Pitt innovators were issued 11 U.S. patents in June 2024.
Featured patent: 12,016,892: “Bacteriophages for Treatment of Tuberculosis”
Tuberculosis kills more than 1.5 million people each year. Current treatment is a strict six-month antibiotic regimen with a minimum of three different drugs, making compliance difficult. Pitt innovators led by Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology, have developed bacteriophages, viruses that replicate within bacteria, that could be delivered as a cocktail together with standard antibiotic treatment, to potentially reduce treatment time and reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance.
Dr. Hatfull was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his pioneering research on bacteriophages. His lifesaving work has been featured by CNN International and USA Today.
For more information on this technology, including licensing, contact us as partner@pitt.edu.
Below is a listing of all patents issued to Pitt innovators in June 2024. You can also search all Pitt technologies available for licensing.
| Patent Number |
Title | Inventor(s) | Licensing Manager | Status | |||
| 11,998,657 | Identification of Instance-Specific Somatic Genome Alterations with Functional Impact | Hong Bin Jiang; William Wagner; Tomo Yoshizumi; Yang Zhu | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,005,158 | Methods for Preparation of a Terminally Sterilized Hydrogel Derived from Extracellular Matrix | Stephen Badylak; Christopher Dearth; Timothy Keane; Neill Turner | Alex Ducruet | Licensed | |||
| 11,998,439 | Biodegradable Vascular Grafts | Robert Allen; Chelsea Stowell; Yadong Wang | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,016,767 | Electromagnetic System for Rapid Cannulation of Fenestrated Endovascular Grafts | Young Chun; Catherine Go; Bryan Tillman | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 11,998,460 | Systems and Methods for Approximating Musculoskeletal Dynamics | Matthew Boots;’ Robert Gaunt; Valeriya Gritsenko; Anton Sobinov; Sergiy Yakovenko | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,016,892 | Bacteriophages for Treatment of Tuberculosis | Rebekah Dedrick; Carlos Guerrero; Graham Hatfull | Maria Vanegas | Available for Licensing | |||
| 11,998,586 | Compositions Comprising Antimicrobial Peptides | Jonathan Mandell; Kenneth Urish Jr. | Andrew Remes | Licensed | |||
| 12,009,061 | Computational Filtering of Methylated Sequence Data for Predictive Modeling | Tianjiao Chu; David Finegold; Lisa Pan; David Peters | Maria Vanegas | Optioned | |||
| 12,005,735 | Wheelchair for Specialized Sports Applications | Aaron Anderson; Rory Cooper; Jonathan Duvall; Robert McDonough; Siew Ong; Jeffrey Ruffing | George Coulston | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,013,285 | High Temperature Near-Field Probe for Sensing and Energy Harvesting Applications Based Upon Thermal Emission | Paul Ohodnicki; Sheng Shen | George Coulston | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,016,846 | Methods of Treating Aneurysms | Michael D’Angelo; Robert Friedlander; Wendy Mayle; Kamil Nowicki | Kate Gadacz | Available for Licensing |