| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40661 |
Error prevention method for multimedia data |
March 10, 2009 |
| An error protection method for multimedia improves data recovery and channel throughput in channels which cause a random error and a burst error by using a rate compatible punctured convolutional code (RCPC) and an automatic retransmission on request (ARQ). In a process of decoding a |
| PP6580 |
Strawberry plant |
January 31, 1989 |
| A strong day-neutral type with exceptionally symmetrical conic fruit of fine flavor; resistant to Verticillium Wilt and capable of fruiting about three months after planting under satisfactory growing conditions regardless of planting time. The plant is of interest in all situations |
| PP6579 |
Strawberry poant called `Mrak` |
January 31, 1989 |
| A strong day-neutral type prolific fruiting with good flavor, resistant to Verticillium Wilt and capable of fruiting about three months after planting under satisfactory growing conditions regardless of planting time. The plant is of interest in all situations where `Hecker` or `Fern` |
| PP6578 |
Strawberry plant called `Oso Grande` |
January 31, 1989 |
| A standard short-day type of strawberry plant characterized by its capability of exceptionally high yield of very large fruit, firmness and particularly fine flavor. The plant is of interest in all major strawberry fruit growing areas. |
| PP6558 |
Strawberry plant called `Muir` |
January 24, 1989 |
| A new and distinct variety of day-neutral strawberry plant characterized by its capability of high yield of very large firm fruit somewhat similar to `Selva`, but which is less susceptible to two-spotted mite. The variety is adapted to growing in all California fruiting areas where `Selv |
| PP6452 |
Pear tree--`Elliot` |
December 6, 1988 |
| A new and distinct variety of pear tree primarily characterized by its tolerance to the fire-blight organism. (Erwinia amylovora), and further characterized by a blooming habit concurrent with `Bartlett`; skin with firm and buttery texture, and fruit with a flavor which is excellent to |
| PP11403 |
Marianna plum rootstock variety named `M40` |
June 6, 2000 |
| A new and distinct cultivar of Marianna rootstock that originated as an open-pollinated seedling is provided. The new cultivar is particularly well suited for use as prune rootstock. When compared to the previously utilized Marianna `2624` cultivar, it is found that the new cultivar |
| 7625706 |
Methods and apparatus for characterizing polynucleotides |
December 1, 2009 |
| Systems and methods for analysis of polymers, e.g., polynucleotides, are provided. The systems are capable of analyzing a polymer at a specified rate. One such analysis system includes a structure having a nanopore aperture and a molecular motor, e.g., a polymerase, adjacent the nanopore |
| 7623042 |
Wireless network control for building lighting system |
November 24, 2009 |
| Wireless control of lighting fixtures via a wireless radio network using a radio-controlled relay device located between a lighting fixture or a ballast of a fluorescent fixture and its power supply. The radio-controlled device receives signals from remote controllers or via a comput |
| 7612253 |
Methods of modulating cytokinin related processes in a plant using B3 domain proteins |
November 3, 2009 |
| The present invention is directed to plant genetic engineering. In particular, it relates to methods of modulating cytokinin related processes in a plant and selecting a plant having a phenotype associated with an altered cytokinin-related process. |
| 7605760 |
Concurrent mode antenna system |
October 20, 2009 |
| A multiband antenna system is provided. The system includes a substrate; an antenna which is disposed on a first side and a second side of the substrate, and produces a resonance in a plurality of frequency bands; a plurality of feeders which are disposed on the first side of the sub |
| 7604805 |
Protein logic gates |
October 20, 2009 |
| Protein logic gates are made from autoregulated fusion proteins comprising an output domain and a plurality of input domains, wherein at least one of the input domains is heterologous to the output domain, and the input domains interact with each other to allosterically and external, |
| 7599985 |
Distributed hypermedia method and system for automatically invoking external application providi |
October 6, 2009 |
| A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into a hypermedia document much like data objects. The user may select the program object from t |
| 7592016 |
Methods for preparing and using implantable substance delivery devices |
September 22, 2009 |
| Method for preparing an implantable device for a sustained delivery of a substance within a body of a human or an animal subject, the method including; dissolving a biocompatible polymer in a suitable solvent solution to produce a polymer-solvent solution; adding the substance to the |
| 7588912 |
Compositions and methods for preventing and treating anthrax diseases |
September 15, 2009 |
| Compounds, methods for identifying compounds and methods for using compounds which modulate interaction of lethal factor and anthrolysin O in the treatment and prevention of anthrax diseases are provided. |
| 7555658 |
Embedded electronics building blocks for user-configurable monitor/control networks |
June 30, 2009 |
| Stand-alone modules or blocks for use in creating low-power sensor-based monitor/control systems. Each module performs a pre-defined function, and when included in a monitor/control network operates as a node on the network and automatically communicates with one or more connected nodes |
| 7541898 |
High isolation tunable MEMS capacitive switch |
June 2, 2009 |
| The systems and methods described herein provide for a radio frequency micro-electromechanical systems switch having two or more resonant frequencies. The switch can be configured as a capacitive shunt switch having a deflectable member coupled between two electrodes over a transmiss |
| 7536425 |
Persistent archives |
May 19, 2009 |
| A persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of a logical structure for the collection and a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of the data objects. The archive is persistent in tha |
| 7524944 |
Chimeric nucleic acids encoding polypeptides comprising CD154 and TNF-.alpha. |
April 28, 2009 |
| This invention relates to genes which encode accessory molecule ligands and their use for immunomodulation, vaccination and treatments of various human diseases, including malignancies and autoimmune diseases. This invention also describes the use of accessory molecule ligands which are |
| 7519995 |
Programmable hardware for deep packet filtering |
April 14, 2009 |
| An improved deep packet filter system designed to optimize search of dynamic patterns for a high speed network traffic. The improved deep packet filter system is a hardware-based system with optimized logic area. One optimization technique is the sharing of common sub-logic in the ha |
| 7485451 |
Storage stable compositions of biological materials |
February 3, 2009 |
| Storage stable compositions of biological materials, including bioactive biological materials are provided in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion, comprising: (a) cellular material selected from living and/or dormant prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic cells and tissues, the cellular materia |
| 7485311 |
Methods and compositions for preventing and treating male erectile dysfunction |
February 3, 2009 |
| This invention relates generally to the field of urology. In particular, the invention provides a method for preventing or treating male erectile dysfunction or female sexual arousal disorder, which method comprises administering an effective amount of vascular endothelial growth factor |
| 7482874 |
Non-uniform distributed multi-stage circuits |
January 27, 2009 |
| Provided herein is a non-uniform multi-stage distributed circuit capable of operation with an improved gain-bandwidth product. The circuit can include an input port, an output port and a transmission line coupled therebetween. Two or more amplifier stages can be coupled successively to |
| 7479186 |
Systems and methods for mixing reactants |
January 20, 2009 |
| High throughput screening of crystallization of a target material is accomplished by simultaneously introducing a solution of the target material into a plurality of chambers of a microfabricated fluidic device. The microfabricated fluidic device is then manipulated to vary the solut |
| 7476982 |
Fabricated adhesive microstructures for making an electrical connection |
January 13, 2009 |
| An integrated circuit chip has one or more electrically conductive nano-fibers formed on one or more contact pads of the integrated circuit chip. The one or more electrically conductive nano-fibers are configured to provide an adhesive force by intermolecular forces and establish an |
| 7425871 |
Compensation units for reducing the effects of self-heating and increasing linear performance in |
September 16, 2008 |
| The systems and methods described herein provide for composite transistor circuit having a bipolar transistor and a compensation unit. The compensation unit can be configured to stabilize the DC biasing point of the bipolar transistor. The compensation unit can compensate for the sel |
| 7403834 |
Methods of and apparatuses for controlling process profiles |
July 22, 2008 |
| Presented are methods and apparatus for controlling the processing of a substrate during a process step that is sensitive to one or more process conditions. One embodiment includes a method performed with corresponding apparatus that includes a controller. One step includes constructing |
| 7402400 |
Mammalian sweet taste receptors |
July 22, 2008 |
| The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of sweet taste receptors comprising two heterologous G-protein coupled receptor polypeptides from the T1R family of sensory G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting su |
| 7393994 |
Transgenic mouse model for neurodegenerative diseases |
July 1, 2008 |
| Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Lewy body disease are the most commonly found neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly. The invention is a transgenic mouse that contains two transgenes, human .alpha.-synuclein and human amyloid precursor protein, which are responsible |
| 7391160 |
Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion |
June 24, 2008 |
| A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confi |
| 7375092 |
Lunasin peptides |
May 20, 2008 |
| The invention provides methods and compositions of selectively disrupting mitotic function in a target cell demonstrating undesirable mitotic function. Suitable target cells include mammalian, plant and bacterial cells, which cells may be in vitro or in situ. The general methods invo |
| 7371841 |
Methods of modulating cold sensory perception |
May 13, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to regulation of cold sensation and pain. More particularly, the present invention is directed to nucleic acids encoding a member of the transient regulatory protein family, CMR1, which is involved in modulation of the perception of cold sensations and pain. |
| 7371513 |
Method of preserving corneal tissue using polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene copolymer |
May 13, 2008 |
| Tissue preservation media comprising a polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene copolymer are used to preserve tissues and organs for storage and transplantation. In particular embodiments, the polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene copolymer is Pluronic F68 or FLOCOR (CRL-5861; purified poloxamer |
| 7368359 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor substrate and semiconductor substrate |
May 6, 2008 |
| A semiconductor substrate (100) is acquired by forming a mask with a target thickness on a major surface of a single-crystal silicon substrate, implanting oxygen ions to the major surface at a high temperature, forming a surface protection layer for blocking oxygen on the major surfa |
| 7362842 |
Cylindrical neutron generator |
April 22, 2008 |
| A cylindrical neutron generator is formed with a coaxial RF-driven plasma ion source and target. A deuterium (or deuterium and tritium) plasma is produced by RF excitation in a cylindrical plasma ion generator using an RF antenna. A cylindrical neutron generating target is coaxial with t |
| 7349915 |
Persistent archives |
March 25, 2008 |
| A persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of a logical structure for the collection and a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of the data objects. The archive is persistent in tha |
| 7340671 |
Decoding low density parity codes |
March 4, 2008 |
| The present invention includes a technique for updating messages that originate at the constraint nodes of bi-partite graphs in Low Density Parity Check codes. The technique computes only two outgoing magnitudes at each constraint node and exhibits no measurable performance loss as c |
| 7311921 |
Multi-subtype FIV vaccines |
December 25, 2007 |
| The subject invention pertains to novel methods and compositions for protecting cats from infection by a broad range of FIV strains using a multi-subtype FIV vaccine. Multi-subtype FIV vaccines comprising either cell free whole virus or cell lines infected with viruses are described. |
| 7288404 |
Microcantilevers for biological and chemical assays and methods of making and using thereof |
October 30, 2007 |
| Disclosed herein are microcantilevers having structural shapes that are less sensitive to turbulence and drift effects yet provide greater deflections due to analyte concentration. The structural shapes include a C-shaped microcantilever, an E-shaped microcantilever, an L-shaped micr |
| 7280923 |
Methods for crystallographic structure determination employing hydrogen exchange analysis |
October 9, 2007 |
| The present invention provides methods for crystallographic structure determination employing hydrogen exchange analysis. Hydrogen exchange analysis is used to identify unstructured regions of a protein, which are then deleted to obtain one or more modified proteins for crystallization |
| 7279980 |
Non-uniform distributed multi-stage circuits |
October 9, 2007 |
| Provided herein is a non-uniform multi-stage distributed circuit capable of operation with an improved gain-bandwidth product. The circuit can include an input port, an output port and a transmission line coupled therebetween. Two or more amplifier stages can be coupled successively to |
| 7267994 |
Element-coded affinity tags |
September 11, 2007 |
| The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting, analyzing, and identifying biomolecules. More particularly, the invention provides Element Coded Affinity Tags comprising a metal chelate and a metal ion and methods of using the tags to detect, analyze, and identify |
| 7264970 |
Genetic functions required for gene silencing in maize |
September 4, 2007 |
| Transgenic silencing is a little understood process by which genes introduced into plants are turned off or silenced. Genetic screens were designed to identify corn mutants with reduced gene silencing activity. Such mutant corn lines include Mop1-1; Mop1-2EMS; Mop2-1, mop3-1; CC2343, |
| 7259236 |
RBP1L1, a novel retinoblastoma binding protein-related gene encoding an antigenic epitope and me |
August 21, 2007 |
| Disclosed herein is a novel retinoblastoma binding protein-related gene that encodes an antigenic epitope, IKPSLGSKK (SEQ ID NO:3), which is differentially expressed in cancers, such as breast, lung, colon, pancreas, and ovarian cancer. Polynucleotides that encode and polypeptides th |
| 7256038 |
Polypeptide display libraries and methods of making and using thereof |
August 14, 2007 |
| Disclosed herein are expression vectors which display a passenger polypeptide on the outer surface of a biological entity. As disclosed herein the displayed passenger polypeptide is capable of interacting or binding with a given ligand. Also disclosed are methods of making and using |
| 7250559 |
Nucleic acids encoding glucosinolate biosynthesis enzymes and methods of their use |
July 31, 2007 |
| Provided are nucleic acid sequences from Brassica oleracea plants that encode enzymes involved in the synthesis of a glucosinolate molecule, including BoGSL-ALK, and BoGSL-ELONG, and methods of their use. The sequences find particular use in modifying the glucosinolate content of a p |
| 7244423 |
Methods for therapy of neurodegenerative disease of the brain |
July 17, 2007 |
| A specific clinical protocol for use toward therapy of defective, diseased and damaged cholinergic neurons in the mammalian brain, of particular usefulness for treatment of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. The protocol is practiced by delivering a definite co |
| 7238485 |
Methods and apparatus for characterizing polynucleotides |
July 3, 2007 |
| Systems and methods for analysis of polymers, e.g., polynucleotides, are provided. The systems are capable of analyzing a polymer at a specified rate. One such analysis system includes a structure having a nanopore aperture and a molecular motor, e.g., a polymerase, adjacent the nanopore |
| 7232985 |
Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion |
June 19, 2007 |
| A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confi |
| 7232570 |
ERAAP modulators regulate immune responses |
June 19, 2007 |
| An immune response is modulated by selectively inhibiting ERAAP (an acronym for ER aminopeptidase associated with antigen processing) and confirming a resultant immune response modulation. More particularly, the method comprises contacting a patient determined to be in need of immune |
