Patents by Inventor Michael R. Boyd

Michael R. Boyd 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: 7750821
    Abstract: A message center that can comprise a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The LCD can be divided into one or more zones, with each zone being designated for a specific message. The message center can also include a light guide system positioned behind the liquid crystal display. The light guide system can have one or more light guides, with each of the light guides having a first end, and each of the light guides can be aligned with a zone of the liquid crystal display. The message center can further include a multi-color light emitting diode (LED) that can be mounted at the first end of each of the light guides, and a control system that can set the intensity of each of the multi-colors on each of the LEDs such that a backlighting of each zone is individually controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuriy Taborisskiy, Igor Klimchynski, Michael R. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20090197940
    Abstract: A composition comprising a substantially purified compound of the formula: in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: The United States of America, as repersented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Serv
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Kirk R. Gustafson
  • Patent number: 7547509
    Abstract: The present invention provides variants of cyanovirin-N and water-soluble polymer conjugates thereof, and methods of preparing such conjugates. The cyanovirin-N of the invention are particularly suited for site-selective covalent attachment of one or more water soluble polymers, to provide polymer conjugates of cyanovirin-N variants exhibiting antiviral activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignees: Nektar Therapeutics AL, Corporation, National Institute of Heatlh
    Inventors: M. Elizabeth Snell, Michael J. Roberts, Toshiyuki Mori, Barry R. O'Keefe, Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 7521475
    Abstract: A composition comprising a substantially purified compound of the formula: in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Kirk R. Gustafson
  • Publication number: 20090092557
    Abstract: An isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, as well as an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, and, when the at least eight contiguous amino acids comprise amino acids 1-121 of SEQ ID NO: 3, the at least eight contiguous amino acids have been rendered glycosylation-resistant, a vector comprising such an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule, a host cell comprising the nucleic acid molecule, optionally in the form of a vector, a method of producing an anti-viral polypeptide or conjugate thereof, the anti-viral polypeptide itself, a conjugate or fusion protein comprising the anti-viral polypeptide, and compositions comprising an effective amount of the anti-viral
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Government of the United States of America Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Toshiyuki Mori, Barry R. O'Keefe
  • Patent number: 7491798
    Abstract: An isolated or purified antiviral protein of SEQ ID NO: 1, nucleic acids encoding the antiviral protein, cells comprising the nucleic acids, and methods of inhibiting viral infection comprising contacting the virus with the antiviral protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Heidi R. Bokesch, Barry R. O'Keefe, Tawnya C. McKee
  • Publication number: 20080275108
    Abstract: The present invention provides vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase-inhibiting compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using them to treat or prevent a condition treatable by the inhibition of a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. The composition of the present invention comprises a compound of the present invention and a carrier. The method of the present invention includes administering a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase inhibiting-effective amount of a compound of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and
    Inventor: Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 7381744
    Abstract: The present invention provides vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase-inhibiting compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using them to treat or prevent a condition treatable by the inhibition of a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. The composition of the present invention comprises a compound of the present invention and a carrier. The method of the present invention includes administering a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase inhibiting-effective amount of a compound of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 7339037
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically an influenza viral infection in a host. The method comprises instilling into or onto a host a cell producing an antiviral protein, antiviral peptide, or antiviral conjugate comprising at least nine contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the at least nine contiguous amino acids are nonglycosylated and have antiviral activity, whereupon the influenza viral infection is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Barry R. O'Keefe, Toshiyuki Mori, Angela M. Gronenborn
  • Patent number: 7267941
    Abstract: The present invention provides variants of cyanovirin-N and water-soluble polymer conjugates thereof. The cyanovirin-N of the invention are particularly suited for site-selective covalent attachment of one or more water soluble polymers, to provide polymer conjugates of cyanovirin-N variants exhibiting antiviral activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignees: The Government of the United States of America as represented by The Secretary of The Department of Health and Human Services, The National Institutes of Health, Nektar Therapeutics AL
    Inventors: M. Elizabeth Snell, Michael J. Roberts, Toshiyuki Mori, Barry R. O'Keefe, Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 7205334
    Abstract: A substantially purified compound of the formula: a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of the formula, alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Kirk R. Gustafson
  • Patent number: 7144918
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of the formula (I). The present invention further provides a composition comprising at least one compound of the present invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, alone or in combination with at least one additional active agent. The present invention further provides a method of treating a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase and a method of treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Kirk R. Gustafson, Charles L. Cantrell
  • Patent number: 7105169
    Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, methods of removing virus from a sample, a composition comprising a solid support matrix to which is attached a cyanovirin, a conjugate comprising a cyanovirin coupled to at least one effector component, a composition comprising such a conjugate, methods of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection of a host, and a matrix-anchored anti-cyanovirin antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Michael R Boyd
  • Patent number: 7061405
    Abstract: A system and method for interfacing video devices over a link where electronic digital video data having a quantity (n) of bits of parallel data transmitted electronically at a first clock rate (R1) is converted to a stream of electronic serial data that is transmitted a second clock rate (R2=R1×n). The stream of electronic serial data is transmitted over a link that can be a fiber optic link or include one or more conductors. A receiver is employed to convert the data transmitted over the link into an output data stream having (n) bits of parallel data transmitted electronically at the first clock rate (R1). If the link is a fiber optic link, the receiver can convert the data transmitted over the link into to a second stream electronic serial data that is transmitted at the second clock rate (R2) and then to the output data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Yazaki North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Jason J. Beaudoin, Vincent Mui
  • Patent number: 7048935
    Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, methods of removing virus from a sample, a composition comprising a solid support matrix to which is attached a cyanovirin, a conjugate comprising a cyanovirin coupled to at least one effector component, a composition comprising such a conjugate, methods of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection of a host, and a matrix-anchored anti-cyanovirin antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Michael R Boyd
  • Patent number: 6987096
    Abstract: The present invention provides antiviral proteins (collectively referred to as cyanovirins), conjugates thereof, DNA sequences encoding such agents, host cells containing such DNA sequences, antibodies directed to such agents, compositions comprising such agents, and methods of obtaining and using such agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Kirk R. Gustafson, Robert H. Shoemaker, James B. McMahon
  • Publication number: 20040258706
    Abstract: The present invention provides variants of cyanovirin-N and water-soluble polymer conjugates thereof. The cyanovirin-N of the invention are particularly suited for site-selective covalent attachment of one or more water soluble polymers, to provide polymer conjugates of cyanovirin-N variants exhibiting antiviral activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: M. Elizabeth Snell, Michael J. Roberts, Toshiyuki Mori, Barry R. O'Keefe, Michael R. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20040220107
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically an influenza viral infection in a host. The method comprises instilling into or onto a host a cell producing an antiviral protein, antiviral peptide, or antiviral conjugate comprising at least nine contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the at least nine contiguous amino acids are nonglycosylated and have antiviral activity, whereupon the influenza viral infection is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: The Government of the U.S.A. as Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Michael R. Boyd, Barry R. O'Keefe, Toshiyuki Mori, Angela M. Gronenborn
  • Publication number: 20040204365
    Abstract: The present invention provides antiviral proteins (collectively referred to as cyanovirins), conjugates thereof, DNA sequences encoding such agents, host cells containing such DNA sequences, antibodies directed to such agents, compositions comprising such agents, and methods of obtaining and using such agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Gov. of the USA, as the Secretary, Dept. of Health & Human Serv., NIH, Office of Tech. Transfer
    Inventor: Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 6780847
    Abstract: An isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a protein or peptide comprising at least nine contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the at least nine contiguous amino acids comprise amino acids 30-32 of SEQ ID NO: 2 which have been rendered glycosylation resistant and wherein the at least nine contiguous amino acids have antiviral activity, a vector comprising such an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule, a host cell or organism comprising the vector, a method of producing an antiviral protein or antiviral peptide, the antiviral protein or antiviral peptide itself, a conjugate comprising the antiviral protein or antiviral peptide, and compositions comprising an effective amount of the antiviral protein, antiviral peptide, antiviral protein conjugate or antiviral peptide conjugate. Further provided is a method of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection, specifically an influenza viral infection, of a host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Michael R. Boyd