Biological Or Biochemical Patents (Class 703/11)
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Patent number: 8700364Abstract: Methods of using computer based models for simulating the physical behavior of webs.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Michael Timothy Looney, Lei Li, Mark David Whaley, Stephen Joseph Lange
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Patent number: 8697729Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions for modulating the function of transcription factors, especially transcription factors that recruit epigenetic regulators (histone modifying enzymes) to specific DNA promoters. The targeted transcription factors include but are not limited to the myocyte enhancing factor (MEF2), the forkhead/winged helix transcription factor FOXP3 and the transcription factor GATA3. Also disclosed are small molecule modulators of MEF2 and its associated factors that include but not limited to histone deacetylases (HDACs), p300/CBP and Cabin1 and the therapeutic applications thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Lin Chen, Nimanthi Jayathilaka, Aidong Han, Nicos Petasis
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Publication number: 20140100835Abstract: An apparatus for modeling user behavior comprising at least one sensor for sensing a parameter, a memory, a processor coupled to the sensor and the memory, wherein the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor cause the apparatus to collect a first data from the sensor, fuse the sensor data with a time element to obtain a context-feature, determine a first state based on the context-feature, record the first state in a state repository, wherein the state repository is configured to store a plurality of states such that the repository enables time-based pattern identification, and wherein each state corresponds to a user activity, incorporate information stored in the state repository into a behavior model, and predict an expected behavior based on the behavior model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ishita Majumdar, John Waclawsky, George Vanecek, Chris Bedford, Tim Tran, Gayathri Namasivayam
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Publication number: 20140100836Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for identifying or designing (a) a potential oligosaccharide donor, (b) a potential oligosaccharyltransferase (OST), (c) a potential consensus sequence motif polypeptide, and/or (d) a potential glycosylation inhibitor for use in the oligosaccharyltransferase (OST)-catalysed asparagine-linked (“N-linked”) glycosylation, comprising the steps of generating a three-dimensional model of the catalytic domain and/or the polypeptide binding site of the oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) of Campylobacter lari, and designing or selecting a potential component selected from (a) to (d) which optimizes the stereo chemical complementarity of said three-dimensional model(s) and the potential component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: ETH ZURICHInventors: Markus Aebi, Kaspar Locher, Christian Lizak
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Publication number: 20140100834Abstract: This disclosure relates in general to the field of antibody modeling and analysis. The disclosed subject matter describes a single online workspace to model and analyze antibody sequences or structures. Modeling and analysis may be performed by employing a number of features including, but not limited to, sequence analysis, structure analysis, antibody modeling, packing, antibody humanization, mutations, design, loop modeling, protein-protein docking, and scoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: MACROMOLTEKInventors: Monica Berrondo, Susana Kaufmann, Manuel Berrondo
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Patent number: 8694265Abstract: A kit and test panel utilizing a multivariate diagnostic method based on optimizing diagnostic likelihood ratios through the effective use of multiple diagnostic tests is disclosed. The Neyman-Pearson Lemma provides a mathematical basis to produce optimal diagnostic results.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Inventor: Richard Porwancher
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Patent number: 8694300Abstract: An apparatus for creating a graphical representation of personalized healthcare information is provided. A data processing apparatus that has one or more processors is disclosed. Query component logic receives a request comprising patient identification information. Query execution logic, based on the patient information determines a first metric and one or more intervention metrics. The first metric represents a current health related metric for the patient, while the intervention metrics represent a predicted health related metric, assuming that the patient conforms to the intervention. A graphical representation of the two metrics is created.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Archimedes, Inc.Inventors: Don Morris, R. Bradley Patterson, Peter Alperin
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Patent number: 8691261Abstract: It is intended to provide a drug delivery system which makes it possible to solve the existing technical problems and is easily usable in practice. A drug, which comprises an organic compound or an inorganic compound and has been magnetized by modifying a side chain and/or crosslinking side chains, is induced by a magnetic force into target tissues or an affected part.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignees: IHI CorporationInventors: Haruki Eguchi, Yoshihiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8694266Abstract: Multimodal optical spectroscopy systems and methods produce a spectroscopic event to obtain spectroscopic response data from biological tissue, either ex vivo or in vivo, and compare the response data with a model configured to correlate the measured response data and the most probable attributes of the tissue, thus facilitating classification of the tissue based on those attributes.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: Mary-Ann Mycek, Malavika Chandra, James Scheiman, Robert H. Wilson, Diane Simeone, Barbara McKenna, Jeremy Taylor, Oliver Lee, Leng-Chun Chen, William Lloyd
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Publication number: 20140094457Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention is also directed to a method of treating a genetic disease caused by premature termination codons, or other conditions that render messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) susceptible to nonsense mediated RNA decay, in a subject. Also disclosed is a method of inhibiting nonsense mediated RNA decay and/or induction of autophagy. The present invention also relates to a method of identifying inhibitors of nonsense mediated RNA decay and/or inducing autophagy. The present invention further relates to a method of inhibiting nonsense mediated RNA decay and/or induction of autophagy in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: NEW YORK UNIVERSITYInventors: Lawrence B. Gardner, Timothy J. Cardozo, Leenus Martin
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Publication number: 20140095137Abstract: Deconvolution systems and methods based on cornea smoothing can be used to obtain an ablation target or treatment shape that does not induce significant high-order aberrations such as spherical aberration. Exemplary ablation targets or treatment shapes can provide a post-operative spherical aberration that is equal to or below a naturally occurring amount of spherical aberration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Guang-ming Dai, Anatoly Fabrikant, Dimitri Chernyak
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Publication number: 20140095128Abstract: Provided is a method of predicting a DNA structure by predicting the distribution of a nucleosome in a DNA sequence using a specificity of a nucleosome, and a method of determining a position of a nucleosome in DNA sequence by predicting the position using a specificity of a nucleosome.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Misook HA
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Publication number: 20140095136Abstract: The invention provides processes of the present invention provide normalization procedures for sequences within multiplexed data sets using the sequence information from multiplexed sequencing data set itself rather than the utilization of any external references.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC.Inventor: ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
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Patent number: 8688384Abstract: An instrument, method, use and software program to obtain information rapidly about microorganisms that may spread uncontrolled in hospitals, water supply, food or when used in bio terrorism are described. Vibrational spectroscopy provides data to a computer linked to one or more databases. Comparison of the spectral data and information retrieved from the databases is used to identify and classify the microorganisms, applying suitable algorithms, which algorithms are self-generating and self-adapting to new spectroscopic data. The system may alert for the detection of an outbreak or to take disinfection measures. Changes in the traditional taxonomic division of microorganisms have no influence on the instrument. It does not rely on an a priori knowledge about the taxonomic classification of the microbial strain, is straightforward and easily integrated in routine microbial procedures.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: River Diagnostics B.V.Inventors: Gerwin Jan Puppels, Tom Bakker Schut, Kornelis Maquelin
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Patent number: 8688386Abstract: Described herein are various methods to ensure safety and the compliance of therapeutic diabetes protocols. The method can be achieved by performing safeguards against hypoglycemia of the user prior to any change in basal insulin dosage based on the plurality of data.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: LifeScan, Inc.Inventors: Ian Shadforth, David Price, Zara Sieh, Brenda Montgomery, Eric David Bergman
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Patent number: 8688387Abstract: The present invention relates to the determination of intra- or intermolecular interaction between molecules in aqueous solution, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining the dehydration of all atoms in the intermolecular interface, (b) adding the vacuum hydrogen bond energy, and (c) further adding the change in the free enthalpy of the interacting partners upon their interaction. The obtained results can be used for the prediction if and to what extent two molecules of various origin fit to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignees: Bayer CropScience AG, Universitaet HamburgInventors: Gudrun Lange, Robert Klein, Juergen Albrecht, Matthias Rarey, Ingo Reulecke
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Patent number: 8688416Abstract: Contemplated methods and devices for coagulation control allow to establish a more constant dosage of required medication and to quantify/take into account patient-specific sensitivity to warfarin and Vitamin K by using logit (1/INR) as the dependent variable to so stabilize the variance across all values of INR. Moreover, it should be noted that such use simplifies the relation between INR and dose of coumarins or Vitamin K and reduces the number of parameters to be estimated for each patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Inventors: Michael Fearon, Paul Wegener
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Patent number: 8688427Abstract: The present invention provides enzyme catalysts for Diels-Alder reactions, including intermolecular Diels-Alder reactions, as well as protein scaffolds for making such enzyme catalysts. In other aspects, the invention provides methods of making the enzyme catalysts, including by de novo computational design. The present invention thereby provides enzyme catalysts capable of catalyzing a desired Diels-Alder reaction, including with a specified or desired stereo-selectivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: David Baker, Alexandre Zangellini, Justin Siegel, Jennifer St. Clair
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Patent number: 8688409Abstract: A method for determining arrangement data which represents an arrangement of measurement points on an anatomical structure of a patient, wherein the arrangement data is individually determined for different regions of the anatomical structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Gregor Tuma, Frank Grünschläger, Martin Adamski, Andreas Oschinski
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Publication number: 20140088292Abstract: The present invention relates to a soluble polypeptide comprised of repeat modules. More particularly, the present invention relates to a soluble fusion polypeptide of the N-terminal domain of internalin and LRR (Leucine rich repeat) family protein, a method for preparing the polypeptide, a vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide, a host cell comprising the vector, a method for producing a solubility and folding-improved fusion polypeptide by expressing the vector in the host cell, and a method for improving the solubility and folding of the fusion polypeptide. Further, the present invention relates to a method for preparing the polypeptide bound with a specific target and analyzing the efficacy of the soluble polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hak Sung Kim, Dong Sup Kim, Sang Chul Lee, Byung Chul Lee, Ji Eun Han, Joong Jae Lee, Keun Wan Park, Seung Pyo Hong
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Publication number: 20140088942Abstract: A computer-implemented bioinformatics program annotates human genetic variants by integrating multiple sources of information. The program rapidly filters variants that are unlikely to play a role in the etiology of particular diseases. This filtering may be performed based on such annotations, on clinical profiles and family histories, and on analyses under various inheritance models, in order to classify human variants and identify mutations influencing patients' diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: AMBRY GENETICSInventors: Xiang Li, Hong Lu, Hsiaomei Lu, Kelly Gonzalez, Melissa Parra, Wenqi Zeng, Elizabeth Chao, Charles Dunlop
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Publication number: 20140088941Abstract: The present technology relates to systems, methods and devices for haptically-enabled virtual reality simulation of cerebral aneurysm clipping, wherein a user uses two physical stations during the simulation. The first station is a haptic and augmented reality station, and the second station is a haptic and virtual reality station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: P. PAT BANERJEE, Cristian J. Luciano, Ali Alaraj, Fady T. Charbel
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Publication number: 20140088943Abstract: A method of planning a patient-specific cardiac procedure according to an embodiment of the current invention includes receiving three-dimensional imaging data of a patient's heart, simulating at least one of electrophysiological or electromechanical activity of at least a portion of the patient's heart using the three-dimensional imaging data, and planning the patient-specific cardiac procedure based on the simulating. The cardiac procedure is for providing a preselected alteration of at least one of electrophysiological or electromechanical behavior of the patient's heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Natalia A. Trayanova, Henry R. Halperin, Hermenegild Arevalo, Jason Constanino
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Patent number: 8682593Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems and compositions for predicting disease susceptibility in a patient. In some embodiments, methods for the classification, prognosis, and diagnosis of cancers are provided. In other embodiments, the present invention provides statistical methods for building a gene-expression-based classifier that may be employed for predicting disease susceptibility in a patient, for classifying carcinomas, and for the prognosis of clinical outcomes.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology, and ResearchInventors: Lance D. Miller, Joshy George, Vinsensius B. Vega
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Patent number: 8679087Abstract: A therapy delivery system having an open architecture and method of providing thereof are disclosed. The present invention provides a therapy dosage module having a control algorithm that can be replaced with a predefined or independently defined control algorithm. The tools necessary to create and test such control algorithms in the therapy dosage module in a simulated environment before implementing it in a live therapy system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Weinert, Ajay Thukral, Paul Galley, Siva Chittajallu, Steven Bousamra, James Long
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Patent number: 8681152Abstract: The invention is directed to the provision of a method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation, wherein the method includes: a first step of constructing volume data for necessary organs by acquiring geometrical information from a medical image; a second step of manipulating the volume data to reposition and reorient an operator-designated organ to achieve a position and orientation appropriate for a surgical operation; a third step of generating a blood-vessel model, depicting a blood vessel to be joined to the designated organ, so as to match the position and orientation of the designated organ; a fourth step of generating volume data by forming a fat model of prescribed thickness around a prescribed organ contained in the earlier constructed volume data, after the blood-vessel model has been joined to the designated organ; a fifth step of thereafter meshing the organ represented by the generated volume data; a sixth step of manipulating a template model of a prescribed shape by using a templatType: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Precision Co, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Kubota, Kazuhide Makiyama, Manabu Nagasaka, Kentaro Takanami, Masato Ogata
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Patent number: 8676510Abstract: A pattern matching unit performs pattern matching on present data obtained this time in clinical examination of a part of a subject and previous data obtained last time in the clinical examination of the part with reference patterns. Reference patterns that are most closely approximate to the present data and the previous data are selected. A distance calculator calculates a distance between selected reference patterns. A determining unit determines whether a re-examination is necessary based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignees: A&T Corporation, Kochi UniversityInventors: Tatsuhisa Watanabe, Hiromi Kataoka, Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 8676509Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are described for the handling of biological specimens for analysis. The systems, methods and apparatus are designed to reduce errors in misidentification, incorrect processing, and recordkeeping and reporting. The systems, methods, and apparatus can also provide real time tracking of samples at any stage, from collection to processing to analyzing to storage.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Dako Denmark A/SInventor: Jose De La Torre-Bueno
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Publication number: 20140074448Abstract: This invention relates to a crystallisable composition comprising a TSHR polypeptide, to crystals comparing a TSHR polypeptide and to TSHR-related applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: RSR LIMITEDInventors: Jane SANDERS, Jadwiga FURMANIAK, Barnard Rees SMITH
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Patent number: 8670942Abstract: Generally, a computer implemented remote monitoring system which generates a viewable reduced byte data representation for each one of a plurality of analyzed instrument signals. Specifically, a flow cytometer remote monitoring system which generates a viewable reduced byte data representation for each one of a plurality analyzed flow cytometer signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Inguran, LLCInventors: James J. Salinas, Kenneth M. Evans
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Patent number: 8670940Abstract: A plant information management system comprising: a seed identification information input device; an individual plant identification information retrieval device; an individual plant identification information input device; a new seed identification information retrieval device; a storage location information retrieval device; a project database management device; a seed database management device; a project database memory device; and a seed database memory device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Shaoyang Lin, Atsushi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140066321Abstract: Provided are histidyl-tRNA synthetase variant polypeptides, X-ray crystallographic and NMR spectroscopy structures of HRS polypeptides, and related compositions and methods for therapy and drug discovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: aTyr Pharma, Inc.Inventors: Zhiwen Xu, Zhiyi Wei, Xiang-Lei Yang, Mingjie Zhang, Paul Schimmel
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Publication number: 20140067355Abstract: Phased haplotype features are used to infer an individual's ancestry. Reference genomic data is obtained for individuals of known ancestral origin. Haplotype features are identified based on consecutive SNPs from each individual. Sample genomic data is obtained for an individual of unknown ancestral origin. The data is phased and divided into features analogous to the features in the reference data. An admixture estimator then performs an admixture estimation based on the observed feature values in the sample data and the reference data. The estimation indicates a contribution of each of the known populations to the genome of the sample individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Ancestry.com DNA, LLCInventors: Keith D. Noto, Jake Kelly Byrnes, Catherine Ann Ball, Kenneth Gregory Chahine
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Publication number: 20140067354Abstract: The present disclosure involves a method of determining stimulation lead placements for a healthcare professional with respect to an implant of a neurostimulator device in a target patient. A human body model is provided. A pain map is generated over the human body model in response to user input. The pain map visually represents body regions of the target patient that are experiencing pain. A dermatome map is provided. The dermatome map includes a visual correlation between regions of a human body and segments of a spinal cord. The pain map is compared with the dermatome map. Recommendations regarding the implant of the neurostimulator device are displayed in response to the comparing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Norbert Kaula, Yohannes Iyassu
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Patent number: 8666674Abstract: Provided in certain embodiments are methods for pairing patient cells and donor cells to prepare cytotoxic T cells, either in vitro or, when their formation is induced in a subject, in vivo. Such cytotoxic T cells could be administered to the patient for treating certain disorders, such as a cancer (for example, brain cancer).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Promising Future, LLCInventor: Carol A. Kruse
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Patent number: 8666718Abstract: The present invention relates generally to structural studies of the insulin binding site of the insulin receptor (IR) and the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R). More particularly, the present invention relates to the crystal structure of the low affinity insulin binding site of the IR ectodomain comprising the C-terminal region of the IR ?-chain, as well as the corresponding region of IGF-1R, and to methods of using the crystal and related structural information to screen for and design compounds that interact with or modulate the function of IR and/or IGF-1R.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical ResearchInventors: Michael Colin Lawrence, Brian John Smith, John Gerbrandt Tasman Menting, Colin Wesley Ward
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Patent number: 8666719Abstract: Systems and methods for numerically simulating muscle's movements along bones and around joints are disclosed. A computerized model containing a plurality of truss elements along with one or more rollers is used. The truss elements are configured for modeling a muscle strand while each roller is configured for a joint. Each truss element includes two end nodes and is configured or associated with a muscle bio-mechanical property model. Each roller is fixed at the location of a corresponding joint. To simulate the muscle strand movements around the joint, each pair of truss elements straddling a roller is adjusted dynamically in a time-marching simulation (e.g., computer simulation of an impact event of an automobile and one or more occupants). Adjustments are performed at each solution cycle of the time-marching simulation. Adjustments include two types—“slipping” and “swapping”.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Livermore Software Technology Corp.Inventor: Tobias Erhart
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Patent number: 8666675Abstract: Method of conducting chromatography comprising controlling a retention time of one or more chemical species in a mixture by determining at least one conceptual segment of: a) the one or more chemical species, b) a mobile phase component, and c) a stationary phase component. The method further includes defining an identity and an equivalent number of each of the at least one conceptual segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Aspen Technology, Inc.Inventor: Chau-Chyun Chen
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Publication number: 20140057005Abstract: A phytoestrogen blend was developed using a pharmaceutical platform technology to identify the time course of active components and effect time course of these components in the biophase after administration of a red clover extract. This phytoestrogen blend consists of biochanin A, daidzein, equol and genistein. The recommended daily dosage ranges from 5 to 200 mg of total isoflavone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventors: Yun Kau TAM, Yi-Chan James LIN, Brian Duff SLOLEY, Chih-Yuan TSENG
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Publication number: 20140058715Abstract: A method and system for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis is disclosed. Patient-specific anatomical measurements of the coronary arteries are extracted from medical image data of a patient acquired during rest state. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of a model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of the model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Hyperemic blood flow and pressure across at least one stenosis region of the coronary arteries are simulated using the model of coronary circulation and the patient-specific hyperemic boundary conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicants: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, SIEMENS CORPORATIONInventors: Puneet Sharma, Lucian Mihai Itu, Ali Kamen, Bogdan Georgescu, Xudong Zheng, Huseyin Tek, Dorin Comaniciu, Dominik Bernhardt, Fernando Vega-Higuera, Michael Scheuering
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Publication number: 20140058714Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes monitoring service that receives parameter values from a number of data sources. A status model manager facilitates creation of a clinical status model that includes conditions defining relationships between parameters and thresholds. The status model manager evaluates the clinical status model based on the parameter values to determine a clinical status of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT LLCInventor: Robert BOYER
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Patent number: 8660831Abstract: An extension of COSMO-SAC to electrolytes (eCOSMO-SAC) combines the COSMO-SAC term for short range molecule-molecule, molecule-ion and ion-ion interactions with the extended symmetric Pitzer-Debye-Hückel term for long range ion-ion interactions. The extension recognizes that like-ion repulsion and local electroneutrality govern the surface segment contacts, and introduces a dual sigma profile concept for electrolyte systems. The eCOSMO-SAC formulation predicts activity coefficients of several representative electrolyte systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Aspen Technology, Inc.Inventors: Shu Wang, Yuhua Song, Chau-Chyun Chen
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Patent number: 8660823Abstract: A computer modeling system for study of behavior of complex signaling pathways is described. The computer modeling system includes a computer representation of one or more nonlinear models of at least one signaling pathway arrangement involving enzyme cascades and/or allosteric enzymes and feedback. The computer representation of the model is transformed into at least portions of a bilinear dynamical system representation from which a series of Lie bracket operations are computed and the result tested for transitivity conditions of the associated semisimple Lie matrix algebra so as to determine potential instabilities and crosstalk susceptibilities. Also, the computer model can additionally comprise accurate numerical simulations, equilibrium condition analysis tools, and other algebraic structural tools involving graphs and matroids.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
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Patent number: 8660802Abstract: A medical device for providing information for glycemic control is provided, wherein the device comprises a storage unit arranged to store information on an initial dose of insulin and to store information on a blood glucose level measured after the initial dose of insulin was administered and after specific food was consumed, and a determining unit arranged to determine a subsequent dose of insulin to be administered before the specific food is consumed based at least on said information on the initial dose of insulin and said information on the blood glucose level.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: Andrew Tubb, Amit Kohli
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Publication number: 20140051592Abstract: The invention provides a high resolution three-dimensional structure of a deacylated transfer RNA protein synthesis modulator in association with a large ribosomal subunit. The protein synthesis modulator binds at least a portion of the E-site of a large ribosomal subunit. The invention provides methods for designing and/or identifying analogs of candidate molecules, for example, analogs or derivatives of the protein synthesis modulator, that bind and/or modulate the protein biosynthetic activity of the ribosome.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: RIB-X PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventor: RIB-X PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
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Publication number: 20140052428Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes obtaining information indicative of experiments associated with combinations of targets and compounds; initializing the information with a result of at least one of the experiments; generating, based on initializing, a model to predict effects of the compounds on the targets; generating, based on the model and the experiments obtained, predictions for experiments to be executed; selecting, based on the predictions, one or more experiments from the experiments to be executed; executing the one or more experiments; and updating the model with one or more results of execution of the one or more experiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Armaghan W. Naik, Joshua D. Kangas, Christopher J. Langmead, Robert F. Murphy
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Patent number: 8655599Abstract: The present invention relates to genetic analysis and evaluation utilizing copy-number variants or polymorphisms. The methods utilize array comparative genomic hybridization and PCR assays to identify the significance of copy number variations in a subject or subject group.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Population Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: James Chinitz, Eli Hatchwell
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Patent number: 8655600Abstract: A method of estimating the cross-sectional area of a molecule for use in the prediction of ion mobility gives gas phase interaction radii determination and cross-sectional algorithm computation to provide separation and characterization of structurally related isomers. More specifically, the invention provides a method of correlating the differences in the molecular structures with differences in anti-cancer activity of pre-determined anti-cancer drugs by utilizing a new algorithm for estimating the cross-sectional area of the molecules of such drugs.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Micromass UK LimitedInventors: Keith George Richardson, Iain David Grant Campuzano
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Patent number: 8655597Abstract: The present invention relates to a scoring system for the prediction of cancer recurrence by selecting genes and/or proteins whose expression patterns associated with recurrence of cancer, and generating formulae with the selected genes and/or proteins for the prediction of cancer recurrence. The present invention relates to a kit for determining the likelihood of recurrence of cancer, comprising DNA chip, oligonucleotide chip, protein chip, peptides, antibodies, probes and primers that are necessary for effecting DNA microarrays, oligonucleotide microarrays, protein arrays, northern blotting, in situ hybridization, RNase protection assays, western blotting, ELISA assays, reverse transcription polymerase-chain reaction to examine the expression of at least 2, 4, 6, 10, 12 or more genes and/or proteins, that are indicative of cancer recurrence.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AGInventors: Masaaki Oka, Yoshihiko Hamamoto, Hisafumi Okabe
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Blood flow bypass catheters and methods for the delivery of medium to the vasculature and body ducts
Patent number: 8655798Abstract: A catheterization device that may be designed by use of an adaptive genetic algorithm computational fluid dynamics approach, as well as other Global Optimization methods that may include simulated annealing, multistart and interval methods, continuous branch and bound methods, evolutionary algorithms, and tabu search and scatter search methods, as well as other available Global Optimization methods that is able to maximize/optimize the dwell time of an infused agent in the vicinity of a vascular lesion. The device may have an internal by-pass channel that allows the blood upstream of the lesion to continue its pulsatile flow through the vessel in the part of it occluded by the lesion, while simultaneously allowing the disbursement and maximal dwell time of an antithrombolytic or other diagnostic or therapeutic agent needed to treat the lesion.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: Joseph A. C. Humphrey, George T. Gillies