Patents by Inventor Ian R. Hurley

Ian R. Hurley 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 predicting increase sperm ejaculate in a varicocele associated fertility patient
    Patent number: 7413861
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for predicting whether a patient having varicocele-associated infertility will have an increase in sperm in the ejaculate after varicocele repair surgery. In the method of the present invention, the present or absence of undelete forms of exons 6, 7, 8 and 9 the patient's L-VDCC ?1c transcript is detected. The presence of undeleted forms of the exons indicates that varicocele repair surgery will result in increased ejaculate, and the absence of undeleted forms of the exons indicates that varicocele repair surgery will not result in increased ejaculate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
    Inventors: Susan Benoff, Ian R. Hurley, Robert G. Pergolizzi, Leslie Goodwin
  • Oligonucleotides for detecting male infertility
    Patent number: 6833244
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, oligonucleotide probes and primers, and assay kits for diagnosing an individual as having hypospermatogenesis associated infertility that involves demonstrating in the individual the presence or absence of a variant form of a gene in exons 6, 7, 8 or 9 of the L-VDCC &agr;1c transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: North Shore - Long Island Jewish Research Institute
    Inventors: Susan Benoff, Ian R. Hurley, Robert G. Pergolizzi, Leslie Goodwin