Patents by Inventor Patrick Kearns

Patrick Kearns 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).

  • THERMODYNAMIC PREDICTION
    Publication number: 20250054570
    Abstract: A method of identifying stable peptides from a protein, said method comprising: obtaining a peptide from a protein; comparing a solvent-accessible surface area (SASA) of the peptide with a SASA of a corresponding peptide region within the protein; using a result of the comparison to determine whether or not the peptide is structurally stable relative to the corresponding peptide region within the protein. Also disclosed is use of the method to identify stable immunogenic epitopes of SARS-CoV-2, and methods of detecting an antibody response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Nick Gilbert, Dirk Kleinjan, Joseph Marsh, Patrick Kearns
  • Chemical and electrochemical synthesis and deposition of chalcogenides from room temperature ionic liquids
    Patent number: 9896776
    Abstract: Room temperature electrochemical methods to deposit thin films of chalcogenide glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Keith J. Stevenson, Sankaran Murugesan, Patrick Kearns, Arunkumar Akkineni
  • CHEMICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND DEPOSITION OF CHALCOGENIDES FROM ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS
    Publication number: 20160153108
    Abstract: Room temperature electrochemical methods to deposit thin films of chalcogenide glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Keith J. Stevenson, Sankaran Murugesan, Patrick Kearns, Arunkumar Akkineni
  • Adsorption condensation solvent recovery system
    Patent number: 5220796
    Abstract: A volatile component is recovered from an inert gas blanketed gas source containing the volatile component, an inert carrier gas, water vapor and oxygen as an impurity by a continuous process including the steps of adsorbing the water vapor from the stream, condensing substantially all of the volatile component from the stream, heating the water vapor-free and volatile component-free gas stream, purging the adsorbers with the heated gas stream and venting the purge gas and desorbed moisture. Inert gas depleted from the source is replenished with oxygen-free inert gas, thereby minimizing the concentration of oxygen in the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Kearns