Patents by Inventor Fernando Ruiz-Perez

Fernando Ruiz-Perez 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).

  • Compositions and methods for treating inflammatory bowel disease and airway inflammation
    Patent number: 8906662
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for treating inflammation due to an immune response. Non-limiting example compositions include class-2 SPATE proteins that are capable of cleaving proteins involved in an inflammatory immune response in a patient. Example compositions include at least one mucin-cleaving class-2 SPATE protein. Further example compositions include protein involved in intestinal colonization (Pic). Non-limiting example methods include methods of decreasing inflammation in a patient having inflammation and methods of perturbing immune response in a patient having a disease or condition in which an active immune response is attributable to a cause of the disease or condition, by administering to the patient a composition including at least one class-2 SPATE protein capable of cleaving proteins involved in an inflammatory immune response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: James Nataro, Fernando Ruiz-Perez
  • NOVEL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE AND AIRWAY INFLAMMATION
    Publication number: 20130017173
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for treating inflammation due to an immune response. Non-limiting example compositions include class-2 SPATE proteins that are capable of cleaving proteins involved in an inflammatory immune response in a patient. Example compositions include at least one mucin-cleaving class-2 SPATE protein. Further example compositions include protein involved in intestinal colonization (Pic). Non-limiting example methods include methods of decreasing inflammation in a patient having inflammation and methods of perturbing immune response in a patient having a disease or condition in which an active immune response is attributable to a cause of the disease or condition, by administering to the patient a composition including at least one class-2 SPATE protein capable of cleaving proteins involved in an inflammatory immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: James Nataro, Fernando Ruiz-Perez