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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7695936 | Knobs and holes heteromeric polypeptides The invention relates to a method of preparing heteromultimeric polypeptides such as bispecific antibodies, bispecific immunoadhesins and antibody-immunoadhesin chimeras. The invention also relates to the heteromultimers prepared using the method. Generally, the met... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694694 | Phase-change valve apparatuses A valve apparatus includes a substrate, a main flow channel formed in the substrate, a control channel formed in the substrate such that the main flow channel and the control channel meet at a junction, a bi-phase material within the control channel, a heating eleme... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694383 | Upright vacuum cleaner with removable power head A vacuum cleaning apparatus includes a vacuum cleaner base and a handle configured to be attached to the base. A nozzle is configured for the base to draw air through the nozzle to clean the floor as the nozzle is moved along the floor by a user pushing the base by ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694202 | Providing memory test patterns for DLL calibration A system and method to provide memory test patterns for the calibration of a delay locked loop (DLL) using a pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) stored in a serial presence detect (SPD) circuit memory. The test bits stored in the SPD memory are transferred to a memory... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693322 | Foam assessment There are described methods and apparatus for assessing foams generated from liquids. Existing methods are slow and labor intensive. The new methods involve generating foams from liquids and optically obtaining information to enable parameters relating to the genera... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692019 | Methods for the stereoselective synthesis of substituted piperidines One aspect of the present invention relates to methods of synthesizing substituted piperidines. A second aspect of the present invention relates to stereoselective methods of synthesizing substituted piperidines. The methods of the present invention will find use in... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691792 | Lubricant compositions Compositions comprising a farnesane dimer and/or a farnesene dimer and a compound selected from squalene, squalene and dehydrosqualene are described. The compositions provided comprise conventional additives. Methods of making and using the compounds and composition... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690078 | Vacuum cleaner with removable cleaning attachment A vacuum cleaner includes a base having first and second inlet ports and a fan configured to draw air through the inlet ports into the base. A vacuuming head is removably attachable to the base to channel air from a surface into the first inlet port to clean the sur... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689833 | Method and apparatus for electro-biometric identity recognition A method and apparatus for electro-biometric identity recognition or verification that produces and stores a first biometric signature that identifies a specific individual by forming the difference between a representation of the heartbeat pattern of the specific i... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689572 | Model repository A model repository is provided for storing selected data models generated by a data mining application. Associated with the model repository is a model repository facility that is preferably integrated into the data mining application and enables operations, such as... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688887 | Precision adaptive equalizer In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for a precision adaptive equalizer. A variable gain equalizer may be used to apply a variable gain to an input signal to generate an equalized output signal. A phase and pattern dete... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687458 | Pharmaceutical compositions of hydrophobic compounds This invention concerns novel methods of enhancing the solubility of a compound. Compositions prepared using such methods are also disclosed. Compositions prepared using the methods have various advantages over conventionally known compositions. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686040 | Electro-hydraulic devices A microfluidic device includes a substrate including multiple electro-hydraulic valves and/or electro-hydraulic pumps that each include a flow channel and one or more hydraulic control channels, actuators for controlling the electro-hydraulic valves and/or electro-h... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685720 | Razor handle and shaver including such a handle A razor handle having a handle body and a lock/release mechanism that includes two arms, each having a bearing for pivotally connecting a shaving head, the arms extending substantially symmetrically on both sides of a medial axis, the arms being elastically biased o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685195 | Systems and methods for analyzing web site search terms Systems and methods are provided for identifying candidates for new search terms that may be purchased from a search engine company. Candidate search terms are identified from a session log, such as by analyzing the presence of the candidate search terms in relation... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684462 | System and method for controlling variations of switching frequency System and method for providing frequency control to a power converter. The system includes a pseudorandom signal generator configured to generate a digital signal. The digital signal is associated with at least an N-bit datum, and N is a positive integer. Additiona... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684220 | System and method providing over current and over power protection for power converter System and method for protecting a power converter. A system includes a threshold generator configured to generate a threshold signal, and a first comparator configured to receive the threshold signal and a first signal and to generate a comparison signal. The first... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683082 | 1,2,4-oxadiazole benzoic acid compositions and their use in bioassays Novel 1,2,4-oxadiazole benzoic acid compounds, methods of using and pharmaceutical compositions comprising an 1,2,4-oxadiazole benzoic acid derivative are disclosed. The methods include methods of treating or preventing a disease ameliorated by modulation of prematu... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682803 | Immunomodulation using placental stem cells The present invention provides methods of immunomodulation using placental stem cells and placental stem cell populations. The invention also provides methods of producing and selecting placental cells and cell populations on the basis of immunomodulation, and compo... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682155 | Training device for an automatic injector A resettable training device and method for training a user on the operation of an auto-injector for dispensing a medicament are provided. The user can operate the training device to simulate an auto-injector operation and then reset the training device to repeat th... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679938 | System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for regulating a power converter. The system comprises a signal processing component that is configured to receive a first volta... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678922 | Processes for the preparation of 1,2,4-oxadiazole benzoic acids Provided herein are processes for the preparation of compounds useful for the treatment, prevention or management of diseases associated with a nonsense mutation. More specifically, provided herein are processes for the synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles. In particular,... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678895 | Antisense modulation of superoxide dismutase 1, soluble expression Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of superoxide dismutase 1, soluble. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding superoxide dismuta... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678825 | Pharmaceutically active isoindoline derivates Isoindolin-1-one and Isoindoline-1,3-dione substituted in the 2-position with an α-(3,4-disubstituted phenyl)alkyl group and in the 4- and/or 5-position with a nitrogen-containing group are inhibitors of, and thus useful in the treatment of disease states mediated ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678779 | Methods for the administration of amifostine and related compounds The present invention provides methods of administering amifostine, WR-1065, or a combination thereof, to patients receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy in a manner that significantly reduces or decreases the adverse or undesirable side-effects of the compound... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678073 | Vortex feature for drug delivery system An automatic injector separately stores liquid and dry components in respective compartments. When the injector is activated, a fluid-directing member between the liquid and dry compartments causes the liquid component to form a vortex as the liquid flows into the d... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677476 | Extension pole apparatus An apparatus includes an extension pole, a hydraulic valve, and a handle containing the valve. The handle has a forward end portion configured to receive the extension pole in an installed position. The handle also has a pistol grip portion inclined from the forward... | 03/16/2010 |
| D611962 | Inflator | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676648 | Method for manipulating data in a group of processing elements to perform a reflection of the data A method for generating a reflection of data in a plurality of processing elements comprises shifting the data along, for example, each row in the array until each processing element in the row has received all the data held by every other processing element in that... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676478 | Data warehousing systems and methods having reusable user transforms Data warehousing systems and methods are described herein. In one example methodology, a plurality of transformation templates are stored in a transformation library, each transformation template including software objects that describe how to transform extracted da... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676335 | Method for determining battery capacity A method includes monitoring the voltage of a power source connector for charging a battery. A determination is made that the battery has entered a transition phase based on sensing an abrupt change in the voltage. In response to determining that the battery is in t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676008 | Method and apparatus for frequency tracking in a space time transmit diversity receiver A system and method for obtaining a frequency error estimate representing the difference between a reference frequency and the frequency of a space-time transmit diversity signal is disclosed herein. The method includes taking the correlation of total sums, comprise... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674797 | 2-phenoxy- and 2-phenylsulfonamide derivatives with CCR3 antagonistic activity for the treatment of asthma and other inflammatory or immunological disorders The present invention relates to a benzenesulfonamide derivative of formula (I), which is useful as an active ingredient of pharmaceutical preparations. The benzenesulfonamide derivatives of the present invention have CCR3 (CC type chemokine receptor) antagonistic a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674459 | Treatment of cancer with a novel anti-IL13 monoclonal antibody The present invention relates to the treatment of IL13 dependent neoplastic disorders comprising the administration of novel anti-IL13 antibodies, The invention also includes diagnosing such tumors or cancer using the antibodies of the present invention to detect ov... | 03/09/2010 |
| D611610 | Medical cart | 03/09/2010 |
| D611381 | Precious stone cut large corner crown design having 49 facets | 03/09/2010 |
| D611380 | Precious stone cut large split corner crown design having 45 facets | 03/09/2010 |
| D611379 | Precious stone cut large corner crown design having 41 facets | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671765 | Apparatus and method for input of ideographic korean syllables from reduced keyboard Systems and methods for input of text symbols into an electronic device comprising a reduced keyboard having keys representing a plurality of characters are disclosed. Possible symbol variants are identified based on character inputs received from the reduced keyboa... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671245 | Jet fuel compositions and methods of making and using same Provided herein are, among other things, jet fuel compositions and methods of making and using the same. In some embodiments, the fuel compositions comprise at least a fuel component readily and efficiently produced, at least in part, from a microorganism. In certai... | 03/02/2010 |
