Patents by Inventor Randall G. Groat

Randall G. Groat 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).

  • Method and Device for Detecting Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
    Publication number: 20110189651
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Method and device for detecting feline immunodeficiency virus
    Patent number: 7776546
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Method and Device for Detecting Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
    Publication number: 20100092940
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Method and device for detecting feline immunodeficiency virus
    Patent number: 7348136
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Idexx Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Method and device for detecting feline immunodeficiency virus
    Patent number: 7285272
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Method and device for detecting feline immunodeficiency virus
    Patent number: 7201903
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a feline immunodeficiency virus infection or vaccination in an animal. The method includes contacting a biological sample from a felid with various FIV polypeptides and determining the binding of antibodies in the sample to the polypeptides. The determination of whether an animal is infected with FIV or has been vaccinated against FIV can be determined by measuring the animal's immune response to an FIV env polypeptide. A device for detecting FIV antibodies is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Quentin J. Tonelli
  • Detection of analytes in fecal samples
    Publication number: 20040214244
    Abstract: A method for detecting a parasitic worm infection of the digestive tract of a mammal. The method includes detecting the binding of a worm antibody to a worm antigen present in the soluble portion of a fecal sample of infected mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Quentin Joseph Tonelli, Randall G. Groat, Michael Monn
  • Diagnosis of feline immunodeficiency virus infection using ENV/GAG polypeptide markers
    Patent number: 6458528
    Abstract: Methods for determining whether a feline is infected with feline immunodeficiency virus (“FIV”). The methods involve the use of an antibody-binding composition that includes two enhanced polypeptides, one containing an immunogenic fragment of the FIV gag precursor p55 and the other containing an immunogenic fragment of the FIV env precursor gp130. Also featured are devices for practicing these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Idexx Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Groat, Thomas P. O'Connor, Brion Mermer