Patents by Inventor Gordon F. Fairclough, Jr.

Gordon F. Fairclough, Jr. 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).

  • Novel diacylglycerophosphoric acid esters and use thereof as substrates in enzyme assays
    Patent number: 5011964
    Abstract: Novel diacylglycerophosphoric acid esters include a hydrophobic diacyl glycerol portion to provide water insolubility and a head group which forms a chromophore or a chromophore precursor when the head group is enzymatically released and are chromogenic substrates useful to assay for enzymes catalyzing the cleavage of phosphate ester or phosphoanhydride bonds adjacent or opposite to the phosphatidic acid region of a phospholipid molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis C. Mynarcik, Owen W. Griffith, Gordon F. Fairclough, Jr.