Abstract: A slipform paver having a dowel bar inserter pan. The inserter pan has a plurality of dowel bar receiving stations therein. The inserter pan is movable relative to the suspended slip form such that the pan moves towards and away from the slip form during dowel bar insertion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 18, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 17, 2003
Assignee:
Guntert & Zimmerman Const. Div.
Inventors:
Ronald M. Guntert, Gerald Lee Dahlinger, Richard W. Francis
Abstract: The invention provides improved devices, methods, and systems for shrinking of collagenous tissues, particularly for treating urinary incontinence in a noninvasive manner by directing energy to a patient's own support tissues. This energy gently heats fascia and other collagenous support tissues, causing them to contract. The energy will preferably be applied between a pair of large plate electrodes having cooled flat electrode surfaces separated by an insulating rib or film. Such cooled plate electrodes are capable of directing electrical energy through an intermediate tissue and into fascia while the cooled electrode surface prevents injury to the intermediate tissue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2000
Date of Patent:
March 18, 2003
Assignee:
SURx, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert J. Laird, Frank W. Ingle, Garry L. Carter, Timothy G. Dietz
Abstract: A compiler optimization method for optimizing a scheduled block of instructions inserts a conditional branch instruction in place of a merge instruction to select between alternative paths when a condition is resolved.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 17, 2000
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2003
Assignee:
Elbrus International Limited
Inventors:
Boris A. Babaian, Sergey K. Okunev, Vladimir Y. Volkonsky
Abstract: This invention provides a novel anti-microbial system suitable for formulation in a wide variety of ophthalmic solutions. In particular the composition comprises an antimicrobial peptide that is an indolicidin and a buffer compatible with application to a mammalian eye, wherein the buffer is a Good's buffer or the buffer has a halide ion concentration less than 0.85 wt %. The compositions are useful for storing, cleaning, or disinfecting a contact lens. In particular the compositions are self-preserving upon lengthy storage, effective in cleaning and sterilizing contact lenses upon exposure of the lens to the composition, do not require the need for physical or thermal treatment of the lens and enable the immediate application of the lens to the eye without the need for neutralization, deactivation or washing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 1999
Date of Patent:
November 19, 2002
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California