Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178336 | Polypeptide We describe a PS4 variant polypeptide derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the PS4 variant polypeptide comprises an amino acid substitution at position 307 to lysine (K) or arginine (R), with reference to the positi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173694 | Therapeutic agent Provided are agents and methods for use in depleting serum amyloid P component (SAP) from a patient in need thereof. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165822 | Reverse progeny mapping Provided is a method for mapping traits in organisms, in particular in plants. The method comprises a) providing a population of SDR-0 organisms, in particular plants, that each arise from one member of a population of unreduced cells resulting from second division ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163536 | Device for preparing an undifferentiated cell from a more committed cell A device for preparing an undifferentiated cell, the device comprises means for contacting a more committed cell with an agent that causes the more committed cell to retrodifferentiate into an undifferentiated cell. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163317 | Method There is provided a process for the prevention and/or reduction of Maillard reaction in a foodstuff containing (i) a protein, a peptide or an amino acid and (ii) a reducing sugar, the process comprising contacting the foodstuff with an enzyme capable of oxidising a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163315 | Foodstuff There is provided use of a conversion agent to prepare from a food material a foodstuff comprising at least one functional ingredient, wherein the at least one functional ingredient has been generated from at least one constituent of the food material by the convers... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8153890 | Low area screen printed metal contact structure and method A solar cell comprises adjacent regions of oppositely doped semiconductor material forming a pn junction substantially parallel to front and rear surfaces of the solar cell. A surface of the semiconductor material has a plurality of depressions, with semiconductor m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150054 | Adaptive filter in a sensor array system Disclosed is a steerable sensor array that receives input from a target and applies an averaging filter. An adaptive filter is then used if the SNR of the output of the averaging filter reaches a threshold. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143487 | Red lettuce The present invention relates to a head-forming lettuce plant of the species Lactuca sativa having red leaves throughout the head, including the heart. The red leaves in the heart are red even in the absence of radiation with wavelengths shorter than 400 nm, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143376 | High affinity NY-ESO T cell receptor The present invention provides T cell receptors (TCRs) having the property of binding to SLLMWITQC-HLA-A*0201, the SLLMWITQC (SEQ ID NO:126) peptide being derived from the NY-ESO-1 protein which is expressed by a range of tumour cells. The TCRs have a KD ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143048 | Exo-specific amylase polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding those polypeptides and uses thereof This invention relates to amylase polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding the polpypeptides and uses thereof. The amylases of the present invention have been engineered to have more beneficial qualities. Specifically, the amylases of the current invention show an a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137944 | Modified amylases from pseudomonas species, methods of making and uses thereof Variant polypeptides derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the variant polypeptides comprise an amino acid mutation at one or more positions selected from the group consisting of: 121, 161, 223, 146, 157, 158, 198, 2... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124053 | Compositions comprising chitin microparticles and their medical uses The present invention relates to compositions comprising chitin microparticles and their medical uses, and in particular to compositions for use as vaccines which comprise antigen from an infectious agent, a chitin microparticle preparation, and a further adjuvant. | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119342 | Non-destructive procedure for the isolation of DNA from plants Provided is a method for obtaining DNA from a plant by collecting the root border cells from a growing root and extracting DNA from the root border cells. Preferably, the root border cells are contained in the root exudate of the growing root, which is growing in a ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119339 | Heteroduplex tracking assay A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and may be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119144 | HIV-1 Clade A consensus sequences, antigens, and transgenes The present invention relates to consensus nucleotide and protein sequences for HIV-1 Clade A antigens, and to nucleotide and protein sequences for Clade A antigens from circulating HIV-1 field isolates wherein the antigen sequences are closely related to the these ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118428 | Opthalmic camera and opthalmic camera adaptor An ophthalmic camera (10) comprising a camera (12) having a lens (18) aligned with a second lens (16) and at least one illumination means (14). The illumination means (14) is capable of movement relative to the camera lens (... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106057 | Dihydroxyphenyl isoindolylmethanones This invention provides methods for treating cancer, particularly hematopoietic tumors of lymphoid or myeloid lineage, prostate cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, breast cancer and melanoma, which comprise administering to the mammal a compound, sa... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105600 | Method of inducing high-titer neutralizing antibody responses in a host by administering immune complexes comprising anti-HIV-1 Env antibodies and the HIV-1 Env The present relation relates to antigen-antibody complexes for use as prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for infectious diseases of AIDS. The present invention encompasses the preparation and purification of immunogenic antibody-antigen complexes which are formul... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101793 | Retinoid derivatives with antiangiogenic, antitumoral and proapoptotic activities Are described compounds of Formula (I) in which R, R′, R″, A, and D have the meanings described in the text, as useful agents in the cure of pathologies characterized by altered angiogenesis and as antitumorals. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| RE43135 | Method of improving dough and bread quality A method of preparing a flour dough, said method comprising adding to the dough components an enzyme that under dough conditions is capable of hydrolysing a glycolipid and a phospholipid, wherein said enzyme is incapable, or substantially incapable, of hydrolysing a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8058285 | Substituted pyrido [3′, 2′: 4, 5] thieno [3, 2-D] pyrimidines and pyrido [3′, 2′: 4, 5] furo [3, 2-D] pyrimidines used as inhibitors of the PDE-4 and/or the release of TNF-ALPHA The invention relates to compounds of general formula (I); 1a, 1 b, 1 c and 1 d. The invention also relates to a method for the production thereof, pharmaceutical preparations containing said compounds and/or physiologically compatible salts thereof which can be pro... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053221 | Enzymes The present invention relates to enzymes and processes. In particular, there is described a host cell transformed or transfected with a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial phytase enzyme and variants thereof. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8039222 | Treatment and prevention of tissue damage A method for the treatment or prevention of tissue damage in a subject having an inflammatory and/or tissue damaging condition, which comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the binding of C-reactive protein (CR... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030050 | Modified amylases from species The invention describes a PS4 variant polypeptide derivable from a parent polypeptide having amylase activity selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid mutation at each of positions 33, 34, 121, 134, 141, 146, 157, 161, 178, 1... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030044 | Lipid acyltransferases The present invention relates to a method of producing a variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme by selecting a parent enzyme which is a lipid acyltransferase enzyme having the amino acid sequence motif GDSX, modifying one or more amino acids to produce a variant lipid... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026096 | In vivo active erythropoietin produced in insect cells Disclosed and claimed is a human erythropoietin (EPO) expressed and produced in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf900+ cell line (ATCC: CRL 12579) transfected with a baculovirus construct containing the EPO gene. The EPO has an in vivo activity of 200,000 U/mg to 500,0... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8017341 | Transcription factors The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence coding for a PntR transcription factor comprising a nucleotide sequence that is the same as, or is complementary to, or contains any suitable codon substitutions for any of those of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016737 | Method for removing a fluid from a container and device therefor Provided is a method for removing a liquid, in particular a supernatant, from a container with a sample, by creating an opening in a container with a sample consisting of solid constituents and a liquid, and subsequently centrifuging the container so as to cause the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012732 | Fungal lypolytic and amylase enzyme composition and methods using the same A fungal wild-type lipolytic enzyme having a higher ratio of activity on polar lipids compared with triglycerides, wherein the enzyme preferably has a phospholipid:triglyceride activity ratio of at least 4. Preferably, the lipolytic enzyme according to the present i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8008548 | Plants with reduced susceptibility to pathogenic oomycetes The present invention relates to a for obtaining a plant showing a reduced susceptibility towards infection with a pathogen, in particular an oomycete, comprising treating MO seeds of a plant species to be modified with a mutagenic agent to obtain M1 seeds and growi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003095 | Method of using lipid acyltransferase A method for the in situ production of an emulsifier in a foodstuff, wherein a lipid acyltransferase is added to the foodstuff. Preferably the emulsifier is produced without an increase or without a substantial increase in the free fatty acid content of the foodstuf... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7998863 | High efficiency solar cell fabrication A method of forming a contact structure and a contact structure so formed is described. The structure contacts an underlying layer of a semiconductor junction, wherein the junction comprises the underlying layer of a semiconductor material and is separated from an o... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993651 | Chimeric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) immunogens comprising GAG P24-P17 fused to multiple cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes Disclosed is an immunogen in sterile form suitable for administration to a human subject, the immunogen comprising: at least a portion of the gag protein of HIV, said gag protein being from an HIV clade or having a consensus sequence for one or more HIV clades, and ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986342 | Multi-purpose imaging apparatus and adaptors therefor Provided is a multi-purpose imaging apparatus (10) comprising a body (14) and imaging means (36) housed within the body (14). The body (14) is adapted to releasably engage an adaptor (12). The adaptor (12) has an aper... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7981430 | Multi-clade chimeric immunogens derived from highly conserved regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) consensus proteome The present invention provides artificial fusion proteins (AFPs) designed to elicit an anti-HIV immune response, as well as nucleic acid molecules and expression vectors encoding those proteins. The AFPs of the invention may comprise domains from various HIV protein... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7977460 | Compositions comprising coagulation factors IXA and VIII for the treatment of haemophilia A or B The present invention relates to the use of FIXa and FVIII in the preparation of a composition for the treatment of haemophilia A or haemophilia B in a subject which does not present with anti-FVIII antibodies. The present invention further relates to a composition ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7972638 | Foodstuff There is provided use of a conversion agent to prepare from a food material a foodstuff comprising at least one functional ingredient, wherein the at least one functional ingredient has been generated from at least one constituent of the food material by the convers... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7960150 | Production of a lipid acyltransferase from transformed cells The present invention relates to a method for the production of a lipid acyltransferase comprising the steps of: (i) providing a Bacillus licheniformis cell; (ii) transforming the Bacillus licheniformis cell with a heterologous nucleotide sequence enco... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955814 | Method A method for the in situ production of an emulsifier in a foodstuff, wherein a lipid acyltransferase is added to the foodstuff. Preferably the emulsifier is produced without an increase or without a substantial increase in the free fatty acid content of the foodstuf... | 06/07/2011 |
