Patents by Inventor Steven Petrou

Steven Petrou 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 of Treatment, and Diagnosis of Epilepsy by Detecting Mutations in the SCN1A Gene
    Publication number: 20100088778
    Abstract: A method for the diagnosis of an epilepsy syndrome, including SMEI or an SMEI-related syndrome, in a patient comprising testing for an alteration in the SCN1A gene in a sample obtained from the patient; and if an alteration is identified, comparing said alteration to any one of those listed in Table 3, wherein if said alteration is identical to any one of those listed in Table 3, a diagnosis of an epilepsy syndrome, including SMEI or an SMEI-related syndrome, in said patient is made in accordance with the correlation set forth in Table 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: John Charles Mulley, Louise Harkin, Samuel Frank Berkovic, Ingrid Eileen Scheffer, Steven Petrou
  • Methods for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy
    Publication number: 20040229257
    Abstract: A method for the diagnosis of SMEI in a patient comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Steven Petrou, Samuel Frank Berkovic, Ingrid Eileen Scheffer