Patents associated with the WGMB (Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensor)
“Detecting and/or Measuring a Substance Based on a Resonance Shift of Photons
Orbiting within a Microsphere”
filed March 12, 2002, awarded Feb. 17, 2009
S. Arnold, I. Teraoka Patent 7,491,491

Detecting and/or Measuring a Substance Based on a Resonance Shift of Photons
Orbiting within a Microsphere
filed June 7, 2009, awarded Dec 14, 2010, Patent 7,851,173
S. Arnold, I. Teraoka

Patent Publications associated with the WGMB
“Plasmonic Enhancement of Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensors”
2012/0069331, filed August 9, 2011
S. Shopova, S. Arnold, R.H. Rajmangal

Syringe-Based Whispering Gallery Mode Microresonator Microfluidic Biochem Sensor
2011/0306854, filed April 20, 2011
S. Arnold, S. Shopova, Y. Chen, W. Chin, G. Liu, R.H. Rajmangal


Functionalizing a sensing ribbon on a whispering gallery mode microresonator
using light force to fabricate a whispering gallery mode sensor
2010/0297363, filed May 19, 2010
S. Arnold, S. Holler, T. K. Keng, S.I. Shopova

Enhanced sensitivity of a whispering gallery mode microsphere sensor by a highrefractive
index surface layer
2007/0114477, filed Nov. 17, 2006
Teraoka, S. Arnold

DNA or RNA detection and/or quantification using spectroscopic shifts or two or more optical cavities
2009/0093375, filed Jan 30, 2004
S. Arnold, I. Teraoka, F. Vollmer

Perturbation approach to resonance shift of whispering gallery
modes in a dielectric microsphere as a probe of a surrounding medium
2004/0238744, filed Jan. 15, 2004
S. Arnold, I. Teraoka, F. Vollmer

Using a change in one or more properties of lighting one or more microspheres
for sensing chemicals such as explosives and poison gases
2004/0196465, filed Dec. 12, 2003
S. Arnold, I. Teraoka, Y. Okamoto, F. Vollmer

Enhancing the sensitivity of a microsphere sensor using a shift of
whispering gallery modes in the microsphere caused by adsorption of target entities
2004/0137478, filed Oct. 22, 2003 S. Arnold, I. Teraoka, F. Vollmer

Detecting and/or Measuring a Substance Based on a Resonance Shift
of Photons Orbiting within a Microsphere
2003/0174923, filed March 12, 2002 S. Arnold, I. Teraoka