Patents by Inventor Gianluigi TAVERNA

Gianluigi TAVERNA 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).

  • Methods to assess the risk of being affected by prostate cancer
    Patent number: 11913938
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for assessing the risk that a male subject is affected by prostate cancer and to methods for assessing the risk that such cancer is aggressive, by analysing the gaseous headspace of urine samples with at least three metal oxide semiconductor-based gas sensors, wherein the metal oxide of the first gas sensor is pure or doped SnO2, the metal oxide of the second sensor is pure or doped ZnO and the metal oxides of the third sensor are pure or doped SnO2, pure or doped TiO2 and pure or doped Nb2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: HUMANITAS MIRASOLE S.P.A., POLITECNICO DI MILANO
    Inventors: Gianluigi Taverna, Fabio Grizzi, Laura Maria Teresa Capelli, Carmen Bax, Selena Sironi, Lidia Giuseppina Eusebio
  • METHODS TO ASSESS THE RISK OF BEING AFFECTED BY PROSTATE CANCER
    Publication number: 20220146493
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for assessing the risk that a male subject is affected by prostate cancer and to methods for assessing the risk that such cancer is aggressive, by analysing the gaseous headspace of urine samples with at least three metal oxide semiconductor-based gas sensors, wherein the metal oxide of the first gas sensor is pure or doped SnO2, the metal oxide of the second sensor is pure or doped ZnO and the metal oxides of the third sensor are pure or doped SnO2, pure or doped TiO2 and pure or doped Nb2O5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Gianluigi TAVERNA, Fabio GRIZZI, Laura Maria Teresa CAPELLI, Carmen BAX, Selena SIRONI, Lidia Giuseppina EUSEBIO