Patents Represented by Attorney Timothy L. Smith, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

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  • Gripping mechanisms, apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 7422411
    Abstract: The present invention provides grasping mechanisms, gripper apparatus/systems, and related methods. Grasping mechanisms that include stops, support surfaces, and height adjusting surfaces to determine three translational axis positions of a grasped object are provided. In addition, grasping mechanisms that are resiliently coupled to other gripper apparatus components are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Robert Charles Downs, Mark Richard Weselak, James Kevin Mainquist
  • Sweet taste receptors
    Patent number: 7335487
    Abstract: This invention provides novel genes and polypeptides of the sweet receptor family, methods for production of the polypeptides, methods for screening compounds that specifically bind to and/or modulate the activity of these polypeptides; and antibodies specific for the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignees: IRM LLC, The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Jiayu Liao, Sheng Ding, Peter G. Schultz