Patents by Inventor Hamsa Gowda

Hamsa Gowda 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).

  • Portable pathogen analysis system for detecting waterborne pathogens
    Patent number: 10894254
    Abstract: A portable pathogen analysis system (PPAS) designed to detect microbial pathogens at the point-of-sample collection. The system comprises a concentration tube used for the concentration of microbes in large volumes of water samples using super absorbent polymer (SAP) beads and a hand-powered centrifuge; and a processing component, which functions as a portable lab-on-a-disc droplet digital nucleic acid amplification system, which integrates DNA extraction, nucleic acid amplification, and post-amplicon analysis in a single unit. The present invention provides a fast, cost-effective, and user-friendly solution for microbial water quality analysis in low-resource settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sunny Jiang, Hamsa Gowda, Xiao Huang, Xunyi Wu, Marc Madou, Michael R. Hoffmann
  • PORTABLE PATHOGEN ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR DETECTING WATERBORNE PATHOGENS
    Publication number: 20190105653
    Abstract: A portable pathogen analysis system (PPAS) designed to detect microbial pathogens at the point-of-sample collection. The system comprises a concentration tube used for the concentration of microbes in large volumes of water samples using super absorbent polymer (SAP) beads and a hand-powered centrifuge; and a processing component, which functions as a portable lab-on-a-disc droplet digital nucleic acid amplification system, which integrates DNA extraction, nucleic acid amplification, and post-amplicon analysis in a single unit. The present invention provides a fast, cost-effective, and user-friendly solution for microbial water quality analysis in low-resource settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Sunny Jiang, Hamsa Gowda, Xiao Huang, Xunyi Wu, Marc Madou, Michael R. Hoffmann