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20110195112 | USE OF PLANT-DERIVED RECOMBINANT GROWTH FACTORS IN SKIN CARE - Cosmetic and therapeutic compositions for skin care, containing a transgenic plant extract containing a growth factor, or a growth factor purified from transgenic plants, or a mixture of growth factors derived from transgenic plants as extracts or in purified form, for use in topical therapeutic and/or cosmetic applications. Importantly, this invention makes safer growth factors available for use for cosmetic and topical treatment. These growth factors do not carry the risk of unwanted contaminants and transmissible agents that can result from animals or animal cell based expression systems, and the recombinant growth factors that plant expression systems provide are post-translationally modified proteins. | 08-11-2011 |
20130045270 | METHOD OF USE OF STABILIZED GROWTH FACTOR IN SKIN CARE - Dermatologic compositions for therapeutic use, containing a growth factor, or a growth factor purified from transgenic plants, or animal, bacterial, yeast or insect cells, or a mixture of growth factors in purified form, for treatment of various dermatological conditions and diseases. The pharmaceutical compositions are suitable for treatment of sensitive and challenged skin due to conditions and illnesses such as challenged skin due to systemic lupus erythematosus, Lichen simplex chronicus, blepharitis and blepharokeratoconjuctivitis. The skin compositions are also useful for use in combination with agents to treat anti-fungal infections such as Clotrimazole, Terbinafine, Miconazole, Ketoconazole, Amorolfine and Econazole. | 02-21-2013 |
20130177614 | METHOD OF USE OF STABILIZED NON-PLANT-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR IN SKIN CARE - Cosmetic and dermatologic compositions for skin care, containing a non-plant derived growth factor, purified from a host organisms or host cells such as bacterial, yeast, or animal cells, including insect cells, or a mixture of growth factors in purified form, for use in topical therapeutics, dermatology and cosmetics. Importantly this invention provides stabilized, safer growth factors available for use for cosmetic and topical treatment. Preferred composition comprises a non-plant derived growth factor and hyaluronic acid. The skin-care/dermatological compositions with stabilized growth factor do not carry the risk of unwanted breakdown products and the resulting loss of activity of the composition. | 07-11-2013 |
20130266536 | METHOD OF USE OF STABILIZED PLANT-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR IN SKIN CARE - Cosmetic and dermatologic compositions for skin care, containing a transgenic plant extract containing a growth factor, or a growth factor purified from transgenic plants, or a mixture of growth factors derived from transgenic plants as extracts or in purified form, for use in topical therapeutics, dermatology and cosmetics. Importantly this invention provides stabilized, safer growth factors available for use for cosmetic and topical treatment. Preferred composition comprises a plant-produced growth factor and hyaluronic acid. The skin-care/dermatological compositions with stabilized growth factor do not carry the risk of unwanted breakdown products and the resulting loss of activity of the composition. Furthermore, the composition is without contaminants and transmissible agents that can result from animals or animal or bacterial cell based expression systems. | 10-10-2013 |
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20090084456 | FITTING WITH INTEGRAL TEST MEMBRANE - There is disclosed a fitting for a plumbing drainage system. The fitting comprises a body, an inlet at one end of the body, an outlet at the other end of the body, a fluid flow passageway extending between the inlet and the outlet through the body. The fitting also comprises a hydraulic test membrane bonded to the fitting across the fluid passageway, the membrane being sized and shaped to be manually punctured. There is also disclosed a method of making such a fitting. | 04-02-2009 |
20100311319 | ROOF VENT - A roof vent is provide. The roof vent comprises a top component coupled to a bottom component. The top component has a top wall, a side wall, a first louvered region disposed between said top wall and said side wall, and a top cylindrical baffle located inwardly of said first louvered region. The bottom component has at least a first cylindrical collar sized and shaped for mounting to a cylindrical exhaust stack of a first diameter, a second louvered region, and a bottom cylindrical baffle located below and inwardly of the top cylindrical baffle. The first louvered and second louvered regions are for helping to prevent insects, and moisture, such as snow and rain, from entering the roof vent. The top component may also be used separately from the bottom component to cover over aging or aesthetically unpleasing passive pot vents. | 12-09-2010 |
20110100485 | CENTRAL VACUUM INLET VALVE ASSEMBLY - A subassembly for use in a vacuum inlet valve assembly for a central vacuum system, the subassembly having a valve body with a wiring compartment and at least one press connection detent means and a reversible mounting flange for connecting to the valve body. The mounting flange includes an attachment portion, a mounting flange wall sized and shaped to cover an open side of wiring compartment and press catch connection elements sized and shaped to interact with the detent to secure the mounting flange to the valve body. Also disclosed is a vacuum inlet valve assembly comprising the above subassembly in combination with a cover plate having a rectangular door, a hinge located on a long side of the rectangular door, and a face plate with a vacuum connection opening. In an alternate embodiment the valve body includes a perimeter wall, attachment openings internal but adjacent to said perimeter wall and a snap fit cover to close an open wall of a wiring compartment. | 05-05-2011 |
20140130892 | FEMALE ELECTRICAL RECEPTACLE FOR MOUNTING BEHIND AN INLET VALVE OF A CENTRAL VACUUM CLEANING SYSTEM - A female electrical receptacle for mounting behind an inlet valve of a central vacuum cleaning system, having a base portion and a cover portion wherein the base portion defines three open topped channels and two side channels include an electrically conductive bayonet extending into said channel. The central channel retains the ground wire. Each bayonet is electrically connected to a female pin receptacle located toward one end of said base portion. The cover is sized and shaped to be field securable to said base portion to close said open top channels onto said bayonets, The female electrical receptacle further includes attachment features adjacent the pin receptacles, which are sized and shaped to engage with said inlet valve to permit said one end to be mounted behind said inlet valve and connected to a plug opening in said inlet valve. An electrical wire may be field inserted between the cover and the base so that when the cover is secured to the base an electrical connection is completed by the bayonets between the wire and the pin receptacles to electrify the plug opening in the inlet valve. | 05-15-2014 |
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20130078903 | ROOF VENT - A vent for a building has a cover attached to a base. The base has an aperture permitting gas to pass. A moisture directing means on an underside of the cover directs moisture move under the influence of gravity to fall outside of the aperture. The cover may include a slanted side wall portion, with the aperture positioned with its center displaced from the center of the cover toward the slanted side. The base may include a pair of moisture deflecting features along at least a portion of one of the nonslope sides to prevent moisture flowing along the base from within an area on the base covered by the cover to outside of the covered area at the nonslope sides. The base may also include a water deflecting ridge on its underside positioned between a downslope edge and the aperture to deflect water away. | 03-28-2013 |
20130221545 | DIFFUSER BAFFLE FOR GREASE INTERCEPTOR - A diffuser baffle for use in an in-line wastewater grease interceptor. The diffuser baffle lies within a grease collecting chamber between the inflow and outflow of a grease interceptor. The diffuser baffle has an open bottom which is sized and shaped respectively to fit into the grease collecting chamber. The diffuser baffle has an end operatively connected to the inflow opening to permit wastewater to flow into the body through the open bottom. The baffle has a downstream end which includes a deflector portion to deflect a wastewater stream in a direction generally into the grease collecting chamber. The body also includes a number of apertures to permit the deflected wastewater stream to pass through the baffle and into the grease collecting chamber, where FOG will separate before waste water exits the chamber through the outlet baffle. | 08-29-2013 |
20130313180 | SOLIDS CONTAINMENT DEVICE FOR USE WITHIN OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH HYDROMECHANICAL GREASE INTERCEPTOR - A solids containment device for use in n hydromechanical grease interceptor, sized and shaped to be removably carried within the hydromechanical grease interceptor. The solids containment device includes a containment body with side and end walls, an open top, a wastewater inflow opening and an outflow opening. At least one removable solids separating screen is carried within the containment body, and is located between the inflow opening and the outflow opening. The outflow opening is directed away from the outflow aperture of the hydromechanical grease interceptor, in order to encourage a generally diagonal flow path for the wastewater stream within the hydromechanical grease interceptor, thereby encouraging separation of fats, oils and grease. | 11-28-2013 |
20140106661 | ADJUSTABLE ROOF VENT - A passive vent for venting a building enclosure having an opening in a roof portion, the vent being adjustable for mounting on roof portions of different slopes. The vent has a base pivotally attached to a vent structure with a pair of pivot joints. The vent structure has a collar attached to a vent body having a cover. At least one gas permeable screen is positioned on the vent body between the cover and the collar. The base comprises a lower attachment structure for attaching the base to the roof portion over the opening. An aperture through the lower attachment structure permits gas to pass in to and out of the opening in the roof portion through the base. A wall including a pair of opposed curvilinear wall sections surrounds the aperture. The pivot joints define a pivot axis about which the vent structure pivots along a range of angles relative to the base. The collar is sized and shaped to overlap portions of the aperture surrounding wall to maintain a continuous wall between the collar and the aperture surrounding wall along the range of angles. At least one securement means secures the vent structure in one of the range of angles relative to the base. | 04-17-2014 |
20140342658 | PRECIPITATION CONTROL SYSTEM - There is disclosed a roof vent having rain control means to reduce rain water splashing into the opening in a roof vent. The baffle has a number of ridges or channels that direct rain water into a number of droplet pathways. The falling water creates a rain curtain that deflects rain water that enters into the roof vent from travelling into interior of the building. At the base of the roof vent is one or more splash deflectors that changes the angle of water impacting the base of the roof vent to limit the amount of deflected water that can enter into the opening in the roof vent. The rain curtain and one or more splash deflector may act in concert to further divert rainwater. | 11-20-2014 |
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20080267406 | Method and Device for Verifying The Integrity of Platform Software of an Electronic Device - A method for verifying the integrity of platform software of an electronic device is provided, the method comprising accessing a module of said platform software, obtaining a signature (S), obtaining a verification key (VK), said verification key (VK) corresponding to a signing key (SK), verifying if said signature (S) was derived by signing said platform software module with said signing key (SK), by using said verification key (VK), and establishing a positive verification of said platform software module if said verification is successful. The invention also provides a method for providing a platform software module to perform the aforementioned method, and a device on which the aforementioned method can be performed. | 10-30-2008 |
20110213971 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RIGHTS MANAGEMENT AT FILE SYSTEM LEVEL - An approach is presented for providing rights management at file system level. A virtual file system rights management application receives a request to access a protected file. The rights management application binds the access request to the protected file in the file system, determines credentials associated with the request for accessing the protected file according to the binding and causes, at least in part, verification of the credentials according to a rights management system associated with the protected file. Based, at least in part, on the determination, the rights management application causes decryption of the protected content. | 09-01-2011 |
20150019872 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF PLATFORM SOFTWARE OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for verifying the integrity of platform software of an electronic device is provided, the method comprising accessing a module of said platform software, obtaining a signature (S), obtaining a verification key (VK), said verification key (VK) corresponding to a signing key (SK), verifying if said signature (S) was derived by signing said platform software module with said signing key (SK), by using said verification key (VK), and establishing a positive verification of said platform software module if said verification is successful. The invention also provides a method for providing a platform software module to perform the aforementioned method, and a device on which the aforementioned method can be performed. | 01-15-2015 |
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20090056412 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATION OF MEASURING EQUIPMENT AND MEASURING EQUIPMENT - A method for the calibration of measuring equipment, and measuring equipment. The measuring equipment comprises at least one first sensor, at least one second sensor and at least one reference piece. When the measuring equipment is calibrated, a moving web is supported against the reference piece and the reference piece with the moving web supported thereto is moved to different distances from the first sensor and the second sensor. Further, a distance between the first sensor and the moving web and a distance between the second sensor and the reference piece is measured at least for two different distances, and the first sensor and the second sensor are calibrated to be uniform in relation to the movement of the reference piece. | 03-05-2009 |
20100165344 | WEB MEASUREMENT - One measuring part of a traversing measuring unit measures at least one characteristic of a web with a first radiation type from a plurality of measuring locations during a traversing movement at successive moments in time. At least two measuring parts of an array measuring unit measure at least one characteristic of the web with another radiation type during each traversing movement at a plurality of different moments in time by directing the measurement to a plurality of measuring locations in the web at each moment in time. A signal processing unit is arranged to estimate at least one characteristic measured by the traversing measuring unit with at least one measurement of the array measuring unit. | 07-01-2010 |
20100319866 | MEASURING OF WEB - Optical radiation sources functioning on different optical bands radiate on different optical bands and focus optical radiation on a region in a web surface as pulses in such a manner that illumination areas of the pulses overlap on the plane of the web. At most one optical radiation band is focused on the web from the direction of the normal. The spatial intensity distribution of at least one optical band differs from the uniform distribution and the intensity distributions of at least two different optical bands differ from one another in a predetermined manner. A camera forms still images of the web surface region on each optical radiation band. An image-processing unit determines the surface topography of the web on the basis of the images. In addition, a controller may control the paper manufacturing process on the basis of the determined surface topography. | 12-23-2010 |