Patents by Inventor Heather R. Luckarift

Heather R. Luckarift 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).

  • Patent number: 9356297
    Abstract: Scalable, hierarchically structure biopolymer carbon architectures that are suitable for use as bioelectrodes and biologically friendly methods for making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Plamen B Atanassov, Heather R Luckarift, Glenn R. Johnson, Jared N. Roy, Susan R. Sizemore
  • Patent number: 8642308
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides multi-walled carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) displaying catalytic enzymes bound to the nanotube sidewalls and devices, such as electrodes, incorporating these catalytic enzyme-bound CNTs (cebCNTs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Plamen Atanassov, Dmitri Ivnitski, Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, Heather R. Luckarift, Glenn R. Johnson, Carolin Lau
  • Patent number: 8071340
    Abstract: A process for the production of ortho-aminophenolic analogs of chloramphenicol using a biocatalyst consisting of pure enzymes, partially purified enzymes, cell lysate, intact cells, or a metal reaction linked with a subsequent enzymatic reaction. The biocatalyst is an enzyme system that makes use of a nitroreductase enzyme that initially reduces the nitroarene to the hydroxylaminoarene and a mutase enzyme that converts the hydroxylaminoarene to an ortho-aminophenol. The biocatalyst can also consist of a coupled, two-step metal and enzyme reaction in which the metal, such as zinc, catalyzes the transformation of the nitroarene to the hydroxylaminoarene and the mutase then catalyzes the transformation of hydroxylaminoarene to the corresponding ortho-aminophenol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Lloyd J. Nadeau, Heather R. Luckarift, Jim C. Spain