Patents Examined by Peter J. Reddig
  • Patent number: 11963966
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods of using single-cell RNA-sequencing to identify treatment resistance in patients with ovarian cancer. Also, described herein are compositions and methods for treatment targeting resistance in patients with ovarian cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Levi Garraway, Benjamin Izar, Aviv Regev, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Asaf Rotem, Elizabeth Stover, Itay Tirosh
  • Patent number: 11965031
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for treating cancer in a subject comprising administering to the subject an anti-PD-1 antibody and an anti-CD27 antibody. In some embodiments, the cancer is colorectal cancer, rectal cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer, head and neck cancer, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Coric, Tibor Keler, Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 11958910
    Abstract: Provided herein are bispecific antigen-binding molecules that bind HER2 and methods of use thereof. The bispecific antigen-binding molecules comprise a first and a second antigen-binding domain, wherein the first and second antigen-binding domains bind to two different (preferably non-overlapping) epitopes of the extracellular domain of human HER2. The bispecific antigen-binding molecules cluster on the surface of HER2 IHC2+ and IHC3+ cells, and are internalized into the cellular lysosomes. Also included are antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising the antibodies or bispecific antigen-binding molecules provided herein linked to a cytotoxic agent, radionuclide, or other moiety, as well as methods of treating cancer in a subject by administering to the subject a bispecific antigen-binding molecule or an ADC thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Andreev, Andres Perez Bay, Christopher Daly, Frank Delfino, Amy Han, Thomas Nittoli, William Olson, Gavin Thurston
  • Patent number: 11951126
    Abstract: Methods of use of early apoptotic cell populations and compositions thereof disclosed herein, including methods of treating a cancer or a tumor, extending survival times of a subject suffering from a cancer or a tumor, and reducing the size or reducing the growth rate of a cancer or a tumor, wherein subjects are administered apoptotic cells or compositions thereof. Cancers may include solid tumors or diffuse cancers, for example leukemia. In certain instances compositions may include additional chemotherapeutic agent. Further, inactivated early apoptotic cell populations are disclosed and methods of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Enlivex Therapeutics RDO Ltd
    Inventors: Shai Novik, Dror Mevorach
  • Patent number: 11951182
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of treating thoracic cancer using a checkpoint inhibitor in combination with Ad-REIC/Dkk-3. The present invention is a pharmaceutical composition for treating thoracic cancer comprising REIC/Dkk-3 in combination with acheck point inhibitor and a method for treating thoracic cancer by administering Ad-REIC/Dkk-3 and a check point inhibitor to a thoracic cancer patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Momotaro-Gene Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromi Kumon, Bryan Burt
  • Patent number: 11945877
    Abstract: Antibodies, antigen-binding fragments and polypeptides that bind to HER2 are disclosed, as well as nucleic acids and vectors encoding the same. Also provided are cells comprising the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments, polypeptides, nucleic acids and vectors, methods of making such molecules, and the use of such molecules for therapeutic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Cheng-I Wang, Lionel Jianrong Low, Angeline Goh, Sandy Wen-Hsin Lee
  • Patent number: 11945850
    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 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Colette Song, Heiko Schuster, Daniel Johannes Kowalewski, Oliver Schoor, Jens Fritsche, Toni Weinschenk, Harpreet Singh
  • Patent number: 11939395
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel antibodies and methods for using recombinant antigen-binding regions and antibodies and functional fragments containing such antigen-binding regions that are specific for CD38, which plays an integral role in various disorders or conditions. These methods take advantage of newly discovered antibodies and surprising properties of such antibodies, such as the ability to bind CD38 of minipig origin and the ability to induce, by cross-linking, specific killing of cells that express CD38. These antibodies as well as the novel methods for using those antibodies can be used to treat, for example, hematological malignancies such as multiple myeloma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Morphosys AG
    Inventors: Michael Tesar, Ute Jäger
  • Patent number: 11942149
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to binding molecules that possess one or more epitope-binding sites specific for an epitope of CD137 and one or more epitope-binding sites specific for an epitope of a tumor antigen (“TA”) (e.g., a “CD137×TA Binding Molecule”). In one embodiment, such CD137×TA Binding Molecules will be bispecific molecules, especially bispecific tetravalent diabodies, that are composed of two, three, four or more than four polypeptide chains and possessing two epitope-binding sites each specific for an epitope of CD137 and two epitope-binding sites each specific for an epitope of a TA. Alternatively, such CD137×TA Binding Molecules will be bispecific molecules, especially bispecific trivalent binding molecules composed of three or more polypeptide chains and possessing one or two epitope-binding sites each specific for an epitope of CD137 and one or two epitope-binding sites each specific for an epitope of a TA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MACROGENICS, INC.
    Inventors: Liqin Liu, Chia-Ying Kao Lam, Gundo Diedrich, Leslie S. Johnson, Paul A. Moore, Ezio Bonvini
  • Patent number: 11932700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for compositions, methods, and kits for treating cancer using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) modified cells. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding CAR. The CAR may include an antigen binding domain, a transmembrane domain, a costimulatory signaling region, and a CD3 zeta signaling domain. The antigen binding domain may bind to an antigen of a non-essential organ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Xiao, Chengfei Pu, Zhiyuan Cao, He Sun, Mao Bi, Zhao Wu
  • Patent number: 11926668
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating, reducing the severity, or inhibiting the growth of cancer (e.g., lung cancer). The methods of the present invention comprise administering a therapeutically effective amount of a programmed death 1 (PD-1) antagonist (e.g., an anti-PD-1 antibody), to a subject with lung cancer wherein the cancer tissue expresses PD-L1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Petra Rietschel, Israel Lowy
  • Patent number: 11919946
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating the specificity and activity of T cells. In one embodiment, the invention provides a type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) wherein the CAR is termed a “KIR-CAR” which is a CAR design comprising a component of a receptor naturally found on natural killer (NK) cells. In one embodiment, the NK receptor includes but is not limited to a naturally occurring activating and inhibitory receptor of NK cells known as a killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Michael C. Milone, Enxiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11905328
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bispecific polypeptide molecule comprising a first polypeptide chain and a second polypeptide chain providing a binding region derived from a T cell receptor (TCR) being specific for a major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptide epitope, and a binding region derived from an antibody capable of recruiting human immune effector cells by specifically binding to a surface antigen of said cells, as well as methods of making the bispecific polypeptide molecule, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Hofmann, Felix Unverdorben, Sebastian Bunk, Dominik Maurer
  • Patent number: 11905528
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides an engineered cell having a first chimeric antigen receptor polypeptide including a first antigen recognition domain, a first signal peptide, a first hinge region, a first transmembrane domain, a first costimulatory domain, and a first signaling domain; and a second chimeric antigen receptor polypeptide including a second antigen recognition domain, a second signal peptide, a second hinge region, a second transmembrane domain, a second co-stimulatory domain, and a second signaling domain; wherein the first antigen recognition domain is different than the second antigen recognition domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ICell Gene Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Yupo Ma, Kevin Pinz, Xun Jiang, Masayuki Wada, Kevin Chen
  • Patent number: 11905319
    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 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Andrea Mahr, Toni Weinschenk, Valentina Goldfinger, Oliver Schoor, Jens Fritsche, Harpreet Singh
  • Patent number: 11897967
    Abstract: The present application discloses humanized antibodies and antibody like proteins and fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MINERVA BIOTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cynthia Bamdad, Benoit Smagghe
  • Patent number: 11898208
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the detection or monitoring of cancer using a biological sample selected from blood, plasma, serum, saliva, urine from an individual, said method comprising: (a) obtaining DNA from the said biological sample; (b) digesting the DNA sample with one or more methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes; (c) quantifying or detecting a DNA sequence of interest after step (b), wherein the target sequence of interest contains at least two methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme recognition sites; and (d) comparing the level of the DNA sequence from the individual to a normal standard, to detect, prognosticate or monitor cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kwan Chee Allen Chan, Chunming Ding
  • Patent number: 11884934
    Abstract: Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of methods, synthetic DC, and compositions for T cell activation. The present disclosure provides for synthetic dendritic cells (DCs), methods of generating synthetic dendritic cells (DCs), methods of generating T cell-encapsulated gelatin microspheres and microcapsules, methods of activating T cells using synthetic DCs, methods for expanding T cells against individualized antigen-specific mutational antigens using synthetic DCs, and methods of treating a chronic disease (e.g., HIV, HPV) or cancer using the synthetic DCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Eynav Klechevsky, Amit Pathak, Bapi Sarker
  • Patent number: 11879009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and a targeting polypeptide such as an antibody and methods of their production and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory T. Bleck
  • Patent number: 11866502
    Abstract: Provided herein are monoclonal antibodies, and antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2), and methods of use thereof and methods of use thereof. Also included are antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising the anti-FGFR2 antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof linked to a cytotoxic agent, radionuclide, or other moiety, as well as methods of treatment using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Daly, Frank Delfino, Amy Han, Thomas Nittoli, Li Zhang