Patents by Inventor Mustapha Jamal

Mustapha Jamal 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).

  • Curved and flexible microfluidics
    Patent number: 9375873
    Abstract: A method of producing curved, folded or reconfigurable structures includes providing a polymer film, exposing the polymer film to at least one of patterned radiation or patterned chemical contact, and conditioning the polymer film subsequent to the exposing. The polymer film includes a polymer that is active to cross-linking of polymer chains in response to the exposing. The exposing is performed such that at least one exposed region of the polymer film develops a gradient in an amount of cross-linking of polymer chains along a cross-sectional direction of the polymer film, and the conditioning of the polymer film removes uncross-linked polymer chains to provide a curved, folded or reconfigurable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: David H. Gracias, Mustapha Jamal
  • CURVED AND FLEXIBLE MICROFLUIDICS
    Publication number: 20130210148
    Abstract: A method of producing curved, folded or reconfigurable structures includes providing a polymer film, exposing the polymer film to at least one of patterned radiation or patterned chemical contact, and conditioning the polymer film subsequent to the exposing. The polymer film includes a polymer that is active to cross-linking of polymer chains in response to the exposing. The exposing is performed such that at least one exposed region of the polymer film develops a gradient in an amount of cross-linking of polymer chains along a cross-sectional direction of the polymer film, and the conditioning of the polymer film removes uncross-linked polymer chains to provide a curved, folded or reconfigurable structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: David H. Gracias, Mustapha Jamal