Patents by Inventor Peter Ulrich
Peter Ulrich 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: 20020160992Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for reversing advanced glycosylation end product-mediated cross-linking and protein aging. Accordingly, compositions are described which comprise thiazolium compounds substituted with heterocyclic groups which are capable of reversing the formation of advanced glycosylation end product cross-links. Both industrial and therapeutic applications for the invention are disclosed, as food spoilage and animal protein aging can be treated. Such compounds have particular application in the treatment of protein aging such as is responsible for the complications of aging and diabetes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Dilip R. Wagle, Sheng-Ding Fang, Taikyun Rho, John J. Egan, Sara Vasan, Peter Ulrich, Anthony Cerami
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Publication number: 20020077271Abstract: The present invention concerns alkyl aryl carbonyl compounds that possess anti-infective activity. The compounds of the invention can be used to target specific nuclear localization signal, thereby blocking importation of specific proteins or molecular complex into the nucleus of a cell. The invention encompasses methods of use of such compounds for treatment or prevention of infectious diseases, such as parasitic and viral diseases, including, for example, malaria and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The use of the compounds to detect certain specific protein structures which are present in nuclear localization sequences is also taught.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich, Michael L. Bukrinsky
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Publication number: 20020028851Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6319934Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for reversing advanced glycosylation end product-mediated cross-linking and protein aging. Accordingly, compositions are described which comprise thiazolium compounds substituted with heterocyclic groups which are capable of reversing the formation of advanced glycosylation end product cross-links. Both industrial and therapeutic applications for the invention are disclosed, as food spoilage and animal protein aging can be treated. Such compounds have particular application in the treatment of protein aging such as is responsible for the complications of aging and diabetes.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Alteon, Inc.Inventors: Dilip R. Wagle, Sheng-Ding Fang, Taikyun Rho, John J. Egan, Sara Vasan, Peter Ulrich, Anthony Cerami
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Patent number: 6297253Abstract: The present invention concerns alkyl aryl carbonyl compounds that possess anti-infective activity. The compounds of the invention can be used to target specific nuclear localization signal, thereby blocking importation of specific proteins or molecular complex into the nucleus of a cell. The invention encompasses methods of use of such compounds for treatment or prevention of infectious diseases, such as parasitic and viral diseases, including, for example, malaria and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The use of the compounds to detect certain specific protein structures which are present in nuclear localization sequences is also taught.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1996Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: The Picower Institute For Medical ResearchInventors: Michael L. Bukrinsky, Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6248787Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6180676Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6119701Abstract: This invention provides methods, devices and agents for the removal of nucleophilic toxins present in tobacco and tobacco smoke, without the removal of nicotine. The filter element of a tobacco smoking device or an air filtration device used in conjunction with a tobacco smoking device may comprise chemical moieties reactive with nucleophilic compounds, or agents that trap nucleophilic compounds may be incorporated into the filter element of tobacco smoking device such as a cigarette, cigar, pipe, or in a separate filter through which tobacco smoke passes before entering the mouth. The agents may also be incorporated into air filters for removing tobacco combustion product toxins from room air. The agents may also be incorporated into smoking or smokeless tobacco to remove toxins.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Cerami Consulting Corp.Inventors: Anthony Cerami, Carla Cerami, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6121300Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for reversing advanced glycosylation end product-mediated cross-linking and protein aging. Accordingly, compositions are described which comprise thiazolium compounds substituted with heterocyclic groups which are capable of reversing the formation of advanced glycosylation end product cross-links. Both industrial and therapeutic applications for the invention are disclosed, as food spoilage and animal protein aging can be treated. Such compounds have particular application in the treatment of protein aging such as is responsible for the complications of aging and diabetes.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Inventors: Dilip R. Wagle, Sheng-Ding Fang, Taikyun Rho, John J. Egan, Sara Vasan, Peter Ulrich, Anthony Cerami
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Patent number: 6036135Abstract: In a process for the winding of coils into axial slots disposed on the outer perimeter of rotationally symmetric bodies of electrical devices, at least one wire, guided by a winding arm movable about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the body, is laid into the slots via a winding form. The body is turned about its axis of rotation by the space of at least one slot after each laying of the wire into an initial slot, accomplished by an initial swinging motion of the winding arm about its axis of rotation, with the wire being laid into a second slot by a second swinging motion opposite to the first and guided back to the start of the first slot after the laying into the second slot for the formation of a coil winding by additional turning. A suitable winding form has a wire-guiding slit that ends in an undercut slot whose undercut surfaces fix the wire on the base of the slot until the completion of the following swinging motion of the winding arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: ATS Automation Tooling System Inc.Inventors: Peter Ulrich, Siegfried Zihlmann, Thomas Bolli
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Patent number: 6022900Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 6008255Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5859062Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5854289Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections, and autoimmune or other diseases in which activated macrophages are involved, such as septic shock, heumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1996Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5849794Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5840893Abstract: There is disclosed compound according to the formula: ##STR1## wherein A, independently,=CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3, P=1 or 2; and ##STR2## wherein X=NH.sub.2, CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3 ; X'=CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3 ; Y=NH.sub.2, NHCH.sub.3, N(CH.sub.3).sub.2 ; and Z=H, CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3 ; or ##STR3## wherein Y' and Z', independently,=H, NH.sub.2, NHCH.sub.3, N(CH.sub.3).sub.2 or N.sup.+ (CH.sub.3).sub.3 ; Q is N or CH; and salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1996Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Michael I. Bukrinsky, Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich, Bradley J. Berger
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Patent number: 5753684Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5750573Abstract: This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and/or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Marina Bianchi, Anthony Cerami, Kevin J. Tracey, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5733932Abstract: The present invention encompasses the use of the compounds of formula as given below to detect certain specific protein structures which are present in nuclear localization sequences ##STR1## wherein A is, independently CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3 and R is ##STR2## and salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Michael I. Bukrinsky, Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich
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Patent number: 5703086Abstract: The present invention concerns compounds that block the movement of viral particles through the nuclear membrane and thereby prevent the productive infection of terminally differentiated cells by virus the life cycle of which includes such an importation step. The invention encompasses methods of use of such compounds. The use of the compounds to detect certain specific protein structures which are present in nuclear localization sequences is also taught.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: The Picower Institute for Medical ResearchInventors: Michael I. Bukrinsky, Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich