Patents by Inventor Teresa Coons

Teresa Coons 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).

  • Metal ion monitoring system
    Patent number: 5354996
    Abstract: A metal ion detection and quantification system in which the displacement of a radioactive isotope from a material that binds both the metal ion of interest and the radioactive isotope. The material in question binds the radioactive isotope with less force than the isotope of interest. The extent of release of the radioactive isotope is used to determine the concentration of the metal ion of interest. In one embodiment of the invention, the material used to bind the metal ion and radioactive ion is a protein of the metallothionein class of proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Permacharge Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Griffith, Teresa A. Coons, Jack E. Floegel
  • Efficient cell fusion process
    Patent number: 4806476
    Abstract: Cell fusion is induced between tumor cells that do not secrete a desired protein and mammalian cells or microcells derived from mammalian cells which secrete the desired protein, by substantially removing at least calcium ions to destabilize the cell membranes, adding a fusogen to the destabilized cells, and then adding back polyvalent cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Lovelace Medical Foundation
    Inventors: Teresa Coons, Barry Avner