Patents by Inventor Paul Shapiro
Paul Shapiro 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: 20240121104Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for secure, authenticated communication with one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are described herein. The system includes at least one computing system which is operable with instructions to: receive, from an unmanned aerial vehicle of one or more unmanned vehicles, a message; extract, from the message, an unmanned aerial vehicle serial number and a secret key; compute a hash of the secret key to generate a first hashed secret key; retrieve, from an internal database located on a non-transient memory of the at least one computing system, a second hashed secret key associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle serial number; and compare the first hashed secret key with the second hashed secret key to determine whether the message is valid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Gregory Colacitti, Paul Di Benedetto, Mike J. Fattori, Ruven Shapiro
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Publication number: 20230140941Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38a MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Steven Fletcher, Alexander MacKerell, Paul Shapiro, Jeffrey Hasday
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Publication number: 20200308591Abstract: Provided are methods of assessing activity of a promoter region. The methods include culturing a cell including a nucleic acid, the nucleic acid including a region that encodes an enzyme donor (ED) operably coupled to a promoter region, under conditions in which the ED is expressed when the promoter region is active. The methods further include contacting the ED, if expressed, with an enzyme acceptor (EA) to form ED-EA complexes having enzymatic activity. The methods further include detecting the level of the enzymatic activity to assess activity of the promoter region. Activity of the promoter region may be indicative, and therefore may be used to assess, the activity of a cellular signaling pathway of interest and/or of endogenous or exogenous (e.g., introduced) transcription factors of interest. Cells, compositions, and kits that find use, e.g., in practicing the methods of the present disclosure, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Eurofins DiscoverX CorporationInventors: Paul Shapiro, Venkatesh Chari, Jennifer Lin-Jones, Jane Lamerdin
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Patent number: 8150756Abstract: A family of hedge funds, serving as “feeder funds”into underlying single-manager hedge funds, formed to provide smaller investors with the ability to allocate and reallocate assets among alternative strategies, and this basic structure combining interrelated systems and methods for offering, redeeming, exchanging, valuing, reporting and servicing the same is a new approach. The system and methods described herein provide investors having less than ultra-high net worth portfolios with access to hedge funds and the potential valuable diversification to an overall portfolio, and the ability to customize their portfolio of hedge funds to their individual needs and adjust such portfolio over time as seen fit in light of changing financial needs and market conditions. This invention gives a wide range of investors access to hedge funds, creating economic value using a new source of stable investor capital for hedge fund managers, a value shared with investors through reduced costs.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Robert Michael Alderman, Steven Neil Baumgarten, Paul Joseph Brennan, Jeffrey Frazer Chandor, Winston Llewellyn Clinton, Sr., Lance Daniel Larsen, Stephen Michael Mulford Miller, Steven Bruce Olgin, Michael Louis Pungello, Ronald Scott Rosenberg, Lynda Marie Salvi-Chiara, Grace Theresa Sette, Ira Paul Shapiro, George Edward Skibik, Jr., Paul Joseph Tartanella, Kathleen Versland, Ashleigh Ryan Widger, Courtney Lauren Hughes
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Publication number: 20110306071Abstract: The invention provides assays and methods for determining the substrate specificity of gamma secretase inhibitors and for identifying substrate-selective (and substrate isoform-selective) inhibitors of gamma secretase. The invention provides assays and methods for determining whether a compound inhibits gamma secretase in a site specific or substrate specific manner. The invention provides isolated polypeptide sequences comprising modified gamma secretase substrates, and polynucleotide sequences encoding the polypeptide sequences. The invention also provides compounds that inhibit gamma secretase, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating Alzheimer's disease using such compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: ELAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: I. Paul Shapiro, Guriqbal S. Basi, Zhao Ren
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Publication number: 20110307416Abstract: A family of hedge funds, serving as “feeder funds” into underlying single-manager hedge funds, formed to provide smaller investors with the ability to allocate and reallocate assets among alternative strategies, and this basic structure combining interrelated systems and methods for offering, redeeming, exchanging, valuing, reporting and servicing the same is a new approach. The system and methods described herein provide investors having less than ultra-high net worth portfolios with access to hedge funds and the potential valuable diversification to an overall portfolio, and the ability to customize their portfolio of hedge funds to their individual needs and adjust such portfolio over time as seen fit in light of changing financial needs and market conditions. This invention gives a wide range of investors access to hedge funds, creating economic value using a new source of stable investor capital for hedge fund managers, a value shared with investors through reduced costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Robert Michael Alderman, Steven Neil Baumgarten, Paul Joseph Brennan, Jeffrey Frazer Chandor, Winston Llewellyn Clinton, SR., Lance Daniel Larsen, Stephen Michael Mulford Miller, Steven Bruce Olgin, Michael Louis Pungello, Ronald Scott Rosenberg, Lynda Marie Salvi-Chiara, Grace Theresa Sette, Ira Paul Shapiro, George Edward Skibik, JR., Paul Joseph Tartanella, Kathleen Versland, Ashleigh Ryan Widger, Courtney Lauren Hughes
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Publication number: 20090299063Abstract: Provided herein are compounds and methods of using compounds that selectively inhibit binding to one or more docking domain regions of an extracellular signal-recognition kinase to inhibit in a cell having an extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity. Such methods may be used to inhibit cell proliferation of a neoplastic cell, to treat a cancer and further may be used in conjunction with administration of an anticancer drug at a reduced dosage to treat a cancer with a concomitant reduction in toxicity to an individual receiving the treatment. Also provided is a method to design and screen for compounds to inhibit binding within the extracellular signal-regulated kinase docking domain region, using at least in part computer-aided drug design modeling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Paul Shapiro, Alexander D. MacKerell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090163594Abstract: The invention provides assays and methods for determining whether a compound inhibits gamma secretase in a substrate specific manner. The invention provides an isolated cell wherein the cell stably expresses APP and at least one gamma secretase substrate other than APP. The invention provides assays and methods comprising contacting a cell with gamma secretase and detecting production of Abeta, detecting production of intracellular domain (ICD), and detecting a signal from a reporter gene under transcriptional control of the ICD. The invention also provides compounds that inhibit gamma secretase, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating Alzheimer's disease using such compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: ELAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: I. Paul Shapiro, Guriqbal S. Basi, Zhao Ren, Xiao-Hua Chen
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Publication number: 20090023158Abstract: The invention provides assays and methods for determining the substrate specificity of gamma secretase inhibitors and for identifying substrate-selective (and substrate isoform-selective) inhibitors of gamma secretase. The invention provides assays and methods for determining whether a compound inhibits gamma secretase in a site specific or substrate specific manner. The invention provides isolated polypeptide sequences comprising modified gamma secretase substrates, and polynucleotide sequences encoding the polypeptide sequences. The invention also provides compounds that inhibit gamma secretase, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating Alzheimer's disease using such compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: I. Paul Shapiro, Guriqbal S. Basi, Zhao Ren
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Publication number: 20070066616Abstract: Provided herein are compounds and methods of using compounds that selectively inhibit binding to one or more docking domain regions of an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) to inhibit in a cell having an extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity. Such methods may be used to inhibit cell proliferation of a neoplastic cell, to treat a cancer and further may be used in conjunction with administration of an anticancer drug at a reduced dosage to treat a cancer with a concomitant reduction in toxicity to an individual receiving the treatment. Also provided is a method to design and screen for compounds to inhibit binding within the extracellular signal-regulated kinase docking domain region, using at least in part computer-aided drug design modeling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Paul Shapiro, Alexander MacKerell
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Publication number: 20060232956Abstract: A ceiling-mounted luminaire having a bent lens that has a horizontal portion for directing light downward, and a bent or diagonal portion for directing diagonally light toward an adjacent wall. The luminaire improves the flooding of light onto the wall. An auxiliary reflector plate can be inserted within the main reflector to direct more of the source light toward the diagonal portion of the lens to improve the wall lighting.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2005Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Edward Conathan, Paul Shapiro
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Publication number: 20050209299Abstract: Provided herein are methods of using an inhibitor of an MLK protein or polypeptide to inhibit cell proliferation in neoplastic cells, such as for example, a cancer. Such methods may be used to treat a cancer and further may be used in conjunction with administration of an anticancer drug at a reduced dosage to treat a cancer with a concomitant reduction in toxicity to an individual receiving the treatment. Also provided is a method to screen for inhibitory agents to inhibit an activity of a MLK protein or polypeptide and to inhibit cell proliferation of a neoplastic cell having the MLK activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Applicant: University of Maryland, BaltimoreInventor: Paul Shapiro
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Patent number: 4162474Abstract: 1. Apparatus comprisingA pair of signal sensors spacially displaced from each other,Means connected to each sensor for quantizing the signals at the output thereof,First and second two-mode reversing switches, each switch having two inputs respectively connected to two outputs in one mode and having said two inputs inversely connected to said two outputs in the other mode,Each quantized signal being applied to a respective input of said first switch,One output of said first switch being connected to one input of said second switch,Variable delay means connected between the other output of said first switch and the other input of said second switch,Means for controlling the delay of said variable delay means and the modes of said first and second switches,A signal correlator connected to the outputs of said second switch to produce an output signal representing the correlation function of the signals at the outputs of said second switch,And signal integrating means responsive to said output signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1964Date of Patent: July 24, 1979Assignee: Sperry Rand CorporationInventors: Alan Broder, Paul Shapiro, Seening Yee
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Patent number: D563021Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D563022Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D563023Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D563024Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D563590Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D564696Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer
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Patent number: D565230Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLCInventors: Margaret L. Hetfield, James Neeld, Paul Shapiro, Richard Meyer