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US20120115959 Therapeutic Compositions And Methods  
The present invention relates in general to therapeutic compositions and methods of use. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the field of eye health. In some embodiments, the...
US20120115193 TRANSFORMATION OF GLYCEROL AND CELLULOSIC MATERIALS INTO HIGH ENERGY FUELS  
The present invention includes a system and method for making a biofuel comprising: providing a nitrogen-limiting, minimal growth media comprising glycerol, sugars generated from cellulosic biomass...
8169680 Polymers responsive to radiation pressures  
Polymers that undergo a reversible phase change in response to being exposed to a light from a laser having a radiation pressure greater than a threshold level. The phase changeable polymers have...
US20120098564 Reversing the Weak Measurement on a Qubit  
Methods and systems are disclosed for restoring a state of a qubit transformed by a weak measurement to its original state. Unlike traditional methods, in which, the restoration was carried out by...
8164500 Jitter cancellation method for continuous-time sigma-delta modulators  
A continuous-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed. The ADC includes a loop filter, a loop quantizer, and a clock-jitter tolerant digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The...
US20120096234 INFORMATION REPRESENTATION AND CODING FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORIES  
A memory device having a plurality of cells, each of which stores a value, where the values of the cells are mapped to discrete levels and the discrete levels represent data, is programmed by...
US20120095272 INTEGRATED BIOFUEL PROCESSING SYSTEM  
A unique, integrated non-obvious pathway to convert biomass to biofuels using integration of chemical processes is described herein. The present invention is simple, direct, and provides for the...
US20120095143 DISPERSION AND RETRIEVAL OF DE-BUNDLED NANOTUBES  
A method for dispersing nanotubes, comprising forming a nanocomposite solution with associated nanotubes and nanoplatelets, mixing a surfactant to the nanocomposite solution, separating the...
US20120092961 ANALYSIS AND FILTERING OF SURFACE WAVES IN SHALLOW WATER ENVIRONMENT USING S AND T-F-K TRANSFORM  
The various embodiments of the present invention provide a method for removing a Scholte waves and similar ground roll type waves from a seismic sea bottom data in a shallow water. The method...
US20120092957 Survey Design for Sea Bottom Seismic in Shallow Water  
The various embodiments herein provide a method to acquire seismic data to estimate reservoir characteristics in a shallow sea water environment. According to an embodiment herein, a method...
8160195 Phase drift compensation for sampled signals  
Methods for processing a signal of interest in an electrical power system are provided, as well as systems and computer program products for carrying out the methods. The methods include obtaining...
8153850 Integrated biofuel production system  
According to an embodiment, a biomass conversion subsystem produces methane and/or alcohol and residual biomass. A pyrolysis or a gasification subsystem is used to produce thermal energy and/or...
US20120080853 ANNULAR SEALS FOR NON-CONTACT SEALING OF FLUIDS IN TURBOMACHINERY  
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an annular seal generally includes a hollow member having two ends and an inner surface. The hollow member has a number of depressions formed in and...
8148547 C-substituted diindolylmethane compositions and methods for the treatment of multiple cancers  
The present embodiment of the invention is generally directed to compositions comprising suspensions of poorly water soluble compounds recrystallized in nanoparticulate sizes ranging from 0.1 to 5...
US20120077859 C-substituted Diindolylmethane Compositions and Methods for the Treatment of Multiple Cancers  
The present embodiment of the invention is generally directed to compositions comprising suspensions of poorly water soluble compounds recrystallized in nanoparticulate sizes ranging from 0.1 to 5...
US20120071485 Therapeutic Compositions And Methods  
The present invention relates in general to therapeutic compositions and methods of use. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the field of eye health. In some embodiments, the...
US20120070846 METHODS FOR DETECTING MOLECULE-MOLECULE INTERACTIONS WITH A SINGLE DETECTION CHANNEL  
A single molecule or molecule complex detection method is disclosed in certain aspects, comprising nano- or micro-fluidic channels.
8137955 Method for heat recovery from pre-treated biomass  
According to one embodiment, a method for heat treatment of a biomass includes allowing biomass in a pretreatment reactor to undergo a pre-treatment reaction process. The pre-treatment reaction...
US20120062058 Shaft-less Energy Storage Flywheel  
Embodiments of the present invention include a shaft-less energy storage flywheel system. The shaft-less energy storage flywheel system includes a solid cylindrical flywheel having permanent motor...
8124386 Methods and systems for biomass conversion to carboxylic acids and alcohols  
The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem...
8124107 Antibodies recognizing a highly expressed putative antigen of CA-MRSA and methods of use  
The present invention provides MSCRAMM® proteins from S. aureus which are putative highly-expressed antigens from methicillin-resistant S. aureus, including communit-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), and ...
8120436 System and method for implementing an oscillator  
In one embodiment, a system for generating an oscillating signal includes a transconductance amplifier comprising a single-ended output and a differential input. The system also includes only one...
8119653 Belactosin derivatives as therapeutic agents/biological probes and their synthesis  
Derivatives of belactosin and their synthesis are disclosed. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention exhibit anti-cancer, antiviral, antibiotic, and/or auto-immune therapeutic...
8114925 Intercalation agent free compositions useful to make nanocomposite polymers  
A method for preparing a filler composition useful for preparing a nanocomposite polymer is provided. The method includes a first step of dispersing a water dispersible filler material in a liquid...
8113121 Guideway system to roadway interchange system  
According to one embodiment, a transport interchange system includes a roadway that intersects a guideway system such that the roadway is discontinuous across the guideway system. A guideway...
US20120034663 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BIOMASS CONVERSION TO CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND ALCOHOLS  
The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem...
US20120028823 pH MODULATION METHOD TO DETECT LIGAND-RECEPTOR BINDING  
The present disclosure relates to detecting receptor-ligand binding by measuring local pH modulation using a pH-sensitive fluorophore.
US20120028809 Textured Powder Wires  
A method for fabricating a wire from textured powder includes compressing a powder comprising a plurality of particles into a ribbon. The method further includes encasing the ribbon between two...
8105776 Breed-specific haplotypes for polled phenotypes in cattle  
The presence of horns within commercial cattle populations increases the chances of injuries. The Polled (hornless) condition in cattle has existed since domestication, and it has been selected by...
8104362 In-line virtual impactor  
An inline virtual impactor comprising an outer housing having a housing inlet, a housing inner surface, a major flow outlet and a minor flow outlet; a flow accelerator member disposed in the...
8101838 Water-soluble nanoparticles with controlled aggregate sizes  
A method of forming dispersed water-soluble quantum dots and tuning water-soluble quantum dot aggregate size by providing a plurality of water-soluble quantum dots in a dispersion, the plurality of...
US20120003180 PERLECAN DOMAIN V PROTECTS, REPAIRS AND RESTORES ISCHEMIC BRAIN STROKE INJURY AND MOTOR FUNCTION  
The disclosed invention relates to the use of perlecan domain V (DV) for the treatment of stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injuries (SCI). In certain embodiments, fusion proteins...
8088923 Cyclic-fused beta-lactones and their synthesis  
The present invention provides a concise synthetic method for generating lactam-fused beta-lactones that feature, in some embodiments, a tertiary fused carbinol, quaternary carbons, and a reactive...
8088773 Therapeutic compositions and methods  
The present invention relates in general to therapeutic compositions and methods of use. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the field of eye health. In some embodiments, the...
8088595 Method for glucose monitoring using fluorescence quenching  
This disclosure relates to a method of measuring a glucose concentration metric or a glucose metric in a patient by contacting an implantable glucose-sensing device with a test sample, which may be...
US20110313219 DEOXYGENATION OF BIOMASS DERIVED OXYGENATES TO HYDROCARBONS VIA DIRECT METHANE INTERVENTION  
The application describes a process where methane or any short chained hydrocarbon could be catalytically coupled with an oxygenate (preferably derived from thermal processing of biomass) to...
US20110311003 SOURCE-CHANNEL APPROACH TO CHANNEL CODING WITH SIDE INFORMATION  
Code designs for channel coding with side information (CCSI) based on combined source-channel coding are disclosed. These code designs combine trellis-coded quantization (TCQ) with irregular repeat...
8074998 Annular seals for non-contact sealing of fluids in turbomachinery  
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an annular seal generally includes a hollow member having two ends and an inner surface. The hollow member has a number of depressions formed in and...
8073052 Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for transmission over unreliable channels  
A system and method for video coding. Energy-concentrating transform operations are performed on video data to obtain transformed data. Nested scalar quantization is performed on the transformed...
8071738 Feline CD86 polypeptides and nucleic acids  
The present invention provides isolated and purified DNA encoding feline CD80 (B7-1) ligand, feline CD86 (B7-2) ligand, feline CD28 receptor, or feline CTLA-4 (CD152) receptor, as well as vectors...
D649369 Student desk with stool  
D649368 Student desk with seat  
8066981 Compositions and methods related to toll-like receptor-3  
The invention relates to compositions and methods related to Toll-like receptor (TLR) polypeptides. In some embodiments, the invention relates to managing TLR3 related diseases. In further...
US20110287458 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES  
The present invention provides a canine S100 calcium binding protein useful in diagnosing an inflammatory disease. Also provided are methods of diagnosing an inflammatory disease by assaying a...
8065592 Multi-source data encoding, transmission and decoding using slepian-wolf codes based on channel code partitioning  
System and method for designing Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate a plurality of sub-matrices corresponding respectively to a plurality...
US20110236937 Multi-Stage Fermenter Nutrient Feeding  
A method for operating a fermenter system. In one instances, the method comprises flowing biomass and liquid in opposite directions through a fermenter train comprising a plurality of fermenters,...
8022586 Electric machine having rotor and stator configurations  
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electric machine comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has at least one stator pole with a first leg and a second leg. The rotor has at...
US20110223670 ETS2 AND MESP1 GENERATE CARDIAC PROGENITORS FROM FIBROBLASTS  
A method for modulating cell differentiation capabilities using heterologous gene expression. Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method for inducing a cardiac progenitor cell by...
US20110222564 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TERAHERTZ RADIATION  
Apparatus and methods for generating radiation via difference frequency generation (DFG). In one exemplary implementation, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) has a significant second-order nonlinear...
8020082 Source-channel approach to channel coding with side information  
Code designs for channel coding with side information (CCSI) based on combined source-channel coding are disclosed. These code designs combine trellis-coded quantization (TCQ) with irregular repeat...