Patents Assigned to division
  • Chronic hepatitis virus infection and clonal hepatocellular carcinoma in mouse repopulated livers
    Publication number: 20040158885
    Abstract: A method is provided for repopulating degenerated of immunetolerant mice which lack mature B and T lymphocytes with xenogenic mammalian hepatocytes, particularly primate hepatocytes to generate chimeric mice. In addition, a method of generating a human hepatitis virus-infected chimeric mouse is provided. A preferred xenogenic primate hepatocyte is derived from human, chimpanzee or baboon. These chimeric mice are useful in the investigation of host and viral mechanisms determining hepadnaviral persistence and hepatocarcinogenesis. Methods for monitoring the development of hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma as well as methods for testing and screening anti-viral and anti-cancer compounds with this model system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a division of Yeshiva University
    Inventors: Charles E. Rogler, Joerg Petersen
  • Indicia for containers
    Publication number: 20040155453
    Abstract: A container having an outer removable overlying label which covers an underlying permanently affixed label. The outer label is at least partially translucent, or preferably transparent. Use of a removable outer label permits the consumer to remove some or all of the verbiage which is important for the label, but which need not be present on the container in use in the consumer's home. In an alternative embodiment, the outer label is removably affixed to a wall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco., Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Food product
    Publication number: 20040156973
    Abstract: The invention provides a kit for preparing salads comprising at least one ingredient (I) which is cooked and at least one fruit, vegetable or cereal product, wherein the kit comprises; a flavoured cooking paste for cooking ingredient (I), which cooking paste comprises from 40 to 80% wt fat, based on the weight thereof, and a dressing for contacting with the at least one fruit, vegetable or cereal product, which dressing comprises from 0 to 60% wt fat based on the weight thereof. The kit provides an easy and convenient of preparing tasty, healthy salads comprising a cooked food ingredient. A method of making a salad using the kit and also the salad prepared from the kit is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Gerald Morley
  • Nucleic acid-binding polymers
    Publication number: 20040157217
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid binding polymer which has affinity for nucleic acid molecules such as DNA, RNA, or hybrids thereof. The polymer is comprised of a nucleic acid binding backbone linked to a nucleic acid binding agent, preferably by a linking moiety. The polymer can be used to isolate and purify nucleic acid molecules from a variety of sample types including but not limited to clinical and environmental.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Veridian Systems Division
    Inventors: Kathy Terlesky, Chris Earle
  • Frozen food product
    Patent number: 6774210
    Abstract: Anti-freeze protein which can be derived from Lichen, said protein having an apparent molecular weight of from 20 to 28 kDa and having an N-terminal amino acid sequence which shows at least 80% overlap with: A-P-A-V-V-M-G-D-A-E-S-F-G-A-I-A-H-G-G-L and modified versions and isoforms of this protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream Division of Conopco., Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M Sidebottom, Margaret F Smallwood, Louise J. Byass
  • Method of coloring hair
    Patent number: 6773462
    Abstract: A method of coloring hair comprises: treating hair with an oxidizing agent; and applying to the hair either during or after treatment with the oxidizing agent a composition comprising a compound which is capable of acting as a substrate for endogenous transglutaminase in and/or on the hair and which comprises a chromophore that is capable of absorbing and/or emitting light in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Products for use in the method comprise the oxidizing agent packaged separately from the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Pawel Slusarewicz
  • Hair coloring compositions
    Patent number: 6773464
    Abstract: A hair coloring composition or kit of parts comprises: a compound which is capable of acting as a substrate for endogenous transglutaminase in and/or on hair and which comprises a chromophore that is capable of absorbing and/or emitting light in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum; and a reducing agent. The composition may be used to coloring hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Pawel Slusarewicz
  • Dry bleach compositions
    Patent number: 6773625
    Abstract: Dry bleach compositions particularly suitable for cleaning of hard surfaces or fabrics which, upon mixing with water, form a mixture that is easily removed from surfaces upon standing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Nancy Ann Falk, Pamela Chau Lam
  • Treatment for substrates
    Patent number: 6773811
    Abstract: A water-dispersible particle wherein the material comprises (i) one or more polymeric deposition materials having an average repeat unit (I):  wherein at least one or more R groups of the polymer are independently selected from H, a hydrolysable group or a linker group in which when R is a hydrolysable group the degree of substitution is 0 to 3 and when R is a linker group the degree of substitution is 0.01 to 3; (ii) a benefit agent attached to the deposition enhancing part;  characterised in that the water-dispersible particle has a particle size from 20 to 5,000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Paul Hugh Findlay, Christopher Clarkson Jones, Dax Kukulj
  • Laundry treatment compositions and components therefor
    Publication number: 20040152621
    Abstract: A composition comprising a silicone having a perfume component dissolved or dispersed therein and a deposition aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin Carvell, Robert Alan Hunter, Christopher Clarkson Jones, Giovanni Francesco Unali
  • Cash dispensing automated banking machine diagnostic method
    Publication number: 20040149819
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) includes a lockable first fascia portion (20) which when unlocked enables access to a chest lock input device (104), inputs to which enable opening a chest door (18) of the machine. Opening the first fascia portion also enables access to an actuator (116) which enables moving a second fascia portion (22) for conducting service activities. A controller (72) in the machine selectively illuminates light emitting devices (118, 126) for purposes of facilitating user operation of the machine. Sensing devices (128) adjacent a card reader slot (28) on the machine enables the controller to detect the presence of unauthorized card reading devices. Servicing the machine is facilitated through use of a portable diagnostic article (98) which enables the controller to access diagnostic data stored in memory and which provides data indicative of the significance of the diagnostic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Shepley, Glenda Griswold
  • Surface for collection and/or purification of nucleic acids
    Publication number: 20040152085
    Abstract: A substrate for collecting nucleic acids, for example, DNA, (and processes of making and using the same), comprising a surface; an aerogel coated on said surface; an active silane attached so said aerogel; and a nucleic acid binding agent attached to said silane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Veridian Systems Division
    Inventors: Kathy Terlesky, Chuck Daitch, Chris Earle, Eric Van Gieson
  • Laundry cleansing and conditioning compositions
    Publication number: 20040152616
    Abstract: Fabric and textile conditioning compositions containing particular combinations of cationic polymers and anionic surfactants are disclosed. The polymers are soluble or dispersible to at least 0.01% by weight in distilled water at 25° C., and must be present in an effective amount to yield a substantial conditioning benefit. A method of conditioning articles using the polymer/surfactant combinations is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division Of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, Michael Orchowski, Alla Tartakovsky
  • Detergent compositions
    Publication number: 20040152619
    Abstract: Incorporation in a laundry detergent composition of a graft polymer having a locust bean gum backbone and grafts of an aromatic sulphonic acid improves antiredeposition properties. The preferred polymer is locust bean gum-graft-poly(4-styrenesulphonic acid).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher David Gibbs, Alyn James Parry, Susanne Henning Rogers
  • Compound delivery systems
    Publication number: 20040151674
    Abstract: A composition comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingrid Anne Marie Appelqvist, Mark Emmett Malone, Asish Nandi
  • Edible emulsion containing highly unsaturated fat
    Publication number: 20040151823
    Abstract: An edible oil in water emulsion comprising 40-99 wt. % of a continuous aqueous phase which phase contains 0.05-15 wt. % of a protein calculated on aqueous phase and, preferably, a thickener in an amount of 0.01-3 wt. %, 1-60 wt. % of a dispersed fat phase, the fat phase comprising 0.01-0.2 wt. % of alpha-tocopherol and a triglycerides mixture containing 10-80 wt. % of mono-unsaturated fatty acid residues, 10-80 wt. % of polyunsaturated fatty acid residues, 3-15 wt. % of omega-3 fatty acid residues, the balance up to 100 wt. % consisting of saturated fatty acid residues, fatty acid residues being calculated on fat phase, which emulsion is characterized in that it contains 0.005-0.05 wt. % of delta-tocopherol, while the weight ratio of delta-tocopherol and alpha-tocopherol in the emulsion is selected from the range 5 to 0.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Charles Daniels, Christel Karine Reiffers-Magnani
  • System and method for automated platform generation
    Publication number: 20040153299
    Abstract: Systems for implementing methods for generating platform location sets comprising selecting a set of platform locations; determining additional platform locations to add to the set of platform locations; validating the additional platform locations, and determining an optimum location for each platform location in the set of platform locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a division of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin
  • Cash dispensing automated banking machine diagnostic system
    Publication number: 20040153409
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) includes a lockable first fascia portion (20) which when unlocked enables access to a chest lock input device (104), inputs to which enable opening a chest door (18) of the machine. Opening the first fascia portion also enables access to an actuator (116) which enables moving a second fascia portion (22) for conducting service activities. A controller (72) in the machine selectively illuminates light emitting devices (118, 126) for purposes of facilitating user operation of the machine. Sensing devices (128) adjacent a card reader slot (28) on the machine enables the controller to detect the presence of unauthorized card reading devices. Servicing the machine is facilitated through use of a portable diagnostic article (98) which enables the controller to access diagnostic data stored in memory and which provides data indicative of the significance of the diagnostic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Shepley, Glenda Griswold
  • System and method for automated reservoir targeting
    Publication number: 20040153298
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reservoir targeting, the systems implementing methods comprising filtering a plurality of values in a three-dimensional model to eliminate values which are below a threshold to create a filtered three-dimensional model; developing a first matrix from the filtered three-dimensional model representing a two-dimensional model of the reservoir, wherein the first matrix includes a plurality of cell center locations, cell areas, and the plurality of values; developing a second matrix from the first matrix using a distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values; and selecting target locations from the second matrix based on the distance-weighted sum of the plurality of values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a division of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, Glenn Robert McColpin
  • Laundry cleansing and conditioning compositions
    Publication number: 20040152617
    Abstract: Fabric and textile conditioning compositions containing particular combinations of cationic polymers and anionic surfactants are disclosed. The polymers are soluble or dispersible to at least 0.01% by weight in distilled water at 25° C., are preferably below a particular molecular weight to afford optimal cleaning and conditioning, and must be present in an effective amount to yield a substantial conditioning benefit. A method of conditioning articles using the polymer/surfactant combinations is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, Michael Orchowski, Alla Tartakovsky, David Alan Binder