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Robert J Von Gutfeld

Alejandro Gabriel Schrott

Richard Joseph Gambino

Paul Andrew Moskowitz

Hendrik F Hamann

James Henry Glownia

Charles Philippe Tresser

Michael John Brady

Praveen Chaudhari

Ali Afzali-Ardakani

Lubomyr Taras Romankiw

Shui-Chih Alan Lien

Thomas Anthony Cofino

James F Ziegler

Gareth Geoffrey Hougham

Harley K Heinrich

Chai Wah Wu

Marco Martens

Robert Lee Melcher

Supratik Guha

James Patrick Doyle

James Andrew Lacey

Alan C West

Herschel M Marchman

Michael T Prikas

James Peter Ward

Claudius Feger

Dah-Weih Duan

Arnold Halperin

Guenter Karjoth

Richard Allen John

William Francis Kane

Mario Schkolnick

Donald R Vigliotti

Donald R Vigliotti, Deceased

Ronald G Koretsky

Eugene E Tynan

Paul William Coteus

Evan G Colgan

Timothy Joseph Chainer

Theodore Gerard Van Kessel

Christopher Vincent Jahnes

David William Abraham

Jeffrey Donald Gelorme

Fuad Elias Doany

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe

Stephen Mark Rossnagel

Minhua Lu

James L Speidell

David Robert Medeiros

S Jay Chey

Jerry E Hurst, Jr

Eric Gerhard Liniger

Chengjun Julian Chen

Alan Weger

Pradeep Kumar Dubey

Modest M Oprysko

Michael Joseph Steinmetz

David J Perlman

Joseph D Rutledge

Gaurav Aggarwal

Edward F Leonard

Martin Patrick O'Boyle

Sean William Smith

John C Murphy

Mary Joseph Saccamango

Jamil A Wakil

James Vichiconti

Steve Harris Weingart

Shaw-Ning Mei

Bruce A Scott

Russell W Dreyfus

Mark J Willey

Milan Paunovic

Kyong-Min Kim

Shao-Fu S Chu

Nabil M Amer

Venkata S R Kodukula

Claude Alexander Greengard

Samuel E Blum

Ashutosh Kulshreshtha

James H Anderson

Vernon Ralph Austel

John J Donelon

Zlata Kovac

Scott J McAllister

Denos Constantinos Gazis

Stanley Cortell

Anthony Castellano

Nelly Ropper

Arthur Autz

Steven J Benson

Larysa H Kulynych

Matthias D Ziegler

John B Kiessling

Sherman S Wang

Mordechai H Gelchinski

A wearable ultrafiltration apparatus is provided. The apparatus can include a first ultrafilter for filtering a patient's blood along a first fluid path and a second ultrafilter for filtering the patient's blood along a second fluid path. The apparatus can also include a valve being positionable in a first position for directing the patient's blood along the first fluid path. The valve can also be positioned in a second position for directing the patient's blood along the second fluid path. When the valve is in the first position, blood can flow along the first fluid path and prevent blood from flowing along the second fluid path. When the valve is in the second position, blood can flow along the second fluid path and prevent blood from flowing along the first fluid path. When the valve is in the first position, the second ultrafilter can be idle and capable of being serviced or replaced and when the valve is in the second position, the first ultrafilter can be idle and capable of being serviced or replaced. Therefore, when a ultrafilter fouls, blood can be directed to the other ultrafilter while the fouled ultrafilter is being serviced or replaced.

Wearable ultrafiltration devices methods and systems

A method and apparatus for fabricating or altering a microstructure use means for heating to facilitate a local chemical reaction that forms or alters the submicrostructure.

Method and apparatus for fabricating or altering microstructures using local chemical alterations

Method of ablating the surface of a substrate including providing a dry substrate and an electrolyte source, ablating the surface of the dry substrate to at least partially remove a native oxide layer, and immersing the ablated dry substrate in the electrolyte source, in which the dry substrate is ablated prior to being introduced into the electrolyte source. Also provided is a method of ablating the surface of a substrate that includes providing a dry substrate and an electrolyte, depositing a portion of the electrolyte on the substrate at a thickness of less than 10 microns and ablating the surface of the substrate with the electrolyte applied thereon. System for use in the ablation of the surface of a substrate are also provided.

Substrate laser oxide removal process followed by electro or immersion plating

Systems and methods for plating and/or etching of hard-to-plate metals are provided. The systems and methods are designed to overcome the deleterious effect of superficial coating or oxide layers that interfere with the plating or etching of certain metal substrates. The systems and methods involve in situ removal of coating materials from the surfaces of the metal substrates while the substrates are either submerged in plating or etching solutions, or are positioned in a proximate enclosure just prior to submersion in the plating or etching solutions. Further, the substrates can be in contact with a suitable patterning mask to obtain patterned oxide-free regions for plating or etching. This in situ removal of coating layers may be achieved by pulse heating or photoablation of the substrate and the inhibiting coating layers. Electrical energy or laser light energy may be used for this purpose. Additionally or alternatively, the coating materials may be removed by mechanical means.

In situ plating and etching of materials covered with a surface film

Systems and methods for in-situ annealing of metal layers as they are being plated on a substrate by action of a chemical solution are provided. The in-situ annealing, in conjunction with controlled slow growth rates, allows control of the structure of the plated metal layers. The systems and methods are used for maskless plating of the substrates.

Systems and methods for in situ annealing of electro- and electroless platings during deposition

Methods and systems for monitoring electrolyte bath fluids are provided. The electrolyte bath fluids can be electroplating, electroless plating or etching solutions. The monitoring systems employ microfluidic devices, which have built in microfluidic channels and microfabricated thin-film electrodes. The devices are configured with fluid pumps to control the movement and mixing of test fluids through the microfluidic channels. The microfabricated thin-film electrodes are configured so that the plating or etching bath fluid composition can be characterized by electrochemical measurements. The monitoring methods and system provide faster measurement times, generate minimal waste, and occupy dramatically reduced physical space compared to conventional bath-monitor systems. The monitoring systems and method also provide low-cost system and methods for measuring or monitoring electroless plating bath rates.

Systems and methods for monitoring plating and etching baths

The invention provides protection to wireless portable transponders from unauthorized interrogation by employing a mechanical means for disabling reception by or from the antenna of the transponder. Transponders include RFID tags that are attached to items that a persons may purchase or carry. Such transponders generally have means for receiving and storing electronic and other information, commonly in binary form using memories as in electronic circuits, etc. The invention is designed to provide privacy of electronic information. The tags can be protected from receiving or providing unauthorized or unwanted information. The invention provides the mechanical means that permit the owner to decide when reception/interrogation of personal or other information is not desired by employing the provided mechanical disable control means.

System and method for disabling RFID tags

The present invention provides a substrate having thereon a patterned small molecule organic semiconductor layer. The present invention also provides a method and a system for producing a substrate having thereon a patterned small molecule organic semiconductor layer. The substrate having thereon a patterned small molecule organic semiconductor layer is produced by exposing a donor substrate having thereon a small molecule organic semiconductor layer to energy to cause the thermal transfer of a small organic molecule onto an acceptor substrate.

System and method of transfer printing an organic semiconductor

Provides protection to wireless portable transponders from an unauthorized interrogation by employing a mechanical member. Transponders include: cards, fobs and RFID tags that a persons may carry. Such transponders generally have means for receiving and storing electronic and other information, commonly in binary form using memories as in electronic circuits, etc. The invention is designed to provide privacy of electronic information and yet permit the information to be queried at the users discretion. The cards and tags can be protected from receiving or providing unauthorized or unwanted information. The invention provides the mechanical member with means that permit the owner to decide when reception/interrogation of personal or other information is desirable by employing the provided mechanical enable/disable control means.

Enabling and disabling a wireless RFID portable transponder

The invention provides protection to wireless portable transponders from unauthorized interrogation by employing a mechanism for disabling reception by or from the antenna of the transponder. Transponders include RFID tags that are attached to items that a persons may purchase or carry. Such transponders generally have an ability for receiving and storing electronic and other information, commonly in binary form using memories as in electronic circuits, etc. The invention is designed to provide privacy of electronic information. The tags can be protected from receiving or providing unauthorized or unwanted information. The invention provides the mechanism that permit the owner to decide when reception/interrogation of personal or other information is not desired by employing the provided mechanical disable control.

A method of joining two panels during the manufacturing of a LCD display employing the ODF (One Drop Fill) assembly technique. Using this method, the liquid crystal is deposited on one of the substrate's interior to the glue seal. The glue seal is pre-deposited near the peripheral edge of the substrates. The two substrates are then brought in contact with one another. The glue seal must be cured rapidly in order to seal the entire periphery while avoiding contamination between the glue seal, in the liquid state and the liquid crystal. The present invention teaches the use of a non-epoxy glue sealant, which is cured using photoinitiators. Experimental research has discovered the use of photons that are derived from laser beams and the control thereof. This allows for a faster, lower temperature cure.

Method of sealing two substrates with a non-epoxy or epoxy-acrylate sealant using laser radiation

In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for recycling exhaust air expelled from a computer server (e.g., a unit including microprocessors such as a standard server or a mainframe). In one embodiment, at least one windmill (e.g., a standard windmill or a wind turbine) is driven by the exhaust air from at least one server unit, and the at least one windmill in turn drives a generator. Therefore, energy previously wasted in the form of exhaust is harnessed and reused to provide power to the server system. The method and apparatus also reduce the demand placed on ventilation systems needed to cool server environments, further reducing the amount of energy consumed and/or wasted in the operation of a server system. In one embodiment, the electric power from the generator unit is either recycled into the power grid. In another embodiment, the recycled air is used to charge batteries that might be available as power standby units.

Method and apparatus for generating electricity using recycled air from a computer server

A method (and system) for guaranteeing authenticity of an object, includes providing a sample of material obtainable only by at least one of chemical and physical processes such that the sample is random and not reproducible, associating a number reproducibly to the sample by using a specific reader, and forming at least one coded version of the number, the at least one coded version being obtained by a key signature, and the version being recorded into an area of the object.

Method and apparatus for producing duplication- and imitation-resistant identifying marks on objects, and duplication- and duplication- and imitation-resistant objects

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