Patents by Inventor Steven McDaniel
Steven McDaniel 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).
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Publication number: 20210017402Abstract: Disclosed herein are a materials such as a coating, an elastomer, an adhesive, a sealant, a textile finish, a wax, and a filler for such a material, wherein the material includes an proteinaceous molecule such as a peptide and/an enzyme that confer a metal binding, an anti-fouling and/or an antibiotic property to the material. In particular, disclosed herein are marine coatings such as a marine paint that comprise an anti-fouling peptide sequence that reversibly binds a metal cation that is toxic to a fouling organism. Also disclosed herein are methods of reducing fouling on a surface by treating the surface with a metal binding peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD., LLPInventors: Claude Steven McDaniel, Melinda Wales
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Publication number: 20210015108Abstract: Disclosed herein are material composition formulated for mitigating activity of a virus on a surface of an article. Methods of preparing such a material composition are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES LTD., LLPInventor: Claude Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20200354588Abstract: Disclosed herein are a materials such as a coating, an elastomer, an adhesive, a sealant, a textile finish, a wax, and a filler for such a material, wherein the material includes an proteinaceous molecule such as a peptide and/an enzyme that confer a metal binding, an anti-fouling and/or an antibiotic property to the material. In particular, disclosed herein are marine coatings such as a marine paint that comprise an anti-fouling peptide sequence that reversibly binds a metal cation that is toxic to a fouling organism. Also disclosed herein are methods of reducing fouling on a surface by treating the surface with a metal binding peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD., LLPInventor: Claude Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20200338497Abstract: Disclosed herein are carbon dioxide capture devices, facilities, methods, and compositions. Specifically disclosed herein are devices, facilities, compositions and methods to capture carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmospheric air for providing long-term sequestration of the captured carbon and/or utilization thereof. To this end, a carbon dioxide capture device configured in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention can comprise a coating substrate having at least one coatable surface and a carbon dioxide capture coating composition on a coatable surface of the coating substrate. The carbon dioxide capture coating composition preferably comprises a coating material and a photosynthetic organism, wherein the photosynthetic organism is at least one of admixed within the coating material and on an exposed surface of the coating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventor: Claude Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20200299521Abstract: Disclosed herein are peptide-containing anti-microbial coating compositions. The peptide-containing anti-microbial coating compositions can comprise an acrylic latex coating composition, an anti-microbial enzyme dispersed within the acrylic coating composition and an anti-microbial peptide dispersed within the acrylic coating composition. The anti-microbial enzyme and the anti-microbial peptide are jointly selected to synergistically enhance lysis efficacy of the coating composition in comparison to lysis efficacy of the coating composition with the anti-microbial enzyme alone. The acrylic coating can be an acrylic latex coating composition is an acrylic latex paint.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD., LLPInventor: Claude Steven McDaniel
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Patent number: 10718750Abstract: Devices and methods for detection of evidence of life or ore bodies on or near the surface of extraterrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars) are described. In particular, a ground penetrating probe capable of s conducting life detection or other experiments and transmitting the data from the experiments to a satellite relay is described. Methods of use for such devices and apparatus are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Reactive Surfaces Ltd., LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20200109297Abstract: Disclosed herein are a coating, a textile finish, a wax, elastomer, a filler, an adhesive, or a sealant, as well as polymeric materials such as a plastic, a laminate, a composite, that includes an enzyme that degrades cell wall or cell membrane components (e.g., a lysozyme, lytic transgrycosylase) alone or in combination with other enzymes such as a lipolytic enzyme, a sulfuric ester hydrolase, an organophosphorus compound degradation enzyme, or an antimicrobial peptide. Also disclosed herein are methods of retarding or preventing microbial growth on or in a coating, paint, textile finish, wax, elastomer, adhesive, sealant, filler, or a polymeric material, where such a surface material includes an enzyme that degrades cell wall or cell membrane components (e.g., a lysozyme, lytic transgrycosylase).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Reactive Surfaces, Ltd., LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Patent number: 10413769Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel coatings and paints comprising a biomolecule composition, wherein the biomolecule composition comprises a phosphoric triester hydrolase. Also disclosed herein are methods of detoxification of a surface contaminated with an organophosphorus compound by contacting the surface with such a coating or paint. Also disclosed herein are novel coating and paint components derived from microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Reactive Surfaces, Ltd., LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20150328490Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel coatings and paints comprising a biomolecule composition, wherein the biomolecule composition comprises a phosphoric triester hydrolase. Also disclosed herein are methods of detoxification of a surface contaminated with an organophosphorus compound by contacting the surface with such a coating or paint. Also disclosed herein are novel coating and paint components derived from microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20150191607Abstract: Disclosed herein are polymeric materials such as a coating, a plastic, a laminate, a composite, an elastomer, an adhesive, or a sealant; a surface treatment such as a textile finish or a wax; a filler for such a polymeric material or a surface treatment that includes an enzyme such as an esterase (e.g., a lipolytic enzyme, a sulfuric ester hydrolase, an organophosphorus compound degradation enzyme), an enzyme (e.g., a lysozyme, a lytic transglycosylase) that degrades a cell wall and/or a cell membrane component, a biocidal or biostatic peptide, and/or a peptidase. Also disclosed herein are methods of altering a material's property such as service life, flexability, or rigidity, by incorporation of an enzyme into a material capable of being chemically crosslinked by the activity of a lipolytic enzyme, a hydrolase, and/or a urease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTDInventor: C Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20140196631Abstract: Disclosed herein are materials such as a coating, comprising a lipolytic enzyme or organophosphrous compound degrading enzyme. Also disclosed herein are methods of visually detecting enzyme activity in a coating by contacting the coating with a substrate of an enzyme and a visual indicator that changes appearance upon production of a product of enzyme activity on a tack-free coating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Reactive Surface, Ltd.Inventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20140193889Abstract: Disclosed herein are a coating, a textile finish, a wax, elastomer, a filler, an adhesive, or a sealant, as well as polymeric materials such as a plastic, a laminate, a composite, that includes an enzyme that degrades cell wall or cell membrane components (e.g., a lysozyme, lytic transglycosylase) alone or in combination with other enzymes such as a lipolytic enzyme, a sulfuric ester hydrolase, an organophosphorus compound degradation enzyme, or an antimicrobial peptide. Also disclosed herein are methods of retarding or preventing microbial growth on or in a coating, paint, textile finish, wax, elastomer, adhesive, sealant, filler, or a polymeric material, where such a surface material includes an enzyme that degrades cell wall or cell membrane components (e.g., a lysozyme, lytic transglycosylase).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD.Inventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20140083324Abstract: Disclosed herein are a materials such as a coating, an elastomer, an adhesive, a sealant, a textile finish, a wax, and a filler for such a material, wherein the material includes an proteinaceous molecule such as a peptide and/an enzyme that confer a metal binding, an anti-fouling and/or an antibiotic property to the material. In particular, discosed herein are marine coatings such as a marine paint that comprise an anti-fouling peptide sequence that reversibly binds a metal cation that is toxic to a fouling organism. Also disclosed herein are methods of reducing fouling on a surface by treating the surface with a metal binding peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTDInventors: Melinda Wales, C. Steven McDaniel
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Patent number: 8618066Abstract: Coating compositions having a peptidic antimicrobial additive and an antimicrobial additive of another configuration are provided. The concentrations of the antimicrobial agents within the coating composition are sufficient to synergistically inhibit microbial growth on an inanimate surface coated with the surface coating composition or within a container storing the coating composition. Methods for making and using such compositions to inhibit microbial growth in stored coatings and on susceptible surfaces are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Reactive Surfaces, Ltd., LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Patent number: 8497248Abstract: Antifungal and antibacterial peptides, polypeptides and proteins as antifungal additives for paint and other coatings are disclosed, along with antifungal compositions, and coated surfaces with antifungal properties. Methods of using the coatings for treating and/or inhibiting growth of mold, mildew and other fungi and bacteria on objects such as building materials that are susceptible to such infestation are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Reactive Surfaces, Ltd. LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Patent number: 8388904Abstract: A decontamination system includes a spraying system in an enclosed chamber for application of a decontamination fluid having a liquid carrier, such as water, and an enzyme-based decontaminating chemical additive. The additive contains an organophosphorus compound-degrading enzyme. The decontamination system also includes a fluid flow control system that ensures delivery of decontamination fluid to spray nozzles. The fluid flow control system features a recirculation system that collects runoff from the chamber and transports the collected runoff to a decontamination reactor. The decontamination reactor removes contaminants from the collected runoff liquid and permits the collected runoff liquid to be reused for further decontamination, thus taking advantage of the catalytic characteristic of the enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Reactive Surfaces, Ltd., LLPInventors: C. Steven McDaniel, Mauricio Salazar
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Patent number: 8328487Abstract: The present invention is directed to a retention element for retaining first and second components in assembled relationship. The first component comprises a body having first and second external surfaces and an inner wall defining an aperture extending through the body, and the second component comprises a longitudinal member having a size and configuration to permit insertion within said aperture to thereby assemble the components. The retention element comprises: an elastromeric protuberance extending into the aperture from a base adhering to the inner wall to a distal edge which spans a portion of the aperture. The protuberance also has an inside wall and an outside wall which meet at the distal edge and together define a flexible free end.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Nylok CorporationInventors: Charles Jason Dupriest, Juan Carlos Nava, Craig Steven McDaniel, Gregory Alaimo, Eugene Sessa
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Publication number: 20120097194Abstract: Disclosed herein are materials including a polymeric materials such as a coating, a plastic, a laminate, a composite, an elastomer, an adhesive, or a sealant; a surface treatment such as a coating, a textile finish or a wax; a filler for such a polymeric material or a surface treatment, which includes an enzyme such as an esterase (e.g., a lipolytic enzyme, an organophosphorus compound degradation enzyme), wherein the enzyme decontaminates a chemical from the surface of the material. Also disclosed herein are methods of cleaning a surface of a material that comprises an enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD.Inventors: C. Steven McDaniel, Eric B. Williams, James W. Rawlins, Melinda Wales
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Publication number: 20120028886Abstract: Antifungal and antibacterial peptides, polypeptides and proteins as antifungal additives for paint and other coatings are disclosed, along with antifungal compostions, and coated surfaces with antifungal properties. Methods of using the coatings for treating and/or inhibiting growth of mold, mildew and other fungi and bacteria on objects such as building materials that are susceptible to such infestation are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD. LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel
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Publication number: 20120028884Abstract: Antifungal and antibacterial peptides, polypeptides and proteins as antifungal additives for paint and other coatings are disclosed, along with antifungal compostions, and coated surfaces with antifungal properties. Methods of using the coatings for treating and/or inhibiting growth of mold, mildew and other fungi and bacteria on objects such as building materials that are susceptible to such infestation are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: REACTIVE SURFACES, LTD. LLPInventor: C. Steven McDaniel