Patents by Inventor Torsten Schulz
Torsten Schulz 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).
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Patent number: 9580745Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of analytes. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of analytes, comprising a microarray on a substrate, onto which probe molecules are immobilized on array elements, said microarray being disposed on a first surface of the device; and a detection chamber formed between the first surface including the microarray disposed thereon and a second surface, wherein the distance between the microarray and the second surface is variable, and wherein the second surface has a displacement structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich
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Publication number: 20160237482Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of specific interactions between probe and target molecules. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of targets, including: introducing a sample containing targets into a reaction chamber formed between a first surface of the device and a second surface of a device, which is preferably located opposite to the first surface, wherein the distance between the first and the second surface is variable; and detecting the targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Ralf Bickel, Alexandra Dworrak, Thomas Ellinger, Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich
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Patent number: 9367832Abstract: For providing synchronization of image data among diverse devices and applications, exemplary systems include a direct client application providing a user interface operable to allow a user to organize image data according to albums, and to select one or more albums for synchronization with one or more server interfaces that provide various image data manipulation, sharing, and features related thereto. Systems also include an intermediary system to assist in synchronization of select albums with handheld devices, and a notification server to provide scalable notifications of album updates made at server interfaces by users. Exemplary methods include steps providing for selection, from direct client applications, of albums to synchronize with devices, including handheld devices, and various steps of providing updates and notifications among appropriate system components.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Joseph J. Martin, Venkatachary Srinivasan, Jerald J. Singh, Marco Boerries, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: 9310291Abstract: The invention relates to a reaction vessel, a device and a method for detecting specific interactions between molecular target and probe molecules. The present invention especially relates to a reaction vessel which has a shape and size typical of a laboratory reaction vessel and in which a supporting element with probe molecules immobilized thereon on predetermined regions is arranged on its base surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: CLONDIAG CHIP TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Torsten Schulz, Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Ehricht, Klaus-Peter Möbius, Gerd Wagner, Joachim Fischer, Thomas Ellinger
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Patent number: 9210557Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards SMS-initiated mobile registration. A mobile device sends an SMS message to a mobile registration device. In response, the mobile registration device generates a random identifier and associates it with the mobile device identifier of the mobile device. Then, the mobile registration device sends a response SMS message to the mobile device, the response SMS message containing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to a mobile registration web page, where the URI contains the generated random identifier. The mobile device uses the URI to navigate to the mobile registration web page, where additional registration information is provided. The mobile registration device associates the additional registration information with the mobile device based on the generated random identifier included in the URI, and creates a user account based on the mobile number from which the SMS message was received and the additional registration information.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Rahim Ismail Adatia, Iain Andrew Huxley, Alexander Nickolas Linde, Torsten Schulz, Travis Scott Young
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Publication number: 20150284785Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of analytes. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of analytes, comprising a microarray on a substrate, onto which probe molecules are immobilized on array elements, said microarray being disposed on a first surface of the device; and a detection chamber formed between the first surface including the microarray disposed thereon and a second surface, wherein the distance between the microarray and the second surface is variable, and wherein the second surface has a displacement structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2014Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich
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Patent number: 9097671Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones are disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Inventors: Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Uhlig, Klaus Peter Möbius, Alexander von Schenk zu Schweinsberg
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Publication number: 20150198604Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Jens Tuchscheerer, Vico Baier, Torsten Schulz, Anke Wostemeyer
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Publication number: 20150197822Abstract: A device comprising a rigid substrate, a flexible cover element at least partially covering the substrate, a first structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and adapted for releasing contents of one or more cells, spores, or viruses, the contents including the target molecules, a second structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and comprising at least one binding member adapted for capturing the target molecules and for determining a value indicative of the presence and/or amount of the target molecules, a micro fluidic network interconnecting at least the first structure and the second structure, and an actuator member adapted for effecting a fluid flow between the first structure and the second structure by pressing the flexible cover element against the substrate to selectively close a portion of the micro fluidic network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Katrin Steinmetzer, Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Ullrich
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Publication number: 20150177231Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Thomas Kaiser, Klaus-Peter Möbius, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Uhlig, Alexander Von Schenk Zu Schweinsberg, Eugen Ermantraut, Jens Tuchscheerer
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Patent number: 8969043Abstract: Biopharmaceutical process development with recombinant protein producing mammalian cells has realized a tremendous increase in both productivity and product yields in the past years. These achievements can be mainly attributed to the advancements in cell line development, media, and process optimization. Only recently, genome-scale technologies enable a system-level analysis to elucidate the complex biomolecular basis of protein production in mammalian cells promising an increased process understanding and the deduction of knowledge-based approaches for further process optimization. The present invention describes a method for a rational cell culturing process using such a knowledge-based approach.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbHInventors: Jochen Schaub, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: 8916348Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of specific interactions between probe and target molecules. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of targets, including: introducing a sample containing targets into a reaction chamber formed between a first surface of the device and a second surface of a device, which is preferably located opposite to the first surface, wherein the distance between the first and the second surface is variable; and detecting the targets.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Ralf Bickel, Alexandra Dworrak, Thomas Ellinger, Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich
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Patent number: 8906303Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Jens Tuchscheerer, Vico Baier, Torsten Schulz, Anke Wöstemeyer
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Patent number: 8846313Abstract: A device comprising a rigid substrate, a flexible cover element at least partially covering the substrate, a first structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and adapted for releasing contents of one or more cells, spores, or viruses, the contents including the target molecules, a second structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and comprising at least one binding member adapted for capturing the target molecules and for determining a value indicative of the presence and/or amount of the target molecules, a micro fluidic network interconnecting at least the first structure and the second structure, and an actuator member adapted for effecting a fluid flow between the first structure and the second structure by pressing the flexible cover element against the substrate to selectively close a portion of the micro fluidic network.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Katrin Steinmetzer, Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Ullrich
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Patent number: 8828741Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the detection of analytes. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of analytes, comprising a microarray on a substrate, onto which probe molecules are immobilized on array elements, said microarray being disposed on a first surface of the device; and a detection chamber formed between the first surface including the microarray disposed thereon and a second surface, wherein the distance between the microarray and the second surface is variable, and wherein the second surface has a displacement structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich
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Publication number: 20140148365Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones are disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Uhlig, Klaus Peter Moubius, Alexander Von Schenk Zu Schweinsberg
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Publication number: 20140099731Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Thomas Kaiser, Klaus-Peter Möbius, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Uhlig, Alexander Von Schenk Zu Schweinsberg, Eugen Ermantraut, Jens Tuchscheerer
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Patent number: 8633013Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Thomas Kaiser, Klaus-Peter Möbius, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Uhlig, Alexander Von Schenk Zu Schweinsberg, Eugen Ermantraut, Jens Tuchscheerer
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Publication number: 20130316334Abstract: A method for the transformation of material (e.g. plastic material) into an optically modulating state via laser radiation is described. The optically modulating state may be a state in which light is emitted at a different wavelength than it is absorbed. The plastic material to may be a thermoplastic or elastomeric material, or an organic polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polycarbonate and polycycloolefin. The laser radiation may comprise the application of an amount of energy of about 0.1 nJoule/?m2 to about 100 ?Joule/?m2 and/or may comprise a radiation of a wavelength of about 355 nm to about 1064 nm. The optically modulating state of the plastic material may absorb light in a wavelength spectrum of about 380 nm to about 540 nm and/or a wavelength spectrum of about 635 nm to about 655 nm. The optically modulating state of the plastic material may emit light in a wavelength spectrum of about 550 nm to about 800 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: ALERE TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Torsten Schulz, Daniel Weicherding
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Publication number: 20130295657Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of particles. In particular, the invention relates to devices for the detection of particles, comprising a reaction chamber formed within a chamber body between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and one or more displacers, wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable via the one or more displacers at least in one or more parts of the surface area of the first surface and/or second surface. The invention also relates to corresponding methods for the detection of particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich, Jens Tuchscheerer