Peter A Koen, 8024 Longfield Dr, Millstone, NJ 08844

8341068, Dec 25, 2012

Dec 15, 2008

12/335041

Peter Koen - Hillsborough NJ, US
Gerrit Kamp - New York NY, US

The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken NJ

G06Q 40/00

705 37, 705 35, 705 1, 705 10

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for generating and evaluating ideas within an organization through an idea market. It includes an automatic price-setting mechanism that modifies the share-price at the same instant that a trade is made, yet without the assistance of a market maker or a queue of orders. The instant price-setting is achieved by assuming a pre-defined relationship between the quantity of shares in the order and the average share price for that order. This relationship is the price-quantity function. The present invention also includes a mechanism of weighted parameters to modify the share-price in addition to pure supply and demand. The parameters can be adjusted over time in a neural network to optimize the relationship between the share price and the prediction of the actual idea value.

5246867, Sep 21, 1993

Jan 17, 1992

7/822382

Joseph R. Lakowicz - Columbia MD
Badri P. Maliwal - Baltimore MD
Peter A. Koen - Hillsborough NJ

University of Maryland at Baltimore - MD
Becton Dickinson & Company - NJ

G01N 2164
G01N 3366

436 95

A method for measuring the concentration of a saccharide, conjugated saccharide or polysaccharide of interest using luminescent lifetimes and energy transfer in which an energy transfer donor-acceptor pair is added to a sample to be analyzed, the donor of the donor-acceptor pair being photoluminescent. The acceptor is bound to a carrier, while the donor and any saccharide, conjugated saccharide or polysaccharide of interest present in the sample compete for binding sites on the carrier. The sample is irradiated and the resultant emission detected. Energy transfer occurs between the donors and the acceptors, which produces a detectable lifetime change of the fIuorescence of the donor. The lifetime change is reduced or even eliminated by the competitive binding of a saccharide, conjugated saccharide or polysaccharide of interest to the donor. By measuring the apparent luminescent lifetime, the amount of a saccharide, conjugated saccharide or polysaccharide of interest in the sample can be determined.