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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120035739 | DESIGNED SURFACES FOR USE IN MEDICAL IMPLANTS OR INSTRUMENTS A medical implant device or component thereof comprising a metal substrate and a coating layer structure provided on the substrate. The coating layer structure comprises an outermost layer of a ceramic material. A bonding structure is deposited between the metal substra... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110282463 | TISSUE-BONDABLE MATERIAL FOR MEDICAL USE The present invention relates to a medical tissue-binding material, especially a soft tissue-binding material capable of attaching to a soft biological tissue such as a bone reconstruction material or a transdermal terminal, and a method for preparation thereof. In part... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110251698 | METHODS FOR MAKING TEXTURED CERAMIC IMPLANTS A ceramic implant having a rough surface texture and a method for forming the same. The method includes forming a green body of a first ceramic composition. The green body is reduced to smaller pieces thereby forming ceramic fragments. A mold is filled with a second cer... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110218646 | BONE IMPLANT MATRIX AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME The present invention relates to a bone implant matrix, comprising a base matrix treated or to be treated with a reinforcing mixture containing at least a polymer. The described bone implant matrix is particularly suitable in the field of b... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110202141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING BONE DEFECTS A bone augment for repairing a bone defect. The bone augment includes a porous body and a metallic liner. The porous body defines a bore and is configured to be intraoperatively shaped to correspond to the bone defect. The metallic liner is injection molded within the b... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110190903 | CONTINUOUS PHASE COMPOSITE FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL REPAIR A composite material for positioning in the anatomy to form a selected function therein. The composite may be resorbable over a selected period of time. The composite may allow for selected bone ingrowth as absorption of the composite occurs.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110166671 | PROSTHETIC JOINT A prosthetic joint has a central axis and includes: (a) a first member of rigid material and including a body having a cantilevered perimeter flange extending therefrom, the flange defining a wear-resistant, concave first contact surface having a protruding rim and a re... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110125284 | Improvements in or Relating to Joints and/or Implants A joint part (1) has a porous portion (2) that is defined by a multiplicity of solid regions where material is present and a remaining multiplicity of pore regions where material is absent, the locations of at least most of the multiplicity of solid region... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110022180 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Implantable medical devices are provided. In one embodiment, a device includes a body having an external surface defining an outer profile of the device. The body includes a porous matrix including a series of interconnected macropores defined by a plurality of intercon... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110009979 | Manufacture of Shape-Memory Alloy Cellular Materials and Structures by Transient-Liquid Reactive Joining This invention discloses a method, using pure niobium as a transient liquid reactive braze material, for fabrication of cellular or honeycomb structures, wire space-frames or other sparse builtup structures or discrete articles using Nitinol (near-equiatomic titanium-ni... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100274361 | IMPLANT AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING IT, IN PARTICULAR MODIFICATION OF ITS SURFACE A process for producing a ceramic implant which is structured on the surface at least in the region in contact with bone and/or tissue is described. The process is characterized in that the ceramic implant after shaping and sintering is, in the region to be structured, ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100174383 | CERAMIC LAYERED MEDICAL IMPLANT A new composition and medical implant made there from comprises a thick diffusion hardened zone, and layered ceramic surface. Orthopedic implants comprising the new composition, methods of making the new composition, and methods of making orthopedic implants comprising ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100145469 | BIOCERAMIC IMPLANTS HAVING BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE A bioceramic endoprosthesis includes a reservoir or deposition of a bioactive substance, such as an angiogenic growth factor, that can provide a biological function, such as vascularization of the endoprosthesis. Such a bioceramic can be prepared by a low temperature di... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100076569 | MEDICAL IMPLANT AND PRODUCTION THEREOF Medical implants exhibiting optimized mechanical properties, and methods of making such implants, are disclosed. That is, the implants are fabricated of a porous metal substrate and include coating integrated over various areas so as to provide some added or desirable p... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070049 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING COMPRESSION FRACTURES IN VERTEBRAL BODIES A composite vertebroplasty cement for positioning in a void in a vertebral body so as to treat a compression fracture in that vertebral body, the composite vertebroplasty cement comprising:
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| 20100049331 | Ceramic-ceramic articulation surface implants A prosthesis for articulation (e.g., hip or joint prosthesis) is provided, which includes a pair of articulation components respectively defining a pair of articulation surfaces movably engageable with each other. In some embodiments, each of the articulation surfaces i... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100016987 | THERMALLY TREATED CERAMIC COATING FOR IMPLANTS A prosthetic implant having a thermally treated ceramic coating and a method of producing a coated prosthetic implant. The ceramic coating is deposited onto the prosthetic implant such as by a plasma spray coating process. The prosthetic implant is thermally treated in ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090292366 | Material based on a partially stabilized zirconia matrix with cerium oxide and yttrium oxide as stabilizing oxides of zirconia, a process for preparation and use of the material A sintered ceramic material comprising: a) from 98-50% by volume of zirconia as a matrix, i) stabilized with a stabilizing composition having ii) of from about 2 to about 3 mole percent of yttria and of from about 10 to about 15 mole percent of ceria; wherein the term m... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090281633 | POROUS CERAMIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME Provision of a porous ceramic material which rapidly induces bone tissue formation and has practical strength. A porous ceramic material 11 having substantially unidirectionally oriented pores 12, a porosity of 40-90%, and an ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090265017 | RIGID BONE GRAFT SUBSTITUTE A bone graft substitute includes a porous matrix at least partially covered by a reinforcing outer layer. The porous matrix may be a collagen-ceramic composite, and the reinforcing outer layer may be formed from highly cross-linked collagen. The implant may also include... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090228115 | BIOCERAMIC COATING, METHOD OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF Disclosed are a gradient bioceramic coating comprising a rare earth oxide, a broadband laser method for preparing the bioceramic coating, and the use of the bioceramic coating in the field of medical materials.... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090187245 | INTERBODY FUSION HYBRID GRAFT The invention is directed toward a sterile composite bone graft for use in implants comprising a central member constructed of biocompatible plastic with two end caps of cortical bone mated to opposite ends of the central member. The central member is cylindrically ring... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090187255 | CERAMIC METAL COMPOSITE FOR ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS The invention relates to an orthopedic implant made of a ceramic metal composite. The composite (28, 48, 54) includes one phase that is a biocompatible metal or metal alloy and a second phase of ceramic particles examples of which include carbides, nitrides and/o... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090005878 | PROSTHESIS A preassembled acetabular cup prosthesis comprising an outer shell and a ceramic liner located within the shell, said preassembled unit having been assembled ex-vivo under a controlled force selected to optimise the pre-stressing of the components of the prosthesis.... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080281431 | RESORBABLE BONE GRAFT MATERIALS Ceramic materials operable to repair a defect in bone of a human or animal subject comprising a porous ceramic scaffold having a bioresorbable coating, and a carrier comprising denatured demineralized bone. The ceramic may contain a material selected from the group cons... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080275568 | Biomedical Member and Method for Producing the Same A biomedical member having high strength, high toughness and high hardness and an artificial joint that uses the same are provided. In addition, a biomedical member that exhibits high wear resistance even in in vivo environment and an artificial joint are provided. ... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080208353 | Reinforced medical implants Medical implants having a ceramic body reinforced with a plurality of metal wires. Methods of making the implant and methods of implanting the medical implant are also provided.... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080114468 | Processes for making ceramic medical devices A process for making a sintered ceramic medical device, comprising providing an unsintered ceramic composition, forming the unsintered ceramic composition into a green body that comprises unsintered ceramic, irradiating the green body with microwave radiation, and cooli... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080015709 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING DEFECTS IN THE TISSUE OF A LIVING BEING An implant for deployment in select locations or select tissue for regeneration of tissue is disclosed. The implant comprising collagen and or other bio-resorbable materials, where the implant may also be used for therapy delivery. Additionally, the implant may be “ma... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070224678 | Functionalized artificial bone and joint compositions and methods of use and manufacture The present invention provides a functionalized ceramic body for in vitro and in vivo use comprising a calcium aluminate containing phase that is functionalized with a linker group comprising at least one of an organic acid molecule, a phosphonic acid, an amine, and N,N... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070213832 | Surface treatments for calcium phosphate-based implants Bioresorbable unsintered calcium phosphate prosthetic bone implants with surface mineral coatings capable of acting as a pharmaceutical carriers for bioactive agents of therapeutic use are provided herein. Also disclosed are methods of making said implants. ... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070191944 | Biocompatible Titanium Alloys Methods and compositions are disclosed for coating a biocompatible medical implant with a surface layer having antioxidant activity. In various embodiments, a surface layer described herein destroys the oxidative activity of a reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon contact.... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070162151 | Resorbable macroporous bioactive glass scaffold and method of manufacture A resorbable, macroporous bioactive glass scaffold comprising approximately 24-45% CaO, 34-50% SiO2, 0-25% Na2O, 5-17% P2O5, 0-5% MgO and 0-1% CaF2 by mass percent, produced by mixing with pore forming agents and sp... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070156247 | BONE REPLACEMENT MATERIAL A bone replacement material that can be introduced or packed into a bone defective part smoothly, reliably and safely is provided. The bone replacement material is formed into a pellet and a plurality of the pellets are packed into the bone defective part Each pellet de... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070123996 | Stem cell comprising tissue substitutes A biocompatible composite includes a solid biocompatible material and stem cells attached thereto. The biocomposite provides a stable interface with endogenous tissue and the implanted composition resulting in accelerated repair to damaged bones and tissues. A method of... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070113951 | Osteochondral composite scaffold for articular cartilage repair and preparation thereof The present invention discloses a biomedical scaffold material for articular cartilage repair, which is a multi-layer composite scaffold in the cylindrical plug form. It includes a lower porous ceramic layer intimating the bone zone of the joint, and an upper porous cer... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070112436 | Sintered body of titanium compound The present invention provides a sintered body of titanium compound obtained by sintering the titanium compound and a method for producing the same. A titanium compound represented by the formula (1) or (2) below is sintered. [Ca10 05/17/2007 | |
| 20070106393 | Bone substitute material A method of fabricating a bone substitute material comprises the steps of providing a foam material (3) having an open cell structure, distorting the shape of the foam material (3) and holding the material in a distorted shape, coating the walls of the cel... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070078520 | Traceable nanocrystals and preparation thereof Hydroxyapatite (HAp) is widely accepted as bone graft substitutes for clinical application. A novel method is to synthesize an applicable HAp nanoparticles which emit fluorescence or maintain magnetic property with quenching. The present invention is related to utilize ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070072009 | Porous calcium phosphate ceramic and method for producing same A porous calcium phosphate ceramic body comprising a substrate 1, and three-dimensional nanotunnel layers 2 formed on wall surfaces of the substrate 1, the three-dimensional nanotunnel layers 2 having pluralities of three-dimensionally connec... | 03/29/2007 |
