Patents by Inventor Erica R. Thaler

Erica R. Thaler 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).

  • Detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of a medical condition or disease with artificial olfactometry
    Patent number: 7819803
    Abstract: Methods and devices for rapid diagnosis and monitoring a patient for disease or effectiveness of treatment in real time. In preferred embodiments, the methods and devices comprise contacting an array of sensors with a sample from a mammal suspected of having a disease to generate a sensor array profile, measuring a clinical diagnostic marker for the suspected disease, and then developing a diagnosis using the sensor array profile in combination with the clinical diagnostic marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Smiths Detection Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy E. Burch, C. William Hanson, III, Erica R. Thaler
  • Detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of a medical condition or disease with artificial olfactometry
    Patent number: 7255677
    Abstract: Methods and devices for rapid diagnosis and monitoring a patient for disease or effectiveness of treatment in real time. In preferred embodiments, the methods and devices comprise contacting an array of sensors with a sample from a mammal suspected of having a disease to generate a sensor array profile, measuring a clinical diagnostic marker for the suspected disease, and then developing a diagnosis using the sensor array profile in combination with the clinical diagnostic marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignees: Smiths Detection Inc., Trustees of University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Timothy E. Burch, C. William Hanson, III, Erica R. Thaler
  • Detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of a medical condition or disease with artificial olfactometry
    Publication number: 20040006257
    Abstract: Methods and devices for rapid diagnosis and monitoring a patient for disease or effectiveness of treatment in real time. In preferred embodiments, the methods and devices comprise contacting an array of sensors with a sample from a mammal suspected of having a disease to generate a sensor array profile, measuring a clinical diagnostic marker for the suspected disease, and then developing a diagnosis using the sensor array profile in combination with the clinical diagnostic marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: Cyrano Sciences Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy E. Burch, C. William Hanson, Erica R. Thaler
  • Diagnosing intrapulmonary infection and analyzing nasal sample
    Patent number: 6461306
    Abstract: The presence of a pathologic process in a lung of a mammal is detected by applying exhaled gas of a mammal to an electronic nose (12). Data derived from the electronic nose (12) is used to determine whether a pathologic process is present in the lung of the mammal. The pathologic process may also be a lung infection such as pneumonia. Also, a mammalian fluid sample obtained from the sinus or nose is applied to an electronic nose (12) to determine if the fluid sample contains significant amounts of cebrospinal fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: C. William Hanson, III, Erica R. Thaler