Patents by Inventor Erich Braun

Erich Braun 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).

  • Heat shock protein peptides and methods for modulating autoimmune central nervous system disease
    Patent number: 5958416
    Abstract: The invention provides for peptides and methods of using peptides to block or inhibit a pathogenic autoimmune response to central nervous system components. One class of peptides are antigens derived from mycobacterial heat shock proteins and may immunologically cross-react with or are homologous to myelin components. The peptides can also be derived from myelin components such as 2',3' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and immunologically cross-react with and/or are homologous to mycobacterial heat shock proteins. A method of the invention involves administering a pharmaceutical composition including at least one peptide to an animal in an amount effective to block or inhibit a pathogenic autoimmune response to central nervous system components. The peptides are useful for the prevention, and treatment of autoimmune inflammatory central nervous system disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignees: Regents of the University of Minnesota, McGill University
    Inventors: Gary Birnbaum, Linda A. Kotilinek, Peter Erich Braun
  • Heat shock protein peptides that share sequences with cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and methods for modulating autoimmune central nervous system disease
    Patent number: 5874405
    Abstract: The invention provides for peptides and methods of using peptides to block or inhibit a pathogenic autoimmune response to central nervous system components. The peptides are antigens derived from mycobacterial heat shock proteins and that immunologically crossreact with or are homologous to myelin components. The peptides can also be derived from myelin components such as 2',3' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and that immunologically crossreact and/or are homologous to mycobacterial heat shock proteins. A method of the invention involves administering a pharmaceutical composition including at least one peptide to an animal in an amount effective to block or inhibit a pathogenic autoimmune response to central nervous system components. The peptides are useful for the prevention, and treatment of autoimmune inflammatory central nervous system disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Inventors: Gary Birnbaum, Linda K. Kotilinek, Peter Erich Braun
  • Knitting needle having anchoring means for a filler held in the needle shank
    Patent number: 5582038
    Abstract: A stamped knitting tool includes a shank and a window which is provided in the shank and which is bounded by a surrounding window-framing edge of the shank. Along at least a length portion of the window-framing edge a chamfer is provided which borders the window. A heterogenous material fills the window and is fixedly connected with the shank. The chamfer projects into the heterogenous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Theodor Groz & Sohne & Ernst Beckert Nadelfabrik Commandit-Gesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Braun, Albert Teufel