Patents by Inventor Dorel MOLDOVAN

Dorel MOLDOVAN 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).

  • Biomolecular processing platform and uses thereof
    Patent number: 10870881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device comprising a biomolecular processor. Each biomolecular processor has one or more bioreactor chambers defined by a solid substrate; a support structure within each bioreactor; a cleaving enzyme immobilized to the support structure and operatively positioned within the bioreactor chamber to cleave monomer or multimer units of a biopolymer molecule operatively engaged by the cleaving enzyme; and one or more time-of-flight channels formed in the solid substrate and fluidically coupled to said one or more bioreactor chambers. Each of the time-of-flight channels have two or more sensors including at least (i) a first sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the input end of the channel and (ii) a second sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the output end of channel. The present invention further relates to methods of sequencing and identifying biopolymer molecules using the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: CORNELL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
    Inventors: Steven A. Soper, Francis Barany, George Grills, Robin McCarley, Collin J. McKinney, Dorel Moldovan, Michael C. Murphy, Dimitris Nikitopoulos, Sunggook Park, Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy
  • Biomolecular processing platform and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9909173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device comprising a biomolecular processor. Each biomolecular processor has one or more bioreactor chambers defined by a solid substrate; a support structure within each bioreactor; a cleaving enzyme immobilized to the support structure and operatively positioned within the bioreactor chamber to cleave monomer or multimer units of a biopolymer molecule operatively engaged by the cleaving enzyme; and one or more time-of-flight channels formed in the solid substrate and fluidically coupled to said one or more bioreactor chambers. Each of the time-of-flight channels have two or more sensors including at least (i) a first sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the input end of the channel and (ii) a second sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the output end of channel. The present invention further relates to methods of sequencing and identifying biopolymer molecules using the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: Cornell University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northeastern University, Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Steven A. Soper, Francis Barany, George Grills, Robin McCarley, Collin J. McKinney, Dorel Moldovan, Michael C. Murphy, Dimitris Nikitopoulos, Sunggook Park, Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy
  • BIOMOLECULAR PROCESSING PLATFORM AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150361489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device comprising a biomolecular processor. Each biomolecular processor has one or more bioreactor chambers defined by a solid substrate; a support structure within each bioreactor; a cleaving enzyme immobilized to the support structure and operatively positioned within the bioreactor chamber to cleave monomer or multimer units of a biopolymer molecule operatively engaged by the cleaving enzyme; and one or more time-of-flight channels formed in the solid substrate and fluidically coupled to said one or more bioreactor chambers. Each of the time-of-flight channels have two or more sensors including at least (i) a first sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the input end of the channel and (ii) a second sensor contacting the time-of-flight channel proximate to the output end of channel. The present invention further relates to methods of sequencing and identifying biopolymer molecules using the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Steven A. SOPER, Francis BARANY, George GRILLS, Robin McCARLEY, Collin J. McKINNEY, Dorel MOLDOVAN, Michael C. MURPHY, Dimitris NIKITOPOULOS, Sunggook PARK, Elizabeth J. PODLAHA-MURPHY