Patents Examined by Michael Szperka
  • Patent number: 11787874
    Abstract: The application relates to unique FX binding molecules, such as antibodies and fragments thereof which are useful in the treatment of haemophilia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Jacob Lund, Karina Thorn, Mikkel Nors Harndahl, Marie-Ange Buyse, Evelyn De Tavernier, Soren Steffensen
  • Patent number: 11787851
    Abstract: The present invention provides codon optimized Factor VIII sequences, vectors and host cells comprising codon optimized Factor VIII sequences, polypeptides encoded by codon optimized Factor VIII sequences, and methods of producing such polypeptides. The present invention also provides methods of treating bleeding disorders such as hemophilia comprising administering to the subject a codon optimized Factor VIII nucleic acid sequence or the polypeptide encoded thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BIOVERATIV THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Siyuan Tan, Robert T. Peters
  • Patent number: 11780915
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to human protease activated receptor 4 (PAR4) binding proteins (e.g. antibodies). In particular, anti-PAR4 binding proteins which are antagonists of human PAR4, as well as methods and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MONASH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Justin Hamilton, Mark Sleeman
  • Patent number: 11780907
    Abstract: The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind to the influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of use. The antibodies of the invention are useful for inhibiting or neutralizing influenza virus activity, thus providing a means of treating or preventing influenza infection in humans. In some embodiments, the invention provides for use of one or more antibodies that bind to the influenza HA for preventing viral attachment and/or entry into host cells. The antibodies of the invention may be used prophylactically or therapeutically and may be used alone or in combination with one or more other anti-viral agents or vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Lisa A. Purcell, Jonathan Viau, William Olson
  • Patent number: 11771743
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for preventing or treating allergy. Also provided are methods for reducing the susceptibility to an allergen in a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the subject has a disease or disorder selected from the group consisting of atopic dermatitis, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eosinophilic esophagitis. The methods of the present invention comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising an interleukin-4 receptor (IL-4R) antagonist such as an anti-IL-4R antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sanofi Biotechnolgy
    Inventors: Jennifer D. Hamilton, Brian N. Swanson
  • Patent number: 11773186
    Abstract: The disclosure generally provides antibodies and antigen binding fragments of antibodies that bind ticagrelor and metabolites of ticagrelor. The disclosure also provides compositions comprising the antibodies, nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies, methods of treating a patient comprising administering the antibodies, and methods of making and using the antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIMMUNE LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Buchanan, Sven Nylander, Mark Penney, Philip Newton, Feenagh Keyes, Tord Inghardt
  • Patent number: 11773163
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the prophylactic treatment of metastases. The inventors showed in vivo that lung metastasis in GPVI deficient mice are reduced compared to controls. They demonstrated that GPVI is involved in platetet interaction with tumor cells and this interaction is mediated by EMMPRIN.). Using an anti-EMMPRIN antibody, they showed that the adhesion of platelets to tumors cells is decreased. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for the prophylactic treatment of metastases in a patient suffering from cancer comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent which inhibits the interaction between GPVI and EMMPRIN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MÉDICALE), UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG, ETABLISSEMENT FRANçAIS DU SANG (EFS)
    Inventors: Pierre Mangin, Christian Gachet
  • Patent number: 11767359
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding agents, such as antibodies (including single chain variable fragments), that specifically bind complement component C3, including human C3, compositions comprising same, and methods of their use. The disclosure also provides related polynucleotides and vectors encoding the binding agents and cells comprising same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Yen Mei Duey, Zhonghao Liu, Jie Tang, Yan Wang, Yiyuan Yin, Wenwu Zhai, Jared Martin Higbee
  • Patent number: 11760790
    Abstract: Antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically bind to HIV-1 Env and neutralize HIV-1 are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors and host cells are also provided. Methods for detecting HIV-1 using these antibodies are disclosed. In addition, the use of these antibodies, antigen binding fragment, nucleic acids and vectors to prevent and/or treat an HIV-1 infection is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Paolo Lusso, Qingbo Liu, Peter Kwong, John Mascola, Young Do Kwon
  • Patent number: 11753470
    Abstract: The disclosure provides means and methods for interfering with Programmed Cell Death 1 protein (PD-1) and T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 (TIM-3) mediated inhibition in a PD-1 and/or TIM-3 positive cell. A method may comprise contacting said cell with an antibody or a functional part, derivative and/or analogue thereof that comprises a variable domain that can bind to an extracellular part of PD-1 and a variable domain that can bind to an extracellular part of TIM-3, thereby inhibiting PD-1 and/or TIM-3 mediated activity in said cell. The invention also provides antibodies or variants thereof that comprises a variable domain that can bind to an extracellular part of PD-1 and a variable domain that can bind to an extracellular part of TIM-3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Cecilia Anna Wilhelmina Geuijen, Rinse Klooster, Cornelis Adriaan De Kruif, Paulus Johannes Tacken, Mark Throsby, Ton Logtenberg
  • Patent number: 11747351
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of dosing Factor VIII or Factor IX chimeric and hybrid polypeptides. The present invention further provides high-sensitivity methods of quantifying an amount of activated FIX protein in a test sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BIOVERATIV THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Jurg Sommer, Haiyan Jiang, Xin Zhang, Buyue Yang, Glenn Pierce
  • Patent number: 11732020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology. Specifically, the invention provides antigen-specific T-cell receptors (TCRs). Further, the invention encompasses polynucleotides encoding the same and vectors comprising said polynucleotides. Host cells comprising the molecules of the invention are also provided. Moreover, the invention provides means and methods for diagnostics and therapy, in particular of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIGENE IMMUNOTHERAPIES GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Ellinger, Carina Wehner, Manon Weis, Susanne Wilde, Dolores Schendel
  • Patent number: 11725063
    Abstract: Provided is an isolated antibody that specifically binds to HPA-1a. Also provided is a nucleic acid molecule that encodes the antibody, and compositions comprising the antibody. Also provided is a method of producing the antibody and methods and uses which employ the antibody. Also provided are therapeutic uses of the antibody, for example in the treatment or prophylaxis of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Rallybio IPA, LLC
    Inventors: Terje Michaelsen, Oistein Ihle, Tor Brynjar Stuge, Anne Husebekk, Heidi Tiller, Mariana Eksteen, Bjorn Ragnar Skogen
  • Patent number: 11725045
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies or antigen binding polypeptides characterized by the ability to neutralize respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Specifically, the antibodies or antigen binding polypeptides are characterized by high affinity binding to RSV fusion glycoprotein (RSVF). Further provided are methods for their identification, isolation, generation, preparation, and use, as well as the heavy chain and light chain sequences of the antibodies provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc.
    Inventor: Laura M. Walker
  • Patent number: 11718650
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel peptides and homologues thereof. The peptides of the invention comprise (i) a T-cell epitope of an antigen (self or non-self) with a potential to trigger an immune reaction presented by a class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant and recognised by CD4+ T cell more specifically of an allergen or auto-antigen, coupled, optionally through the use of a linker to (ii) an amino acid sequence having a reducing activity, such as a thioreductase sequence. The peptides of the invention have been shown to be useful a medicine, more in particular for the prevention or treatment of immune disorders, more specifically of allergic disorders or autoimmune diseases. The present invention thus provides for the use of said peptides for the manufacture of a medicament for the prevention or treatment of an immune disorder and further provides for methods of treatment or preventing immune disorders by using said peptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: IMCYSE SA
    Inventor: Jean-Marie Saint-Remy
  • Patent number: 11717488
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods that enable the formation of pharmaceutically relevant particles that can be used for therapy. In particular, the methods disclosed herein allow the controlled formation of circular particles having low internal void spaces comprising bioactive therapeutic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Elektrofi, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Brown, Lyndon Fitzgerald Charles, Jr., Chase Spenser Coffman, Daniel Benjamin Dadon, James Ivey, Lisa Liu, Chaitanya Sudrik
  • Patent number: 11698375
    Abstract: A method for producing an examination reagent includes adding a helper ligand to a receptor protein which is unfolded in an initial solution so as to provide a pre-solution of the examination reagent with a receptor protein which is folded. The receptor protein which is folded comprises a bonded helper ligand which can be exchanged with an examination peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CONSTRUCTOR UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Hartmut Springer, Sunil Kumar Saini
  • Patent number: 11692033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated humanized protein binding to human Glycoprotein VI (hGPVI) for treating a GPVI-related condition in a subject in need thereof, wherein said isolated humanized protein is to be administered during at least 2 hours to the subject, preferably during at least 4 to 6 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: Acticor Biotech, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris-XIII, Inserm (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale), Université Paris-Saclay
    Inventors: Philippe Billiald, Martine Jandrot-Perrus, Gilles Avenard
  • Patent number: 11685771
    Abstract: Provided are recombinant Factor VIII proteins, e.g., human Factor VIII proteins with heterologous moieties inserted into flexible permissive loops located in the Factor VIII A domains, while retaining the procoagulant activity of Factor VIII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BIOVERATIV THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventor: John Kulman
  • Patent number: 11661460
    Abstract: Antibodies that bind the apple 3 domain of human coagulation Factor XI and inhibit activation of FXI by coagulation factor XIIa as well as activation of FIX by FXIa are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Adimab, LLC
    Inventors: Zhu Chen, Kenneth Ellsworth, James Milligan, Elizabeth Oldham, Dietmar Seiffert, Vaishnavi Ganti, Mohammad Tabrizifard, Bianka Prinz