Patents by Inventor Thomas Doedt

Thomas Doedt 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).

  • Cell- or virus simulating means comprising encapsulated marker molecules
    Patent number: 10221445
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method, a composition and a kit for isolating biomolecules from any biological sample material containing cells, virus(es), microorganism(s) or a combination thereof comprising a cell- or virus-simulating means, wherein said cell- or virus-simulating means comprises at least one type of marker molecule(s), incorporated in at least one type of a layer, capsule, bead, sphere or particle, which is not a biological cell or provided on a substrate covered by a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: QIAGEN GmbH, QIAGEN Hamburg GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Beller, Thomas Doedt, Dirk Heckel, Rainer Söller
  • Method for selectively enriching and isolating microbial and optionally additional viral nucleic acids
    Patent number: 9012146
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selectively enriching and/or isolating microbial and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids from samples that contain a mixture of microbial cells, freely circulating nucleic acids and higher eukaryotic cells, and optionally additionally viruses, in a liquid, and to a kit for selectively enriching and/or isolating intracellular and extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids, from samples that contain a mixture of microbial and higher eukaryotic cells, freely circulating nucleic acids, in particular extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viruses in a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: QIAGEN GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Heckel, Thomas Doedt
  • CELL- OR VIRUS SIMULATING MEANS COMPRISING ENCAPSULATED MARKER MOLECULES
    Publication number: 20140248606
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method, a composition and a kit for isolating biomolecules from any biological sample material containing cells, virus(es), microorganism(s) or a combination thereof comprising a cell- or virus-simulating means, wherein said cell- or virus-simulating means comprises at least one type of marker molecule(s), incorporated in at least one type of a layer, capsule, bead, sphere or particle, which is not a biological cell or provided on a substrate covered by a coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicants: QIAGEN HAMBURG GMBH, QIAGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Katharina Beller, Thomas Doedt, Dirk Heckel, Rainer Söller
  • METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY ENRICHING AND ISOLATING MICROBIAL AND OPTIONALLY ADDITIONAL VIRAL NUCLEIC ACIDS
    Publication number: 20120231446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selectively enriching and/or isolating microbial and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids from samples that contain a mixture of microbial cells, freely circulating nucleic acids and higher eukaryotic cells, and optionally additionally viruses, in a liquid, and to a kit for selectively enriching and/or isolating intracellular and extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids, from samples that contain a mixture of microbial and higher eukaryotic cells, freely circulating nucleic acids, in particular extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viruses in a liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: QIAGEN GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Heckel, Thomas Doedt