Patent Document ID: 6156179
Application ID: 09112725
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An immunosubtraction method of analyzing a biological sample for the presence or absence of at least one constituent of interest, said method comprising: (a) admixing at least one aliquot of said biological sample with at least one specific binding partner, said at least one specific binding partner capable of significantly removing said at least one constituent of interest to generate a first treated sample; (b) separating a portion of said first treated sample into constituent parts to generate a first data set; (c) subjecting at least a portion of said first data set to a first analysis to generate a parameter set indicative of said at least one constituent of interest; (d) assigning a binary decision code to said first treated sample using said parameter set; and (e) comparing said binary decision code to a matrix of expected results to identify said constituent of interest.