Patents Examined by Peter J. Reddig
  • Patent number: 11827889
    Abstract: The invention provides an isolated and purified nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) directed against B-cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA). The invention also provides host cells, such as T-cells or natural killer (NK) cells, expressing the CAR and methods for destroying multiple myeloma cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: James N. Kochenderfer
  • Patent number: 11786457
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for reducing tumor-mediated immune evasion and inducing patient-specific immunization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Sandeep T. Koshy, David J. Mooney
  • Patent number: 11788086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) modulating compound for use in the treatment of a tumor and in the diagnosis of a cancer. The present invention also relates to a method of diagnosing lung cancer in an individual and to a method of providing a prognosis to an individual suffering from lung cancer. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method of diagnosing colorectal cancer in an individual, a method of differentiating between colon cancer (CC) and rectum cancer (RC) in an individual, a method of determining whether an individual responds to a therapeutic treatment of colorectal cancer, and to a method of determining the course of colorectal cancer in an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CBMED GMBH CENTER FOR BIOMARKER RESEARCH IN MEDICINE
    Inventors: Johannes Haybaeck, Nicole Golob-Schwarzl, Stefanie Krassnig, Nadine Thaler, Julia Judith Unterluggauer, Alexander Deutsch
  • Patent number: 11774442
    Abstract: The present described inventions relate, inter alia, to methods and compositions that provide for improved detection of target molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: enEvolv, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Spoonamore, Noah D. Taylor, Kristin J. Adolfsen, Matthew R. Dunn, Ilan N. Wapinski, Jay H. Konieczka
  • Patent number: 11771764
    Abstract: This patent application relates to the treatment of cancer and other diseases that have a CD47+ phenotype. Treatment involves the use of radiation and a CD47-binding agent, preferably a CD47-binding form of human signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa) that inhibits activation of the CD47/SIRPa axis and mediates phagocytosis of CD47+ disease cells. An anti-cancer effect of a CD47 blocking agent is enhanced when combined with radiation therapy. The anti-cancer effect of a CD47 blocking agent such as SIRPaFc is enhanced when combined with radiation therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Cui, Lisa Danae Schultz Johnson
  • Patent number: 11773156
    Abstract: Provided herein are monoclonal antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind to the influenza B hemagglutinin (HA) protein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of use. The antibodies are useful for inhibiting or neutralizing influenza B virus activity, thus providing a means of treating or preventing influenza infection in humans. Also provided is the use of one or more antibodies that bind to the influenza B HA for preventing viral attachment and/or entry into host cells. The antibodies 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: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Alina Baum, Christos Kyratsous
  • Patent number: 11773396
    Abstract: The invention provides an isolated and purified nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) directed against B-cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA). The invention also provides host cells, such as T-cells or natural killer (NK) cells, expressing the CAR and methods for destroying multiple myeloma cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: James N. Kochenderfer
  • Patent number: 11760786
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptide having an antigen binding domain comprising an extracellular lectin which specifically binds to glycoproteins expressed on the surface of target cells. Also provided herein are engineered lymphocytes expressing the CAR polypeptide, a nucleic acid molecule encoding the CAR polypeptide, and methods of treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Challice L. Bonifant, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, David M. Markovitz
  • Patent number: 11760806
    Abstract: There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CD38 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CD38, CD38-antibody binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CD38-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating a disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanliang Zhang, Heyue Zhou, Qianzhong Ma
  • Patent number: 11752150
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a composition for inhibiting the growth and/or invasion of tumor cells, an enhancer of an anti-tumor effect of a drug for the purpose of removing immunosuppression caused by cancer, or the like, which is characterized by being used for a specific subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nobuo Tsukamoto
    Inventor: Nobuo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11746159
    Abstract: The present application discloses humanized antibodies and antibody like proteins and fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MINERVA BIOTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cynthia Bamdad, Benoit Smagghe
  • Patent number: 11732021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Heiko Schuster, Daniel Johannes Kowalewski, Oliver Schoor, Jens Fritsche, Toni Weinschenk, Harpreet Singh, Gisela Schimmack, Michael Roemer
  • Patent number: 11725061
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions related to chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) that target chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-4 (CSPG4). T cells transduced with a CSPG4-specific CAR are effective for inhibition of particular cancer cells that express CSPG4. In certain embodiments, the cancer is melanoma, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, mesothelioma, glioblastoma, or renal cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, Baylor College of Medicine
    Inventors: Gianpietro Dotti, Soldano Ferrone
  • Patent number: 11718659
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods relating to agents that target a lineage-specific cell-surface antigen and a population of hematopoietic cells that are deficient in the lineage-specific cell-surface antigen for immunotherapy of hematological malignancies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Siddhartha Mukherjee, Abdullah Mahmood Ali, Florence Borot
  • Patent number: 11708423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to chimeric engulfment receptor molecules, host cells modified to include the phagocytic engulfment molecules, and methods of making and using such receptor molecules and modified cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CERO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Mark Corey
  • Patent number: 11697688
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides antibody sequences found in antibodies that bind to human CD25, in particular an anti CD25-a-674 antibody which do not block the binding of CD25 to IL-2 or IL-2 signalling. The claimed antibody binds to the epitopes: QCVQGYRA and RWTQPQLICTG on CD25 Antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof including such sequences can be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment, in particular for treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: Tusk Therapeutics Ltd., Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Anne Goubier, Beatriz Goyenechea Corzo, Josephine Salimu, Kevin Moulder, Pascal Merchiers, Mark Brown, James Geoghegan, Bianka Prinz, Sergio Quezada
  • Patent number: 11685791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibody binding specifically to an N-terminal region of lysyl-tRNA synthetase which is exposed on the cell membrane and a use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Zymedi Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kim, Hyunbo Shim, Nam Hoon Kwon, Daeyoung Han
  • Patent number: 11680089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Colette Song, Heiko Schuster, Daniel Johannes Kowalewski, Oliver Schoor, Jens Fritsche, Toni Weinschenk, Harpreet Singh
  • Patent number: 11672771
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, kits, and compositions comprising ?-alethine and one or more immune modulators and methods to determine when they are advantageous. Particular applications include the use of ?-alethine and one or more immune modulators in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: AxImmune, Inc., Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Floyd Taub, Amanda Guth
  • Patent number: 11673961
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-CD20 antibodies and uses thereof for treatment and diagnosis. Also provided are CD20 antigens for the production of anti-CD20 antibodies and methods of generating anti-CD20 antibodies using the CD20 antigens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Inventors: Isabelle Riviere, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Xiuyan Wang, Frances Weis-Garcia