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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6325973 | Methods and apparatus for improved luminescence assays An apparatus for performing a binding assay for an analyte of interest in a sample based upon measurement of clectrochemiluminescence at an electrode surface comprising: (a) a cell defining a sample; (b) an electrode adjacent a portion of the sample conta... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6316180 | Electrochemiluminescent monitoring of compounds/electrochemiluminescence assays Detectable compounds comprising a chemically-transformable first compound covalently linked to an electrochemiluminescent compound are provided. Such compounds are useful in processes and kits that monitor the status of the first compound and derive infor... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6224218 | Backscreen edge contouring for off-axis large field of view displays An off-axis backscreen visual display system having an increased vertical field of view (FOV) is disclosed. The lower edge of the backscreen member in the display system is contoured in accordance with the structure of the aircraft and the observer's poin... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6221330 | Process for producing single wall nanotubes using unsupported metal catalysts A process for producing hollow, single-walled carbon nanotubes by catalytic decomposition of one or more gaseous carbon compounds by first forming a gas phase mixture carbon feed stock gas comprising one or more gaseous carbon compounds, each having one t... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6221673 | Materials, method and apparatus for detection and monitoring of chemical species A method for investigating a target environment to determine whether or in what amount a chemical species may be present therein, which comprises: (a) exposing to said environment an article of manufacture comprising a multiplicity of particles in close-p... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6205016 | Fibril composite electrode for electrochemical capacitors Composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, hig... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6203814 | Method of making functionalized nanotubes Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called "buckytubes") and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes wh... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6165708 | Electrochemiluminescent monitoring of compounds Detectable compounds comprising a chemically-transformable first compound covalently linked to an electrochemiluminescent compound are provided. Such compounds are useful in processes and kits that monitor the status of the first compound and derive infor... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6165729 | Electrochemiluminescent reaction utilizing amine-derived reductant Electrochemiluminescent assay methods for determining an analyte of interest, which methods include forming one or more compositions which include, in the aggregate, (a) a sample to be tested for the analyte of interest, (b) a component capable of specifi... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6162640 | Selection methods A rational method for obtaining a novel molecule capable of a desired interaction with a substrate of interest comprising selecting hosts or replicators which incode said novel molecules based upon cell or replicator growth caused by the desired interacti... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6159348 | Method of making a coated planet gear journal bearing The production of a bearing surface by coating a known bearing material directly on the surface of a gear bore. A process of coating bearing materials directly onto the surface of a gear and the product thereof. The surface is preferably the inner bore su... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6153671 | Retroreflective adherent particles and their use As an article of manufacture, particulate composites containing, in combination: particles of inorganic material, a component for conferring on the composites the capability of floating in a medium including one or more substance capable of forming a bind... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6151588 | Full service trade system A system stores criteria specified by a funder relating to trade transactions for buyers and sellers. The system compares the criteria with a proposed purchase order to determine whether the system can generate a payment guarantee on behalf of the funder ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6143689 | Methods and catalysts for the manufacture of carbon fibrils An improved catalyst for producing carbon fibrils is made by incorporating an effective yield-enhancing amount of a carboxylate into a fibril-forming catalyst. Alternatively, such a catalyst is made by coprecipitating a compound of a metal having fibril-f... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6140045 | Multi-array, multi-specific electrochemiluminescence testing Materials and methods are provided for producing patterned multi-array, multi-specific surfaces which are electronically excited for use in electrochemiluminescence based tests. Materials and methods are provided for the chemical and/or physical control o... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6136233 | Hydrogen peroxide based ECL An electrochemiluminescence (ECL)-based assay for the quantitation of classical clinical chemistry analytes, where glucose, ethanol, carbon dioxide, cholesterol, as H2 O2 liberating systems coupled to a tris(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) R... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6133043 | Magnetic particle based electrochemiluminescent detection apparatus and method A method and apparatus for measuring electrochemiluminescence from a sample composition are described wherein magnetically responsive electrochemiluminescent active species are captured on the electrode with the aid of a capture magnet having a configurat... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132648 | Devices and methods for generating electrogenerated chemiluminescence Devices and methods for generating electrogenerated chemiluminescence, using an electrode which is coated with an immobilized layer of a compound capable of generating ECL. The coated electrode can be immersed along with a second electrode into an electro... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132955 | Method for derivitizing electrodes and assay methods using such derivitized electrodes An electrode can be derivitized by contacting it with a derivitizing solution to make it more sensitive to a desired analyte signal as opposed to interfering signals in an assay. Particularly, in an electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassay the working e... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130356 | Catalysts for the oxidation of ethane to acetic acid, methods of making and using the same A mixed metal oxide MoVLaPdNbXO catalytic system (wherein X=Al, Ga, Ge and/or Si) providing higher selectivity and space time yield of acetic acid at low pressure and low temperature in a single stage oxidation of ethane with a molecular oxygen-containing... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6124233 | Highly active and selective catalysts for the production of unsaturated nitriles, methods of making and using the same An improved catalyst for the production of unsaturated nitriles from their corresponding olefins, the catalyst having the atomic ratios described by the empirical formula Bia Mob Vc Sbd Nbe Af ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6121007 | Reaction-based selection for expression of and concentration of catalytic moieties Disclosed and claimed are methods for selecting a recombinant virus, phage or cell expressing a catalytic antibody or catalytic portion thereof, or for selecting catalytic activity by a moiety. The method employs reaction-based selection for catalytic act... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6120986 | Electrochemiluminescence assay A rapid single step assay suitable for the detection or quantification of ଲ-lactam antibiotics and ଲ-lactamases. The assay can be performed directly on samples of food, such as milk and meat, blood or serum and is useful in determining the sui... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6116180 | Boat A boat comprises a central hull member (10), such member having no flat surfaces below the waterline such as could support the boat in a planing mode, the ratio of the length of such member to its beam being no less than 5 to 1, and a respective auxiliary... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6114278 | Catalysts for catalytic oxidation of propane to acrylic acid, methods of making and using the same A mixed metal oxide Mo-V-Ga-Pd-Nb-X (where X=La, Te, Ge, Zn, Si, In or W) catalytic system providing a higher selectivity to acrylic acid in the low temperature partial oxidation of propane with a molecular oxygen-containing gas.... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113819 | Three dimensional interpenetrating networks of macroscopic assemblages of oriented carbon fibrils and organic polymers The invention relates to an interpenetrating network of carbon fibrils and a polymer, which comprises a rigidized, three-dimensional macroscopic assemblage of a multiplicity of randomly oriented carbon fibrils and an innerpenetrating mass of an organic po... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6102656 | Segmented abradable ceramic coating A segmented abradable ceramic coating system having superior abradability and erosion resistance is disclosed. The system includes a duct segment having a metallic substrate, a MCrAlY bond coat on the substrate and a segmented abradable ceramic coating on... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103402 | Crack free metallic articles A containerless method of producing a crack free metallic article of near-net shape includes melting a filler material into a metallic substrate or seed under conditions chosen to preclude cracking. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a laser beam... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6099965 | Rigid porous carbon structures, methods of making, methods of using and products containing same This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include ca... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098462 | Low vibration link A symmetrical link device for linking first and second coplanar devices each movably mounted in a frame such that when one of the first and second coplanar devices is moved, a substantially equal and opposite motion is imparted to the other of the first a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098428 | Process for drawing glass fiber using prediction of future geometric parameter of the fiber A glass blank is sent to a heating zone where it is softened region by region and drawn continuously in a controlled manner as a drawing bulb is formed. Estimates of at least one controlled variable are predicted free of dead time; in addition, at least o... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6099960 | High surface area nanofibers, methods of making, methods of using and products containing same A high surface area carbon nanofiber is provided. The carbon nanofiber has an outer surface on which a porous high surface area layer is formed. A method of making the high surface area carbon nanofiber includes pyrolizing a polymeric coating substance pr... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6095755 | Gas turbine engine airfoils having increased fatigue strength An airfoil having improved fatigue strength is disclosed. The airfoil comprises a tip, a root section, a platform, and an airfoil section located between the tip and the platform. The airfoil section has a leading edge and a trailing edge. A metallic coat... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6090545 | Multi-array, multi-specific electrochemiluminescence testing Materials and methods are provided for producing patterned multi-array, multi-specific surfaces which are electronically excited for use in electrochemiluminescence based tests. Materials and methods are provided for the chemical and/or physical control o... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6087525 | Highly active and selective catalysts for the production of unsaturated nitriles, methods of making and using the same An improved catalyst for the production of unsaturated nitrites from their corresponding olefins, the catalyst composition having the atomic ratios described by the empirical formula Bia Mob Vc Sbd Nbe | 07/11/2000 |
| 6087476 | Luminescent chimeric proteins The invention relates to luminescent chimeric proteins which include a photoprotein and a second protein which may be light- or heavy-chain immunoglobulin, an antigenic peptide, avidin, streptavidin, or protein A. The invention also relates to chimeric pr... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6087297 | Catalysts for gas phase production of acetic acid from ethane, processes of making the same and methods of using same A mixed metal oxide catalytic system consisting of molybdenum, vanadium, lanthanum and palladium providing higher yields of acetic acid in low temperature single stage oxidation of ethane with molecular oxygen-containing gas without or with reduced produc... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6080981 | Apparatus for controlling the operation of a door movable in a door opening to prevent contact between the door and an obstruction in the door opening A door obstruction detector employs an optical device, such as a segmented Fresnel lens, and a PIR sensor attached to a moving door, so that the optical device causes an image of an object, in a detection zone, to move across a sensing region of the PIR s... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079225 | Method for the production of a quartz glass blank and apparatus suitable therefor In a known method, a quartz glass preform is produced by supplying a glass-forming base material in liquid form to an injection nozzle of a multi-nozzle flame deposition burner, vaporizing or gasifying the liquid glass-forming base material in the deposit... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079271 | Low vibration link A symmetrical link device for linking first and second coplanar devices each movably mounted in a frame such that when one of the first and second coplanar devices is moved, a substantially equal and opposite motion is imparted to the other of the first a... | 06/27/2000 |
