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University Technology Corporation

University of Colorado

Mark C Manning

Theodore W Randolph

John Frank Carpenter

Lewis P Stratton

Eli Shefter

Richard F Falk, Iii

Scott Drummond

Richard Frank Falk

A leveling system for a lamp shade can include a bearing, a stud extension, and a weight. The bearing can be positionable around a stud of a lamp shade assembly and can be configured to be supported by a bracket of the lamp shade assembly. The bearing can define a bearing surface engageable with a hub of the lamp shade to provide an articulation surface for the hub. The weight can be releasably securable to a spoke of the lamp shade and can be positionable on the spoke to level the lamp shade about the bearing with respect to a plane.

Self-leveling lamp shade

A stand to securely hold spatulas wherein the stand has a base that is magnetically secured to metal surfaces and includes a concave basin for the collection of grease when a greasy metal spatula is placed thereatop. On the distal end of the basin from the abutment where the handle of a spatula rests is a lip/shelf that provides a slot for the placement therein of the flat portion of a metal spatula and magnets are included directly therebelow to keep a metallic spatula magnetically secured in place. An abutment portion attached to the concave basin provides a slot for the handle of the spatula to rest thereon.

Spatula stand

Provided is a sustained release composition for sustained release of a pharmaceutical substance. The composition includes a biocompatible polymer that is highly amorphous and a pharmaceutical substance in a hydrophobic ion complex with an amphiphilic material. Also provided is a compressed antisolvent method for manufacturing the composition, various product forms incorporating the composition and various uses for the composition.

Sustained-release composition including amorphous polymer

Pharmaceutical compositions for the delivery of pharmacologically active proteins are provided by the present invention. The compositions of the present invention comprise a polymeric matrix having thermal gelation properties in which is incorporated a discrete suspension of at least one biologically active macromolecular polypeptide which retains greater than 90 percent of its biological activity. Furthermore, the concentration of the macromolecular polypeptide is greater than 0.5 percent by weight of the composition.

Temperature sensitive gel for sustained delivery of protein drugs

Provided is a method for preparing a true, homogeneous solution of a pharmaceutical substance dissolved in an organic solvent in which the pharmaceutical substance is not normally soluble. Solubilization is obtained by forming a hydrophobic ion pair complex involving the pharmaceutical substance and an amphiphilic material. The resulting organic solution may be further processed to prepare pharmaceutical powders. A biodegradable polymer may be co-dissolved with the pharmaceutical substance and the amphiphilic material and may be incorporated into a pharmaceutical powder. A preferred method for preparing pharmaceutical powders is to subject the organic solution to gas antisolvent precipitation using a supercritical gas antisolvent such as carbon dioxide. Also provided is a method for making hollow particles having a fiber-like shape which would provide enhanced retention time in the stomach if ingested by a human or animal host.

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Mark C Manning