Fall 2010, Issue 12

The following U.S. patents were issued to Tufts University between January 1, 2010, and September 30, 2010.

Circuit Having Hardware Threading
Inventors: Soha M.N. Hassoun and Brian G. Swahn
U.S. patent 7,797,647, issued September 14, 2010

Self-encoding Sensor with Microspheres
Inventors: David R. Walt and Todd A. Dickinson
U.S. patent 7,754,498, issued July 13, 2010

Reducing Tetracycline Resistance in Living Cells
Inventor: Stuart B. Levy
U.S. patent 7,732,429, issued June 8, 2010

Peptidomimetic Inhibitors of Post-proline Cleaving Enzymes
Inventor: William W. Bachovchin
U.S. patent 7,727,964, issued June 1, 2010

Method for Forming Inorganic Coatings
Inventors: David L. Kaplan and Chunmei Li
U.S. patent 7,727,575, issued June 1, 2010

7,8 and 9-Substituted Tetracycline Compounds
Inventors: Mark L. Nelson, Darrell J. Koza, and Glen Rennie
U.S. patent 7,696,188, issued April 13, 2010

Methods of Preparing Substituted Tetracyclines with Transition Metal–based Chemistries
Inventors: Mark L. Nelson, Glen Rennie, and Darrell J. Koza
U.S. patent 7,696,187, issued April 13, 2010

Smart Pro-drugs of Serine Protease Inhibitors
Inventor: William W. Bachovchin
U.S. patent 7,691,967, issued April 6, 2010

Silk Biomaterials and Methods of Use Thereof
Inventors: David L. Kaplan, Hyoung-Joon Jin, Gregory Rutledge, and Sergey Fridrikh
U.S. patent 7,674,882, issued March 9, 2010, to Tufts University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Indole Compounds Useful as Serotonin Selective Agents
Inventors: Howard P. Sard, Louis Shuster, Bryan Roth, Cynthia Morency, Govindaraj Kumaran, and Liang Xu
U.S. patent 7,655,691 issued February 2, 2010, to Tufts University, Case Western Reserve University, and Organix, Inc.