Patents by Inventor Ronald M. Atlas

Ronald M. Atlas 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).

  • Process for detection of water-borne microbial pathogens and indicators of human fecal contamination in water samples and kits therefor
    Patent number: 5298392
    Abstract: Processes and kits therefor for detection of water-borne pathogens and indicator organisms in water samples by recovering cells of the pathogens or indicator organisms from a water sample, lysing the cells to recover undegraded DNA, amplifying a target gene sequence of a target gene present in cells of the pathogens or indicator organisms by polymerase chain reaction amplification and detecting the presence of amplified target gene sequence to determine the presence or absence of pathogens or indicator organism in the test sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Atlas, Asim K. Bej, Meena H. Mahbubani, Richard Miller, Robert J. Steffan
  • Process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil
    Patent number: 5143827
    Abstract: A process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil in selectively removing damaging nitrogen-containing compounds comprising treating the raw shale oil with special microbial cultures having specific ability to degrade the harmful nitrogen-containing compounds, such as the amines, nitriles and heterocyclics as the quinolines and pyridines, and converting them into non-damaging components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Southern Pacific Petroleum
    Inventors: Ronald M. Atlas, Jackie Aislabie
  • Process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil
    Patent number: 5049499
    Abstract: A process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil in selectively removing damaging nitrogen-containing compounds comprising treating the raw shale oil with special microbial cultures having specific ability to degrade the harmful nitrogen-containing compounds, such as the amines, nitriles and heterocyclics as the quinolines and pyridines, and converting them into non-damaging components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Inventors: Ronald M. Atlas, Jackie Aislabie
  • Biodegradation of oil on water surfaces
    Patent number: 3959127
    Abstract: Free-floating oil slicks on bodies of sea and fresh water are disposed of microbial degradation at a greatly enhanced rate by applying the essential microbial nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, to the oil slick in a form that dissolves in or adheres to the oil and thus selectively stimulates the activity of oil-metabolizing microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Richard Bartha, Ronald M. Atlas
  • Method for removing organic sulfur from heterocyclic sulfur-containing organic compounds
    Patent number: H1986
    Abstract: A method for removing sulfur from liquid compositions containing aliphatic or cylic organic sulfur-containing compounds, e.g., dibenzothiophene includes activating the sulfur-containing compound by oxidizing either the organic sulfur or adjacent carbon atoms in the presence of a suitable active biocatalyst (ie., microorganism, enzyme, etc.) followed by treating of the activated compound by techniques such as fluidized catalytic cracking so as to remove the sulfur therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventors: Ronald M. Atlas, David J. Boron, William R. Deever, Axel R. Johnson, Beverly Lynn McFarland, Jarold A. Meyer