Patents by Inventor Carola Holmstrom

Carola Holmstrom 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).

  • Inhibition of Gram positive bacteria
    Patent number: 7026353
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the growth of a Gram positive bacterium, the method comprising treating the bacterium with an effective amount of one or more furanones having the Formula as set out in the Figure, wherein the effective amount of the one or more furanones does not substantially adversely effect the survival of an animal cell when exposed to the one or more furanones
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Unisearch Limited, A.C.N.
    Inventors: Staffan Kjelleberg, Peter David Steinberg, Carola Holmstrom, Arthur Back
  • Inhibition of gram positive bacteria
    Publication number: 20040072898
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the growth R of a Gram positive bacterium, the method comprising treating the bacterium with an effective amount of one or more furanones having the Formula as set out in the Figure, wherein the effective amount of the one or more furanones does not substantially adversely effect the survival of an animal cell when exposed to the one or more furanones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: UNISEARCH LIMITED A.C.N.
    Inventors: Staffan Kjelleberg, Peter David Steinberg, Carola Holmstrom, Arthur Back
  • Microbial inhibitory compositions
    Publication number: 20030198692
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antimicrobial composition. The composition comprises a cell-permeabilising agent and at least one compound of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently H, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, oxoalkyl, alkenyl, aryl or arylalkyl whether unsubstituted or substituted, optionally interrupted by one or more heteroatoms, straight chain or branched chain, hydrophilic fluorophilic; R3 and R4 are independently H, halogen, alkyl, aryl or arylalkyl, alkoxy; R3 or R4+R2 can be saturated or an unsaturated cycloalkane; and “” represents a single bond or a double bond provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is a halogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Gerd Pia Carola Holmstrom, Staffan Kjellberg