Patents by Inventor William Anthony Sanderson

William Anthony Sanderson 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).

  • Sonodynamic therapy using an ultrasound sensitizer compound
    Patent number: 6498945
    Abstract: A method of treatment of a human or animal body by sonodynamic therapy in which a sensitizer agent is administered to the body and the body is exposed to ultrasound to achieve a cytopathogenic effect at a site therein, wherein the said sensitizer agent is a physiologically tolerable substance which is capable of enhancing the cytopathogenic efficacy of said sonodynamic therapy. Preferably, the sensitizer agent is a water-soluble polymer compound or a conjugate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jan Alan Alfheim, Paul Mark Henrichs, Eric Paul Hohenschuh, Edvin Wilheim Johannesen, William Anthony Sanderson, Robert Allen Snow
  • Compounds
    Patent number: 6350431
    Abstract: This invention provides a physiologically tolerable light imaging contrast agent compound having a molecular weight in the range 500 to 5000000 and containing at least two chromophores having delocalized electron systems as well as at least one polyalkylene oxide (PAO) moiety having a molecular weight in the range 60 to 100000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Robert Allen Snow, Paul Mark Henrichs, Daniel Joseph Delecki, William Anthony Sanderson, Vinay Chandrakant Desai, Edward Bacon, Kenneth Robert Hollister, Eric Paul Hohenschuh