Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Nemcek

Thomas A. Nemcek 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).

  • Apparatus and method for electrophysiological testing
    Patent number: 7011939
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for running a plurality of tests concurrently to obtain data relating to the electrophysiological properties of receptors and channels in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, Xenopus oocytes. The invention further provides software for controlling, acquiring, and recording data relating to electrophysiological properties of receptors and channels in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, oocytes. This invention increases the throughput rate for experiments and assays employing receptors and ion channels expressed in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, oocytes. In the case of an oocyte, these receptors and channels may be natively expressed (endogenous), may be placed into the oocyte (exogenous), or may be expressed from other RNA or DNA previously placed into the oocyte (exogenous).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Trumbull, Daniel C. Bertrand, Clark A. Briggs, David G. McKenna, Eugene S. Maslana, David P. Blanchard, Jeffrey Y. Pan, Peter Bojan, Thomas A. Nemcek
  • Method for using a blank matrix in a continuous format high throughput screening process
    Publication number: 20040058327
    Abstract: A method for testing a multiplicity of chemical entities for the ability of these chemical entities to enhance or inhibit a biological process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Jeffrey Y. Pan, Thomas A. Nemcek, Carlos Gonzalez, Eugene S. Maslana, Reza S. Sabet, Jennifer B. Donnelly, David J. Burns, Duncan R. Groebe, Usha Warrior
  • Apparatus for pretreating a sample containing an analyte
    Publication number: 20020085958
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container having internal projections capable of exerting compressive, frictional, or other forces on a sample-collecting device and sample before detecting an analyte in the sample. The invention can be used whenever detecting an analyte in a sample is improved or made possible by first changing the physical or chemical properties of the sample or analyte in a pretreatment step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas A. Nemcek, John Brian Barclay, Jovo Dragicevic, Paul Leonard Eck, David Henry Gement, Seymour Greenfield, Michelle Petra Haddon, Michael James Nolan, Steven Louis Strang, Stephen Melamed, Vincent Shine, Peter Langmar, Laura A. Ferrario, Luc Heiligenstein
  • Apparatus and method for electophysiological testing
    Publication number: 20010029320
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for running a plurality of tests concurrently to obtain data relating to the electrophysiological properties of receptors and channels in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, Xenopus oocytes. The invention further provides software for controlling, acquiring, and recording data relating to electrophysiological properties of receptors and channels in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, oocytes. This invention increases the throughput rate for experiments and assays employing receptors and ion channels expressed in biological membranes of test subjects, such as, for example, oocytes. In the case of an oocyte, these receptors and channels may be natively expressed (endogenous), may be placed into the oocyte (exogenous), or may be expressed from other RNA or DNA previously placed into the oocyte (exogenous).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Trumbull, Daniel C. Bertrand, Clark A. Briggs, David G. McKenna, Eugene S. Maslana, David P. Blanchard, Jeffrey Y. Pan, Peter Bojan, Thomas A. Nemcek