Patents by Inventor Barbara Stwertka

Barbara Stwertka 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).

  • Spatially inhomogenously functionalized porous media and method for use in selective removal of contaminants
    Patent number: 9677066
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for separating double-stranded nucleic acids out of a mixture comprising single-stranded nucleic acids and/or dNTPs and/or enzymes. The method uses spatially inhomogeneously functionalized nanoporous materials. For example, the compositions and methods of the present invention can be used to purify DNA amplification reaction products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Rochester
    Inventors: Lewis Rothberg, Barbara Stwertka
  • SPATIALLY INHOMOGENOUSLY FUNCTIONALIZED POROUS MEDIA AND METHOD FOR USE IN SELECTIVE REMOVAL OF CONTAMINANTS
    Publication number: 20150337291
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for separating double-stranded nucleic acids out of a mixture comprising single-stranded nucleic acids and/or dNTPs and/or enzymes. The method uses spatially inhomogeneously functionalized nanoporous materials. For example, the compositions and methods of the present invention can be used to purify DNA amplification reaction products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Lewis Rothberg, Barbara Stwertka
  • Spatially inhomogenously functionalized porous media and method for use in selective removal of contaminants
    Patent number: 9062304
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for separating double-stranded nucleic acids out of a mixture comprising single-stranded nucleic acids and/or dNTPs and/or enzymes. The method uses spatially inhomogenously functionalized nanoporous materials. For example, the compositions and methods of the present invention can be used to purify DNA amplification reaction products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: The University of Rochester
    Inventors: Lewis Rothberg, Barbara Stwertka
  • Spatially Inhomogenously Functionalized Porous Media and Method for Use in Selective Removal of Contaminants
    Publication number: 20100267109
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for separating double-stranded nucleic acids out of a mixture comprising single-stranded nucleic acids and/or dNTPs and/or enzymes. The method uses spatially inhomogenously functionalized nanoporous materials. For example, the compositions and methods of the present invention can be used to purify DNA amplification reaction products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: LEWIS ROTHBERG, BARBARA STWERTKA
  • Characterizing organic materials in a thin film
    Publication number: 20060100793
    Abstract: A process for characterizing the phase of an organic material in a thin film comprises employing a reference spectrum library for potential phases, subjecting the film to a vibrational spectroscopy measurement to obtain a resulting spectrum; and comparing the resulting spectrum to those in the reference library to characterize the phase of the organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Manju Rajeswaran, Thomas Blanton, Barbara Stwertka, Joseph Lippert, Christopher Brown