Patents by Inventor Peter M. Ravdin

Peter M. Ravdin 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).

  • Method for predicting the future occurrence of clinically occult or non-existent medical conditions
    Patent number: 5862304
    Abstract: A method is presented for evaluating data to predict the future occurrence of a medical condition that is presently clinically occult or which has not yet occurred. Specifically, the method uses a neural network to analyze and interpret DNA flow cytometric histograms. A first set of DNA histograms taken from tumors from patients having known relapse rates are used to train the neural network, an then the trained network is applied to predict the relapse rates of patients using DNA histograms of tumors from those patients. Prognosis according to this method can be performed using only diploid histograms, using only aneuploid histograms, or using a combination of diploid and aneuploid histograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Peter M. Ravdin, William L. McGuire, Gary M. Clark