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Energy absorbing device having notches and pre-bent sections
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2008-06-24)
According to one embodiment of the invention, an energy-absorbing device includes a section of material having a plurality of crush zones along a longitudinal length thereof, a first crush zone of the plurality of crush ...
Method of forming a conductive pattern by removing a compound with heat in a substantially inert atmosphere
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006-05-02)
A method for forming a conductive or magnetic pattern for a semiconductor or other electronic device includes patterning a mask layer outwardly from a conductive layer of the semiconductor device. The patterning defines ...
Data encoding and decoding using Slepian-Wolf coded nested quantization to achieve Wyner-Ziv coding
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2008-09-02)
A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the ...
Fuel cell stack assembly
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006-02-28)
Disclosed herein is a novel fuel cell stack assembly. In one embodiment, the stacks of the present invention comprise: a first and a second end plate; a plurality of fuel cells interposed between the first and second end ...
Quantum circuit design for grover's algorithm
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006-04-11)
A method for performing a data search includes initializing a collection of qubits by generating a superposition of quantum states in of the qubits, inverting the sign of a target quantum state, and calculating an inversion ...
Condition assessment and life expectancy prediction for devices
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006-04-04)
Assessing the condition of a device includes receiving signals from a sensor that makes electrical measurements of the device. An expected response of the device is estimated in accordance with the received signals, and a ...
Fluorescent through-bond energy transfer cassettes based on xanthine and pyronin derivatives
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2008-07-22)
A TBET cassette including at least one xanthine- or pyronin-based compound as a donor or acceptor is disclosed. Also, a method of TBET cassette design in which four criteria may be used is provided. TBET cassettes may be ...
S-dimethylarsino-thiosuccinic acid S-dimethylarsino-2-thiobenzoic acid S-(dimethylarsino) glutathione as treatments for cancer
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2009-11-17)
Arsenic trioxide, an inorganic compound, is commercially available anti-cancer agent but it carries significant toxicity. Organic arsenicals, on the other hand, are much less toxic, to the extent that the methylation of ...
Isolation of proteins involved in posttranscriptional gene silencing and methods of use
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2009-12-15)
The present invention includes a method for detecting and isolating sugarcane proteins that interact with the HC-Pro and P1 proteins of SrMV and other proteins involved in gene silencing, particularly in sugarcane. The ...
Cotton α-globulin promoter for seed-specific expression of transgenes
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2009-12-01)
The present invention is directed to 5′ regulatory regions of a cotton seed-specific gene, α-globulin. The 5′ regulatory region, or parts thereof, when operably linked to either the coding sequence of a native gene, ...