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| 8171659 | Method and apparatus for selective soil fracturing, soil excavation or soil treatment using supersonic pneumatic nozzle with integral fluidized material injector An apparatus and associated method of soil working is provided for performing one or more of soil fracture, soil excavation and soil treatment. The method comprises the steps of: supplying a source of pressurized gas; supplying a source of fluidized material; positi... | 05/08/2012 |
| D658740 | Inner sealing member of coupling bushing for replaceable filter | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162239 | Air gun safety nozzle A nozzle that produces an outlet velocity air, or other fluid jet, is provided with safety passages which achieve the safety requirement of automatically reducing the local exit pressure “dead end” limit to 30 psig or less when the nozzle outlet is partially or ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157818 | Integrated medical apparatus for non-traumatic grasping, manipulating and closure of tissue The integrated medical apparatus includes an operator handle end and a multi-prong grasping member positioned within and movable relative to a grasper lumen that extends from the handle end, wherein the grasping prongs are moved between an open and closed position b... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8142196 | Psychology hierarchical experiment spreadsheet with pre-release event time synchronization Creating and executing real-time psychological experiments with sub-millisecond time precision uses a Hierarchical Experiment Spreadsheet (HES) providing a hierarchical data structure and interface. The user adds/modifies experiment levels in a spreadsheet multileve... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656295 | Headstone enhancement | 03/20/2012 |
| 8129492 | Coating compositions comprising polyurea and a phosphorous-containing polyol The present invention is directed to a coating composition comprising polyurea formed from a reaction mixture comprising: (a) a first component comprising isocyanate, wherein said isocyanate comprises an isocyanate functional prepolymer formed from a reaction mixtur... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129026 | (Meth)acrylate/aspartate amine curatives and coatings and articles comprising the same (Meth)acrylate/aspartate amine curatives comprising the reaction product of a polyamine, a dialkyl maleate and/or dialkyl fumarate, and a (meth)acrylate are disclosed, as are methods for making the same. A polyurea comprising the reaction product of the acrylate/asp... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128230 | System and apparatus for object based attention tracking in a virtual environment A system and operational method that supplies visual stimuli to each subject in the form of a virtual environment in which at least the objects of interest have a three dimensional wire frame or mesh frame of a number of polygons that is surrounded with at least one... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8114465 | Process for preparing a substrate coated with a biomolecule Processes are provided for preparing a substrate coated with a biomolecule, comprising: a) providing a substrate; b) coating the substrate with a polysiloxane, typically by exposing the substrate to a reactive gas ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8066871 | Filtration system incorporating modular one-piece end caps A hydraulic filter includes a canister extending along the longitudinal axis. A closed end cap is at one end of the canister for closing one end thereof. A removable filter element is contained within the canister and a modular one-piece input end cap is at an end o... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062762 | Light-weight Paulowina based plywood A plywood comprising plys of Paulowina wood combined with plys of other hardwoods. The resulting Paulowina based plywood panels are lightweight, approximately 40% lighter than ordinary plywood. This reduction in weight when used for construction of Recreational vehi... | 11/22/2011 |
| D646459 | Glove pair | 10/11/2011 |
| 8021516 | Use of water-soluble polymer complexes in aqueous systems A water-soluble interjacent complex that includes a first water-soluble polymer and one or more water-soluble monomers polymerized to form a second water-soluble polymer in the presence of the first water-soluble polymer. The water-soluble interjacent complex forms ... | 09/20/2011 |
| D645228 | Glove pair | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014992 | Electric power system training simulation software and process for electric power system training A time driven, computer simulation based electric power system training software package designed to train power system operators is used with an existing set of electric power system modeling algorithms, such as sold under the Powerworld™ brand. The software pack... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005624 | Medical devices and techniques for rodent and small mammalian based research A method and system of supplying rodents, such as mice, to medical researchers pre-installs and/or embeds physiologic sensors onto or within the rodents prior to selling the modified rodents to the researchers. The specialty skills, such as small animal surgical and... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992726 | Space saving manual shelf management system A manual open bottom shelf allocation and management system for allocating shelf space among rows of products and for moving the rows of products toward the front of the shelf includes a plurality of adjacent shelf allocating and managing units. Each unit includes a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986632 | Proactive network analysis system A proactive network analysis system is a single unit for diagnosing network problems, measuring network performance, and monitoring network status in a comprehensive manner. The system is a compilation of individual tools including a distributed network packet captu... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7972701 | Substrates coated with a polyurea comprising a (meth)acrylated amine reaction product A metallic substrate coated at least in part with a multilayer coating composite, comprising at least one of an electrocoat layer, a base coat layer, and a clearcoat layer; and a polyurea formed from a reaction mixture comprising isocyanate and a (meth)acrylated ami... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968212 | Triamine/aspartate curative and coatings comprising the same The reaction product of a triamine and a dialkyl maleate and/or dialkyl fumarate, wherein the reaction product has a viscosity of less than 2000 cPs is disclosed. Polyurea coatings comprising this reaction product are also disclosed, as are substrates coated with th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968198 | Polyurea coating comprising a polyamine/mono(meth)acrylate reaction product Coating compositions comprising a polyurea formed from a reaction mixture comprising isocyanate and a (meth)acrylated amine are disclosed. The (meth)acrylated amine is the reaction product of a polyamine and a mono(meth)acrylate; the ratio of equivalents of isocyana... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968197 | Polyurea coating comprising an amine/(meth)acrylate oligomeric reaction product Coating compositions comprising a polyurea formed from a reaction mixture comprising isocyanate and an acrylated amine are disclosed. The (meth)acrylated amine is the reaction product of a polyamine and a (meth)acrylate; when the (meth)acrylate comprises a poly(meth... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7954437 | Railroad well car with open truss sides A railroad well car includes a pair of spaced trucks, and a railcar body supported on the trucks, the body comprising a pair of spaced end structures, each end structure supported on one truck, and a well structure extending between the end structures. The well stru... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7928160 | Coating composition of polyurea, polyurethane and flame retardant The present invention is directed to a coating composition comprising polyurea and polyurethane. Further, the present invention is directed to a coating composition comprising polyurea or, polyurea and polyurethane, and flame retardant. The polyurea is formed from a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922666 | Pulse oximeter based techniques for controlling anesthesia levels and ventilation levels in subjects Medical devices and techniques derive breath rate, breath distention, and pulse distention measurements of a subject from a pulse oximeter system coupled to the subject. These parameters together with the conventional physiologic parameters obtained from a pulse oxi... | 04/12/2011 |
| D635737 | Glove pair | 04/12/2011 |
| D634398 | Coupling bushing for a replaceable filter | 03/15/2011 |
| 7866818 | Portable modular video oculography system and video occulography system with head position sensor and video occulography system with animated eye display A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection and allows for region of interest image processing. The VOG system is a modular design whereby the same goggle fra... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857768 | Integrated tail mounted blood pressure monitor and pulse oximeter system for animal research An integrated tail mounted blood pressure monitor and pulse oximeter system includes a tail blood flow occlusion member configured to selectively occlude blood flow through the tail; a sensor coupled to the tail blood flow occlusion member detecting a degree of oper... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7832340 | Hopper railcar with automatic individual door system The door operating system of the present invention can be applied to new railcar or retrofitted to existing railcar designs. The hopper car will have a pair of doors on opposed sides of the center sill which are connected through a door spreader. The pneumatic, indi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828624 | Method of local manufacture of ophthalmic lens using remotely assembled pre-blocked lens blanks A method of manufacturing ophthalmic lenses comprises the steps of: a) mounting lens blanks on lens blocks at a blocking location; b) transporting the blocked lens blanks to at least one manufacturing site that is remote from the blocking location; and c) selectivel... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824140 | Aluminum vehicle carrier railcar A bi-level aluminum vehicle carrier railcar (10) includes an integrated aluminum roofing structure (30), aluminum side panels (18, 20), and aluminum decking structure (36, 50) attached to a steel underframe. The decking structure (36, ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7775661 | System and apparatus for object based attention tracking in a virtual environment A system and operational method that supplies visual stimuli to each subject in the form of a virtual environment in which at least the objects of interest have a three dimensional wire frame or mesh frame of a number of polygons that is surrounded with at least one... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7754794 | Methods of treating keratin based substrates A composition for treating a keratin based substrate that includes a cosmetically acceptable medium containing a water-soluble interjacent complex. The water-soluble interjacent complex includes a first water-soluble polymer and a second water-soluble polymer formed... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753523 | Portable video oculography system with integral calibration light A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes an integral calibration laser and at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection. The digital camera may digitally center the pupil in both the X and Y direction... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7731360 | Portable video oculography system A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection. The digital camera may digitally center the pupil in both the X and Y directions. A calibration mechanism may be ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7712503 | Automatic flexible spacer or sealant applicator for a glass work piece and method of applying flexible spacer or sealant to a glass workpiece A dual head horizontal automatic flexible spacer and/or sealant applicator for a glass work piece that applies the flexible spacer and/or sealant along a single axis and will operate on a range of work pieces sizes. The machine will automatically square a work piece... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7665845 | Portable high speed head mounted pupil dilation tracking system A goggle based light-weight VOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection and allows for high speed pupil dilation tracking. An EOG system may be incorporated directly into a goggle base. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7651224 | Dynamic visual vestibular acuity testing protocol A compact neuro-otologic testing device and method provides an image producing laser with a right hand, servo controlled galvanometric based XY interface. The high quality closed loop servo control system that can drive the target (i.e. the laser image) in excess of... | 01/26/2010 |
