Patents Examined by Andrea Olson
  • Patent number: 12679905
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field for preparation of chitosan oligosaccharide, and particularly relates to a chitosan oligosaccharide sulfate and a preparation method thereof. The method is as follows: adding an equal volume of 1.0%-2.0% by mass of potassium sulfate solution into 2.0%-4.0% by mass of chitosan oligosaccharide hydrochloride solution and evenly mixing to obtain a mixed solution, allowing a molar ratio of amino to sulfate ions in the mixed solution to be 2:1, then adding absolute ethyl alcohol to obtain a chitosan oligosaccharide sulfate suspension, standing, filtering, collecting precipitates, washing, drying and smashing to finally obtain the chitosan oligosaccharide sulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Jiangxi Normal University
    Inventors: Qinghui You, Manying Wang
  • Patent number: 12673070
    Abstract: The invention relates to dextran sulfate, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in treatment of sepsis and hypercytokinemia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: TX MEDIC AB
    Inventor: Lars Bruce
  • Patent number: 12668790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lysis, binding and/or wash reagent for isolating and/or purifying nucleic acids and a method for isolating and/or purifying nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: QIAGEN GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Fabis, Anke Homann, Thorsten Voss, Thomas Hanselle
  • Patent number: 12668577
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for rapid isolation of nucleic acids from a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Ptomega Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiyang Zeng, Wenhui Zhou, Douglas R. Storts, Poncho Meisenheimer, Ian Marozas, Andrew Taft, Spencer Hermanson, Connor Fitzgerald, Kasen Riemersma
  • Patent number: 12668669
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing cellulose and lignin oil by depolymerizing lignocellulose without exogenous hydrogen, including: performing reaction on the lignocellulose dispersed into an aqueous medium at 120° C. to 180° C. under the action of a catalyst; and separating a reaction product to obtain the cellulose and the lignin oil. The catalyst includes a carrier and an active ingredient loaded on the carrier, where the active ingredient is selected from one of platinum, palladium, ruthenium and nickel; the carrier is selected from one of a metal oxide, a metal composite material, silicon dioxide, nitrogen-doped carbon, molybdenum carbide and molybdenum nitride; and the metal oxide is selected from one of niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, tungsten oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide and molybdenum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: East China University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yanqin Wang, Hao Zhou, Yong Guo, Xiaohui Liu
  • Patent number: 12662494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound of formula (1a) wherein a-d and p are 1 or 2, R1-R4 are hydrogen atom or the like, and R18 is —CF3 or the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which has an anticancer effect by inhibiting the binding between a MLL fusion protein that is fused with AF4, AF9, or the like, which is a representative fusion partner gene causing MLL leukemia, and menin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Kamioka, Naoaki Shimada, Hitoshi Ban, Kazuto Yamazaki, Akihiko Arakawa, Wataru Hirose
  • Patent number: 12661333
    Abstract: Provided is DHA, or a composition comprising DHA, for use in treatment of a biofilm in a subject and for use in treatment of a disease or infection associated or caused by a biofilm in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN
    Inventors: Gordon Cooke, Emma Caraher, Jonathan Brady
  • Patent number: 12662471
    Abstract: 7- or 8-hydroxy-isoquinoline and 7- or 8-hydroxy-quinoline derivatives as alpha-1-antitrypsin modulators for treating alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Simon Giroux, Michael Philip Clark, Michael Aaron Brodney, Peter Jones, Michael Paul Deninno, Wenxin Gu, Qing Tang, Steven David Stone, Timothy J. Senter, Zachary Gale-Day, Diane Marie Boucher, Lev T.D. Fanning, Amy B. Hall, Dennis James Hurley, Mac Arthur Johnson, Jr., John Patrick Maxwell, Rebecca Jane Swett, Timothy Lewis Tapley, Stephen A. Thomson, Veronique Damagnez, Kevin Michael Cottrell
  • Patent number: 12648956
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to pentagalloyl glucose compositions and uses in managing microbial infections and compositions related thereto. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to compositions of pentagalloyl glucose. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing a microbial infection, e.g., an antimicrobial resistant microbial infection, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of pentagalloyl glucose or salt thereof. In certain embodiments, the microbe is bacteria or fungi resistant to one or more antibiotic agents or antifungal agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignees: EMORY UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cassandra Quave, Francois Chassagne, Lewis Marquez, Micah Dettweiler, Julia Kubanek, Anne M. Sweeney-Jones, Bhuwan Khatri Chhetri
  • Patent number: 12649758
    Abstract: Disclosed is an industrial method for simultaneously preparing Stevia rebaudiana chlorogenic acid and stevioside. The industrial method includes carrying out alcohol extraction on Stevia rebaudiana which is used as a raw material, and then adjusting the feed liquid state to allow chlorogenic acid to be in a free molecular state; carrying out extraction separation by a water-insoluble moderate-polarity organic solvent; enriching the Stevia rebaudiana chlorogenic acid in an organic layer; and enriching the stevioside in a water layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Chenguang Biotech Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunhe Lian, Meili Xu, Wei Gao, Zhiping Niu, Yanfang Wang
  • Patent number: 12636299
    Abstract: Terpenoid derivatives for use in the medicinal applications and compositions containing these derivatives. This new generation of compounds possesses selective anti-neurodegenerative properties on neuronal cells and tissues and can be particularly used in the treatment and prophylaxis of neurodegenerative disease, particularly in the treatment and prophylaxis of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI
    Inventors: Milan Urban, Gabriel Gonzalez, Jirí Hodon, Miroslav Strnad
  • Patent number: 12637488
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of synthesizing an organometallic iridium monomer compound includes obtaining a dimeric iridium compound having a halogenated bridge, refluxing a mixture comprising the dimeric iridium compound, a base, an ancillary ligand, and 1,2-dimethoxyethane for forming a precipitate of an organometallic iridium monomer, and filtering the refluxed mixture to collect the organometallic iridium monomer precipitate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Dean Sanner
  • Patent number: 12637489
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are silicon containing cleavable linkers and compounds for use in nucleic acid sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Singular Genomics Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Graham, Zachary Terranova
  • Patent number: 12636300
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating urothelial carcinomas of the lower tract comprising administering comprising administering gemcitabine continuously and locally to the bladder of an individual in an induction therapy and/or maintenance therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Janssen Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Giesing, Christopher Cutie
  • Patent number: 12630580
    Abstract: 5?-O-Phenylacetyluridine effectively delivers both phenylacetate and uridine to a subject. It can be used to treat hepatic encephalopathy and genetic disorders of the hepatic nitrogen cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: PHARMA CINQ, LLC
    Inventors: Rolando Alejandro Garcia Garcia, Joel A. Saydoff, David Michael Simpson, Reid Warren von Borstel
  • Patent number: 12622453
    Abstract: A method for preparing a water-soluble rutin powder includes: heating and mixing a plant polysaccharide substance, a filler, and water to obtain a wall material solution; adding an antioxidant and a rutin powder into the wall material solution at a first temperature, followed by emulsification and dispersion, pH adjustment, and high-pressure homogenization to obtain a rutin powder emulsion; and carrying out heating fusion of the rutin powder emulsion to obtain a water-soluble rutin powder. With the preparation method, a water-soluble rutin product is obtained through emulsification, high-pressure homogenization, ultra-high-temperature fusion, drying and other processes by using modified starch and a plant polysaccharide as a wall material and rutin as a core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: HENAN ZHONGDA HENGYUAN BIOTECHNOLOGY STOCK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honglong Li, Ziheng Jin, Yanjun Wen, Linzheng Li, Mingming Wang, Yulian Guo, Haitao Han, Di Wang
  • Patent number: 12624129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of crosslinked hyaluronic acid butyrate or crosslinked hyaluronic acid butyrate-formate or an acceptable salt thereof, wherein the process comprises the crosslinking reaction of hyaluronic acid butyrate or hyaluronic acid butyrate-formate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an organic solvent with a carboxyl activating reagent, characterized in that the hyaluronic acid butyrate or hyaluronic acid butyrate-formate or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is a mixture of a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide and a low-molecular-weight polysaccharide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: BMG PHARMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Mastrodonato, Luca Stucchi, Alessandra Sechi, Fabrizio Picotti, Rita Gianni
  • Patent number: 12623989
    Abstract: Provided are methods for producing levulinic acid from hemp hurds. In some embodiments, the methods include dissolving hemp hurds in an ionic liquid medium to produce a cellulose-rich product; hydrolyzing cellulose present in the cellulose-rich product to produce a glucose-rich product; dehydrating glucose present in the glucose-rich product, and/or fructose resulting from isomerization of the glucose, to produce 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF); and hydrolyzing the HMF to levulinic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarttrawut Tulaphol, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh
  • Patent number: 12618092
    Abstract: The invention is directed to methods and apparatus for parallel enzymatic synthesis of polynucleotides in an array of reaction chambers using a template-free polymerase that has sequence-dependent coupling efficiencies. Whenever sequences causing low efficiency coupling occur at a 3? end of a growing chain of a polynucleotide being synthesized, one or more additional coupling cycles without de-protection steps are inserted into synthesis plans to provide additional time for completing the coupling reaction at that position of the polynucleotide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: DNA Script
    Inventors: Adrian Horgan, Xavier Godron
  • Patent number: 12606587
    Abstract: The present invention provides protected tetrasaccharides, their process of preparation and their use in the synthesis of oligosaccharides, in particular fragments of O-antigens from Shigella flexneri, for example of serotype 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, X, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 7a or 7b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: INSTITUT PASTEUR, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Laurence Mulard, Guillaume Le Heiget, Zhaohu Hu, Louis-Antoine Barel, Isabelle Andre, Claire Moulis, Magali Remaud-Simeon, Sophie Barbe, Mounir Benkoulouche, Akli Ben Imeddourene