Patents by Inventor Tuomas Tenkanen

Tuomas Tenkanen 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).

  • Patent number: 6593113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an in vitro method for providing unique templates for DNA sequencing and to a kit, which can be used, when employing the selection method of this invention. The examined DNA is subjected to a DNA transposition reaction and to an amplification reaction. The amplification reaction is carried out in the presence of a fixed primer and a selective primer having a complementary sequence to the end of a transposon DNA. A transposition reaction can be carried out also in the presence of a transposon or transposons, which have different ends enabling the design of selective primers for both ends. Each size of the amplification products represents one template for a sequencing reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Finnzymes Oy
    Inventors: Tuomas Tenkanen, Timo Soininen, Harri Savilahti, Kirsi Multanen
  • Patent number: 6152194
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and an equipment for portioning of liquid consignments of specific amounts and to the packaging of these small liquid consignments in mass production. The portioning is executed with a bellows, which defines an air space of varying volume, that the air stream caused by the bellows establishes the injection and suction of a liquid. According to the invention the air space is connected to the suction tip (4), which holds a liquid space confined by a filter permeable to air stream but impermeable to liquid. When in the suction phase the liquid is sucked into the suction tip (4) by the motion of the liquid, and in the injection phase the reverse motion of the bellows is used in injecting the liquid consignment from the suction tip, and the injection of the liquid consignment of certain volume is based on a corresponding volume change in the air space of the bellows established by an equipment controlling the bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Fluilogic Systems OY
    Inventors: Tuomas Tenkanen, Pekka Ronka