Patents by Inventor Gary W. Procop

Gary W. Procop 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).

  • METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING BACTEREMIA AND FUNGEMI
    Publication number: 20130217024
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing bacteremia and/or fungemia can include the steps of obtaining a blood sample from the subject, contacting the blood sample with a lysing agent under conditions in which both red and white blood cells are lysed in the blood sample and bacterial and/or fungal cells remain intact, extracting bacterial and/or fungal nucleic acids from bacterial and/or fungal cells in the blood sample (respectively), and detecting the presence of bacterial and/or fungal nucleic acids in the blood sample, wherein the presence of bacterial and/or fungal nucleic acids in the blood sample is indicative of the subject having bacteremia and/or fungemia, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Gary W. Procop
  • System and method for nucleotide sequence profiling for sample identification
    Patent number: 8101353
    Abstract: The invention includes a method of sample profiling for identification. The method includes the steps of performing less than four nucleotide-specific chemical cleavage reactions to obtain nucleotide sequence fragments, performing size separation on the fragments, detecting the fragments' separation, generating a profile based on the detection, and comparing the profile to a data base to identify the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary W. Procop, Wei Wei, Ho-ming Pang
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE PROFILING FOR SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION
    Publication number: 20100209908
    Abstract: The invention includes a method of sample profiling for identification. The method includes the steps of performing less than four nucleotide-specific chemical cleavage reactions to obtain nucleotide sequence fragments, performing size separation on the fragments, detecting the fragments' separation, generating a profile based on the detection, and comparing the profile to a data base to identify the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Gary W. Procop, Wei Wei, Ho-ming Pang