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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8004416 | Smoke alarm system A smoke alarm system having a base and a body. The base is mounted onto and electrically connected to an unswitched electrical box. The body contains conventional smoke alarm circuitry. The base contains a threaded female socket similar to a standard light bulb sock... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7964026 | Gasification apparatus A gasification system having a combustor vessel, an optional scrubber vessel, an optional fixer vessel, an optional cyclone vessel and an optional demister vessel. A wide variety of possibly moist solid or semi-solid carbonaceous fuels may be partially combusted in ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7850706 | Pancreatic-enteric fistulary catheterization system A catheterization system for forming dual sutureless anastomoses using two catheters connectable to one another. Once the fistula is healed, a dissolvable connection allows the catheters to separate one from the other and the separated pieces are extruded through no... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835168 | Asymmetric dipolar ring A device having a dipolar ring surrounding an interior region that is disposed asymmetrically on the ring. The dipolar ring generates a toroidal moment switchable between at least two stable states by a homogeneous field applied to the dipolar ring in the plane of t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7713549 | Extended release perforated tablet A tablet for the controlled release of a pharmaceutically active ingredient. The tablet is in the form of coated DST's and MLDST's so that immediate release or time-delayed release can be achieved. Further, such extended release DST's and MLDST's may provide zero or... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7662292 | Radium selective media and method for manufacturing Media for selectively removing radium ions from water where manganese oxide (DMO) has been dispersed in a cation ion exchange resin (gel or macroporous) to adsorb radium ions. The media is manufactured by precipitating a soluble manganese (II) salt such as manganous... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7593250 | Ferroelectric nanostructure having switchable multi-stable vortex states A ferroelectric nanostructure formed as a low dimensional nano-scale ferroelectric material having at least one vortex ring of polarization generating an ordered toroid moment switchable between multi-stable states. A stress-free ferroelectric nanodot under open-cir... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7541549 | Vacuum transfer apparatus having load isolation weighing system including a rigid pipe section pivotally mounted to a support frame A vacuum transfer system having a weighing hopper mounted via at least one load cell to a frame. The weighing hopper is provided with an inlet connected via a product line to a product inlet hopper and a sliding outlet gate. An actuator valve is operatively connecte... | 06/02/2009 |
| D580878 | Wildlife guard for high voltage bushing | 11/18/2008 |
| 7361173 | Conductive interstitial thermal therapy device An apparatus and method for thermally destroying tumors in which heat is generated by electrical resistance heating conducted to the target tissue. Computerized scanning is used to optimize the geometry of a thermal probe. The probe has a metal tip heated by a remot... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349522 | Dynamic radiation therapy simulation system A system for dynamic treatment simulation for radiotherapy. Software is implemented on a computer system to perform dynamic simulation by displaying every segment of dynamic treatment beams on top of real-time fluoroscopic image sequences. Automated distortion corre... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7311727 | Encased stent An encased stent that discourages restenosis by having a homogenous endothelial cell lining along the inner wall of the stent. The endothelial cell lining may be coated on the stent before the stent is placed in the artery, or the endothelial cell lining may be grow... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7225813 | Rib fracture score and protocol Multiple rib fractures in trauma patients are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Delayed morbidity for patients with rib fractures is often a result of hypoventilation leading to atelectasis, pneumonia and respiratory failure. Pain management was f... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223875 | Process for manufacturing propylene oxide A process for the recovery of molybdenum catalyst from the epoxidation reaction product of olefins with organic hydroperoxides. The active form of the glycol-molybdate epoxidation catalyst is removed from the process stream with an anion ion exchange resin. The ion ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7051506 | Flattened helical tire cord A tire cord having core filaments (10) performed into a helical configuration while maintaining the core filaments (10) in a parallel, side-by-side relationship. The core filaments (10) are not twisted or stranded together. High tensile strength... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7025382 | Index tab labeling system for suspended file folder An index tab labeling system for use with suspended file folder of the type having vertical slots along an upper margin, the labeling system comprising a flexible index tab having a single layer of flexible material with lugs for insertion into the vertical slots in... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7009102 | Wildlife guard for arrester brackets An insulating cap and method of using the same is disclosed. The insulating cap has one or more slots sized to accept edges of a rib of an arrester bracket so that the cap may be affixed to the rib by sliding the cap over the rib. Tabs at lower portions of the slott... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6995313 | Insulator bushing wildlife guard An insulator bushing wildlife guard having features for easier alignment and installation of the guard on the bushing. The guard has two hinged body sections of insulating material. An outer edge of each body section is provided with a plurality of flexible fingers ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6945937 | Ultrasound apparatus and method for augmented clot lysis An apparatus and method for using ultrasound augmented with microbubbles, thrombolytic drugs or other agents for clot lysis wherein at least one ultrasound transducer generates a plurality of acoustic signals and time, amplitude, phase and frequency modulation of th... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6911593 | Transparent self-cleaning dust shield A transparent electromagnetic shield to protect solar panels and the like from dust deposition. The shield is a panel of clear non-conducting (dielectric) material with embedded parallel electrodes. The panel is coated with a semiconducting film. Desirably the elect... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6875179 | Ultrasonic guided catheter deployment system A device to guide the placement of the catheter needle more accurately by placing the needle with a mechanical firing mechanism. The device is an integrated handheld unit comprising an ultrasonic probe with a miniature display and a mechanical firing mechanism that ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6872203 | Conductive interstitial thermal therapy device An apparatus and method for thermally destroying tumors in which heat is generated by electrical resistance heating conducted to the target tissue. Computerized scanning is used to optimize the geometry of a thermal probe. The probe has a metal tip heated by a remot... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6790043 | Method and apparatus for surgical training An apparatus and method for microsurgical training using cadaveric anatomy with filling of the vascular system by fluids under pressure to simulate the appearance and function of live surgery. One or more arteries on the specimen of cadaveric anatomy are cannulated ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6780177 | Conductive interstitial thermal therapy device An apparatus and method for thermally destroying tumors in which heat is generated by electrical resistance heating conducted to the target tissue. Computerized scanning is used to optimize the geometry of a thermal probe. The probe has a themally conductive tip con... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6755768 | Motorized bicycle exercise trainer A device for inducing a cycling motion in patients who have little or no motor control of their legs. The device has bicycle-type pedals connected via a belt or chain drive to a motor with a speed control allowing a very low rate of rotation from 0.1 cycles per seco... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6748731 | Tire cord A tire cord having core filaments preformed into a helical configuration while maintaining the core filaments in a parallel, side-by-side relationship. The core filaments are not twisted or stranded together. High tensile strength sheath filaments are also preformed... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6595636 | Occluded contact lens with peripheral vision functionality A contact lens for rehabilitation or training of targeted portions of the brain in which the contact lens has occluded regions to selectively blind portions of the central visual field corresponding to non-targeted areas of the brain to force visual proce... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6520989 | Extreme volume flexible integrity prosthesis A flexible external prosthesis formed by first creating a thin walled hollow elastomeric shell of the shape required for anatomical augmentation. The interior of the hollow shell is filled with a flexible foam body formed into the same shape. The foam is ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6510918 | Combined stethoscope and reflex hammer A combined stethoscope and reflex hammer. Preferably, the head of the reflex hammer is incorporated into an o-ring securing the diaphragm membrane of the stethoscope chest piece so that a standard stethoscope may be easily retrofitted to add the reflex ha... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6446790 | Link for sharp chain conveyor A spiked H-style link for a sharp chain conveyor where the single centrally-placed saddle of the prior art is replaced by a double saddle with a centrally-located opening shaped to receive a sprocket tooth. The double saddle moves each saddle outward from... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6447158 | Apertured-disk mixer A fluid handling device to assist in the mixing or separation of two or more fluids utilizing a stack of two types of alternating plates. A first plate has an aperture; a second plate has peripheral spaces around which the fluids may flow. Both types of p... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443978 | Photomatrix device A device for the physiotherapeutic irradiation of spatially extensive pathologies by light with the help of a matrix of the sources of optical radiation such as lasers or light diodes placed on the surface of a substrate whose shape is adequate to the sha... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6423076 | Laser directed portable MRI stereotactic system A stereotactic device for localizing an MRI-imaged mass using horizontal and vertical protractors on which a laser is mounted. The protractors and laser are mounted on a table which may be positioned horizontally and vertically with respect to the patient... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6397622 | Water flow for auger type poultry chiller A counter flow, re-circulating, externally refrigerated auger type chiller. The chiller has a tank that is semi-cylindrical in shape so that the walls of the tank conform closely to the circular cross section of the auger. By minimizing the gap between th... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6352345 | Method of training and rehabilitating brain function using hemi-lenses A method of rehabilitation or training of targeted portions of the brain in which hemi-lenses having semi-opaque radial segments selectively blind portions of the visual processing areas of the brain to force visual processing to a particular portion of t... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6315796 | Flexible seamless memory tissue expanding implant A flexible, seamless tissue expanding implant with predetermined memory shape to augment tissue for accurate anatomical restoration for alloplastic reconstruction. The implant is a hollow shape formed from a material that tends to resume its molded shape ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6306099 | Method of measuring residual lung volume in infants A method of measuring residual lung volume (RV) in infants by washout of nitrogen or other inert gas, using a compression jacket for rapid thoracoabdominal compression (RTC). RTC is performed from a raised lung volume (V30) to an airway opening... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6293971 | Composite allograft, press, and methods A composite allograft press comprises a loading frame and a two piece mold to form an composite allograft and in particular an acetabular cup from impacted cancellous bone chips and cement. Pressure is applied by a manually operated lever through a rack-a... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6283998 | Alloplastic vertebral disk replacement An alloplastic device and process for replacement of a damaged or diseased spinal vertebral column disk. The replacement disk is hollow room temperature vulcanizable (RTV) silicone shaped to mimic the natural disk being replaced. The shape can be derived ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6245960 | Inherent healing accelerator A process and device for improved healing of large avulsed or burned tissue which prevents excessive cicatricial, keloid or fibromatoid formation, reduces fluid loss, and increases protection from infection by employing an elastomer matrix; i.e., a thin s... | 06/12/2001 |
