Patents Assigned to Bend Research Inc.
  • Publication number: 20220151920
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to inhalable dry powder formulations comprising one or more antibodies or one or more angiogenesis inhibiting active pharmaceutical ingredients, methods of manufacture of such compositions, e.g., via spray drying, as well as their local administration to the lung for use in the treatment, prevention and/or delay of progression of asthma, COPD, lung infections, cystic fibrosis, or lung cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Shepard, Michael Banks, David Vodak
  • Patent number: 11116728
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises multiparticulates comprising a melt-congeal core and a solid amorphous dispersion layer of a poorly water soluble drug and polymer. The multiparticulates are suitable for improving bioavailability of poorly water soluble drugs. The melt-congeal cores facilitate application of the solid amorphous dispersion layer, and allow incorporation of additional optional components to the core so as to adjust the release of drug from the multiparticulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne Thomas Friesen, Leah E. Appel, Joshua Richard Shockey, Sanjay Konagurthu, Edward Dennis LaChapelle
  • Publication number: 20210047606
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for sampling and/or controlling the productivity of a bioreactor. The system and methods can include a vessel capable of providing an environment suitable for containing whole broth that can produce the bioproduct, wherein the whole broth contains media and at least one undissolved species, an automated sampling system, a first analytical instrument, and a control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick J. Ray, Adam S. Carroll, Brandon J. Downey, Lisa J. Graham
  • Patent number: 10836991
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for sampling and/or controlling the productivity of a bioreactor. The system and methods can include a vessel capable of providing an environment suitable for containing whole broth that can produce the bioproduct, wherein the whole broth contains media and at least one undissolved species, an automated sampling system, a first analytical instrument, and a control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick J. Ray, Adam S. Carroll, Brandon J. Downey, Lisa J. Graham
  • Patent number: 10675602
    Abstract: The process comprises delivering a spray solution comprising an active agent and a matrix material in an organic solvent to a spray-drying apparatus, atomizing the spray solution into droplets within the spray-drying apparatus to remove at least a portion of the organic solvent from the droplets to form a plurality of particles, and collecting the particles. The spray solution may be formed by forming a feed suspension comprising the active agent, the matrix material, and the organic solvent, wherein the feed suspension is at a temperature T1, and directing the feed suspension to a heat exchanger, thereby increasing the temperature of the feed suspension to a temperature T2, wherein T2 is greater than T1, and the spray solution is at a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the organic solvent at T2, such that the active agent and matrix material are soluble in the organic solvent at T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne T. Friesen, David D. Newbold, John M. Baumann, Devon B. DuBose, Douglas L. Millard
  • Publication number: 20200017818
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for sampling and/or controlling the productivity of a bioreactor. The system and methods can include a vessel capable of providing an environment suitable for containing whole broth that can produce the bioproduct, wherein the whole broth contains media and at least one undissolved species, an automated sampling system, a first analytical instrument, and a control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick J. Ray, Adam S. Carroll, Brandon J. Downey, Lisa J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20190307702
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises multiparticulates comprising a melt-congeal core and a solid amorphous dispersion layer of a poorly water soluble drug and polymer. The multiparticulates are suitable for improving bioavailability of poorly water soluble drugs. The melt-congeal cores facilitate application of the solid amorphous dispersion layer, and allow incorporation of additional optional components to the core so as to adjust the release of drug from the multiparticulate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne Thomas Friesen, Leah E. Appel, Joshua Richard Shockey, Sanjay Konagurthu, Edward Dennis LaChapelle
  • Patent number: 10421939
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for sampling and/or controlling the productivity of a bioreactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick J. Ray, Adam S. Carroll, Brandon J. Downey, Lisa J. Graham
  • Publication number: 20190262791
    Abstract: The process comprises delivering a spray solution comprising an active agent and a matrix material in an organic solvent to a spray-drying apparatus, atomizing the spray solution into droplets within the spray-drying apparatus to remove at least a portion of the organic solvent from the droplets to form a plurality of particles, and collecting the particles. The spray solution may be formed by forming a feed suspension comprising the active agent, the matrix material, and the organic solvent, wherein the feed suspension is at a temperature T1, and directing the feed suspension to a heat exchanger, thereby increasing the temperature of the feed suspension to a temperature T2, wherein T2 is greater than T1, and the spray solution is at a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the organic solvent at T2, such that the active agent and matrix material are soluble in the organic solvent at T2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne T. Friesen, David D. Newbold, John M. Baumann, Devon B. DuBose, Douglas L. Millard
  • Patent number: 10383941
    Abstract: Spray drying processes are used to form pharmaceutical compositions comprising a solid amorphous dispersion of a drug and a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Arthur Beyerinck, Daniel Elmont Dobry, Dwayne Thomas Friesen, Dana Marie Settell, Roderick Jack Ray
  • Patent number: 10357455
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises a solid amorphous dispersion comprising a low-solubility drug and a concentration-enhancing polymer and a lipophilic microphase-forming material. Alternatively, a solid amorphous dispersion comprising a low-solubility drug and a concentration-enhancing polymer is co-administered with a lipophilic microphase-forming material to an in vivo use environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Perlman, Ravi M. Shanker, Walter C. Babcock, Dwayne Thomas Friesen, Mark D. Rabenstein, Daniel Tod Smithey
  • Patent number: 10322126
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions including a solid dispersion comprising a dispersion polymer, a basic low-water solubility active, and an anionic counterion, as well as methods of making and using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren K. Miller, Michael M. Morgen
  • Patent number: 10300443
    Abstract: The process comprises delivering a spray solution comprising an active agent and a matrix material in an organic solvent to a spray-drying apparatus, atomizing the spray solution into droplets within the spray-drying apparatus to remove at least a portion of the organic solvent from the droplets to form a plurality of particles, and collecting the particles. The spray solution may be formed by forming a feed suspension comprising the active agent, the matrix material, and the organic solvent, wherein the feed suspension is at a temperature T1, and directing the feed suspension to a heat exchanger, thereby increasing the temperature of the feed suspension to a temperature T2, wherein T2 is greater than T1, and the spray solution is at a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the organic solvent at T2, such that the active agent and matrix material are soluble in the organic solvent at T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne T. Friesen, David D. Newbold, John M. Baumann, Devon B. DuBose, Douglas L. Millard
  • Publication number: 20180338915
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises a solid amorphous dispersion comprising a low-solubility drug and a concentration-enhancing polymer and a lipophilic microphase-forming material. Alternatively, a solid amorphous dispersion comprising a low-solubility drug and a concentration-enhancing polymer is co-administered with a lipophilic microphase-forming material to an in vivo use environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Perlman, Ravi M. Shanker, Walter C. Babcock, Dwayne Thomas Friesen, Mark D. Rabenstein, Daniel Tod Smithey
  • Publication number: 20180265834
    Abstract: A cassette comprising: a first reservoir arranged to couple to a first actuator for imparting flow to a cell-containing solution in a first direction through a filter; a second reservoir arranged to couple to a second actuator for imparting flow to a cell-containing solution in a second direction through the filter; the filter being in fluid communication with the first and second reservoirs, and when connected to a filtration unit is in further fluid communication to a sample inlet, and a sample outlet; wherein, the cassette is disposable and housed by a connector being removeably adjoinable to the filtration unit, the filtration unit comprising the first and second actuators and one or more valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Bend Research Inc.
    Inventors: David Dixon Newbold, Clinton Boyd Pepper, David Andrew Hansen
  • Publication number: 20180015041
    Abstract: Disclosed are processes for forming compositions comprising small domains of an active agent and a matrix material, and methods of using them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: David Thomas Vodak, Dwayne Thomas Friesen
  • Publication number: 20180000738
    Abstract: Methods for making particulate material include providing a first solution comprising one or more solvents and an active agent, providing a second solution comprising an antisolvent, mixing the first solution with the second solution to form a mixture, atomizing the mixture with a gas to produce droplets, and drying the droplets by directing the droplets into a chamber for removal of the solvent and the antisolvent to produce solid particles. Various apparatuses for producing particulate material in this manner are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram J. Pansare, Aaron Keith Goodwin, Ronald Arthur Beyerinck, Robert K. Prud'homme, Dwayne Thomas Friesen, David Thomas Vodak
  • Publication number: 20170340637
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions including a solid dispersion comprising a dispersion polymer, a basic low-water solubility active, and an anionic counterion, as well as methods of making and using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren K. Miller, Michael M. Morgen
  • Publication number: 20170333861
    Abstract: The process comprises delivering a spray solution comprising an active agent and a matrix material in an organic solvent to a spray-drying apparatus, atomizing the spray solution into droplets within the spray-drying apparatus to remove at least a portion of the organic solvent from the droplets to form a plurality of particles, and collecting the particles. The spray solution may be formed by forming a feed suspension comprising the active agent, the matrix material, and the organic solvent, wherein the feed suspension is at a temperature T1, and directing the feed suspension to a heat exchanger, thereby increasing the temperature of the feed suspension to a temperature T2, wherein T2 is greater than T1, and the spray solution is at a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the organic solvent at T2, such that the active agent and matrix material are soluble in the organic solvent at T2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne T. Friesen, David D. Newbold, John M. Baumann, Devon B. DuBose, Douglas L. Millard
  • Patent number: RE47033
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises a solid adsorbate comprising a drug adsorbed onto a substrate and a lipophilic microphase-forming material. The solid adsorbate may also be co-administered with a lipophilic microphase-forming material to an in vivo use environment. The compositions of the present invention enhance the concentration of drug in a use environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter C. Babcock, Dwayne T. Friesen, Ravi M. Shanker, Daniel T. Smithey