Patents by Inventor Yafei Hou

Yafei Hou 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: 20250090636
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hideho OKADA, Yafei HOU
  • Publication number: 20240415886
    Abstract: This invention provides an isolated or purified T-cell receptor (TCR) having antigenic specificity for the mutated human p53R175H. The inventive TCR can recognize the HLA-A2 restricted mutant p53R175H peptide (HMTEVVRHC) but cannot recognize the wild-type p53R175 peptide (HMTEVVRRC). The inventive TCR can also be activated by tumor cells harboring a mutated human p53R175H in the context of HLA-A2. The invention further provides related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the TCR of the invention. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal are further provided by the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yafei HOU, David HOU
  • Publication number: 20240390423
    Abstract: This invention provides an isolated or purified T-cell receptor (TCR) having antigenic specificity for the mutated human CTNNB1S37F. The inventive TCR can recognize the HLA-A2 restricted mutant CTNNB1S37F peptide (YLDSGIHFGA) but cannot recognize the wild-type CTNNB1S37 peptide (YLDSGIHSGA). The inventive TCR can also be activated by tumor cells harboring a mutated human CTNNB1S37F in the context of HLA-A2. The invention further provides related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the TCR of the invention. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal are further provided by the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yafei HOU, David HOU
  • Patent number: 11925679
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Patent number: 11819519
    Abstract: A therapeutic agent comprising a nucleic acid and a TCR modified immune cell and use thereof. The therapeutic agent comprises a first composition comprising a first active ingredient and a second composition comprising a second active ingredient. The first active ingredient includes or contains a nucleic acid having a labeling polypeptide coding sequence for being introduced into a tumor cell and/or a cancer cell. The labeling polypeptide has one or more epitope polypeptides which can be presented on a surface of the tumor cell and/or cancer cell by MHC class I molecules. The second composition comprises a second active ingredient in a second pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and the second active ingredient comprises a T cell receptor modified immune cell which can specifically recognize and bind to the epitope polypeptide presented by MHC class I molecules. The therapeutic agent achieves synergistic treatment effect and provides a new route for tumor treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: HANGZHOU CONVERD CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Hu, Yafei Hou, Jipo Sheng, Xiankui Tan
  • Patent number: 11786552
    Abstract: A therapeutic agent and method of administering the therapeutic agent for the treatment of tumors and/or cancers of a subject, the therapeutic agent comprising a first pharmaceutical composition comprising a first active ingredient in a first druggable vehicle, wherein the first active ingredient comprises a nucleic acid encoding a labelling polypeptide comprising one or more antigenic epitope peptides and/or encoding a MHC protein; a second pharmaceutical composition comprising a second active ingredient in a second druggable vehicle, wherein the second active ingredient comprises immune cells purified from peripheral blood or from tumor tissue and are cultured in vitro; wherein the nucleic acid when administered to the subject as part of the pharmaceutical composition causes the tumor cells and/or cancer cells of the subject to express the one or more antigenic epitope peptides to elicit an immune response of the immune cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: HANGZHOU CONVERO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yafei Hou, Fang Hu, Jipo Sheng, Xiankui Tan, Can Chen
  • Publication number: 20220118069
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Publication number: 20210393686
    Abstract: A therapeutic agent comprising a nucleic acid and a TCR modified immune cell and use thereof. The therapeutic agent comprises a first composition comprising a first active ingredient and a second composition comprising a second active ingredient. The first active ingredient includes or contains a nucleic acid having a labeling polypeptide coding sequence for being introduced into a tumor cell and/or a cancer cell. The labeling polypeptide has one or more epitope polypeptides which can be presented on a surface of the tumor cell and/or cancer cell by MHC class I molecules. The second composition comprises a second active ingredient in a second pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and the second active ingredient comprises a T cell receptor modified immune cell which can specifically recognize and bind to the epitope polypeptide presented by MHC class I molecules. The therapeutic agent achieves synergistic treatment effect and provides a new route for tumor treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Fang HU, Yafei HOU, Jipo SHENG, Xiankui TAN
  • Patent number: 11185577
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Publication number: 20210038704
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Patent number: 10849965
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Publication number: 20200289567
    Abstract: A therapeutic agent and method of administering the therapeutic agent for the treatment of tumors and/or cancers of a subject, the therapeutic agent comprising a first pharmaceutical composition comprising a first active ingredient in a first druggable vehicle, wherein the first active ingredient comprises a nucleic acid encoding a labelling polypeptide comprising one or more antigenic epitope peptides and/or encoding a MHC protein; a second pharmaceutical composition comprising a second active ingredient in a second druggable vehicle, wherein the second active ingredient comprises immune cells purified from peripheral blood or from tumor tissue and are cultured in vitro; wherein the nucleic acid when administered to the subject as part of the pharmaceutical composition causes the tumor cells and/or cancer cells of the subject to express the one or more antigenic epitope peptides to elicit an immune response of the immune cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yafei Hou, Fang Hu, Jipo Sheng, Xiankui Tan, Can Chen
  • Publication number: 20200101148
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Publication number: 20200009236
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Patent number: 10441644
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Yafei Hou
  • Patent number: 10425482
    Abstract: Provided is an information management device including: a communication information obtaining unit configured to obtain communication information about a communication state in an internal network inside a building; and an update determination unit configured to determine a start of updating process by an information updating unit, based on the communication information obtained by the communication information obtaining unit, wherein the information updating unit obtains information from an external network outside the building and performs the updating process for storing the obtained information as local information into a storage device which is accessible, not via the external network, by a terminal device connected to the internal network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Murakami, Yoji Okada, Yoshizo Tanaka, Takashi Yamamoto, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuto Yano, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Tomohiro Miyasaka, Mariko Sekiguchi, Yafei Hou
  • Patent number: 10326496
    Abstract: A composite cable (4) houses a plurality of leaky coaxial cables having mutually different radiation characteristics. The leaky coaxial cable (2a, 2b) includes therein an inner conductor and an outer conductor, and has a plurality of leakage slots. The plurality of leakage slots have different slot periods relative to the axial direction or arranged in different slot patterns. The digital wireless communication device feeds a high-frequency signal from an end of the composite cable (4) and performs MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Takahiro Maeda, Yafei Hou, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Fumio Suzuki, Atsuhiko Niwa
  • Publication number: 20180145728
    Abstract: A composite cable (4) houses a plurality of leaky coaxial cables having mutually different radiation characteristics. The leaky coaxial cable (2a, 2b) includes therein an inner conductor and an outer conductor, and has a plurality of leakage slots. The plurality of leakage slots have different slot periods relative to the axial direction or arranged in different slot patterns. The digital wireless communication device feeds a high-frequency signal from an end of the composite cable (4) and performs MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL, FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi TSUKAMOTO, Takahiro MAEDA, Yafei HOU, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Fumio SUZUKI, Atsuhiko NIWA
  • Publication number: 20170281742
    Abstract: Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hideho OKADA, Yafei HOU
  • Publication number: 20160156716
    Abstract: Provided is an information management device including: a communication information obtaining unit configured to obtain communication information about a communication state in an internal network inside a building; and an update determination unit configured to determine a start of updating process by an information updating unit, based on the communication information obtained by the communication information obtaining unit, wherein the information updating unit obtains information from an external network outside the building and performs the updating process for storing the obtained information as local information into a storage device which is accessible, not via the external network, by a terminal device connected to the internal network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi MURAKAMI, Yoji OKADA, Yoshizo TANAKA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hirotsugu YAMAMOTO, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuto YANO, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Tomohiro MIYASAKA, Mariko SEKIGUCHI, Yafei HOU