Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Flehr Hohabch Test Albritton & Herbert LLP
  • Binding acceleration techniques for the detection of analytes
    Patent number: 6264825
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the acceleration of binding of target analytes to capture ligands on surfaces. Detection proceeds through the use of an electron transfer moiety (ETM) that is associated with the target analyte, either directly or indirectly, to allow electronic detection of the ETM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Clinical Micro Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Blackburn, Stephen E. Creager, Scott Fraser, Bruce D. Irvine, Thomas J. Meade, Stephen D. O'Connor, Robert H. Terbrueggen, Jost G. Vielmetter, Thomas W. Welch
  • Altered polypeptides with increased half-life
    Patent number: 6121022
    Abstract: Polypeptides that are cleared from the kidney and do not contain in their original form a Fc region of an IgG are altered so as to comprise a salvage receptor binding epitope of an Fc region of an IgG and thereby have increased circulatory half-life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Presta, Bradley R. Snedecor