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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177950 | Thermoresponsive microparticle composite hydrogels for electrophoresis Disclosed are thermoresponsive microparticle composite hydrogels comprising poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) and polyacrylamide, and methods regarding their manufacture and their use. The present invention provides in one aspect a thermoresponsive microparticle hydrogel... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8034224 | Electrophoresis gel and method of making same An electrophoresis gel has a colored or pigmented loading area at one edge having a plurality of sample wells for receiving samples, the loading area extending beyond the ends of the wells so that the wells can be visually differentiated from the surrounding colored... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7967966 | System for pH-neutral stable electrophoresis gel A gel and buffer system for gel electrophoresis wherein separation occurs at neutral pH. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7799195 | Neutral polysaccharide wall coating for electrophoretic separations in capillaries and microchannels The present invention describes a method of preparation of a permanent neutral wall coating made of thermally immobilized polysaccharides. The coating suppresses electroosmotic flow and adsorption on the wall under acidic, neutral, and basic conditions in capillary ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799194 | Electrophoretic gels and their manufacture The invention relates to a method of preparing a gel for use in electrophoresis, which method comprises: (a) providing a mixture comprising a solvent, agarose or a derivative thereof, one or more vinyl monomers, and a polymerisation initiator, the initiator f... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7794576 | Protein resolution enhancement by using matrix containing DMSO An electrophoresis gel matrix is provided for conducting proteomics, in particular the steps of separating and/or identifying proteins. The matrix comprises at least one chemical reagent being at least one of a denaturing, buffering, disaggregating, reducing, staini... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7731829 | Electrophoresis gel and method of making same An electrophoresis gel has a colored or pigmented loading area at one edge having a plurality of sample wells for receiving samples, the loading area extending beyond the ends of the wells so that the wells can be visually differentiated from the surrounding colored... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7682497 | Thermo-gelling matrices for microchannel DNA sequencing Polymeric compounds and related methods and apparatus, as can be used in a wide range of RNA and DNA separations. ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7399396 | Sparsely cross-linked nanogels: a novel polymer structure for microchannel DNA sequencing The present invention is generally directed to novel polymeric mateirals for use in the electrophoretic separation of nucleic acids. In particular, the novel polymer materials are sparsely crosslinked nanogels, dissolved in an aqueous buffer to form solutions with m... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7326324 | Purification and use of gellan in electrophoresis gels Gellan can be purified from nucleic acid contamination by combining the contaminated gellan with DNase under conditions that allow the DNase to degrade the nucleic acid contaminant. The purified gellan is useful in gel electrophoresis. A buffer which allows cystamin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326326 | System and methods for electrophoretic separation of proteins on protein binding membranes Proteins can be rapidly separated to a high degree of resolution by electrophoresis on polymeric membranes that have high protein binding capacity. The electrophoretic separation is carried out in a low conductivity, water-miscible organic solvent buffer. The low co... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323092 | Multichannel microscale system for high throughput preparative separation with comprehensive collection and analysis While the present invention has been described in conjunction with a preferred embodiment, one of ordinary skill, after reading the foregoing specification, will be able to effect various changes, substitutions of equivalents, and other alterations to the compositio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323140 | Moving microdroplets in a microfluidic device The present invention relates to a system and method for moving samples, such as fluid, within a microfluidic system using a plurality of gas actuators for applying pressure at different locations within the microfluidic. The system includes a substrate which forms ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320747 | Gel for electrophoresis The present invention is directed to a solidified hybrid gel for use in an electrophoresis process, having a solidified first gel portion juxtaposed with a solidified second gel portion. The first gel portion is capable of accommodating therein one or more samples f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7314708 | Method and apparatus for electronic synthesis of molecular structures A self-addressable, self-assembling microelectronic device is designed and fabricated to actively carry out and control multi-step and multiplex molecular biological reactions in microscopic formats. These reactions include nucleic acid hybridization, antibody/antig... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314584 | Polymer gel composition and optical device using the same The present invention provides a polymer gel composition including: at least two polymer compounds which interact with each other to form a polymer complex; and a liquid. One of the polymer compounds forms a three-dimensional crosslinked structure, at least one othe... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7282127 | Microcapillary devices using high dielectric constant materials and related methods A microcapillary device includes a microcapillary tube. An anode is positioned at a first end of the microcapillary tube. A cathode is positioned at a second end of said microcapillary tube. A plurality of electric field reducing components are spaced apart along a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270786 | Methods and systems for processing microfluidic samples of particle containing fluids The present invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing a cell-containing liquid. The system includes a microfabricated substrate having an enrichment channel to prepare an enriched cell sample from the cell-containing liquid. A flow through member is ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259217 | Controlled-architecture polymers and use thereof as separation media Controlled architecture polymers made preferably with acrylamide type monomers are prepared in living-type or semi-living-type free radical polymerizations, with the architecture preferably being other than linear, such as star, branched, grafted or hyper-branched. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255781 | Production of aligned microfibers and nanofibers and derived functional monoliths The present invention comprises a method for producing microfibers and nanofibers and further fabricating derived solid monolithic materials having aligned uniform micro- or nanofibrils. A method for producing fibers ranging in diameter from micrometer-sized to nano... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233481 | Electric double layer capacitor and electrolyte solution therefor An electric double layer capacitor has a pair of activated carbon electrodes and an organic solution in which an electrolyte is dissolved in an organic solvent. An electrolyte solution is also provided. In the electric double layer capacitor, at least one of cycloal... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229539 | Destructible surfactants and uses thereof Destructible surfactants and methods of using same are provided. The invention includes anionic surfactants having a dioxolane or dioxane functional group which enables the surfactant to be broken down under acidic conditions. The invention also includes methods of ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7217348 | Methods of identifying kinetically stable proteins The present invention provides a fast and efficient means for identifying kinetically stable proteins. As used herein the term “kinetically stable protein” means a protein that is trapped in a specific conformation due to an unusually high unfolding barrier that... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7198703 | Chamber-forming electrophoresis cassette cover A multielevational cover for assembling a fluid retaining chamber on a face of an electrophoresis cassette is presented. The cover comprises a cassette-containing member, at least one chamber-defining member, and sealing means, typically sealing means that are capab... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192557 | Methods and systems for releasing intracellular material from cells within microfluidic samples of fluids The present invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing a cell-containing liquid. The system includes a lysing zone to receive the cell-containing sample and a positioning element to position the cell-containing sample in a lysing position in the vicin... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7179357 | Serial sample injection in capillary electrophoresis The invention is a method of performing electrophoresis that increases sample throughput and increases the efficiency and speed of the analysis of polynucleotides by electrophoresis. The method is performed by loading and running multiple sequential samples on each ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172896 | Integrated portable biological detection system We have performed separation of bacterial and cancer cells from peripheral human blood in microfabricated electronic chips by dielectrophoresis. The isolated cells were examined by staining the nuclei with fluorescent dye followed by laser induced fluorescence imagi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7156969 | Microfluidic matrix localization apparatus and methods Multiphasic microfluidic apparatus for performing product fluid manipulation and separation in a single continuous unit are provided. Related methods, kits, and compositions are also provided. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153955 | Pentopyranosyl nucleic acid arrays, and uses thereof The invention relates to a pentopyranosylnucleoside of the formula (I) or of the formula (II) their preparation and use for the production of a therapeutic, diagnostic and/or electronic component. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147762 | Method of electrophoresis The present invention relates a method of electrophoretic separation of protein and/or peptide components of a sample in a convection stabilized medium. More specifically, the method comprises the steps to contact the sample with the separation medium; to apply a vo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7118900 | Directed assembly of functional heterostructures The present invention relates to a systematic process for the creation of functionally organized, spatially patterned assemblies of polymer-microparticle composites including the AC electric field-mediated assembly of patterned, self-supporting organic (polymeric) f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7101661 | Apparatus for active programmable matrix devices A system for performing molecular biological diagnosis, analysis and multistep and multiplex reactions utilizes a selfaddressable, selfassembling microelectronic system for actively carrying out controlled reactions in microscopic formats. Preferably, a fluidic syst... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7083711 | Capillary electrophoresis gel especially for separation made for single stranded nucleic acid separations A separation matrix for capillary electrophoresis of single-stranded nucleic acids is disclosed. The matrix comprises an aqueous buffer containing a denaturant and (hydroxypropyl)methyl cellulose. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7056426 | Pre-cast electrophoresis slab gels with extended storage life In pre-cast slab gel cassettes, the formation of pathways in which proteins can migrate between the gel and the walls of the cassette to form shadow bands is avoided by including a nonionic amphiphilic polymer in the monomer solution from which the gel is formed and... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052590 | Method and kit for the manufacture of separation gels A method for the manufacture of a separation gel, which comprises the steps: (i) providing a polymerization mixture containing a first monomer (I) having a polymerizable unsaturated structure and a second monomer (II) comprising two or more polymerizable unsaturated... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7005050 | Electrophoresis in microfabricated devices using photopolymerized polyacrylamide gels and electrode-defined sample injection The present invention relates to a novel, small-scale, electrophoretic separation system based on photodefined polymers and electrode-defined sample injection. Diffusion and displacement coefficients may be modified by varying the gel concentration, the intensity of... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6942775 | Vertical electrophoresis system A plugging medium is used to block the bottom opening of cassettes for vertical electrophoresis in order to facilitate filling the cassettes with separation media. Cassettes can be filled within a vertical electrophoresis system in which electrophoresis is conducted... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939453 | Electrophoresis process using ionic liquids Highly hydrophobic compounds and hydrophobic proteins are solubilized in a non-aqueous solvent containing an electrolyte for electrophoretic separation. The non-aqueous solvent is an ionic liquid or a mixture of an organic solvent containing an ionic liquid in an am... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6926815 | Copolymers for capillary gel electrophoresis This invention relates to an electrophoresis separation medium having a gel matrix of at least one random, linear copolymer comprising a primary comonomer and at least one secondary comonomer, wherein the comonomers are randomly distributed along the copolymer chain... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6878254 | Size separation of analytes using monomeric surfactants A sieving medium for use in the separation of analytes in a sample containing at least one such analyte comprises a monomeric non-ionic surfactant of the of the general formula, B-A, wherein A is a hydrophilic moiety and B is a hydrophobic moiety, present in a solve... | 04/12/2005 |
