Patents by Inventor Frederick Porter

Frederick Porter 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).

  • Publication number: 20240300994
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Patent number: 12018044
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Yingxia Wen, Andrew Geall, Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 11880320
    Abstract: A system and method of adding a high-rate channel to a legacy baseband bus includes a bus communicatively coupled to a transmitter and a receiver via one or more transformer couplers, where the transmitter and receiver transmit and receive a first signal over the bus utilizing a differential mode. The system also includes at least two modems coupled to the bus, where a first modem transmits a second signal over the bus for receipt by a second modem, where the at least two modems are each coupled to the bus via the one or more transformer couplers, where the second signal is transmitted over the bus utilizing a common mode, and where the first signal and the second signal are spatially separated on the bus based on an isolation between the common mode and the differential mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PERATON LABS INC.
    Inventors: James Dixon, Thomas Banwell, Seth Robertson, Frederick Porter
  • Patent number: 11155572
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Yingxia Wen, Andrew Geall, Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20210214388
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Patent number: 10673816
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system where a processor(s) in a distributed computing environment intercepts a communication (of sequential elements) between a first computing node and a second computing node. The processor(s) determines if the communication is undesired by evaluating data related to or comprising each element individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Perspecta Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Robertson, Frederick Porter
  • Publication number: 20180360949
    Abstract: The invention provides, inter alia, compositions useful for, e.g., raising an immune response to HIV-1, and associated methods of raising an immune response to HIV in a mammalian subject. In some embodiments, the compositions are bivalent immunogenic compositions comprising two (or, in some embodiments more than two) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clade C envelope gp120 polypeptide antigens, together with a liposome-based adjuvant, such as the adjuvant known as AS01.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS, SA
    Inventors: Susan BARNETT, Marguerite Christine KOUTSOUKOS, Clarisse Marie-Madeleine LORIN, Frederick PORTER, Zihao WANG, Ying ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160024139
    Abstract: Methods for purifying RNA from a sample, comprising one or more steps of tangential flow filtration, hydroxyapatite chromatography, core bead flow-through chromatography, or any combinations thereof. These techniques are useful individually, but show very high efficiency when used in combination, or when performed in particular orders. The methods can purify RNA in a highly efficient manner without unduly compromising potency or stability, to provide compositions in which RNA is substantially cleared of contaminants. Moreover, they can be performed without the need for organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Francesco BERLANDA SCORZA, Yingxia WEN, Andrew GEALL, Frederick PORTER
  • Publication number: 20070243169
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting Ran protein activity in at least one eukaryotic cell or cell-free extract, the method comprising exposing an amino acid sequence comprising at least a portion of EMCV or TMEV leader protein, wherein the amino acid sequence comprises SEQ. ID NO: 14 or SEQ. ID NO: 15, to at least one cell in an amount effective to inhibit Ran activity in the targeted cell and evaluating Ran protein activity in the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Frederick Porter, Ann Palmenberg, Christiane Wiese, Yury Bochkov
  • Publication number: 20060018930
    Abstract: A composition is disclosed comprising virus in a formulation comprising a polyhydroxy hydrocarbon buffered to maintain a pH in a range from about 7 to about 8.5 at a temperature in the range from about 2° C. to 27° C. Methods for concentrating and purifying virus preparations are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Frei, Henry Kwan, Varda Sandweiss, Gary Vellekamp, Pui-Ho Yuen, Laureano Bondoc, Frederick Porter, John Tang, Peter Ihnat
  • Publication number: 20050260168
    Abstract: A composition is disclosed comprising virus in a formulation comprising a polyhydroxy hydrocarbon buffered to maintain a pH in a range from about 7 to about 8.5 at a temperature in the range from about 2° C. to 27° C. Methods for concentrating and purifying virus preparations are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Frei, Henry Kwan, Varda Sandweiss, Gary Vellekamp, Pui-Ho Yuen, Laureano Bondoc, Frederick Porter, John Tang, Peter Ihnat
  • Publication number: 20050200464
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (12) for a vehicle (10) has a plurality of tires (14a-d) in respective rolling locations having a respective plurality of tire transmitters (16a-d) that generate a respective plurality of transmitter identification signals. A controller (22) is coupled to a counter that counts ignition cycle transitions. The controller enters a learn mode in response to the count and the brake condition signal. The system may also include a display for signaling the vehicle operator to perform a desired action. The controller generates a plurality of display signals on the display indicative of the respective plurality of tire locations and activates a timer when the plurality of transmitter identification signals are received before a predetermined time is counted by the timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Brian Bennie, Frederick Porter, Leena Shah, Ronald Brombach, Thomas McQuade, Thomas Miller
  • Patent number: 5452984
    Abstract: A filter plug tray includes a housing having a loading port which cooperates with external loading and unloading stations, a feed conveyor for conveying filter plugs across the loading port, and expandable filter plug constraining means positioned in the housing to contain the filter plugs in a desired orientation and alignment. The constraining means includes a flexible band wound under tension on a reel rotatably mounted the housing. The flexible band unwinds as plugs are loaded into the tray and winds onto the reel to urge plugs to the loading port as plugs are unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Frederick Porter, Larry W. Shepherd, Joseph J. Sprouse, Jr., Michael J. Steeves