Patents by Inventor Steven E. Sims

Steven E. Sims 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).

  • Array of micro-elements for high resolution and high content imaging and sorting of cells
    Patent number: 11920115
    Abstract: An array of magnetic or paramagnetic micro-elements comprised of polysilsesquioxane is described having ultra-low-autofluorescence and other optical properties to improve microscopic imaging of cells or other objects present on the array. These materials are also amenable to chemical modification allowing surface attachment of affinity capture moieties or chemical reporters for selective binding or analysis of cells, macromolecules or other targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cell Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Nancy L. Allbritton, Yuli Wang, Christopher E. Sims, Nicholas C. Dobes, Steven C. Gebhart, Nicholas C. Trotta
  • Aggregate for feeding fuel from supply tank to internal combustion engine of motor vehicle
    Patent number: 5415521
    Abstract: An aggregate for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle has a feed pump formed as a flow pump and having a disk-shaped impeller and a pump chamber in which the impeller rotates and which is limited in an axial direction by two end walls spaced from one another and in a radial direction by a ring wall arranged so that substantially parallel axial gaps are formed between end surfaces of the impeller and end surfaces of the pump chamber facing the end surfaces of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Willi Strohl, Jaihind-Singh Sumal, Steven E. Sims