Patents by Inventor Laura A. Briggs

Laura A. Briggs 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: 11883471
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 11701374
    Abstract: 8-Hydroxy quinoline derivative compounds for enhancing telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) expression, and methods for using the same, are provided. These compounds and methods find use in a variety of applications in which increased expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Laura A. Briggs, Federico C. A. Gaeta, Hamid Mohammadpour, Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek
  • Publication number: 20210361751
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nuclcic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 11052134
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Publication number: 20200306348
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 10610574
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 10485852
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 10374873
    Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Stephen Armstrong, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
  • Patent number: 10270853
    Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Alden C. Russell, III, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
  • Publication number: 20180344816
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Publication number: 20180027071
    Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Alden C. Russell, III, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
  • Publication number: 20180026840
    Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Stephen Armstrong, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
  • Publication number: 20170049861
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 9453209
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic acid vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Publication number: 20150322416
    Abstract: Methods of treating an age-related disorder in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject a nucleic vector including a coding sequence for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and/or telomerase RNA (TR). Gene therapy methods are also provided. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., nucleic acid vectors and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Lancer K. Brown, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura A. Briggs
  • Patent number: 7795416
    Abstract: Telomerase repressor proteins and nucleic acid compositions encoding the same are provided. The subject repressor proteins bind to a repressor site in the TERT minimal promoter, e.g., a Site C site, and thereby inhibit TERT expression. Also provided are methods of modulating, e.g., inhibiting or enhancing, TERT expression. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including therapeutic and therapeutic agent screening applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sierra Sciences Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Christopher A. Foster, Stephanie Fraser, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura Briggs
  • Publication number: 20090239219
    Abstract: Telomerase repressor proteins and nucleic acid compositions encoding the same are provided. The subject repressor proteins bind to a repressor site in the TERT minimal promoter, e.g., a Site C site, and thereby inhibit TERT expression. Also provided are methods of modulating, e.g., inhibiting or enhancing, TERT expression. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including therapeutic and therapeutic agent screening applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Christopher A. Foster, Stephanie Fraser, Hamid Mohammadpour, Laura Briggs
  • Publication number: 20090143451
    Abstract: Compounds, and methods of using the same, are provided which increase the expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) in a cell. These compounds and methods find use in a variety of applications in which increased expression of telomerase is desired, including immortalization of cell lines and treating conditions in a subject characterized by cellular senescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Laura A. Briggs, Christopher A. Foster, Lancer K. Brown, Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek, Federico C.A. Gaeta, Munirathnam Chaguturu, Jian Zhang, Tom Kerley
  • Publication number: 20080268467
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for modulating, e.g., increasing or decreasing, the expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). In the subject methods, the binding interaction of the TERT Site C repressor site with a Site C repressor protein complex made up of one or more proteins is modulated to achieve the desired change in TERT expression. A feature of the subject invention is that the target Site C repressor protein complex includes a MRG15 protein. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including the immortalization of cells, the production of reagents for use in life science research, therapeutic applications; therapeutic agent screening applications; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Laura Briggs, Christopher A. Foster, Hamid Mohammadpour, Stephanie Fraser, Lancer Brown, Frederick M. Hahn
  • Publication number: 20080213812
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for modulating, e.g., increasing or decreasing, the expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). In the subject methods, the binding interaction of the TERT Site C repressor site with a Site C repressor protein complex made up of one or more proteins is modulated to achieve the desired change in TERT expression. A feature of the subject invention is that the target Site C repressor protein complex includes an LSF protein. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including the immortalization of cells, the production of reagents for use in life science research, therapeutic applications; therapeutic agent screening applications; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: William H. Andrews, Laura Briggs, Christopher Foster, Hamid Mohammadpour, Stephanie Fraser, David Monda, Lancer Brown, Frederick M. Hahn, Ronald Pruzan, David Schooley, Jason March