Patents by Inventor Russell Owen Potts

Russell Owen Potts 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).

  • Methods for monitoring a physiological analyte
    Patent number: 6309351
    Abstract: A method for continual monitoring of a physiologic analyte in a subject includes steps of contacting the subject with a collection reservoir such that the analyte can move from the subject into the collection reservoir, the contents of the collection reservoir being in operative communication with a detector, collecting the analyte in the collection reservoir, using the detector to detect the analyte in the collection reservoir, and, once the analyte has been detected, rendering the analyte undetectable by the detector. Also, apparatus for continual monitoring of a physiologic analyte in a subject includes a collection reservoir for receiving the analyte from the subject, the contents of the collection reservoir being in operative relationship with a detector that detects the analyte in the reservoir, and means for rendering the analyte, once detected, undetectable by the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Cygnus, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald T. Kurnik, Janet Tamada, Michael Tierney, Russell Owen Potts
  • Methods for monitoring a physiological analyte
    Patent number: 6299578
    Abstract: A method for continual monitoring of a physiologic analyte in a subject includes steps of contacting the subject with a collection reservoir such that the analyte can move from the subject into the collection reservoir, the contents of the collection reservoir being in operative communication with a detector, collecting the analyte in the collection reservoir, using the detector to detect the analyte in the collection reservoir, and, once the analyte has been detected, rendering the analyte undetectable by the detector. Also, apparatus for continual monitoring of a physiologic analyte in a subject includes a collection reservoir for receiving the analyte from the subject, the contents of the collection reservoir being in operative relationship with a detector that detects the analyte in the reservoir, and means for rendering the analyte, once detected, undetectable by the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Cygnus, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald T. Kurnik, Janet Tamada, Michael Tierney, Russell Owen Potts