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20100113383 | BIFIDOBACTERIAL GENE SEQUENCES AND THEIR USE - This invention provides nucleic acids and proteins involved in oligosaccharide modification in the species | 05-06-2010 |
20100254949 | PREBIOTIC OLIGOSACCHARIDES - The present invention provides galacto-oligosaccharide compositions that preferentially stimulate growth of specific | 10-07-2010 |
20130095528 | BIFIDOBACTERIAL GENE SEQUENCES AND THEIR USE - This invention provides nucleic acids and proteins involved in oligosaccharide modification in the species Bifidobacteria. The invention provides methods for utilizing the proteins of the invention to generate human milk oligosaccharides or oligosaccharide mimics. The invention also provides compositions containing the human milk oligosaccharides or oligosaccharide mimics and methods for use. | 04-18-2013 |
20130195803 | BOVINE MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDES - Oligosaccharides from bovine milk, whey and dairy products, and methods of producing bovine milk oligosaccharides are provided. | 08-01-2013 |
20140037785 | PREBIOTIC OLIGOSACCHARIDES - The present invention provides galacto-oligosaccharide compositions that preferentially stimulate growth of specific | 02-06-2014 |
20140148378 | ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDES - The present invention relates to antibacterial peptides and analogs thereof, e.g., originating from, derived from, isolated and/or purified from mammalian milk, that reduce, inhibit and/or prevent the growth or proliferation of a bacterial organism. | 05-29-2014 |
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20100145530 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING IRRIGATION CONTROLLER WITH TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL SENSOR - Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation in order to make efficient use of water. In one implementation, an irrigation control unit comprises at least one input adapted to be coupled to and receive signals from a rainfall sensor and a temperature sensor, the signals corresponding to current values of an amount of rainfall and temperature. The unit also includes a memory storing historical values of a plurality of variables and a processor coupled to the at least one input and the memory. The processor is adapted to determine plant water requirements at least in part using the historical values of the plurality of variables and the current values of the temperature and the amount of rainfall. | 06-10-2010 |
20110077785 | Automatically Adjusting Irrigation Controller - Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation in order to make efficient use of water. In one implementation, the invention may be characterized as a method comprising: receiving, user entered historical values of one or more environmental variables, wherein the historical values correspond to a geographic region and storing the historical values in a memory; receiving current values of one or more environmental variables useful in determining the plant water requirements from one or more sensors, the values corresponding to a geographic region and the other environment variables being different from the one or more environmental variables and storing the current values in the memory; and determining the plant water requirements based at least in part on the user entered historical values and the current values of the one or more other environmental variables. | 03-31-2011 |
20120259473 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING IRRIGATION CONTROLLER - Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation in order to make efficient use of water. In one implementation an irrigation control unit comprises at least one input configured to be coupled to and receive signals from a temperature sensor, the signals corresponding to current values of temperature. The unit also includes a memory storing historical values of a plurality of variables and a processor coupled to the at least one input and the memory. The processor is configured to determine plant water requirements at least in part using the historical values of the plurality of variables and the current values of the temperature. | 10-11-2012 |
20140031996 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING IRRIGATION CONTROLLER - Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving, from a user via a user interface of an irrigation control unit and at a time after an initial commercial sale, a region identifier corresponding to a region of the irrigation controller; identifying a set of historical values from a plurality of sets of historical values pre-stored in a memory of the irrigation control unit; receiving a current value of at least one other environmental variable from at least one sensor; receiving at least one historical value from the identified set of historical values from the memory; determining the plant water requirements using the at least one historical value and the current value; outputting an adjustment control message to the irrigation controller; and adjusting execution of the irrigation schedule, the irrigation schedule defined for a peak irrigation period. | 01-30-2014 |