Patents by Inventor Mark Cobbold

Mark Cobbold 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: 20150250868
    Abstract: The invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a condition characterised by the presence of unwanted cells, the agent comprising: (i) a targeting moiety that is capable of targeting to the unwanted cells; and (ii) a T cell antigen, wherein the T cell antigen can be released from the targeting moiety by selective cleavage of a cleavage site in the agent in the vicinity of the unwanted cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
    Inventors: Mark Cobbold, David Millar
  • Publication number: 20150224182
    Abstract: A set of target peptides are presented by HLA A*0101, A*0201, A*0301, B*4402, B*2705, B*1402, and B*0702 on the surface of disease cells. They are envisioned to among other things (a) stimulate an immune response to the proliferative disease, e.g., cancer, (b) to function as immunotherapeutics in adoptive T cell therapy or as a vaccine, (c) facilitate antibody recognition of tumor boundaries in surgical pathology samples, (d) act as biomarkers for early detection and/or diagnosis of the disease, and (e) act as targets in the generation antibody-like molecules which recognize the target-peptide/MHC complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: U.Va. Licensing & Ventures Group
    Inventors: Donald F. Hunt, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Stacy A. Malaker, Victor H. Engelhard, Angela Zarling, Kara L. Cummings, Rebecca C. Obeng, Mark Cobbold
  • Publication number: 20150183875
    Abstract: The invention provides molecule comprising: (i) a targeting moiety capable of directly or indirectly targeting to unwanted cells, and (ii) a further moiety that has a masked immune cell binding region so as to prevent binding of the further moiety to an immune cell, wherein the masked immune cell binding region is capable of being selectively unmasked when the molecule is in the vicinity of the unwanted cells so as to allow binding of the further moiety to an immune cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Cobbold, David Millar
  • Publication number: 20140172289
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Patent number: 8660781
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Publication number: 20140004081
    Abstract: The invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a condition characterised by the presence of unwanted cells, the agent comprising: (i) a targeting moiety that is capable of targeting to the unwanted cells; and (ii) a T cell antigen, wherein the T cell antigen can be released from the targeting moiety by selective cleavage of a cleavage site in the agent in the vicinity of the unwanted cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
    Inventors: Mark Cobbold, David Millar
  • Publication number: 20130259883
    Abstract: A set of phosphorylated peptides are presented by HLA A*0101, A*0201, A*0301, B*4402, B*2705, B*1402, and B*0702 on the surface of melanoma cells. They have the potential to (a) stimulate an immune response to the cancer, (b) to function as immunotherapeutics in adoptive T-cell therapy or as a vaccine, (c) to facilitate antibody recognition of the tumor boundaries in surgical pathology samples, and (d) act as biomarkers for early detection of the disease. Phosphorylated peptides are also presented for other cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: PHOSIMMUNE, INC.
    Inventors: Donald F. Hunt, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Jennifer Cottine, Ann M. English, Andrew Norris, Victor H. Engelhard, Mark Cobbold, Kara L. Cummings, Angela Zarling, Rebecca C. Obeng, Jie Qian
  • Patent number: 8340890
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LP
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Patent number: 8150608
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LP
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Publication number: 20110246594
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Publication number: 20110229908
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods for measuring the ratio of free K immunoglobulin light chain molecules to free ? immunoglobulin light chain molecules in a test sample, using a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to free K and a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to free ?. The application also provides specific monoclonal antibodies that can be used in the method of the invention, as well as kits containing said monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventors: Royston Jefferis, Mark Cobbold, Timothy Plant, Delia Margaret Goodall, Mark Trehane Drayson
  • Patent number: 7974771
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Publication number: 20080077309
    Abstract: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventor: Mark Cobbold
  • Patent number: 6952396
    Abstract: A control system enables transport of payload data across a dual counter rotating ring (DCRR) network having two or more nodes, each node providing access to the DCRR network by a respective local area network (LAN) subtending the node. The control system comprises a topology learning entity operative within each node for monitoring individual, links of the DCRR, discovering the active topology of the DCRR, communicating topology changes to other nodes in the DCRR, and informing frame forwarding and learning processes of the topology to enable failover to redundant resource upon detection of a network component failure. A frame forwarding process selects a shortest path route between a source and a destination node in the DCRR, and forwards frames to the destination node via the selected shortest path route. An address learning process inspects a source medium access control (MAC) address in each received frame to learn a shortest path route for each MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Peter Martin Kenneth Cottreau, David MacDonald Delaney, Alan Hurren, Wang-Hsin Peng, Mark Cobbold
  • Patent number: 6788681
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) over a connectionless network connecting a plurality of Local Area Networks (LANs), such as an Ethernet network, is disclosed. The method and apparatus comprises associated each VPN with a unique identifier and each LAN of the VPN with a interface device connecting the LAN to the connectionless network, which may be for example, a Synchronous Optical Network (SONET). The interface device may service a plurality of LANs. Accordingly, each LAN is associated with a User-Network Interface that forms part of the interface device. Each data packet destined for a second LAN, such Ethernet frames, received by the interface device for a first LAN is encapsulated with, if known, a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the interface device connected to the second LAN, the VPN's unique identifier, and the port on the interface device connected to the second LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Alan J. Hurren, Joseph M. Regan, Paul Bottorff, Mark Cobbold