembly, fuel flow field and oxidant flow field. Within each fue... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6894084 | No VOC radiation curable resin compositions The present invention provides radiation curable resin compositions that contain no or essentially no volatile organic components (VOCs), and to methods of using these compositions. The radiation curable resin compositions find particular use as coating compositions... | 05/17/2005 |
| D498167 | Expandable wire bracelet | 11/09/2004 |
| 6740349 | Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausages An apparatus and method is provided for forming shaped food products from an emulsion or batter. A stuffing tube includes a wall defining a central passage for emulsion, and a treating fluid passage positioned within the wall and radially outside of the central pass... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6733812 | Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausages An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming an emulsion or batter into shaped food products without the use of a casing. The apparatus includes a hollow stuffing tube connected to a source of suitable proteinaceous emulsion, and a molding tube mounted about the... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6635445 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding human luteinizing hormone-human chorionic gonadotropin receptor protein and transformants thereof Disclosed are (1) a human luteinizing hormone-human chorionic gonadotropin receptor protein, (2) a DNA comprising a CDNA segment coding for a human luteinizing hormone-human chorionic gonadotropin receptor protein, SEQ ID NO:2 (3) a transformant carrying ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6211099 | Substrate fabric Disclosed are loosely woven fabrics formed of multi-filament synthetic warp yarn, wherein the filaments of the multi-filament synthetic warp yarns are tacked at predetermined intervals. These loosely woven fabrics have a variety of uses including but not ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5902789 | Nasal administration of drugs Compositions and methods for the nasal administration of drugs with reduced nasal irritation are disclosed.... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5667971 | Method for determining DNA sequences A method is disclosed for determining the sequence of DNA bases by using two electrophoretic lanes for each DNA sample to be sequenced. Each lane incorporates two dyes.... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5654159 | Assay with signal detection in the presence of a suspended solid support An assay for photometrically detecting and/or quantitating the presence of an analyte in a sample in which the signal generated by a label associated with the analyte is photometrically detected in the presence of a suspended solid support.... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5571396 | Fluid analysis system and sensing electrode, electrode assembly, and sensing module components The present invention provides sensing electrodes and electrode assemblies for use in measuring the activity of ions in a fluid sample; measuring blocks which include a sensing module housing such sensing electrodes and a reference electrode; and a fluid ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5411175 | Cartridges, devices and methods for dispensing liquids A cartridge for providing a liquid to be dispensed and devices for and methods of dispensing a liquid from such cartridges are disclosed. Such cartridges include a container having the liquid to be dispensed disposed therein, the container including a pie... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5337740 | Inhalation devices The present invention provides devices for the oral or nasal inhalation of finely divided materials such as medicinal agents and drugs.... | 08/16/1994 |
| 4871595 | Lyotropic liquid crystalline oriented polymer substrate for printed wire board The present invention is directed to the use of ordered polymers as a substrate material for the preparation of printed wire boards (PWB). In preferred embodiments, the PWB of the present invention comprises a generic, high density, organic multilayer PWB... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4857396 | Minute-cellular polyester film provided with coating A film is disclosed, which comprises an at least uniaxially stretched finely cellulated polyester film of a high surface roughness having an apparent specific gravity in the range of 0.4 to 1.3 and an opacifying power of not less than 0.2, and a coating a... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4837379 | Fibrin-collagen tissue equivalents and methods for preparation thereof The present invention provides fibrin-collagen tissue equivalents and methods of making and using such tissue equivalents. The present invention also provides methods of forming multi-layer tissue equivalents having improved adherence of the layers. The p... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4835102 | Tissue equivalent test systems The present invention provides methods of, apparatus for, and kits for determining the interaction of tissue and at least one agent by use of at least one tissue equivalent. Tissue equivalent includes, but is not limited to, equivalents of epithelial tiss... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4833166 | Growth hormone releasing hormone complementary peptides The present invention provides synthetic peptides and fragments and analogs thereof complementary to growth hormone releasing hormone, and antibodies raised against such peptides. The present invention also includes methods of using such peptides and anti... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4816388 | Human prealbumin and related methods and products Recombinant human prealbumin and a method for producing such human prealbumin through recombinant DNA techniques including preparation and isolation of a cDNA sequence coding for human prealbumin, construction of a cloning vector and an expression vector ... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4794076 | Simultaneous extraction of a ligand from a sample and capture by anti-ligands therefor in ligand/anti-ligand assays Methods and kits for performing a ligand/anti-ligand assay are described. The ligand/anti-ligand assay comprises: (1) simultaneously carrying out the extraction of a ligand from a sample of cells or cells and reaction of the ligand with at least two anti-... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4791194 | AZO compound photoreceptor having napthol substiuents An azo compound with the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group, lower alkoxy group, halogen atom and cyano group; Y is phenylene or naphthylene group; Z1 and ... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4789628 | Devices for carrying out ligand/anti-ligand assays, methods of using such devices and diagnostic reagents and kits incorporating such devices This invention relates to devices and to methods, diagnostic reagents and kits embodying such devices for use in ligand/anti-ligand assays and the qualitative or semi-quantitative detection of a substance of interest thereby through use of light or photon... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4725519 | Dual layer electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises titanium phthalocyanine charge generator and hydrazone charge transport materials A dual layer photoreceptor for use in electrophotography, wherein a charge transport layer containing a hydrazone compound and a binder polymer is laminated on a charge generation layer containing a titanium phthalocyanine compound of the formula: ##... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4714611 | Stable composition of gamma-interferon A stable human γ-interferon composition is produced by adding dextran and/or hydroxyethylstarch to an aqueous human γ-interferon solution freezing the resulting solution and, if desired, drying the resulting frozen solution under reduced pressure.... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4686284 | Production of monomeric human γ-interferon Monomeric human γ-interferon is efficiently produced by subjecting crude human γ-interferon to gel filtration in the presence of a reducing sulfur compound and a protein-denaturing agent.... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4668632 | Sparger and apparatus for and method of growing cells A sparger useful for introducing gas into a liquid is composed of one or more gas-permeable members positioned between a gas inlet means and a gas distribution means. A method and apparatus for culturing cells, eukaryotic cells and hybridomas in particula... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4518698 | Plasmid and production thereof A novel plasmid pATM3 is obtainable from a microorganism belonging to the genus Streptomyces. The plasmid pATM3 is useful as a cloning vector in recombinant DNA work.... | 05/21/1985 |
