Patents by Inventor Ian Edward Bruce

Ian Edward Bruce 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).

  • Benzophenoxazine dyes
    Patent number: 6166202
    Abstract: Benzophenoxazine compounds have formula (I) where X is O or NH, Y is NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 or H, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are alkyl or -L-A, L is a linker and A may be a reactive group by means of which the compound is linked to a biomolecule. The compounds can be used as fluorescent dyes for labelling biomolecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Amersham Pharmacia Biotech UK Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Simmonds, James N Miller, Christopher John Moody, Elizabeth Swann, Mark Samuel Jonathan Briggs, Ian Edward Bruce
  • Squarate dyes and their use in fluorescent sequencing method
    Patent number: 6140494
    Abstract: Novel squarate dyes are described, and adducts of these dyes with biologically significant chemical species such as nucleosides or nucleotides. The adducts have useful properties for fluorescent nucleic acid sequencing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Amersham Pharmacia Biotech UK Limited
    Inventors: Alan Lewis Hamilton, Richard Martin West, William Jonathan Cummins, Mark Samuel Jonathan Briggs, Ian Edward Bruce