Patents by Inventor Nigel Skinner

Nigel Skinner 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).

  • Device including a biologically active substance immobilized on a covalent nitride substrate by a bifunctional coupling agent
    Patent number: 5858802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device including a substrate and at least one biologically active substance bound to at least a part of the surface of this substrate, which is obtained by simultaneous or sequential reaction of said substrate and of said substance with a bifunctional coupling agent in which one of the functional groups is capable of being photoactivated and generates carbenes and is used to bind the coupling agent to the inorganic substrate and the other functional group is used to bind the coupling agent to the biologically active substance, in which said substrate is a covalent inorganic nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
    Inventors: Hui Chai-Gao, Reto Luginbuhl, Hans Sigrist, Nigel Skinner, Hendrik Van Den Vlekkert