Patents by Inventor Torsten Thomas

Torsten Thomas 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).

  • A METHOD FOR INCREASING THE AFFINITY OF AN OLIGONUCLEOTIDE FOR A TARGET NUCLEIC ACID
    Publication number: 20060099584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the optimization of primer libraries. Shorter primers are annealed to template sequences and extended in order to provide primers having improved specificity. The primers of the invention have utility in DNA amplification and sequencing methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel Tillett, Torsten Thomas
  • Dna amplification and sequencing in collapsible emulsions
    Publication number: 20060068390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing a chemical reaction, in particular a small-scale chemical reaction. The method involves the use of two (or more) phases which, when formed into an emulsion, have the characteristic of being subject to “collapse” under certain physical or chemical conditions such that the discontinuous phase dispersed in the emulsion becomes a substantially continuous phase—the chemical reaction taking place in the newly-formed continuous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel Tillett, Torsten Thomas