Patents by Inventor Teresa PINTO

Teresa PINTO 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: 20240067705
    Abstract: The invention provides a set of novel Single domain VHH antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (SEQ ID N? 1-6) and their use to detect and neutralize the wild type virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Alejandro ROJAS, Guillermo VALENZUELA, Ronald JARA, Johanna HIMELREICHS, Constanza SALINAS, Teresa PINTO, Natalia LÓPEZ, Yorka CHEUQUEMILLA, Alexei CUEVAS, Zaray MIRANDA, Benjamín UBERTI, Ananda MULLER
  • Publication number: 20230324403
    Abstract: One-step rapid gradient method for rapid generation of nanoantibodies (HHV) against any antigen. Where the method comprises the separation of nanoantibodies against a specific antigen from a nanoantibody expression library through the following steps: (a) binding the antigen of interest to beads made of protein-binding polymers (b) incubating the microorganisms of the expression library with the pearls of stage (a), (c) placing the beads of step (b) in a tube with an inert medium with a density greater than or equal to 1 g/mL and centrifuge for 45 s to 2 minutes at a rate between 150 and 250 g; d) discarding the upper fraction and supernatant with the free microorganisms, and obtain the beads with the linked microorganisms, which correspond to those that express HHV that recognizes the antigen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Alejandro ROJAS, Guillermo VALENZUELA, Ronald JARA, Johanna HIMELREICHS, Constanza SALINAS, Teresa PINTO, Natalia LÓPEZ, Yorka CHEUQUEMILLA, Alexei CUEVAS, Zaray MIRANDA, Benjamín UBERTI, Ananda MULLER
  • Patent number: 9290790
    Abstract: This invention relates to an antimicrobial susceptibility test made upon pure microbial cultures—a laboratory culture containing a single species of organism—or directly from biological samples uncultured. Some preferred embodiments do not require the use a pure culture obtained from a biological product which would otherwise take at least 24 hours for the microorganisms to grow—so, is performed an antimicrobial susceptibility test directly from uncultured biological samples like urine, blood cultures or water by fluorescence analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
    Inventors: Cidália Irene Azevedo Pina Vaz, Acácio Agostinho Goncalves Rodrigues, Isabel Cristina Santos Silva De Faria Ramos Antunes, Ana Sofia Quinta E Costa De Oliveira Morais, Ana Teresa Pinto E Silva, Ana Isabel Silva Dias, Rita Daniela Teixeira Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20140199703
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting resistant microorganisms to a therapeutic agent in a biological sample, comprising the following steps: a. inoculate the said sample, uncultured, on a first tube with, and on a second tube without, at least one therapeutic agent; preferentially further including at least one lysing agent and/or a buffer, and/or a suitable culture medium, or put the sample on a separation serum tube; and incubated it; b. add to both tubes a fluorescent marker; c. perform a fluorescence analysis for obtaining one or more fluorescence or growth parameters for each of the two tubes; wherein the microorganisms resistant phenotype of the biological sample to said therapeutic agent is obtained by comparing the one or more fluorescence parameters between the two tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Universidade do Porto
    Inventors: Cidáia Irene Azevedo Pina Vaz, Acácio Agostinho Gonçalves Rodrigues, Isabel Cristina Santos Silva De Faria Ramos Antunes, Rita Mafalda Dos Santos Rocha Do Rosário, Ana Sofia Quinta E Costa De Oliveira Morais, Ana Teresa Pinto E Silva