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Medtronic, Inc.

Skechers U.s.a., Inc II

Monell Chemical Senses Center

University of Pennsylvania

Rock-tenn Company

Valin Corporation

The United States of America As Represented by the United States Department of Agriculture

Larry G Clark

David L Thompson

J Russell Mason

Willa M Fabian

Barbara K Ruble

James L McMenimen

Christopher J Campbell

Henry Wischusen, Iii

John H Hull

Ann R Kennedy

Aaron P Clark

Thomas J Nachtman

Richard A Dolbeer

Pankaj S Shah

Robyn Perry

John A Shivik, Jr

Bruce Bain

Dale L Nolte

A heated roof panel system which may be configured to control snow or ice build-up on a roof. The system may include heated elements and cladding elements configured to surround the heated elements. Further, the system may incorporate a snap-fit design configured to cover any points where portions of the system are pierced by fasteners.

Heated roof panel

Shoe upper

A medical device production and supply information management system synchronous with manufacturing, planning and scheduling, product consumption forecast, and component purchase to enable just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing, distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web enabled information network and data communications with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order and build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the consumption management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related information hubs including manufacturing facilities. The invention enables management of inventory levels of medical devices through the interactive information management system by accurately accounting for inventory stored in sales offices, distributors and sales representatives, as well as implanting institutions to ensure that all centers have appropriate and adequate stock that is replaced on just-in-time basis under the build-to-replenish scheme.

Responsive manufacturing and inventory control

A medical device production and supply information management system for just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management, to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web-enabled information network and data communication with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order or build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the information management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related consumption hubs, including manufacturing facilities.

A self-locking deal tray for use in a countertop and a transaction barrier. The deal tray has a frame with at least a partially open top and can be secured to the countertop. The deal tray further has a movable receptacle that is movably connected to the front face of the frame. The movable receptacle can then move between lowered position away from the barrier above it and a raised position against the barrier above it. Finally, the deal tray includes a support movably attached to the bottom of the movable receptacle that can be moved between a supine position and a standing position, respectfully corresponding to the receptacle's lowered and raised positions.

Pass-through transaction deal tray with a self-closing feature

Snake repellents include a repellent composition, an inert carrier and an adjuvant. The snake repellents include an essential oil selected from a group of essentials oils or a reagent from one of the essential oils. Methods of repelling snakes include exposing snakes to the snake repellents by aerosol, vapor or fog.

Identification of snake repellents

Voice port

In a method of repelling birds from an area, a fog is formed from a mixture comprising water and a chemical bird aversion agent. Preferably the mixture also includes a dispersant. The water fog can be formed by heating and/or pressurizing the so that it vaporizes. After it is formed, the water fog is directed into the atmosphere toward the birds to be repelled.

Water fog for repelling birds

A composition containing a Bowman Birk Inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are provided for treatment of genitourinary tract diseases relating to smooth muscle contraction leading to urinary symptoms and male sexual dysfunction or atypical prostate cells. Methods of using these compositions in treatment of these diseases are also provided.

Bowman-birk inhibitor compositions and methods for the treatment of

A collection device is useful to scoop and bag refuse, such as pet excrement, from a surface. The device includes a handle that supports a working head that has an intake portion, a discharge portion and a guide portion therebetween. The working head has bag holders to secure a bag, such as a plastic grocery bag, with a mouth engaging the discharge portion so that refuse may be introduced into the intake at an upstream end and dumped into the bag at the downstream end. The intake portion has forwardly extending tines. The bag holder is shown as radial posts and/or a ring clamp. The handle may be either a short hand grip or preferably an elongate rod that permits use of the collection device while the user is standing. The working head is preferably cylindrical, but it may be flattened if desired.

Collection device for scooping refuse for disposal

A unitary countertop and deal tray assembly comprises a drawer mounted within a countertop. The assembly is for business transactions through a barrier, such as a building wall, illustrated as a bulletproof cashier window for example. The assembly is pre-fabricated for installation in an opening in the barrier. The countertop has an opening in the top face of the countertop on the cashier (internal) side of the window, and an opening in the front face of the countertop on the customer (external) side of the window. The drawer is movably mounted within the countertop, and is normally in an assembly-closed position where the drawer is open and its interior is accessible through the internal opening in the countertop while the front end of the drawer is adjacent or flush with the front face of the countertop, whereby the drawer interior is inaccessible from the customer side. The drawer is movable by the cashier to an open position where the front end projects beyond the front face of the countertop for access to the interior of the drawer by the customer. The projection of the countertop out from the barrier, with the countertop top surface uninterrupted by the drawer, provides a relatively large working area for a prospective customer to use the countertop to prepare a transaction before placing it in the drawer.

Unitary countertop and deal tray assembly

There is provided by the invention a structure-activity model for identifying avian repellent compounds. It has now been found that certain topological and electronic features of a molecule, especially the presence of a core ring structure, the basicity of the molecule in general, and the electronegativity of the core ring structure, are predictive of its avian repellency. Such features may be used to identify avian repellent compounds and such compounds may be utilized in methods for repelling birds from consuming or utilizing a material. There is further provided by this invention, novel avian repellents for use in methods of repelling birds from consuming or utilizing materials otherwise susceptible to consumption or utilization. Additionally, methods for repelling birds from consuming or utilizing non-potable aquatic habitats are provided herein.

Methods of identifying the avian repellent effects of a compound and

Methods of effectively repelling vertebrates, especially rodents, from consuming or utilizing materials otherwise susceptible to such consumption or utilization, using at least one non-toxic rodent repellent compound selected from the group comprising acetophenone, 2-aminobenzyl alcohol, 2-amino-4'5'-dimethoxyacetophenone, anthranilamide, anthranilic acid, isobutyl anthranilate, 4-ketobenztriazine, meta-aminoacetophenone, meta-hydroxyacetophenone, meta-methoxyacetophenone, 2-methoxybenzoic acid, methylanthranilate, ortho-aminoacetophenone, ortho-hydroxyacetophenone, ortho-methoxyacetophenone, para-aminoacetophenone, para-hydroxyacetophenone, para-methoxyacetophenone, and veratryl amine, are provided herein. Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to materials and methods for reducing crop damage, feedlot depredation, and livestock disease attributed to rodent infestation. Certain other embodiments relate to methods of decreasing rodent predation, especially predation of trees, in particular, seedlings. Other embodiments relate to methods of decreasing rodent utilization of functional articles such as telephone and electrical cables, refuse containers and the like. Rodent repellent compositions are also provided by this invention.

Non-toxic methods of repelling rodents from materials susceptible to

Insulation material is configured to provide improved insulating properties in a shipping container. A sheet of insulation material is placed aong the bottom of a container under the contents of the container. An insulating blanket constructed of plastic sheets sealed around their periphery to form a pouch for containing scored paperboard and scored mineral wool is configured to have an inverted U-shape and is placed over a bottom half of the container. A top half of the container is then placed over the bottom half such that the legs of the inverted U-shaped material are between the overlapping side of top and bottom of the container and the middle portion of the U-shaped material is between the top of the container and the contents within the container. A method of scoring mineral wool positioned between plastic sheets is also provided.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Larry G Clark