Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Mark Zoller

65Patents
22h-index
65Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 24, 1989 → Jan 16, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5780279A Method of selection of proteolytic cleavage sites by directed evolution and phagemid display Chemistry; Metallurgy 92 Expired
US7476399B2 Flavors, flavor modifiers, tastants, taste enhancers, umami or sweet tastants, and/or enhancers and use thereof Physics 78 Active
US7368285B2 Heteromeric umami T1R1/T1R3 taste receptors and isolated cells that express same Physics 61 Expired
US7297543B2 Cell lines that stably or transiently express a functional sweet (T1R2/T1R3) taste receptor Physics 60 Expired
US7364903B2 Cell lines that stably or transiently express a functional umami (T1R1/T1R3) taste receptor Physics 60 Expired
US7294474B2 Functional assays for identifying compounds that modulate T1R2/T1R3 (sweet) taste Physics 60 Expired
US8633186B2 Modulation of chemosensory receptors and ligands associated therewith Physics 60 Active
US7309577B2 Binding assays that use the T1R1/T1R3 (umami) taste receptor to identify compounds that elicit or modulate umami taste Physics 59 Expired
US5846765A Identification of novel substrates Chemistry; Metallurgy 57 Expired
US7344859B2 Recombinant methods for expressing a functional sweet (T1R2/T1R3) taste receptor Physics 57 Expired
US7301009B2 Isolated (T1R1/T1R3) umami taste receptors that respond to umami taste stimuli Physics 57 Expired
US7297772B2 Isolated (T1R2/T1R3) sweet taste receptors that respond to sweet taste stimuli Physics 56 Expired
US7303886B2 Functional assays for identifying compounds that modulate T1R1/T1R3 (umami) taste Physics 54 Expired
US6207397A In vitro fluorescence polarization assay Physics 51 Expired
US7928111B2 Compounds including substituted thienopyrimidinone derivatives as ligands for modulating chemosensory receptors Physics 48 Active
US7763431B1 Binding assays that use the T1R2/T1R3 (sweet) taste receptor to identify compounds that elicit or modulate sweet taste Physics 38 Active
US7601513B2 Recombinant methods for expressing a functional umami (T1R1/T1R3) taste receptor Physics 37 Active
US7910322B2 Methods for identifying compounds that modulate T1R1/T1R3 umami taste receptors Physics 36 Active
US7927825B2 Methods of using T1R2/T1R3 heteromeric receptors to quantify taste of compounds for food or beverages Physics 36 Active
US7906328B2 Cell lines that express hetero oligomeric taste receptors Physics 36 Active
US8541421B2 Methods of enhancing sweet taste of compositions using substituted thieno{2,3-D}pyrimidines Physics 27 Active
US5108901A Tissue plasminogen activator having zymogenic or fibrin specific properties Human Necessities 26 Expired
US8323912B2 Methods of screening heteromeric T1R2/T1R3 receptors which modulate sweet taste signaling Physics 21 Active
US8222019B2 Cell lines expressing T1R2/T1R3 hetero-oligomeric taste receptors and assay system thereof for identification of taste compounds Physics 21 Active
US8206938B2 In vitro methods of detecting cells sensitive to sweet tastants by detecting expression of hetero-oligomeric T1R2/T1R3 taste receptors Physics 21 Active

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