Patents by Inventor Xiao Xiang

Xiao Xiang 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).

  • Endohedral fullerenes as spin labels and MRI contrast agents
    Publication number: 20070048870
    Abstract: This invention pertains to the discovery that certain endohedral fullerenes are functional paramagnetic materials exhibiting increased relaxation times. These endohedral fullerenes provide improved labels for use in electron spin resonance (ESR) detection systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Haitao Yang, Gerald Dionne
  • New MRI technique based on electron spin resonance and nitrogen endohedral C60 contrast agent
    Publication number: 20060280689
    Abstract: Methods and systems for electron spin MRI (eMRI) and novel methods for fabricating N@C60 fullerenes using the discovery that certain endohedral fullerenes can be used as functional paramagnetic materials exhibiting increased relaxation times. These endohedral fullerenes provide improved labels for use in electron spin resonance (ESR) detection systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Haitao Yang
  • Intracellular thermal ablation using nano-particle electron spin resonance heating
    Publication number: 20060269612
    Abstract: This invention pertains to the use of spin resonance absorption heating as a therapeutic treatment method wherein electron spin resonance absorption of superparamagnetic (SPM) nanoparticles can be used as an intracellular heating method, more preferably as an in vivo heating method that can be utilized in a variety of therapeutic contexts and can further allow for resonance imaging and internal thermometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Haitao Yang
  • Biased target ion bean deposition (BTIBD) for the production of combinatorial materials libraries
    Publication number: 20060249372
    Abstract: This invention provides gradient deposition methods and systems to form libraries of combinatorial materials. The systems can include a shutter movable between alternate orientations around a substrate for deposition of gradients in different directions. Methods can include deposition of a gradient from targets illuminated by controlling target bias voltage onto a substrate past a mask or shutter movable to desired orientation coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Qizhen Xue, Young Yoo
  • Spin resonance heating and/or imaging in medical applications
    Publication number: 20050118102
    Abstract: This invention pertains to the use of spin resonance absorption heating as a therapeutic treatment method. It was a surprising discovery that electron spin resonance absorption of superparamagnetic (SPM) nanoparticles can be used as a heating method, more preferably as an in vivo heating method that can be utilized in a variety of therapeutic contexts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Gang Wang, Haitao Yang, Gerald Dionne, Ted Sun
  • Treatments and markers for cancers of the central nervous system
    Patent number: 6680172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel cancer markers and compositions and methods for cancer therapies. For example, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the detection of gene expression of particular marker genes as indicative of cancers, while control of said gene expression provides for intervention in cancer therapies and, in particular, glioma therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Samir M. Hanash, David Rickman, Rachana Tyagi, Xiao-Xiang Zhu, Phillip Kish