Patents by Inventor Ka Wang

Ka Wang 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).

  • Patent number: 9810698
    Abstract: The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Ka-Wang Wang, Monika Oli, Ming-Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20170315136
    Abstract: A robust, quantitative, and reproducible process and assay for diagnosis of a neurological condition in a subject is provided. With measurement of one or more autoantibodies to biomarkers in a biological fluid such as CSF or serum, the extent of neurological damage in a subject with an abnormal neurological condition is determined and subtypes thereof or tissue types subjected to damage are discerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Ka-wang Wang, Zhiqun Zhang, Ming Cheng LIU, Ronald L. HAYES
  • Publication number: 20170307640
    Abstract: The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of neural injury, neuronal disorder or neurotoxicity and is related to the discovery that proteases are selectively activated in subjects suffering from nervous system damage as compared to healthy subjects. Breakdown products reflecting protease activation are produced and detection of these different biomarkers of the invention is also diagnostic of the degree of severity and type of nerve damage in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Firas KOBAISSY, Joy GUINGAB, Kevin Ka-Wang WANG, Ronald L. HAYES
  • Publication number: 20170281738
    Abstract: Processes and compositions for the therapeutic treatment of pathogenic Gram-negative bacterial infection are provided whereby argininosuccinate synthetase or PEGylated argininosuccinate synthetase is administered to a subject to inactivate endotoxin thereby reducing the likelihood of bacterial sepsis and improving patient outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Stanislav I. Svetlov, Victor Prima, Alvin Wang, Gabriel Molina, Kevin Ka-wang Wang
  • Publication number: 20170242041
    Abstract: Processes and materials are provided for the detection, diagnosis, or determination of the severity of a neurological injury or condition, including traumatic brain injury, multiple-organ injury, stroke, Alzeimer's disease, Parkinson disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The processes and materials include biomarkers detected or measured in a biological sample such as whole blood, serum, plasma, or CSF. Such biomarkers include Tau and GFAP proteins, their proteolytic breakdown products, brain specific or enriched micro-RNA, and brain specific or enriched protein directed autoantibodies. The processes and materials are operable to detect the presence of absence of acute, subacute or chronic brain injuries and predict outcome for the brain injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Ka-Wang WANG, Zhiqun ZHANG, Ming-Cheng LIU, Ronald L. HAYES, Jitendra Ramanlal DAVE
  • Publication number: 20170242036
    Abstract: Life-threatening traumas such as terrorist attacks, war, disasters, mental or physical assault, severe accidents and violence frequently provoke emotional and behavioral disturbances known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide related thereto. Accurate diagnosis and treatment planning for PTSD and suicide remain difficult. The discovery of specific markers creates new opportunities for more accurate clinical assessments identifying groups that may experience better outcomes when exposed to an intervention. The present invention provides a process of detection of P-11, UBE3A, STY1, EMAP-II, SIP1, ORC5L, DCX, SCYE protein in a biological sample of a subject suspected of suffering from PTSD and/or having suicidal tendencies, and provides additional PTSD markers which are specific to gender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicants: BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC., THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMEN OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC.
    Inventors: Harvey POLLARD, Lei ZHANG, Ofer EIDELMAN, Robert J. URSANO, He LI, Tung-Pi SU, Kevin Ka-Wang WANG, Ronald L. HAYES
  • Patent number: 9682132
    Abstract: Processes and compositions for the therapeutic treatment of pathogenic Gram-negative bacterial infection are provided whereby arginino succinate synthetase or PEGylated arginino succinate synthetase is administered to a subject to inactivate endotoxin thereby reducing the likelihood of bacterial sepsis and improving patient outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC
    Inventors: Stanislav I. Svetlov, Victor Prima, Alvin Wang, Gabriel Molina, Kevin Ka-wang Wang
  • Patent number: 9664694
    Abstract: The present invention identities biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang, Ming-Cheng Liu, Monika Oli
  • Publication number: 20170146555
    Abstract: Proteins that are differentially expressed or elevated in tissue and biofluids after central nervous system injuries are described. Elevated or reduced levels of the proteins, alone or in various combinations or ratios, can be used to assess severity of central nervous system injury (CNS injury) including traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Time course measurements post CNS-injury of these proteins can be used to monitor progress or recovery over periods up to several months. Differentiation of acute, subacute and chronic injury can be diagnosed by comparing the protein levels in CNS-injury patients at days 1-3, day 4-10 with levels at day 30-180 in comparison with normal controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: KEVIN KA-WANG WANG, ZHIHUI YANG, AHMED MOGHIEB
  • Publication number: 20170069205
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing a traffic news interface. For example, a traffic news provider component may query traffic camera data and/or traffic incident data to identify traffic cameras and/or traffic incidents along a route of a driver. The traffic cameras and/or the traffic incidents may be ranked based upon a safety metric, a travel time sensitivity metric, an alternative route selection metric, a driving behavior pattern, a driver mood, a distance of a traffic camera or traffic incident from a current user location, and/or other information used to determine how relevant information from the traffic camera and/or a traffic incident is to this particular driver. A subset of traffic cameras and/or traffic incidents may be selected for inclusion within a traffic news interface based upon camera relevancy rankings and/or incident relevancy rankings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Vu Nguyen, Sergei Tuterov, Ka Wang Yee
  • Publication number: 20170045534
    Abstract: The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: KA-WANG (KEVIN) WANG, MONIKA OLI, MING-CHENG LIU
  • Publication number: 20150259740
    Abstract: Life-threatening traumas such as terrorist attacks, war, disasters, mental or physical assault, severe accidents and violence frequently provoke emotional and behavioral disturbances known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide related thereto. Accurate diagnosis and treatment planning for PTSD and suicide remain difficult. The discovery of specific markers creates new opportunities for more accurate clinical assessments identifying groups that may experience better outcomes when exposed to an intervention. The present invention provides a process of detection of P-11, UBE3A, STY1, EMAP-II, SIP1, ORC5L, DCX, SCYE protein in a biological sample of a subject suspected of suffering from PTSD and/or having suicidal tendencies, and provides additional PTSD markers which are specific to gender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Harvey Pollard, Lei Zhang, Ofer Eidelman, Robert J. Ursano, He Li, Tung-Pi Su, Kevin Ka-wang Wang, Ronald L. Hayes
  • Publication number: 20150057193
    Abstract: A diagnostic tool and method of diagnosing brain injury and brain injury type (traumatic vs. ischemic) by detecting the level of expression of endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP II) and comparing to a control. An increase of EMAP II indicates the presence of traumatic brain injury and a decrease of EMAP II indicates the presence of ischemic brain injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: JITENDRA RAMANLAL DAVE, CHANGPING YAO, ANTHONY JOSEPH WILLIAMS, XI-CHUN MAY-LU, FRANK CASPER TORTELLA, KA-WANG KEVIN WAND, RONALD LAWRENCE HAYES
  • Publication number: 20140303041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exemplary in vitro diagnostic (IVD) device used to detect the presence of and/or severity of neural injuries or neuronal disorders in a subject. The IVD device relies on an immunoassay which identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of neural injury and/or neuronal disorders in a biological sample, such as whole blood, plasma, serum, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The inventive IVD device may measure one or more of several neural specific markers in a biological sample and output the results to a machine readable format wither to a display device or to a storage device internal or external to the IVD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC., BANYAN BIOMARKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Lawrence Hayes, Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang, Andreas Jeromin, Ming-Cheng Liu, Monika Oli
  • Publication number: 20140178351
    Abstract: Processes and compositions for the therapeutic treatment of pathogenic Gram-negative bacterial infection are provided whereby arginino succinate synthetase or PEGylated arginino succinate synthetase is administered to a subject to inactivate endotoxin thereby reducing the likelihood of bacterial sepsis and improving patient outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Stanislav I. Svetlov, Victor Prima, Alvin Wang, Gabriel Molina, Kevin Ka-wang Wang
  • Publication number: 20140024053
    Abstract: The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of neural injury, neuronal disorder or neurotoxicity and is related to the discovery that proteases are selectively activated in subjects suffering from nervous system damage as compared to healthy subjects. Breakdown products reflecting protease activation are produced and detection of these different biomarkers of the invention is also diagnostic of the degree of severity and type of nerve damage in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Banyan Biomarkers, Inc.
    Inventors: Firas Kobeissy, Joy Guingab, Kevin Ka-Wang Wang, Ronald L. Hayes
  • Patent number: 8557526
    Abstract: Collapsin response mediator proteins (CRMPs) decreased in tissue and increased in biological fluids after neural injury from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Significant decreases of CRMP1, CRMP2, CRMP4 and CRMP5 were accompanied by the appearance of distinct 58 kDa (CRMP-2) or 55 kDa (CRMP-4) breakdown products from proteolytic cleavage by calpain. Synaptotagmin breakdown products were also associated with TBI and could be detected along with intact protein in human cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). Both biomarkers were detected in human biofluid and related to recovery from traumatic brain injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Banyan Biomarkers, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew K. Ottens, Firas H. Kobaissy, Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang, Ronald L. Hayes, Zhiqun Zhang, Ming Chen Liu, Monika Oli
  • Patent number: 8492107
    Abstract: The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Banyan Biomarkers, Inc.
    Inventors: Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang, Ming-Cheng Liu, Monika Oli
  • Publication number: 20130174319
    Abstract: A hand pad for use with a touch screen of an electronic device comprising a pad body and a finger holder mounted on a surface of the pad body, such that the pad body could follow a pen holding hand to move on the touch screen through the finger holder. The surface of the hand pad in contact with the touch screen is configured to enable a smooth motion of the hand pad over the touch screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Ka Wang CHOW
  • Patent number: 8437948
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems for forecasting traffic and concurrently presenting images of forecasted traffic are disclosed to facilitate more efficient departure and/or navigation by providing an outlook of anticipated traffic flow for an area and/or a route (e.g., associated with an origin and destination), for example. A predicted traffic pattern and/or associated navigation may be provided and/or generated based upon traffic data (e.g., historical traffic data, current traffic data, and/or predicted traffic data). Additionally, a suggested departure time may be provided to mitigate travel time to and/or from a destination, for example. Accepted suggestions may be associated with predicted traffic data to update predicted traffic patterns (e.g., predicted traffic data) thereafter. Accordingly, travelers may be provided with traffic forecasting to enable more desirable travel experiences (e.g., shorter travel times).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: INRIX, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Balasundaram, Kevin Foreman, Rajiv Nandivada, Ka Wang Yee