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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6958150 | Reduction of adipose tissue The amount of adipose tissue, including lipomas, at selected locations in the body is reduced by introducing collagenase or collagenase plus another proteinase into the tissue. ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6726959 | Process for fabricating a coating layer on a portable support, particularly a card format support, and portable support provided with such coating layer The invention relates to a process for fabricating a coating layer (8) and a portable support (1) provided with such layer, comprising a support body (3) provided on one of its sides (4) with said coating layer (8). The process of ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6199912 | Greeting card A simple foldable greeting card wherein, upon opening, decorative display elements self-generate a 3-D effect.... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6179751 | Device for ameliorating tennis elbow A device for exercising the tendons and muscles affected by tennis elbow takes the preferred form of a closed band of elastic material of sufficient circumference to fit around the fingers and thumb of the hand. On the band are four finger loops and one t... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5848401 | Hand-held portable postage meter that uses pre-printed tape A highly secure hand-held portable postage meter is disclosed that uses partially pre-printed postal tape. Only the date and postage amount remain to be printed on the tape by the meter. The postal tape, pre-printed by Postal Authority, is enclosed within... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5687992 | Greeting card A simple foldable greeting card wherein, upon opening, decorative display elements self-generate a 3-D effect.... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5098772 | Composite sheet for transfer of an image from same to a substrate Decal support sheets, decals, and process for transfer of an image to a substrate. No release layer is interposed between the paper sheet base and the plastic film of the support sheet. The plastic film is applied to the paper base so that it adheres well... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5032449 | Decals and processes for transfer of images to substrates Decals and process for transfer of images to substrates. A paper base is provided, of which at least one side has been sized and one side only has been treated with pigmented adhesive coating, whereby the pores throughout essentially the whole of the pape... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5020802 | Golf training device and method A golf training device and method giving instantaneous feedback of the quality of the shot. Two opposite, substantially parallel walls are provided between which the golfer stands with his club and a light-weight training ball. Each wall is marked with a ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4250226 | Method for producing an adhesive-coated high-strength steel reinforcing member Steel ribbons and wires having quenched martensite or bainite microstructure are disclosed having an organic adhesive coating which is degraded at the steel-adhesive interface. The products are useful as steel tire reinforcements.... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4230537 | Discrete biochemical electrode system A biochemical device and method for the determination of dissolved gases in solution is provided which employs a dry electrode/sample interface. Dissolved oxygen or other gas concentration in a liquid sample is measured by its diffusion through a selectiv... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4151107 | Catalysis of water-gas shift reaction The reaction of carbon monoxide and water to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide is catalyzed by a rhodium or iridium component with an iodide promoter.... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4145281 | Water purification process Process for the removal of chromium and zinc corrosion inhibitor compounds from cooling tower blowdown streams, comprising contacting the water of said streams first with a weakly basic anion exchange resin and then with a weakly acidic cation exchange re... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4133726 | Electrolytic flow-cell apparatus and process for effecting sequential electrochemical reaction This invention relates to an electrolytic flow-cell apparatus and a process for effecting sequential electrochemical reactions of redoxidative compounds at a porous working electrode. The porous working electrode has a first face and a second and opposite... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4132611 | Addition of organic electrophiles to carbon acids via catalysis by electrogenerated bases Organic electrophiles are added to carbon acids via catalysis by electrogenerated bases to yield carbon acid-organic electrophile addition products.... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4130590 | Production of unsaturated amines N-(alkadienyl)amines are produced at a rapid rate and in high yield by the reaction of conjugated dienes with ammonia and amines in a hydroxylic solvent using a catalyst system comprising a palladium compound co-catalyzed with a phosphonite ligand.... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4117111 | Method for lowering blood cholesterol level The level of blood cholesterol in a living animal body in which a state of hypercholesterolemia exists is lowered by orally administering to said animal body a pharmaceutically effective amount of a polymer, which is (1) polymerized unsaturated carboxylic... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4115424 | Zeolite catalyst An improved alkylation catalyst is provided exemplified by a type X or Y zeolite with cesium, rubidium or potassium cations, and with a boron or phosphorous component added. The catalyst is useful in producing styrene from toluene and methanol.... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4115550 | Composition for lowering blood cholesterol level The level of blood cholesterol in a living animal body in which a state of hypercholesterolemia exists is lowered by orally administering to said animal body a pharmaceutically effective amount of a polymer, which is (1) polymerized unsaturated carboxylic... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4108949 | 6-Hydroxy (alkoxy) phenylthiomethylene di(organophosphorus) compounds and process for making same The invention relates to o-hydroxy(or alkyloxy)-phenythiomethylenedi(organophosphorus) compounds and to processes for making the same. The compounds have the general formula ##STR1## where L is H or R', R' is alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms M is H, Cl o... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4101391 | Electrolytic oxidative methyl-methyl coupling of cresol salts Electrolytic oxidation of cresol salts substituted with non-interfering, blocking substituents at least at the 2,4,6-positions relative to the phenolic oxyanion where at least one of the substituents is the cresolic methyl leads to methyl-methyl coupled d... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4101587 | Method for the manufacture of organo substituted phosphonium salts Substituted phosphonium salts such as tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium chloride are prepared by reacting a metal phosphide selected from the group consisting of lithium phosphide, sodium phosphide, potassium phosphide, beryllium phosphide, magnesium pho... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4101392 | Process for electrolytic oxidative methyl-methyl coupling of cresol salts Cresol salts substituted with non-interfering, blocking substituents at least at the 2,4,6-positions relative to the phenolic oxyanion where at least one of the substituents is the cresolic methyl are electrolytically oxidized to yield methyl-methyl coupl... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4100194 | Production of unsaturated amines employing a palladium compound co-catalyzed with a phosphonite ligand N-(alkadienyl)amines are produced at a rapid rate and in high yield by the reaction of conjugated dienes with ammonia and amines in a hydroxylic solvent using a catalyst system comprising a palladium compound co-catalyzed with a phosphonite ligand.... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4100196 | Production of N-(alkadienyl)amines In the process of producing N-(alkadienyl)amines by the amination of conjugated dienes in a hydroxylic solvent medium in the presence of a catalyst comprising a palladium compound co-catalyzed with a phosphonite ligand, the improvement in which the phosph... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4097994 | Dental restorative composition containing oligomeric BIS-GMA resin and Michler's ketone A dental restorative composition and tooth coating comprising the combination of an adhesive resin of the oligomeric BIS-GMA type, a low molecular weight reactive extender or diluent acrylate, an organic peroxide catalyst or free radical initiator and, as... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4097473 | Production of serum albumin A serum albumin fraction is prepared in high yield and purity from plasma and other albumin-containing blood protein fractions by contacting with a resinous polymeric material having a high capacity for adsorption of albumin, heating at 65° C-72° C for ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4076758 | Synthesis of vicinal glycols Relatively low molecular weight primary alcohols are coupled to form relatively higher molecular weight vicinal glycols in which a trialkylsilyl protecting group is employed on the hydroxyl position of said low molecular weight primary alcohol during said... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4075197 | Serum albumin production A serum albumin fraction is prepared in high yield and purity from plasma and other albumin-containing blood protein fractions by contacting with a resinous polymeric material having a high capacity for adsorption of albumin, heating at 65°-72° C for ab... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4072706 | Oxidation of phosphonomethylamines Tertiary phosphonomethylamines are oxidized with oxygen, preferably in contact with activated carbon, to cause cleavage of a phosphonomethyl group and selective production of a secondary amine.... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4067900 | Hydrogenolysis of alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, esters and ethers The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of saturated hydrocarbons from alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, esters or ethers by hydrogenolysis in the presence of catalyst systems containing an iridium or rhodium component and a halogen com... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4059486 | Cell culture process SV3T3 cells are rapidly propagated in vitro to elaborate MIF and TAF by first growing on a surface and thereafter transferring an inoculum of the growing cells into an agitated liquid suspension of nutrient culture medium, incubating at 30°-38° C while ... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4058548 | Process for preparing acetonitrile A process is described for converting methyl amines to acetonitrile by heating with a transition metal catalyst in the presence of hydrogen.... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4052461 | Hydroformylation process The invention relates to a process for the preparation of aldehydes by the hydroformylation of olefinically unsaturated compounds using a rhodium catalyst which catalyst is provided by (1) introducing rhodium into the reaction solution in the form of an i... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4051070 | Catalyst preparation utilizing metal nitrates and nitrogen oxide scavenger Provisions are taken to counter nitrogen oxide fumes produced in catalyst preparation involving metal nitrate decomposition, as by including urea or another scavenger, or by delaying calcining until used as catalyst in treating auto exhaust.... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4045297 | Triglycerides determination method A method of determining triglycerides in biological fluids which comprises reacting a biological fluid sample with a lipolytic enzyme to liberate free glycerol, reacting said free glycerol with a coupled enzyme series in an oxygenated aqueous solution con... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4042462 | Creatine phosphokinase determination method A method of determining creatine phosphokinase activity in biological fluids comprising reacting a biological fluid sample with a coupled enzyme series in an oxygenated aqueous solution containing creatine phosphate, ADP, glucose, HK, G-6-PDH, NADP and an... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4035428 | Process for production of orthophenylphenol A process for production of orthophenylphenol is disclosed. More specifically, the invention relates to the conversion of phenol or diphenyl ether into orthophenylphenol in a two-stage process in which dibenzofuran is an intermediate.... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4029748 | Iridium carbonyl complexes The complexes [Ir(CO)3 I], [HIr(CO)3 I2 ], [HIr(CO)2 I2 (H2 O)], [RIr(CO)2 I2 ], [(RCO)Ir(CO)2 I2 ] where R is an alkyl radical, are described. Proces... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4028201 | Electrolytic monocarboxylation of activated olefins Olefinic nitriles, esters and amides are electrolytically mono-carboxylated in the presence of carbon dioxide and a proton donor.... | 06/07/1977 |
