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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:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick D Mize, Durham, NC (US);
William B Studabaker, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
436 69 ; 436149 ; 436150 ; 436164 ; 436165 ; 436180 ; 422 58 ; 422 73 ; 422 8205 ; 435-4 ; 435 13 ; 73 6441 ; 73 6443 ; 356 39 ;
Abstract
A method of performing a fibrinogen assay is provided using an assay reagent containing ecarin to give an assay that is insensitive to the presence of heparin and insensitive to hematocrit, while being useful as a point of care assay in both a dry chemistry and wet chemistry format.