Patents by Inventor Paola Piro

Paola Piro 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).

  • Device and method for pregnancy detection
    Patent number: 5145789
    Abstract: A device to determine human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in urine is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Boehringer Biochemia Robin S.p.A.
    Inventors: Angelo Corti, Paola Piro, Emanuela Carta, Cesare Rovelli, Rosangela Bassi, Sandro Lamponi, Nicola Morgese, Carlo Rurali, Sergio Tognella
  • Immunodiagnostic device and method
    Patent number: 5081013
    Abstract: A method of, and a device for performing immune enzyme analyses are described, wherein positiveness or negativeness of an analysis is evaluated by colorimetric comparison of a chromogen zone of determination with a chromogen zone of reference, on which zones reactions are occurring, or not, between the chromogen system and an enzyme conjugated with immunoreactive substances which will reach said zones in different quantities when a sample to be analyzed contains the analyte of which it is desired to acertain the presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Boehringer Biochemia Robin S.p.A.
    Inventors: Cesare Rovelli, Domenico Brustolin, Paola Piro
  • Diagnostic method for the evaluation of clinical parameters by direct collection of biological materials and device for its accomplishment
    Patent number: 4842995
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for the diagnostic evaluation of clinical parameters by direct collection of biological materials consisting of a solid support, of suited materials, shape and size, carrying fixed on its surface a pre-established quantity of an antibody, in the case that the substance to be assessed is an antigen, and of an antigen in the case that the substance to be determined is an antibody, as well as the related diagnostic method.The biological material, collected as above specified, is subsequently qualitatively or quantitatively analyzed by conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Boehringer Biochemia Robin, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ennio Iaccheri, Paola Piro