Patents by Inventor Helen Floyd

Helen Floyd 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: 20140213939
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus for external application to a mammal body, comprising a housing, a transducer element, adapted to provide an output towards and/or into the mammal body, a switch element, adapted to activate the transducer element in accordance with a first predetermined condition and deactivate the transducer element in accordance with a second predetermined condition, a feedback element, adapted to provide at least one first feedback signal in response at least a third predetermined condition, and a resilient coupling element, adapted to operatively couple the transducer element to said housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Curar Animal Therapeutics Ltd
    Inventors: Helen Floyd, Peter Masters
  • Publication number: 20090208488
    Abstract: This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to DCAL-2 and other DCAL-2 reagents that modulate dendritic cell function. Modulators of the receptor, including modulators that alter DCAL-2 associated signals to and from DCs, can be used to alter dendritic cell function and to enhance or inhibit immune responses to cancer antigens, autoantigens, or pathogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: The University of Washington
    Inventors: Edward A. Clark, Chang Hung Chen, Helen Floyd
  • Publication number: 20090105671
    Abstract: An apparatus for aspirating and/or cleansing wounds comprising a flow path comprising a wound dressing having a backing layer and at least one outlet pipe for connection to a fluid off take tube and which has a wound contact integer which in use is in contact with the wound bed and in which the wound contact integer comprises a biodegradable and/or bioabsorbable fibrous electrospun scaffold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Anthony C. Daggar, Helen Floyd
  • Publication number: 20060171929
    Abstract: This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to DCAL-2 and other DCAL-2 reagents that modulate dendritic cell function. Modulators of the receptor, including modulators that alter DCAL-2 associated signals to and from DCs, can be used to alter dendritic cell function and to enhance or inhibit immune responses to cancer antigens, autoantigens, or pathogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: The University of Washington
    Inventors: Edward Clark, Chang Hung Chen, Helen Floyd