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Patent CA-2742812-A1 (CA)
Title: Zero-profile interbody spacer and coupled plate assembly
Inventor: MCDONOUGH WILLIAM P
IPC: A61F2/44
Filed: 2009-11-06
Abstract: An implant for insertion into a disc space between vertebrae, wherein the implant includes a spacer portion (20), a plate portion (50) coupled to the spacer portion, two bone fixation elements (70) for engaging the vertebrae and a retention mech-anism for preventing the bone fixation elements from postoperatively backing-out of the plate portion. The retention mechanism may be in the form of a spring biased snapper element (110) that is biased into communication with the bone fixation elements so that once the bone fixation element advances past the snapper element, the snapper element is biased back to its initial position in which the snapper element interfaces with the bone fixation elements.  Alternatively, the retention mechanism may be in the form of a propeller (310) rotatable between a first position in which the bone fixation elements are insertable to a second position where the bone fixation elements are prevented from backing-out.
Patent CA-2743239-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HUCKER MARTYN JOHN
IPC: B64D43/02
Filed: 2009-11-12
Abstract: A flow sensor and fastener assembly (101, 102, 103, 104), comprising at least the following modules: a sensor housing (4, 54, 74) and a fastener element(6, 62); wherein : the sensor housing (4, 54, 74) is adapted to receive a flow-based sensor (2), e.g. a MEMS airflow sensor; the sensor housing (4, 54, 74) comprises connection means (20, 50, 80) for transmitting sensing signals from a fitted flow-based sensor(2); the fastener element (6;  62) comprises a head (22) and a shank (24), at least part of the shank (24) being externally threaded (26); the fastener element (6, 62) comprises a bore (28) extending through the whole length of the fastener element (6, 62); and the bore (28) is shaped at the head (22) end of the fastener element (6, 62) to provide a sensor housing receiving part(30).
Patent CA-2744434-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VENGE PER
IPC: G01N33/53
Filed: 2009-11-23
Abstract: Methods for detecting acute kidney injury in an individual comprise (a) contacting a body fluid sample from the individual with an assay device including neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) antibody and a detectable label, to allow complexing of NGAL protein in the sample with NGAL antibody, and determining an amount of complex formed between NGAL protein from the sample and NGAL antibody in the assay device using the detectable label, wherein NGAL antibody in the device has binding capacity with more than two NGAL protein epitopes, and wherein the amount of the formed complex represents a level of acute kidney injury. Methods for determining an origin of NGAL  protein in a sample from an individual include the step of determining relative amounts of monomeric, dimeric and heterodimeric forms of NGAL protein in the sample and allow improved diagnosis and therefore better targeted treatment.
Patent CA-2746674-A1 (CA)
Title: Virtualized shared protection capacity
Inventor: RANGANATHAN RAGHURAMAN
IPC: H04L69/40
Filed: 2011-07-18
Abstract: The present disclosure relates a network, a network element, a system, and a method providing an efficient allocation of protection capacity for network connections and/or services. These may be for services within a given Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Virtual Machine (VM) instance flow. Network ingress/egress ports are designed to be VM instance aware while transit ports may or may not be depending on network element capability or configuration. A centralized policy management and a distributed control plane are used to discover and allocate resources to and among the VPNs or VM instances. Algorithms for efficient allocation and release of protection capacity may be coordinated between the centralized policy management and the distributed control plane. Additional coupling of attributes such as latency may provide more sophisticated path selection algorithms including efficient sharing of protection capacity.
Patent CA-2753532-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KATSIFIS ANDREW
IPC: C07D215/54
Filed: 2009-04-22
Abstract: A compound comprising a pyridine carboxamide structure, for use in imaging or treating melanoma, is described.  An aromatic ring in the structure is substituted with a radiohalogen atom and the substitution on the amide nitrogen atom is such that the compound binds to melanin.
Patent CA-2754226-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and material for site activated complexing of biologic molecules
Inventor: HUANG ALEXANDER L
IPC: A61K36/82
Filed: 2010-03-01
Abstract: Methods of and compositions for producing and using plant-based materials are provided. The methods include using biopolymers or their synthetic equivalents combined with a stable source of reactive oxygen species that when applied to or combined with a separate source of oxido-reducing enzyme or catalyst will cause the formation of an activated biopolymer with increased protein binding affinity and microbial control activities.
Patent CA-2756921-A1 (CA)
Title: Flexible wrapper with a pouch for a message card
Inventor: CHEEMA PARBINDER
IPC: B65D85/60
Filed: 2010-04-30
Abstract: A packaging (10) comprises a wrapper (12) of flexible material for encasing a product. The wrapper has a pouch (20,120) into which a message card (22) can be inserted and at least part of the pouch is see-through so that the message card can be seen when it is located in the pouch. In one aspect, the wrapper (12) is made of a laminated material comprising an outer layer bonded to an inner layer and the pouch (20) is defined between the inner and outer layers. In an alternative aspect, the pouch (120) is formed by attaching a label to the outer surface of the wrapper.
Patent CA-2757633-A1 (CA)
Title: Context-based state change for an adaptive input device
Inventor: BALL VINCENT
IPC: G06F3/14
Filed: 2010-04-14
Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods to implement a context-based state change for an adaptive input device are provided. For example, a method is disclosed that may include receiving a state input indicating a change in a system state, changing adaptive input device data in response to the state input, the adaptive input device data including one or more of image data or adaptive input device mapping data, and adjusting an adaptive input device display state using the adaptive input device data. Adjusting the adaptive input device display state may include one or more of displaying the image data on an adaptive input device display or adjusting an adaptive input device mapping state according to the adaptive input device mapping data.
Patent CA-2757896-A1 (CA)
Title: Rotary seal with truncated wave form
Inventor: SCHROEDER JOHN ERIK
IPC: F16J15/32
Filed: 2010-04-08
Abstract: The present invention is a generally circular rotary seal that establishes sealing between relatively rotatable machine components for lubricant retention and environmental exclusion, and incorporates seal geometry that interacts with the lubricant during relative rotation to distribute a lubricant film within the dynamic sealing interface. A preferably curved elevated contact pressure zone serves to maximize interfacial lubrication in critical areas during severe operating conditions by utilizing lubricant that would otherwise escape at the trailing edge of the hydrodynamic waves. The zones are produced by geometry that serves to minimize lubricant shear area, seal torque, seal volume, and wear, while ensuring retrofitability into the seal grooves of existing equipment.
Patent CA-2758187-A1 (CA)
Title: Methods for preventing and/or treating degenerative disorders of the central nervous system
Inventor: BOYD ROBERT
IPC: A01N43/40
Filed: 2010-04-09
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for preventing and/or treating degenerative disorders of the central nervous system us-ing 5- (fluoromethyl)piperdine-3,4-diol, 5--(chloromethyl)piperdine-3,4-diol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or prodrug thereof, or any combination of two or more thereof. In particular, the present invention provides methods for pre-venting and/or treating Parkinson's disease.
Patent CA-2758368-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for vaporizing liquid chlorine containing nitrogen trichloride
Inventor: BRERETON CLIVE
IPC: C01B21/083
Filed: 2010-03-06
Abstract: A method of safely vaporizing liquid chlorine containing high concentrations of nitrogen trichloride contaminant from a chloralkali plant. In a vertical plug-flow vaporizer having an upward flow direction, a stream of liquid chlorine containing nitrogen trichloride is received. A gas such as air, nitrogen or chlorine gas is introduced into the liquid stream upstream of the boiling zone of the vaporizer to induce a flow regime, for example annular flow or mist flow, that prevents a mass accumulation of nitrogen trichloride in the vaporizer. The liquid chlorine containing nitrogen trichloride is vaporized. The resulting gas stream may be processed to destroy the nitrogen trichloride and recycled to the chlorine production train.
Patent CA-2758815-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for detection and control of dc arc faults
Inventor: DARGATZ MARV
IPC: H02M1/32
Filed: 2010-07-23
Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing DC arc faults.  At least a portion of the method is performed by a controller comprising at least one processor. In one embodiment, the method comprises analyzing a signature of a signal of a power converter and determining, based on analysis of the signature, whether an arc fault exists.
Patent CA-2758951-A1 (CA)
Title: High-speed cooking oven with optimized cooking efficiency
Inventor: MCKEE PHILIP R
IPC: H05B6/80
Filed: 2010-04-15
Abstract: The present invention is directed to improving the conventional high-speed cooking oven based on a combination of hot air impingement and microwave heating by providing a timedependent spatial variation in the net air impingement and/or net microwave energy applied to the food product in the oven This is aimed at optimizing heat transfer and microwave efficiencies in a high-speed cooking oven, thereby enabling the oven to deliver an optimal cooking efficiency in comparison to the conven-tional high-speed cooking oven In addition, under the embodiments of the present invention, the cooking efficiency may be fur-ther optimized by providing a plenum between each wall of the cooking chamber and the housing of the oven
Patent CA-2759207-A1 (CA)
Inventor: YU ZHI-ZONG
IPC: H04W72/08
Filed: 2010-05-11
Abstract: A cellular communications system in which transmission of control signals for plural different remote stations is so displaced in time that the transmission of control signals for one remote station does not interfere with the transmission of control signals for another remote station, the displacement being sufficient to prevent contemporaneous reception of control signals by the remote station intended for the other remote station.
Patent CA-2759261-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for production of chrysanthemum plant having petals containing modified anthocyanin
Inventor: NODA NAONOBU
IPC: A01H5/00
Filed: 2010-03-09
Abstract: Disclosed are a method for controlling flavonoid synthesis in a chrysanthemum plant or non-chrysanthemum plant by genetic recombination technology using a transcriptional regulatory region useful for altering flower color, a method for modifying anthocyanins, a method for producing a chrysanthemum plant or non-chrysanthemum plant containing modified anthocyanins in the petals thereof, and a chrysanthemum plant or non-chrysanthemum plant, progeny thereof, or vegetatively propagated products, part or tissue thereof transformed with the regulatory region. In the method according to the present invention, an expression vector or expression cassette containing a transcriptional regulatory region of perilla anthocyanin 3-acyltransferase gene, such as a nucleic acid containing the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 1, or a transcriptional regulatory region of pansy F3'5'H gene, such as the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 15, is used.
Patent CA-2759690-A1 (CA)
Title: Carboxylic acid compound
Inventor: NEGORO KENJI
IPC: C07C69/76
Filed: 2010-04-21
Abstract: [Problem]  The present invention has an object to provide a compound having a GPR40 agonistic activity, which is useful as a pharmaceutical composition, an insulin secretion promoter, or an agent for preventing/treating diabetes.   [Means for Solution]   The present inventors have extensively studied a compound having a GPR40 agonistic activity, and as a result, they have found that the compound (I) of the present invention or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in which a carboxylic acid is bonded to a bicyclic or tricyclic moiety through methylene, and further, a benzene ring substituted with a monocyclic 6-membered aromatic ring is bonded to a bicyclic or tricyclic moiety through -O-methylene or -NH-methylene, has an excellent GPR40 agonistic activity. They have also found that the compound has an excellent insulin secretion promoting action and strongly inhibits increase in the blood glucose after glucose loading, thereby completing the present invention.
Patent CA-2761035-A1 (CA)
Title: Steam generator
Inventor: VAN WYK RUSSEL DUANE
IPC: F22B37/00
Filed: 2011-12-06
Abstract: A steam generator including a steam chamber defining an enclosed fluid chamber with a plurality of tubes passing through the steam chamber, a combustion chamber defining a closed fluid chamber and an air channel coupled to a burner, and a heat transfer section defining a closed fluid chamber and an air passage in fluid communication with a vacuum source, in which the burner generates a heated air mixture, the vacuum source draws the heated air mixture from the combustion chamber air channel, through the steam chamber plurality of tubes and through the heat transfer section air passage so as to heat fluid passing through the heat transfer section, the steam chamber and the combustion chamber fluid chamber.
Patent CA-2761772-A1 (CA)
Inventor: DIEZ LUC
IPC: C23C2/20
Filed: 2010-05-07
Abstract: One subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing a metal strip having a metal coating for corrosion protection, comprising the steps consisting in: - making the metal strip pass through a bath of molten metal, comprising 0.2 to 8% by weight of aluminum and magnesium in the following proportions: - 0.1 to 8% by weight of magnesium for an aluminum content equal to or greater than 0.2% but less than 4% by weight or - a content greater than 5% but less than or equal to 8% by weight of magnesium for an aluminum content equal to or greater than 4% but less than or equal to 8% by weight, and comprising up to 0.3% by weight of addition elements, the balance being zinc and inevitable impurities; then - wiping the coated metal strip by means of nozzles that spray a gas on each side of the strip, said gas having an oxidizing power lower than that of an atmosphere consisting of 4% oxygen by volume and 96% nitrogen by volume; and then - making the strip pass through a confinement zone bounded: ~ at the bottom, by the wiping line and the upper external faces of said wiping nozzles, ~ at the top, by the upper part of two confinement boxes placed on each side of the strip, just above said nozzles, and having a height of at least 10 cm in relation to the wiping line and ~ on the sides, by the lateral parts of said confinement boxes, the atmosphere in said confinement zone having an oxidizing power lower than that of an atmosphere consisting of 4% oxygen by volume and 96%     nitrogen by volume and higher than that of an atmosphere consisting of 0.15%  oxygen by volume and 99.85% nitrogen by volume.     Other subjects of the invention are a metal strip that can be obtained by this process and a metal part obtained by deforming this strip.
Patent CA-2763217-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GALLAND REGIS
IPC: B67D7/06
Filed: 2012-01-04
Abstract: The device comprises a connecting pipe (18) having an inlet (18A) capable to be connected to the feed and an outlet (18B) capable to be connected to the storage vat (10), as well as a retaining chamber (20) which branches off from the connecting pipe (18) and which is equipped with a sampling valve (24).  The connecting pipe comprises a charging valve (22), located between the retaining chamber and the outlet of the connecting pipe. After the product originating from the feed has been conveyed to the retaining chamber (20), and a sample of the product mixture present in the retaining chamber (20) has been taken to ascertain information relative to the nature of this mixture, and if the ascertained information corresponds to expected information, a charging valve (22) is opened to have the outlet of the connecting pipe (18) communicate with the vat (10).
Patent CA-2765235-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WOODS MICHAEL CLARKE
IPC: C09J7/20
Filed: 2010-06-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a liner- free label activator, adapted to be joined to another piece of equipment, such as a thermal printer. The activator has a housing including a reservoir for containing a solvent and a pump connected to the reservoir. The activator also has an applicator connected to the pump for applying solvent to a liner- free label passing thereby, an activator control system to connect to a control system of the printer, and structure for connecting the housing to the printer.
Patent CA-2765507-A1 (CA)
Title: Systeme de distribution base sur le poids
Inventor: GODLEWSKI PETER
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2010-06-25
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un système de distribution basé sur le poids. Le système comprend une plateforme et un récipient, couplé à la plateforme, comprenant un couvercle configuré pour se déplacer entre un état fermé bloquant l'accès aux articles dans le récipient et un état ouvert permettant l'accès aux articles dans le récipient. Le système comprend également au moins deux capteurs de poids, chacun des capteurs de poids étant couplé à la plateforme et étant configuré pour déterminer un changement de poids sur la plateforme, et un dispositif de commande configuré pour déterminer un changement dans le nombre d'articles dans le récipient en fonction de l'état du couvercle et du changement de poids sur la plateforme. L'invention porte également sur un procédé pour distribuer des articles.
Patent CA-2766518-A1 (CA)
Title: Credit system for collection of recycled materials
Inventor: ROST JOHN M
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2010-06-25
Abstract: A method of an administrator recording a sale and a retiring of a recycling credit certificate for a recycled material may include the steps of a computing device at the administrator: receiving from a seller a request to generate the recycling credit certificate, transferring the certificate from an account registered by the seller to an account registered by the buyer, receiving from the buyer a request to retire the recycling credit certificate, and recording the certificate as retired. The certificate may include unique information identifying environmental attributes that are unbundled from a corresponding amount of a recycled material. The request to retire the certificate may include an amount of standard manufactured material used in an amount of product bearing a retail product claim for the environmental attributes that were unbundled from the corresponding amount of the recycled material tangibly owned by the seller.
Patent CA-2769364-A1 (CA)
Inventor: NIELSEN PER
IPC: G01N25/72
Filed: 2012-02-24
Abstract: Method of detecting wrinkles in a fiber reinforced laminated structure and auxiliary device for performing thermal scans of a fiber reinforced laminated structure A method of detecting wrinkles (3) in a fiber reinforced laminated structure (1) is provided. In this method, - the structure (1) is locally heated or cooled, the location of the heating or cooling being moved along a defined path (7), - the temperature of the structure (1) is measured at a measuring location being different from the location of the heating or cooling, the measuring location being moved along the same path (7) as the location of the heating or cooling, and - wrinkles (3) are detected from temperature anomalies found along the defined path (7).
Patent CA-2777400-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KRENSKY ALAN M
IPC: A61K35/15
Filed: 2010-10-08
Abstract: Methods of stimulating or enhancing an immune response in a host are disclosed. The methods include contacting a monocyte with 15 kD granulysin thereby producing a monocyte-derived dendritic cell. In one example, the method further includes contacting the monocyte or monocyte-derived dendritic cell with a target antigen, such as a tumor antigen or an autoimmune antigen. In another embodiment, the method includes contacting the monocyte with an additional agent that enhances maturation of dendritic cells or induces immunological tolerance. The methods are of use in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo. In another aspect, the disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of tumors.
Patent CA-2778700-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HILL NORMAN ROSS
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2010-11-05
Abstract: Seismic data representing the propagation of seismic energy through a geologic volume of interest is processed. The seismic energy propagates through the geologic volume of interest from one or more source locations at or near the geologic volume of interest to one or more detector locations at or near the geologic volume of interest. In processing the seismic data, the seismic energy is modeled as beams (e.g., Gaussian beams). The processing performed (i) corrects for misalignment of the one or more source locations and/or the one or more detector locations with a regular, predetermined mesh, and (ii) steers the seismic data based on the modeled beams.
Patent CA-2779028-A1 (CA)
Title: Plant growth regulation
Inventor: HAAS ULRICH JOHANNES
IPC: A01P21/00
Filed: 2010-11-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing dicotyledonous crop plants, by applying to the plants trinexapac-ethyl and prohexadione-calcium, and to use of a composition comprising the same.
Patent CA-2782021-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LATHAM MATTHEW
IPC: B01D57/02
Filed: 2010-12-09
Abstract: An electrotransfer cassette is formed in two parts that are releasably joined by a manually operated locking mechanism. The joined parts have electrical contact areas extending from the electrodes in the two parts of the cassette, the contact areas being exposed on an outer edge of the resulting cassette to form electrical connections to a power supply upon the simple insertion of the cassette into an instrument.
Patent CA-2783896-A1 (CA)
Inventor: RICHARDSON JOHN
IPC: A24D3/06
Filed: 2010-11-30
Abstract: A smoking article component comprising a viscoelastic material (500).
Patent CA-2784103-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GATHOGO PATRICK NDURU
IPC: G01V1/28
Filed: 2010-12-09
Abstract: A methodology improves the modeling of a geologic region, such as a hydrocarbon-bearing basin. The methodology comprises processing data to create a heterogeneous earth model based on a variety of data on material properties across the geologic region. The heterogeneous earth model is employed in combination with a stratigraphic model in a manner which creates a high resolution geologic-stratigraphic model. The high resolution geologic-stratigraphic model is useful for improving the analysis of hydrocarbon-bearing basins and other geologic regions.
Patent CA-2784111-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WEISSHAUPT DIETER
IPC: A61B18/14
Filed: 2010-12-17
Abstract: The invention relates to improving a surgical system for connecting bodily tissues, comprising a surgical instrument having two tool elements displaceable relative to each other, each comprising an HF electrode defining a minimum distance from each other, opposite each other, and facing one another in an approach setting of the tool elements, wherein in order for simple and secure connecting of the tissue parts to be connected to each other, the invention proposes that at least one of the HF electrodes is divided into at least two electrode segments and that the at least two electrode segments are electrically insulated from each other.