Patents by Inventor Linda Liang

Linda Liang 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: 11958902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-TIGIT antibodies, as well as use of these antibodies in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and infectious disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Sybil M. G. Williams, Wolfgang Seghezzi, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Linda Liang, Veronica Juan
  • Patent number: 11958748
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an ice-nucleating particle for cloud seeding and other applications, which can initiate ice nucleation at a temperature of ?8° C. Further, the ice nucleation particle number increased continuously and rapidly with the reducing of temperature. The ice nucleating particle in the present invention is a nanostructured porous composite of 3-dimensional reduced graphene oxide and silica dioxide nanoparticles (PrGO-SN). The present invention also provides for a process for synthesizing the PrGO-SN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Khalifa University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Linda Zou, Haoran Liang
  • Publication number: 20240084000
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-MARCO antibodies. Provided are also methods of generating and using anti-MARCO antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nadine Jahchan, Michel Streuli, Xi Yang, Linda Liang, Venkataraman Sriram, Joshua Pollack, Kara Mojica, Vladislava Juric, Linnea Haeggblom, Leonard G. Presta, Sayantan Mitra
  • Publication number: 20230333090
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a murine T cell 3A9 comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding human LAG3, and a murine IL-2 promotor operably associated with a reporter gene. The disclosure also describes a cell-based potency assay for measuring LAG3 antagonist activity using a co-cultured system with the murine T cells and LK35.2 murine B cells, and hen egg lysozyme peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Kevin B. Gurney, Yue Zhang, Linda Liang, Cuiwei Ai
  • Publication number: 20230174647
    Abstract: The present application relates to antibodies specifically binding to immunoglobulin-like transcript 4 (ILT4), which is also known as LILRB2, LIR2, MIR10, and CD85d, and corresponding nucleic acids, host cells, compositions, and uses. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind specifically to human ILT4, but do not significantly bind to ILT2, ILT3, or ILT5, or to other members of the LILRA or LILRB families.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Xiao Min Schebye, Diana Yuhui Chen, Andrew Rankin, Xiaodi Deng, Joseph Toth, Linda Liang, Michelle Minhua Han, Christine Bee, Hong-An Truong, Mark J. Selby, Nils Lonberg, Guodong Chen, Richard Y. Huang, Ekaterina G. Deyanova, Alan J. Korman
  • Publication number: 20230119066
    Abstract: This disclosure provides isolated antibodies, for example, monoclonal antibodies, that specifically bind to the C-C Motif Chemokine Receptor 8 (CCR8) expressed on the surface of a cell and mediate depletion of the CCR8-expressing cell by anti-body-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). The disclosure provides methods for treating a subject afflicted with a cancer comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-CCR8 antibody as monotherapy or in combination with an anti-cancer agent such as an immune checkpoint inhibitor, for example, an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 antibody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Ruth Yin-Zong Lan, Olufemi A. Adelakun, Ishita Barman, Joseph Campbell, SJ Jian Zhe Diong, Felix Findeisen, Danielle M. Greenawalt, Renu Jain, Amy D. Jhatakia, John K. Lee, Peter S.K. Lee, Linda Liang, Kai Lu, Bryan McDonald, Paul Mesko, Arvind Rajpal, Sharmila Sambanthamoorthy, Mark J. Selby, Nathan O. Siemers, Pavel Strop, Gaby A. Terracina, Xi-Tao Wang
  • Publication number: 20230099074
    Abstract: Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising an antibody conjugated to an anti-inflammatory therapeutic agent via a phosphate-based linker with tunable extracellular and intracellular stability are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Ambrx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip E. Brandish, Robert M. Garbaccio, Jeffrey Kern, Linda Liang, Sanjiv Shah, Dennis Zaller, Andrew Beck, Dennis Gately, Nick Knudsen, Anthony Manibusan, Jianing Wang, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 11572407
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-MARCO antibodies. Provided are also methods of generating and using anti-MARCO antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: PIONYR IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Nadine Jahchan, Michel Streuli, Xi Yang, Linda Liang, Venkataraman Sriram, Joshua Pollack, Kara Mojica, Vladislava Juric, Linnea Haeggblom, Leonard G. Presta, Sayantan Mitra
  • Patent number: 11510993
    Abstract: Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising an antibody conjugated to an anti-inflammatory therapeutic agent via a phosphate-based linker with tunable extracellular and intracellular stability are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Ambrx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip E. Brandish, Robert M. Garbaccio, Jeffrey Kern, Linda Liang, Sanjiv Shah, Dennis Zaller, Andrew Beck, Dennis Gately, Nick Knudsen, Anthony Manibusan, Jianing Wang, Ying Sun
  • Publication number: 20220257762
    Abstract: The present invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human or cynomolgous monkey LAG3 as well as immunoglobulin chains thereof and polynucleotides encoding the same along with injection devices comprising such antibodies or fragments. Vaccines including such antibodies and fragments as well as compositions comprising the antibodies and fragments (e.g., including anti-PD1 antibodies) are included in the invention. Methods for treating or preventing cancer or infection using such compositions are also provided. In addition, methods for recombinant expression of the antibodies and fragments are part of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Linda Liang, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Rene De Waal Malefyt, Gopalan Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 11401328
    Abstract: The present application relates to antibodies specifically binding to immunoglobulin-like transcript 4 (ILT4), which is also known as LILRB2, LIR2, MIR10, and CD85d, and corresponding nucleic acids, host cells, compositions, and uses. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind specifically to human ILT4, but do not significantly bind to ILT2, ILT3, or ILT5, or to other members of the LILRA or LILRB families.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Xiao Min Schebye, Diana Yuhui Chen, Andrew Rankin, Xiaodi Deng, Joseph Toth, Linda Liang, Michelle Minhua Han, Christine Bee, Hong-An Truong, Mark J. Selby, Nils Lonberg, Guodong Chen, Richard Y. Huang, Ekaterina G. Deyanova, Alan J. Korman
  • Publication number: 20220153832
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-MARCO antibodies. Provided are also methods of generating and using anti-MARCO antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Nadine Jahchan, Michel Streuli, Xi Yang, Linda Liang, Venkataraman Sriram, Joshua Pollack, Kara Mojica, Vladislava Juric, Linnea Haeggblom, Leonard G. Presta, Sayantan Mitra
  • Patent number: 11278620
    Abstract: The present invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human or cynomolgous monkey LAG3 as well as immunoglobulin chains thereof and polynucleotides encoding the same along with injection devices comprising such antibodies or fragments. Vaccines including such antibodies and fragments as well as compositions comprising the antibodies and fragments (e.g., including anti-PD1 antibodies) are included in the invention. Methods for treating or preventing cancer or infection using such compositions are also provided. In addition, methods for recombinant expression of the antibodies and fragments are part of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Linda Liang, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Rene De Waal Malefyt, Gopalan Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 11207406
    Abstract: The present invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human or cynomolgous monkey LAG3 as well as immunoglobulin chains thereof and polynucleotides encoding the same along with injection devices comprising such antibodies or fragments. Vaccines including such antibodies and fragments as well as compositions comprising the antibodies and fragments (e.g., including anti-PD1 antibodies) are included in the invention. Methods for treating or preventing cancer or infection using such compositions are also provided. In addition, methods for recombinant expression of the antibodies and fragments are part of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Linda Liang, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Rene De Waal Malefyt, Gopalan Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20210395392
    Abstract: This disclosure provides isolated antibodies that bind specifically to MerTK expressed on the surface of a cell and inhibit efferocytosis by the MerTK-expressing cell. The disclosure provides methods for treating a subject afflicted with a cancer comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-MerTK antibody as monotherapy or in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor, such as an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 antibody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas E. Spires, Jr., Michael Quigley, Virginie Lafont, Ginger C. Rakestraw, Linda Liang, Karen A. Augustine-Rauch
  • Patent number: 11045547
    Abstract: The present invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human or cynomolgous monkey LAG3 as well as immunoglobulin chains thereof and polynucleotides encoding the same along with injection devices comprising such antibodies or fragments. Vaccines including such antibodies and fragments as well as compositions comprising the antibodies and fragments (e.g., including anti-PD1 antibodies) are included in the invention. Methods for treating or preventing cancer or infection using such compositions are also provided. In addition, methods for recombinant expression of the antibodies and fragments are part of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Rene De Waal Malefyt, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Linda Liang
  • Publication number: 20210101983
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-TREM1 antibodies and related methods of making and using anti-TREM1 antibodies. Also provided are methods and compositions for enhancing an immune response and/or for the treatment of an immune-related condition in an individual, e.g., cancer, comprising killing, disabling, or depleting non-stimulatory myeloid cells using an anti-TREM1 antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Chan, Aritra Pal, Venkataraman Sriram, Leonard G. Presta, Tiep Tu Le, Linda Liang
  • Patent number: 10898571
    Abstract: The present invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human or cynomolgous monkey LAG3 as well as immunoglobulin chains thereof and polynucleotides encoding the same along with injection devices comprising such antibodies or fragments. Vaccines including such antibodies and fragments as well as compositions comprising the antibodies and fragments (e.g., including anti-PD1 antibodies) are included in the invention. Methods for treating or preventing cancer or infection using such compositions are also provided. In addition, methods for recombinant expression of the antibodies and fragments are part of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Linda Liang, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Rene De Waal Malefyt, Gopalan Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20210017276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-TIGIT antibodies, as well as use of these antibodies in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and infectious disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Sybil M.G. Williams, Wolfgang Seghezzi, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Linda Liang, Veronica Juan
  • Patent number: 10836828
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-TREM1 antibodies and related methods of making and using anti-TREM1 antibodies. Also provided are methods and compositions for enhancing an immune response and/or for the treatment of an immune-related condition in an individual, e.g., cancer, comprising killing, disabling, or depleting non-stimulatory myeloid cells using an anti-TREM1 antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PIONYR IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Chan, Aritra Pal, Venkataraman Sriram, Leonard G. Presta, Tiep Tu Le, Linda Liang