Patents by Inventor Alan O. Kusakabe

Alan O. Kusakabe 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).

  • Scratch wound assay device
    Patent number: 6309818
    Abstract: An apparatus having at least one template opening for causing a substantially reproducible injury to a cell, organ or tissue layer. The apparatus is useful in determining the effects of cell growth and migration agents in model wounds produced in the cell, organ or tissue layer. Also provided are methods of using the apparatus including juxtapositioning the apparatus to cells on a cell growth substrate and disrupting cells thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health & Human Services
    Inventors: Katherine M. Malinda, Alan O. Kusakabe, Annette B. Wysocki, James V. Sullivan