Patents by Inventor Wesley A. Zink

Wesley A. Zink 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 and apparatus for automated cellular bioinformatics
    Publication number: 20060045348
    Abstract: An automated system that conducts, monitors, and validates a cell-line-based biological experiment including one or more treatment compounds or other external stimuli. In one preferred embodiment, the system comprises two principal subsystems, and optionally accessory subsystems. A first principal subsystem is an automated laboratory experiment manager for designing the biological experiment, for constructing an assay plate used to conduct the biological experiment, and for managing one or more of the processes that constitute the biological experiment. A second principal subsystem is an automated data analysis manager for analyzing images, for instance produced by the image production system, to detect image data including biological markers and objects, for analyzing the resulting image data to produce biological data, and for analyzing the biological data to produce biological phenotypes and treatment compound signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Eskinder Kiros, Ping Ling, Robert Muller, Ramesh Venkat, Wesley Zink
  • Method and apparatus for automated cellular bioinformatics
    Patent number: 6999607
    Abstract: An automated system that conducts, monitors, and validates a cell-line-based biological experiment including one or more treatment compounds or other external stimuli. In one preferred embodiment, the system comprises two principal subsystems, and optionally accessory subsystems. A first principal subsystem is an automated laboratory experiment manager for designing the biological experiment, for constructing an assay plate used to conduct the biological experiment, and for managing one or more of the processes that constitute the biological experiment. A second principal subsystem is an automated data analysis manager for analyzing images, for instance produced by the image production system, to detect image data including biological markers and objects, for analyzing the resulting image data to produce biological data, and for analyzing the biological data to produce biological phenotypes and treatment compound signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eskinder Kiros, Ping Ling, Robert J. Muller, Ramesh Venkat, Wesley A. Zink
  • Method and apparatus for automated cellular bioinformatics
    Publication number: 20040117124
    Abstract: An automated system that conducts, monitors, and validates a cell-line-based biological experiment including one or more treatment compounds or other external stimuli. In one preferred embodiment, the system comprises two principal subsystems, and optionally accessory subsystems. A first principal subsystem is an automated laboratory experiment manager for designing the biological experiment, for constructing an assay plate used to conduct the biological experiment, and for managing one or more of the processes that constitute the biological experiment. A second principal subsystem is an automated data analysis manager for analyzing images, for instance produced by the image production system, to detect image data including biological markers and objects, for analyzing the resulting image data to produce biological data, and for analyzing the biological data to produce biological phenotypes and treatment compound signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Eskinder Kiros, Ping Ling, Robert J Muller, Ramesh Venkat, Wesley A Zink