Patents by Inventor Richard M. Kinney

Richard M. Kinney 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: 20230181682
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicants: TAKEDA VACCINES INC., THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY
    Inventors: Dan T. STINCHCOMB, Claire KINNEY, Richard M. KINNEY, Jill A. LIVENGOOD
  • Publication number: 20220062375
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: TAKEDA VACCINES, INC., THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT
    Inventors: Dan T. STINCHCOMB, Claire KINNEY, Richard M. KINNEY, Jill A. LIVENGOOD
  • Publication number: 20200061151
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Dan T. STINCHCOMB, Claire KINNEY, Richard M. KINNEY, Jill A. LIVENGOOD
  • Patent number: 10449231
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: TAKEDA VACCINES, INC., The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Dan T. Stinchcomb, Claire Kinney, Richard M. Kinney, Jill A. Livengood
  • Patent number: 10335478
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mahidol University
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Siritorn Butrapet, Duane J. Gubler, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Publication number: 20170290884
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Dan T. Stinchcomb, Claire Kinney, Richard M. Kinney, Jill A. Livengood
  • Patent number: 9783579
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: Takeda Vaccines, Inc., The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Dan T. Stinchcomb, Claire Kinney, Richard M Kinney, Jill A Livengood
  • Publication number: 20160367658
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicants: The Government of the USA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mahidol University
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y.H. Kinney, Siritorn Butrapet, Duane J. Gubler, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Patent number: 9463233
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mahidol University
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Siritorn Butrapet, Duane J. Gubler, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Publication number: 20140302088
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretar, INVIRAGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Stinchcomb, Claire Y Huang, Richard M Kinney, Jill A Livengood
  • Publication number: 20140141040
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicants: Mahidol University, The Government of the USA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y.H. Kinney, Siritorn Butrapet, Duane J. Gubler, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Patent number: 8715689
    Abstract: The disclosure provides chimeric West Nile/Dengue viruses comprising non-coding regions, non-structural proteins, and a C protein from a West Nile virus and prM and E proteins from a Dengue virus. Also disclosed are methods of using the chimeric viruses in diagnosis of Dengue viral infection, assessment of candidate Dengue virus vaccine efficacy, and production of Dengue prM and E proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Inventors: Claire Y. H. Kinney, Eric Thomas Beck, Richard M. Kinney
  • Patent number: 8673316
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mahidol University
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Publication number: 20120014981
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y.H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Patent number: 8025887
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mahidol University
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Publication number: 20110150771
    Abstract: The disclosure provides chimeric West Nile/Dengue viruses comprising non-coding regions, non-structural proteins, and a C protein from a West Nile virus and prM and E proteins from a Dengue virus. Also disclosed are methods of using the chimeric viruses in diagnosis of Dengue viral infection, assessment of candidate Dengue virus vaccine efficacy, and production of Dengue prM and E proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Claire Y.H. Kinney, Eric Thomas Beck, Richard M. Kinney
  • Publication number: 20100255030
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural viral proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y.H. Kinney, Siritorn Butrapet, Duane J. Gubler, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Patent number: 7641909
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural protein genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Certers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Publication number: 20090010961
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural protein genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y.H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati
  • Patent number: 7094411
    Abstract: Chimeric flaviviruses that are avirulent and immunogenic are provided. The chimeric viruses are constructed to contain amino acid mutations in the nonstructural proteins of a flavivirus. Chimeric viruses containing the attenuation-mutated nonstructural genes of the virus are used as a backbone into which the structural protein genes of a second flavivirus strain are inserted. These chimeric viruses elicit pronounced immunogenicity yet lack the accompanying clinical symptoms of viral disease. The attenuated chimeric viruses are effective as immunogens or vaccines and may be combined in a pharmaceutical composition to confer simultaneous immunity against several strains of pathogenic flaviviruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Richard M. Kinney, Claire Y. H. Kinney, Duane J. Gubler, Siritorn Butrapet, Natth Bhamarapravati