Patents by Inventor Anthony J. Mason

Anthony J. Mason has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Nucleic acid encoding the mature .beta..sub.B chain of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5716810
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. or .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Nucleic acid encoding the mature .beta..sub.A chain of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5665568
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. or .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Nucleic acid encoding the mature .alpha. chain of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5525488
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. or .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Nucleic acid encoding the .alpha. chain prodomains of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5310661
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. or .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Nucleic acid encoding the ba chain prodomains of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5215893
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Mammalian expression of the bone morphogenetic protein-2B using BMP2A/BMP2B fusion
    Patent number: 5168050
    Abstract: A DNA construct is provided comprising DNA encoding a mature BMP-2 upstream of which is DNA encoding a precursor portion of a mammalian protein other than the BMP-2. Also provided are mammalian expression vectors and hosts containing such a DNA construct and methods for improved expression using such construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: R. Glenn Hammonds, Jr., Anthony J. Mason
  • Nucleic acid encoding .beta. chain prodomains of inhibin and method for synthesizing polypeptides using such nucleic acid
    Patent number: 5089396
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Purified activin B composition
    Patent number: 5071834
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition and method are provided for erythropoietin therapy, such as treatment of an anemic disease, wherein an effective amount of activin with two beta.sub.B chains formulated in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is administered to a patient or animal in need of such therapy. Preferably the activin is human and the composition is administered parenterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis E. Burton, Anthony J. Mason, Charles H. Schmelzer
  • Compositions of hormonally active human and porcine inhibin containing an .alpha. chain and 62 chain
    Patent number: 4798885
    Abstract: DNA encoding the prepro inhibin .alpha. and .beta. chains has been isolated. This DNA is ligated into expression vectors and used to transform host cells for the preparation of inhibin or activin. Also provided are prohormone domains and other inhibin .alpha. or .beta. chain derivatives having therapeutic or diagnostic interest. The compositions provided herein are useful in the manipulation of fertility in animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Peter H. Seeburg
  • Level-acid battery having an improved terminal pillar to battery lid seal
    Patent number: 4588663
    Abstract: A sealed gas recombining lead acid battery comprises a sealed lid, terminal pillars each located in a trough having a cylindrical side wall formed integrally with the lid and surrounding a terminal projecting through the lid, an annular sealing member located within the trough and surrounding the pillar, annular compression means surrounding the pillar and screw threadedly engaging a mating thread formed in said cylindrical wall of the trough, the compression means axially compressing the sealing member within the trough to press the sealing member radially against the pillar and the side wall of the trough, to effect a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Tungstone Batteries Limited
    Inventors: Anthony J. Mason, Geoffrey J. May, Michael Turner