Patents by Inventor Facundo M. Fernandez

Facundo M. Fernandez 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).

  • Patent number: 10914740
    Abstract: A method of detecting serous ovarian cancer, particularly early stage serous ovarian cancer is described. The method uses up to sixteen compounds found in the blood serum of a person, and determines that changes of some portion of these sixteen compounds can determine the presence of serous ovarian cancer in a women with up to 100% accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: David Gaul, Facundo M. Fernandez, John Francis McDonald
  • Publication number: 20200025767
    Abstract: A method of detecting serous ovarian cancer, particularly early stage serous ovarian cancer is described. The method uses up to sixteen compounds found in the blood serum of a person, and determines that changes of some portion of these sixteen compounds can determine the presence of serous ovarian cancer in a women with up to 100% accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: David Gaul, Facundo M. Fernandez, John Francis McDonald
  • Publication number: 20150069254
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for injecting reactive species and ions from an ambient ionization source into an atmospheric pressure ion mobility spectrometer
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Facundo M. Fernandez, Joel David Keelor
  • Patent number: 8487245
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for injecting reactive species and ions from an ambient plasma ionization source into an atmospheric pressure ion mobility spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Facundo M. Fernandez, Glenn A. Harris
  • Publication number: 20120068063
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for injecting reactive species and ions from an ambient plasma ionization source into an atmospheric pressure ion mobility spectrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Facundo M. Fernandez, Glenn A. Harris
  • Publication number: 20120004854
    Abstract: Panels of serum metabolic biomarkers and methods of their use in detecting and diagnosing cancer, especially ovarian cancer, are disclosed. The metabolic biomarker panels include 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, or more metabolites. Supervised classification methods, such as trained support vector machines (SVMs) are used to determine whether the levels of metabolic biomarkers in a subject are indicative of the presence of cancer. The disclosed biomarkers and methods preferably allow a diagnosis of cancer with an accuracy, a specificity, and/or a sensitivity of at least 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98% or 99%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Facundo M. Fernandez, Manshui Zhou, John McDonald, Alexander Gray, Wei Guan
  • Patent number: 7456391
    Abstract: By connecting the Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) directly to a driver without a transmission line, distortion of the voltage waveform experienced a the BNG are much reduced. Because the magnitude of the modulation defects grows as the applied modulation voltage is increased, Bradbury-Nielson gates with finer wire spacing such as 100 microns, and operating at 10 to 15 V, significantly better signal-to-noise ratios are achieved. HT-TOFMS data were also post processed using an exact knowledge of the modulation defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Richard N. Zare, Facundo M. Fernandez, Joel R. Kimmel, Oliver Trapp
  • Patent number: 7067803
    Abstract: By connecting the Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) directly to a driver without a transmission line, distortion of the voltage waveform experienced a the BNG are much reduced. Because the magnitude of the modulation defects grows as the applied modulation voltage is increased, Bradbury-Nielson gates with finer wire spacing such as 100 microns, and operating at 10 to 15 V, significantly better signal-to-noise ratios are achieved. HT-TOFMS data were also post processed using an exact knowledge of the modulation defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Richard N. Zare, Facundo M. Fernandez, Joel R. Kimmel, Oliver Trapp
  • Publication number: 20040144918
    Abstract: By connecting the Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) directly to a driver without a transmission line, distortion of the voltage waveform experienced a the BNG are much reduced. Because the magnitude of the modulation defects grows as the applied modulation voltage is increased, Bradbury-Nielson gates with finer wire spacing such as 100 microns, and operating at 10 to 15 V, significantly better signal-to-noise ratios are achieved. HT-TOFMS data were also post processed using an exact knowledge of the modulation defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Richard N. Zare, Facundo M. Fernandez, Joel R. Kimmel, Oliver Trapp