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20100219136 | FLUID TREATMENT USING PLASMA TECHNOLOGY - A method for the treatment of fluid including the step of exposing the fluid to a pulsed plasma discharge. The pulsed plasma discharge will be generated using a suitable electrode configuration to generate the plasma discharge in the fluid. Apparatus useful in the method may include a vessel, at least two electrodes for generating a plasma discharge in water, and a flow inlet and a flow outlet to allow water to be passed through the vessel. Also described is an in-line water treatment, where a pulsed plasma discharge is used in a pipe carrying moving water. Plasma based fluid treatment system may have many advantages in comparison to other treatment methods, such as very minimal maintenance, low operating power, and minimal pressure loss through the device. | 09-02-2010 |
20150274554 | FLUID TREATMENT USING PLASMA TECHNOLOGY - The invention is directed to apparatus for treating water by exposing the water to a pulsed plasma discharge. The pulsed plasma discharge is generated using a suitable electrode configuration to generate the plasma discharge in the fluid. Apparatus useful in the method may include a vessel, at least two electrodes for generating a plasma discharge in water, and a flow inlet and a flow outlet to allow water to be passed through the vessel. Also described is an in-line water treatment, where a pulsed plasma discharge is used in a pipe carrying moving water. Plasma based fluid treatment system may have many advantages in comparison to other treatment methods, such as very minimal maintenance, low operating power, and minimal pressure loss through the device. | 10-01-2015 |
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20120246058 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 09-27-2012 |
20120271751 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if a rules violation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 10-25-2012 |
20140108230 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if a rules violation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114836 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 04-24-2014 |
20150066733 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073971 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if a rules violation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
20160086271 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 03-24-2016 |
20160098797 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if a rules violation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 04-07-2016 |
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20110067330 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER AND METHOD FOR ITS USE - A protective barrier that will typically be installed beneath ceilings during construction work being performed on ceilings or roofs of buildings. The protective barrier can be comprised entirely of one material or of different materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be designed to fail when contacted by water via dissolution, melting or through some other destructive process initiated by contact with water. This failure can create access points from the ceiling through the protective barrier to the area being protected by the barrier, which can allow water from a fire suppression system to reach a fire located below the protective barrier. | 03-24-2011 |
20110185655 | FIRE RESISTANT PROTECTIVE BARRIER AND A METHOD FOR ITS USE - A protective barrier that will typically be installed beneath ceilings during construction work being performed on ceilings or roofs of buildings. The protective barrier can be comprised entirely of one material or multiple materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be fire resistant or fireproof, thereby creating a firebreak in the barrier, which can prevent the fire from spreading to the entire protective barrier and the rest of the building where the protective barrier has been deployed. | 08-04-2011 |
20130327549 | HEAT SENSITIVE PROTECTIVE BARRIER AND A METHOD FOR ITS USE - Protective barriers are commonly installed beneath ceilings when construction work is performed either on these ceilings or on the roofs located above them. These protective barriers can be comprised entirely of one material or of different materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be designed to fail when subjected to temperatures above a certain temperature range causing melting or some other destructive process to occur to these materials. These failures can create access points from the ceiling through the protective barrier to areas below being protected by the barrier, which can allow water from a fire suppression system, typically located near the ceiling, to reach a fire located below the protective barrier. | 12-12-2013 |
20140157697 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER AND A METHOD FOR ITS USE - A protective barrier that will typically be installed beneath ceilings during construction work being performed on ceilings or roofs of buildings. The protective barrier can be comprised entirely of one material or of different materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be designed to fail when contacted by water via dissolution, melting or through some other destructive process initiated by contact with water. Some or all of the materials comprising the protective barrier can be designed to fail at a certain temperature. This failure can create access points from the ceiling through the protective barrier to the area being protected by the barrier, which can allow water from a fire suppression system to reach a fire located below the protective barrier. | 06-12-2014 |
20140157709 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER AND A METHOD FOR ITS USE - A protective barrier that will typically be installed beneath ceilings during construction work being performed on ceilings or roofs of buildings. The protective barrier can be comprised entirely of one material or of different materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be designed to fail when contacted by water via dissolution, melting or through some other destructive process initiated by contact with water. This failure can create access points from the ceiling through the protective barrier to the area being protected by the barrier, which can allow water from a fire suppression system to reach a fire located below the protective barrier. | 06-12-2014 |
20140305056 | APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING A PROTECTIVE BARRIER TO A SURFACE AND A METHOD FOR ITS USE - An apparatus and method for attaching a protective barrier to a surface, such as a wall, ceiling or floor. The protective barrier can be plastic sheeting or any other suitable, material, which is impermeable by water, dust, debris and related contaminants. The apparatus and method for its installation and use being capable of connecting the protective barrier to a surface so that no dust, debris or other contaminants can pass between the protective barrier and the surface to which it is being attached. | 10-16-2014 |
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20110138915 | DETECTING AN ANALYTE USING A PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER SENSOR - A piezoelectric cantilever sensor includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer, a portion of which is attached to the piezoelectric layer. In one embodiment, one end of the non-piezoelectric layer extends beyond the end of piezoelectric layer to provide an overhang. The overhang piezoelectric cantilever sensor enables increased sensitivity allowing application of the device in more viscous environments, such as liquid media, as well as application in liquid media at higher flow rates than conventional piezoelectric cantilevers. In another embodiment, the sensor includes first and second bases and at least one of the piezoelectric layer and the non-piezoelectric layer is affixed to each of the first and second bases to form the piezoelectric cantilever sensor. In this embodiment, the sensor is robust and exhibits excellent sensing characteristics in both gaseous and liquid media, even when subjected to relatively high flow rates. | 06-16-2011 |
20110138916 | SELF-EXCITING, SELF-SENSING PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER SENSOR - A piezoelectric cantilever sensor includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer, a portion of which is attached to the piezoelectric layer. In one embodiment, one end of the non-piezoelectric layer extends beyond the end of piezoelectric layer to provide an overhang. The overhang piezoelectric cantilever sensor enables increased sensitivity allowing application of the device in more viscous environments, such as liquid media, as well as application in liquid media at higher flow rates than conventional piezoelectric cantilevers. In another embodiment, the sensor includes first and second bases and at least one of the piezoelectric layer and the non-piezoelectric layer is affixed to each of the first and second bases to form the piezoelectric cantilever sensor. In this embodiment, the sensor is robust and exhibits excellent sensing characteristics in both gaseous and liquid media, even when subjected to relatively high flow rates. | 06-16-2011 |
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20090053709 | ENHANCED SENSITIVITY OF A CANTILEVER SENSOR VIA SPECIFIC BINDINGS - Detection of miniscule amounts of an analyte is accomplished via multiple bindings of specific materials on a sensor configured to sense mass. The sensor is prepared by immobilizing an antibody to a surface of the sensor, wherein the antibody is known to bind to the analyte. The prepared sensor is exposed to the analyte. The analyte binds to the antibody. The sensor then is exposed to additional antibody, which binds to the analyte. The sensor then can be sequentially exposed to additional antibodies that are known to bind to previously bound antibodies. Each additional binding further increases the effective mass of accumulated material on the sensor. The total effective mass is greater than the mass of the accumulated analyte, thus providing means for detecting extremely minute amounts of analyte. Applications include detection of pathogens and DNA. | 02-26-2009 |
20090203000 | DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS USING A CANTILEVER SENSOR - Detection of miniscule amounts of nucleic acid is accomplished via binding of target nucleic acid to probe material, composed of nucleic acid, which is bound to a sensor configured to sense mass. The sensor is prepared by immobilizing a probe material to a surface of the sensor, wherein the probe material is known to bind to the target nucleic acid. The prepared sensor is exposed to the target nucleic acid. The target nucleic acid binds to the probe material. The mass accumulated on the sensor reflects the amount of target nucleic acid bound to the probe material. | 08-13-2009 |
20120094270 | SELF-EXCITING, SELF-SENSING PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER SENSOR FOR DETECTION OF AIRBORNE ANALYTES DIRECTLY IN AIR - A method for detection of airborne biological agent using a piezoelectric cantilever sensor that includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer. A recognition entity is placed on one or both of the two layers. The antibody that recognizes and binds to the airborne species may be chemically immobilized on the cantilever sensor surface. In one embodiment, the cantilever sensor is attached to a base at only one end. In another embodiment, the sensor includes first and second bases and at least one of the piezoelectric layer and the non-piezoelectric layer is affixed to each of the first and second bases to form a piezoelectric cantilever beam sensor. In this embodiment, resonance is measured via stress on the piezoelectric layer and it has been demonstrated that such sensors are robust and exhibit excellent sensing characteristics in gaseous media with sufficient sensitivity to detect airborne species at relatively low concentrations. | 04-19-2012 |
20140045178 | DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS USING A CANTILEVER SENSOR - Detection of miniscule amounts of nucleic acid is accomplished via binding of target nucleic acid to probe material, composed of nucleic acid, which is bound to a sensor configured to sense mass. The sensor is prepared by immobilizing a probe material to a surface of the sensor, wherein the probe material is known to bind to the target nucleic acid. The prepared sensor is exposed to the target nucleic acid. The target nucleic acid binds to the probe material. The mass accumulated on the sensor reflects the amount of target nucleic acid bound to the probe material. | 02-13-2014 |
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20090203752 | COMPOUNDS FOR NONSENSE SUPPRESSION, AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - The present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for treating or preventing diseases associated with nonsense mutations in an mRNA by administering the compounds or compositions of the present invention. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for suppressing premature translation termination associated with a nonsense mutation in an mRNA. | 08-13-2009 |
20100292187 | METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS C - The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IRES activity. | 11-18-2010 |
20110160164 | COMPOUNDS FOR NONSENSE SUPPRESSION AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - The present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for treating or preventing diseases associated with nonsense mutations in an mRNA by administering the compounds or compositions of the present invention. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for suppressing premature translation termination associated with a nonsense mutation in an mRNA. | 06-30-2011 |
20140235586 | COMPOUNDS FOR NONSENSE SUPPRESSION, AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - The present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for treating or preventing diseases associated with nonsense mutations in an mRNA by administering the compounds or compositions of the present invention. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for suppressing premature translation termination associated with a nonsense mutation in an mRNA. | 08-21-2014 |
20150274674 | PYRAZOLE OR TRIAZOLE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A MEDICAMENT FOR TREATING SOMATIC MUTATION-RELATED DISEASES - The present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for treating or preventing diseases associated with nonsense mutations in an mRNA by administering the compounds or compositions of the present invention. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, compounds, and compositions for suppressing premature translation termination associated with a nonsense mutation in an mRNA. | 10-01-2015 |
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20100305100 | METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS C - The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IRES activity. | 12-02-2010 |
20110268698 | METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS C - The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IBES activity. | 11-03-2011 |
20120009142 | METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS C - In accordance with the present invention, compounds that inhibit viral replication, preferably Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) replication, have been identified, and methods for their use provided. In one aspect of the invention, compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of a viral infection are provided. In another aspect of the invention, compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of HCV infection are provided. | 01-12-2012 |
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20090083204 | HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS - Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083648 | DIRECT SUBSCRIPTION TO INELLIGENT I/O MODULE - Systems and methods that supply direct access (e.g., bypassing the controller) to embedded historian via a subscription and notification component. By modeling the notification related information (e.g., subscription queries, subscriber information, event information . . . ) as data and leveraging the power of database systems to perform set-oriented manipulations on this data efficiently, the subject innovation enables for a highly scalable and efficient subscription and notification system for direct access to the historians. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083649 | CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR HISTORIANS IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that discover relations and correlates among disparate pieces of data, to infer possible relationships between the industrial process and historian data/events to improve industrial operations. A correlation component can employ heuristic models to capture process data/event data, and can further include an implicit correlation component and an explicit correlation component. Accordingly, relations among various parameters can be discovered (e.g., dynamically) and proper corrective adjustments supplied to the industrial process. | 03-26-2009 |
20090089231 | ADAPTIVE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS VIA EMBEDDED HISTORIAN DATA - Systems and methods that provide for adaptive processes in an industrial setting. Historian data, in conjunction with current collected data, can be converted into decision making information that is subsequently employed for modifying a process in real time. A process trend component, which is associated with a controller, can access historian data (e.g., trends collected via historians) to determine/predict an outcome of a current industrial process. Such enables a tight control and short reaction time to correcting process parameters. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089232 | MICROHISTORIANS AS PROXIES FOR DATA TRANSFER - Systems and methods that enable historians (e.g., micro-historians) to function as proxies, to supply plant level data, (e.g., history data) back to the controllers. Accordingly, typically such micro historians can function as clients/servers, to provide higher level data to the controllers (e.g., from third part databases). The historians can create a proxy that image an object on a server associated with controllers (e.g., programmable logic controller.) Such objects can contain data; pieces of code; attributes; operations or combinations thereof, for example. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089695 | PLATFORM INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN - Systems and methods that provide for historians communicating in a plurality of protocols/languages with various resources via employing an abstraction component that normalizes such communication. Accordingly, the historian can supply a common configuration for various data (e.g., events, command, event, alarm, scenarios, transactions, messages, and the like), and hence provide support for third party devices. The abstraction component can further facilitate: Filtering, Bridging, Routing, Propagation, Transformation and Monitoring of data exchange with third party devices. | 04-02-2009 |
20110196528 | HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS - Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof. | 08-11-2011 |
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20080247990 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELL LINES - The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express a CD16 receptor or an inhibitory killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) on a surface of the cell. In examples, the NK-92 cell is further modified to co-express an associated accessory signaling protein such as FcεRI-γ or TCR-ζ, chemokines, or cytokines such as interleukin-2 (IL-2) or interleukin-15 (IL-15). Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. | 10-09-2008 |
20100086486 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELL LINES - The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ, TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. | 04-08-2010 |
20100086996 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELL LINES - The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ, TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. | 04-08-2010 |
20130040386 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELL LINES - The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ, TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. | 02-14-2013 |
20160067356 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELL LINES - The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD 16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ,TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. | 03-10-2016 |
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20100254900 | Biocompatible polymers and Methods of use - Compositions and methods for manufacturing polymers are disclosed. Compositions include novel plastics, including films and shaped forms comprising polymer matrices that are biologically compatible and biodegradable. Such plastics may comprise polymers derived from natural sources. Further, such plastics are useful in biological systems for wound repair, implants, stents, drug encapsulation and delivery, and other applications. The disclosed methods comprise mild manufacturing processes such that various additives, such as biologically active proteins, sugars, lipids, and the like may be incorporated into the polymer matrix without subsequent loss of bioactivity during processing. Additionally, methods of manufacture for controlling mechanical properties, such as elasticity, pliancy, and the porosity of such plastics are disclosed. | 10-07-2010 |
20120003193 | Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom - Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided. | 01-05-2012 |
20120003279 | Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom - Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided. | 01-05-2012 |
20120003324 | Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom - Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided. | 01-05-2012 |
20120177694 | Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom - Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided. | 07-12-2012 |
20130189370 | Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom - Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be useful for biological applications such as wound repair and tissue grafts; methods of making and using the same; methods for assessing the concentration of a biological response modifier in an article; and systems for preparing blood-derived plastic articles are provided. | 07-25-2013 |
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20090018275 | Method of Bonding Perfluoroelastomeric Materials to a Surface - The invention includes a method of bonding a perfluoroelastomer material to first surface that includes: (a) contacting a first surface with a bonding agent comprising a curable perfluoropolymer and a curing agent; (b) curing the bonding agent to form a perfluoroelastomer material that is bonded to the first surface. In the practice of such method, the bonding agent may be a solution prepared by dissolving the curable perfluoroelastomer and the curing agent in a solvent. In an embodiment of the invention, the perfluoroelastomer material formed in step (b) is a coating layer or, alternatively, the first surface is a surface of a perfluoroelastomer member and the perfluoroelastomer material formed is a perfluoroelastomer weld. | 01-15-2009 |
20090301712 | Inert Substrate-Bonded Fluoroelastomer Components and Related Methods - Included within the scope of the invention is an article of cured fluoroelastomer composition bonded to an inert substrate. The cured fluoroelastomer composition includes a fluoropolymer, a silica, and an acrylate compound. The fluoroelastomer composition is bonded to the inert substrate with a bind having a bond durability of at least about 1500 pounds load at 20° C. The inert substrate may be a metal substrate or a ketone-based polymer substrate. | 12-10-2009 |
20100093898 | Oxygen Plasma-Resistant Composition Characterized By Low Sticking, and Related Methods - The invention provides a curable fluoroelastomeric composition comprising: (i) a fluoropolymer comprising at least one cure site monomer that comprises at least one cyano group; (ii) a cure system comprising a functionalized biphenyl-based compound and at least one of: a dioxime compound represented by the formula (I): HON═R | 04-15-2010 |
20130202838 | Rapid Gas Decompression-Resistant Fluoroelastomer Compositions and Molded Articles - The disclosure herein includes rapid gas decompression (RGD)-resistant fluoroelastomeric compositions and includes a curable fluoropolymer having a curesite monomer with at least one functional group capable of curing with a peroxide curative. The compositions include a bisphenyl-based curative and an organic peroxide curative and an organic peroxide co-curative. The fluoroelastomeric compositions have a ratio of the bisphenyl-based curative to the organic peroxide co-curative of about 0.25:1 to about 1.5:1 and a ratio of the bisphenyl-based curative to the organic peroxide of about 0.5:1 to about 1.5:1. Such compositions can be formed into seals meeting RGD industry standards in a variety of sizes, up to and/or exceeding 5 mm in thickness or cross-sectional diameter. | 08-08-2013 |
20140305588 | Method of Bonding Perfluoroelastomeric Materials to a Surface - The invention includes a method of bonding a perfluoroelastomer material to first surface that includes: (a) contacting a first surface with a bonding agent comprising a curable perfluoropolymer and a curing agent; (b) curing the bonding agent to form a perfluoroelastomer material that is bonded to the first surface. In the practice of such method, the bonding agent may be a solution prepared by dissolving the curable perfluoroelastomer and the curing agent in a solvent. In an embodiment of the invention, the perfluoroelastomer material formed in step (b) is a coating layer or, alternatively, the first surface is a surface of a perfluoroelastomer member and the perfluoroelastomer material formed is a perfluoroelastomer weld. | 10-16-2014 |