Patents by Inventor Sandra K. Dusing

Sandra K. Dusing 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).

  • Immunodeficiency virus neutralization assay
    Patent number: 5474894
    Abstract: A method for assaying the ability of an antibody to neutralize primary clinical isolates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in primary human lymphocytes comprising the steps of contacting primary human lymphocytes with HIV and an antibody sample to be tested, without preincubating the antibody sample and the virus, culturing the primary human lymphocytes under conditions which allow for HIV replication without removal of the virus inoculum or antibody samples to be tested, and measuring HIV replication in the primary human lymphocytes by one or more of several conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Quality Biological, Inc.
    Inventor: Sandra K. Dusing