Patents by Inventor Wade R. Stevenson

Wade R. Stevenson 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).

  • Patent number: 7630837
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid quantification kit and method for determining the initial concentration or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid present in a sample. Illustrative embodiments include real-time competitive quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the copy number or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample and use of a thermodynamically based signal processing algorithm, with or without PCR, to provide mass fraction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignees: Idaho Technology, Inc., University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: David J. Eyre, Randy P. Rasmussen, Brian E. Caplin, Wade R. Stevenson, Deepika Marine deSilva
  • Publication number: 20030104438
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid quantification kit and method for determining the initial concentration or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid present in a sample. Illustrative embodiments include real-time competitive quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the copy number or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample and use of a thermodynamically based signal processing algorithm, with or without PCR, to provide mass fraction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: David J. Eyre, Randy P. Rasmussen, Brain E. Caplin, Wade R. Stevenson, Deepika Marine deSilva