Patents by Inventor Daniel R. Vlock

Daniel R. Vlock 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).

  • System And Method For Detecting Tau Protein In Ocular Tissue
    Publication number: 20210282643
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting in an eye, in particular the retina, of a mammal, tau protein, such as neurofibrillary tangles (NFT). The system and method can use fluorescence imaging in the visible or near-infrared spectral region, for example as a non-invasive method for in vivo imaging of tau protein in ocular tissue. In preferred embodiments, in vivo imaging of tau protein in ocular tissue involves tau-binding compounds such as FDDNP, T807 and T808.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel R. Vlock, Joyce Myers, Dennis J. Nilan, Charles Kerbage
  • Method and apparatus for isolation and purification of immune complexes
    Patent number: 5783087
    Abstract: A system and method for isolating and purifying complexes of biologically active compounds. The inventive system and method utilize a centrifugal filtration device employing a membrane having ligands that preferentially bind a biologically active compound. An advantage of the invention is that purifications of, e.g., immune complexes, which heretofore took up to five days to carry out, may now be done in as little as two hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Millipore Investment Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Daniel R. Vlock, Artin Malakian, Ingeborg Cann