Patents by Inventor Mark Andrew Stremler

Mark Andrew Stremler 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).

  • 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