Patents by Inventor OSCAR N. RUIZ
OSCAR N. RUIZ 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).
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Publication number: 20240075415Abstract: The present invention relates to a reclamation and recycling process for graphene oxide, a scaffold comprising graphene oxide, a modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter and a filter tool that allows the correct compression pressure of a modular filtration cartridge, and prevents internal leakage along the internal wall of the filter and thus provides correct sealing of the filter. Such modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter does not require a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium, yet has a microbial filtration efficiency of up to 99.99% and the ability to filter particulates while still providing the filtration flow rates of current filters that do not employ a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, Moshan S. P. Kahandawala, Kurukulasuriya Fernando
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Publication number: 20240075460Abstract: The present invention relates to a reclamation and recycling process for graphene oxide, a scaffold comprising graphene oxide, a modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter and a filter tool that allows the correct compression pressure of a modular filtration cartridge, and prevents internal leakage along the internal wall of the filter and thus provides correct sealing of the filter. Such modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter does not require a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium, yet has a microbial filtration efficiency of up to 99.99% and the ability to filter particulates while still providing the filtration flow rates of current filters that do not employ a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kurukulasuriya Fernando, Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20240075414Abstract: The present invention relates to a reclamation and recycling process for graphene oxide, a scaffold comprising graphene oxide, a modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter and a filter tool that allows the correct compression pressure of a modular filtration cartridge, and prevents internal leakage along the internal wall of the filter and thus provides correct sealing of the filter. Such modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter does not require a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium, yet has a microbial filtration efficiency of up to 99.99% and the ability to filter particulates while still providing the filtration flow rates of current filters that do not employ a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Moshan S. P. Kahandawala, Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20240076190Abstract: The present invention relates to a reclamation and recycling process for graphene oxide, a scaffold comprising graphene oxide, a modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter and a filter tool that allows the correct compression pressure of a modular filtration cartridge, and prevents internal leakage along the internal wall of the filter and thus provides correct sealing of the filter. Such modular graphene oxide-based microbial fluid filter does not require a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium, yet has a microbial filtration efficiency of up to 99.99% and the ability to filter particulates while still providing the filtration flow rates of current filters that do not employ a sub-micrometer pore filtering medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, Moshan S. P. Kahandawala, Kurukulasuriya Fernando
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Patent number: 11754547Abstract: A biorecognition element for rapid detection of fuel biocontamination. The biorecognition element is a biorecognition element selected from SEQ. ID No. 2 through SEQ. ID No. 24, SEQ. ID No. 22 through SEQ. ID No. 44, SEQ. ID No. 46 through SEQ. ID No. 57, SEQ. ID No. 59 through SEQ. ID No. 196 or SEQ. ID No. 198 through SEQ. ID No. 332.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, Thusitha S Gunasekera, Osman Radwan
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Publication number: 20210364491Abstract: A biorecognition element for rapid detection of fuel biocontamination. The biorecognition element is a biorecognition element selected from SEQ. ID No. 2 through SEQ. ID No. 24, SEQ. ID No. 22 through SEQ. ID No. 44, SEQ. ID No. 46 through SEQ. ID No. 57, SEQ. ID No. 59 through SEQ. ID No. 196 or SEQ. ID No. 198 through SEQ. ID No. 332.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, Thusitha S Gunasekera, Osman Radwan
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Patent number: 10876059Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 10876058Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20200010769Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20200010770Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 10487281Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 10295537Abstract: A biorecognition element for detection of fuel biocontamination. The biorecognition element includes a sequence selected from SEQ. ID No. 10, SEQ. ID No. 13, SEQ. ID No. 22, SEQ. ID No. 27, SEQ. ID No. 31, SEQ. ID No.40, SEQ. ID No.67, SEQ. ID No. 68, SEQ. ID No. 69, SEQ. ID No. 70, SEQ. ID No. 71, and SEQ. ID No.72, an amine-functionalized quantum dot, a C-terminal, three-glycine plus cysteine linker, and a reporter molecule conjugated to the amine-functionalized quantum dot. Biocontaminants are labeled by the biorecognition element and observed via the reporter molecule of the biorecognition element.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: The United States of America as represened by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Oscar N Ruiz, Oksana Pavlyuk
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Publication number: 20180224449Abstract: A biorecognition element for rapid detection of fuel biocontamination. The biorecognition element is SEQ. ID No. 10, SEQ. ID No. 13, SEQ. ID No. 22, SEQ. ID No. 27, SEQ. ID No. 31, SEQ. ID No.40, SEQ. ID No.67, SEQ. ID No. 68, SEQ. ID No. 69, SEQ. ID No. 70, SEQ. ID No. 71, or SEQ. ID No.72.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, Oksana Pavlyuk
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Publication number: 20170260467Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 9719096Abstract: The invention provides a system of heavy metal sequestration by bacteria. The bacteria expresses the ppk, mt, and/or ?-galactosidase (lacZ) genes and can tolerate at least 25 ?M mercury, 1,000 ?M zinc, 250 ?M cadmium, and 3,000 ?M Pb. The system allows for facile determination of the presence of heavy metal contaminants in a liquid and the facile collection of the bacteria that has sequestered large amounts of heavy metal. Further provided is a system of gene expression in bacteria that comprises phage and plastid gene expression elements and delivers a particularly high level of protein expression and heavy metal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Inter American University of Puerto RicoInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 9403112Abstract: A system and device for filtering fluids using graphene oxide (GO) is provided. GO-based filters may be used for the efficient removal of microorganisms from organic and aqueous liquids and may be used to prevent fuel biodeterioration. Functionalization of graphene oxide with reactive oxygen functional groups provides physical properties to the GO including high solubility in polar solvents, good colloidal properties, low production costs, low toxicity, and a large surface area which can be decorated with antimicrobial agents including nanosilver. GO may be used as a filtration media for efficient removal of bacteria and to remove small amounts of water from hydrocarbon fuels. The GO filter media may be made of a plurality of GO particles, a structural core coated with GO, a non-porous structural membrane coated with GO, or a filtering membrane coated with GO. A method for sampling impurities found in an environmental sample is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignees: The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of the Air Force, University of DaytonInventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, K. A. Shiral Fernando, Christopher E. Bunker
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Publication number: 20140352202Abstract: A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20140273161Abstract: The invention provides a system of heavy metal sequestration by bacteria. The bacteria expresses the ppk, mt, and/or ?-galactosidase (lacZ) genes and can tolerate at least 25 ?M mercury, 1,000 ?M zinc, 250 ?M cadmium, and 3,000 ?M Pb. The system allows for facile determination of the presence of heavy metal contaminants in a liquid and the facile collection of the bacteria that has sequestered large amounts of heavy metal. Further provided is a system of gene expression in bacteria that comprises phage and plastid gene expression elements and delivers a particularly high level of protein expression and heavy metal resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Inter American University of Puerto RicoInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Patent number: 8785174Abstract: The invention provides a system of heavy metal sequestration by bacteria. The bacteria expresses the ppk, mt, and/or ?-galactosidase (lacZ) genes and can tolerate at least 25 ?M mercury, 1,000 ?M zinc, 250 ?M cadmium, and 3,000 ?M Pb. The system allows for facile determination of the presence of heavy metal contaminants in a liquid and the facile collection of the bacteria that has sequestered large amounts of heavy metal. Further provided is a system of gene expression in bacteria that comprises phage and plastid gene expression elements and delivers a particularly high level of protein expression and heavy metal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Inter American University of Puerto RicoInventor: Oscar N. Ruiz
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Publication number: 20140199777Abstract: A system and device for filtering fluids using graphene oxide (GO) is provided. GO-based filters may be used for the efficient removal of microorganisms from organic and aqueous liquids and may be used to prevent fuel biodeterioration. Functionalization of graphene oxide with reactive oxygen functional groups provides physical properties to the GO including high solubility in polar solvents, good colloidal properties, low production costs, low toxicity, and a large surface area which can be decorated with antimicrobial agents including nanosilver. GO may be used as a filtration media for efficient removal of bacteria and to remove small amounts of water from hydrocarbon fuels. The GO filter media may be made of a plurality of GO particles, a structural core coated with GO, a non-porous structural membrane coated with GO, or a filtering membrane coated with GO. A method for sampling impurities found in an environmental sample is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Oscar N. Ruiz, K.A. Shiral Fernando, Christopher E. Bunker