Patents by Inventor Merlise Clyde

Merlise Clyde 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).

  • System and method for analyzing antibiotic susceptibility of biological samples using redox and turbidity measurments to ascertain minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs)
    Patent number: 6849422
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing samples, such as biological samples, to accurately and effectively determine the susceptibility of the samples to antimicrobial materials, so as to determine minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values for the respective samples and antimicrobial materials. At each of a plurality of time intervals, the system and method directs a plurality of different analyzing light wavelengths, such as red, green and blue wavelengths, onto each of a plurality of sample wells, and detects a respective resultant light wavelength emanating from the respective sample wells for each of the analyzing light wavelengths. The system and method uses resultant light wavelengths to generate at least two growth indicator characteristic curves representing, for example, the redox state and turbidity characteristics of the sample wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Timothy M. Wiles, David J. Turner, Michael A. O'Connell, Giovanni Parmigiani, Merlise Clyde
  • System and method for analyzing antibiotic susceptibility of biological samples
    Publication number: 20040063168
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing samples, such as biological samples, to accurately and effectively determine the susceptibility of the samples to antimicrobial materials, so as to determine minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values for the respective samples and antimicrobial materials. At each of a plurality of time intervals, the system and method directs a plurality of different analyzing light wavelengths, such as red, green and blue wavelengths, onto each of a plurality of sample wells, and detects a respective resultant light wavelength emanating from the respective sample wells for each of the analyzing light wavelengths. The system and method uses resultant light wavelengths to generate at least two growth indicator characteristic curves representing, for example, the redox state and turbidity characteristics of the sample wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy M. Wiles, David J. Turner, Michael A. O'Connell, Giovanni Parmigiani, Merlise Clyde