Patents Assigned to Merck
  • Patent number: 12325817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media as defined in claim 1, having negative dielectric anisotropy and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 12325800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser additive comprising core/shell particles, to a process for the preparation of a laser additive of this type, and to the use thereof, in particular as laser absorber in plastics and plastic-containing coatings of articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Petry, Adeliene Schmitt, Christof Hampel
  • Patent number: 12329026
    Abstract: The present invention describes carbazole, dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene and fluorene derivatives which are substituted by electron-deficient heteroaryl groups, in particular for use as triplet matrix materials in organic electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention and to electronic devices comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Anja Jatsch, Thomas Eberle, Tobias Grossmann, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Lars Dobelmann-Mara
  • Publication number: 20250179365
    Abstract: LCoS panels using liquid crystal (LC) media having negative dielectric anisotropy and to the LC media comprised therein. The liquid crystal medium (LC medium) is a negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal material having high optical anisotropy. It is particularly useful in electro-optical displays including projection systems based on vertical alignment (VA) nematic panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Jeong- Hee Sung, Sing Yee Sung, Shinji Kakei
  • Publication number: 20250179364
    Abstract: Isothiocyanatoethynylbenzene derivatives of formula I liquid crystal media comprising the isothiocyanatoethynylbenzene derivatives, and high-frequency components comprising these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas (e.g., phased array antennas), and devices comprising said components. Further, an optical component comprising said liquid-crystalline media, operable in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, the use of said LC medium in the infrared (IR) region, and devices comprising said optical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT Gmbh
    Inventors: Constanze BROCKE, Andreas TAUGERBECK
  • Patent number: 12319810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising components a), b) and c). The component a) is a block copolymer or a blend of block copolymers. The component b) is a low Tg additive selected from the group consisting of an oligo random oligo random copolymer b-1), an oligo diblock copolymer b-2), an oligo diblock copolymer b-3) and a mixture of at least two of these. The component c) is a is a spin casting organic solvent. The invention also pertains to the use of said compositions in directed self-assembly. The invention further pertains to the novel oligo diblock copolymer b-2) which is an oligo diblock copolymer of block A-b) and block B-b), wherein block A-b) is a random copolymer of repeat units having structures (III), and (IV and block B-b) is a random copolymer of repeat units having structures (V), and (VI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Durairaj Baskaran, Victor Monreal
  • Patent number: 12319735
    Abstract: The present invention provides co-formulations of anti-PD-1 antibodies and anti-LAG3 antibodies, and their use in treating various disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Valentyn Antochshuk, Preeti G. Desai, Yogita Krishnamachari, Sahil S. Sangani
  • Patent number: 12319671
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted certain 1-pyrazolyl, 5-, 6-disubstituted indazole derivatives of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, and ring A are as defined herein, which are potent inhibitors of LRRK2 kinase and may be useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the LRRK2 kinase is involved, such as Parkinson's Disease and other diseases and disorders described herein. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, in which LRRK-2 kinase is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, John J. Acton, III, Michael J. Ardolino, Yi-Heng Chen, Peter H. Fuller, Anmol Gulati, Rebecca Elizabeth Johnson, William P. Kaplan, Solomon D. Kattar, Mitchell H. Keylor, Derun Li, Kaitlyn Marie Logan, Min Lu, Gregori J. Morriello, Santhosh F. Neelamkavil, Barbara Pio, Nunzio Sciammetta, Vladimir Simov, Jing Su, Luis Torres, Xin Yan
  • Publication number: 20250171447
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the invention provides compounds of structural Formula (I): (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein, ring A, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other therapeutically active agents). The invention further provides methods for the preparation and use of the compounds of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Zachary G. Brill, Alec Hiroshi Christian, Duane E. DeMong, Jared N. Cumming, Jenny Lorena Rico Duque, Elisabeth T. Hennessy, Derun Li, Yeon-Hee Lim, Christopher W. Plummer, Jing Su
  • Publication number: 20250171467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof. 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 treatment or prophylaxis of lysosomal storage diseases, neurodegenerative disease, cystic disease, cancer, or a diseases or disorders associated with elevated levels of glucosylceramide (GlcCer), glucosylsphingosine (GlcSph) and/or other glucosylceramide-based glycosphingolipids (GSLs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Anthony J. Roecker, Ling Tong
  • Publication number: 20250170133
    Abstract: The application relates to a pharmaceutical combination or combinational therapy comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one second agent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the treatment of a BTK-mediated disease or disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, ArQule Inc., Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Mohammed Z.H. Farooqui, Patricia Marinello, Anson Kunjachan Abraham, Sudharshan Eathiraj, Brian E. Schwartz, Yi Yu, John C. Byrd, Elizabeth M. Muhowski, Jennifer A. Woyach
  • Patent number: 12310945
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to cyclohexylglycine derivatives of Formula I and their use as HIV-infected cell kill agents which accelerate the death of HIV GAG-POL expressing cells without concomitant cytotoxicity to HIV naïve cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Douglas C. Beshore, Keith P. Moore, Rajan Anand, Remond Moningka, William D. Shipe
  • Patent number: 12310953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 12310999
    Abstract: Biomarkers useful for identifying a variety of cancers that are responsive to treatment with a combination therapy comprising pembrolizumab, a pembrolizumab variant or an antigen-binding fragment thereof and talimogene laherparepvec are provided. Methods of treating cancers that are resistant to monotherapy with pembrolizumab, a pembrolizumab variant or an antigen-binding fragment thereof are provided. Methods of treating a cancer in a subject having a tumor with a low CD8+ density, a low or negative interferon gamma signature, and/or a low or negative PD-L1 status are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer Lorraine Gansert, Abraham Antonio Anderson, Kevin Gorski
  • Patent number: 12312529
    Abstract: New compounds and their mixtures enable the formation of the ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phase at ambient temperature. Compounds of the formula I are presented, in which the variable groups have the meanings indicated in claim 1. Liquid crystal media comprise at least one compound of the formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Bremer, Atsutaka Manabe, Martin Kraska
  • Patent number: 12311021
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines, recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) vectors encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein or an immunogenic variant thereof, recombinant replicable VSV particles having a SARS-CoV-2 S protein or an immunogenic variant thereof on the surface of the particles, and immunogenic recombinant proteins comprising a SARS-CoV-2 S protein or a variant thereof. Immunogenic compositions comprising the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, the recombinant VSV vectors, the recombinant replicable VSV particles and/or the immunogenic recombinant proteins may be used for inducing an immune response to the SARS-CoV-2, preventing infection by the SARS-CoV-2, vaccinating against the SARS-CoV-2 and/or producing adaptive mutants of the recombinant replicable VSV particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC., MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Parks, Maoli Yuan, Mark Feinberg, Amy Espeseth, Andrew J. Bett
  • Patent number: 12312332
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Stephane L. Bogen, Ping Chen, Dane James Clausen, Jinsong Hao, Dipannita Kalyani, Michael T. Rudd, Shawn P. Walsh, Lan Wei, Dexi Yang
  • Publication number: 20250161420
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Yen-Pang Hsu, Sampat L. Ingale, Izzat T. Raheem, Jeffrey William Schubert, Ryan P. Staupe, Chengwei Wu
  • Publication number: 20250160050
    Abstract: The invention relates to solar cells or solar cell modules comprising a layer on or in the front radiation-receiving side of the solar cell comprising effect pigments consisting of a transparent or semi-transparent flake-form substrate coated with one or more layers of transparent or semi-transparent materials and optionally with a post coating, and a process for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Marc HUNGER, Johannes TASCH, Cairon PLATZER, Oliver DOLL, Piotr WIERZCHOWIEC, Sebastian BARTH, Laurent DELOUX
  • Publication number: 20250155330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle monitoring system and to a process of monitoring particles in a sample fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicants: MERCK PATENT GMBH, MBV AG
    Inventors: Anne-Grit KLEES, Tony ANCRUM, Corina KELLER, Roland DURNER, Andy ZINGRE