Patents by Inventor Dirk Jacobs

Dirk Jacobs 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).

  • Synchronous drive belt element
    Publication number: 20040075014
    Abstract: The invention concerns an adhesive tape for flying reel changes having a backing layer and adhesive layers coated on both sides of said backing layer. The adhesive tape has a cleavage means provided substantially transverse to at least said backing layer, thereby dividing said backing layer into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the one adhesive layer is not effective in the area of the second portion and the other adhesive layer is not effective in the area of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Dirk Jacobs, Greet Bossaert, Walter Eevers, Yutaka Kuwabara
  • Toxoplasma gondii antigen Tg20
    Patent number: 6172192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated and pure Toxoplasma gondii antigenic fragments, recombinant polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding them, primers and probes derived from the same, as well as the use of these polypeptides, nucleic acids, primers and probes in methods and kits for the diagnosis and prevention of T. gondii infection in mammals (humans and animals).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Innogenetics N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Jacobs, Eric Saman, Hugo Van Heuverswyn