David M Sykes

US Patent:

20020137199, Sep 26, 2002

Filed:

Oct 22, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/011237

Inventors:

Michael Jobin - Boston MA, US
Andrew Muir - Cohasset MA, US
David Sykes - Cambridge MA, US
James Woodward - Milton MA, US

International Classification:

C12M001/34

US Classification:

435/287200

Abstract:

Disclosed are devices and methods for the storage, shipment, moving and/or transferring, mixing, reacting, isolation, conditioning, lyophilization, stabilization, metering, dispensing, detecting, manipulation and management of materials, particularly solids, powders and liquids. Each such device or method provides a means of storing one or more quantities of one or more materials in one or more reservoirs, optionally protecting said quantities from air, moisture or light. Optionally, multiple such reservoirs may be placed or arranged in ensembles such as in arrays or other physical patterns, optionally providing for the simultaneous, parallel or rapid access to more than one such reservoir at once. Devices and methods of the invention may also be configured to deliver material from a reservoir in such manner that a defined or desired quantity of material is dispensed from the reservoir or that such dispensing is performed at a defined or desired rate or that the material is dispensed until one or more criteria are met for such dispensing to cease.

US Patent:

D3740641, Sep 24, 1996

Filed:

Sep 14, 1995

Appl. No.:

D/044010

Inventors:

Diane M. Brancazio - Cambridge MA
Susannah E. Gardner - Brookline MA
Matthew D. Hern - Boston MA
Francis M. Labrano - Narragansett RI
David A. Snow - Barrington RI
David M. Sykes - Cambridge MA

Assignee:

Fountainhead Technologies - Providence RI

US Classification:

D23209

US Patent:

D3727602, Aug 13, 1996

Filed:

Sep 14, 1995

Appl. No.:

D/044002

Inventors:

Diane M. Brancazio - Cambridge MA
Susannah E. Gardner - Brookline MA
Matthew D. Hern - Boston MA
Francis M. Lubrano - Narragansett RI
David A. Snow - Barrington RI
David M. Sykes - Cambridge MA

Assignee:

Fountainhead Technologies - Providence RI

US Classification:

D23209

US Patent:

D3740633, Sep 24, 1996

Filed:

Apr 25, 1995

Appl. No.:

D/037955

Inventors:

Diane M. Brancazio - Cambridge MA
Susannah E. Gardner - Brookline MA
Matthew D. Hern - Boston MA
Francis M. Lubrano - Narragansett RI
David A. Snow - Barrington RI
David M. Sykes - Cambridge MA

Assignee:

Fountainhead Technologies - Providence RI

US Classification:

D23209