Patents by Inventor Stephen L. Hoffman
Stephen L. Hoffman 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).
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Patent number: 12409213Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: Yun Wu, Dennis J. Kopecko, B. Kim Lee Sim, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20250242009Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2024Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: Abraham G. EAPPEN, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Patent number: 12171822Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: Abraham G. Eappen, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20240173393Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Abraham G. EAPPEN, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Publication number: 20220323562Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Yun WU, Dennis J. KOPECKO, B. Kim Lee SIM, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Publication number: 20220257742Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Abraham G. EAPPEN, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Publication number: 20220233681Abstract: Disclosed herein are transgenic Salmonella typhi Ty21a comprising a chromosome with one or more heterologous nucleic acid regions, wherein the heterologous nucleic acid regions encode one or more viral antigens and are integrated into the Salmonella typhi Ty21a chromosome, and wherein the transgenic Salmonella typhi Ty21a stably expresses the one or more viral antigens. Also disclosed herein are compositions and vaccines comprising the transgenic Salmonella typhi Ty21a. Also disclosed herein are methods of eliciting an immune response in a subject against a SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen and/or a Salmonella typhi antigen comprising administering one or more doses of the composition or the vaccine to the subject. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating, preventing or reducing the incidence of COVID-19 and/or typhoid fever in a subject comprising administering one or more doses of the composition or the vaccine to the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Betty Kim Lee SIM, Tint Tint WAI, Ehud INBAR, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Patent number: 11324814Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Protein Potential, LLCInventors: Yun Wu, Dennis J. Kopecko, B. Kim Lee Sim, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Patent number: 11207395Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: Abraham G. Eappen, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20200376107Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Protein Potential, LLCInventors: Yun WU, Dennis J. KOPECKO, B. Kim Lee SIM, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Patent number: 10695415Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Protein Potential, LLCInventors: Yun Wu, Dennis J. Kopecko, B. Kim Lee Sim, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20200113987Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: Abraham G. EAPPEN, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Patent number: 10441646Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: Abraham G. Eappen, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Patent number: 10272146Abstract: Disclosed are substantially purified Plasmodium sporozoites and preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites substantially separated from attendant non-sporozoite material, where the preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites have increasing levels of purity. Vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions comprising purified Plasmodium sporozoites are likewise provided. Methods of purifying preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: B. Kim Lee Sim, Minglin Li, Richard E. Stafford, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Patent number: 10197577Abstract: Disclosed herein are diagnostic methods and compositions for identifying individuals that are protected against Plasmodium falciparum caused malaria. Such methods are particularly useful for determining not only the protective efficacy of Pf whole parasite vaccines for individual subjects, but also within populations of vaccinated subjects. Also disclosed herein are subunit vaccines comprising at least one Pf immunologic determinant for protection against Plasmodium-caused malaria.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignees: Sanaria Inc., Antigen Discovery, Inc., The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Philip Felgner, Stephen L. Hoffman, Robert Seder, Joseph J. Campo, Jr.
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Publication number: 20180264099Abstract: Disclosed is the attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine Ty21a utilized as a vector for Shigella and/or enterotoxogenic E. coli genes stably integrated in the Ty21a chromosome. These genes include a heterologous Shigella sonnei O-antigen biosynthetic gene region that comprises the wzz gene and expresses Shigella sonnei form 1 O-antigen, as well as a heterologous acid resistance biosynthetic gene system comprising a YbaS gene, which enables increased stability of the Ty21a vector at pH 2.5 relative to Ty21a without the integrated acid resistance biosynthetic gene system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Protein Potential, LLCInventors: YUN WU, Dennis J. KOPECKO, B. Kim Lee SIM, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Publication number: 20180231566Abstract: Disclosed herein are diagnostic methods and compositions for identifying individuals that are protected against Plasmodium falciparum caused malaria. Such methods are particularly useful for determining not only the protective efficacy of Pf whole parasite vaccines for individual subjects, but also within populations of vaccinated subjects. Also disclosed herein are subunit vaccines comprising at least one Pf immunologic determinant for protection against Plasmodium-caused malaria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicants: Sanaria Inc., Antigen Discovery, Inc., The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and HumanInventors: Philip FELGNER, Stephen L. HOFFMAN, Robert SEDER, Joseph J. CAMPO, JR.
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Publication number: 20180161413Abstract: The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: SANARIA INC.Inventors: Abraham G. EAPPEN, Stephen L. HOFFMAN
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Patent number: 9878026Abstract: The application is directed to in-vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: SANARIA INC.Inventors: Abraham G. Eappen, Stephen L. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20170274061Abstract: Disclosed are substantially purified Plasmodium sporozoites and preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites substantially separated from attendant non-sporozoite material, where the preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites have increasing levels of purity. Vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions comprising purified Plasmodium sporozoites are likewise provided. Methods of purifying preparations of Plasmodium sporozoites are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: Sanaria Inc.Inventors: B. Kim Lee SIM, Minglin Li, Richard E. Stafford, Stephen L. Hoffman