Patents by Inventor Donald McNAUGHTON

Donald McNAUGHTON 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 rapid parasite detection
    Patent number: 10458914
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Monash University, University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Bayden Robert Wood, Aazam Khoshmanesh, Matthew Dixon, Leann Tilley, Donald McNaughton
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPID PARASITE DETECTION
    Publication number: 20180266948
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Bayden Robert WOOD, Aazam KHOSHMANESH, Matthew DIXON, Leann TILLEY, Donald MCNAUGHTON
  • Method and system for rapid malaria detection
    Patent number: 9983130
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: Monash University, University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Bayden Robert Wood, Aazam Khoshmanesh, Matthew Dixon, Leann Tilley, Donald McNaughton
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPID MALARIA DETECTION
    Publication number: 20170167976
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Bayden Robert WOOD, Aazam KHOSHMANESH, Matthew DIXON, Leann TILLEY, Donald McNAUGHTON