Patents and IP
Below a list of the IP developed by the Erickson lab, with Cornell Docket Numbers included. Included papers are included to illustrate use of IP but are not comprehensive of the claims nor does inclusion imply original inventorship on behalf of the authors. Further details on this IP can be obtained from Professor Erickson or the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization.
- NutriCard: multiplex point-of-care test for blood nutritional biomarkers
Cornell Docket: 7260
Provisional Patent Filed
Licensed by VitaMe Technologies, Inc. (DBA VitaScan) - Competitive lateral flow assay for point-of-care quantification of blood vitamin B12 and vitamin D levels
Related Paper #1: Vemulapati, S., Rey, E., O’Dell, D.O., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., “A Quantitative Point-of-Need Assay for the Assessment of Vitamin D3 Deficiency” Under Review (2017)
Related Paper #2: Lee, S., O’Dell, D., Hohenstein, J., Colt, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., “NutriPhone: a mobile platform for low-cost point-of-care quantification of vitamin B12 concentrations” Scientific Reports 6, 28237 (2016)
Cornell Docket: 7259
PCT Application Filed
Licensed by VitaMe Technologies, Inc. (DBA VitaScan) - Apparatus and method for point-of-collection measurement of a biomolecular reaction
Related Paper #1: Erickson, D., O’Dell, D., Jiang, L., Gumus, A., Lee, S., Mancuso, M., Mehta, S., “Smartphone technology can be transformative to the deployment of lab-on-chip diagnostics” Lab-on-a-Chip 14, 3159-3164 (2014).
Related Paper #2: Mancuso, M., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D. “Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpes Virus Nucleic Acids Using a Smartphone Accessory” Lab-on-a-Chip 14 3809-3816 (2014).
Cornell Docket: 6044
Patent Issued: US 9,686,395
Patent Filed: China 201380058363
Patent Filed: Europe 20130837536
Licensed by VitaMe Technologies, Inc. (DBA VitaScan) - Smartphone-Based Apparatus and Method for Obtaining Repeatable, Quantitative Colorimetric Measurement
Related Paper #1: Erickson, D., O’Dell, D., Jiang, L., Oncescu, V., Gumus, A., Lee, S., Mancuso, M., Mehta, S. “Smartphone technology can be transformative to the deployment of lab-on-chip diagnostics” 14, 3159-3164 Lab-on-a-Chip (2014).
Related Paper #2: Oncescu, V., Mancuso, M., Erickson, D. “Cholesterol testing on a smartphone” Lab-on-a-Chip, 14, 759-763 (2014).
Related Paper #3: Oncescu, V., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “Smartphone based health accessory for colorimetric detection of biomarkers in sweat and saliva” Lab on a Chip, 13, 3232-3238 (2013)
Cornell Docket: 6152
Patent Issued: US 9,445,749
Patent Filed: China 201480017254
Patent Filed: Europe EP20140740730
Licensed by VitaMe Technologies, Inc. (DBA VitaScan) - Photobioreactor Apparatus, Method and Application
Related Paper #1: Ahsan, S.S., Pereyra, B., Jung, E.E., Erickson, D. “Engineered surface scatterers in edge-lit slab waveguides to improve light delivery in algae cultivation” Optics Express 22, A1526 (2014).
Related Paper #2: Jung, E.E., Jain, A., Voulis, N., Doud, D.D.R., Angenent, L.T., Erickson, D. “Stacked optical waveguide photobioreactor for high density algal cultures” Bioresource Technology 171, 495-499 (2014).
Related Paper #3: Jain A., Voulis N., Jung E. E., Doud D. F. R., Miller W., Angenent L. T. and Erickson D. “Optimal intensity and biomass density for biofuel production in a thin light-path photobioreactor”. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(10), 6327-6334 (2015)
Doud D. F. R., Jain A., Ahsan S. S., Erickson D. and Angenent L. T. “In-situ UV disinfection of a waveguide-based photobioreactor” Environmental Science & Technology 48, 11521-11526 (2014).
Cornell Docket 6147
Patent Issued: US 9,523,070 - Methods, systems, and applications for solar-thermal microfluidic PCR
Related Paper #1: Jiang, L., Mancuso, M., Lu, Z., Akar, G., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D. “Solar thermal polymerase chain reaction for smartphone-assisted molecular diagnostics” Nature Scientific Reports, 4, 4137 (2014)
Cornell Docket 6032
US Patent Issued: 14/429,407 (Patent number not issued as of July 2017) - Microfluidic Device, System, and Method for Tracking Single Cells and Single Cell Lineages
Related Paper #1: Mak, M., Erickson, D., “Mechanical Decision Trees for Investigating and Modulating Single-Cell Cancer Invasion Dynamics” Lab-on-a-Chip 14, 964 (2014).
Related Paper #2: Mak, M., Erickson, D., “Mak, M., Erickson, D., “A simple automated serial micropipette with applications to cancer cell repeated deformation studies” Integrated Biology, 5, 1374-1384 (2013).
Related Paper #3: Mak, M., Reinhart-King, C.A., Erickson, D., “Elucidating Mechanical Transition Effects of Invading Cancer Cells with a Subnucleus-Scaled Microfluidic Serial Dimensional Modulation Device” Lab-on-a-Chip 13 (3), 340-348 (2013).
Cornell Docket 5947
Patent Filed: PCT/US13/44937 - Apparatus, methods, and applications for point of care multiplexed diagnostics
Related Paper #1: Mancuso, M., Jiang, L., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D., “Multiplexed Colorimetric Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpes Virus and Bacillary Angiomatosis DNA using Gold and Silver Nanoparticles” Nanoscale 5, 1678-1686 (2013).
Cornell Docket 5794
Patent Filed: PCT/US13/26127 - High Resolution Reversible Color Images on Photonic Crystal Substrates
Related Paper #1: Kang, P, Erickson, D. “High Resolution Reversible Color Images on Photonic Crystal Substrates” Langmuir 27, 9676-9680 (2011).
Cornell Docket 5469
Provisional Patent Filed - Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Apparatus, Methods, and Application
Cornell Docket 5319
Patent Filed: US 13/597,688 - Optical trapping apparatus, methods and applications using photonic crystal resonators
Related Paper #1: Chen Y.-F., Serey, X., Sarkar, R., Chen, P., Erickson, D., “Controlled photonic manipulation of proteins and other nanomaterials” Nano Letters 12 (3), 1633-1637 (2012).
Related Paper #2: Kang, P., Serey, X., Chen, Y.-F., Erickson, D., “Angular Orientation of Nanorods using Nanophotonic Tweezers” Nano Letters 12, 6400-6407 (2012).
Cornell Docket 5224
Patent Issued: US 9,057,825
Patent Filed: China 201180059282
Patent Filed: Europe 2011831678
Patent Filed: Japan 2013-532973
Patent Filed: Korea 10-2013-7011717
Licensed by Optofluidics, Inc. - Optofluidic photobioreactor apparatus, method, and applications
Related Paper #1: Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics for energy applications” Nature Photonics 5, 583-590 (2011).
Related Paper #2: Jung, E.E., Kalontarov, M., Doud, D.F.R., Ooms, M.D., Angenent, L.T., Sinton, D., Erickson, D., “Slab waveguide photobioreactors for microalgae based biofuel production” Lab-on-a-Chip, 12, 3740–3745 (2012).
Cornell Docket 5200
Patent Issued: US 9,518,248
Patent Filed: Europe 20110841822
Patent Filed: China: 201180065337. - Optofluidic apparatus, method, and application
Related Paper #1: Jung, E. E., Erickson, D., “Continuous operation of a hybrid solid-liquid state reconfigurable photonic system without resupply of liquids” Lab-on-a-Chip 12, 2575-2579 (2012).
Related Paper #2: Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. “Optofluidic Waveguides for Reconfigurable Photonic Systems” Optics Express 19(9) 8602-8609 (2011).
Cornell Docket 4922
US Patent Issued: US 8,861,904. - Nanofilter devices using elastomeric micro to nanochannel interfaces and methods based thereon
Related Paper #1: Park, S.M., Huh, Y.S., Craighead, H.G., Erickson, D., “A method for nanofluidic device prototyping using elastomeric collapse” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – USA 106, 15549-15554 (2009).
Cornell Docket 4785
Patent Issued: US 8,691,588 - Enhanced On-Chip SERS Based Biomolecular Detection Using Electrokinetically Active Microwells
Related Paper #1: Huh, Y.S., Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Erickson , D., “Enhanced on-chip SERS based biomolecular detection using electrokinetically active microwells.” Lab-on-a-Chip 9, 433-439 (2009). Cornell Docket 4519
US Patent Issued: US 9,057,099
Patent Filed: Europe: EP20090821197. - Optical force based biomolecular analysis in slot waveguides
Related Paper #1: Yang, A.H.J., Moore, S.D., Schmidt, B.S, Klug, M., Lipson, M., Erickson, D., “Optical Manipulation of Nanoparticles and Biomolecules in Sub-Wavelength Slot Waveguides” Nature 457, 71-75 (2009).
Cornell Docket 4438
US Patent Issued: 9,322,995
Patent Filed: China 200980145053
Patent Filed: Europe 20110831678.
Licensed by Optofluidics, Inc. - Nanoscale Optofluidic Devices for Biomolecular Detection
Related Paper#1: Mandal, S., Goddard, J,., Erickson, D., “A Multiplexed Optofluidic Biomolecular Sensor for Low Mass Detection” Lab on a chip 9, 2924-2932 (2009)
Cornell Docket 4186
US Patent Issued: US 9,410,892. - System and method for optically driven separations using fluid filled core optical fibers
Related Paper #1: Mandal, S., Erickson D., “Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Waveguiding Structures” Applied Physics Letters, 90, 184103 (2007).
Cornell Docket 4030
Patent Issued: US 8,552,363 - Combined electrostatic and optical waveguide based microfluidic chip systems for bio-molecule and bio-entity detection and processing.
California Institute of Technology
Patent Issued: US 7,385,460.