Patents Examined by Bernard Dentz
  • Patent number: 8067618
    Abstract: A process for gas phase oxidation in which a gaseous stream which comprises at least one aromatic hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through one or more catalyst layers, wherein a moderator layer is arranged between two catalyst layers arranged in succession in flow direction of the gaseous stream, the moderator layer being less catalytically active than the catalysts adjacent upstream and downstream or being catalytically inactive. The desired oxidation products are obtained in high yield over prolonged periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Lautensack, Hans-Martin Allmann, Hagen Wilmer
  • Patent number: 8067460
    Abstract: Compositions of matter comprising 5-phenoxyalkoxypsoralen compounds and their method of synthesis and use. The compounds are useable to treat diseases or disorders in human or animal subjects, including autoimmune diseases. The compounds inhibit potassium channels, including the Kv1.3 channel and at least some of the therapeutic effects of such compounds may be due at least in part to potassium channel inhibition. In some embodiments, the compounds are more selective for certain potassium channels (e.g., Kv1.3 channels) than other potassium channels (e.g., Kv1.5 channels).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Califonia
    Inventors: Heike Wulff, Ananthakrishnan Sankaranarayanan, Wolfram Haensel, Alexander Schmitz, Kristina Schmidt-Lassen
  • Patent number: 8067461
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, M, Q and n are as defined herein, are useful as antiproliferative agents including, for example, as anticancer agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: M. V. Ramana Reddy, E. Premkumar Reddy
  • Patent number: 8053587
    Abstract: This invention relates to thermosetting resin compositions useful for mounting onto a circuit board semiconductor devices, such as CSPs, BGAs, LGAs and the like, each of which having a semiconductor chip, such as LSI, on a carrier substrate. The compositions of this invention are reworkable when subjected to appropriate conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Philip T. Klemarczyk, Andrew D. Messana, Afranio Torres-Filho, Erin K. Yeager, Takahisa Doba
  • Patent number: 8053586
    Abstract: Systems and processes for recovering alkylene oxide, including an alkylene oxide recovery column including a stripping section located in the column to convert a portion of a feed stream to a gas phase including alkylene oxide; a reabsorption section in the column above the stripping section including a water stream to reabsorb the alkylene oxide in the gas phase portion and to produce an aqueous solution, a first stripping gas to strip carbon dioxide and oxygen from the aqueous solution by converting a portion of the aqueous solution to a gaseous portion, producing an alkylene oxide stream, and a side take-off located at a bottom portion of the reabsorption section for removal of the alkylene oxide stream; a condenser to partially condense the gas phase portion; and a top take-off for removal of a light impurity fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Dow Technology Investments LLC
    Inventors: Bernie B. Osborne, Fred A. Conneway, Clarence P. Stadlwieser, Harvey E. Andresen
  • Patent number: 8052963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), where R1 to R3 each, independently of one another, denote H, hydroxyl or alkoxy having 1 to 8 C atoms, R4 denotes alkyl having 1 to 4 C atoms, H, hydroxyl or alkoxy having 1 to 8 C atoms, R5 denotes H or hydroxyl, and R6 denotes H or alkyl having 1 to 18 C atoms, or salts thereof, but where all R1 to R4 together cannot be equal to H, to compositions, and to the preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Christophe Carola, Herwig Buchholz
  • Patent number: 8048912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel benzopyran derivative having goodantagonistic activity on TGF-? receptor which can be effectively used as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for liver disease as well as several fibroplasiadiseases such as hepatic fibrosis, liver cirrhosis, pulmonary fibrosis, dermatosclerosis, glomerular fibrosis and the like; and a pharmaceutical use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: SK Chemicals Co., Ltd., Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Young-Dae Gong, Jin-Soo Seo, Moon-Kook Jeon, Wie-Jong Kwak, Yong-Baik Cho, Nam Kyu Lee, Eun Ju Lee, Jung Bum Lee, Jun Won Lee, Sukho Lee, Mi-Sook Dong, Jeong-Ran Kim
  • Patent number: 8044094
    Abstract: The present invention refers to coumarin ethers of the formula (I), wherein R1 is H, OH or (E)-3-methyl-but-2-enyl, R2 is selected from the group consisting of methyl, 3-(4,5-dihydro-5,5-dimethyl-4-furanon-2-yl)-2-(E/Z)-butenyl, (E/Z)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienyl, 7-hydroxy-3,7-dimethyl-2-octen-6-on-yl and (E/Z,E/Z)-11-acetyl-oxy-3,7,11,11-tetramethyl-undeca-2,7-dien-10-on-yl, R3 is H, R1 and R2O together for the group —O—C(C(?CH2)CH3)H—CH2—O— or the group —C(H)?C(H)—C(CH3)2—O— or R2O and R3 together form the group —O—C(H)(C(CH3)2(H)—O—C(O)CH3)—CH2—, preferably to obliquin, for use as medicaments, especially for the treatment and/or prevention of disorders connected to impaired neurotransmission, as well as to dietary and pharmaceutical compositions and plant extracts containing such coumarin ethers and their uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Antoine De Saizieu, Ann Fowler, Regina Goralczyk, Goede Schueler, Bernd Mussler
  • Patent number: 8044097
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel chroman derivatives, stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification. They are useful in the treatment of disorders mediated by lipoxygenase, such as immune diseases, respiratory diseases and cardiovascular diseases, as well as in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and/or mitochondria) disorders. They are also useful in the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of such conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Ampere Life Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Wang, Jian Chen
  • Patent number: 8039510
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of making a mixture of theaflavin, theaflavin-3-gallate, theaflavin-3?-gallate and theaflavin 3,3?-digallate, pharmaceutical compositions of the above mixture of theaflavins, diet supplement compositions of the above mixture of theaflavins and methods for using the above mixtures of theaflavin and pharmaceutical compositions thereof to treat or prevent various diseases. The present invention also discloses methods of making theaflavin, theaflavin-3-gallate, theaflavin-3?-gallate and theaflavin 3,3?-digallate, each as a separate compound, pharmaceutical compositions of the above compounds, diet supplement compositions of the above compounds and methods for using the above compounds to treat or prevent various diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Nashai Biotech, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Rui Zhou, Hu Chen
  • Patent number: 8039493
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with novel biaryl sulfonamide derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 to R3 and Y are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds bind to LXR alpha and LXR beta and can be used as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Henrietta Dehmlow, Ulrike Obst Sander, Tanja Schulz-Gasch, Matthew Wright
  • Patent number: 8030300
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds that are ligands for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A second aspect of the invention relates to the use of a compound of the invention for modulation of a mammalian nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention also relates to the use of a compound of the invention for treating a mammal suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dyskinesias, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, pain, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, chemical substance abuse, alcoholism, memory deficit, pseudodementia, Ganser's syndrome, migraine pain, bulimia, obesity, premenstrual syndrome or late luteal phase syndrome, tobacco abuse, post-traumatic syndrome, social phobia, chronic fatigue syndrome, premature ejaculation, erectile difficulty, anorexia nervosa, disorders of sleep, autism, mutism or trichtillomania.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Georgetown University, The John Hopkins University
    Inventors: Alan P. Kozikowski, John L. Musachio, Kenneth J. Kellar, Yingxian Xiao, Zhi-Liang Wei, Hong Fan
  • Patent number: 8030347
    Abstract: The present application relates to a novel cyclopenta[b]benzofuran derivatives, processes for their preparation and their use for the manufacture of medicaments, in particular for the prophylaxis and/or therapy of acute or chronic disorders characterized by elevated cellular stress, by local or systemic inflammatory processes or by hyperproliferation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer HealthCare AG
    Inventors: Nicole Diedrichs, Thomas Fahrig, Irene Gerlach, Jaques Ragot, Joachim Schuhmacher, Kai Thede, Ervin Horváth
  • Patent number: 8022102
    Abstract: This invention concerns novel substituted unsaturated tetracyclic tetrahydrofuran derivatives with binding affinities towards serotonine receptors, in particular 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors, and towards dopamine receptors, in particular dopamine D2 receptors and with norepinephrine reuptake inhibition properties, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds according to the invention, the use thereof as a medicine, in particular for the prevention and/or treatment of a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders, in particular certain psychotic, cardiovascular and gastrokinetic disorders and processes for their production. The compounds according to the invention can be represented by general Formula (I) and comprises also the pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salts thereof, the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, the N-oxide form thereof and prodrugs thereof, wherein all substitutents are defined as in Claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica, NV
    Inventors: José Maria Cid-Núñez, Antonius Adrianus Hendrikus Petrus Megens, Andrés Avelino Trabanco-Suárez
  • Patent number: 8017649
    Abstract: Novel flavonoid compounds having anti-oxidant activity are described. The compounds and compositions have been shown to exhibit anti-oxidant properties and are particularly useful in the treatment of ischemia and reperfusion injuries. The invention also describes a method to chemically synthesize such flavonoid compounds and test their efficacy. Such compounds and corresponding pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives and/or salts have uses in the areas of pharmaceuticals, nutraceutical, and veterinary applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine
    Inventors: Bevyn Jarrott, Clive Newton May, Owen Llewellyn Woodman, Gregory James Dusting
  • Patent number: 8008512
    Abstract: A pyridazine compound represented by formula (1): has an excellent plant disease controlling effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morishita, Akio Manabe
  • Patent number: 8008344
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, prodrugs and solvates thereof. The compounds are useful as an agent for enhancing the neurite outgrowth and preventing or treating of diseases associated with HDAC in particular, tumor or cell proliferative diseases. In particular, the compounds of the invention can be used as an agent for anti-neurodegenerative diseases and human spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Naturewise Biotech and Medicals Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Huang, Chia-Nan Chen, Wei-Jan Huang, Chih-Hsiang Huang, Li-Ling Chi, Chiou-Ping You
  • Patent number: 8003810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing Nebivolol and, more particularly, to an improved process for synthesizing enantiomerically enriched 6-fluoro chroman alcohol or epoxide derivatives of formula, wherein R and X is defined in the description; as useful intermediates in the preparation of Nebivolol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Zach System S.p.A.
    Inventors: Elio Ullucci, Paolo Maragni, Livius Cotarca, Johnny Foletto
  • Patent number: 8003693
    Abstract: Fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitors of the Formula: are provided wherein X is NH, CH2, O, or S; Q is O or S; Z is O or N; R is an aromatic moiety selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted aryl; substituted or unsubstituted biphenylyl, substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl, and substituted or unsubstituted phenyl; substituted or unsubstituted terphenylyl; substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, heteroaryl, or alkyl; and R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroalkyl, and substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, substituted or unsubstituted biphenylyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl; with the proviso that if Z is O, one of R1 and R2 is absent, and that if Z is N, optionally R1 and R2 may optionally be taken together to form a substituted or unsubstituted N-heterocycle or substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl with the N atom to which they
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Universita Degli Studi di Urbino, Universita Degl Studi di Parma
    Inventors: Daniele Piomelli, Andrea Duranti, Andrea Tontini, Marco Mor, Giorgio Tarzia
  • Patent number: 8003755
    Abstract: Disclosed are hydrochloride salts of telavancin having a chloride ion content of from about 2.4 wt. % to about 4.8 wt. %. The disclosed salts have improved stability during storage at ambient temperatures compared to other hydrochloride salts. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Thervance, Inc.
    Inventors: Jyanwei Liu, Junning Lee