Patents by Inventor Tomas DePaoli

Tomas DePaoli 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).

  • Method for extracting and purifying pulmonary surfactant
    Patent number: 6172203
    Abstract: It is obtained a chloroform solution that contains liposubles lipids and proteins extracted by means of a bronchio-alveolar washing of pigs, cows or sheep with slightly hypertonic solution. From the lyophilization of such chloroform solution it is obtained a product resuspensible in physiological solution that constitutes the exogenous pulmonary surfactant utilized in pulmonary therapeutics and also for the clinic research of the pulmonary function when it is associated with radionucleus, in particular with 99 mTc for pulmonary centellography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Inventors: Alfredo Adolfo Hager, Tomas DePaoli