Patent Picks—Imaging Skin, Simulating Eyelashes, Assaying Immune Response and More

By: Rachel Grabenhofer

Posted: August 11, 2010

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Methods for evaluating quantitative changes of products on epithelial tissue
US Patent 7771925
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2010
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati, USA)

This invention describes a method for determining the relative benefits of products that affect animal epithelial tissue. Also provided is a method for evaluating quantitative changes on one or more affected surfaces of epithelial tissue of a subject caused by the test product.

Mimicking skin's immune response
US Patent 7771999
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2010
Assignee: VaxDesign Corp. (Orlando, FL, USA)

This patent provides methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system comprising appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus is useful to accelerate vaccine development and/or testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response.

Determining the relative benefits of topical products
US Patent 7771924
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2010
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati, USA)