University of California, Berkeley | Plant & Microbial Biology
Technologies Disclosed and Patents Pending
- “Bio-Sensor for determining the concentration of chlorite in environmental samples”
- “Biological oxygen generation for space travel”
- “Stimulation of organic contaminant degradation by the addition of chlorite”
- “A novel treatment to prevent deep wound infection”
- "A microassay for measurement of chlorite and perchlorate" (patent pending)
- “A specific immunoprobe for perchlorate-reducing bacteria” (patent pending)
- “Biological swine waste odor control” (patent pending)
- “Biological anaerobic treatment of BTEX contamination” (patent pending)
- “Biotreatment and immobilization of heavy metals and radionuclides”
- “Bioelectrochemical treatment of perchlorate and chlorate” (patent pending)
- “Bioelectrochemical treatment of xenobiotics” (patent pending)
- “Colorimetric Bioassay for perchlorate” (patent pending)
- “Microbial authigenic rock mineral precipitation as a means of alteration of hydrology flow paths in an oil reservoir to improve sweep efficiency and enhance oil recovery” (Provisional Patent filed Oct. 24th, 2011)
- “Small molecule inhibition of ATP sulfurylase and adenylyl-sulfate reductase as a means to reduce oil souring” (IDF submitted May 30th, 2012)
- “Heavy oil bioconversion” (IDF submitted Jul 20th 2012)
- “Microbial concretion as a means of controlling wormhole events during oil recovery from unconsolidated matrices” (IDF submitted May 31st 2012)
- "Microbial metabolism of chlorine oxyanions as a control of biogenic hydrogen sulfide production (Provisional Patent filed Jun 3rd 2011).
- "Purification of Cerium from Lanthanide Mixtures"(IDF submitted January 9th 2012)