Patents by Inventor Andreas Augustinus Werdich

Andreas Augustinus Werdich has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for analysing a biological sample
    Patent number: 10093965
    Abstract: A system for preparing and analyzing a sample of biological material, including a test cartridge having a first housing defining a flow-through chamber, a second housing defining a central space within which the first housing is at least partially located. The first housing is rotatable relative to the second housing, and the second housing defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced chambers, one of the chambers having an inlet for receiving a sample, at least one of the chambers containing a liquid reagent, and at least one of the chambers comprising an analysis module, the chambers of the second housing each having an opening into the central space. The first housing has one or more openings into the central space so that openings can be selectively aligned with one of the openings into the chambers of the second housing by relative rotation of the first housing and second housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DNA NUDGE LIMITED
    Inventors: Christofer Toumazou, Stuart Bhimsen Lowe, Steven William Green, Piers Sebastian Harding, Giles Hugo William Sanders, Nicholas James Wooder, Andreas Augustinus Werdich, Michiel Clemens Rene Twisk, Rene Heinz Joaquim Zander, Jonathan Casey, Hannah Victoria Hare, Richard Lintern, Stephanie Weichert, Steven James Wakefield, Kathrin Herbst, Luciano Zanchet
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE
    Publication number: 20180087097
    Abstract: A system for preparing and analysing a sample of biological material, including a test cartridge having a first housing defining a flow-through chamber, a second housing defining a central space within which the first housing is at least partially located. The first housing is rotatable relative to the second housing, and the second housing defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced chambers, one of the chambers having an inlet for receiving a sample, at least one of the chambers containing a liquid reagent, and at least one of the chambers comprising an analysis module, the chambers of the second housing each having an opening into the central space. The first housing has one or more openings into the central space so that openings can be selectively aligned with one of the openings into the chambers of the second housing by relative rotation of the first housing and second housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Christofer TOUMAZOU, Stuart Bhimsen LOWE, Steven William GREEN, Piers Sebastian HARDING, Giles Hugo William SANDERS, Nicholas James WOODER, Andreas Augustinus WERDICH
  • Apparatus and Methods for Using Biological Material to Discriminate an Agent
    Publication number: 20120156763
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for using biological material to discriminate an agent. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of providing at least one cell, exposing at least one cell to an agent, measuring the response of the cell to the agent in terms of a physical quantity related to at least one of the cellular physiological activities of the cell, and identifying the agent from the measured response. The method further includes the step of quantifying the agent from the measured response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: John P. Wikswo, Franz J. Baudenbacher, R. Robert Balcarcel, Theodore A. Bapty, David Cliffel, Sven Eklund, Owen McGuinness, Todd Monroe, Ales Prokop, Mark Andrew Stremler, Andreas Augustinus Werdich, Yang Yuansheng
  • Apparatus and methods for monitoring the status of a metabolically active cell
    Patent number: 7704745
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for monitoring the status of a cell that consumes oxygen. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of confining the cell in a sensing volume, measuring dynamically intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell, and determining the status of the cell from the measured intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Franz Baudenbacher, John P. Wikswo, R. Robert Balcarcel, David Cliffel, Sven Eklund, Jonathan Mark Gilligan, Owen McGuinness, Todd Monroe, Ales Prokop, Mark Andrew Stremler, Andreas Augustinus Werdich
  • Apparatus and methods for monitoring the status of a metabolically active cell
    Publication number: 20090305319
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for monitoring the status of a cell that consumes oxygen. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of confining the cell in a sensing volume, measuring dynamically intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell, and determining the status of the cell from the measured intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Franz J. Baudenbacher, John P. Wikswo, R. Robert Balcarcel, David Cliffel, Sven Eklund, Jonathan Mark Gilligan, Owen McGuinness, Todd Monroe, Ales Prokop, Mark Andrew Stremler, Andreas Augustinus Werdich