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Michael Craig
Michael Craig Lovett, Blackburn South AU
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20100173416 | Method and Apparatus for Inoculating and Streaking a Medium in a Plate - An apparatus for inoculating and streaking a solid growth culture medium in a plate, the streaking using a streaking applicator having a line of resiliently and flexibly supported spaced apart contact surfaces, the apparatus including: (a) an inoculating and streaking station including: a plate work position having a notional action line fixed in two dimensions (x,y) in a predetermined position; and a plate rotation device for rotating a positioned plate to cause streaking; (b) a sensor capable of locating the surface of the medium in a positioned plate to thereby determine for that plate, prior to inoculation and streaking of that plate, the third dimension (z) of the action line; (c) an inoculating device capable of dispensing inoculum, along the action line, on the surface of the medium in the positioned plate; and (d) a streaking device capable of moving the streaking applicator such that its line of spaced apart contact surfaces contacts, along the action line, the surface of the medium in the positioned plate, prior to rotation of the positioned plate for streaking. | 07-08-2010 |
Michael Craig Macbrair, Jr., Napa, CA US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20100015833 | HIGH DENSITY SPRING CONTACT CONNECTOR - A densely populated micro miniature connector includes a plug and a receptacle configured to securely mate with each other. Connector plugs include an insert assembly having at least one double-ended pin, a housing, and a coupling ring. Connector receptacles include an insert assembly having at least one spring probe and a housing. The double-ended pin contacts the spring probe when the plug and the receptacle are connected. | 01-21-2010 |
Michael Craig Miller, Quakertown, PA US
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| 20090061456 | Method for predicting progression free and overall survival at each follow-up time point during therapy of metastatic breast cancer patients using circulating tumor cells - A cancer test having prognostic utility in predicting time to disease progression, overall survival, and response to therapy in patients with MBC based upon the presence and number of CTC's. The Cell Spotter® System is used to enumerate CTC's in blood. The system immunomagnetically concentrates epithelial cells, fluorescently labels the cells and identifies and quantifies CTC's. The absolute number of CTC's detected in the peripheral blood tumor load is, in part, a factor in prediction of survival, time to progression, and response to therapy. The mean time to survival of patients depended upon a threshold number of 5 CTC's per 7.5 ml of blood. Detection of CTC's in metastatic cancer represents a novel prognostic factor in patients with metastatic cancers, suggests a biological role for the presence of tumor cells in the blood, and indicates that the detection of CTC's could be considered an appropriate surrogate marker for prospective therapeutic clinical trials. | 03-05-2009 |
Michael Craig Scelzi, Glen Allen, VA US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20120065789 | DETERMINING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A STRUCTURE - Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for measuring the supply of a consumable product/energy source, such as electrical power, to a facility over time and analyzing the measurements to determine the consumption or supply of the product by one or more loads and/or sources in the facility, and to determine induced and residual heat flow through the facility's envelope. Various aspects compare the measured supply of the consumable product to a database of consumption signatures, which characterize access to the consumable product by particular users. In doing so, costs for the product may be more accurately divided between different tenants of the facility without having to install individual services or measurement equipment for each individual tenant. Operating conditions and facility characteristics, such as temperatures, load factors, insulation factors, etc., may be further considered in determining a particular user's access of the consumable product. To aid in the controlling of energy use, thermal resistance factors of the building are determined, which are based on the induced and residual heat flow through the facility. Various algorithms are used including smart agents (e.g. neural networks) to determine the consumption of the consumable product by a particular user, to create the database of consumption signatures, and to determine the thermal resistance factors. | 03-15-2012 |