Patents by Inventor Sandra Whaley Bishnoi

Sandra Whaley Bishnoi 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).

  • All optical nanoscale sensor
    Patent number: 8045152
    Abstract: A composition comprising a nanoparticle and at least one adsorbate associated with the nanoparticle, wherein the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property. A method comprising associating an adsorbate with a nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a shell surrounding a core material with a lower conductivity than the shell material and the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property, and engineering the nanoparticle to enhance the optical property of the adsorbate. A method comprising determining an optical response of an adsorbate associated with a nanoparticle as a function of a chemical parameter, and parameterizing the optical response to produce a one-dimensional representation of at least a portion of a spectral window of the optical response in a high dimensional vector space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Nancy J. Halas, Don H. Johnson, Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Carly S. Levin, Christopher John Rozell, Bruce R. Johnson
  • All optical nanoscale sensor
    Publication number: 20080176212
    Abstract: A composition comprising a nanoparticle and at least one adsorbate associated with the nanoparticle, wherein the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property. A method comprising associating an adsorbate with a nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a shell surrounding a core material with a lower conductivity than the shell material and the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property, and engineering the nanoparticle to enhance the optical property of the adsorbate. A method comprising determining an optical response of an adsorbate associated with a nanoparticle as a function of a chemical parameter, and parameterizing the optical response to produce a one-dimensional representation of at least a portion of a spectral window of the optical response in a high dimensional vector space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Nancy J. Halas, Don H. Johnson, Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Carly S. Levin, Christopher John Rozell, Bruce R. Johnson