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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:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
Applicants:
Michael P. Maher, San Diego, CA (US);
Jesus E. Gonzalez, Iii, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael P. Maher, San Diego, CA (US);
Jesus E. Gonzalez, III, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (San Diego) LLC, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/53 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of characterizing the biological activity of a candidate compound may include exposing cells to the candidate compound, and then exposing the cells to a repetitive application of electric fields so as to set the transmembrane potential to a level corresponding to a pre-selected voltage dependent state of a target ion channel.