Patents Examined by Maureen Varina Driscoll
  • Patent number: 12291576
    Abstract: Disclosed are anti-CD45 antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) useful in therapeutic methods, including targeting CD45 expressing hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) or immune cells prior to transplantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Vor Biopharma Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Palchaudhuri, Bradley R. Pearse, Hillary Adams, Sean McDonough, Michael Cooke, Anthony Boitano
  • Patent number: 12286476
    Abstract: The invention provides novel anti-FCMR antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and therapeutic methods of using such antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer or autoimmune disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    Inventors: Richard Brokx, Jacqueline M. Mason, Mark R. Bray
  • Patent number: 12286487
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibody compounds that contain a substitution of arginine for the reactive lysine residue (Lys99) in the hydrophobic cleft (38C2_Arg). The invention also provides antibody drug conjugate compounds (ADCs) that contain cargo moieties that are site-specifically conjugated to the engineered arginine residue in the 38C2_Arg variant antibody. Further provided in the invention are therapeutic applications of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: University Of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Christoph Rader, Dobeen Hwang, Napon Nilchan
  • Patent number: 12279630
    Abstract: A composition of matter comprising an extract of a plurality of seeds of an edible plant of interest is disclosed. Use of the composition and methods of generating same are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Tel HaShomer Medical Research Infrastructure and Services Ltd., The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center)
    Inventors: Mona Kidon, Ran Hovav
  • Patent number: 12258402
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modified antibody, or antigen-binding fragment thereof, specific for nectin cell adhesion molecule 4 (nectin-4). The present disclosure also relates to a method of detecting or diagnosing whether a subject has, or is at risk of developing a tumor, or assessing a prognosis of a tumor and a pharmaceutical composition for use in treating, prophylactic treating and/or preventing tumor in a subject afflicted with the tumor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NAVI BIO-THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Bor-Yu Tsai, Shin-Tsung Huang, Wei-Ting Hsu
  • Patent number: 12247073
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to compositions that include antibodies, e.g., monoclonal, antibodies, antibody fragments, etc., that specifically bind a CD33 polypeptide, e.g., a mammalian CD33 or human CD33, and use of such compositions in preventing, reducing risk, or treating an individual in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ALECTOR LLC
    Inventors: Patricia Culp, Helen Lam, Wei-Hsien Ho, Leonard G. Presta, Arnon Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 12246058
    Abstract: The disclosure provides polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Such polypeptides can be useful, for example, in treating pain in a subject. In some embodiments, the polypeptides are useful for treating neuropathic and/or inflammatory pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Creighton University
    Inventor: Shashank Dravid
  • Patent number: 12247081
    Abstract: Provided are bispecific or multispecific antibodies that include an anti-CEACAM5 portion and one or more anti-4-1BB nanobodies whose agonist activity is dependent on the presence of the CEACAM5 antigen. Such bispecific or multispecific antibodies are safe, and are efficacious in treating cancer and have long-term protective immunological memory against tumors. Methods of using the antibodies for treating diseases such as cancer are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LANOVA MEDICINES LIMITED
    Inventors: Runsheng Li, Wei Cao, Ying Qin Zang, Wentao Huang
  • Patent number: 12240904
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the use of an anti-PD-1 antibody in combination with famitinib in the preparation of a drug for treating tumors. In the present technical solution, toxicity is controllable and tolerable. At the same time, the described drug combination effectively reduces adverse reactions to the anti-PD-1 antibody, such as the occurrence of reactive capillary endothelial proliferation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd., Suzhou Suncadia Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianshan Zhang, Qing Yang, Quanren Wang, Xiaoxing Huang, Cheng Liao, Changyong Yang, Dingwei Ye, Xiaohua Wu
  • Patent number: 12195538
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-PD-L1/anti-4-1BB bispecific antibody capable to effectively block the interactions between PD-L1 and its receptor PD-1 and between 4-1BB and its ligand. The bispecific antibody may have high binding affinity to both of a PD-L1 protein and a 4-1BB protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: ABL BIO INC., I-MAB BIOPHARMA US LIMITED
    Inventors: Eunyoung Park, Yangsoon Lee, Hyejin Chung, Eunsil Sung, Jiseon Yoo, Minji Park, Yong-Gyu Son, Hyoju Choi, Eunjung Kim, Jaeho Jung, Weon-Kyoo You, Sang Hoon Lee, Lei Fang, Wenqing Jiang
  • Patent number: 12158468
    Abstract: Means and methods for determining whether an individual that does not have rheumatoid arthritis, AAV or Sjögren syndrome at the moment of sampling is at risk of developing the disease, the method comprising determining whether an antibody-containing sample of the individual comprises an autoantibody associated with the disease that comprises an N-linked glycosylation at one or more positions in a Fab-portion of the antibody, the method further comprising determining the risk of the individual for developing the disease. The disease is preferably rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden h.o.d.n. LUMC
    Inventors: Thomas Willem Johannes Huizinga, Reinaldus Everardus Maria Toes, Leendert Adrianus Trouw, Hans Ulrich Scherer
  • Patent number: 12139537
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an antibody for inducing immune tolerance, an induced lymphocyte, and a cell therapy agent therapeutic method using the induced lymphocyte. Specifically, the present disclosure provides an antibody that inhibits the interaction between CD80 and/or CD86 expressed on the surface of a certain cell and CD28 expressed on the surface of another cell, and substantially does not induce immune activation-induced cytokines. In a specific embodiment, the Fc portion of the antibody substantially does not produce the immune activation-induced cytokines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Junten Bio Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu Maeda, Masayuki Kawakami, Koichiro Uchida, Kazuyoshi Takeda, Ko Okumura
  • Patent number: 12134657
    Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies that bind, such as specifically bind, blood protein factor XII (FXII) are described. The monoclonal antibodies (including antigen-binding fragments thereof) are capable of forming immune complexes with human FXII and inhibiting FXII activity, resulting in safe anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Oregon Health & Science University, Aronora, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wallisch, Andras Gruber, Erik I. Tucker, Christina U. Lorentz
  • Patent number: 12129302
    Abstract: Materials and methods for using polypeptides containing fragments and variants of the antibody(ies) or portion(s) thereof that bind CD25 to treat cancer alone or in combination with other anti-neoplastic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: iBio, Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Phan, Martin Brenner, Brian Berquist, Peter Kipp, Tam Phuong, Kevin Babilonia, Tom Hsu, Lufei Hu, James Talmage Taylor, Jr., Cory Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12122843
    Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind glypican-1 (GPC1) are described. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, immunotoxins and other antibody conjugates based on the GPC1-specific antibodies are also described. The disclosed CAR T cells, immunotoxins, GPC1-specific antibodies and conjugates thereof can be used, for example, in the diagnosis or treatment of GPC1-positive pancreatic cancer and other cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Mitchell Ho, Nan Li, Jiajia Pan
  • Patent number: 12123016
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides components, compositions, methods, and systems thereof for nucleic acid editing. Particularly, the disclosure provides engineered nucleases, fusion proteins of the engineered nucleases, systems including the engineered nucleases, and methods of using thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Profluent Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Madani, Jeffrey A. Ruffolo, Stephen Nayfach, Aadyot Bhatnagar, Joel Beazer
  • Patent number: 12103980
    Abstract: Disclosed are the expression of a recombinant chicken IgY scFv antibody and monoclonal antibody raised against human thymidine kinase 1 (hTK1) in prokaryotic cells and a preparation method and use thereof. The scFv antibody includes an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. The anti-hTK1 recombinant scFv antibody and monoclonal antibody have good immunoreactivity, high specificity and sensitivity, and are easy to separate and purify.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SINO-SWED TONGKANG BIO-TECH (SHENZHEN) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hu Chen, Zuosheng Li, Huijun Li, Liwen Liang, Li Dang, Senbo Liu, Cong Fang, Peng Gao, Ellen He, Sven Isac Skog, Ji Zhou
  • Patent number: 12098198
    Abstract: The invention of the present application relates to a use of an antibody binding specifically to ECL-2 of claudin 3 and functional fragments thereof in cancer cell detection, diagnosis, imaging, and application to cancer treatment (anticancer use of the antibody itself, and application to ADC and CAR-expression cells (particularly immune cells)), an antibody that includes a characteristic CDR sequence exerting a remarkable effect in such uses, and a functional fragment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ABION INC.
    Inventors: Young Kee Shin, Sung Youl Hong, Young Deug Kim, Jun Young Choi, Heo Bin Yang, Ha Yeon Park, Sung Su Kim
  • Patent number: 12006353
    Abstract: An application of SCFV protein in preparation of a CAR gene expression vector is disclosed. The protein sequence of the SCFV protein is shown in SEQ ID No. 1. The 1st˜21st amino acids are the extracellular signal peptide amino acid sequences. The 22nd˜31st amino acids are Flag amino acid sequences. And the remaining sequences are CXCR4 scfv sequences. An application of the gene sequence encoding the SCFV protein in preparation of a CAR gene expression vector is disclosed, and the gene sequence is shown in SEQ ID No.2. A CAR gene expression vector and a CAR-T cell are disclosed. The expression vector is plent-EF1a-Flag-CXCR4 CAR, and CAR-T cells are used in the preparation of a drug for a targeted therapy of tumor cells with high expression of CXCR4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: Long Chen
  • Patent number: 11993663
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for preparing antigen binding proteins specific for PCSK9 with reduced viscosity. The method proceeds by replacing residues in high viscosity variable domain subfamilies with residues in correlating low viscosity subfamilies. The method further comprises substituting residues in the Fc domain with residues associated with low viscosity and adding charged residues to the C-terminus of the Fc domain. The present invention further concerns antigen binding proteins produced by this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Joon Hoi Huh, Riki Stevenson, Pavel Bondarenko, Andrew Nichols, Da Ren, Neeraj Jagdish Agrawal, Richard Smith