Patents by Inventor Ian B. Shine

Ian B. Shine 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).

  • Biological cell parameter change test method and apparatus
    Patent number: 4278936
    Abstract: By subjecting cells, such as blood cells, tissue cells, and bone marrow cells, to hypotonic solutions having different osmolalities, the cells will rapidly attain a change in volume and electrical resistance parameters, which change is measurable, for example, by a Coulter Counter.RTM. particle measuring instrument. The relationship between change in cell resistance or cell volume and osmolality provides a discriminator between normality, different diseases, and certain inherited differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Coulter Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian B. Shine
  • Method and apparatus for the detection of beta thalassaemia minor
    Patent number: 4159895
    Abstract: Method and automatic, electronic apparatus for detecting carriers of thalassaemia, especially beta thalassaemia minor, which involve measuring the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and the mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) of a blood sample from the subject. A descriminant preferably defined as the product (MCV).sup.2 MCH, the thalassaemia index is obtained and compared with a predetermined thalassaemia index threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignee: Coulter Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian B. Shine