Patents by Inventor Susanne Seidel

Susanne Seidel 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).

  • Thermophoresis measurements in nanoliterdroplets
    Patent number: 9995684
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and a method for thermo-optical measurements in a droplet of aqueous solution comprising particles of interest, the method comprising the following steps: providing the droplet of aqueous solution with a volume of less than 200 nl, wherein the aqueous solution is a first liquid and at least a part of the particles of interest are fluorescent particles; embedding the droplet of aqueous solution at least partly in a second liquid; irradiating a laser light beam into the droplet to obtain a spatial temperature distribution in the droplet around the irradiated laser light beam; exciting fluorescently said fluorescent particles and detecting fluorescence at least at one position or at around one position in the droplet or detecting the fluorescence distribution of said fluorescently excited particles, wherein said detection of fluorescence is performed at least once at a predetermined time after the start of the laser irradiation; and determining a characteristic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NANOTEMPER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Susanne Seidel, Dieter Braun, Stefan Duhr, Philipp Baaske
  • THERMOPHORESIS MEASUREMENTS IN NANOLITERDROPLETS
    Publication number: 20150316480
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and a method for thermo-optical measurements in a droplet of aqueous solution comprising particles of interest, the method comprising the following steps: providing the droplet of aqueous solution with a volume of less than 200 nl, wherein the aqueous solution is a first liquid and at least a part of the particles of interest are fluorescent particles; embedding the droplet of aqueous solution at least partly in a second liquid; irradiating a laser light beam into the droplet to obtain a spatial temperature distribution in the droplet around the irradiated laser light beam; exciting fluorescently said fluorescent particles and detecting fluorescence at least at one position or at around one position in the droplet or detecting the fluorescence distribution of said fluorescently excited particles, wherein said detection of fluorescence is performed at least once at a predetermined time after the start of the laser irradiation; and determining a characteristic
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Susanne Seidel, Dieter Braun, Stefan Duhr, Philipp Baaske