Patents by Inventor Kathleen Corrado

Kathleen Corrado 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).

  • DNA-Based Method for Forensic Identification of Controlled Substances Using Plant DNA Markers
    Publication number: 20170159134
    Abstract: A method for determining the presence or absence of an illicit plant-derived compound in a sample. The method includes the steps of: (i) providing a sample potentially containing an illicit plant-derived compound; (ii) extracting DNA in the illicit plant-derived compound from the identified sample; (iii) amplifying, using PCR, the target plant DNA sequence from the extracted DNA; and (iv) detecting an amplified target plant DNA sequence, where detection of the amplified target plant DNA sequence indicates the presence of the illicit plant-derived compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: David Knaebel, Kathleen Corrado, Michael Marciano