Patents Assigned to Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
  • Patent number: 9519776
    Abstract: The present invention is a computer security system and method in which the various algorithms not only do not search for or detect the presence of a steganographic or other hidden image in a data file or across data files, but also includes at least one or more combined approaches for altering and neutralizing any hidden messages without significantly detracting from the underlying integrity of the data file or files thus treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Charles Wood
  • Patent number: 9511069
    Abstract: Fused cyclic pyrimidine compounds, including tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and hydrates thereof, are disclosed having the general Formula 1: These compounds are useful in methods for treating cancer, selectively targeting cancerous cells via the proton coupled folate transporter, folate receptor alpha, and/or folate receptor beta pathways, inhibiting GARFTase in cancerous cells, and selectively targeting activated macrophages in a patient having an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly
  • Patent number: 9458167
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 9370526
    Abstract: A combination hormone and melatonin therapy is provided to reduce the risk of developing, or to reduce the severity of, breast cancer by administering at least one estrogen hormone and optionally at least one progesterone-receptor-binding compound or composition and melatonin together, preferably at normal bed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A. Witt-Enderby, Vicki L. Davis
  • Patent number: 9139590
    Abstract: Bicyclic and tricyclic pyrimidine tyrosine kinase inhibitors with antitubulin activity are provided in the present invention. The compositions of the present invention possess dual activity in a single agent of potent vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitory activity as well as antitubulin activity. Water soluble salts of these compositions are also described. Methods of treating a patient having cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis with the compositions and salts thereof of the present invention are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Publication number: 20150193653
    Abstract: A method for identifying an animal or human, including the steps of collecting and retaining an archive data set of measurements of two or more kinetic stylometrics of a first individual animal or human; collecting and retaining a test data set of measurements of the same two or more kinetic stylometrics of a test individual; and comparing archive and test data sets to determine similarity therefore, wherein similarity within any appropriate confidence interval confirms that the test individual and the first individual are the same. Using similar methods, social or other groups maybe kinetically stylometrically profiled for subsequent individual testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    Inventors: Patrick Juola, Michael Ryan
  • Patent number: 9056869
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 9045489
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Publication number: 20150047037
    Abstract: The present invention is a computer security system and method in which the various algorithms not only do not search for or detect the presence of a steganographic or other hidden image in a data file or across data files, but also includes at least one or more combined approaches for altering and neutralizing any hidden messages without significantly detracting from the underlying integrity of the data file or files thus treated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    Inventor: Charles Wood
  • Publication number: 20150046346
    Abstract: Novel distractorless authorship verification technology optionally combines with novel algorithms to solve authorship attribution as to an open set of candidates—such as without limitation by analyzing the voting of “mixture of experts” and outputting the result to a user using the following: if z (z=pi?pj?pi+pj?(pi?pj)2/n) is larger than a first predetermined threshold then author j cannot be the correct author; or if z (z=pi?pj?pi+pj?(pi?pj)2/n) is smaller than a second predetermined threshold then author i cannot be the correct author; or if no author garners significantly more votes than all other contenders then none of the named authors is the author of a document in question—in a number of novel applications. Personality profiling and authorship attribution may also be used to verify user identity to a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Patrick Juola, James Orlo Overly, John Isaac Noecker, JR., Michael Ryan, Christine Gray
  • Patent number: 8946239
    Abstract: The present invention provides substituted pyrrolo-, furano-, and cyclopentylpyrimidine bicyclic compounds of formula III, and 5,6-saturated and unsaturated and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, and hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, such as for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Publication number: 20140303188
    Abstract: The present invention provides substituted cyclopenta and cyclopentyl pyrimidine bicyclic compounds of Formula III, and 5,6-saturated and unsaturated and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, and hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, such as for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 8793566
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling, managing and reporting usage of two or more training facilities by two or more grade levels xl of instruction with two or more classifications of instruction defining typical student experience and hours including user defined multi-criteria queries, using a computer and a spreadsheet with single cell data entry and specified formulas to generate particular scheduling, tracking and reporting of facilities scheduled and educational hours' completed with infinite levels of classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Carole M. Brletic
  • Patent number: 8785501
    Abstract: A particularly constructed tamoxifen-melatonin hybrid ligand gives new and unexpectedly improved results in the prevention and treatment of cancer, particularly breast cancer. The hybrid ligand comprises either tamoxifen or 4-hydroxytamoxifen and also melatonin, with the tamoxifen or 4-hydroxytamoxifen and melatonin's being linked by an unsubstituted C2-C6 alkyl linker between the tamoxifen amine and the carbonyl of melatonin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A. Witt-Enderby, Vicki L. Davis, David Lapinsky
  • Publication number: 20140171396
    Abstract: A combination hormone and melatonin therapy is provided to reduce the risk of developing, or to reduce the severity of, breast cancer by administering at least one estrogen hormone and optionally at least one progesterone-receptor-binding compound or composition and melatonin together, preferably at normal bed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A. Witt-Enderby, Vicki L. Davis
  • Patent number: 8618083
    Abstract: A combination hormone and melatonin therapy is provided to reduce the risk of developing, or to reduce the severity of, breast cancer by administering at least one estrogen hormone and optionally at least one progesterone-receptor-binding compound or composition and melatonin together, preferably at normal bed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A Witt-Enderby, Vicki L Davis
  • Patent number: 8535706
    Abstract: A bone implant, and bone implant material, includes a calcium- and oxide-containing artificial graft material in a scaffold, to which melatonin and an optional cell adhesion peptide are absorbed or covalently linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A. Witt-Enderby, Kenneth McGowan, James Rutkowski, Ellen S. Gawalt, Rachelle Palchesko
  • Patent number: 8465808
    Abstract: A process for modifying a surface of a metal is provided. The process includes providing a metal surface having a metal oxide, contacting the metal oxide with an organic acid having a hydroxamic acid, a sulphonic acid, or a carboxylic acid functional group, and depositing the organic acid on the surface of the metal oxide for providing a modified metal surface. Modified metal compositions are disclosed having a metal surface or a metal alloy surface having a metal oxide, and an organic acid having a functional group that is deposited onto the surface of the metal oxide forming a self assembled monolayer, multiple monolayers, or a film of a sulphonate, a hydroxamic acid, or a carboxylate with —COOH, —OH and —NH2 terminal tail groups on the native oxide surface of the metal or the metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Ellen S. Gawalt
  • Patent number: 8309564
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Duquesne University of The Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 8252804
    Abstract: Fused cyclic pyrimidine compounds, including tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and hydrates thereof, are disclosed having the general Formula I: These compounds are useful in methods for treating cancer, selectively targeting cancerous cells via the proton coupled folate transporter, folate receptor alpha, and/or folate receptor beta pathways, inhibiting GARFTase in cancerous cells, and selectively targeting activated macrophages in a patient having an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly