Patents by Inventor Ralph Adams

Ralph Adams 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: 20240139496
    Abstract: A blood pump assembly can include various components such as a housing and a sensor configured to detect one or more characteristics of the blood. In some embodiments, the sensor can be coupled to the housing and can include a sensor membrane configured to deflect in response to a change in a blood parameter (e.g., pressure). The blood pump assembly can include a shield that covers at least a portion of the sensor membrane so as to protect the sensor from damage when the blood pump assembly is inserted through an introducer and navigated through the patient's vasculature and/or when the blood pump assembly is inserted into the heart in a surgical procedure. One or more protective layers can be deposited over the sensor membrane to prevent the sensor membrane from being dissolved through interactions with the patient's blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ABIOMED, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Louis D'Ambrosio, Bruce Adams, Michael Thomas Finnegan, Gerd Spanier, Thorsten Siess
  • Patent number: 11919950
    Abstract: The invention relates to antibody molecules having specificity for antigenic determinants of both IL-17A and IL-17F, therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing said antibody molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SRL
    Inventors: Ralph Adams, Terence Seward Baker, Alastair David Griffiths Lawson
  • Publication number: 20240067758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies binding to IL13 and IL22. The invention provides novel multi-specific antibodies that bind to both IL13 and IL22 and compositions comprising an antibody that binds to IL13 and an antibody that binds to IL22. The invention further relates to therapeutic uses of the combination of anti-IL13 and anti-IL22 antibodies and multi-specific antibodies that bind to both IL13 and IL22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Michael David RASTRICK, John Paul SILVA, Daniel John LIGHTWOOD, Ralph ADAMS, Roger Thomas PALFRAMAN, Kerry Louise TYSON, Peter Charles ELLIOTT, Seema MAYANK, Andrea Julie CROSBY, Emily Mary Cairistine BARRY, Seppe Frans Roman LEYSEN, Zainab AHDASH
  • Publication number: 20240046366
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to monitoring and/or sensing of one or more home devices from one or more homes. In particular, various aspects described herein relate to receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices from one or more homes and using the data to determine insurance rates or premiums, discounts, incentives, and the like. Further, aspects of the disclosure relate to computer hardware and software. In particular, one or more aspects of the disclosure relate to the connected home or smart home market (i.e. connected devices and systems within or related to the home) which is rapidly evolving and growing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Floyd M. Yager, Orlando E. Mercado, Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Jennifer L. Snyder, Laurie Pellouchoud, Peggy Klingel, Trent Bohacz, John Bradley Moats
  • Publication number: 20230374148
    Abstract: The present invention provides binding molecule or molecules that are able to multimerise CD45 to induce cell death of a cell expressing CD45 without also inducing significant cytokine release. For example, the invention provides antibodies against CD45, wherein the antibodies comprise at least two different paratopes each specific for a different epitope of CD45. The antibodies may be used to cross-link CD45 on the surface of cells. The antibodies may be used in a variety of therapeutic ways including to deplete cells, for example prior to cell transplantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Edward RAPECKI, Ralph ADAMS, David Paul HUMPHREYS, Helen Margaret FINNEY, Rosemary Frances BITHELL
  • Patent number: 11783423
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to monitoring and/or sensing of one or more home devices from one or more homes. In particular, various aspects described herein relate to receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices from one or more homes and using the data to determine insurance rates or premiums, discounts, incentives, and the like. Further, aspects of the disclosure relate to computer hardware and software. In particular, one or more aspects of the disclosure relate to the connected home or smart home market (i.e. connected devices and systems within or related to the home) which is rapidly evolving and growing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Floyd M. Yager, Orlando E. Mercado, Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Jennifer L. Snyder, Laurie Pellouchoud, Peggy Klingel, Trent Bohacz, John Bradley Moats
  • Publication number: 20230316413
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may determine, for a geographic region and based on geolocation data, a plurality of sub-regions, where each sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions may include real properties with a shared profile. The system may associate, with each sub-region, a collection of coordinate pairs, where each coordinate pair comprises a latitude and a longitude, and the collection describes a boundary of a geometric shape corresponding to the sub-region. The system may associate, with the geographic region, geometric shapes corresponding to the plurality of sub-regions. The system may associate, with each geometric shape, a rating factor for the real properties located within the sub-region corresponding to the geometric shape. The system may store the geometric shapes and rating factors, and may generate, based on the rating factor and for the real properties located within the sub-region, an output, and provide the generated output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Jonathan Fesenmeyer, Lauren Ugulini, John Lower, Analini Shetty, Darius Tallat-Kelpsa, David Robert McNulty, Michelle Ann Wagner
  • Patent number: 11710186
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may determine, for a geographic region and based on geolocation data, a plurality of sub-regions, where each sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions may include real properties with a shared profile. The system may associate, with each sub-region, a collection of coordinate pairs, where each coordinate pair comprises a latitude and a longitude, and the collection describes a boundary of a geometric shape corresponding to the sub-region. The system may associate, with the geographic region, geometric shapes corresponding to the plurality of sub-regions. The system may associate, with each geometric shape, a rating factor for the real properties located within the sub-region corresponding to the geometric shape. The system may store the geometric shapes and rating factors, and may generate, based on the rating factor and for the real properties located within the sub-region, an output, and provide the generated output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Jonathan Fesenmeyer, Lauren Ugulini, John Lower, Analini Shetty, Darius Tallat-Kelpsa, David Robert McNulty, Michelle Ann Wagner
  • Publication number: 20230186388
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for determining and implementing dynamic usage-based insurance policies are presented. A cost per day and a cost per mile associated with the dynamic usage-based insurance policy may be determined. The cost per mile may be computed independently for each of a plurality of road segments comprising a trip based on a time of day that the vehicle traveled each road segment, a road type associated with each road segment. The cost per mile of each road segment of the driving trip may further include whether or not hard braking or hard cornering events were encountered during a specified cumulative driving distance that may include, at least a portion, of a plurality of driving trips. The cost per mile for each of the plurality of driving trips may be adjusted once a threshold distance has been traveled by the vehicle based on the number of hard braking events and hard cornering events occurred during that distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Christine L. Bischoff, Dana Ferguson, Eric D. Huls, Grady Irey, William Polisson, Caryl M. Styrsky, Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Meg G. Walters
  • Publication number: 20230135399
    Abstract: This invention provides binding proteins, including antibodies, antibody derivatives and antibody fragments, that specifically bind a CD154 (CD4OL) protein. This invention also provides a chimeric, humanized or fully human antibody, antibody derivative or antibody fragment that specifically binds to an epitope to which a humanized Fab fragment comprising a variable heavy chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 and comprising a variable light chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 2 specifically binds. CD154 binding proteins of this invention may elicit reduced effector function relative to a second anti-CD154 antibody. CD154 binding proteins of this invention are useful in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, such as in the treatment and prevention of diseases including those that involve undesirable immune responses that are mediated by CD154-CD40 interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: LINDA C. BURKLY, JANINE L. FERRANT-ORGETTAS, ELLEN A. GARBER, YEN-MING HSU, LIHE SU, FREDERICK R. TAYLOR, RALPH ADAMS, DEREK THOMAS BROWN, ANDREW GEORGE POPPLEWELL, MARTYN KIM ROBINSON, ANTHONY SHOCK, KERRY LOUISE TYSON
  • Publication number: 20230084464
    Abstract: The invention relates to antibody molecules having specificity for antigenic determinants of human IL-13, therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing the antibody molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel John Lightwood, Ralph Adams, Roger Thomas Palframan
  • Patent number: 11521268
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for determining and implementing dynamic usage-based insurance policies are presented. A cost per day and a cost per mile associated with the dynamic usage-based insurance policy may be determined. The cost per mile may be computed independently for each of a plurality of road segments comprising a trip based on a time of day that the vehicle traveled each road segment, a road type associated with each road segment. The cost per mile of each road segment of the driving trip may further include whether or not hard braking or hard cornering events were encountered during a specified cumulative driving distance that may include, at least a portion, of a plurality of driving trips. The cost per mile for each of the plurality of driving trips may be adjusted once a threshold distance has been traveled by the vehicle based on the number of hard braking events and hard cornering events occurred during that distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Christine L. Bischoff, Dana Ferguson, Eric Huls, Grady Irey, William Polisson, Caryl M. Styrsky, Ralph Adam Benjamin Tyner, Meg G. Walters
  • Publication number: 20220347324
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel 10Fn3 domains which specifically bind to PD-L1, as well as imaging agents based on the same for diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Paul E. MORIN, David DONNELLY, Dasa LIPOVSEK, Jochem GOKEMEIJER, Maria N. JURE-KUNKEL, David FABRIZIO, Martin C. WRIGHT, Douglas DISCHINO, Samuel J. BONACORSI, Jr., Ralph Adam SMITH, Virginie LAFONT, Daniel COHEN, David K. LEUNG
  • Patent number: 11466076
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of modulating the half-life of a binding domain specific to a serum carrier protein by mutating the sequence and a modulated binding domain specific to a serum carrier protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SRL
    Inventors: Ralph Adams, Sam Philip Heywood
  • Publication number: 20220235146
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the area of improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents, and compositions thereof, which target IgE, for instance: for use in treating disorders caused by IgE (such as allergic responses, or certain autoimmune responses); and, in particular, disorders caused by the interaction of IgE with the Fc?RI receptor. In particular, this invention relates to improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents related to novel mutants of omalizumab (Xolair®). The improved anti-IgE antibodies and antigen binding agents of the invention may have improved affinity for IgE and/or an improved interaction with the C?2 domain of IgE and/or an improved modified epitope on IgE (for instance further involving the C?2 domain of IgE) and/or the ability to disassociate IgE from the Fc?RI receptor for instance at pharmaceutically-relevant concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Ralph ADAMS, Thomas Allen CESKA, Anna Marie DAVIES, Alistair James HENRY, Xiaofeng LIU, James Michael MCDONNELL, Brian John SUTTON, Marta Katarzyna WESTWOOD
  • Publication number: 20220220192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies binding alpha synuclein and fragments thereof capable of binding alpha synuclein as a monomer and in fibrils and preventing alpha synuclein aggregation induced by alpha synuclein fibrils. The antibodies of the present invention are for use in the treatment of alpha synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Ralph ADAMS, Patrick DOWNEY, Terence Seward BAKER, Kerry Louise TYSON, Lorenzo DE LICHTERVELDE, Daniel John LIGHTWOOD, David James MCMILLAN
  • Patent number: 11344639
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel 10Fn3 domains which specifically bind to PD-L1, as well as imaging agents based on the same for diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul E. Morin, David Donnelly, Dasa Lipovsek, Jochem Gokemeijer, Maria Jure-Kunkel, David Fabrizio, Martin C. Wright, Douglas Dischino, Samuel J. Bonacorsi, Jr., Ralph Adam Smith, Virginie Lafont, Daniel Cohen, David K. Leung
  • Publication number: 20220089705
    Abstract: This invention is in the area of improved anti-aP2 antibodies and antigen binding agents, and compositions thereof, which target the lipid chaperone aP2/FABP4 (referred to as “aP2”) for use in treating disorders such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, and/or cancer, among others. In one aspect, improved treatments for aP2 mediated disorders are disclosed in which serum aP2 is targeted and the biological activity of aP2 is neutralized or modulated using low-binding affinity aP2 monoclonal antibodies, providing lower fasting blood glucose levels, improved systemic glucose metabolism, increased systemic insulin sensitivity, reduced fat mass, reduced liver steatosis, reduced cardiovascular disease and/or a reduced risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, Mehmet F. Burak, Feyza Engin, Scott B. Widenmaier, Karen Inouye, Elisabeth Helen Roberts, Adrian Richard Moore, Carl Brendan Doyle, Ralph Adams, Karine Jeannine Madeleine Hervé, Shauna Mhairi Wales, Kerry Louise Tyson
  • Publication number: 20220073581
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies comprising a variable (V) domain and an insert polypeptide, wherein the insert polypeptide is within the framework 3 region of the V domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ralph Adams, Terence Seward Baker, Xiaofeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11261242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies binding alpha synuclein and fragments thereof capable of binding alpha synuclein as a monomer and in fibrils and preventing alpha synuclein aggregation induced by alpha synuclein fibrils. The antibodies of the present invention are for use in the treatment of alpha synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SRL
    Inventors: Ralph Adams, Patrick Downey, Terence Seward Baker, Kerry Louise Tyson, Lorenzo De Lichtervelde, Daniel John Lightwood, David James McMillan