Patents by Inventor Robert Birdsall

Robert Birdsall 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).

  • Publication number: 20240068995
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a method of analyzing a sample including an analyte. The method includes injecting the sample including the analyte into a mobile phase. The mobile phase includes a metal chelator additive having a concentration between about 1 ppm to about 10 ppm. The method also includes separating the analyte using liquid chromatography and analyzing the analyte using a mass spectrometer, an ultra-violet detector, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Birdsall, Ying Qing Yu, Jacob Kellett
  • Patent number: 11845776
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensitive, multidimensional chromatography method for extraction, detection, and quantification of non-conjugated cytotoxic agents and associated linker molecules used in cysteine based antibody-drug-conjugate production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall
  • Patent number: 11761932
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a method of analyzing a sample including an analyte. The method includes injecting the sample including the analyte into a mobile phase. The mobile phase includes a metal chelator additive having a concentration between about 1 ppm to about 10 ppm. The method also includes separating the analyte using liquid chromatography and analyzing the analyte using a mass spectrometer, an ultra-violet detector, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Birdsall, Ying Qing Yu, Jacob Kellett
  • Patent number: 11747341
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of analyzing a sample comprising a hydrophobic molecule. The method includes preparing an aqueous solution comprising the sample. The method also includes placing the solution in contact with a polypropylene substrate having a deactivated surface that reduces adsorption of the hydrophobic molecule relative to a polypropylene substrate that has not been deactivated. The method also includes analyzing the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Moon Chul Jung, Mary Elizabeth Lame, Caitlin Dunning, Christopher John Hughes, Xiaoxiao Liu, Paula Orens, Yun Wang Alelyunas, Erin E. Chambers, David Dao, Robert Birdsall
  • Patent number: 11478727
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 2.50% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual impurity, especially metal impurities. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion, Melvin Blaze Muttikal Thomas, Thomas Walter
  • Patent number: 11433320
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 0.20% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual metal impurity. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion
  • Publication number: 20220073561
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensitive, multidimensional chromatography method for extraction, detection, and quantification of non-conjugated cytotoxic agents and associated linker molecules used in cysteine based antibody-drug-conjugate production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall
  • Patent number: 11149059
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensitive, multidimensional chromatography method for extraction, detection, and quantification of non-conjugated cytotoxic agents and associated linker molecules used in cysteine based antibody-drug-conjugate production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall
  • Publication number: 20210255196
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses a method of separating a sample (e.g., peptide compound) including coating a flow path of a chromatographic system; injecting the sample into the chromatographic system; flowing the sample through the chromatographic system; separating the sample; and analyzing the separated sample. In some examples, the coating applied to the surfaces defining the flow path is non-binding with respect to the sample—and the separated sample. Consequently, the sample does not bind to the low-binding surface of the coating (e.g., organosilica coating) of the flow path. The applied coating can reduce peak tailing and increase analyte recovery for the sample of the chromatographic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Birdsall, Jacob Kellett, Nilini Ranbaduge, Ying Qing Yu, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Matthew A. Lauber
  • Publication number: 20200386722
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a method of analyzing a sample including an analyte. The method includes injecting the sample including the analyte into a mobile phase. The mobile phase includes a metal chelator additive having a concentration between about 1 ppm to about 10 ppm. The method also includes separating the analyte using liquid chromatography and analyzing the analyte using a mass spectrometer, an ultra-violet detector, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Birdsall, Ying Qing Yu, Jacob Kellett
  • Publication number: 20200284802
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of analyzing a sample comprising a hydrophobic molecule. The method includes preparing an aqueous solution comprising the sample. The method also includes placing the solution in contact with a polypropylene substrate having a deactivated surface that reduces adsorption of the hydrophobic molecule relative to a polypropylene substrate that has not been deactivated. The method also includes analyzing the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Moon Chul Jung, Mary Elizabeth Lame, Caitlin Dunning, Christopher John Hughes, Xiaoxiao Liu, Paula Orens, Yun Wang Alelyunas, Erin E. Chambers, David Dao, Robert Birdsall
  • Publication number: 20200261826
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 2.50% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual impurity, especially metal impurities. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion, Melvin Blaze Muttikal Thomas, Thomas Walter
  • Publication number: 20190292220
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensitive, multidimensional chromatography method for extraction, detection, and quantification of non-conjugated cytotoxic agents and associated linker molecules used in cysteine based antibody-drug-conjugate production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall
  • Publication number: 20190232197
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 0.20% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual metal impurity. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion
  • Patent number: 9504936
    Abstract: Improved methods for packing a chromatographic column and columns packed by these methods are provided. The methods include introducing a packing material into a chromatographic column, while simultaneously ultrasonicating and applying pressure to the packing material to form a packed column with radial homogeneity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mary Jean Wirth, Sampath Ranasinghe Kodithuwakkuge, Charu Yerneni, Robert Birdsall, Tharanga Ranasinghe Kodituwakkuge
  • Publication number: 20150276674
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods and kits which enable or utilize an immunologically-based assay, such as a Western immunoassay, to separate, detect or to monitor an analyte or a mixture of analytes such as biomolecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicants: LI-COR, INC., PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Michael D. Furtaw, Jon P. Anderson, Mary J. Wirth, Robert Birdsall, Yimin Hua, Pei-Hsun Wei
  • Publication number: 20130193051
    Abstract: Improved methods for packing a chromatographic column and columns packed by these methods are provided. The methods include introducing a packing material into a chromatographic column, while simultaneously ultrasonicating and applying pressure to the packing material to form a packed column with radial homogeneity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mary Jean Wirth, Sampath Ranasinghe Kodithuwakkuge, Charu Yerneni, Robert Birdsall, Tharanga Ranasinghe Kodituwakkuge
  • Patent number: D408718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall
  • Patent number: D416974
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Robert Birdsall