Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Prieto

Thomas E. Prieto 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: 20090054955
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating neurological disorders by light stimulation are disclosed herein. A brain neuroillumination system includes an implantable housing; a control unit carried by the implantable housing; a neuroillumination delivery device including at least one light emission site; at least one light source operatively coupled to the control unit and optically coupled to the at least one light emission site; and a near infrared spectroscopy unit coupled to the control unit, wherein the near infrared spectroscopy unit is configures to detect an optical signal corresponding to at least one from the group of a cytochrome oxidase state and a hemoglobin oxygenation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Brian H. Kopell, Harry T. Whelan, Thomas E. Prieto, Mark S. Geisler
  • Patent number: 4657655
    Abstract: An apparatus for electrophoretically separating, visualizing and photographing DNA fragments in agarose gels, the apparatus including an electrophoresis chamber havng a platform and an electrode located on each side of the platform, a transilluminator having a UV light source, a frame defining a viewing opening over said light source, and a UV filtering cover for enclosing said viewing opening, a tray having movable gates for defining an enclosure for the agarose gel in one position and for locating the tray on the platform in the chamber in the other position, and a camera assembly adapted to be mounted on the frame in the transilluminator for providing 1:1 magnification photographs of the DNA fragment migration patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Fotodyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Smoot, Richard K. Vitek, William R. Gette, Thomas E. Prieto