Patents by Inventor Matthew Merrill

Matthew Merrill 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: 20240109862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula I wherein R1 to R6, A, B, n and m are as defined herein. Such novel sulfonyl amide derivatives are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in mammals. This invention also relates to a method of using such compounds in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in mammals, especially humans, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Luzzio, Kevin Daniel Freeman-Cook, Samit Kumar Bhattacharya, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Catherine Angela Hulford, Christopher Lowell Autry, Xumiao Zhao, Jun Xiao, Kendra Louise Nelson
  • Patent number: 11939606
    Abstract: A new CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein, termed “CasM,” is described, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same and methods of using CasM for site-specific genome engineering. CasM proteins are capable of targeting and cleaving single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Locanabio, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Merrill Carter, Paul Daniel Donohoue
  • Patent number: 11932883
    Abstract: A new CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein, termed “CasM,” is described, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same and methods of using CasM for site-specific genome engineering. CasM proteins are capable of targeting and cleaving single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Locanabio, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Merrill Carter, Paul Daniel Donohoue
  • Publication number: 20240074413
    Abstract: An aquaculture system includes a pen configured to be disposed in a body of water and configured to at least temporarily store aquatic animals during development. A control system is configured to receive electric power from a power source and is configured to provide electric power to a pumping mechanism coupled to the pen such that the pumping mechanism provides a flow of water through the pen. A set of buoyancy tanks are coupled to the pen. A portion of the control system is in fluid communication with the set of buoyancy tanks and is configured to adjust a volume of fluid in at least one buoyancy tank to move the pen from a first position in which the pen is partially submerged in the body of water to a second position in which the pen is fully submerged in the body of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Running Tide Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Jordan ODLIN, Nate MERRILL, Stephen ZADESKY
  • Publication number: 20240024822
    Abstract: Dual phase membranes include a porous support providing a solid phase having a matrix of connected pores, and a liquefiable ion transport phase within the pores of the porous support. The ion transport phase is formed of at least one alkali metal hydroxide, and at least one oxide ion transport agent providing a source of ions selected from the group consisting of borate ions, nitrate ions, phosphate ions, vanadate ions, niobate ions or sulfate ions. The at least one alkali metal hydroxide may be selected from the group consisting of NaOH, KOH, LiOH, RbOH, CsOH and mixtures thereof. The oxide ion transport agent is preferably present in the ion transport phase in an amount between about 1 to about 30 molar %. Substantially lower operational temperatures may be realized when the membrane is used to separate CO2 from a feed gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew MERRILL, Jesse KELLY
  • Publication number: 20240002227
    Abstract: Processes are provided which pyrolytically extract hydrochloric acid from a magnesium ion-rich salt mixture. In this regard, a supply of the magnesium ion-rich salt mixture (e.g., bittern) may be directed to a pyrolytic chamber where it is contacted with heated gas (e.g., combustion flue gas) at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to form a vapor product stream comprised of hydrochloric acid and an insoluble pyrolyzed mixed salt stream comprised of magnesium hydroxide and sodium sulfate decahydrate. The solid pyrolyzed mixed salt stream may be separated into separate product streams comprising the insoluble magnesium hydroxide and remaining soluble salt fractions, while the vapor product stream of hydrochloric acid from the pyrolytic chamber may be condensed form an aqueous HCl solution. The magnesium ion rich salt mixture may be dehydrated prior to pyrolysis to achieve magnesium ions in a tetrahydrate state or lower (e.g., a monohydrate to a trihydrate state).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew MERRILL, Greg SIMMS
  • Publication number: 20230045252
    Abstract: A compound compound having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate of said compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, wherein A, A? and A? are independently O, C?O, C—R? or N—R?, where R? and R? may independently be H, amino, —NR7COR6, COR6, —CONR7R8, C1-C6 alkyl, or hydroxy(C1-C6 alkyl), and R? may be present or absent, and is present where the rules of valency permit, and where not more than one of A, A? and A? is O or C?O; R0 and R are independently H, Br, Cl, F, or C1-C6 alkyl; R1 is H, C1-C6 alkyl, or hydroxy(C1-C6 alkyl); R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, hydroxy(C1-C6 alkyl), phenyl(C1-C6 alkyl), formyl, heteroaryl, heterocyclic, —COR6, —OCOR6, —COOR6, —NR7COR6, —CONR7R8, and —(CH2)n—W, where W is cyano, hydroxy, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, —SO2NR7R8, and —SO2—R9, where R9 is C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, heteroaryl, or heterocyclic; wherein each of said alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclic, or heteroaryl ma
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Frank BROWN, Alpay DERMENCI, Andrew FENSOME, Brian Stephen GERSTENBERGER, Matthew Merrill HAYWARD, Dafydd Rhys OWEN, Stephen Wayne WRIGHT, Li Huang XING, Xiaojing YANG
  • Publication number: 20230009153
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutically active pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidinyl and pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyridinyl acrylamides and analogues thereof. Such compounds are useful for inhibiting Janus Kinase (JAK). This invention also is directed to compositions comprising methods for making such compounds, and methods for treating and preventing conditions mediated by JAK.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Atli Thorarensen, Matthew Frank Brown, Agustin Casimiro-Garcia, Ye Che, Jotham Wadsworth Coe, Mark Edward Flanagan, Adam Matthew Gilbert, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Jonathan David Langille, Justin Ian Montgomery, Jean-Baptiste Telliez, Rayomand Jal Unwalla, John I. Trujillo
  • Patent number: 11472809
    Abstract: There is a method for treating a psoriasis. A compound is administered in a therapeutically effective amount to a subject suffering therefrom. The compound has the structure or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Frank Brown, Alpay Dermenci, Andrew Fensome, Brian Stephen Gerstenberger, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Dafydd Rhys Owen, Stephen Wayne Wright, Li Huang Xing, Xiaojing Yang
  • Publication number: 20220282244
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for compositions and methods for the use of nucleic acid-targeting nucleic acids and complexes thereof. Genome engineering can refer to altering the genome by deleting, inserting, mutating, or substituting specific nucleic acid sequences. The altering can be gene or location specific. Genome engineering can use nucleases to cut a nucleic acid thereby generating a site for the alteration. Engineering of non-genomic nucleic acid is also contemplated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Paul MAY, Rachel E. Haurwitz, Jennifer A. Doudna, James M. Berger, Matthew Merrill Carter, Paul Daniel Donohoue
  • Publication number: 20220251066
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula I wherein R1 to R6, A, B, n and m are as defined herein. Such novel sulfonyl amide derivatives are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in mammals. This invention also relates to a method of using such compounds in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in mammals, especially humans, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Luzzio, Kevin Daniel Freeman-Cook, Samit Kumar Bhattacharya, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Catherine Angela Hulford, Christopher Lowell Autry, Xumiao Zhao, Jun Xiao, Kendra Louise Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220209277
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrical energy storage apparatus. The apparatus has an interpenetrating, three dimensional periodic structure formed from an ionically conductive solid electrolyte material having a plurality of interpenetrating, non-planar channels. The interpenetrating, non-planar channels are made up of a first plurality of channels filled with an anode material, a second plurality of channels adjacent the first plurality of channels and interpenetrating with the first plurality of channels, and filled with a cathode material, and a third plurality of channels adjacent to, and interpenetrating with, one of the first and second pluralities of channels, and filled with a material to form a separator. The first, second and third channels form a spatially dense, three dimensional structure. A first non-flat current collector layer is incorporated which is in communication with the first plurality of channels, and which forms a first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Eric DUOSS, Juergen BIENER, Patrick CAMPBELL, Julie A. JACKSON, Geoffrey M. OXBERRY, Christopher SPADACCINI, Michael STADERMANN, Cheng ZHU, Bradley TREMBACKI, Jayathi MURTHY, Matthew MERRILL
  • Publication number: 20220177864
    Abstract: A new CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein, termed “CasM,” is described, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same and methods of using CasM for site-specific genome engineering. CasM proteins are capable of targeting and cleaving single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew Merrill CARTER, Paul Daniel DONOHOUE
  • Patent number: 11312953
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for compositions and methods for the use of nucleic acid-targeting nucleic acids and complexes thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Caribou Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Paul May, Rachel E. Haurwitz, Jennifer A. Doudna, James M. Berger, Matthew Merrill Carter, Paul Daniel Donohoue
  • Patent number: 11309574
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrical energy storage apparatus which forms an interpenetrating, three dimensional structure. The structure may have a first non-planar channel filled with an anode material to form an anode, and a second non-planar channel adjacent the first non-planar channel filled with a cathode material to form a cathode. A third non-planar channel may be formed adjacent the first and second non-planar channels and filled with an electrolyte. The first, second and third channels are formed so as to be interpenetrating and form a spatially dense, three dimensional structure. A first current collector is in communication with the first non-planar channel and forms a first electrode, while a second current collector is in communication with the second non-planar channel and forms a second electrode. A separator layers separates the current collectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Eric Duoss, Juergen Biener, Patrick Campbell, Julie A. Jackson, Geoffrey M. Oxberry, Christopher Spadaccini, Michael Stadermann, Cheng Zhu, Bradley Trembacki, Jayathi Murthy, Matthew Merrill
  • Patent number: 11293011
    Abstract: A new CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein, termed “CasM,” is described, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same and methods of using CasM for site-specific genome engineering. CasM proteins are capable of targeting and cleaving single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Locanabio, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Merrill Carter, Paul Daniel Donohoue
  • Patent number: 11260343
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for separating acidic gases from a gas mixture includes exposing the gas mixture to a separation membrane at an elevated temperature, where the separation membrane includes a porous support and at least one molten alkali metal hydroxide disposed within pores of the porous support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Worsley, Patrick Campbell, Sangil Kim, Matthew Merrill
  • Patent number: 11260344
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a separation membrane includes: a porous support structure, wherein the porous support structure comprises a system of continuous pores connecting an inlet of the separation membrane to an outlet of the separation membrane; and at least one alkali metal hydroxide disposed within pores of the porous support structure. Other aspects and embodiments of the disclosed inventive concepts will become apparent from the detailed description, which, when taken in conjunction with the drawings, illustrate by way of example the principles of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Worsley, Patrick Campbell, Sangil Kim, Matthew Merrill
  • Patent number: 11254668
    Abstract: A compound having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate of said compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, wherein variables are defined in the specification. Also provided are methods of treatment as Janus Kinase inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of the invention and combinations thereof with other therapeutic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Stephen Gerstenberger, Andrew Fensome, Dafydd Rhys Owen, Matthew Frank Brown, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Felix Vajdos, Li Huang Xing, Stephen Wayne Wright
  • Patent number: 11111242
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutically active pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidinyl and pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyridinyl acrylam ides and analogues thereof, having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as set forth in the Description. Such compounds are useful for inhibiting Janus Kinase (JAK). This invention also is directed to compositions comprising methods for making such compounds, and methods for treating and preventing conditions mediated by JAK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Atli Thorarensen, Matthew Frank Brown, Agustin Casimiro-Garcia, Ye Che, Jotham Wadsworth Coe, Mark Edward Flanagan, Adam Matthew Gilbert, Matthew Merrill Hayward, Jonathan David Langille, Justin Ian Montgomery, Jean-Baptiste Telliez, Rayomand Jal Unwalla, John I. Trujillo