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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120107952 | MICROWAVE-ACCELERATED PLASMONICS The present invention relates to systems and methods using microwave accelerated surface plasmonics for the detection of target species, wherein the system has a metallic surface and the system is exposed to microwave energy for increasing detection time and/or the reac... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120028270 | METAL-ENHANCED BIOLUMINESCENCE: AN APPROACH FOR MONITORING BIOLOGICAL BIOLUMINESCENT PROCESSES The present invention relates to surface plasmon-coupled bioluminescence, wherein bioluminescent emission from a bioluminescent chemical reaction couples to surface plasmons in metallized particles thereby enhancing the signal. Importantly, these plasmonic emissions emi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021443 | DIRECTIONAL SURFACE PLASMON COUPLED FLUORESCENCE AND CHEMILUMINESCENCE FROM THIN FILMS OF NICKEL, IRON OR PALLADIUM AND USES THEREOF Nickel, iron and palladium thin films thermally evaporated onto glass supports are used to demonstrate surface plasmon coupled fluorescence (SPCF) and surface plasmon couple chemiluminescence (SPCC) over a broad wavelength range (400-800 nm) for potential assays or othe... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110207236 | SONICATION-ASSISTED METAL-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE (SAMEF)-BASED BIOASSAYS The present invention provides for sonication-assisted metal-enhanced fluorescence, luminescence, and/or chemiluminescence assay systems using low-intensity ultrasound waves to significantly reduce the assay time by increasing the kinetic movement of molecules within th... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110020946 | CONVERSION OF JUST-CONTINUOUS METALLIC FILMS TO LARGE PARTICULATE SUBSTRATES FOR METAL-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE The present invention relates to a method of producing silver films having large nanoparticles caused by cracking during anaerobic annealing to provide surfaces that exhibit increased metal enhanced fluorescence. Preferably the annealing process is conducted on a silver... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100062545 | BIOASSAYS USING PLASMONIC SCATTERING FROM NOBLE METAL NANOSTRUCTURES The present invention relates to detecting and/or measuring scattering effects due to the aggregating metallic nanostructures or the interaction of plasmonic emissions from approaching metallic nanoparticles. The scattering effects may be measured at different angles, d... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100003695 | MICROWAVE TRIGGER METAL-ENHANCED CHEMILUMINESCENCE (MT MEC) AND SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CONTROL OF SAME The present invention relates to a method of imaging structures and features using plasmonic emissions from metallic surfaces caused by chemiluminescence based chemical and biological reactions wherein imaging of the reactions is enhanced by the use of microwave energy ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090325199 | NANOSTRUCTURES FOR POLARIZED IMAGING AND RECEPTOR/LIGAN QUANTIZATION: BREAKING THE DIFFRACTION LIMIT FOR IMAGING The present invention relates to affinity biosensing using polarization of light scattering of aggregated noble metallic nanostructures to determine concentration of an analyte in a test sample. This new sensing system utilizes the changes in polarized plasmonic scatter... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20080215122 | PLASMONIC ENGINEERING OF SINGLET OXYGEN AND/OR SUPEROXIDE GENERATION The present invention provides for a method to increase the triplet yield of a photosensitizer by the coupling to metal surface plasmons which leads to increased singlet oxygen generation by electric field enhancement or enhanced energy absorption of the photosensitizer... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080096281 | Cyanide Sensing Compounds and Uses Thereof The present invention relates to a cyanide detection method using fluorescence and cyanide sensitive boronic acid containing fluorophores, wherein a change in a measured fluorescent property correlates to the concentration of the cyanide compound in a biological or envi... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20070269826 | ANGULAR-DEPENDENT METAL-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE The present invention relates to detection of fluorescence, and more particularly, to the use of fluorescent moieties in proximity to metallic surfaces to change the spatial distribution of fluorescence in an angular dependent manner and detecting emissions at a determi... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070020182 | Quaternary nitrogen heterocyclic compounds for detecting aqueous monosaccharides in physiological fluids Quaternary nitrogen heterocyclic boronic acid-containing compounds are described, which are sensitive to glucose and fructose, as well as a variety of other physiologically important analytes, such as aqueous chloride and iodide, and a method of using the compounds. Als... | 01/25/2007 |
