Patents by Inventor Jan Sunner

Jan Sunner 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).

  • Method and apparatus for sampling macromolecules from a biological specimen
    Patent number: 9850479
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for laser ablation sampling, electrophoretic extraction from the laser plume, electrophoretic transport to a container, and capture of macromolecules of interest. In certain embodiments, when macromolecules of interest are nucleic acid, the apparatus and methods further provides for nucleic acid amplification and detection in a rapid mobile platform for environmental and clinical identification of pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: Jan Sunner, Iwona Beech, Matthew Kowalski, Kathleen Duncan, Joseph Suflita
  • Method and Apparatus for Sampling Macromolecules from a Biological Specimen
    Publication number: 20160257949
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for laser ablation sampling, electrophoretic extraction from the laser plume, electrophoretic transport to a container, and capture of macromolecules of interest. In certain embodiments, when macromolecules of interest are nucleic acid, the apparatus and methods further provides for nucleic acid amplification and detection in a rapid mobile platform for environmental and clinical identification of pathogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jan Sunner, Iwona Beech, Matthew Kowalski, Kathleen Duncan, Joseph Suflita
  • Methods for obtaining clean energy from coal
    Patent number: 9139780
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for stimulating or enhancing the conversion of coal to methane. The methods of the current invention subject coal to an oxidation step, for example ozonolysis, thereby converting at least a portion of the coal to partially-oxidized and water-soluble forms of organic matter. Subsequent contact of the oxidized coal components with a suitable inoculum containing a methanogenic microbial community produces methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: Joseph Suflita, Mark Nanny, Margarita Mendivelso Castro, Jan Sunner
  • METHODS FOR OBTAINING CLEAN ENERGY FROM COAL
    Publication number: 20120255725
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for stimulating or enhancing the conversion of coal to methane. The methods of the current invention subject coal to an oxidation step, for example ozonolysis, thereby converting at least a portion of the coal to partially-oxidized and water-soluble forms of organic matter. Subsequent contact of the oxidized coal components with a suitable inoculum containing a methanogenic microbial community produces methane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph Suflita, Mark Nanny, Margarita Mendivelso Castro, Jan Sunner
  • Method and apparatus to produce gas phase analyte ions
    Patent number: 6825477
    Abstract: Adsorption, desorption and ionization methods and apparatuses are used to produce gas phase ions for subsequent analysis. Non-porous microscopically rough ionization surfaces are used to absorb analyte in situ for subsequent ionization by laser light and release of gas phase analyte ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Inventors: Jan Sunner, Sergey Alimpiev, Sergey Nikiforovl
  • Method and apparatus to produce gas phase analyte ions
    Publication number: 20020121595
    Abstract: Adsorption, desorption and ionization methods and apparatuses are used to produce gas phase ions for subsequent analysis. Non-porous microscopically rough ionization surfaces are used to absorb analyte in situ for subsequent ionization by laser light and release of gas phase analyte ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Jan Sunner, Sergey Alimpiev, Sergey Nikiforovl