Patents by Inventor Florian Rüker

Florian Rüker 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).

  • Patent number: 12146238
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of producing a protein comprising a target-specific extravesicular domain (TED) of an extracellular vesicle (EV) surface protein comprising modifying a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the extravesicular domain (ED) of an EV surface protein by a mutagenesis method within at least one modified region within the ED amino acid sequence with a length of 3-20 contiguous amino acids flanked by regions of the wild-type ED sequence at its N-terminus and C-terminus, to incorporate a target binding site within the ED, thereby producing a repertoire of polynucleotides encoding a variety of TEDs, each comprising a different target binding site, and selecting a TED specifically recognizing a predetermined target, and producing the protein comprising the selected TED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: EVERCYTE GMBH
    Inventors: Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Stefan Vogt, Gerhard Stadlmayr, Florian Rueker, Johannes Grillari, Madhusudhan Reddy Bobbili
  • Patent number: 11623963
    Abstract: A specific antigen-binding member (ABM) comprising a specific antigen-binding moiety and an antibody Fc region comprising a CH2 domain, which is engineered for a cysteine substitution at position 108 and/or 113, wherein numbering is according to the IMGT, and wherein the antibody Fc region does not comprise an antigen-binding CH3 domain; and an ABM conjugate (ABMC) comprising the ABM and at least one heterologous molecule covalently conjugated to one or both of the cysteines at positions 108 and 113 of the CH2 domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Florian Rüker, Gerhard Stadlmayr, Jakub Rybka, Nicolas Rasche, Stephan Dickgiesser
  • Publication number: 20210395725
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of producing a protein comprising a target-specific extravesicular domain (TED) of an extracellular vesicle (EV) surface protein comprising modifying a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the extravesicular domain (ED) of an EV surface protein by a mutagenesis method within at least one modified region within the ED amino acid sequence with a length of 3-20 contiguous amino acids flanked by regions of the wild-type ED sequence at its N-terminus and C-terminus, to incorporate a target binding site within the ED, thereby producing a repertoire of polynucleotides encoding a variety of TEDs, each comprising a different target binding site, and selecting a TED specifically recognizing a predetermined target, and producing the protein comprising the selected TED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP, Stefan VOGT, Gerhard STADLMAYR, Florian RUEKER, Johannes GRILLARI, Madhusudhan Reddy BOBBILI
  • Patent number: 10982008
    Abstract: The invention provides for a domain-exchanged antibody comprising a light chain (LC) composed of VL-CH3, and a heavy chain (HC) comprising VH-CH3-CH2-CH3, wherein the VL-CH3 of the LC is dimerising with the VH-CH3 of the HC thereby forming a domain-exchanged LC/HC dimer comprising a CH3LC/CH3HC domain pair, and means and method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Sylvia Dietrich, Florian Rüker, Alec Gross, Stefan Becker
  • Publication number: 20200277399
    Abstract: A specific antigen-binding member (ABM) comprising a specific antigen-binding moiety and an antibody Fc region comprising a CH2 domain, which is engineered for a cysteine substitution at position 108 and/or 113, wherein numbering is according to the IMGT, and wherein the antibody Fc region does not comprise an antigen-binding CH3 domain; and an ABM conjugate (ABMC) comprising the ABM and at least one heterologous molecule covalently conjugated to one or both of the cysteines at positions 108 and 113 of the CH2 domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP, Florian RÜKER, Gerhard STADLMAYR, Jakub RYBKA, Nicolas RASCHE, Stephan DICKGIESSER
  • Publication number: 20190352429
    Abstract: An antigen-binding molecule (ABM) comprising a cognate LC/HC dimer of an antibody light chain (LC) composed of a VL and a CL antibody domain, associated to an antibody heavy chain (HC) comprising at least a VH and a CH1 antibody domain, which association is through pairing the VL and VH domains and the CL and CH domains, wherein the amino acids at the position 18 in the CL domain and at the position 26 in the CH1 domain are of opposite polarity, wherein numbering is according to the IMGT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Florian RÜKER, Maximilian BÖNISCH
  • Publication number: 20180016354
    Abstract: The invention provides for a domain-exchanged antibody comprising a light chain (LC) composed of VL-CH3, and a heavy chain (HC) comprising VH-CH3-CH2-CH3, wherein the VL-CH3 of the LC is dimerising with the VH-CH3 of the HC thereby forming a domain-exchanged LC/HC dimer comprising a CH3LC/CH3HC domain pair, and means and method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP, Sylvia DIETRICH, Florian RÜKER, Alec GROSS, Stefan BECKER
  • Publication number: 20170015727
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for engineering a T-cell receptor domain polypeptide comprising at least one modification in a structural loop region of the T-cell receptor domain polypeptide and determining the binding of the T-cell receptor domain polypeptide to an epitope of an antigen, wherein the unmodified T-cell receptor domain polypeptide does not significantly bind to the epitope. The present invention also covers modified T cell receptor domain polypeptides, their use and libraries containing the modified T cell receptor domain polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Gottfried Himmler, Florian Rüker
  • Publication number: 20120094874
    Abstract: The invention refers to a multidomain modular antibody comprising at least one constant antibody domain, which is mutated to form an artificial disulfide bridge by introducing at least one Cys residue into the amino acid sequence through mutagenesis of said constant domain to obtain an intra-domain or inter-domain disulfide bridge within the framework region, libraries based on such antibodies and methods of producing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: F-STAR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNGS-UND ENTWICKLUNGSGES. M.B.H
    Inventors: Florian Rüker, Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Gottfried Himmler
  • Publication number: 20120028303
    Abstract: A method of engineering immunoglobulins which each have one or more amino acid modifications in at least one structural loop region of such immunoglobulins, where the modified loop region specifically binds to an epitope of an antigen to which an un-modified immunoglobulin does not significantly bind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: F-STAR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNGS-UND ENTWICKLUNGSGES.M.B.H
    Inventors: Florian RÜKER, Gottfried HIMMLER, Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP
  • Publication number: 20120028839
    Abstract: Libraries of immunoglobulins which each have one or more amino acid modifications in at least one structural loop region of such immunoglobulins, where the modified loop region specifically binds to an epitope of an antigen to which an unmodified immunoglobulin does not significantly bind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: F-STAR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNGS-UND ENTWICKLUNGSGES.M.B.H.
    Inventors: Florian RÜKER, Gottfried HIMMLER, Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP
  • Publication number: 20110251375
    Abstract: Immunoglobulins which each have one or more amino acid modifications in at least one structural loop region of such immunoglobulins, where the modified loop region specifically binds to an epitope of an antigen to which an unmodified immunoglobulin does not significantly bind, obtained from display libraries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: F-STAR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNGS-UND ENTWICKLUNGSGES.M.B.H.
    Inventors: Florian RÜKER, Gottfried HIMMLER, Gordana WOZNIAK-KNOPP
  • Publication number: 20090298195
    Abstract: Method for engineering an immunoglobulin comprising at least one modification in a structural loop region of said immunoglobulin and determining the binding of said immunoglobulin to an epitope of an antigen, wherein the unmodified immunoglobulin does not significantly bind to said epitope, comprising the steps of:—providing a nucleic acid encoding an immunoglobulin comprising at least one structural loop region,—modifying at least one nucleotide residue of at least one of said structural loop regions,—transferring said modified nucleic acid in an expression system,—expressing said modified immunoglobulin,—contacting the expressed modified immunoglobulin with an epitope, and—determining whether said modified immunoglobulin binds to said epitope, as well as modified immunoglobulins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Florian Rüker, Gordana Wozniak-Knopp