Patents by Inventor Richard P. Harrigan

Richard P. Harrigan 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).

  • Establishment of biological cut-off values for predicting resistance to therapy
    Patent number: 7292944
    Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and systems for improving the accuracy of predicting resistance of a disease to a therapy. In one embodiment of the invention, mean and standard deviation (SD) values of fold change in normalized sensitivity, relative to a laboratory wild type standard pathogen or malignant cell are calculated to demonstrate that the patient samples display inherently different degrees of variation in susceptibility to each therapy. In another embodiment, the 2×SD value for each therapy is used as the cut-off between sensitive (within normal susceptible range) and resistant (above normal susceptible range).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Virco BVBA
    Inventors: Brendan Larder, Richard P. Harrigan, Kurt Hertogs
  • Establishment of biological cut-off values for predicting resistance to therapy
    Publication number: 20040033489
    Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and systems for improving the accuracy of predicting resistance of a disease to a therapy. In one embodiment of the invention, mean and standard deviation (SD) values of fold change in normalized sensitivity, relative to a laboratory wild type standard pathogen or malignant cell are calculated to demonstrate that the patient samples display inherently different degrees of variation in susceptibility to each therapy. In another embodiment, the 2×SD value for each therapy is used as the cut-off between sensitive (within normal susceptible range) and resistant (above normal susceptible range).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Brendan Larder, Richard P Harrigan, Kurt Hertogs