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| 6307122 | Infection of human neural xenografts Immunocompromised or immunosuppressed non-primate chimeric mammalian hosts comprising a neuronal graft in the eye are provided for studying various events associated with humans. Particularly, the chimeric host may have solely human fetal neuronal xenogra... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6128079 | Fiber optic probe and system for measurement of moisture in steam turbines There is described a fiber optic probe and associated system for measuring light extinction due to forward scattering by steam droplets. A system is also described for analyzing the light transmissibility to produce a measure of steam wetness.... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6004696 | AG-perovskite cermets for thin film solid oxide fuel cell air-electrode applications An air electrode for a solid oxide fuel cell having high conductivity and low interfacial resistance is disclosed. Said air electrode is composed of an Ag-perovskite cermet.... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5967242 | Protecting compactor axles, seals and wheel bearings from wire wrap intrusion On a compactor wheel having outer and inner cylindrical drums, the inner drum being mounted on the vehicle axle, there is provided an axially extending shroud. The shroud is equipped with a cover plate which together serves to define a cavity enclosing th... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5934178 | Air impingement oven An oven for continuous cooking of products carried upon a open mesh wire conveyor provides the impingement of a cooking vapor from air discharge structure having ports arrayed above and below the conveyor. The discharge ports extend laterally of the conve... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5910925 | EEPROM with split gate source side injection A novel memory structure in which memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5888452 | Hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloys Novel hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloys are disclosed. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloys produced by PECVD are disclosed. A method is also disclosed for the preparation of novel hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloys for use as thin films. The meth... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5859431 | Sample holder for mass spectrometer A sample holder (1) for use in mass spectrometry comprises a plate having a flat (5), which flat includes a first region having a smooth surface surrounding a second region having a rough surface (7). The second region defines the location for loading a s... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5832258 | Digital signal processor and associated method for conditional data operation with no condition code update A digital signal processor that includes an execution unit, a condition code register, a program memory, a program control unit, and an instruction decoder. The program memory stores a sequence of instruction words and includes an instruction word that ha... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5830686 | Tissue-specific enhancer active in prostate The invention provides a human prostate-specific transcriptional regulatory sequence, polynucleotides comprising such regulatory regions, toxin gene constructs wherein a toxin gene is expressed under the transcriptional control of a human prostate-specifi... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5807255 | Positioning device for producing controlled movement of the cervical spine A positioning device produces controlled dynamic or kinematic movement in the cervical spine of a human patient either in the flexion or extension mode while the C-spine is being examined in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus. For dynamic moveme... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5763256 | Serine protease variants having peptide ligase activity The invention relates to serine protease variants derived from precursor serine proteases via recombinant and/or chemical methods to form protease variants having improved peptide ligase activity. The invention also includes novel ligation substrates whic... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5746210 | Device and method for detection, localization, and characterization of inhomogeneities in turbid media The present invention provides a detection or imaging device and method that measures an effect upon the path traveled by a radiative wave through a medium where scattering of the radiative wave is strong, and uses this measured path effect to detect, loc... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5720718 | Medical probe apparatus with enhanced RF, resistance heating, and microwave ablation capabilities A medical probe device comprising a catheter having a stylet guide housing with at least one stylet port in a side thereof and stylet guide means for directing a flexible stylet outward through at least one stylet port and through intervening tissue to ta... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5720719 | Ablative catheter with conformable body A medical probe device for reducing tissue mass in a selected portion of the body comprises a catheter having a control end and a probe end. The probe end includes a malleable tube and a flexible tube that allow the probe end to conform to the curvature o... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5704921 | Prefilled hypodermic syringe system A hypodermic syringe and method of filling the syringe with an injection fluid. The syringe includes a fluid chamber for retaining an injection fluid and a plunger assembly for expelling fluid from the chamber. The plunger assembly includes a plunger slid... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5706173 | Support for long PCI card in computer enclosure An edge of a long PCI card plugs into a connector at one end of a computer enclosure. The opposite end extends into the enclosure and may be superimposed over a component such as a disk drive. The support of the present invention is rigidly mounted on the... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5695100 | Baby backpack sun/rain shade device A sunshade device for use with a baby backpack formed for supporting a baby occupant therein includes a first mounting bracket coupled to a first flame portion of the baby backpack, and a second mounting bracket coupled to the second frame portion of the ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5687866 | Snap-on, screw-off cap and container neck A tamper-evident, snap-on, screw-off closure is used with a specially shaped container neck. The neck has at least one first helical thread on an upper neck stretch portion, and a first tamper-evident structure having a first locking member. The closure h... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5685422 | Two-component mixing package Container for storing two different substances, having a first compartment containing a liquid, a second compartment containing another liquid, a separating body which separates the two compartments, and a tool which breaks the separating body when requir... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5677153 | Methods for modifying DNA and for detecting effects of such modification on interaction of encoded modified polypeptides with target substrates The invention relates to methods and mutation linkers to modify DNA, to methods for producing libraries containing a multiplicity of modified DNA, and to methods for using such libraries for screening modified proteins encoded by such DNA. The DNA targete... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5672486 | Protein polyligands joined to a stable protein core Stable polyligands are provided by preparing fused proteins, where the fused protein comprises a ligand at one terminus and a subunit of a multimeric unit protein at the other terminus, where the fused protein is able to assemble to provide a polyligand. ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5673408 | Processor structure and method for renamable trap-stack A data processor and associated method for taking and returning from traps speculatively. The data processor supports a predefined number of trap levels for taking nested traps each having a corresponding trap level. The data processor comprises means to ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5672153 | Medical probe device and method A method and device for medical treatment of a tissue mass. The method comprises introducing a catheter along a body duct to a zone adjacent to the target tissue to be treated. A flexible stylet comprising a radiofrequency electrode partially enclosed wit... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5666968 | Flexible guide wire with extension capability and guide wire extension for use therewith A guide wire with extension capability for use in a medical procedure having a guide wire and a guide wire extension. The guide wire comprises a flexible elongate cylindrical member having proximal and distal extremities. A portion of the distal extremity... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5667488 | Transurethral needle ablation device and method for the treatment of the prostate A transurethral needle ablation device for use with the human hand for radio frequency ablation of a target volume in the tissue of a prostate of a human male having a bladder with a base and a penis with a urethra therein formed by a urethral wall extend... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5660993 | Disposable device in diagnostic assays A disposable diagnostic assay device and method for its use are provided. The device comprises a sample addition port in fluid communication with at least one main channel. The main channel comprises, in the direction of fluid flow, a main reagent area in... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5661227 | Moisture sensor for microwave clothes dryer Microwave clothes dryer with a moisture sensor having an array of short coaxial cables extending through an electrically conductive base plate which is grounded to the shielding structure of the dryer. The ends of the cables are flush with one side of the... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5655578 | Control system for filling of tanks with saturated liquids The invention described in the patent is an automatic control system which provides monitoring, supervision, and control of the process of filling of a tank or container with a liquid, where at the temperature of operation the vapor pressure of the liquid... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5656185 | Method and apparatus for repairing damaged tubes by interior laser clad welding A laser beam welding technique which can be utilized to accomplish clad welding and repair of the internal surface of a tube. The technique uses the addition of filler metal to build up the internal surface of the tube. The apparatus includes a laser ener... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5656387 | Solid-oxide fuel cells having nickel and yttria-stabilized zirconia anodes and method of manufacture There is disclosed a solid-oxide fuel cell having an improved nickel and yttrium-stabilized zirconia anode.... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5654183 | Genetically engineered mammalian neural crest stem cells The invention includes mammalian multipotent neural stem cells and their progeny and methods for the isolation and clonal propagation of such cells. At the clonal level the stem cells are capable of self regeneration and asymmetrical division. Lineage res... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5653832 | Applicator for filaments A fitment comprising a pouring spout having a peripheral flange at one end and a closure at a second end is attached to a paperboard carton formed with a hole in a side panel. The carton is moved intermittently along a conveyor, such as that used in a fil... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5651373 | Extension device, assembly thereof, heater for use therewith and method Flexible elongate extension device for use with a flexible elongate member having proximal and distal extremities, comprising a flexible elongate extension member having proximal and distal extremities. A sleeve is secured to the distal extremity. The sle... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5648165 | Hot stamp article for applying optically variable coating to substrates An article for applying a color shifting optically variable coating on a substrate formed from a polymeric web, a release coating on the web and an optically variable coating wherein the optically variable coating consists of a semi-opaque metal layer adj... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5643176 | Endoscopic instrument with variable viewing angle Endoscopic instrument having an elongated image guide adapted to be inserted through an opening in the human body. A prism is provided at one end of the image guide for directing images from a predetermined field of view through the image guide and means ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5643580 | Biocompatible coating, medical device using the same and methods The invention involves using a plasma to functionalize a surface of medical devices such as catheters, particularly intracardial catheters, with covalently bound thermochemically reactive groups. The surface is further contacted with a bioactive agent, pa... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5643088 | Game of skill or chance playable by remote participants in conjunction with a common game event including inserted interactive advertising A game of skill or chance played simultaneously by several participants remote from each other also provides for interleaved interactive advertising. Each participant has a control unit or a personal computer or processor which can handle the interleaved ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5640852 | Compact thermal electric heat exchanger A compact heat exchanger for adjusting the temperature of a stream of liquid of unknown temperature. The heat exchanger includes a hollow core element provided with a passageway which extends therethrough. The core element has an outer surface extending t... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5638006 | Method and apparatus for wafer level prediction of thin oxide reliability using differentially sized gate-like antennae An IC wafer containing thin oxide is fabricated to include at least two differentially-sized plate areas that may be upper plates of capacitors, or gates of associated MOS transistors. Before testing, the thin gate oxide underlying these plate areas is in... | 06/10/1997 |
