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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7959484 | Bathtub whirlpool toy A bathtub whirlpool toy and educational device has a bottom and gasket designed to allow the device to fit over the drain of a household fixture such as a bathtub or sink. The device has a generally cylindrical interior space having inlet slots set at an angle, so t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7846712 | L-arabinose fermenting yeast An L-arabinose utilizing yeast strain is provided for the production of ethanol by introducing and expressing bacterial araA, araB and araD genes. L-arabinose transporters are also introduced into the yeast to enhance the uptake of arabinose. The yeast carries addit... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7859846 | Low thermal resistance power module assembly A power module assembly (400) with low thermal resistance and enhanced heat dissipation to a cooling medium. The assembly includes a heat sink or spreader plate (410) with passageways or openings (414) for coolant that extend through the plate f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7815862 | Wafer characteristics via reflectometry Various exemplary methods (800, 900, 1000, 1100) are directed to determining wafer thickness and/or wafer surface characteristics. An exemplary method (900) includes measuring reflectance of a wafer and comparing the measured reflectance to a calculate... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7754352 | Amorphous semiconducting and conducting transparent metal oxide thin films and production thereof Metal oxide thin films and production thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of producing a metal oxide thin film may comprise introducing at least two metallic elements and oxygen into a process chamber to form a metal oxide. The method may also comprise deposi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7629236 | Method for passivating crystal silicon surfaces In a method of making a c-Si-based cell or a μc-Si-based cell, the improvement of increasing the minority charge carrier's lifetime, comprising: a) placing a c-Si or polysilicon wafer into CVD reaction chamber under a low vacuum condition and subjecting the substra... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7601215 | Method for rapid, controllable growth and thickness, of epitaxial silicon films A method of producing epitaxial silicon films on a c-Si wafer substrate using hot wire chemical vapor deposition by controlling the rate of silicon deposition in a temperature range that spans the transition from a monohydride to a hydrogen free silicon surface in a... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7543348 | Bottle cleaning device and methods of operation Implementations described and claimed herein include bottle cleaning devices and methods. An exemplary bottle cleaning device comprises a drive system. A shaft is releasably connected to the drive system. The shaft rotates in response to operation of the drive syste... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7538200 | Thermal tolerant avicelase from Acidothermus cellulolyticus The invention provides a thermal tolerant (thermostable) cellulase, AviIII, that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family. AviIII was isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus and, like many cellulases, the disclosed polypeptide an... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7517784 | Method for producing high carrier concentration p-Type transparent conducting oxides A method for producing transparent p-type conducting oxide films without co-doping plasma enhancement or high temperature comprising: a) introducing a dialkyl metal at ambient temperature and a saturated pressure in a carrier gas into a low pressure deposition chamb... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7501270 | Oxygen-resistant hydrogenases and methods for designing and making same The invention provides oxygen- resistant iron-hydrogenases ([Fe]-hydrogenases) for use in the production of H2. Methods used in the design and engineering of the oxygen-resistant [Fe]-hydrogenases are disclosed, as are the methods of transforming and culturing appro... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7459188 | Method and apparatus for making diamond-like carbon films Ion-assisted plasma enhanced deposition of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films on the surface of photovoltaic solar cells is accomplished with a method and apparatus for controlling ion energy. The quality of DLC layers is fine-tuned by a properly biased system of speci... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7449550 | Superactive cellulase formulation using cellobiohydrolase-1 from Purified cellobiohydrolase I (glycosyl hydrolase family 7 (Cel7A) enzymes from Penicillium funiculosum demonstrate a high level of specific performance in comparison to other Cel7 family member enzymes when formulated with purified EIcd endoglucanase from ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7393673 | Thermal tolerant exoglucanase from The invention provides a thermal tolerant cellulase that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family. The invention further discloses this cellulase as Gux1. Gux1 has been isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus. The invention further pr... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7375197 | Cellobiohydrolase I gene and improved variants The disclosure provides a method for preparing an active exoglucanase in a heterologous host of eukaryotic origin. The method includes mutagenesis to reduce glycosylation of the exoglucanase when expressed in a heterologous host. It is further disclosed a method to ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374939 | Method of inactivation of an end product of energy metabolism in The present invention briefly provides a method of site-specific insertion in Zymomonas, comprising, providing a Zymomonas gene fragment, interrupting a DNA sequence the fragment, and transforming the Zymomonas through homologous recombination w... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7364890 | Thermal tolerant avicelase from The invention provides a thermal tolerant (thermostable) cellulase, AviIII, that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family. AviIII was isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus and, like many cellulases, the disclosed polypeptide an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354755 | Stable zymomonas mobilis xylose and arabinose fermenting strains The present invention briefly includes a transposon for stable insertion of foreign genes into a bacterial genome, comprising at least one operon having structural genes encoding enzymes selected from the group consisting of xylAxylB, araBAD and tal/tkt, and at leas... | 04/08/2008 |
| D494585 | Keypad and keypad housing | 08/17/2004 |
