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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary D Hodgen, Potomac, MD (US);
Howard W Jones, Jr, Norfolk, VA (US);
Georgeanna S Jones, Norfolk, VA (US);
Assignee:
SErono Laboratories, Inc., Randolph, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128 / ; 424100 ; 424105 ; 604 55 ;
Abstract
A method of in vitro fertilization therapy, which includes means for inducing ovulation by administering an exogenous human menopausal gonadotropin preparation and human chorionic gonadotropin, harvesting the mature follicles, combining the ovum with spermatazoa in vitro and transferring the conceptus into the uterus is improved by employing FSH as the exogenous human menopausal gonadotropin in the absence of exogenous LH.