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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158597 | Modulation of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 expression Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1. Methods of using these compounds for m... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153391 | Hydrolases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them Provided are hydrolases, including lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Further provided are polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase acti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134954 | System and method for controlling configuration settings for mobile communication devices and services A system for controlling configuration settings for mobile data communication devices and services includes a redirection server and a policy generation system. The redirection server detects a triggering event in a host system and in response to the triggering even... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131708 | Methods and systems for monitoring and tracking videos on the internet Method and system for discovering and identifying a video object. The method includes crawling at least one predetermined website, discovering at least one video link at the predetermined website, processing information associated with a first database for storing o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129374 | Method of using imidazolothiazole compounds for the treatment of disease Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the activity of receptor kinases and for the treatment, prevention, or amelioration of one or more symptoms of disease or disorder mediated by receptor kinases. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8119421 | Methods to identify compounds useful for the treatment of proliferative and differentiative disorders The present invention relates to the discovery, identification and characterization of nucleotide sequences that encode novel substrate-targeting subunits of ubiquitin ligases. The invention encompasses nucleotides encoding novel substrate-targeting subunits of ubiq... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107996 | Handheld mobile communication device A display is mounted in a display housing for displaying information to a user. An input is mounted in an input housing for inputting data. The input housing is permanently attached to the display housing and movable relative to the display housing between an open p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106641 | System and method for providing stable control for power systems System and method for providing stable control for power systems. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus for providing one or more control signals for a power system. The apparatus includes an input terminal for receiving an electric... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105296 | Automatic surgical sponge counter and blood loss determination system A surgical sponge detection system includes a plurality of surgical sponges (2) having radio frequency identification tags (1) securely attached thereto and a non-optical hand-held reader (40) for detecting the sponges by detecting the tags (... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8093283 | Solid forms comprising (+)-[1-(3-ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylsulfonylethyl]-4-acetylaminoisinoline-1,3-dione, compositions thereof, and uses thereof Solid forms comprising (+)-2-[1-(3-Ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylsulfonylethyl]-4-acetylaminoisoindoline-1,3-dione, compositions comprising the solid forms, methods of making the solid forms and methods of their use are disclosed. The methods include methods of tr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085682 | Electronic device, system on chip and method for monitoring a data flow An electronic device is provided which comprises a plurality of processing units (IP1-IP6), a network-based inter-connect (N) coupled to the processing units (IP1-IP6) and at least one monitoring unit (P1, P2) for monitoring... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8071739 | Modified nucleotides The invention provides modified nucleotide or nucleoside molecule comprising a purine or pyrimidine base and a ribose or deoxyribose sugar moiety having a removable 3′-OH blocking group covalently attached thereto, such that the 3′ carbon atom has attached a gro... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070708 | Device and method for controlling in-vivo pressure A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067199 | Anti-IL13 antibodies and uses thereof The present invention relates to anti-IL13 antibodies that bind specifically and with high affinity to both glycosylated and non-glycosylated human IL13, does not bind mouse IL13, and neutralize human IL13 activity at an approximate molar ratio of 1:2 (MAb:IL13). Th... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8067000 | Cancer treatment with endothelin receptor antagonists The present invention relates to therapeutic protocols and pharmaceutical compositions designed to treat and prevent cancer. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel method of treating cancer using antagonists to the endothelin B receptor (ETB) or... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8057396 | Device for assessing a cardiac valve Devices for assessing the size, shape, and topography of vessel lumens and hollow portions of organs are described. The devices are particularly adapted for determining the size, shape, topography, and compliance of the native heart valves to facilitate the later im... | 11/15/2011 |
| D648629 | Parfait cup | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051987 | System and method for wirelessly provisioning a mobile communication device Systems and methods for wirelessly provisioning a mobile communication device are provided. To provision the mobile communication device to operate with an electronic messaging system, a provisioning request message may be generated at the mobile communication devic... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048661 | Microbial organisms comprising exogenous nucleic acids encoding reductive TCA pathway enzymes A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a reductive TCA or Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in which at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding these pathway enzymes is expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance carbon flux through... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8048420 | Monoclonal antibody The present invention is related to methods and compositions for the therapeutic and diagnostic use in the treatment of diseases and disorders which are caused by or associated with amyloid or amyloid-like proteins including amyloidosis, a group of disorders and abn... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8029781 | Methods of treating a deficiency of functional tripeptidyl peptidase I (CLN2) protein The present invention relates to a method for treating a patient having disorder characterized by a deficient amount of functional CLN2 protein in the affected cells, which comprises administering to the patient an amount of CLN2 protein effective to reduce or elimi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8012968 | Quinolone based compounds exhibiting prolyl hydroxylase inhibitory activity, and compositions, and uses thereof This invention relates to new quinolone based compounds that exhibit prolyl hydroxylase inhibitory activity. This invention also relates to methods of increasing HIF levels or activity in a subject or treating a condition associated with HIF levels or activity in a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007793 | Stabilized liquid anti-RSV antibody formulations The present invention provides liquid formulations of SYNAGIS® or an antigen-binding fragment thereof that immunospecifically bind to a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antigen, which formulations exhibit stability, low to undetectable levels of aggregation, and v... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005496 | System and method for interrupt control on a handheld device An interrupt message is sent over one of a plurality of transport mediums from a first mobile device to a second mobile device. The interrupt message may include a first mobile device identifier associated with a transport medium that is independent of the plurality... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004186 | White and color photoexcitation light emitting sheet and method for the fabrication thereof The present invention relates to a white and color photoexcitation light emitting sheet comprising a substrate, a light source formed on the substrate, and a white and color photoexcitation light emitting layer capable of converting a light emitted from the light so... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003659 | Macrocyclic serine protease inhibitors Provided herein are macrocyclic serine protease inhibitor compounds, for example, of Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and processes of preparation thereof. Also provided are methods of their use for the treatment of an HCV infection i... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003354 | Multiplex nucleic acid reactions The invention is directed to a variety of multiplexing methods used to amplify and/or genotype a variety of samples simultaneously. ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999098 | Triphosphate oligonucleotide modification reagents and uses thereof Hydrazino, oxyamino and carbonyl-based monomers and methods for incorporation into oligonucleotides during enzymatic synthesis are provided. Modified oligonucleotides are provided that incorporate the monomers provided herein. Immobilized oligonucleotides and oligon... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998681 | Diagnosis and therapy of antibody-mediated inflammatory auto-immune disorders The present invention describes diagnosis and treatment of antibody-mediated inflammatory auto-immune diseases. The biochemical mechanisms underlying such disorders are described as characteristic molecular markers and antibody-mediated ligand-receptor interactions.... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996378 | System and method for graphically distinguishing levels of a multidimensional database In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for graphically distinguishing levels from a multidimensional database. Levels from a multidimensional database are distinguished, such as by associating two or more of database's le... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7989486 | Use of diindolylmethane-related indoles for the treatment and prevention of respiratory syncytial virus associated conditions The present invention includes compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of conditions associated with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection. RSV-associated conditions include acute infections in mammals, typically bronchiolitis and pneumonia, ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986112 | Thermally self-stabilizing LED module An improved LED module that is thermally self-stabilizing, and that is able to be retrofitted into an existing flashlight is provided. In one embodiment, the LED module includes a light emitting diode, an amplifying circuit and a microchip. The amplifying circuit in... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982023 | Bag proteins and nucleic acid molecules encoding them The present invention provides a family of BAG-1 related proteins from humans (BAG-1L, BAG-1, BAG-2, BAG-3, BAG-4 and BAG-5), the invertebrate C. elegans (BAG-1, BAG-2) and the fission yeast S. pombe (BAG-1A, BAG-1B) and the nucleic acid molecules that... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7960322 | Lubricating oil compositions comprising a biodiesel fuel and an antioxidant This invention encompasses a lubricating oil composition contaminated with at least about 0.3 wt % of a biodiesel fuel or a decomposition product thereof, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition, comprising: a.... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7951726 | Organic/inorganic hybrid thin film passivation layer for blocking moisture/oxygen transmission and improving gas barrier property The present invention relates to an organic/inorganic hybrid thin film passivation layer comprising an organic polymer passivation layer prepared by a UV/ozone curing process and an inorganic thin film passivation layer for blocking moisture and oxygen transmission ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950202 | Medicine packing device There is provided a medicine packing device, which prevents a free end of a bottom plate of a tablet dispensing measure from tilting due to its own weight. A bottom plate 43 is provided at a lower opening of a tablet dispensing measure 42. The bottom p... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7947483 | Methods and organisms for the growth-coupled production of 1,4-butanediol The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microorganism comprising one or more gene disruptions, the one or more gene disruptions occurring in genes encoding an enzyme obligatory to coupling 1,4-butanediol production to growth of the microorganism when the ge... | 05/24/2011 |
| D638571 | Casing for a portable solar powered light | 05/24/2011 |
| 7928896 | Application of time reversal to synthetic aperture imaging A method and apparatus for target focusing and ghost image removal in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is disclosed. Conventional SAR is not designed for imaging targets in a rich scattering environment. In this case, ghost images due to secondary reflections appear i... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928071 | Nucleotide and protein sequences of vertebrate delta genes and methods based thereon The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences of vertebrate Delta genes, and amino acid sequences of their encoded proteins, as well as derivatives (e.g., fragments) and analogs thereof. In a specific embodiment, the vertebrate Delta protein is a human prote... | 04/19/2011 |
