Patents by Inventor Felix Grases Freixedas

Felix Grases Freixedas 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).

  • Patent number: 6027939
    Abstract: A process is provided for evaluating the global capacity of urine to form chalky renal calculus, the process comprising the steps of pouring a sample of a recently discharged urine into a container plate bearing, on its inner bottom portion, a cup containing a reaction substrate capable of initiating crystallization of calcium in the sample, allowing the sample to rest; discarding the sample from the container plate, washing the container plate with bidistilled water and discarding the water, adding a diluted HCl solution (2.3N) and spreading it over the entire surface of the substrate contained in the cup, adding an aqueous sodium acetate solution (5% w/v) and an indicating solution of ARSENAZO III (0.1% w/v) and mixing the acetate solution and the indicating solution for 15 seconds, to obtain a stained reaction mixture which can be qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated. A kit for carrying out this process is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Universidad de Las Islas Baleares
    Inventors: Felix Grases Freixedas, Joan Gabriel March Isern, Antonia Costa Bauza, Laura Garcia Ferragut