Patents by Inventor George Hess

George Hess 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).

  • GDF-15 and/or Troponin T for Predicting Kidney Failure in Heart Surgery Patients
    Publication number: 20200200771
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of laboratory diagnostics. Specifically, means and methods are disclosed for determining a patient's risk of suffering from acute kidney injury after a surgical procedure based on the detection of GDF-15, troponin T and/or a natriuretic peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Andrea Horsch, Dietmar Zdunek, George Hess
  • GDF-15 and/or Troponin T for Predicting Kidney Failure in Heart Surgery Patients
    Publication number: 20160109464
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of laboratory diagnostics. Specifically, means and methods are disclosed for determining a patient's risk of suffering from acute kidney injury after a surgical procedure based on the detection of GDF-15, troponin T and/or a natriuretic peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Andrea Horsch, Dietmar Zdunek, George Hess
  • Protecting group for carboxylic acids that can be photolyzed by visible light
    Publication number: 20070243519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photolabile compound including a coumarin family caging group covalently bound to an organic moiety containing a carboxyl group, an amino group, a sulfhydryl group, and/or a hydroxyl group. The photolabile compound, upon absorbing visible light, releases the organic moiety. Also disclosed is a method of making a photolabile compound that releases a biologically active compound upon absorbing visible light by providing an organic moiety and binding a coumarin family caging group to the organic moiety under conditions effective to make the photolabile compound. The present invention also relates to a method of obtaining a biologically active compound in a sample. The method involves adding to a sample a photolabile compound including a coumarin family caging group covalently bound to an organic moiety. The sample is then illuminated with visible light under conditions effective to obtain a biologically active compound including the organic moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: George Hess, Barry Carpenter, Vishakha Shembekar, Yongli Chen
  • Method of producing an acylated derivative of an epoxy fatty acid ester or epoxy natural oil
    Patent number: 4118405
    Abstract: An improved method of producing an acylated derivative of an epoxy fatty acid ester or epoxy natural oil, by reacting the epoxy fatty acid ester or epoxy natural oil with a vinyl aliphatic monocarboxylic acid in contact with a catalyst, a polymerization inhibitor and gaseous oxygen, the improvement of adding the monocarboxylic acid, or the acylation catalyst or a mixture of the monocarboxylic acid and the acylation catalyst, to a reaction mixture at an elevated temperature and maintaining an elevated temperature until completion of the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Leonard Edward Hodakowski, Lawrence George Hess
  • Viscosity stabilization of vicinal acryloxy hydroxyl derivatives of linseed oil with N-alkylmorpholines
    Patent number: 4045394
    Abstract: N-Alkylmorpholines are used as viscosity stabilizers in vicinal acryloxy hydroxyl derivatives of linseed oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence George Hess