Patents by Inventor Cory Gerdts

Cory Gerdts 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).

  • ROBOT FOR ORCHESTRATING MICROFLUIDICS EXPERIMENTS
    Publication number: 20100313995
    Abstract: A robot is described for automatically performing microfluidic experiments that are often complex and repetitive. The robot includes a system for initiating the communication of off-chip fluids, such as fluorocarbons, and off-chip materials, such as proteins. The communication of off-chip fluids and off-chip materials is further guided to a microfluidics device vis-à-vis a Z-head robot, an XY plane robot, and an interface assembly that creates a fluid-tight joint for communicating the off-chip fluids and off-chip materials into the microfluidics device for conduction of microfluidics experiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Cory Gerdts, Andrew M. Lovatt, Paul M. Crisp, Peter Nollert-von Specht, Lansing J. Stewart
  • STOCHASTIC CONFINEMENT TO DETECT, MANIPULATE, AND UTILIZE MOLECULES AND ORGANISMS
    Publication number: 20100227767
    Abstract: Methods of detecting organisms e.g. bacteria using stochastic confinement effects with microfluidic technologies involving plugs are provided. Signal amplification methods for the detection of molecules are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: James Q. Boedicker, Rustem F. Ismagilov, Christian Kastrup, Cory Gerdts, Toan Huynh, Hyun Jung Kim, Matthew K. Runyon, Feng Shen
  • NANOVOLUME MICROCAPILLARY CRYSTALLIZATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100158772
    Abstract: A nanovolume microcapillary crystallization system allows nanoliter-volume screening of crystallization conditions in a crystal card that allows crystals to either be removed for traditional cryoprotection or in situ X-ray diffraction studies on protein crystals that grow within. The system integrates formulation of crystallization cocktails with preparation of the crystallization experiments. The system allows the researcher to select either gradient screening in crystallization experiments for efficient exploration of crystallization phase space or a combination of sparse matrix with gradient screening to execute one comprehensive hybrid crystallization trial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: DECODE BIOSTRUCTURES, INC.
    Inventors: Cory Gerdts, Mark Elliott, Peter Nollert-von Specht, Lansing J. Stewart
  • Microfluidic system
    Publication number: 20060094119
    Abstract: The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Rustem Ismagilov, Bo Zheng, Cory Gerdts
  • Microfluidic system
    Publication number: 20060003439
    Abstract: The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Rustem Ismagilov, Bo Zheng, Cory Gerdts
  • Device and method for pressure-driven plug transport and reaction
    Publication number: 20050087122
    Abstract: The present invention provides microfabricated substrates and methods of conducting reactions within these substrates. The reactions occur in plugs transported in the flow of a carrier-fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Rustem Ismagliov, Joshua Tice, Cory Gerdts, Bo Zheng