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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7428043 | Apparatus for ascertaining the light power level of a light beam, and scanning microscope An apparatus for ascertaining properties of a light beam, comprises a means for splitting a measured beam out from the light beam and comprises at least one detector that at least partially receives the measured beam. A polarization-influencing means is arranged in ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7390788 | Peptide pharmaceutical compositions The present invention relates to alkylglycoside-containing compositions and methods for increasing the stability, reducing the aggregation and immunogenicity, increasing the biological activity, and reducing or preventing fibrillar formation of a peptide, polypeptid... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7108970 | Rapid identification of conditions, compounds, or compositions that inhibit, prevent, induce, modify, or reverse transitions of physical state The invention concerns arrays comprising hundreds, thousands, to hundreds of thousands of samples and methods for screening thereof. These methods are useful to optimize, select, and discover compounds, compositions, or conditions that prevent, inhibit, induce, modi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7008794 | Method and apparatus for assay for multiple analytes A method and apparatus for assay of multiple analytes. The method uses a sensing element comprising a substrate upon which is arranged a multiplicity of recognition elements, such that each element is laid out in a predetermined pattern. Each pattern is unique in th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6862091 | Illumination device and method for spectroscopic analysis An illumination subsystem for use in optical analysis which provides spatially and angularly homogenized radiation to the sample being analyzed. The system eliminates the illumination system as an interferent in the overall optical analysis. Thus, modest translation... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6727988 | Spectrophotometer with drive means and Spectrophotometry using such A spectrophotometer and spectrophotometry method, using a precision drive at a photodiode array which precisely moves the photodiode array by a distance equal to the physical interval between the photodiodes of the photodiode array so that the spectrophotometer and ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6624887 | Methods for determining the physiological state of a plant The present invention provides methods for measuring a photosynthetic parameter. The methods of the invention include the steps of: (a) illuminating a plant leaf until steady-state photosynthesis is achieved; (b) subjecting the illuminated plant leaf to a... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6457846 | Lamp assembly A lamp assembly for use in the printing and coating industries has an elongate source of radiation and a reflector with an elongate reflective surface partly surrounding the source for reflecting radiation from the source down onto a substrate for curing ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6413786 | Binding assays using optical resonance of colloidal particles A device and a method enable the rapid, quantitative evaluation of a large collection of ligands for binding affinity with a certain immobilized receptor, the improvements being that binding pan be detected without the need for a label and that binding is... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6268915 | Micropolarimeter The invention concerns a micropolarimeter comprising an analyzer (1) and a detector (10) located past the analyzer in the direction of radiation and presenting a number of segments ND which is higher than or equal to 3 (11). The invention seeks... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6104486 | Fabrication process of a semiconductor device using ellipsometry A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of illuminating a structure formed on a surface of a substrate by an incident optical beam incident to the structure with a predetermined incident angle with respect to the surface, measuri... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5940178 | Nephelometer and turbidimeter combination A nephelometer and nephelometer/turbidimeter combination of the type useful in automated chemical analyzers is provided. The combination includes a laser for generating a polarized laser beam having an S-wave component and a P-wave component. The beam is ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5856867 | Method and apparatus for determining the pressure-induced nonreciprocity of a fiber-optic coil The invention is a method and apparatus for quantitatively characterizing the pressure-induced nonreciprocity of a fiber-optic coil where the pressure-induced nonreciprocity is a property of a fiber-optic coil which pertains to the degree to which light b... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5526117 | Method for the determination of characteristic values of transparent layers with the aid of ellipsometry Characteristic values of transparent layers in the nanometer range, such a layer thickness and refractive index, can be determined with a spectro-ellipsometer. The task is to determine these values even with a less elaborate ellipsometer which only operat... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5172187 | Method of determining the pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules The invention concerns a method of determining the angle of attack (pretilt angle) of liquid crystal molecules in a liquid crystal display (LCD) provided with top and bottom cover plates. The following steps are proposed for a simple and cheap determinati... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5003500 | Process and apparatus for the preparation of color formulations utilizing polarized light in spectrophotometry A process and an apparatus for the preparation of color formula for the reproduction of the color of a master are described. In the process, during a measurement, the gloss component of the reflected light is already suppressed with polarizing filters, so... | 03/26/1991 |
