Patents Assigned to ACEA BioSciences
  • Patent number: 9623027
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
  • Patent number: 9625472
    Abstract: The present invention includes devices, systems, and methods for assaying cells using cell-substrate impedance monitoring. In one aspect, the invention provides cell-substrate impedance monitoring devices that comprise electrode arrays on a nonconducting substrate, in which each of the arrays has an approximately uniform electrode resistance across the entire array. In another aspect, the invention provides cellular assays that use impedance monitoring to detect changes in cell behavior or state. In some preferred aspects, the assays are designed to investigate the affects of compounds on cells, such as cytotoxicity assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang, Jiangbo Gan
  • Patent number: 9612234
    Abstract: A method of determining one or more beating parameters for use in cardiomyocyte beating analysis including: providing a cell analysis device including wells, each well including a sensor capable of monitoring beating of cardiomyoctes in millisecond time resolution; adding cardiomyocytes to the wells; monitoring the beating of the cardiomyocytes in millisecond time resolution to obtain a plurality of beating measurements; and calculating one or more beating parameters from the plurality of beating measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Li, Xiaobo Wang, Yama A. Abassi, Biao Xi, Wen Fu Zhang, Xiao Xu
  • Patent number: 9586965
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of proliferation disorders and other diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as, but not limited to, EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, BLK, BMX/ETK, BTK, FLT3(D835Y), ITK, JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, TEC and TXK) and/or the respective pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
  • Patent number: 9575063
    Abstract: An optical engine for use in a bench top flow cytometer, the optical engine comprising a set of lasers; a different set of beam shaping optics for each laser, wherein each set comprises two lenses to adjustably focus light horizontally along an x-axis to a same horizontal position and vertically along a y-axis to a different vertical position along a same plane; collection optics for collecting fluorescence from the flow cell; filtration optics that filter the collected fluorescence from the flow cell into different detection channels according to wavelength ranges; and a detector for each detection channel that converts the filtered fluorescence to electrical signals, wherein electrical signals are processed so that the fluorescence from each laser at the different vertical positions is distinguished at the same detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Li, Ye Chen, Hyunsun Chung, Zengqiang Li, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 9568423
    Abstract: A system for detecting signal components of light induced by multiple excitation sources including: a flow channel including at least two spatially separated optical interrogation zones; a non-modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a first wavelength at a near constant intensity onto a first of the optical interrogation zones; a modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a second wavelength with an intensity modulated over time at a modulating frequency onto a second of the optical interrogation zones; a detector subsystem comprising a set of detectors configured to detect light emitted from particles flowing through the at least two optical interrogation zones and to convert the detected light into a total electrical signal; and a processor that determines signal components from the light detected from each of the optical interrogation zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Li, Jian Wu, Ye Chen, Tianxing Wang, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 9464089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compounds, compositions and methods, especially as they are related to compositions and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of a proliferation disorder, a cancer, a tumor, an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, psoriasis, dry eye or an immunologically related disease, and in some embodiments diseases or disorders related to the dysregulation of kinase such as, but not limited to, EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, BLK, BMX/ETK, FLT3(D835Y), ITK, TEC, TXK, BTK, or JAK, and the respective pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
  • Patent number: 9399787
    Abstract: A method of performing an assay of a response of two or more cell types to a test compound, including: providing a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance, adding at least two different cell types to the device; adding at least one test compound to form at least two test compound wells; providing at least two control wells; monitoring impedance of the at least two test compound wells and of the at least two control wells at three or more time points after adding the at least one test compound; and analyzing measured impedance from the at least two test compound wells and from the at least two control wells at the three or more time points to obtain information on the response of the different cell types to the at least one test compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Yama A. Abassi, Xiaobo Wang, Xiao Xu
  • Patent number: 9200246
    Abstract: An insert device and co-culture device assembly incorporating the insert device, which includes an insert chamber with two fluid impermeable side walls that extend from a microporous bottom to an open top to form an inner cavity. The first side wall is shaped to form a convex arc that follows between about half of a circumference of the well and less than an entire circumference of the well. The second side wall joins ends of the first side wall and protrudes inward towards a center of the convex arc. A flange extends outward from or beneath the top and is notched to form a gap adjacent to the second side wall, which forms an access port allowing access to the lower chamber with a micropipette tip when the insert device is inserted into a well of a single or multi-well plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Ning Ke, Nan Li, Adrian Papas, Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Tianxing Wang, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 9158118
    Abstract: A prism including a substrate faceted to provide a plurality of flat surfaces, wherein at least two of the plurality of surfaces, each including a filter coating, form at least two filter surfaces, wherein each filter surface selectively permits passage of a predetermined wavelength and reflects remaining wavelengths along an optical path towards another of the plurality of surfaces, optionally another filter surface, wherein an angle of incidence of each of the plurality of surfaces along the optical path is equal or nearly equal. An apparatus incorporating the prism and its use for splitting a light spectrum into a plurality of wavelengths or wavelength ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Li, Ye Chen, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 9034885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
  • Patent number: 8921041
    Abstract: The present invention includes devices and methods for transfecting a cell or cell population and dynamic monitoring of cellular events. A variety of microelectronic devices are provide that incorporate functions such as electroporation, modulation of a transmembrane potential and dynamic monitoring of cellular functions and mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaobo Wang, Yama A. Abassi, Josephine Atienza, Xiao Xu, Junquan Xu
  • Patent number: 8916357
    Abstract: Methods for identifying a compound capable of interacting with a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) including providing a device capable of measuring cell-substrate impedance, adding test cells expressing a RTK to the device, measuring first impedances, adding a compound to at least one compound well and adding a vehicle control to at least one control well, measuring second impedances of the compound well and the control well, determining the change in the impedance for the compound well and the one control well, comparing the change in impedance between the compound well and the control well, and identifying the compound interacts with the RTK if the comparison demonstrates a significant difference between the change in impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Yama A. Abassi, Naichen Yu, Josephine Atienza, Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang
  • Publication number: 20140203818
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for monitoring excitable cells, such as cardiomyocytes, on microelectrode arrays that couple the electro-stimulation of excitable cells to induce or regulate cardiomyocyte beating and the simultaneous measurement of impedance and extracellular recording to assess changes in cardiomyocyte beating, viability, morphology or electrophysical properties in response to a plurality of treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaobo Wang, Wei Ouyang, Nan Li, Tianxing Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiao Xu, Yama A. Abassi
  • Patent number: 8685988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Acea Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
  • Publication number: 20140057283
    Abstract: A method for assaying target molecules in a sample liquid, the method comprising: providing an impedance monitoring device operably connected to an impedance analyzer; adding a sample liquid suspected of having target molecules to the well thereby permitting binding of target molecules to the capture molecules; monitoring impedance of the well; and determining the presence, amount or concentration of target molecules in the liquid sample from the monitored impedance. The device includes a nonconducting substrate having a well, at least two electrodes fabricated on a bottom of the well and on a same plane, wherein the surfaces of the at least two electrodes are modified with capture molecules configured to bind target molecules in a liquid sample, and at least two connection pads electrically connected to the at least two electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
    Inventor: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
  • Publication number: 20130200277
    Abstract: A system for detecting signal components of light induced by multiple excitation sources including: a flow channel including at least two spatially separated optical interrogation zones; a non-modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a first wavelength at a near constant intensity onto a first of the optical interrogation zones; a modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a second wavelength with an intensity modulated over time at a modulating frequency onto a second of the optical interrogation zones; a detector subsystem comprising a set of detectors configured to detect light emitted from particles flowing through the at least two optical interrogation zones and to convert the detected light into a total electrical signal; and a processor that determines signal components from the light detected from each of the optical interrogation zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
    Inventor: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
  • Publication number: 20130190320
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compounds, compositions and methods, especially as they are related to compositions and methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventor: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130143254
    Abstract: An insert device and co-culture device assembly incorporating the insert device, which includes an insert chamber with two fluid impermeable side walls that extend from a microporous bottom to an open top to form an inner cavity. The first side wall is shaped to form a convex arc that follows between about half of a circumference of the well and less than an entire circumference of the well. The second side wall joins ends of the first side wall and protrudes inward towards a center of the convex arc. A flange extends outward from or beneath the top and is notched to form a gap adjacent to the second side wall, which forms an access port allowing access to the lower chamber with a micropipette tip when the insert device is inserted into a well of a single or multi-well plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC., ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Ning Ke, Nan Li, Adrian Papas, Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Tianxing Wang, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: D684703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignees: ACEA Biosciences, Inc., Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Tianxing Wang, Nan Li, Xiaobo Wang