Patents Examined by Lynn Bristol
  • Patent number: 11851502
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel hetero-dimeric immunoglobulins or fragments thereof which bind to CD3 and a disease associated antigen. These hetero-dimeric immunoglobulins have been engineered to promote hetero-dimer formation during expression and can be purified to a high degree using a Protein A differential purification technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ichnos Sciences SA
    Inventors: Stanislas Blein, Romain Ollier, Darko Skegro, Samuel Hou
  • Patent number: 11851476
    Abstract: It was found that association between CH1 and CL can be suppressed by substituting amino acids that exist on the interface between CH1 and CL with electrically-charged amino acids, and that formation of heterogeneous molecules is enabled more efficiently than by introducing knobs into holes mutations into CH3 domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taichi Kuramochi, Meiri Kawazoe, Naoka Hironiwa, Tomoyuki Igawa
  • Patent number: 11851488
    Abstract: Described herein are novel anti-CD3 antibodies conjugated to folate and uses thereof treatment of diseases or conditions that would benefit from such conjugate are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ambrx, Inc.
    Inventors: Harun Rashid, Feng Tian, Marco Gymnopoulos
  • Patent number: 11839653
    Abstract: Antibodies that specifically bind to TIM 3 and antagonize TIM-3 function pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AGENUS INC.
    Inventors: Marc van Dijk, Ekaterina Vladimirovna Breous-Nystrom, Nicholas Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Dale Waight, Dennis John Underwood
  • Patent number: 11840567
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of bioengineering, specifically to antibodies or their antigen-binding fragments, and to the use thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to antibodies that bind specifically to CD47 and PD-L1. The invention also relates to a nucleic acid that codes for the given antibody or for the antigen-binding fragment thereof, to an expression vector, to a method of producing the antibody, and to a use of the aforementioned antibodies and compositions in cancer treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kirill Vladimirovich Solovyev, Andrei Borisovich Ulitin, Timofey Aleksandrovich Nemankin, Valery Vladimirovich Solovyev, Dmitry Valentinovich Morozov
  • Patent number: 11839630
    Abstract: The present invention is relative to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), wherein the CAR comprises an antibody or antibody fragment which includes a anti-IL-1RAP binding domain, polypeptides encoded by this nucleic acid molecule, isolated chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) molecule comprising such an antibody or antibody fragment, a vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding a CAR, as well as a T cell comprising this vector. The present invention is also relative to the use of this T cell (autologous or allogeneic) expressing a CAR molecule to treat a proliferative disease in a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: ETABLISSEMENT FRANCAIS DU SANG, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE BESANCON, UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE COMTE
    Inventors: Christophe Ferrand, Marina Deschamps, Fabrice Larosa
  • Patent number: 11827711
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to NKG2D, including multispecific antigen binding molecules e.g. for activation of T cells and/or NK cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such antibodies, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the antibodies, and to methods of using them in the treatment of disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Dengl, Guy Georges, Ralf Hosse, Inja Waldhauer, Christian Klein, Pablo Umana
  • Patent number: 11820815
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating, ameliorating, or inhibiting tumor growth, cancer, or pathological angiogenesis by administering to a subject in need thereof a human antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to human delta-like ligand 4 (hDll4) and blocks hDll4 binding to a Notch receptor. The anti-hDll4 antibody or fragment thereof of the present invention have a high affinity with the KD of 500 pM or less, as measured by surface plasmon resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Papadopoulos, Joel H. Martin, Eric Smith, Irene Noguera-Troise, Gavin Thurston
  • Patent number: 11820828
    Abstract: Methods for producing Fabs and IgG bi-specific antibodies comprising expressing nucleic acids encoding designed residues in the CH1/CL interface are provided. Also provided are Fabs and IgG bi-specific antibodies produced according to the provided methods as well as nucleic acids, vectors and host cells encoding the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Eli Lilly and Company, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Stephen John Demarest, Karen Jean Froning, Brian Arthur Kuhlman, Andrew Philip Leaver-Fay
  • Patent number: 11820818
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Tri-Specific Binding Molecules, which are multi-chain polypeptide molecules that possess three Binding Domains and are thus capable of mediating coordinated binding to three epitopes. The Binding Domains may be selected such that the Tri-Specific Binding Molecules are capable of binding to any three different epitopes. Such epitopes may be epitopes of the same antigen or epitopes of two or three different antigens. In a preferred embodiment, one of such epitopes will be capable of binding to CD3, the second of such epitopes will be capable of binding to CD8, and the third of such epitopes will be capable of binding to an epitope of a Disease-Associated Antigen. The invention also provides a novel ROR1-binding antibody, as well as derivatives thereof and uses for such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MACROGENICS, INC.
    Inventors: Leslie S. Johnson, Ling Huang, Gurunadh Reddy Chichili, Kalpana Shah, Chia-Ying Kao Lam, Stephen James Burke, Liqin Liu, Paul A. Moore, Ezio Bonvini, Bhaswati Barat
  • Patent number: 11820809
    Abstract: Provided herein are multispecific antibodies, e.g. bispecific antibodies, which are modified such that the desired chain pairing takes place and/or can be selected for. Specifically, this is achieved by using different dimerization domains for light chain pairing. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acids encoding for these antibodies, expression vectors comprising these nucleic acids, cells expressing them, and further to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies, as well as methods of isolating the antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SANOFI
    Inventors: Ercole Rao, Christian Beil, Christian Lange, Katja Kroll, Wulf-Dirk Leuschner, Ingo Focken, Thomas Langer, Nadja Spindler
  • Patent number: 11814441
    Abstract: The present invention provides antigen-binding polypeptides, including bi-specific antigen-binding polypeptides, that specifically bind to a first and a second target antigen with high affinity. The present invention also provides novel antigen-binding polypeptides that specifically bind to HER2 and antagonize HER2 activation. The invention also provides nucleic acids encoding the antigen-binding polypeptides, recombinant expression vectors and host cells for making such antigen binding polypeptides. Methods of using antigen-binding polypeptide of the invention to treat disease, including cancer, are also encompassed by the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: X-BODY, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Chen, Richard W. Wagner, Keming Zhang, Pascale Richalet
  • Patent number: 11802154
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, that bind to CD200. Also provided are uses of these proteins in therapeutic applications, such as the treatment of cancer and in conjunction with organ transplantation. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the heavy and/or light chain variable regions (or heavy and/or light chains) of the antibodies, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, and cells that produce the antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Taneisha Ann-Tanara Mack, Douglas L. Sheridan, Tadas Panavas
  • Patent number: 11795214
    Abstract: Antibody variants having decreased or increased ability to mediate CDC due to modifications at the C-terminus of their heavy chains are described. Methods of generating such antibodies, as well as nucleotide constructs and host cells suitable for the production of said antibodies are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENMAB A/S
    Inventors: Paul Parren, Patrick Van Berkel, Ewald Van Den Bremer
  • Patent number: 11787863
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a tetra-specific antibody monomer having a N-terminal and a C-terminal, comprising in tandem from the N-terminal to the C-terminal, a first scFv domain at the N-terminal, a Fab domain, a Fc domain, a second scFv domain, and a third scFv at the C-terminal, wherein the first scFv domain, the Fab domain, the second scFv domain, and the third scFv domain each has a binding specificity against a different antigen. In one embodiment, the antigen is a tumor antigen, an immune signaling antigen, or a combination thereof. Multi-specific antibodies comprising the disclosed tetra-specific antibodies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhu, Ole Olsen, Dong Xia, David Jellyman, Katrina Bykova, Anne-Marie K. Rousseau, Bill Brady, Blair Renshaw, Brian Kovacevich, Yu Liang, Zeren Gao
  • Patent number: 11780923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a PD-L1 antibody, antigen-binding fragments, and medical application thereof. Further, the present invention relates to chimeric antibodies and humanized antibodies comprising the CDR regions of the present PD-L1 antibody, as well as a pharmaceutical composition comprising the present PD-L1 antibody and the antigen-binding fragments thereof, and their use as anti-cancer drugs. In particular, the present invention relates to a humanized PD-L1 antibody and its use in preparation of a medicament for the treatment of PD-L1 mediated disease or disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Suzhou Suncadia Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd., Shanghai Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Qu, Qiyue Hu, Shaoyu Xu, Dongbing Cui, Houcong Jin, Weikang Tao, Lianshan Zhang, Guoqing Cao, Piaoyang Sun
  • Patent number: 11739153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-HLA-DQ2.5 antibodies and its use for the treatment of celiac disease. The present invention provides anti-HLA-DQ2.5 antibodies that have been modified. The anti-HLA-DQ2.5 antibodies of the invention have binding activity to complexes formed by HLA-DQ2.5 and a gluten peptide, but have substantially no binding activity to complexes formed by HLA-DQ2.5 and an irrelevant peptide. Furthermore, the antibodies of the invention are shown to have inhibitory effects on T cell activation by gluten peptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuri Ikawa, Yuu Okura, Akihiko Mizoroki
  • Patent number: 11739151
    Abstract: Provided are an anti-PD-L1/anti-CD47 bispecific antibody that has natural IgG characteristics and is in a highly stable heterodimer form without the heavy chain and light chain being mismatched, and a preparation method therefor. Either the first Fc chain or second Fc chain of the bispecific antibody comprises amino acid substitutions at positions 366 and 399, and the other comprises amino acid substitutions at positions 351, 407 and 409.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiawang Liu, Yaping Yang, Nanmeng Song, Maengsup Kim
  • Patent number: 11739137
    Abstract: A number of single domain antibodies (sdAb, also known as nanobodies or VHH) were developed that bind nucleocapsid protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They are useful for detecting the virus and could also find application in therapeutics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Ellen R. Goldman, George P. Anderson, Jinny L. Liu, Thomas J. Esparza
  • Patent number: 11739147
    Abstract: An isolated monoclonal antibody that specifically binds human Siglec15, or an antigen-binding portion thereof. A nucleic acid molecule encoding the antibody or antigen-binding portion thereof, an expression vector, a host cell and a method for expressing the antibody or antigen-binding portion thereof are also provided. The present disclosure further provides an immunoconjugate, a bispecific molecule, a chimeric antigen receptor, an oncolytic virus and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody or antigen-binding portion thereof, as well as a treatment method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Biosion Inc.
    Inventors: Mingjiu Chen, Shukai Xia