Patents by Inventor Ronald R. Forand

Ronald R. Forand 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).

  • Assay process with non-boiling denaturation
    Patent number: 4418151
    Abstract: Competitive protein binding radioassay for sera (or cell) vitamin B.sub.12 and/or serum folate (target components, or analytes) or other target components in liquid ambient utilizing a highly alkaline (pH 12-14) environment and reducing agent for denaturing separating the target component(s) from serum without boiling, consistent with other requirements of such assays, then reducing pH to an 8-10 range for effecting the competitive protein binding after which protein bound and unbound groups of radioactively tagged replicates of the target component(s) can be separated and detected to determine content of the target component(s) in the original serum (or cell), i.e. original endogenous analyte(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Ronald R. Forand, Edward T. Menz, Jr.