Posts Tagged: "Eli Lilly patents"

Today, we’re picking the best inventions for which corporations from the Companies We Follow series have actually earned patent rights from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Alternative energies, drones, robots, seawater desalination and the Internet of Things all make an appearance in today’s profile of the best inventions from the past year.

We saw in our coverage of Eli Lilly’s patent applications a number of recently developed medications for the management of conditions like diabetes and inflammatory diseases, but the company is also focused on developing solutions to medical problems which are much more devastating. With the current West African outbreak of Ebola making major news headlines in recent weeks, we were greatly intrigued to see one Eli Lilly invention that could be used to treat Ebola and other major viral infections, like HIV. U.S. Patent No. 8796423, titled Anti-TSG101 Antibodies and Their Uses for Treatment of Viral Infections, protects a method of inducing the expression of antibodies to Tumor Susceptibility Gene 101 (TSG101) within a patient’s body. TSG101, which plays an important role in cell growth, can be inhibited to prevent the budding of HIV or other viral infections.

Not all of Eli Lilly and Company’s developments are strictly related to human health. Today’s featured patent application discusses a form of dietary additive for animals that can reduce the chances of insect populations thriving on manure. The new dietary additive formula is much safer to animals and the environment than previous additives. Other patent applications include a few inhibitor treatments to reduce the progression of cancer, as well as an application that discusses improvements to medication dose delivery devices. We also look at a few issued patents that improve the portfolio of Eli Lilly’s patent holdings. Three of these patents protect improved methods of treating various diseases, including diabetes, tumors and hyperlipidemias. Another patent protects a method of creating a vaccine for the infectious viral disease SARS. Finally, we look at a patent that discusses a method of healing wounds that utilizes naturally occurring, low-toxicity spinosyns.