Patents by Inventor Lars Hoff

Lars Hoff 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: 11951166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising regorafenib or its hydrate, solvate, metabolite or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a polymorph thereof and a PD-1/PD-L1(2) inhibitor for treating, preventing or managing diseases and conditions including hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer in humans and other mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sabine Hoff, Lars Rose, Dieter Zopf, Fabian Kiessling, Wiltrud Lederle, Dennis Doleschel
  • Patent number: 9579405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the identification of a sentinel lymph node and to compounds and preparations used in said methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: GE Healthcare AS
    Inventors: Audun Tornes, Jonnny Ostensen, Henrik Rasmussen, Lars Hoff
  • Publication number: 20140363381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the identification of a sentinel lymph node and to compounds and preparations used in said methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: GE HEALTHCARE AS
    Inventors: AUDUN TORNES, JONNNY OSTENSEN, HENRIK RASMUSSEN, LARS HOFF
  • Publication number: 20110046488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a post-operative care unit for analysing and quantifying an ultrasound tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) signal from a transducer fastened on the myocardium to obtain a parameter indicating regional cardiac ischaemia or correlates with global hypokinetic heart function. This has the advantage over manually operated probes that it can be automated and used continuously over long time. According to the method, a TDI signal trace corresponding to at least one of tissue velocity, strain or strain rate is extracted and correlated with an electrocardiogram to define subsections within a cardiac cycle in the extracted trace corresponding to the early systolic phase and the post-systolic phase. Then, a velocity, strain or strain rate is read in at least the post-systolic phase of the extracted trace, and a parameter which is a function of one of these readings and which indicates ischaemia or global hypokinetic function is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF
    Inventors: Ole Jakob Elle, Erik Fosse, Halfdan Ihlen, Andreas Espinoza, Lars Hoff
  • Patent number: 7307537
    Abstract: The invention relates to an identification chip for insertion in an object located in a liquid. The identification chip comprises an acoustic resonator (100), which exhibits a number of distinct resonant frequencies, where the combination of resonant frequencies is unique to the identification chip. This enables the identification chip to be identified by exposing it to an acoustic polling signal, measuring an acoustic response signal and analysing the frequency of the response signal. The resonator (100) comprises a cavity-forming part (110, 120) and a membrane (130). The acoustic resonant frequencies are determined by at least one cavity (140), which is enclosed by the cavity-forming part (110, 120) and the membrane (140). The identification chip can be implanted in a fish, with the object of identifying the fish when it is located in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Vivid AS
    Inventors: John Brungot, Lars Hoff, Sverre Holm, Arne Rønnekleiv, Dag Thorstein Wang, Ralph William Bernstein
  • Publication number: 20070066893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of processing ultrasound images from a subject preadministered with an ultrasound contrast agent wherein quantitative measures of the contrast enhancement pattern of said lymph nodes are generated. The lymphatic system is made of vessels or ducts that begin in tissues and are designed to carry lymph fluid to local lymph nodes where the fluid is filtered and processed and sent to the next lymph node down the line until the fluid reaches the thoracic duct where it enters the blood stream. Lymph fluid which enters the lymph vessels carries with it substances and materials from the tissue, e.g. antigens, particles and cells. The lymph nodes process the lymph fluid by sieving it and macrophages inside the nodes remove particulate and cell material carried by the lymph fluid via phagocytosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Morten Eriksen, Lars Hoff, Henrik Rasmussen, Audun Tornes, Jonny Ostensen
  • Publication number: 20070063852
    Abstract: The invention relates to an identification chip for insertion in an object located in a liquid. The identification chip comprises an acoustic resonator (100), which exhibits a number of distinct resonant frequencies, where the combination of resonant frequencies is unique to the identification chip. This enables the identification chip to be identified by exposing it to an acoustic polling signal, measuring an acoustic response signal and analysing the frequency of the response signal. The resonator (100) comprises a cavity-forming part (110, 120) and a membrane (130). The acoustic resonant frequencies are determined by at least one cavity (140), which is enclosed by the cavity-forming part (110, 120) and the membrane (140). The identification chip can be implanted in a fish, with the object of identifying the fish when it is located in water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: John Brungot, Lars Hoff, Sverro Holm, Arne Ronneklelv, Dag Wang, Ralph Bornsteln
  • Publication number: 20050283073
    Abstract: Ultrasound measurement of bone quality using nonlinear analysis in combination with or alternatively using shear waves provide improved information about human bone conditions. Surface waves also provide a novel method to estimate shear wave velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Lars Hoff, Kjell Oygarden
  • Patent number: 6899680
    Abstract: Ultrasound measurement of bone quality using nonlinear analysis in combination with or alternatively using shear waves provide improved information about human bone conditions. Surface waves also provide a novel method to estimate shear wave velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Odetect as
    Inventors: Lars Hoff, Kjell Oygarden
  • Publication number: 20050002865
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing or gas-generating material, said agent being capable of forming at least two types of binding pairs with a target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pal Rongved, Anders Hogset, Helge Tolleshaug, Alan Cuthbertson, Aslak Godal, Lars Hoff, Geir Gogstad, Klaus Bryn, Anne Naevestad, Dagfinn Lovhaug, Halldis Hellebust, Magne Solbakken
  • Publication number: 20040141922
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, having reporters comprising gas-filled microbubbles stabilised by monolayers of film-forming surfactants, the reporter being coupled or linked to at least one vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: NYCOMED IMAGING AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pal Rongved, Anders Hogset, Helge Tolleshaug, Anne Naevestad, Halldis Hellebust, Lars Hoff, Alan Cuthbertson, Dagfinn Lovhaug, Magne Solbakken
  • Patent number: 6680047
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing or gas-generating material, said agent being capable of forming at least two types of binding pairs with a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pål Rongved, Anders Høgset, Helge Tolleshaug, Alan Cuthbertson, Aslak Godal, Lars Hoff, Geir Gogstad, Klaus Bryn, Anne Nævestad, Dagfinn Løvhaug, Halldis Hellebust, Magne Solbakken
  • Publication number: 20020161300
    Abstract: Ultrasound measurement of bone quality using nonlinear analysis in combination with or alternatively using shear waves provide improved information about human bone conditions. Surface waves also provide a novel method to estimate shear wave velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Lars Hoff, Kjell Oygarden
  • Publication number: 20020102215
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, having reporters comprising gas-filled microbubbles stabilized by monolayers of film-forming surfactants, the reporter being coupled or linked to at least one vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: NYCOMED IMAGING AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pal Rongved, Anders Hogset, Helge Tolleshaug, Anne Naevestad, Halldis Hellebust, Lars Hoff, Alan Cuthbertson, Dagfinn Lovhaug, Magne Solbakken
  • Publication number: 20020102217
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing or gas-generating material, said agent being capable of forming at least two types of binding pairs with a target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pal Rongved, Anders Hogset, Helge Tolleshaug, Alan Cuthbertson, Aslak Godal, Lars Hoff, Geir Gogstad, Klaus Bryn, Anne Naevestad, Dagfinn Lovhaug, Halldis Hellebust, Magne Solbakken
  • Patent number: 6331289
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing or gas-generating material, said agent being capable of forming at least two types of binding pairs with a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pål Rongved, Anders Høgset, Helge Tolleshaug, Alan Cuthbertson, Lars Hoff, Klaus Bryn, Halldis Hellebust, Magne Solbakken
  • Patent number: 6315730
    Abstract: A method of measuring tissue perfusion in a human or non-human animal subject which comprises administering an effective amount of an ultrasound contrast agent to said subject, irradiating tissue in a target region with at least one pulse of ultrasound having energy sufficient to destroy or discernibly modify the echogenic properties of substantially all contrast agent in said target region, and ultrasonically detecting and quantifying the rate of flow of either further contrast agent into said target region or modified contrast agent out of said target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Nyomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Lars Hoff, Jonny Østensen, Sigmund Frigstad, Morten Eriksen
  • Patent number: 6261537
    Abstract: Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, having reporters comprising gas-filled microbubbles stabilised by monolayers of film-forming surfactants, the reporter being coupled or linked to at least one vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Pål Rongved, Anders Høgset, Helge Tolleshaug, Anne Nævestad, Halldis Hellebust, Lars Hoff, Alan Cuthbertson, Dagfinn Løvhaug, Magne Solbakken
  • Patent number: 6177061
    Abstract: A contrast agent for use in diagnostic studies, particularly ultrasound imaging, comprising a dispersion in an injectable aqueous medium of a biocompatible azeotropic mixture which is in gaseous form at 37° C., at least one component of said mixture being a halocarbon having a molecular weight of at least 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Roald Skurtveit, Pål Rongved, Lars Hoff
  • Patent number: 5980460
    Abstract: Temporal variations in backscatter from an ultrasound contrast agent located in the vascular system and induced by movement of the scatterers are used to visualize the presence of contrast agent by determining areas where correlation between successive ultrasound images is poor. This low level of correlation from intravascular contrast agent movement permits distinction between stationary bulk tissue and moving bulk tissue since movement of the latter solid tissue scatterers is correlated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Jonny .O slashed.stensen, Morten Eriksen, Lars Hoff, Sigmund Frigstad, Nils Sponheim, Knut Dyrstad