Patents Examined by Meera Natarajan
  • Patent number: 12215159
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to anti-CD161 antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and methods of using such antibodies for treating disorders associated with or mediated by CD161, for example, certain cancers. In addition, the invention also relates to expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: IMMUNITAS THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Alison Tisdale, Uli Bialucha, George Punkosdy, Alexandria Fusco, Frano Irvine, Emily Rosentrater, Elizabeth Scanlon, Michael Battles
  • Patent number: 12215164
    Abstract: Disclosed is a molecule comprising: (a) a first domain, which comprises a targeting moiety; (b) a second domain, which comprises an albumin binding domain (ABD), (c) a third domain, which comprises a furin cleavage sequence (“FCS”), which FCS is cleavable by furin; and (d) a fourth domain, which comprises an optionally substituted Domain III from Pseudomonas exotoxin A (“PE”). Related nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of producing the molecule, methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal, and methods of inhibiting the growth of a target cell are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Ira H. Pastan, Junxia Wei, Masanori Onda, Tapan Bera, Mitchell Ho
  • Patent number: 12202910
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to FLT3 (Fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3). The invention further provides bispecific antibodies that bind to FLT3 and another antigen (e.g., CD3). The invention further relates to antibody encoding nucleic acids, and methods of obtaining such antibodies (monospecific and bispecific). The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these antibodies for the treatment of FLT3-mediated pathologies, including cancer such as Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Danielle Elizabeth Dettling, Yik Andy Yeung, Kristian Todd Poulsen, Veena Krishnamoorthy, Cesar Adolfo Sommer
  • Patent number: 12195535
    Abstract: The present application relates to antibodies specifically binding to the V-domain immunoglobulin-containing suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) at acidic pH and their use in cancer treatment. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind specifically to human VISTA at acidic pH, but do not significantly bind to human VISTA at neutral or physiological pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Johnston, Arvind Rajpal, Paul O. Sheppard, Luis Borges, Andrew Rankin, Keith Sadoon Bahjat, Alan J. Korman, Andy X. Deng, Lin Hui Su, Ginger Rakestraw
  • Patent number: 12195529
    Abstract: The invention provides bispecific heterodimeric antibodies with modified heavy chain IgG constant regions that promote efficient assembly of antibody heavy chain heterodimer pairs, as well as arm specific pairing of heavy and light chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GSBIO, LLC
    Inventor: Guriqbal S. Basi
  • Patent number: 12195533
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to multispecific polypeptides that bind at least CD3, a second antigen, and a receptor of a T cell, such as a costimulatory receptor or an inhibitory receptor, in which the multispecific polypeptide constructs are able to engage CD3. In some embodiments, the multispecific polypeptide constructs bind a costimulatory receptor and provide costimulatory binding activity. In some embodiments, the multispecific polypeptide constructs bind an inhibitory receptor and block inhibitory activity. In some aspects, the multispecific polypeptides have constrained CD3 binding and bind to or engage CD3 only upon binding to the second antigen, such as a tumor associated antigen. In some embodiments, the multispecific polypeptides contain cleavable linkers that, when cleaved, result in dual effector functions. Also provided are methods of making and using these multispecific polypeptides in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Inhibrx Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan P. Eckelman, Michael D. Kaplan, Katelyn M. Willis, Quinn Deveraux, Kyle S. Jones, Rajay A. Pandit, John C. Timmer
  • Patent number: 12186278
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of mesothelin comprising administering a cell that expresses a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to mesothelin in combination with a PD-L1 inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Hwai Wen Chang, Boris Engels, Gordon James Freeman, Gerhard Johann Frey, Jennifer Marie Mataraza, Reshma Singh, Arlene Helen Sharpe
  • Patent number: 12187797
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies that bind signal regulatory protein gamma (SIRP?), as well as SIRP? and/or SIRP?1, and methods of using such antibodies (referred to as SIRP antibodies). In some embodiments, the SIRP antibodies are human monoclonal antibodies that bind human SIRP? as well as SIRP? and/or SIRP?1. In some embodiments, the SIRP antibodies provided herein are useful for treating a disease or condition associated with overactivation and/or hyperproliferation of lymphocytes, myeloid cells, or a combination thereof, or a disease or condition associated with SIRP?, SIRP?1 and/or SIRP? activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Electra Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandip Panicker, Adam David Rosenthal, Eileen Lingshu Rose
  • Patent number: 12178858
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a pharmaceutical composition containing a fusion protein comprising an antibody and a lysosomal enzyme as an active ingredient, which is stable enough to permit its distribution to the market. [Solution] A lyophilized formulation containing; a fusion protein comprising an antibody and a lysosomal enzyme as an active ingredient, and further containing a neutral salt, a disaccharide, a nonionic surfactant, and a buffer. Such a lyophilized formulation includes, for example, as an active ingredient, a fusion protein comprising an anti-transferrin receptor antibody and human iduronate-2-sulfatase, and further containing sodium chloride as the neutral salt, sucrose as the disaccharide, poloxamer as the nonionic surfactant, and phosphate buffer as the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehito Yasukawa, Yuka Yamaguchi, Shinji Okabe
  • Patent number: 12178787
    Abstract: Provided are T cell receptors (TCR) and TCR variable regions that can selectively bind SLC45A2. The TCR may be utilized in various therapies, such as autologous cell transplantation, to treat a cancer, such as a cutaneous melanoma, uveal melanoma, a mucosal melanoma, or a metastatic melanoma. Methods for expanding a population of T cells that target SLC45A2 are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Gregory Lizée, Cassian Yee
  • Patent number: 12180279
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the generation of multispecific antibodies directly on the cell-surface at the site of action by a half-antibody exchange reaction between two 2/3-IgGs or two 2/3-BiFabs destabilized in one half by asymmetric perturbing mutations fostering the generation of correctly assembled full length bi- or multispecific antibodies. The method is performed in the absence hinge region disulfide bonds in the starting 2/3-IgGs or 2/3-BiFabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich Brinkmann, Klaus Mayer, Steffen Dickopf
  • Patent number: 12180293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to combination therapies for the treatment of malignancy, particularly myeloid malignancy such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The combination therapies may include an antibody molecule that binds to CD70 and at least one antibody molecule that binds to a leukemic stem cell target. Preferred leukemic stem cell targets are TIM-3, IL1R3/1L1RAP and CD47.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: argenx BV
    Inventors: Luc Van Rompaey, Mahan Moshir, Tim Delahaye, Piotr Zabrocki
  • Patent number: 12180276
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity to the claudin 6 (CLDN6) protein as well as their derivatives and uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LANOVA MEDICINES LIMITED
    Inventors: Runsheng Li, Wentao Huang, Ying Qin Zang, Zhifang Liu
  • Patent number: 12173069
    Abstract: The present application relates to antibodies specifically binding to the V-domain immunoglobulin-containing suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) at acidic pH and their use in cancer treatment. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind specifically to human VISTA at acidic pH, but do not significantly bind to human VISTA at neutral or physiological pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Johnston, Arvind Rajpal, Paul O. Sheppard, Luis Borges, Andrew Rankin, Keith Sadoon Bahjat, Alan J. Korman, Xiaodi Deng, Lin Hui Su, Ginger Rakestraw, Jason R. Pinckney, David A. Critton, Guodong Chen, Richard Y. Huang, Ekaterina G. Deyanova
  • Patent number: 12168692
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to antibodies and antibody fragment that are specific for CCR2. The antibodies deplete CCR2-positive cells and block MCP-1 (CCL2) induced downregulation of CCR2 on human leukocytes. Furthermore, they possess advantageous biophysical properties. The antibodies are useful for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, hematologic malignancies and potentially other illnesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Granite Bio AG
    Inventor: Matthias Mack
  • Patent number: 12168689
    Abstract: An IgG1 Fc monomer, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. Causing an Fc dimer of a novel IgG1 Fc monomer sequence for which an antibody IgG1 constant region is modified to become an Fc monomer by means of the modification on a human antibody IgG1 constant region Fc that uses antibody engineering technology, and maintaining an FcRn binding function; the present application has the feature of very low non-specific binding with unrelated proteins, and the main features of the Fc monomer comprise the T366, L368, P395, and K409 positions in a CH3 region of the constant region of the antibody having mutations, and the monomer being highly efficiently expressed in prokaryotic cells; the monomer may bind to FcRn by using a pH-dependent specific binding mode, and has the feature of very low non-specific binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Suzhou Forlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianlei Ying, Chunyu Wang
  • Patent number: 12162941
    Abstract: The invention provides anti-CD112R antibody compositions and their use in treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Surface Oncology, LLC
    Inventors: Bianka Prinz, Nadthakarn Boland, Kevin Schutz, John Bukowski, Jennifer Symonds, James Mohan, Marisella Panduro Sicheva
  • Patent number: 12157758
    Abstract: A bispecific antibody format providing ease of isolation is provided, comprising immunoglobulin heavy chain variable domains that are differentially modified in the CH3 domain, wherein the differential modifications are non-immunogenic or substantially non-immunogenic with respect to the CH3 modifications, and at least one of the modifications results in a differential affinity for the bispecific antibody for an affinity reagent such as Protein A, and the bispecific antibody is isolable from a disrupted cell, from medium, or from a mixture of antibodies based on its affinity for Protein A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Davis, Eric Smith, Douglas MacDonald, Kara Louise Olson
  • Patent number: 12139553
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to novel bispecific antigen binding molecules for T cell activation and re-direction to specific target 511cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such bispecific antigen binding molecules, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the bispecific antigen binding molecules of the invention, and to methods of using these bispecific antigen binding molecules in the treatment of disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Marina Bacac, Peter Bruenker, Anne Freimoser-Grundschober, Ralf Hosse, Christian Klein, Ekkehard Moessner, Pablo Umana, Tina Weinzierl
  • Patent number: 12134654
    Abstract: Multispecific molecules targeting tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) or myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) and methods of using the same, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MARENGO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Stephanie J. Maiocco