Patents by Inventor Kristin Mueller
Kristin Mueller 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).
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Publication number: 20230029961Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid crystal (LC) media comprising one or more polymerisable compounds as further specified in the description or claims and a self-alignment additive for vertical alignment. The media are adapted for use in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer-sustained alignment type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Helmut HAENSEL, Kristin MUELLER, Julia SPRANG
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Publication number: 20220380673Abstract: Liquid crystal mixtures containing a photoalignment component A) containing a photoreactive mesogen of formula I, a liquid-crystalline component B) containing one or more nematogenic compounds, and a polymerizable component C) containing one or more polymerizable compounds of formula P, Pa-Spa-(Ap)n2-Spb-Pb??P and a method of producing such LC media, the use of such media in LC devices, and LC devices containing such a LC medium, and further a process for the fabrication of such liquid crystal displays and the use of the liquid crystal mixtures for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Simon SIEMIANOWSKI, Helmut HAENSEL, Kristin MUELLER, Julia SPRANG, Izumi SAITO, Qiong TONG
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Patent number: 11214736Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, liquid-crystalline media which contain at least one compound of the formula I and electro-optical displays which contain the LC mixtures, especially for the self-aligning VA, PSA, PS-VA, PVA, MVA, PM-VA, HT-VA or VA-IPS mode in which R1, R2, ring A1, Z1, Z2, Sp, P, L1, L2, r1, r2, r3, m, n, p1 and p2 have the meanings indicated above.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Graziano Archetti, Elena Neumann, Rocco Fortte, Timo Uebel, Helmut Haensel, Kristin Mueller
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Patent number: 10548960Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides or fragments thereof for use as malaria vaccines. It also relates to nucleic acid molecules coding for the polypeptides of the invention. It further relates to compositions comprising such polypeptides or fragments thereof or the nucleic acid molecules, in particular combinations of such polypeptides or fragments thereof, and the use of such compositions as malaria vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERGInventors: Johannes Pfeil, Kirsten Heiss, Ann-Kristin Müller
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Publication number: 20180171231Abstract: The invention relates to the compounds of the formula I and to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds which contains at least one compound of the formula I in which in which R1, R2, ring A1, Z1, Z2, Sp, P, L1, L2, r1, r2, r3, m, n, p1 and p2 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1 and to the use of the LC mixtures in electro-optical displays, especially for the self-aligning VA, PSA, PS-VA, PVA, MVA, PM-VA, HT-VA or VA-IPS mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Graziano ARCHETTI, Elena NEUMANN, Rocco FORTTE, Timo UEBEL, Helmut HAENSEL, Kristin MUELLER
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Publication number: 20170072039Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides or fragments thereof for use as malaria vaccines. It also relates to nucleic acid molecules coding for the polypeptides of the invention. It further relates to compositions comprising such polypeptides or fragments thereof or the nucleic acid molecules, in particular combinations of such polypeptides or fragments thereof, and the use of such compositions as malaria vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Johannes PFEIL, Kirsten HEISS, Ann-Kristin MÜLLER
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Patent number: 8968750Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides comprising at least one antigenic determinant or epitope of an apicomplexan Ferlin, Ferlin-like protein and/or another C2-domain containing protein for use as malaria vaccines. It further relates to compositions comprising said peptides and to the use of such compositions as malaria vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergInventors: Ann-Kristin Mueller, Eva Morath
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Publication number: 20130323276Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides or fragments thereof for use as malaria vaccines. It also relates to nucleic acid molecules coding for the polypeptides of the invention. It further relates to compositions comprising such polypeptides or fragments thereof or the nucleic acid molecules, in particular combinations of such polypeptides or fragments thereof, and the use of such compositions as malaria vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERGInventors: Johannes Pfeil, Kirsten Heiss, Ann-Kristin Müller
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Publication number: 20120308598Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides comprising at least one antigenic determinant or epitope of an apicomplexan Ferlin, Ferlin-like protein and/or another C2-domain containing protein for use as malaria vaccines. It further relates to compositions comprising said peptides and to the use of such compositions as malaria vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Ann-Kristin Mueller, Eva Morath
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Patent number: 8168166Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignees: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical ResearchInventors: Stefan H. I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller, Kelley van Buskirk, Mehdi Labaied, Ahmed Sayed Ibrahim Aly, Alan Frederick Cowman, Alexander Gerd Maier
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Publication number: 20110033502Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2008Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Stefan H.I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller, Kelley van Buskirk, Mehdi Labaied, Ahmed Sayed Ibrahim Aly, Alan Frederick Cowman, Alexander Gerd Maier
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Patent number: 7722860Abstract: The invention provides methods for inducing an immune response in a vertebrate host against a protozoan parasite, comprising administering to the host a live protozoan parasite that is genetically engineered to disrupt a stage-specific gene function that is required by the protozoan parasite to establish a secondary infection in the vertebrate host. Representative protozoan parasites belong to the phyla Apicomplexa and Kinetoplastida. The vertebrate host may be a mammal or a bird.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Seattle Biomedical Research InstituteInventors: Stefan H. I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Patent number: 7718165Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignees: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HeidelbergInventors: Stefan H. I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Publication number: 20080032388Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2004Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicants: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HeidelbergInventors: Stefan H.I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Patent number: 7261884Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignees: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HeidelbergInventors: Stefan H. I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Publication number: 20070009556Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicants: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HeidelbergInventors: Stefan Kappe, Kai-Uwe Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Patent number: 7122179Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a gene whose expression is up-regulated in liver stage parasites and whose function is not required for entry into hose hepatocytes.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignees: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergInventors: Stefan H. I. Kappe, Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Publication number: 20050226896Abstract: Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicants: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HeidelbergInventors: Stefan Kappe, Kai-Uwe Matuschewski, Ann-Kristin Mueller
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Patent number: D720551Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Shin Crest, PTE, Ltd.Inventor: Kristin Mueller