Patents by Inventor Daniel Kittrich

Daniel Kittrich 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).

  • Method and system for classifying agglutination reactions
    Patent number: 5768407
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing a solution for an agglutination pattern. The method comprises the steps of producing an illuminated image of the solution on an array of pixels, and assigning to each pixel in the illuminated image, a data value representing the intensity of the illuminated image on the pixel. Those data values are then processed according to a predetermined program to determine if an agglutination pattern is present and, if so, to classify that pattern into one of a plurality of predefined classes. With the preferred processing procedure, the pixel array is separated into a plurality of zones, and the data values for the pixels in each zone are processed according to a respective predetermined procedure to determine values for a predefined set of variables. Then, those determined values are processed to determine whether an agglutination pattern is present in the solution, and if so, to classify that pattern into one of the predefined classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Shen, Mykola Yaremko, Rosemary Chachowski, Josef Atzler, Thierry Dupinet, Daniel Kittrich, Hansjoerg Kunz, Karl Puchegger, Reiner Rohlfs
  • Method and system for classifying agglutination reactions
    Patent number: 5594808
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing a solution for an agglutination pattern. The method comprises the steps of producing an illustrated image of the solution on an array of pixels, and assigning to each pixel in the illuminated image, a data value representing the intensity of the illuminated image on the pixel. Those data values are then processed according to a predetermined program to determine if an agglutination pattern is present and, if so, to classify that pattern into one of a plurality of predefined classes. With the preferred processing procedure, the pixel array is separated into a plurality of zones, and the data values for the pixels in each zone are processed according to a respective predetermined procedure to determine values for a predefined set of variables. Then, those determined values are processed to determine whether an agglutination pattern is present in the solution, and if so, to classify that pattern into one of the predefined classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Shen, Mykola Yaremko, Rosemary Chachowski, Josef Atzler, Thierry Dupinet, Daniel Kittrich, Hansjoerg Kunz, Karl Puchegger, Reiner Rohlfs