Patents by Inventor Robert Kuimelis

Robert Kuimelis 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: 20230096980
    Abstract: Provided herein are molecules and salts thereof, arrays containing molecules and salts thereof, solid supports containing molecules and salts thereof, kits containing molecules or salts thereof, and methods of determining alignment of photolithographic masks comprising molecules or salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Robert KUIMELIS, Gaurav SAINI, David SMITH, Tommy ARMSBY
  • Patent number: 11420941
    Abstract: Provided herein are molecules and salts thereof, arrays containing molecules and salts thereof, solid supports containing molecules and salts thereof, kits containing molecules or salts thereof, and methods of determining alignment of photolithographic masks comprising molecules or salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: COWPER SCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Gaurav Saini, David Smith, Tommy Armsby
  • Publication number: 20190002410
    Abstract: Provided herein are molecules and salts thereof, arrays containing molecules and salts thereof, solid supports containing molecules and salts thereof, kits containing molecules or salts thereof, and methods of determining alignment of photolithographic masks comprising molecules or salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Robert KUIMELIS, Gaurav SAINI, David SMITH, Tommy ARMSBY
  • Publication number: 20130165350
    Abstract: The present invention provide several methods of derivatizing a surface of a support with one or more linkers thus providing a suitable platform for synthesis of a polymer array, particular a nucleic acid array. Some methods derivatize a surface with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of a linker. The SAM confers advantages of hydrolytic stability, broad compatibility with synthesis and detection chemistries, and reduced emergence of latent functional groups during polymer array synthesis. Substrates can also be derivatized with multi-layers of SAMs providing greater hydrolytic stability. Substrates can also be derivatized by synthesizing a linker in situ on the substrate by atom transfer radical polymerization of functional and functional monomers. Appropriate selection of monomers reduces emergence of latent functional groups in subsequent array synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Affymetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall, Dexter Pao, Zihui Chen, Trevor Axelrod
  • Publication number: 20080108798
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20080063651
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20080015339
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20070255054
    Abstract: Process for fabricating an array of polymers on a solid support is provided having the steps of coupling a monomer with a reactive side masked by a protecting group to a growing polymer chain, optionally capping the monomer or monomer chains that have not reacted in a given cycle, deprotecting the product with a deprotecting agent, repeating the above steps on regions of the support as necessary to give polymers having a desired sequence and length and oxidizing the inter monomer linkage post-synthetically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Paul Bury
  • Publication number: 20070238185
    Abstract: Methods of performing confocal laser microscopy on a polymer array disposed on a silicon wafer substrate, the method comprising the steps of providing a silicon wafer substrate having a top side and a bottom side, coating the top side of the silicon wafer with an oxide coating to provide an oxide coated wafer, covalently coupling a plurality of probes to the top side of the coated wafer to provide a fixed polymer array, hybridizing the fixed polymer array with a plurality of labeled ligands, and assaying for one or more hybridized ligands using confocal laser fluorescence microscopy to detect hybridization are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Zihui Chen, Glenn McGall
  • Publication number: 20070161778
    Abstract: Protective groups which may be cleaved with an activatable deprotecting reagent are employed to achieve a highly sensitive, high resolution, combinatorial synthesis of pattern arrays of diverse polymers. In preferred embodiments of the instant invention, the activatable deprotecting reagent is a photoacid generator and the protective groups are DMT for nucleic acids and tBOC for amino acids. This invention has a wide variety of applications and is particularly useful for the solid phase combinatorial synthesis of polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall, Martin Goldberg, Guangyu Xu
  • Publication number: 20070082365
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Adnexus Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20060270604
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: Compound Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20060246059
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Compound Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20060147971
    Abstract: The present invention provides massively parallel oligonucleotide synthesis and purification for applications that utilize large collections of defined high-fidelity oligonucleotides (e.g., from about 101 to about 105 different sequences, generally between 25-160 bases in length).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall
  • Publication number: 20060147969
    Abstract: Methods are presented for generating large sets for polymers. The methods employ high density oligonucleotide array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Affymetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall
  • Publication number: 20050255548
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include a fibronectin type III domain having at least one randomized loop. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis
  • Publication number: 20050164258
    Abstract: Protective groups which may be cleaved with an activatable deprotecting reagents are employed to achieve a highly sensitive, high resolution, combinatorial synthesis of pattern arrays of diverse polymers. In preferred embodiments of the instant invention, the activatable deprotecting reagent is a photoacid generator and the protective groups are DMT for nucleic acids and tBOC for amino acids. This invention has a wide variety of applications and is particularly useful for the solid phase combinatorial synthesis of polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: Affymetrix, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Goldberg, Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall, Nineveh Parker, Guangyu Xu
  • Publication number: 20050080284
    Abstract: The present invention provides cyclic silane based compounds. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, it has been discovered that certain linear silane compounds can cyclize under some conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Affymetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kuimelis, Glenn McGall
  • Publication number: 20050074799
    Abstract: The invention provides arrays of oligonucleotide probes for allele specific hybridization wherein at least some of the probes comprise guanine analogues. The invention relates to improved methods of allele specific hybridization to genotype single nucleotide polymorphisms and relates to diverse fields impacted by the nature of genetics, including biology, medicine, and medical diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicant: Affymetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: Giulia Kennedy, Robert Kuimelis, Michael Savage, Manqiu Cao
  • Publication number: 20050038229
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins that include an immunoglobulin fold and that can be used as scaffolds. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding such proteins and the use of such proteins in diagnostic methods and in methods for evolving novel compound-binding species and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Dasa Lipovsek, Richard Wagner, Robert Kuimelis