Patents Assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
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Patent number: 12310953Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura, comprising the administration of ubrogepant. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine in patients having hepatic impairment; in patients with renal impairment; and in patients concurrently taking CYP3A4 modulators or BCRP and/or P-gp only inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Mary Ann Johnson, Leonardo R. Allain, W. Mark Eickhoff, Craig B. Ikeda, Chad D. Brown, Francis J. Flanagan, Jr., Rebecca Nofsinger, Melanie J. Marota, Lisa Lupton, Paresh B. Patel, Hanmi Xi, Wei Xu
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Patent number: 12312332Abstract: The present invention is directed to heteroaryl pyrrolidine and piperidine compounds which are agonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Stephane L. Bogen, Ping Chen, Dane James Clausen, Jinsong Hao, Dipannita Kalyani, Michael T. Rudd, Shawn P. Walsh, Lan Wei, Dexi Yang
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Publication number: 20250161420Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of diseases associated with amyloid deposits of A? in the brain of a patient, such as Alzheimer's Disease. Such methods entail administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising an immunogenic fragment of A? capable of inducing a beneficial immune response in the form of antibodies to A?. The immunogenic fragments comprise linear or multivalent peptides of A?. Pharmaceutical compositions comprise the immunogenic fragment chemically linked to a carrier molecule which may be administered with an adjuvant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Yen-Pang Hsu, Sampat L. Ingale, Izzat T. Raheem, Jeffrey William Schubert, Ryan P. Staupe, Chengwei Wu
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Publication number: 20250152658Abstract: Provided are compounds of the Formula (I), or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein X1, X2, X3, R1-R9, RA, RB, RD, A1, A2, and subscripts t and w are as herein described. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can trap IL-1? and are expected to have utility as therapeutic agents, for example, for treating cardiovascular disease and inflammatory disorders. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise the compounds disclosed herein or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The disclosure also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of cardiovascular disease and inflammatory disorders and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Faben A. Cruz, Danqing Feng, Yan Guo, Jennifer Hanisak, Jennifer L. Hickey, Ahmet Kekec, Bing Li, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Dmitri A. Pissarnitski, Christopher W. Plummer, Stefania Colarusso, Dipannita Kalyani, Quang T. Truong
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Publication number: 20250154173Abstract: Described herein are compounds of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds of Formula I act as RIPK1 inhibitors and can be useful in preventing, treating or acting as a remedial agent for RIPK1-related diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Barbara Pio, Phieng Siliphaivanh, Abdelghani Abe Achab, Yaroslav Boyko, Yi-Heng Chen, Erin F. DiMauro, Jenny Lorena Rico Duque, Xavier Fradera, Anandan Palani, Meredith M. Rickard, Jing Su, Brandon A. Vara
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Patent number: 12295998Abstract: The present invention provides immunogenic compositions having one or more polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which one or more polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial capsules are conjugated to a carrier protein in an aprotic solvent such as dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The present invention also provides methods for providing an enhanced immune response to a pneumococcal polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine comprising administering to a human subject an immunogenic composition comprising polysaccharide-protein conjugates prepared in DMSO conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Julie M. Skinner, Patrick McHugh
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Patent number: 12297208Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein W1, W2, Y, Z, M, L, Cy, Cz, R1, R2, R3, R4, R2a, Ry, Rz, and the subscripts m, n, q, and r are as described herein. The compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can inhibit the G12C mutant of Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) protein and are expected to have utility as therapeutic agents, for example, for treating cancer. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The disclosure also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of cancer and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Indu Bharathan, Symon Gathiaka, Yongxin Han, Xiaoshen Ma, Ryan D. Otte, David L. Sloman, Thomas H. Graham, Timothy Henderson, Elisabeth Hennessy, Anandan Palani
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Patent number: 12299619Abstract: An adaptive risk management application retrieves data corresponding to an asset. The asset is a computing device or software application of an enterprise system. The adaptive risk management system identifies a set of vulnerabilities of the asset. For each vulnerability in the set of vulnerabilities, the adaptive risk management application generates a recommendation for mitigating the vulnerability. The adaptive risk management application generates a user interface for the asset. The user interface comprises a list of the recommendations. The adaptive risk management system provides the user interface for display.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Mark Joseph Risoldi, Sethuraman Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 12291538Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein W1, W2, Y, Z, M, L, Cy, Cz, R1, R2, R3, R4, R2a, Ry, Rz, and the subscripts m, n, q, and r are as described herein. The compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can inhibit the G12C mutant of Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) protein and are expected to have utility as therapeutic agents, for example, for treating cancer. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The disclosure also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of cancer and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Indu Bharathan, Symon Gathiaka, Yongxin Han, Xiaoshen Ma, Ryan D. Otte, David L. Sloman, Thomas H. Graham, Timothy Henderson, Elisabeth Hennessy, Anandan Palani
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Publication number: 20250136910Abstract: In some embodiments, devices for use as blood-brain barrier models are disclosed. The devices may include either a hydrogel component that surrounds a channel formed between a first opening and a second opening of the hydrogel component, or a hydrogel component that forms a groove. The devices may further include pericytes disposed in the channel or the groove, and endothelial cells may be disposed in the channel or the groove. The hydrogel component may include astrocytes (e.g., printed into the hydrogel component via projection stereolithography). Also disclosed are various methods of making and using these devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Nicole L. Buist, Martha J. Fowler, Yufang He, Anna Kristen Mai, Adam T. Procopio, Madison K. Royse, Omid Veiseh, Jun Xu
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Patent number: 12281109Abstract: The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, A and B are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one compound of Formula I, and methods of using the compounds of Formula I for treating or preventing cancer, inflammation, neurodegeneration disease and/or diabetes in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Jian Liu, Younong Yu, Joseph A. Kozlowski, Deyou Sha, Wensheng Yu, Joseph M. Kelly, Scott E. Wolkenberg
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Patent number: 12280107Abstract: The present invention provides pneumococcal conjugate vaccine formulations comprising surfactant systems incorporating polysorbate 20 or a combination of a poloxamer and a polyol.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: William J. Smith, Cecilia Giovarelli, Denise K. Nawrocki
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Patent number: 12275729Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Yongqi Deng, Abdelghani Achab, David Jonathan Bennett, Indu Bharathan, Xavier Fradera, Craig Gibeau, Yongxin Han, Derun Li, Kun Liu, Qinglin Pu, Sulagna Sanyal, David Sloman, Wensheng Yu, Hongjun Zhang
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Patent number: 12275800Abstract: Antibodies that bind the apple 3 domain of human coagulation Factor XI and inhibit activation of FXI by coagulation factor XIIa as well as activation of FIX by FXIa are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Adimab, LLCInventors: Zhu Chen, Kenneth Ellsworth, James Milligan, Elizabeth Oldham, Dietmar Seiffert, Bianka Prinz, Vaishnavi Ganti, Mohammad Tabrizifard
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Patent number: 12263171Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain 7-, 8-, and 10-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline derivatives of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein ring A, R1, R2, and R4 are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other therapeutic agents), and methods for their preparation and use, alone and in combination with other therapeutic agents, as antagonists of A2a and/or A2b receptors, and their use in the treatment of a variety of diseases, conditions, or disorders that are mediated, at least in part, by the adenosine A2a receptor and/or the adenosine A2b receptor.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Yonglian Zhang, Amjad Ali, Jared Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng, Thomas H. Graham, Elisabeth Hennessy, Matthew A. Larsen, Kun Liu, Ping Liu, Umar Faruk Mansoor, Jianping Pan, Christopher W. Plummer, Aaron Sather, Uma Swaminathan, Huijun Wang
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Patent number: 12264134Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) which are inhibitors of an IDO enzyme: (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising these compounds. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Dane Clausen, Ping Chen, Xavier Fradera, Liangqin Guo, Yongxin Han, Shuwen He, Xianhai Huang, Joseph Kozlowski, Guoqing Li, Theodore A. Martinot, Alexander Pasternak, Andreas Verras, Li Xiao, Feng Ye, Wensheng Yu, Rui Zhang
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Patent number: 12264139Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are antagonists of leukotriene B4 receptor 1 (BLT1) and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the leukotriene B4 receptor 1 (BLT1). The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, lipid disorders, obesity, hypertension, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, and cancer.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Yongxin Han, Jongwon Lim, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Phieng Siliphaivanh, Kerrie Spencer
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Publication number: 20250099478Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing one or more disease states that could benefit from inhibition of plasma kallikrein, including hereditary angioedema, uveitis, posterior uveitis, wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion. The compounds are selective inhibitors of plasma kallikrein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Anthony K. Ogawa, Christopher J. Sinz, Alan C. Cheng, Ying-Duo Gao, Song Yang, Jianming Bao, Rohan Rajiv Merchant, Natalija Cernaka, Phillip Patrick Sharp, Jovan Alexander Lopez, Dong Xiao, Haiqun Tang, Maoqun Tian, Mihir B. Mandal, Jiafang He
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Publication number: 20250101097Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for treating cancer in a subject identified as having acute myeloid leukemia (AML), comprising administering an anti-ILT3 antigen binding protein, or antigen binding fragment to the patient every three weeks (Q3W).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Cai Wu, Daping Zhang, Jie Zhang-Hoover
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Patent number: 12258329Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to pyrimidone derivatives of Formula I and their use for selectively killing HIV infected GAG-POL expressing cells without concomitant cytotoxicity to HIV nave cells, and for the treatment or prophylaxis of infection by HIV, or for the treatment, prophylaxis or delay in the onset or progression of AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Antonella Converso, Cheng Wang