Patents Assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
  • Publication number: 20230303503
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): wherein the variables are as defined herein. Pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds are also provided. In some aspects, these compounds may be used for the treatment of diseases or disorders, such as a bacterial infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Jonathan L SESSLER, Adam C. SEDGWICK, James Thomas BREWSTER, II, Axel STEINBRÜCK
  • Patent number: 11766837
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are carbon-fiber reinforced polymeric composite and methods related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventor: Andrew Makeev
  • Patent number: 11767303
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present disclosure further relates to methods of inhibiting viral replication including contacting one or more cells that have been infected with a virus with an effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the virus comprises a flavivirus. Also disclosed is a method of treating and/or preventing a flavivirus infection and/or a condition resulting from a flavivirus infection including administering an effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof under conditions effective to treat and/or prevent a flavivirus infection and/or a condition resulting from a flavivirus infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: HEALTH RESEARCH, INC., BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    Inventors: Hongmin Li, Zhong Li, Jia Zhou, Jimin Xu, Qing-Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11767564
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for identifying expression of SDHA, MIF, and or monosomy 3 or disomy 3 status in sample to identify the sample as high-risk melanoma and/or the sensitivity to oxidative phosphorylation inhibitors. Also provided herein are methods for treating monosomy 3 uveal melanoma by administering a SDHA inhibitor in combination with an oxidative phosphorylation inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Chandrani Chattopadhyay, Janos Roszik
  • Patent number: 11766408
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions which shown preferential targeting or delivery of a nucleic acid composition to a particular organ. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a steroid or sterol, an ionizable cationic lipid, a phospholipid, a PEG lipid, and a permanently cationic lipid which may be used to deliver a nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Qiang Cheng, Tuo Wei, Daniel J. Siegwart
  • Patent number: 11767737
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for reducing fluid loss in a well bore, methods for wellbore strengthening and increasing the integrity of the borehole of an oil or gas well. Also disclosed are methods for artificially increasing the temperature of a subsurface formation in the wellbore to increase the apparent wellbore strength. The mechanism for accomplishing this revolves around increasing fracture propagation pressure by actively manipulating thermal wellbore stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Eric Van Oort, Besmir B. Hoxha, Ali Karimi Vajargah, Robert O. Williams, III, Hugh Smyth, Silvia Ferrati
  • Patent number: 11766402
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of manufacturing clinical grade exosomes derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Further provided are methods of loading the exosomes with therapeutic agents, such as siRNA. Also provided herein are methods of treating diseases by administering the clinical grade exosomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Elizabeth Shpall, Raghu Kalluri, Katy Rezvani, Mayela Mendt, Valerie Lebleu, Sushrut Kamerkar
  • Publication number: 20230295706
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to compositions and methods for amplifying and/or detecting one or more target nucleic acid sequences (e.g., a nucleic acid sequence of one or more pathogens) in a biological sample obtained from a subject. In some embodiments, the pathogens are viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic, or protozoan pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2 or an influenza virus. In some embodiments, the methods comprise isothermal amplification of a target nucleic acid and subsequent detection of the amplification products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: Detect, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Spencer Glantz, Jonathan M. Rothberg, Xinghua Shi, Benjamin Rosenbluth, Jaymin Patel, William A. Hansen, Jonathan Naccache, Hope Kronman, Henry Kemble, Caixia Lv, Andrew Ellington, Sanchita Bhadra
  • Publication number: 20230293474
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of identifying patients who have partial or total resistance to HIF-2 inhibitors or who develop partial or total resistance to HIF-2 inhibitors after treatment and providing suitable treatment to these patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: James B. BRUGAROLAS, Haley HILL, Tao WANG
  • Patent number: 11764786
    Abstract: A magneto-electric (ME) majority gate device includes a conducting device and a plurality of ME transistors coupled to the conducting device. In one implementation, the plurality of ME transistors include a ME AND gate device with downward interface polarization, a ME-transmission gate device with downward interface polarization, and a ME-XNOR gate device. In another implementation, the plurality of ME transistors is five single-input ME-FETs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nishtha Sharma Gaul, Andrew Marshall, Peter A. Dowben, Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • Patent number: 11762284
    Abstract: A method for fabricating patterns. An inverse optimization scheme is implemented to determine process parameters used to obtain a desired film thickness of a liquid resist formulation, where the liquid resist formulation includes a solvent and one or more non-solvent components. A substrate is covered with a substantially continuous film of the liquid resist formulation using one or more of the following techniques: dispensing discrete drops of a diluted monomer on the substrate using an inkjet and allowing the dispensed drops to spontaneously spread and merge, slot die coating and spin-coating. The liquid resist formulation is diluted in the solvent. The solvent is then substantially evaporated from the liquid resist formulation forming a film. A gap between a template and the substrate is then closed. The film is cured to polymerize the film and the substrate is separated from the template leaving the polymerized film on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Shrawan Singhal, Ovadia Abed, Lawrence Dunn
  • Patent number: 11759427
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for preparing micron-sized or submicron-sized particles by dissolving a water soluble effective ingredient in one or more solvents; spraying or dripping droplets solvent such that the effective ingredient is exposed to a vapor-liquid interface of less than 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 200, 400 or 500 cm?1 area/volume to, e.g., increase protein stability; and contacting the droplet with a freezing surface that has a temperature differential of at least 30° C. between the droplet and the surface, wherein the surface freezes the droplet into a thin film with a thickness of less than 500 micrometers and a surface area to volume between 25 to 500 cm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Keith P. Johnston, Joshua Engstrom, Robert O. Williams, III
  • Patent number: 11760799
    Abstract: Antibody antigen binding domains which specifically binds human leptin comprises VH or VL CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 sequences of an hLept antibody. The antibody antigen binding domains and antibodies thereof are useful to treat obesity and diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Zhiqiang An, Ningyan Zhang, Philipp E. Scherer, Shangang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11763451
    Abstract: The disclosure describes imaging and therapy techniques comprising nanodroplets. More particularly, aspects of the disclosure relate to the use of nanodroplets to modify nanobubbles or microbubbles to provide improved imaging and/or therapeutic techniques and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Robert F. Mattrey, Caroline De Gracia Lux, Jacques Lux, Zhenghong Gao, Carlos J. Brambila
  • Patent number: 11760858
    Abstract: The present invention includes a hydrogel and a method of making a porous hydrogel by preparing an aqueous mixture of an uncrosslinked polymer and a crystallizable molecule; casting the mixture into a vessel; allowing the cast mixture to dry to form an amorphous hydrogel film; seeding the cast mixture with a seed crystal of the crystallizable molecule; growing the crystallizable molecule into a crystal structure within the uncrosslinked polymer; crosslinking the polymer around the crystal structure under conditions in which the crystal structure within the crosslinked polymer is maintained; and dissolving the crystals within the crosslinked polymer to form the porous hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Scott Zawko, Christine Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20230288415
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and compositions for the prediction and treatment of immunotherapy-induced toxicities, as well as improved methods for the treatment of cancer with immunotherapies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Edward K. Wakeland, David E. Gerber, Quanzhen Li, Shaheen Khan, Saad Khan, Yang Xie, Jason Y. Park, Farjana Fattah, Xin Luo
  • Publication number: 20230285558
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure encompass methods and compositions related to cell therapy treatment, including for cancer. In specific embodiments, the disclosure concerns adoptive cell therapy cancer treatment in which tumor-1 infiltrating lymphocytes and/or engineered T cells are modified to increase their efficacy as a cancer treatment. In specific cases, the cells are engineered for knock out of one or more genes, such as Signaling Threshold Regulating Transmembrane Adaptor 1 (SIT1), Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Antigen 2 (BST2), and/or programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Patrick HWU, Barbara M. NASSIF RAUSSEO
  • Publication number: 20230288432
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for the identification, characterization and ranking of putative tau monomer stabilizing agents. Specifically, the disclosure provides methods for assessing the capability of a test compound to stabilize a tau monomer, methods of prioritizing a plurality of test compounds from a library identified as tau monomer stabilizing agents, methods of screening a test compound library to identify tau monomer stabilizing agents, and a kit providing the reagents to perform the described methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Marc I. DIAMOND, Jaime VAQUER-ALICEA, Gianna C. MAGGIORE
  • Patent number: 11753655
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases and/or disorders in a subject, including, but not limited to neurological disorders such as giant axonal neuropathy. The methods described herein include direct administration of a gene therapy (e.g. an rAAV viral vector) to a subject via injection into a vagus nerve (e.g. the left vagus nerve) of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Rachel M. Bailey, Steven J. Gray
  • Patent number: 11753381
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds which inhibit RIPK1, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment of RIPK1-mediated diseases, such as neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory disorders, and cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Richard T. Lewis, Matthew Michael Hamilton, William J. Ray, Fernando Alvarez, Dana E. Pfaffinger, Naphtali Reyna, Jason Cross, Suyambu Kesava Vijayan Ramaswamy