Patents by Inventor Bruce Caswell

Bruce Caswell 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).

  • Publication number: 20110289043
    Abstract: The invention in some aspects relates to methods, devices and compositions for evaluating material properties, such as mechanical and rheological properties of substances, particularly biological substances, such as cells, tissues, and biological fluids. In some aspects, the invention relates to methods, devices and compositions for evaluating material properties of deformable objects, such as cells. In further aspects, the invention relates to methods, devices and compositions for diagnosing and/or characterizing disease based on material properties of biological cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicants: Brown University Research Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Subra Suresh, George E. Karniadakis, Bruce Caswell, Igor V. Pivkin, Dmitry Fedosov, David J. Quinn, Ming Dao