Patents by Inventor Rabeka Alam

Rabeka Alam 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).

  • Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer between bioluminescent proteins and semiconductive nanomaterials
    Patent number: 9758808
    Abstract: A bioluminescence energy transfer (BRET) nanosystem having semiconductive quantum rods (QRs) bound by firefly luciferase Photinus pyralis (Ppy) for improved conversion of chemical energy to light, such as in solid-state lighting, near-infrared imaging systems, and in vivo infrared imaging. The nanosystems are formed by synthesizing CdSe/CdS or CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum rods, rendering the dots hydrophilic and colloidially stable with a facile His-capping, incubating with a Ppy variant (PpyGRTS) at increasing loading ratios, and adding an excess of the luciferin (LH2) substrate to the PpyGRTS-QRs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mathew Maye, Rabeka Alam