Patents by Inventor Shunhai Wang

Shunhai Wang 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).

  • Patent number: 11958894
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising anti-VEGF proteins and methods for producing such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunhai Wang, Ning Li, Hunter Chen, Amardeep Singh Bhupender Bhalla, Shawn M. Lawrence, Amy S. Johnson, Meghan Casey, Jaimie Grapel
  • Publication number: 20240110924
    Abstract: The present invention provides rapid, sensitive high-throughput methods and systems for characterizing peptides or proteins using hydrophobic interaction chromatography-coupled native mass spectrometry to improve manufacturing process of biopharmaceutical products, such as identifying impurities during antibody purification, monitoring post-translational modification variants during production, or characterizing drug-to-antibody ratio of antibody-drug conjugates. The separation profiles of the peptides or proteins are generated and compared to identify or qualify the peptides or proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20240102046
    Abstract: Methods of determining the stoichiometry of a viral capsid and/or determining the heterogeneity of protein components in a viral capsid are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20240084328
    Abstract: Methods of determining the stoichiometry of a viral capsid and/or determining the heterogeneity of protein components in a viral capsid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20240067701
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to methods for producing aflibercept from a host cell cultured in a chemically defined medium (CDM) including purification of aflibercept, wherein aflibercept following purification includes aflibercept variants that have at least one oxidized amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of tryptophan, histidine and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Tustian, Ankit Vartak, Thomas Daly, Erica Pyles, Nisha Palackal, Shunhai Wang, Ning Li
  • Patent number: 11899023
    Abstract: Methods and system for identification of dimer species using online chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry are provided. Also provided are methods and system for quantitation of heterodimer species using immunoprecipitation and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20240036056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of protein characterization, and in particular to methods for identifying critical quality attributes of therapeutic proteins by implementing a workflow including using a competitive binding assay with insufficient capture molecule followed by LC-MS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Zhengqi Zhang, Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang, Jethro Prinston, Jennifer Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11885811
    Abstract: The present invention provides rapid, sensitive high-throughput methods and systems for characterizing peptides or proteins using hydrophobic interaction chromatography-coupled native mass spectrometry to improve manufacturing process of biopharmaceutical products, such as identifying impurities during antibody purification, monitoring post-translational modification variants during production, or characterizing drug-to-antibody ratio of antibody-drug conjugates. The separation profiles of the peptides or proteins are generated and compared to identify or qualify the peptides or proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230393141
    Abstract: Methods for achieving complete sequence coverage of monoclonal antibodies by trypsin digestion and dual-column LC-MS system are provided. The disclosed method improves upon current techniques for standard peptide mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11835528
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to method and system of characterizing a protein using an electrospray ionization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230375565
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of protein characterization, and in particular to methods for identifying critical quality attributes of therapeutic proteins by implementing a workflow including using a competitive binding assay with insufficient capture molecule followed by LC-MS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Zhengqi Zhang, Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230357357
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising anti-VEGF proteins and methods for producing such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shunhai Wang, Ning Li, Hunter Chen, Amardeep Singh Bhupender Bhalla, Shawn Lawrence, Amy Johnson, Meghan Casey, Jaimie Grapel
  • Publication number: 20230348533
    Abstract: The present invention generally pertains to methods of characterizing antibodies and related products. In particular, the present invention pertains to the use of immunoprecipitation and postcolumn denaturation-assisted native size exclusion chromatography-mass spectrometry to specifically and sensitively detected and quantitate antibodies and related products in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230331812
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising anti-VEGF proteins and methods for producing such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shunhai Wang, Ning Li, Hunter Chen, Amardeep Singh Bhupender Bhalla, Shawn M. Lawrence, Amy S. Johnson, Meghan Casey, Jaimie Grapel
  • Publication number: 20230314388
    Abstract: Methods and system for identifying and quantifying antibody fragments and identifying the site of fragmentation on an antibody are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230314446
    Abstract: Methods and system for identifying and/or quantifying a protein are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11753459
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising anti-VEGF proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunhai Wang, Ning Li, Hunter Chen, Amardeep Singh Bhupender Bhalla, Shawn M. Lawrence, Amy S. Johnson, Meghan E. Casey, Jaimie Grapel
  • Publication number: 20230280354
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for analyzing disulfide bonds are provided. An exemplary method includes preparing peptide standards having no disulfide bonds, scrambled disulfide bond peptide standards, and native disulfide bond peptide standards according to the sequence of the region of the protein drug product that includes the disulfide bond, digesting a sample of protein drug product into peptides, separating the protein drug product peptides, analyzing the protein drug product peptides and the peptide standards, identifying scrambled and native disulfide bond peptides by retention time, and quantifying the level of scrambled disulfide bond peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11740246
    Abstract: Methods for achieving complete sequence coverage of monoclonal antibodies by trypsin digestion and dual-column LC-MS system are provided. The disclosed method improves upon current techniques for standard peptide mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Publication number: 20230266286
    Abstract: Disclosed are native liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry systems and methods of use. A native liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system can include a liquid chromatography system capable of separating a sample; and an electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) system in fluid communication with the liquid chromatography system, wherein the ESI-MS system comprises a multi-nozzle electrospray ionization emitter and a system for modifying a desolvation gas and a mass spectrometer, wherein the mass spectrometer is configured to receive ions and characterize mass to charge ratio of ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shunhai Wang, Yuetian Yan