Patents by Inventor Roy Curtiss

Roy Curtiss 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).

  • Modified microorganisms and method of preparing and using same
    Patent number: 4968619
    Abstract: Microorganisms have been developed which may be characterized as possessing substantially all of the following qualities or capabilities:(a) capable of having foreign genetic information introduced thereinto and recovered therefrom along with its expression with production of useful gene products;(b) the microorganism being dependent for growth and survival upon defined conditions;(c) the microorganism being incapable of establishment or growth or colonization and/or survival under conditions or in ecological niches that are considered to be natural and/or undesirable for said microorganism;(d) the microorganism being capable of causing genetic information incorporated therein to undergo degradation under conditions or ecological niches that are considered to be natural and/or undesirable for said microorganism;(e) the microorganism being capable of permitting cloning vectors incorporated therein to be dependent for their replication, maintenance and/or function on said microorganism;(f) the microorganism bei
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Research Corporation
    Inventor: Roy Curtiss, III
  • Vaccines obtained from antigenic gene products of recombinant genes
    Patent number: 4888170
    Abstract: This invention relates to a vaccine for the immunization of a vertebrate, comprising:an avirulent derivative of a pathogenic microbe that expresses a recombinant gene derived from a pathogen of said vertebrate it being provided that said avirulent microbe does not normally exchange genetic material with said pathogen, to produce an antigen capable of inducing an immune response in said vertebrate against said pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Research Corporation
    Inventor: Roy Curtiss, III
  • Modified microorganisms and method of preparing and using same
    Patent number: 4190495
    Abstract: Microorganisms have been developed which may be characterized as possessing substantially all of the following qualities or capabilities:(a) capable of having foreign genetic information introduced thereinto and recovered therefrom along with its expression with production of useful gene products;(b) the microorganism being dependent for growth and survival upon defined conditions;(c) the microorganism being incapable of establishment or growth or colonization and/or survival under conditions or in ecological niches that are considered to be natural and/or undesirable for said microorganism;(d) the microorganism being capable of causing genetic information incorporated therein to undergo degradation under conditions or ecological niches that are considered to be natural and/or undesirable for said microorganism;(e) the microorganism being capable of permitting cloning vectors incorporated therein to be dependent for their replication, maintenance and/or function on said microorganism;(f) the microorganism bei
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Assignee: Research Corporation
    Inventor: Roy Curtiss, III