Patents by Inventor Helen Laura Eley

Helen Laura Eley 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).

  • Methods for the treatment of muscle loss
    Patent number: 8329646
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating muscle loss in an individual. In one embodiment, the invention includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a branched chain amino acid (BCAA), a BCAA precursor, a BCAA metabolite, a BCAA-rich protein, a protein manipulated to enrich the BCAA content or any combination thereof. The invention further provides nutritional products for such administration, including orally-administrable nutritional products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Michael John Tisdale, Norman Alan Greenberg, Helen Laura Eley, Kevin Burke Miller
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING THE ACTIVATION OF DSRNA-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE AND TUMOR GROWTH INHIBITION
    Publication number: 20110077198
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and treating a condition in a mammalian subject that include at least one inhibitor of double stranded RNA dependent protein kinase (PKR-I) prior to or concurrently with the treatment, wherein the treatment results to an inhibition of activation of dsRNA-dependent protein kinase. The compositions and methods of the present invention further include at least one potentiator that further enhances the inhibition of phosphorylation by PKR-I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Michael John Tisdale, Helen Laura Eley, Steve Thomas Russell, Kevin Burke Miller
  • METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MUSCLE LOSS
    Publication number: 20090105123
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating muscle loss in an individual. In one embodiment, the invention includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a branched chain amino acid (BCAA), a BCAA precursor, a BCAA metabolite, a BCAA-rich protein, a protein manipulated to enrich the BCAA content or any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Michael John Tisdale, Norman Alan Greenberg, Helen Laura Eley, Kevin Burke Miller