Patents by Inventor Bruce W. Calnek

Bruce W. Calnek 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 of propagating chicken infectious anemia virus
    Patent number: 6593134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of propagating chicken infectious anemia virus (CIAV). This method involves providing a Marek's disease chicken cell line—CU147 culture and inoculating the culture with a chicken infectious anemia virus under conditions effective to propagate the virus in the culture. The present invention also relates to methods of isolating, identifying, and quantifying chicken infectious anemia virus in a sample which includes providing a biological sample, providing a Marek's disease chicken cell line—CU147 culture, incubating the culture with the biological sample under conditions effective to allow a chicken infectious anemia virus to infect the culture, and isolating, identifying, or quantifying the virus in the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce W. Calnek, Benjamin Lucio-Martinez, Carol Cardona, Raymond W. Harris, Karel A. Schat
  • Marek's disease vaccine
    Patent number: 4160024
    Abstract: A vaccine against Marek's disease is produced from a newly isolated Marek's disease virus which is unattenuated and naturally nononcogenic, even in immunosuppressed chickens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Karel A. Schat, Bruce W. Calnek