Patents by Inventor Gary Bignami

Gary Bignami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Nutraceuticals and methods of obtaining nutraceuticals from tropical crops
    Publication number: 20050129827
    Abstract: Various novel nutraceutical compositions containing relatively high levels of health-enhancing substances are obtained by novel extraction processes from the by-products of tropical crops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Dusan Miljkovic, Gary Bignami
  • Recombinant envelope vaccine against flavivirus infection
    Patent number: 6432411
    Abstract: A vaccine contains at least one Drosophila cell-secreted, recombinantly-produced form of a truncated Flavivirus envelope glycoprotein, as an active ingredient, and an adjuvant, as a critical component of the vaccine. The adjuvant is an immunomodulating agent having an iscom-like structure and comprising within the iscom-like structure at least one lipid and at least one saponin, and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. Such a vaccine protects a subject against infection by a Flavivirus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hawaii Biotechnology Group
    Inventors: John Ivy, Gary Bignami, Michael McDonell, David E. Clements, Beth-Ann G. Coller