Patents Assigned to The University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Phase fluorometry using a modulated electroluminescent lamp as a light source
    Patent number: 5281825
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a square wave- or sinewave-driven electroluminescent lamp (ELL) as a source of periodically pulsed excitation light for a luminescent molecule, wherein changes in decay time, phase angle and/or modulation of the emitted luminescence are detected as parameters that correspond to changes in luminescence lifetimes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: The University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Inventors: Klaus W. Berndt, Joseph R. Lakowicz
  • Nucleic acid probes specific for pathogenic strains of vibrio vulnificus and method employing the same
    Patent number: 5258284
    Abstract: Nucleic acid probes specific for pathogenic stains of vibrio vulnificus and methods employing the same, comprising nucleic acid hybridization probes specific for the vvh gene of pathogenic strains of vibrio vulnificus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: University of Maryland, School of Medicine
    Inventors: J. Glenn Morris, Jr., Anita Wright