Patents by Inventor Ronald J. Gibbons

Ronald J. Gibbons 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).

  • Olgiosaccharide inhibition of Streptococcus pyogenes adhesion
    Patent number: 5095106
    Abstract: A method of, and oral composition for, inhibiting adherence of Streptococcus pyogenes to pharyngeal and oral mucosa cells by treating these cells with an oligosaccharide having at least one fucose moiety or a galactose moiety which is free of digalactose and N-acetylneuraminyl lactose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignees: Colgate-Palmolive, Forsyth Dental Center
    Inventors: Abdul Gaffar, Ronald J. Gibbons, Stanislawa Tylewska
  • Method to inhibit adhesion of disease-causing microorganisms to teeth
    Patent number: 5013542
    Abstract: A composition and method for the inhibiting of adhesion of disease-causing microorganisms, such as Streptococcus mutans, to tooth surrfaces, which composition contains as an active ingredient a non-immunogenic amino acid segment of a proline rich protein and which method comprises treating a calcium-containing mineral surface, such as a tooth surface, with the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children
    Inventors: Donald I. Hay, Ronald J. Gibbons, Edgard G. Moreno
  • Oligosaccharide inhibition of Streptococcus pyogenes adhesion
    Patent number: 5002759
    Abstract: A method of, and oral composition for, inhibiting adherence of Streptococcus pyogenes to pharyngeal and oral mucosa cells by treating these cells with an oligosaccharide having at least one fucose moiety or a galactose moiety which is free of digalactose and N-acetylneuraminyl lactose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignees: Colgate-Palmolive Company, Forsyth Dental Center
    Inventors: Abdul Gaffar, Ronald J. Gibbons, Stanislawa Tylewksa