Patents by Inventor William Old

William Old 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: 20250340594
    Abstract: The invention described herein includes a novel platform for the development of novel shapeshifting drug-like compounds that overcome physical mass limitations as they possess the ability to interconvert internally and spontaneously, i.e., shapeshift, between multiple chemical structures with varying pharmacophore properties. In one preferred embodiment, the invention include systems, methods, and compositions for the synthesis of novel bullvalene amino acid (Bvas) compounds that may further be incorporated into Shape Shifting Cyclic Peptides (SSCP) with varying pharmacophore properties and their use as novel therapeutic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Stowell, William Old, Brady Worrell, John Mayer
  • Patent number: 12358952
    Abstract: The invention described herein includes a novel platform for the development of novel shapeshifting drug-like compounds that overcome physical mass limitations as they possess the ability to interconvert internally and spontaneously, i.e., shapeshift, between multiple chemical structures with varying pharmacophore properties. In one preferred embodiment, the invention include systems, methods, and compositions for the synthesis of novel bullvalene amino acid (Bvas) compounds that may further be incorporated into Shape Shifting Cyclic Peptides (SSCP) with varying pharmacophore properties and their use as novel therapeutic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: Michael Stowell, William Old, Brady Worrell, John Mayer
  • Publication number: 20250145578
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method of inhibiting a eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3e (eIF3e) comprising contacting the eIF3e with a compound or salt of the Formula I, where the variables, e.g., Y, Z, R, and R1R11 are defined herein. The disclosure includes a method of modulating SIX1 and/or EYA2 levels or inhibiting SIX1/EYA2 interactions comprising contacting eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3e (eIF3e) with a compound of the formula. The disclosure includes a method of treating metastatic breast cancer (of all subtypes), glioblastoma, Wilms' tumor, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, cervical, oral cancer, or any cancer shown to be dependent on SIX1 or EYA proteins, which are regulated by eIF3e, in a patient comprising administering the patient a compound of the Formula I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Heide Ford, Rui Zhao, William Old, Xiang Wang
  • Publication number: 20240158443
    Abstract: The invention described herein includes a novel platform for the development of novel shapeshifting drug-like compounds that overcome physical mass limitations as they possess the ability to interconvert internally and spontaneously, i.e., shapeshift, between multiple chemical structures with varying pharmacophore properties. In one preferred embodiment, the invention include systems, methods, and compositions for the synthesis of novel bullvalene amino acid (Bvas) compounds that may further be incorporated into Shape Shifting Cyclic Peptides (SSCP) with varying pharmacophore properties and their use as novel therapeutic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Stowell, William Old, Brady Worrell, John Mayer
  • Publication number: 20240102991
    Abstract: Provided are FRET-based biosensor constructs, and multiplexed platforms or arrays of these biosensor constructs useful for screening candidate drug molecules for efficacy and/or specificity of drug activity. Optionally the biosensor constructs may be located on an inner membrane within a cell or engineered to be located on the cell's surface. The cells or cell lines displaying the biosensors on a cell surface may be arranged as an array of cells for high throughput evaluation of the efficacy and/or specificity of drug candidates, such as a library of candidate drug compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Xuedong Liu, Douglas A. Chapnick, William Old, Tristan D. Mcclure-Begley, Eric Bunker
  • Patent number: 11174353
    Abstract: Crosslinking compounds for effective and efficient cross-linking and identification of intermolecular and intramolecular interactions of proteins, peptides and nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: William Old, Douglas A. Chapnick, Tristan D. McClure-Begley, Tao Gong, Brady Worrell, Christopher C. Ebmeier, Christopher Bowman
  • Publication number: 20210244686
    Abstract: The invention includes the use of cannabidiol (CBD), and cannabidiol analogs, as therapeutic compounds or formulations for the increase of lipid order in the cell membranes of a patient. This increase in membrane lipid order may cause downstream therapeutic effects that may ameliorate certain disease conditions such as cardio vascular disease, high-cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Xuedong Liu, Douglas Chapnick, William Old
  • Publication number: 20210181181
    Abstract: Provided are FRET-based biosensor constructs, and multiplexed platforms or arrays of these biosensor constructs useful for screening candidate drug molecules for efficacy and/or specificity of drug activity. Optionally the biosensor constructs may be located on an inner membrane within a cell or engineered to be located on the cell's surface. The cells or cell lines displaying the biosensors on a cell surface may be arranged as an array of cells for high throughput evaluation of the efficacy and/or specificity of drug candidates, such as a library of candidate drug compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Xuedong Liu, Douglas A. Chapnick, William Old, Tristan D. Mcclure-Begley, Eric Bunker
  • Publication number: 20190358630
    Abstract: The invention relates to thermal shift assays implemented to uncover ligand protein binding interactions in whole cells or cell extracts. In particular embodiments, the invention provides improved methods and devices for performing thermal shift assays for determining both drug targets and drug mechanism of action. For example, the invention performs thermal shift assays in microfluidic devices and determines ligand-protein binding by relative protein abundance measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: William Old, Michael H. Stowell, Yung-Cheng Lee, Douglas A. Chapnick, Tristan D. McClure-Begley, Xuedong Liu, Kerri Ball, Biddut Bhattacharjee
  • Publication number: 20190256667
    Abstract: Crosslinking compounds for effective and efficient cross-linking and identification of intermolecular and intramolecular interactions of proteins, peptides and nucleic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: William OLD, Douglas A. CHAPNICK, Tristan D. MCCLURE-BEGLEY, Tao GONG, Brady WORRELL, Christopher C. EBMEIER, Christopher BOWMAN
  • Publication number: 20170321016
    Abstract: Crosslinking compounds for effective and efficient cross-linking and identification of intermolecular and intramolecular interactions of proteins, peptides and nucleic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: William OLD, Douglas A. CHAPNICK, Tristan D. MCCLURE-BEGLEY, Tao GONG, Brady WORRELL, Christopher C. EBMEIER, Christopher BOWMAN
  • Publication number: 20060033737
    Abstract: Methods, systems and recordable media for viewing large data sets having extremely disproportional dimensions on a symmetrical display. Data sets in matrix form having many more rows than columns or vice versa may be manipulated to make maximum use of a symmetrical display. Further data management processes facilitate navigation through large datasets and provide the ability to look at one or more portions of the data set in detail while still maintaining the context of the entire data set, or a larger portion of the dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: William Old, Dean Thompson
  • Publication number: 20050288872
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for identifying peaks in a three-dimensional mass spectrometry/elution time dataset. The dataset is represented as a matrix of intensity values with column and row positions corresponding to specific elution time and m/z value, respectively. Peaks may be detected using a watershed image segmentation technique. Further provided are methods, systems and recordable media for creating a mask matrix to be overlaid on a large three-dimensional dataset represented as an image matrix, to identify a much smaller portion of the three dimensional dataset of interest, and to greatly reduce the amount of subsequent processing required for processing data of interest. The mask matrix has the same dimension as the image matrix and includes areas corresponding to one or more peaks identified by the watershed segmentation technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: William Old, Dean Thompson