Inventor · Stanford, CA, US

Eric T. Kool

36Patents
17h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1984 → Mar 31, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5714320A Rolling circle synthesis of oligonucleotides and amplification of select randomized circular oligonucleotides Chemistry; Metallurgy 301 Expired
US5426180A Methods of making single-stranded circular oligonucleotides Chemistry; Metallurgy 172 Expired
US5674683A Stem-loop and circular oligonucleotides and method of using Chemistry; Metallurgy 112 Expired
US6077668A Highly sensitive multimeric nucleic acid probes Chemistry; Metallurgy 109 Expired
US5514546A Stem-loop oligonucleotides containing parallel and antiparallel binding domains Chemistry; Metallurgy 96 Expired
US6096880A Circular DNA vectors for synthesis of RNA and DNA Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 84 Expired
US6479650B1 Fluorescent nucleoside analogs and combinatorial fluorophore arrays comprising same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 76 Expired
US6218108A Nucleoside analogs with polycyclic aromatic groups attached, methods of synthesis and uses therefor Chemistry; Metallurgy 60 Expired
US5683874A Single-stranded circular oligonucleotides capable of forming a triplex with a target sequence Chemistry; Metallurgy 50 Expired
US7906490B2 Circular DNA vectors for synthesis of RNA and DNA Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Active
US6140480A Nucleoside analogs with polycyclic aromatic groups attached, methods of synthesis and uses therefor Chemistry; Metallurgy 48 Expired
US5808036A Stem-loop oligonucleotides containing parallel and antiparallel binding domains Chemistry; Metallurgy 46 Expired
US6670193B2 Fluorescent nucleoside analogs and combinatorial fluorophore arrays comprising same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US7423133B2 Fluorescent glycosides and methods for their use Chemistry; Metallurgy 39 Expired
US4569766A Hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan scavenger Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US6368802B1 Circular DNA vectors for synthesis of RNA and DNA Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US7033753B1 Compositions and methods for nonenzymatic ligation of oligonucleotides and detection of genetic polymorphisms Chemistry; Metallurgy 18 Expired
US9353412B2 Conformational probes and methods for sequencing nucleic acids Chemistry; Metallurgy 14 Active
US5872105A Single-stranded circular oligonucleotides useful for drug delivery Chemistry; Metallurgy 8 Expired
US8268977B2 Strongly quenching oligomeric excimer/quencher pairs for detection schemes Chemistry; Metallurgy 4 Active
US8323975B2 Telomere-encoding synthetic DNA nanocircles, and their use for the elongation of telomere repeats Chemistry; Metallurgy 4 Active
US7135312B2 Circular DNA vectors for synthesis of RNA and DNA Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7749699B2 Detection of chemical ligation using fluorescence quenching leaving groups Chemistry; Metallurgy 4 Expired
US10233493B2 Conformational probes and methods for sequencing nucleic acids Chemistry; Metallurgy 3 Active
US7745614B2 Universal linker compositions for the release or transfer of chemical agents from a polynucleotide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.