Patents by Inventor Robert Hector

Robert Hector 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).

  • Patent number: 9790557
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods that find use in determining a likelihood of adverse prostate cancer pathology in a subject. The methods generally involve detection of one or more diagnostic microRNAs (miRNAs), such as mir-19a, mir-19b, mir-519c-5p, and/or mir-345 in a biological sample from the subject, such as blood or blood product. The detection of one or more such diagnostic miRNAs can be used to determine a likelihood of adverse prostate cancer pathology in a subject. The methods of the present disclosure also find use in facilitating treatment decisions for a subject. Also provided are devices, systems, and kits that may be used in practicing methods of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Robert Hector Blelloch, Siao-Yi Wang
  • Publication number: 20150211077
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods that find use in determining a likelihood of adverse prostate cancer pathology in a subject. The methods generally involve detection of one or more diagnostic microRNAs (miRNAs), such as mir-19a, mir-19b, mir-519c-5p, and/or mir-345 in a biological sample from the subject, such as blood or blood product. The detection of one or more such diagnostic miRNAs can be used to determine a likelihood of adverse prostate cancer pathology in a subject. The methods of the present disclosure also find use in facilitating treatment decisions for a subject. Also provided are devices, systems, and kits that may be used in practicing methods of the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Hector Blelloch, Siao-Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 8027907
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing pre-trade activity. In general, a distribution of information about what traders and customers want to do may be known. Users may be made aware of trade ideas that can be proposed to a trading desk's buy-side clients. Relevant information on the trading desk may be brought together, and the information may be processed through a set of rules that extract trading opportunities. On the buy side, trade ideas may be extracted without having to have the intervention of a sell-side salesforce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Codestreet LLC
    Inventors: Edward Guttman, Mark Pollack, Jim Perrello, Jawaid Hakim, Robert Hector, Howard Pein
  • Publication number: 20080208732
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing pre-trade activity. In general, a distribution of information about what traders and customers want to do may be known. Users may be made aware of trade ideas that can be proposed to a trading desk's buy-side clients. Relevant information on the trading desk may be brought together, and the information may be processed through a set of rules that extract trading opportunities. On the buy side, trade ideas may be extracted without having to have the intervention of a sell-side salesforce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Edward Guttman, Mark Pollack, Jim Perrello, Jawaid Hakim, Robert Hector, Howard Pein