Patents Assigned to Merck
  • Patent number: 12068150
    Abstract: [Problem] To obtain a substrate cleaning solution capable of cleaning a substrate and removing particles. [Means for Solution] The present invention is a substrate cleaning solution comprising an insoluble or hardly soluble solute (A), a soluble solute (B), and a solvent (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Takafumi Kinuta, Tatsuro Nagahara, Yuko Horiba
  • Patent number: 12069950
    Abstract: The present application concerns compounds for use in electronic devices, processes for preparing the compounds, and electronic devices comprising the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Elvira Montenegro, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Florian Maier-Flaig, Frank Voges
  • Patent number: 12065431
    Abstract: The present invention describes amines with dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene and fluorene groups, especially for use as triplet matrix materials in organic electroluminescent devices. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the compounds of the invention and to electronic devices comprising these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Thomas Eberle, Anja Jatsch, Tobias Grossmann, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Elvira Montenegro, Caroline Wern
  • Patent number: 12068058
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention avoid the processing problems associated with using conventional computer systems for identifying and characterizing all of the substructures (e.g., metabolites) of large complex molecules by using a defined minimum cleavable unit (MCU) and an MCU graph for a chosen molecule, as well as a “cut vertex” in the MCU graph for the chosen molecule. The system splits the MCU graph of the chosen molecule at the specified cut vertex to produce two separate MCU graph components (i.e., a first MCU subgraph and a second MCU subgraph) of the chosen molecule, and generates and traverses a first line graph component and a second line graph component, respectively, for the two MCU subgraph components with a graph traversing algorithm to generate and store in memory a first database of substructures and molecular weights for the first component, and a second database of substructures and molecular weights for the second line graph component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Fridman, Ansuman Bagchi, Xiang Yu, Mark Cancilla
  • Patent number: 12065438
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) which are inhibitors of an IDO enzyme: Formula (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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Yongxin Han, David Jonathan Bennett, Indu Bharathan, Liangqin Guo, Brett A. Hopkins, Xianhai Huang, Derun Li, Min Lu, Alexander Pasternak, David L. Sloman, Hongjun Zhang, Hua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240270748
    Abstract: Tricyclic heterocycles are useful as TEAD binders and/or inhibitors of YAP-TEAD. Tricyclic heterocycles can be used for TAZ-TEAD protein-protein interaction or binding and for the prevention and/or treatment of several medical conditions including hyperproliferative disorders and diseases, in particular cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicants: Merck Patent GmbH, Cancer Research Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Timo Heinrich, Sarah Schlesiger, Jakub Gunera, Lisa Koetzner, Emma Carswell, Andreas Blum
  • Publication number: 20240271042
    Abstract: A liquid crystal medium comprising a) one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds of the formula T and one or more compounds of the formula S1 and an electronic component comprising said LC medium, operable in the visible (VIS), infrared (IR) or microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Also, the use of said LC medium in the IR, VIS or microwave region and to devices comprising said electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Izumi Saito, Benjamin Snow
  • Patent number: 12060357
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain 9-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline compounds of the structural Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein, ring A, R1 and R2 are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other therapeutically active 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 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Matthew A. Larsen, Amjad Ali, Jared Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng, Thomas H. Graham, Elisabeth Hennessy, Andrew J. Hoover, Ping Liu, Kun Liu, Umar Faruk Mansoor, Jianping Pan, Christopher W. Plummer, Aaron Sather, Uma Swaminathan, Huijun Wang, Yonglian Zhang
  • Patent number: 12060355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for use in the treatment or prevention of fascioliasis. Some of these compounds are novel per se and also have activity as inhibitors of Schistosoma growth. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such novel compounds, salts or solvates and to the use of such novel compounds as medicaments, in particular in the treatment or prevention of schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: John Mark Francis Gardner, Andrew Simon Bell
  • Patent number: 12060583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a scalable process for the purification of human cytomegalovirus particles from cell culture medium. In particular, the process involves a two step chromatography process starting with an anion exchange chromatography step followed by a polishing chromatography step selected from mixed mode chromatography or cation exchange chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Adam Kristopeit, Janelle Konietzko, Wanli Ma, Katherine Phillips, Andrew Swartz, Sheng-Ching Wang, Marc D. Wenger, Matthew Woodling, Tiago Matos
  • Patent number: 12060276
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a novel amorphous silicon sacrifice film and an amorphous silicon forming composition capable of filling trenches having a high aspect ratio to form an amorphous silicon sacrifice film that is excellent in affinity with a substrate. A method for producing an amorphous silicon sacrifice film, comprising (i) polymerizing a cyclic polysilane comprising 5 or more silicon or a composition comprising the cyclic polysilane by light irradiation and/or heating to form a polymer having a polysilane skeleton, (ii) applying an amorphous silicon forming composition comprising said polymer having a polysilane skeleton, polysilazane and a solvent above a substrate to form a coating film, and (iii) heating the coating film in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Naoko Nakamoto, Takashi Fujiwara, Atsuhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 12059461
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which polysaccharides, typically from bacteria, are conjugated to a carrier protein by reductive amination under conditions which improve conjugation reaction consistency, increase consumption of protein during conjugation reaction, generate conjugates of higher molecular weight, and/or reduce the levels of free cyanide in the conjugate reaction product. The polysaccharide-protein conjugates obtained using these methods are useful for inclusion in multivalent vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jitin Bajaj, Michael Albert Winters, Emily Wen, Jian He
  • Patent number: 12063847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming an organic element of an electronic device having at least two different pixel types including a first pixel type (pixel A) and a second pixel type (pixel B), —wherein at least one layer of pixel A is deposited by applying an ink A containing at least one organic functional material A and at least one solvent A by a printing process, —wherein at least one layer of pixel B is deposited by applying an ink B containing at least one organic functional material B and at least one solvent B by a printing process, —wherein at least one organic functional material A and at least one organic functional material B are different, and —wherein at least one solvent A and at least one solvent B are different, characterized in that both inks, ink A and ink B, in addition contain at least one common solvent S, and characterized in that the boiling point of solvent A and the boiling point of solvent B is at least 10° C. lower than the boiling point of the common solvent S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hsin-Rong Tseng, Sabine Knippel, Manuel Hamburger, Gaëlle Béalle, Margarita Wucherer-Plietker
  • Publication number: 20240261299
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound suvorexant, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a concentration-enhancing polymer, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Harmon, Narayan Variankaval, Michael Lowinger, Chad David Brown, Francis Flanagan
  • Publication number: 20240261384
    Abstract: A method is described for producing a pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide protein conjugate in which one or more activated pneumococcal polysaccharides of particular pneumococcal serotypes and carrier protein are separately lyophilized, the separately lyophilized polysaccharides and carrier protein are separately reconstituted in an organic solvent, and the reconstituted polysaccharide and carrier protein are then combined together by Tee-mixing and conjugated together to produce polysaccharide carrier protein conjugates. A plurality of conjugates, each comprising polysaccharides of a particular serotype, may be used to produce multivalent pneumococcal immunogenic compositions having a combination of conjugates for use in vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Leonard Ahl, Akhilesh Bhambhani, Christopher Jon Farrell, Patrick McHugh, Morrisa C. Jones, Daniel D. Roth, Jessica R. Sinacola, Justin Stanbro, Matthew P. Watson, Emily Wen, Michael A. Winters
  • Publication number: 20240262834
    Abstract: The present invention relates to efficient synthetic processes useful in the preparation of Compound A, a BTK inhibitor of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, including the preparation of intermediates used to make Compound A or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Yonggang Chen, James Corry, Richard Desmond, Michael J. Di Maso, Jacob H. Forstater, Jeffrey T. Kuethe, Nadine Kuhl, Reed Larson, Francois Levesque, Karthik Narsimhan, Douglas Otte, Christopher K. Prier, Michael Shevlin, Eric Sirota, Lushi Tan, David A. Thaisrivongs, Ben W. H. Turnbull, Zhixun Wang, Kaijiong Xiao
  • Patent number: 12054549
    Abstract: A method can treat a patient suffering from at least one of fibrosis and a fibrotic disorder. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-?v integrin antibody DI17E6, or a biologically active variant or modification thereof, to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ilhan Celik, Eike Staub, Miriam Urban, Sabine Raab-Westphal, Eileen Samy, Andrew Bender, Georgianna Varrone, Yin Wu, Daigen Xu
  • Publication number: 20240255492
    Abstract: A functional cell-based potency assay for measuring the biological activity of IL-2 mutants with biased activity for the IL-2 receptor beta-gamma complex is described. In particular, the present invention relates to a Kit225 cell line that lacks expression of the IL-2 receptor alpha and its use in said functional cell-based potency assay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
    Inventors: DANILA G. GIACONE, DAVID P. SANDEN, AARRON WILLINGHAM, JUNMING YIE
  • Publication number: 20240254262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of dielectric polymer material, which is particularly suitable for the manufacturing of electronic devices. The dielectric polymer material is formed by reacting bismaleimide compounds and shows an advantageous well-balanced profile of favorable material properties. The bismaleimide compounds have an oligomeric structure with an oligoamide extended repeating unit in the middle part of the molecule and maleimide groups at each terminal end of the molecule. There is further provided a method for forming said dielectric polymer material. Beyond that, the present invention relates to the dielectric polymer material and to an electronic device comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor LARBIG, Frank Egon MEYER, Pawel MISKIEWICZ
  • Publication number: 20240254114
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, which are DGAT2 inhibitors. Also provided are methods of making compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib, pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib, and methods of using these compounds to treat hepatic steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), hepatic fibrosis, type-2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, cognitive decline, dementia, cardiorenal diseases such as chronic kidney diseases and heart failure and related diseases and conditions, comprising administering a compound of Formula I, Ia and Ib and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Yeon-Hee Lim, Cedric L. Hugelshofer, James P. Roane, Samantha E. Shockley