Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Ann A. Wieczorek
  • System and method for database similarity join
    Patent number: 6721754
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for information organization whereby characteristics regarding entities are inferred from the characteristics of similar entities. This is referred to herein as a “fuzzy similarity join” and is exemplified using a chemical similarity join. The disclosed systems and methods are particularly useful for chemical compound analysis in the area of pharmaceutical development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Hurst, Scott G. Hutton
  • Endogenous constitutively activated G protein-coupled orphan receptors
    Patent number: 6653086
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for directly identifying candidate compounds as agonists, partial agonists and/or, most preferably, inverse agonists, to endogenous, constitutively activated orphan G protein-coupled receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominic P. Behan, Derek T. Chalmers, Chen W. Liaw, I Lin-Lin, Kevin P. Lowitz, Ruoping Chen