Patents & Publications

Patents

Licenses are available under the patents listed in the table below. You can read and/or print the entire patent by clicking on the hyperlink for each patent number. Patents are available as PDF documents.

Patent no.	Inventor and title
5,583,162	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. (1996) "Polymeric Microbeads and Method of Preparation"
5,653,922	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. and Kitagawa, Naotaka (1997) "Polymeric Microbeads and Method of Preparation"
5,760,097	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. and Kitagawa, Naotaka (1998) "Methods of Preparing Polymeric Microbeads"
5,863,957	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. and Kitagawa, Naotaka (1999) "Polymeric Microbeads"
6,100,306	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. and Kitagawa, Naotaka (2000) "Polymeric Microbeads and Method of Preparation"
6,048,908	Kitagawa, Naotaka (2000) "Hydrophilic Polymeric Microbeads"
6,218,440	Kitagawa, Naotaka (2001) "Hydrophilic Polymeric Microbeads and Method of Preparation"
EP 0764047	Li, Nai-Hong, Benson, J.R. and Kitagawa, Naotaka (2003) "Polymeric Microbeads and Method of Preparation"
EP 0993337	Kitagawa, Naotaka (2004) "Hydrophilic Polymer Material and Method of Preparation"

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Publications

Polymer Technology. You can read about the underlying polymer technology in a paper published by:

Benson, J. (2003) "Highly Porous Polymers" American Laboratory (May, 2003)

A pdf version of this paper can be found at this link: Highly Porous Polymers

Enzyme Immobilization. Sunstorm has completed some exciting work involving immobilized enzymes. Click on the link for a reprint of a paper by Hsuanu, et al. published in American Laboratory in 2007: Immobilized Enzymes 2007.

A publication by Zendedel Haghighi et al. discusses some applications of immobilized enzymes and was published in American Laboratory (2007): Enzyme Applications (2007)

Sunstorm also offers a monograph describing recent developments: Immobilized Enzymes 2008.

Drug Delivery. You can read about the drug delivery technology in the papers below:

Landgraf, W., Li, N-H, Benson, J. (2003) "Polymer microcarriers exhibiting zero-order release", Drug Delivery Technology, Jan-Feb Vol. 3 (1) 56-63

A pdf version of this paper can be found at this link: Zero Order Release 2003

Landgraf, W., Li, N-H, Benson, J. (2005) "New polymer enables near zero-order release of drugs", Drug Delivery Technology, Feb Vol. 5 (2) 48-55

A pdf version of this paper can be found at this link: Zero Order Release 2005

Gene Therapy. You can read about gene therapy applications in a paper published by:

Cavanagh, H, Dingwall, D, Steel, J. Benson, J, and Burton, M. (2001) "Cell contact dependent extended release of adenovirus by microparticles in vitro", J. Virol. Methods 95, 57-64.

A pdf version of this paper can be found at this link: J. Virological Methods

Cell Culture. You can read about cell culture applications in a paper published by:

Lee, D., Piret, J., Gregory, D., Haddow, D., Kilburn, D. (1992) "Polystyrene macroporous bead support for mammalian cell culture", in Biochemical Engineering VII (D. Dibiasion and R. Mutharison, eds.) Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 665, 137-145

A pdf version of this paper can be found at this link: Cell Culture

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