Patents by Inventor Edvin Wilheim Johannesen

Edvin Wilheim Johannesen 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).

  • Sonodynamic therapy using an ultrasound sensitizer compound
    Patent number: 6498945
    Abstract: A method of treatment of a human or animal body by sonodynamic therapy in which a sensitizer agent is administered to the body and the body is exposed to ultrasound to achieve a cytopathogenic effect at a site therein, wherein the said sensitizer agent is a physiologically tolerable substance which is capable of enhancing the cytopathogenic efficacy of said sonodynamic therapy. Preferably, the sensitizer agent is a water-soluble polymer compound or a conjugate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jan Alan Alfheim, Paul Mark Henrichs, Eric Paul Hohenschuh, Edvin Wilheim Johannesen, William Anthony Sanderson, Robert Allen Snow