Patents Examined by Adam Weidner
  • Patent number: 11807679
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an anti-CKAP4 monoclonal antibody that inhibits the binding of DKK1 and CKAP4 and exhibits an exceptional antitumor effect. Provided is an anti-CKAP4 monoclonal antibody that recognizes at least part of the 451-455 region, at least part of the 481-485 region, at least part of the 502-510 region, at least part of the 503-524 region and at least part of the 585-590 region, or at least part of the 585-592 region of the amino acid sequence (amino acid sequence of CKAP4) represented by SEQ ID NO:1 as an epitope, the anti-CKAP4 monoclonal antibody effectively inhibiting the binding of DKK1 and CKAP4, the activation of AKT of S2-CP8 cells, and the proliferative ability of S2-CP8 cells or the migratory ability of S2-CP8 cells, and exhibiting an exceptional antitumor effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Kikuchi, Katsumi Fumoto, Hirokazu Kimura
  • Patent number: 11802149
    Abstract: The present inventive concept is related to antibodies, such as recombinant humanized and monoclonal antibodies, methods of making antibodies, and methods of using antibodies, such as antibodies directed toward and capable of specifically binding to and clearing amyloid-beta (A?) plaques in the brain that are suitable for use in the treatment of disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Fan Liao, Meha Chhaya, Andrew J. McCluskey, Nathan J. Brown
  • Patent number: 11802150
    Abstract: Provided herein are interleukin 7 (IL-7) binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions and their use in the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GlaxoSmith Kline Intellectual Property Development Limited
    Inventors: Gerben Bouma, Edward Thomas Coulstock, David Dixon, Stephanie Hopley, Alan Peter Lewis, Jessica Lynn Neisen
  • Patent number: 11802148
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-human p53 antibody suitable for specifically binding a linear epitope which is exposed only in a conformationally altered isoform of the characteristic p53 protein of patients with Alzheimer's disease or prone to develop Alzheimer's disease or cognitive impairment during ageing. Methods and diagnostic and prognostic kits are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Diadem S.r.l.
    Inventors: Maurizio Memo, Daniela Letizia Uberti
  • Patent number: 11795232
    Abstract: Provided herein are polypeptides that bind to a transferrin receptor, methods of generating such polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides to target a composition to a transferrin receptor-expressing cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Denali Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaocheng Chen, Mark S. Dennis, Mihalis Kariolis, Adam P. Silverman, Ankita Srivastava, Ryan J. Watts, Robert C. Wells, Joy Yu Zuchero
  • Patent number: 11787868
    Abstract: Herein are provided bispecific anti-human A-betalhuman transferrin receptor antibodies and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Harald Duerr, Sebastian Fenn, Ulrich Goepfert, Sabine Imhof-Jung, Christian Klein, Laurent Lariviere, Michael Molhoj, Joerg Thomas Regula, Petra Rueger, Wolfgang Schaefer
  • Patent number: 11787854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating, preventing, and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease or other tauopathies in a subject by administering an immunogenic tau peptide or an antibody recognizing the immunogenic tau epitope under conditions effective to treat, prevent, or diagnose Alzheimer's Disease or other tauopathies. Also disclosed are methods of promoting clearance of aggregates from the brain of the subject and of slowing progression of tau-pathology related behavioral phenotype in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Einar M. Sigurdsson
  • Patent number: 11787857
    Abstract: Described herein are polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies that binds to VSIG3, compounds that modulate the interaction of VISTA and VSIG3, and methods of making and using the polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies and compounds. Also described herein are methods that include modulating the interaction of VISTA and VSIG3 by introducing a compound that modulates the interaction of VISTA and SIG3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BIO-TECHNE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christine Goetz, Christopher Hammerbeck, Christopher Valley, Jody Bonnevier, Birte Aggeler, Jinghua Wang, Guoping Wu, Vassilios Kalabokis, Jose Fernando Bazan
  • Patent number: 11787873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bispecific HER2 antibodies, novel HER2 antibody variants, methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca Croasdale-Wood, Lydia Jasmin Hanisch, Guy Georges, Thomas Hofer, Ralf Hosse, Christian Klein, Ekkehard Moessner, Samuel Moser, Wolfgang Schaefer, Juergen Michael Schanzer, Werner Scheuer, Claudio Sustmann, Pablo Umana
  • Patent number: 11787840
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, are decoy peptides or polypeptides capable of neutralizing and/or inhibiting the binding of anti-Ro antibodies to a hERG potassium channel extracellular pore region, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the decoy peptides or polypeptides and methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mohamed Boutjdir, Timothy Jude Cardozo
  • Patent number: 11771774
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and compositions for nerve delivery molecules that carry imaging cargo or therapeutic cargo to the neurons or nerves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Avelas Acquisition Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Gonzalez, Junjie Liu, Marcel Miampamba
  • Patent number: 11773176
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides multispecific antibodies having increased in vivo sustainability, the multispecific antibodies comprising one or more bioactive effector moieties linked to either or both of an N-terminal and a C-terminal of an antigen binding fragment Fab that binds to human serum albumin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: APRILBIO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Hoon Cha
  • Patent number: 11771749
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of eliciting an anti-tumor immune response and treating cancer comprising at least one peptide of KRAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Inventors: Jing Pan, Ming You, Ronald Lubet
  • Patent number: 11767354
    Abstract: The present invention comprises conjugates comprising a monoclonal antibody conjugated to a cyclic PYY peptide. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for use thereof. The novel conjugates are useful for preventing, treating or ameliorating diseases and disorders disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Mark Macielag, Raymond J. Patch, Rui Zhang, Martin A. Case, Shamina M. Rangwala, James N. Leonard, Raul C. Camacho, Michael J. Hunter, Katharine E. D'Aquino, Wilson Edwards, Ronald V. Swanson, Wenying Jian, Yue-Mei Zhang, Mark J. Wall, Ellen Chi
  • Patent number: 11766420
    Abstract: The use of a genetic method to down-regulate RBO/EFR3/EFR3A/EFR3B proteins, TTC7 protein or PI4KIII? enzyme protein which interacts with RBO/EFR3/EFR3A/EFR3B proteins and TTC7 protein, or the use of a drug to inhibit PI4KIII? protein kinase activity reduces the accumulation of A?42 within neurons and age-dependent synaptic transmission failure and other obstacles in a fruit fly AD model, and obtains an effect of improving the learning and memory abilities of AD model mice. Provided is a method for using an RBO/EFR3/EFR3A/EFR3B inhibitor, a TTC7 inhibitor and a PI4KIII? inhibitor to treat Alzheimer's disease. Also provided is a method for screening a drug treating Alzheimer's disease by whether A? secretion by nerve cells is promoted or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU NUO-BETA PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Fude Huang, Xiao Zhang, Wenan Wang, Le Zhang, Lixiang Jiang, Tong Zhu, Haiyan Liu, Yudong Zhou, Yang He, Wanguo Wei
  • Patent number: 11760793
    Abstract: A purified antibody, or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, is provided that binds selectively to a protein specific to an X-chromosome of a mammalian sperm cell. The sperm cell protein includes an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 4 and 9-16. The antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof may be derived by immunization of a host by an antigenic peptide composition including one or more natural or synthetic antigenic peptide sequences set forth as SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, and SEQ ID NOs: 4 and 9-16. The antibody finds utility in identifying an X-chromosome bearing sperm cell population, and in methods for skewing a sex ratio in mammals. Embodiments of the subject antibodies referred to herein as anti-GX1-E protein antibody and anti-GX1-M protein antibody have the ATCC Patent Deposit Designations PTA-125897 and PTA-125898, having been deposited on Apr. 2, 2019.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: J. Lannett Edwards, Louisa A. Rispoli, F. Neal Schrick
  • Patent number: 11753467
    Abstract: Antibodies, fragments thereof, and chimeric proteins comprising same are presented that have specific binding activity against T-cell immunoglobulin mucin receptor 3 (TIM3). Advantageously, contemplated molecules can be used in pharmaceutical compositions for immune therapy, particularly in individuals receiving cancer vaccines and/or checkpoint inhibitor treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NantBio, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford Anders Olson, Kayvan Niazi, Hermes J. Garban, Raymond Wong, Shiho Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11752200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating a subject having a neurological disorder characterized by the presence of toxic proteins comprising contacting the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the subject with an agent capable of removing or degrading the toxic protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: EnClear Therapies Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel A. Navia, Kasper Roet, Jonathan Fleming
  • Patent number: 11746144
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating a COVID-19 infection in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a composition that reduces the superantigen character of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein. In some embodiments, the compositions are mimetic peptides of the superantigen region. In some embodiments, the compositions are humanized antibodies, such as humanized mAb 6D3, that bind to the superantigen region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: University of Pittsburgh—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Inventors: Ivet Bahar, Hongying Cheng, She Zhang, Rebecca Porritt, Moshe Arditi
  • Patent number: 11746150
    Abstract: The present invention provides anti-LRP5/6 monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for treating diseases and disorders associated with Wnt pathway signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Surrozen Operating, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Tom Zhiye Yuan, Aaron Ken Sato, Wen-Chen Yeh, Parthasarathy Sampathkumar