Patents by Inventor Steffen Strobel

Steffen Strobel 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).

  • Publication number: 20120230918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-invasive method of determining the presence, quantifying the blood level, and/or monitoring or determining the blood clearance of a fluorescent analyte which comprises a fluorescent entity and a second entity, in the blood of a subject, comprising or consisting of the steps: (a) directing excitation light of at least one predetermined wavelength onto a delineated region comprising at least a portion of the pupil of said subject, to excite the fluorescent entity, (b) receiving light emitted from said fluorescent analyte with a wavelength distinguishable from the predetermined wavelength of (a), through the eye of said subject, thereby determining the presence, quantifying the blood level, and/or monitoring or determining the blood clearance of said fluorescent analyte in the blood of said subject. The present invention further relates to a fluorescent analyte or fluorescent label as defined in any one of the preceding claims for use in any one of the preceding methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La-Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dobosz, Werner Scheuer, Steffen Strobel