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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5721049 | Composite materials using bone bioactive glass and ceramic fibers Composite materials formed from bone bioactive glass or ceramic fibers and structural fibers are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, a braid or mesh of interwoven bone bioactive glass or ceramic fibers and structural fibers is impregnated with a polymeri... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5650553 | Plant genes for sensitivity to ethylene and pathogens The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences for ethylene insensitive, EIN loci and corresponding amino acid sequences. The present invention is also directed to nucleic acid sequences for hookless1, HLS1, alleles and amino acid sequences.... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5629152 | Trisubstituted ଲ-lactams and oligo ଲ-lactamamides Novel ଲ-lactam monomers bearing various functional groups are prepared. The novel ଲ-lactam monomers can be joined into oligomeric compounds via standard peptide linkages. Useful functional groups include nucleobases as well as polar groups, hy... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5601453 | Electrical connector hold-down A hold-down for interconnecting an electrical connector and a printed circuit board where the hold-down has two bodies that multiple sides. When the bodies of the hold-down are inserted into the circular bores of the electrical connector and printed circu... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5596796 | Process for providing a stator core with stator windings A process and an apparatus for providing a stator plate with windings where the stator plate has several stator slots distributed in a circumferential direction which are formed between poles and a stator core and end face disks formed of an electrically ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5595189 | Methods and apparatus for measuring body composition A system for measuring body fat percentage is disclosed. The system relies upon the measurement of a subject's weight in two gases of different densities. The difference in weight, along with the difference in atmospheric density, is used to determine the... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5589333 | In situ polymerase chain reaction The present invention concerns in situ polymerase chain reaction and provides methods and reagents for identifying cells containing at least one selected nucleic acid sequence which may be derived from the human immunodeficiency virus.... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5587324 | Process for coal tar remediation Methods are provided for the remediation of sites containing coal tar compositions that contain polynuclear aromatic compounds. The remediation entails altering the coal tar compositions to substantially decrease the bioavailability of the polynuclear aro... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5585611 | Interrupter assembly An interrupter assembly comprises an interrupter switch and at least one condition sensing device embedded within a body of solid dielectric material. Preferably, the solid dielectric material is a polymer concrete or an epoxy-concrete. The condition sens... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5580888 | Styryl derivatives as anti-inflammatory agents Compounds of general formula (1) ##STR1## are described wherein Y is a halogen atom or a group --OR1, wherein R1 is an optionally substituted alkyl group; X is --O--, --S-- or --N(R6)--, where R6 is a hydro... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5569579 | Synthetic-based platelet storage media Synthetic-based platelet storage media are provided along with methods of using the media for the storage of platelets for an extended period of time. The synthetic-based media contain phosphate and a substrate for oxidative phosphorylation and for provid... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5565619 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring water process equipment Methods and apparatus are provided for using tracers to monitor industrial process equipment to which liquid is added and from which liquid is removed. In preferred embodiments, the methods are directed to detecting water leakage in a boiler in which an a... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5556290 | Self-switching connector for electronic systems A self-switching interposer (10) for connecting a mating connector, such as a connector on the end of a cable, to a connector interface, such as a multi-pin connection socket on an electronic computer, includes a housing (12,16), first and second (24) set... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5544089 | Programmable electrical energy meter using multiplexed analog-to-digital converters Methods and apparatus for metering electrical energy are disclosed in an electronic meter. Such meter includes a first processor for determining electrical energy from voltage and current signals and for generating an energy signal representative of the e... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5512438 | Inhibiting RNA expression by forming a pseudo-half-knot RNA at the target's Compositions and methods for modulating the activity of RNA are provided. Oligonucleotides are hybridized with an RNA structure to form a stable heteroduplex so that the RNA is no longer recognized by its regulatory protein after oligonucleotide binding. ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5489692 | Pyrrolinone-based compounds Novel pyrrolinone-based compounds mimic or inhibit the biological and/or chemical activity of peptides, including peptide ଲ-strand conformations. Certain compounds contain functionalized pyrrolinone units in place of one or more amino acids of a tar... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5406612 | Method of and apparatus for standardizing and monitoring image quality in mammography Methods and apparatus for correcting the effect on image quality of a film processor which develops a radiographic image of a structure of interest on a film having an emulsion is disclosed. Such methods and apparatus include shielding a first portion of ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5385719 | Copolymers and their use as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging and in other applications Novel compounds having use as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging, as well as other uses, are described. The compounds are comprised of a copolymer which comprises at least two of a first monomer of the formula X1 --(CHR2 C... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386023 | Backbone modified oligonucleotide analogs and preparation thereof through reductive coupling Methods for preparing oligonucleotide analogs which have improved nuclease resistance and improved cellular uptake are provided. In preferred embodiments, the methods involve reductive coupling of 3'- and 4'-substituted or 4'- and 3'-substituted nucleosid... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5351075 | Home video club television broadcasting system A method and system for providing access to a plurality of video programs of a video library in accordance with viewer preferences. Members of the Home Video Club of the invention may phone in or write in their video program choices and the received viewe... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5346996 | Rare earth cryptates, processes for their preparation, synthesis intermediates and application as fluorescent tracers The invention relates to rare earth cryptates consisting of at least one rare earth salt complexed by a macropolycyclic compound corresponding to one of formulae I or II below, in which: the ring ##STR1## is the N2 O4 macrocycl... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5284843 | Pharmacological treatment of ocular development A method of inhibiting the abnormal postnatal axial growth of the eye of a maturing animal during conditions ordinarily leading to said abnormal growth, which comprises (1) determining the neurochemical present in the retina of said eye, eg., dopamine, th... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5153166 | Chromatographic stationary supports Methods for modifying polyhydroxylated materials by the direct covalent bonding of nucleophilic ligands to the former sites of hydroxyl groups on the material are disclosed. More specifically, methods for activating the surface of polyhydroxylated materia... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4696439 | Tape speed and tension control system for a magnetic tape cassette apparatus A digital tape cassette apparatus having a speed sensing roller in frictional contact with the magnetic tape within a cassette housing at a point intermediate the magnetic head and that one of the cassette hubs operating as the takeup hub during forward t... | 09/29/1987 |
