Francis H. Kirkpatrick

Background

Francis H. Kirkpatrick was born on November 7, 1943, in Laurel Hill, North Carolina, United States. His documented family relationships include his mother, Jean, and his father, Francis.

Education

Kirkpatrick earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1970. His subsequent postdoctoral appointments at Washington State University connected his academic training with research in biophysics and electrophoresis-related technologies.

Career

Kirkpatrick began his professional scientific career with postdoctoral research at Washington State University, serving in postdoctoral appointments documented for 1969–1971 and 1972–1974. He subsequently worked as a manager at Pall Corporation from 1980 to 1984, then as technical director of BioProducts at the Federal Maritime Commission from 1984 to 1993. From 1993 he served as a director at Focal. He also worked as an independent consultant in the management of intellectual property for startup companies and later operated KirkPatent Consulting in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, as a registered patent practitioner. His technical and inventive work included electrophoresis gels, agarose compositions, multidimensional games, and related patent matters. He was named as an inventor on patents concerning high-gel-strength, low-electroendosmosis agarose; photoinitiated gel-electrophoresis methods and reagents; practical four-dimensional tic-tac-toe; and a multidimensional crossword game and puzzle.

Achievements

• Developed and patented technologies related to electrophoresis gels, agarose compositions, and multidimensional games.

Works

• patent

  • High gel strength low electroendosmosis agarose

    (United States patent US4983268A, co-invented with Kenneth...)

    1991
  • Methods and reagents for gel electrophoresis

    (United States patent US5916427A concerning photoinitiated...)

    1999
  • Practical four-dimensional tic-tac-toe

    (United States patent US6254098B1 describing a four-dimens...)

    2001

• patent application

  • Multidimensional crossword game and puzzle

    (United States patent application US20100331067A1 describi...)

    2010

Membership

Kirkpatrick has been associated with the Optical Society of America, the American Chemical Society, and the Patent and Trademark Office Society.

• Optical Society of America , United States

• American Chemical Society , United States

• Patent and Trademark Office Society , United States

Connections

Kirkpatrick's documented family relationships include Jean, identified as his mother, and Francis, identified as his father.

Father:

Francis

Mother:

Jean

References

• United States Patent and Trademark Office Public comments submitted by Francis H. Kirkpatrick, registered patent practitioner number 35,219, concerning proposed changes to continuation examination practice.
  2006
• Google Patents Patent record documenting Kirkpatrick as a co-inventor of high-gel-strength, low-electroendosmosis agarose.
  1991
• Google Patents Patent record documenting Kirkpatrick as inventor of methods and reagents for gel electrophoresis.
  1999