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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943388 | Acoustic sensors and methods Acoustic sensors, preferably surface acoustic wave sensors, and more preferably shear horizontal surface acoustic wave sensors that include soluble mixed with oligomers and/or polymers formed from such monomers), or multifunctional compounds, for example, that can f... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7393692 | SERS method for rapid pharmacokinetic analysis of drugs in saliva The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393691 | SERS method and apparatus for rapid extraction and analysis of drugs in saliva The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7384754 | Enrichment and tagging of glycosylated proteins A method useful in the analysis of glycosylated proteins, in which a mixture containing glycosylated proteins and unglycosylated proteins is contacted with a resin that includes a nucleophile bound to a solid support via a linker. The contacting is performed under c... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7309010 | Identification method and apparatus At least one embodiment of the inventive technology focuses on new methods and apparatus relative to generation of a custody and control form that finds application in drug use or clinical testing, among other fields. At least one embodiment of another aspect of the... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7279283 | Cobalamin assay The invention provides an assay method for the determination of transcobalamin II (TC II) bound cobalamin in a body sample, comprising contacting a cell free sample of a body fluid with an immobilised or immobilizable specific binding ligand for TC II or cobalamin b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7255835 | Single pass attenuated total reflection fourier transform infrared microscopy apparatus and method for identifying protein secondary structure, surface charge and binding affinity Apparatus and method for acquiring an infrared spectrum of a sample having or suspected to have an amide I band, an amide II band, an amide III band, an amide A band, an OH stretching region or a combination thereof. A representative method includes providing a samp... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7238532 | Isothiazolone monitoring in aqueous systems A method for measuring the concentration of isothiazolones in aqueous systems including removing sample interferences by lowering the pH of a sample collected from the aqueous system containing isothiazolones and filtering the sample, removing additional interferenc... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7204125 | Pressure activated sampling system Screening of items for the presence of contaminants, such as explosives residue, is accomplished by subjecting an item loaded into a pressure chamber to a pressure substantially in excess of atmospheric pressure conditions and rapidly decompressing the item to the a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198955 | Method and apparatus for measurement of blood substitutes A method is disclosed whereby the concentration of a blood substitute, such as cross-linked hemoglobin, in a serum or plasma specimen is rapidly and accurately identified and quantified. The method further takes the measured concentration of the blood substitute and... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190506 | Electrochromic device with nanoparticles and UV-absorbers in the protective coating An electrochromic device which carries a coating comprising at least one UV absorber and nanoparticles is effectively protected against destruction by UV light. ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7041253 | Sample collection and test device A sample collection and test device that includes a container adapted to hold a fluid test sample, a lid secured to the container, a plate with a plurality of grooves and within each groove a test strip may be held, and a mechanism for securing the plate to the lid ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7022846 | Metabolites of prinomastat and their synthesis Metabolites of a matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor prinomastat and their synthesis. These metabolites are: (3S)-N-hydroxy-4-(4-((1-oxy-pyrid-4-yl)oxy)benzenesulfonyl)-2,2-dimethyl-tetrahydro-2H-1,4-thiazine-3-carboxamide (M6); (3S)-2,2-dimethyl-1,1-dioxo-4-[4-(1-ox... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6930815 | Electrochromic contrast plate The invention relates to electrochromic side-chain oligomers or polymers which can be used as electrochromic media. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6895801 | Pressure activated sampling system Screening of items for the presence of contaminants, such as explosives residue, is accomplished by subjecting an item loaded into a pressure chamber to a pressure substantially in excess of atmospheric pressure conditions and rapidly decompressing the item to the a... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6825045 | System and method of infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry in polyacrylamide gels A system and method for desorption and ionization of analytes in an ablation medium. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of preparing a sample having analytes in a medium including at least one component, freezing the sample at a sufficiently low temper... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6790668 | Monitoring patient compliance and bioavailability of drugs by deproteinizing body fluids The present invention is a method for drug level detection by using a simplified and effective deproteinizing step from body fluids, such as plasma, blood, urine, saliva, tear fluid, followed by drug extraction and measurement using an accurate technique, such as a ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6716640 | Stabilization and amplification of electrochemiluminescence signals The invention concerns the stabilization and amplification of electrochemiluminescence signals in detection methods. ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6620624 | Mass spectrometry interface, a mass spectrometer and a mass spectrometry With rotating and translating a rotation-translation drum installed in a vacuum chamber of a mass spectrometry interface to constitute a mass spectro-meter, a liquid sample incorporating a dissolved substance to be analyzed in its mass is emitted for the ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6558956 | Method and apparatus for detection of a controlled substance Techniques and devices for detecting and analyzing controlled substances and the like are discussed including highly reactive sensor molecules which are coated on a spectroscopic sample surface (4) and which may chemically react with a given analyte to fo... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6416762 | Anti-picornaviral ligands via a combinatorial computational and synthetic approach The present invention provides structure-based combinatorial libraries of compounds containing the functional group minima of picornaviruses including poliovirus and rhinovirus. The libraries can be used to screen for therapeutical antiviral compounds, e.... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6376649 | Methods for the synthesis of - hydroxy-ଲ-amino acid and amide derivatives Methods for the synthesis of -hydroxy-ଲ-amino acid and amide derivatives and -ketoamide derivatives and novel derivatives made by these methods are provided. These methods involve reacting a N-terminally blocked (protected) aminoaldehy... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6303384 | Reagent and method for detecting an adulterant in an aqueous sample This invention relates to a reagent and use of that reagent for detecting adulterants in aqueous samples, particularly in biological specimens such as urine samples using a diazo dye precursor such as N,N diethyl-1,4-phenylene diamine and a reagent such a... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6288048 | Cholesterol and hedgehog signaling The present invention sterol-modified hedgehog polypeptides and functional fragments thereof. Methods of identifying compositions which affect hedgehog activity based on inhibition of cholesterol modification of hedgehog protein are described. In one aspe... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6265220 | Assay for homocysteine A non-immunochemical method is disclosed for determining homocysteine in a sample. A combination of the sample and a first compound that comprises a cis-1,4-dioxo-2-butene moiety or hydrolytically derived precursor thereto is provided in a liquid medium. ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6245521 | Assay for evaluating the affinity of compounds to the glutamate GluR5 receptor A hippocampal GluR5 receptor modulator, 2-amino-3-(3 2-amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-tert-butylisoxazol-4-yl)propanoic acid (ATPA) is useful in methods of measuring the binding affinity of chemical compounds to GluR5 receptors.... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6133040 | Process and test kit for cocaine detection Test kit and method for discriminating cocaine and its salts from substances that falsely give a positive color reaction with Scott's thiocyanate reagent. As all Scott false positive substances have lower pKa values than cocaine, or in their basic from hi... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6057161 | Method for determination of drugs of abuse in biological samples A high purity styrene-divinyl benzene resin is used for rapid solid phase extraction of drugs of abuse from body fluid samples. Simple extraction procedures are described which provide high recovery and selectivity for a wide variety of drugs. A convenien... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6004536 | Lipophilic cyanine dyes with enchanced aqueous solubilty The present invention relates to a family of cyanine dyes possessing lipophilic alkyl chains and either one or more reactive functional groups, bromo or chloro, or phenyl, sulfophenyl or polysulfophenyl substituents or combinations thereof. The dyes of th... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5994143 | Polymeric fluorophores enhanced by moieties providing a hydrophobic and conformationally restrictive microenvironment Fluorescent conjugates suitable for use in flow cytometry and other biological applications. The fluorescent conjugates comprise an antibody having a polymeric dye bound thereto. The polymeric dye is preferably enhanced by a hydrophobic and conformational... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5981286 | Hydrophilic metal complexes The present invention concerns new hydrophilic metal complexes and their use as luminescent marker groups in immunoassays.... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5916815 | Assaying system for illicit substances using intentional false positives to initially preserve anonymity An assaying system for determining the presence of particular illicit substances in human physiological fluid, consisting of a collection cup, a collection cup lid, and a test card with assaying means, quality control means and adulteration detection mean... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5888757 | Cell wall assay Disclosed are methods that can be used to (1) measure the level of polysaccharide in a sample; (2) measure the ability of a compound to degrade a polysaccharide; (3) measure the ability of a compound to modulate polysaccharide synthesis; and (4) identify ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5658531 | Assay device A disposable assay device for assaying a sample has a body (10) including a reaction chamber (12) which contains or is adapted to receive an assay reagent sensitive to a component (e.g. nicotine metabolite) being assayed for in the sample. A sample collec... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5648047 | Device for colorimetric detection of explosives and narcotics A hand-held device for rapid colorimertic detection of explosives, narcotics, and other chemicals which can be accurately operated by non-skilled personnel and perform numerous tests in a quick sequential manner without exposing a user to hazardous reagen... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5587323 | Meconium assay procedure A improved method for preparing a concentrated meconium extract containing basic and acid-neutral target analytes present in a meconium sample suspected of containing the target analytes is provided. The meconium sample is extracted with a mixed solvent o... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5554542 | Immunoassay for isothiazolones Immunoassay for isothiazolones based on monoclonal antibodies that react with isothiazolones, particularly, 5-chloro-2-methyl-3-isothiazolone, hybridomas that produce such antibodies, especially ATCC HB 11435, a method of preparing an immunogenic conjugat... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550062 | Method and apparatus for chemical detection by pyrolysis This invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting and identifying a non-volatile chemical substance, in which the chemical substance (when in a sample) is pyrolyzed into its gaseous components and then the gaseous components are monitored to ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5532131 | Forensically-acceptable determinations of gestational fetal exposure to drugs and other chemical agents New and improved methods for collecting neonatal meconium samples, preparing meconium specimens for testing and for chemically analyzing neonatal meconium samples to determine their chemical composition are provided. A novel extraction method is employed ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5504091 | Biotin esters of rapamycin A compound of the structure ##STR1## R1 and R2 are each, independently, hydrogen or ##STR2## X is ##STR3## Y is ##STR4## Z is --CH2 --, --S--S--, or ##STR5## R3 is hydrogen, al... | 04/02/1996 |
