Patents Assigned to Merck
  • Publication number: 20200339882
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, in particular based on a mixture of polar compounds, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, SA-VA, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS, PS-FFS, UB-FFS or PS-UB-FFS effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Su-Young KIM, Chang-Suk CHOI, Jeong-Hee SUNG, Ming Chou WU, Sang-Kyu LEE
  • Patent number: 10816862
    Abstract: Device for controlling transmission of radiation, comprises a first substrate comprising a first conductive layer; a second substrate comprising a second conductive layer; an active layer positioned between the first and second conductive layers for controlling the transmission of radiation by altering its light transmissivity dependent on a voltage applied to the first and second conductive layers; a first contact providing a first electrical connection to the first conductive layer; a first portion of an adhesive or solder for attaching a first proximal end of the first contact to the first conductive layer; a second contact providing a second electrical connection to the second conductive layer; and a second portion of adhesive or solder for attaching a second proximal end of the second contact to the first or second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ties De Jong, Casper Van Oosten
  • Patent number: 10815225
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I?, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating cellular proliferative disorders (e.g., cancer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: MERCK PATENT GMBH, VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Henry Yu, Michael Clark, Guy Bemis, Michael Boyd, Kishan Chandupatla, Philip Collier, Hongbo Deng, Huijun Dong, Warren Dorsch, Russell R. Hoover, Mac Arthur Johnson, Jr., Shashank Kukarni, Marina Penney, Steven Ronkin, Darin Takemoto, Qing Tang, Nathan D. Waal, Tiansheng Wang, David J. Lauffer, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 10815214
    Abstract: A novel process is provided for the efficient preparation of an asymmetric compound of structural formula I: comprising a copper-catalyzed, carbon-nitrogen cross-coupling step. The process described as part of the present invention can be used to manufacture poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, which may be useful for the treatment of cancer. In particular, the present invention describes a process for the manufacture of the PARP inhibitor, 2-{4-[(3S)-piperidin-3-yl]phenyl}-2H-indazole-7-carboxamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Cheol K. Chung, Mark E. Scott, Paul G. Bulger, Kevin M. Belyk, John Limanto, Guy R. Humphrey
  • Publication number: 20200330578
    Abstract: The present invention provides capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes identified using NMR. The present invention further provides polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which capsular polysaccharides from one or more of these serotypes are conjugated to a carrier protein such as CRM197. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from one or more of these serotypes may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines having polysaccharides from multiple additional Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui, Julie Marie Skinner
  • Publication number: 20200335670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-converting material which comprises a luminescent material with semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum materials), where the semiconductor nanoparticles are located on the surface of the luminescent material and the emission from the semiconductor nanoparticles is in the region of the emission from the luminescent material. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the light-converting material and to the use thereof in a light source. The present invention furthermore relates to a light-converting mixture, a light source, a lighting unit which contains the light-converting material according to the invention, and a process for the production thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Eric HEIDEN, Mathias RAPPHAHN
  • Publication number: 20200332041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for ophthalmological products, to corresponding copolymers and the preparation thereof and to the use thereof for the production of ophthalmic lenses or ophthalmological implants and to these products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Lars DOBELMANN-MARA, Simon HELMSTETTER, Stefan RIEDMUELLER, Martin SCHRAUB
  • Publication number: 20200335643
    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: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Marc HUNGER, Johannes TASCH, Cairon PLATZER, Oliver DOLL, Piotr WIERZCHOWIEC, Sebastian BARTH, Laurent DELOUX
  • Publication number: 20200330427
    Abstract: Therapies comprising administering at least one benzo[b]thiophene compound that activates the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) pathway, and the use of such therapies in the treatment of cell-proliferation disorders such as cancer, are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Saso CEMERSKI, Jared N. CUMMING, Johnny E. KOPINJA, Samanthi A. PERERA, Benjamin Wesley TROTTER, Archie Ngai-Chiu TSE
  • Patent number: 10810177
    Abstract: An indexing system uses a cascade of hash structures to process data entries upon ingest for indexing. The indexing system may be used for enhancing database privacy, anonymization, or data compression. A hash structure, for example, a bloom filter or hash table, passes a representation of the data entries to a subsequent hash structure in the cascade responsive to determining that the hash structure previously filtered an instance of the same representation. The indexing system can generate the representations of the data entries using one or more hash functions. A terminal hash structure of the cascade may index the data entries responsive to determining that the data entries satisfy a criteria for anonymization. For instance, the indexing system determines that there exists a threshold number of data entries describing a population of subjects having the same combination of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: David B. Hurry, David J. Tabacco
  • Patent number: 10806724
    Abstract: The present invention provides certain substituted chromane, isochromane, and dihydroisobenzofuran compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein ring A is a moiety selected from: and ring B, n, R1, R2, R2A, R3, and R3A are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful as mGluR2 inhibitors, or mGluR2 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), and may be useful in methods of treating a patient for diseases or disorders in which the mGluR2-NAM receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other mood disorders, pain disorders and sleep disorders, by administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Iyassu K. Sebhat, Ashok Arasappan, Scott B. Hoyt, Robert R. Wilkening, Duane DeMong
  • Patent number: 10808170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations for the preparation of organic electronic devices (OLEDs) which comprise at least one specific ester solvent containing a non aromatic cycle and at least one organic functional material selected from organic conductors, organic semiconductors, organic fluorescent compounds, organic phosphorescent compounds, organic light-absorbent compounds, organic light-sensitive compounds, organic photosensitisation agents and other organic photoactive compounds, selected from organometallic complexes of transition metals, rare earths, lanthanides and actinides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gaëlle Béalle, Christoph Leonhard, Hsin-Rong Tseng, Irina Martynova, Aurélie Ludemann
  • Publication number: 20200325020
    Abstract: Vaccine formulations are described comprising physically separated, lyophilized antigens and adjuvant components, which may be in lyoparticle form, as well as methods of using and making such formulations. Reconstituted formulations are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Akhilesh Bhambhani, Muneeswara Babu Medi, Maya Salnikova, William James Smith, David S. Thiriot
  • Publication number: 20200325228
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and a VEGFR inhibitor, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer, and in particular for treating cancers that express PD-L 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: PFIZER INC., MERCK SHARPE & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Andre Martini, Jamal Christo Tarazi, Rodolfo Fleury Perini, David J. Mauro
  • Publication number: 20200325137
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R3, Het1 and HET have the meanings given in claim 1, are ATM kinase inhibitors and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas FUCHSS, Kai SCHIEMANN
  • Patent number: 10800826
    Abstract: Described are antibody peptide conjugates (APCs) comprising an antibody conjugated to a peptide analog of glucagon, which have been modified to be resistant to cleavage and inactivation by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) and to increase in vivo half-life of the peptide analog while enabling the peptide analog to have agonist activity at the glucagon (GCG) receptor and the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor and the use of such APCs for treatment of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Ambryx, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Carrington, Grigori Ermakov, Robert M. Garbaccio, Wolfgang Seghezzi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Federica Orvieto, Dennis Gately, Nick Knudsen, Anthony Manibusan
  • Patent number: 10800827
    Abstract: Insulin dimers and insulin analog dimers that act as partial agonists at the insulin receptor are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Songnian Lin, Lin Yan, Pei Huo, Dmitri Pissarnitski, Danqing Feng, Ravi Nargund, Yuping Zhu, Ahmet Kekec, Christina B. Madsen-Duggan, Zhi-Cai Shi, Zhicai Wu, Yingjun Mu
  • Patent number: 10800846
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of the interaction between the PD-1 receptor and its ligand PD-L1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: MERCK PATENT GMBH, PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Cuillerot, Anja von Heydebreck, Guojun Yuan
  • Patent number: 10800808
    Abstract: Described herein are fluid treatment devices for use in tangential flow filtration, comprising a housing unit and a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises: a support member comprising a plurality of pores extending through the support member; and a non-self-supporting macroporous cross-linked gel comprising macropores having an average size of 10 nm to 3000 nm, said macroporous gel being located in the pores of the support member. The invention also relates to a method of separating a substance from a fluid, comprising the step of placing the fluid in contact with an inventive device, thereby adsorbing or absorbing the substance to the composite material contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Millipore Ltd.
    Inventors: Damian Brellisford, Donna Lisa Crossley, Greg McIntosh, Robert Ruman, John Rydall, Christopher S. Shields
  • Publication number: 20200317802
    Abstract: The present invention relates to immunoglobulins that bind ADAMTSS and more in particular to polypeptides, that comprise or essentially consist of one or more such immunoglobulins. The invention also relates to constructs comprising such immunoglobulins, such as immunoglobulin single variable domains (ISVDs) or polypeptides as well as nucleic acids encoding such immunoglobulins or polypeptides; to methods for preparing such immunoglobulins, polypeptides and constructs; to host cells expressing or capable of expressing such immunoglobulins or polypeptides; to compositions, and in particular to pharmaceutical compositions, that comprise such immunoglobulins, polypeptides, constructs, nucleic acids and/or host cells; and to uses of immunoglobulins, polypeptides, constructs, nucleic acids, host cells and/or compositions, in particular for prophylactic and/or therapeutic purposes, such as the prophylactic and/or therapeutic purposes mentioned herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: Merck Patent GmbH, ABLYNX NV
    Inventors: Marie-Ange BUYSE, Guy HERMANS, Sven LINDEMANN, Hans GUEHRING, Ralf GUENTHER, Roland KELLNER