Patents by Inventor Ronald J. Graham

Ronald J. Graham 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: 20120220751
    Abstract: Bis-diazo, triaryl and aryldiazo-N-arylphenazonium quencher moieties, substituted with electron-withdrawing and electron-donating substituents which induce polarity in the delocalized aryl/diazo ring systems, are useful as labels when attached to biomolecules such as polynucleotides, nucleosides, nucleotides and polypeptides. The quencher moieties are non-fluorescent and accept energy transfer from fluorescent reporter labels by any energy-transfer mechanism, such as FRET. Fluorescence quencher compositions are useful in preparing quencher labeled biomolecules for various molecular biology assays based on fluorescence detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory J. Ewing, Deborah Kay Fieri, Khairuzzaman Bashar Mullah, Ronald J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20110250699
    Abstract: The present teachings generally relate to fluorescent dyes, linkable forms of fluorescent dyes, energy transfer dyes, reagents labeled with fluorescent dyes and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Ruiming Zou, Krishna G. Upadhya, Scott C. Benson
  • Publication number: 20110245462
    Abstract: Bis-diazo, triaryl and aryldiazo-N-arylphenazonium quencher moieties, substituted with electron-withdrawing and electron-donating substituents which induce polarity in the delocalized aryl/diazo ring systems, are useful as labels when attached to biomolecules such as polynucleotides, nucleosides, nucleotides and polypeptides. The quencher moieties are non-fluorescent and accept energy transfer from fluorescent reporter labels by any energy-transfer mechanism, such as FRET. Fluorescence quencher compositions are useful in preparing quencher labeled biomolecules for various molecular biology assays based on fluorescence detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory J. Ewing, Deborah Kay Fieri, Khairuzzaman Bashar Mullah, Ronald J. Graham
  • Patent number: 7985602
    Abstract: The present teachings generally relate to fluorescent dyes, linkable forms of fluorescent dyes, energy transfer dyes, reagents labeled with fluorescent dyes and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Ruiming Zou, Krishna G. Upadhya, Scott C. Benson
  • Publication number: 20110081688
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, water-soluble, red-emitting fluorescent rhodamine dyes and red-emitting fluorescent energy-transfer dye pairs, as well as labeled conjugates comprising the same and methods for their use. The dyes, energy-transfer dye pairs and labeled conjugates are useful in a variety of aqueous-based applications, particularly in assays involving staining of cells, protein binding, and/or analysis of nucleic acids, such as hybridization assays and nucleic acid sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Ronald J. Graham, William E. Werner, Elana Swartzman, Lily Lu
  • Patent number: 7897338
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to nucleobase polymer functionalizing reagents, to mobility-modified sequence-specific nucleobase polymers, to compositions comprising a plurality of mobility-modified sequence-specific nucleobase polymers, and to the use of such polymers and compositions in a variety of assays, such as, for example, for the detection of a plurality of selected nucleotide sequences within one or more target nucleic acids. The mobility-modifying polymers of the present invention include phosphoramidite reagents which can be joined to other mobility-modifying monomers and to sequence-specific oligonucleobase polymers via uncharged phosphate triester linkages. Addition of the mobility-modifying phosphoramidite reagents of the present invention to oligonucleobase polymers results in unexpectedly large effects the mobility of those modified oligonucleobase polymers, especially upon capillary electrophoresis in non-sieving media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Sam Lee Woo, Ronald J. Graham, Jing Tian
  • Patent number: 7795042
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, water-soluble, red-emitting fluorescent rhodamine dyes and red-emitting fluorescent energy-transfer dye pairs, as well as labeled conjugates comprising the same and methods for their use. The dyes, energy-transfer dye pairs and labeled conjugates are useful in a variety of aqueous-based applications, particularly in assays involving staining of cells, protein binding, and/or analysis of nucleic acids, such as hybridization assays and nucleic acid sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Ronald J. Graham, William E. Werner, Elana Swartzman, Lily Lu
  • Publication number: 20100112619
    Abstract: Ligand-containing micelles and various compositions, kits and methods for their preparation and use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Linda G. Lee, Hongye Sun
  • Publication number: 20100022022
    Abstract: Disclosed are binding substrate compositions, methods and kits useful for, among other things, detecting and/or characterizing binding interactions between molecules of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Michael M.A. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20090305433
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, water-soluble, red-emitting fluorescent rhodamine dyes and red-emitting fluorescent energy-transfer dye pairs, as well as labeled conjugates comprising the same and methods for their use. The dyes, energy-transfer dye pairs and labeled conjugates are useful in a variety of aqueous-based applications, particularly in assays involving staining of cells, protein binding, and/or analysis of nucleic acids, such as hybridization assays and nucleic acid sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: LINDA G. LEE, RONALD J. GRAHAM, WILLIAM E. WERNER, ELANA SWARTZMAN, LILY LU
  • Patent number: 7550570
    Abstract: A set of 4,7-dichlororhodamine compounds useful as fluorescent dyes are disclosed having the structures wherein R1-R6 are hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, lower alkyl, lower alkene, lower alkyne, sulfonate, sulfone, amino, amido, nitrile, lower alkoxy, linking group, or, when taken together, R1 and R6 is benzo, or, when taken together, R4 and R5 is benzo; R7-R10, R12-R16 and R18 may be hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, lower alkyl, lower alkene, lower alkyne, sulfonate, sulfone, amino, amido, nitrile, lower alkoxy, linking group; R11 and R17 may be hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkene, lower alkyne, phenyl, aryl, linking group; Y1-Y4 are hydrogen, lower alkyl, or cycloalkyl, or, when taken together, Y1 and R2, Y2 and R1 Y3 and R3, and/or Y4 and R4 is propano, ethano, or substituted forms thereof; and X1-X3 taken separately are hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, lower alkyl, carboxylate, sulfonate, hydroxymethyl, and linking group, or any combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC.
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Scott C. Benson, Barnett B. Rosenblum, Sandra L. Spurgeon, Ronald J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20090105452
    Abstract: Bis-diazo, triaryl and aryldiazo-N-arylphenazonium quencher moieties, substituted with electron-withdrawing and electron-donating substituents which induce polarity in the delocalized aryl/diazo ring systems, are useful as labels when attached to biomolecules such as polynucleotides, nucleosides, nucleotides and polypeptides. The quencher moieties are non-fluorescent and accept energy transfer from fluorescent reporter labels by any energy-transfer mechanism, such as FRET. Fluorescence quencher compositions are useful in preparing quencher labeled biomolecules for various molecular biology assays based on fluorescence detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. EWING, Deborah Kay Fieri, Khairuzzaman Bashar Mullah, Ronald J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20090093062
    Abstract: The present teachings generally relate to fluorescent dyes, linkable forms of fluorescent dyes, energy transfer dyes, reagents labeled with fluorescent dyes and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Ruiming Zou, Krishna G. Upadhya, Scott C. Benson
  • Publication number: 20090093623
    Abstract: A set of 4,7-dichlororhodamine compounds useful as fluorescent dyes are disclosed having the structures wherein R1-R6 are hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, lower alkyl, lower alkene, lower alkyne, sulfonate, sulfone, amino, amido, nitrile, lower alkoxy, linking group, or, when taken together, R1 and R6 is benzo, or, when taken together, R4 and R5 is benzo; R7-R10, R12-R16 and R18 may be hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, lower alkyl lower alkene, lower alkyne, sulfonate, sulfone, amino, amido, nitrile, lower alkoxy, linking group; R11 and R17 may be hydrogen, lower alkyl lower alkene, lower alkyne, phenyl, aryl, linking group; Y1-Y4 are hydrogen, lower alkyl or cycloalkyl, or, when taken together, Y1 and R2, Y2 and R1 Y3 and R3, and/or Y4 and R4 is propano, ethano, or substituted forms thereof, and X1-X3 taken separately are hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, lower alkyl, carboxylate, sulfonate, hydroxymethyl, and linking group, or any combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Applied Biosystems Inc.
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Scott C. Benson, Barnett B. Rosenblum, Sandra L. Spurgeon, Ronald J. Graham
  • Patent number: 7504496
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, water-soluble, red-emitting fluorescent rhodamine dyes and red-emitting fluorescent energy-transfer dye pairs, as well as labeled conjugates comprising the same and methods for their use. The dyes, energy-transfer dye pairs and labeled conjugates are useful in a variety of aqueous-based applications, particularly in assays involving staining of cells, protein binding, and/or analysis of nucleic acids, such as hybridization assays and nucleic acid sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Ronald J. Graham, William E. Werner, Elana Swartzman, Lily Lu
  • Publication number: 20090047699
    Abstract: Substrate compound-containing micelles and various compositions, kits and methods for their preparation and use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Ronald J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20080268440
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, or system for generating a pattern of polynucleotides on a substrate. The method includes providing a substrate having a hydrophobic surface. The method further includes conjugating a polystyrene moiety to a polynucleotide and applying a polystyrene-polynucleotide conjugate to create a plurality of reaction spots on the hydrophobic surface of the substrate. An apparatus includes a substrate with at least one polystyrene-polynucleotide conjugate on a surface of the substrate. A system can analyze a polystyrene-polynucleotide conjugate and the system may perform PCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy Z. Liu, Jer-Kang Chen, Ronald J. Graham
  • Patent number: 7256292
    Abstract: The present teachings generally relate to fluorescent dyes, linkable forms of fluorescent dyes, energy transfer dyes, reagents labeled with fluorescent dyes and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald J. Graham, Ruiming Zou, Krishna G. Upadhya, Scott C. Benson
  • Patent number: 7166715
    Abstract: The invention provides an asymmetric cyanine dye compound having the structure including substituted forms thereof, wherein, at least one of R1 and R2 is linking group, X is O, S, or Se, and n ranges from 0 to 2. The invention further provides reporter-quencher dye pairs comprising the asymmetric cyanine dyes, dye-labelled polynucleotides incorporating the asymmetric cyanine dyes, and hybridization detection methods utilizing the dye-labelled polynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Ronald J. Graham, Khairuzzaman B. Mullah, Francis T. Haxo
  • Patent number: 7074569
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to nucleobase polymer functionalizing reagents, to mobility-modified sequence-specific nucleobase polymers, to compositions comprising a plurality of mobility-modified sequence-specific nucleobase polymers, and to the use of such polymers and compositions in a variety of assays, such as, for example, for the detection of a plurality of selected nucleotide sequences within one or more target nucleic acids. The mobility-modifying polymers of the present invention include phosphoramidite reagents which can be joined to other mobility-modifying monomers and to sequence-specific oligonucleobase polymers via uncharged phosphate triester linkages. Addition of the mobility-modifying phosphoramidite reagents of the present invention to oligonucleobase polymers results in unexpectedly large effects the mobility of those modified oligonucleobase polymers, especially upon capillary electrophoresis in non-sieving media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Applera Corporation
    Inventors: Sam Lee Woo, Ronald J. Graham, Jing Tian