Patents by Inventor Fabrice Balavoine

Fabrice Balavoine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Molecular rod and uses
    Patent number: 6403705
    Abstract: The invention concerns molecular rods, their uses in a method for fixing and/or crystallising macromolecules, the resulting products and uses of said products in the field of materials and structural biology, in particular as biosensors or as biomaterials. Said molecular rods have a structure represented by the general formula (I) and said method essentially consists in incubating, for at least 15 minutes, a biological macromolecule in solution with a molecular rod as defined by the formula, in suitable temperature and pH conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignees: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS
    Inventors: Fabrice Balavoine, Charles Mioskowski, Patrick Schultz