Patents by Inventor Will Somers

Will Somers 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: 20200230256
    Abstract: An antibody production process in mammalian cells in which engineered unpaired cysteine residues are post-translationally modified and capped with particular chemical entities, which capped antibodies are well suited to further site-specific conjugation steps to form antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) or protein drug conjugates; ADCs produced using these capped antibodies including in particular ADCs formed by the selective reduction of the capped antibodies' cysteine residues, and ADCs formed using chemical handles such as aldehyde/azide/alkyne biorthogonal groups, which permit additional drug conjugation chemistry; and uncapped antibodies produced by cells in low cysteine, cysteine and glutathione media, and ADCs produced via direct conjugation to these uncapped antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhong, Amarnauth Shastrie Prashad, Ronald William Kriz, Tao He, Will Somers, Wenge Wang, Leo Joseph Letendre
  • Patent number: 10653794
    Abstract: An antibody production process in mammalian cells in which engineered unpaired cysteine residues are post-translationally modified and capped with particular chemical entities, which capped antibodies are well suited to further site-specific conjugation steps to form antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) or protein drug conjugates; ADCs produced using these capped antibodies including in particular ADCs formed by the selective reduction of the capped antibodies' cysteine residues, and ADCs formed using chemical handles such as aldehyde/azide/alkyne biorthogonal groups, which permit additional drug conjugation chemistry; and uncapped antibodies produced by cells in low cysteine, cysteine and glutathione media, and ADCs produced via direct conjugation to these uncapped antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhong, Amarnauth Shastrie Prashad, Ronald William Kriz, Tao He, Will Somers, Wenge Wang, Leo Joseph Letendre
  • Publication number: 20190030183
    Abstract: An antibody production process in mammalian cells in which engineered unpaired cysteine residues are post-translationally modified and capped with particular chemical entities, which capped antibodies are well suited to further site-specific conjugation steps to form antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) or protein drug conjugates; ADCs produced using these capped antibodies including in particular ADCs formed by the selective reduction of the capped antibodies' cysteine residues, and ADCs formed using chemical handles such as aldehyde/azide/alkyne biorthogonal groups, which permit additional drug conjugation chemistry; and uncapped antibodies produced by cells in low cysteine, cysteine and glutathione media, and ADCs produced via direct conjugation to these uncapped antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhong, Amarnauth Shastrie Prashad, Ronald William Kriz, Tao He, Will Somers, Wenge Wang, Leo Joseph Letendre