Patents Assigned to Innovation Ulster Limited
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Publication number: 20230095572Abstract: The invention provides polymeric particles comprising a matrix of a biocompatible polymer and polyethylene imine, said matrix having incorporated therein an anionic or hydrophobic sonosensitiser and, optionally, an immunomodulatory agent and/or an imaging agent. Such particles find use in methods of sonodynamic therapy, in particular in methods of combined sonodynamic therapy and immunotherapy, for example in the treatment of cancer, metastasis or micrometastasis derived from cancer. The invention is particularly suitable for the treatment of deep-sited, hard to treat tumours such as pancreatic cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: INNOVATION ULSTER LIMITEDInventors: John CALLAN, Anthony MCHALE, Sian FARRELL
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Publication number: 20220062417Abstract: The invention generally relates to sonodynamic therapy using microbubble-sonosensitiser complexes and, more specifically, to such therapy for the treatment of deeply-sited tumours and associated metastatic disease. In particular, the invention relates to a combination therapy in which sonodynamic treatment of deeply-sited tumours with microbubble-sonosensitiser complexes is combined with treatment using immune checkpoint inhibitors. It further relates to methods of sonodynamic therapy in which a sonodynamic-induced abscopal response modulates a systemic regression of metastatic disease. In such methods the abscopal response may be further enhanced by co-administration of an immune checkpoint inhibitor. The invention is particularly suitable for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (e.g. pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma) and associated metastasis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: INNOVATION ULSTER LIMITEDInventors: John CALLAN, Anthony MCHALE
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Patent number: 9272038Abstract: A gel formulation for use in filling a wound cavity and delivering active ingredient thereto, having a pH range of 6.5 to 7.5, low bioadhesive strength and cohesive integrity and being a PVA borate gel including an active ingredient and a modulator to bind borate and/or PVA in aqueous solution through a mono-diol or di-diol formation and reduces the pH of PVA-borate hydrogels. A suitable modulator is a sugar alcohol such as mannitol and the active ingredient, a medicament suitable for topical application such as a local anaesthetic and/or an antibiotic.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Innovation Ulster LimitedInventors: Paul Anthony McCarron, Mark Godfrey Jenkins, Ryan Gerald Loughlin
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Patent number: 9095834Abstract: A method of modifying a substrate using a plasma comprises providing a first electrode and a second electrode; arranging the substrate such that only a portion of the substrate is between the electrodes; and rotating either the substrate or at least one of the electrodes about an axis so as to cause different portions of the substrate to pass between the electrodes during the rotation. A voltage is supplied to at least one of the electrodes so as to create a plasma discharge between the electrodes which contacts at least the portions of the substrate that pass between the electrodes. The electrodes and the substrate are arranged such that the rotating causes the speed of transit of the substrate portion between the electrodes to vary in a radial direction away from the axis of rotation and the rate that the plasma discharge modifies the substrate varies across the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Innovation Ulster LimitedInventors: Cormac Patrick Byrne, Brian Joseph Meenan, Raechelle Andrea D'Sa
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Patent number: 9060991Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide analogue of glucagon-like peptide-1 (7-36), which is useful to prophylactically prevent, improve, or reverse the diminished cognitive function associated with these types of disorders, by increasing (or sustaining) the LTP of synaptic transmission. Moreover, sustaining LTP may find utility in the prophylaxis of neurological disease by delaying the onset of impaired cognitive processes, and could serve as a treatment, not only for the diminished cognitive function caused by neurodegeneration, but also for the dysfunctional cognitive processes associated with trauma or age.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Innovation Ulster LimitedInventors: Peter Raymond Flatt, Christian Holscher, Victor Alan Gault
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Patent number: 9062125Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide comprising at least 12 amino acid residues from the N-terminal end of gastric inhibitory polypeptide, or an analog thereof, which are useful to prophylactically prevent, improve, or reverse the diminished cognitive function associated with these types of disorders, by increasing (or sustaining) the LTP of synaptic transmission. Moreover, sustaining LTP may find utility in the prophylaxis of neurological disease by delaying the onset of impaired cognitive processes, and could serve as a treatment, not only for the diminished cognitive function caused by neurodegeneration, but also for the dysfunctional cognitive processes associated with trauma or age. Additionally, the peptides and analogs of the present invention find are useful to improve the altered cognitive function associated with hyperexcitability-type disorders, by reducing the elevated level of LTP of synaptic transmission.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Innovation Ulster LimitedInventors: Peter Raymond Flatt, Christian Holscher, Victor Alan Gault
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Publication number: 20150161918Abstract: A label that changes appearance with time is disclosed. The label comprises a first layer that has different permeabilities to a gas in different lateral areas of the label and which comprises a substance that changes colour when in contact with the gas. The substance is arranged within the label such that the gas permeates across the thickness of the layer at different rates in different lateral areas so as to cause the substance to change colour at different rates in said different areas. Another label that changes appearance with time is disclosed that allows ink to permeate to its surface at different rates in different lateral areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: INNOVATION ULSTER LIMITEDInventors: Cormac Patrick Byrne, Brian Joseph Meenan, Cormac Flynn
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Publication number: 20140147603Abstract: A method of modifying a substrate using a plasma comprises providing a first electrode and a second electrode; arranging the substrate such that only a portion of the substrate is between the electrodes; and rotating either the substrate or at least one of the electrodes about an axis so as to cause different portions of the substrate to pass between the electrodes during the rotation. A voltage is supplied to at least one of the electrodes so as to create a plasma discharge between the electrodes which contacts at least the portions of the substrate that pass between the electrodes. The electrodes and the substrate are arranged such that the rotating causes the speed of transit of the substrate portion between the electrodes to vary in a radial direction away from the axis of rotation and the rate that the plasma discharge modifies the substrate varies across the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Innovation Ulster LimitedInventors: Cormac Patrick Byrne, Brian Joseph Meenan, Raechelle Andrea D'Sa