Patents Examined by Ebenezer O. Sackey
  • Patent number: 10442791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of DNA-PK. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, or disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Paul S. Charifson, Kevin Michael Cottrell, Hongbo Deng, John P. Duffy, Huai Gao, Simon Giroux, Jeremy Green, Katrina Lee Jackson, Joseph M. Kennedy, David J. Lauffer, Mark Willem Ledeboer, Pan Li, John Patrick Maxwell, Mark A. Morris, Albert Charles Pierce, Nathan D. Waal, Jinwang Xu
  • Patent number: 10435361
    Abstract: There are provided compounds of formula I, wherein R1A to R1E, R2 to R5, L and X1 to X3 have meanings given in the description, which compounds have antiinflammatory activity (e.g. through inhibition of one or more of members of: the family of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase enzymes; Syk kinase; and members of the Src family of tyrosine kinases) and have use in therapy, including in pharmaceutical combinations, especially in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory diseases of the lung, eye and intestines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Topivert Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Matthew Baker, Matthew Colin Thor Fyfe, Gareth William Harbottle, Vedran Hasimbegovic, Premji Meghani, Aaron Rigby, Colin Sambrook-Smith, Stephen Malcolm Thom
  • Patent number: 10434101
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Celgene CAR LLC
    Inventors: Kwangho Lee, Deqiang Niu, Russell C. Petter, Matthew Frank Baevsky, Juswinder Singh
  • Patent number: 10431752
    Abstract: An organometallic iridium complex that has high emission efficiency and a long lifetime and emits deep red light (emission wavelength: around 700 nm) is provided. The organometallic iridium complex has a ligand that is represented by General Formula (G0) and has at least a dimethyl phenyl group and a quinoxaline skeleton. In the formula, R1 to R3 separately represent an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, or a phenyl group having an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms as a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideko Inoue, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Hiromi Seo, Tatsuyoshi Takahashi, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 10420767
    Abstract: This invention relates to pyrimidine derivatives, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions, and their use in treating viral infections such as HCV or HBV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
    Inventors: David McGowan, Pierre Jean-Marie Bernard Raboisson, Werner Embrechts, Tim Hugo Maria Jonckers, Stefaan Julien Last, Serge Maria Aloysius Pieters, Jaromir Vlach
  • Patent number: 10421751
    Abstract: The invention provides dihydro-2H-benzo[b] [1,4]oxazine sulfonamide and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of promoting ROR? activity, methods of increasing the amount of IL-17 in a subject, and methods of treating cancer and other medical disorders using such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Lycera Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Aicher, Clarke B. Taylor, Chad A. VanHuis
  • Patent number: 10414756
    Abstract: Disclosed are a 2-(2,4,5-substituted aniline) pyrimidine derivative, a pharmaceutical composition and a use thereof. The pharmaceutical composition comprises a therapeutically effective amount of the 2-(2,4,5-substituted aniline) pyrimidine derivative, a solvate, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Also disclosed is a use of the 2-(2,4,5-substituted aniline) pyrimidine derivative, a solvate, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the preparation of drugs for treating cancers. The compounds of the present invention have a relatively high solubility in water and a relatively high permeability, and/or a relatively low binding ability to plasma proteins, and at the same time have a relatively low toxicity characteristic and a relatively high anti-tumor activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NANJING DIANSU BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Xiaoyun Zhu, Mingyu Jiang, Aining Ji
  • Patent number: 10407429
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, useful in therapy, in particular in the treatment of a viral infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Curovir AB
    Inventor: Jacob Westman
  • Patent number: 10399987
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to compounds that modulate the activity of TGF?R-1 and TGF?R-2, pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds and methods of treating proliferative disorders and disorders of dysregulated apoptosis, such as cancer, utilizing the compounds of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Bristol-Myer Squibb Company
    Inventors: Lalgudi S. Harikrishnan, Brian E. Fink, Robert M. Borzilleri, Gopikishan Tonukunuru, Jayakumar Sankara Warrier
  • Patent number: 10399964
    Abstract: A compound can be a fluorescent taxane derivative having a structure of Formula 1, salt, stereoisomer, tautomer, polymorph, or solvate thereof. Formula 1 can be defined as: L, L-NH, or L-NH—C?O is a linker; and R is a substituent, where —OH, —O?, —NH2, and NH—CH3 are examples. Examples of linkers can include glycine, beta-alanine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Pharmaceutical compositions can include the compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and may be configured for intravenous injection. The fluorescent taxane derivative can be used to treat cancer and non-cancer diseases. The fluorescent taxane derivative can be used to monitor cellular efflux and determine whether a cell will efflux paclitaxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Kansas
    Inventor: Blake R. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10391076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anticancer agent having a high safety and a superior anticancer activity, and anticancer agent containing, as an active ingredient, an aminoacetonitrile compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and the like, R2, R3, and R4 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and the like, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom and the like, m is 0 or 1, R is a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a phenyl group optionally substituted by an alkyl group and the like, an alkyl group and the like, Ar1 is a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, a pyridyl group, a pyrazolyl group, or the like, each of which is optionally substituted by a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, alkyl group and the like, and W is —O—, —S—, —SO2—, or —N(R7)— wherein R7 is a hydrogen atom, a (C1-C6)alkyl group and the like, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Pitney Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Andoh, Osamu Sanpei, Tetsuo Toga, David Lawson Morris, Roger Aston, Koji Tanaka, Tomokazu Hino
  • Patent number: 10392346
    Abstract: There are provided compounds of formula IIb, wherein: LG1 represents imidazolyl, chloro, or aryloxy; and Z1 represents a structural fragment of formula V: wherein R2 to R4, R5a, L and X1 to X3 have meanings given in the description, or a salt or protected derivative thereof, wherein said protected derivative is a compound in which the carboxyl moiety of R4 is protected as a C1-8 alkyl ester. The compounds have antiinflammatory activity, for example through inhibition of one or more of members of: the family of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase enzymes; Syk kinase; and members of the Src family of tyrosine kinases) and have use in therapy, including in pharmaceutical combinations, especially in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory diseases of the lung, eye and intestines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Topivert Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Matthew Baker, Matthew Colin Thor Fyfe, Geraint Jones, Stephen Malcolm Thom
  • Patent number: 10383881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 1,5-dihydro-2H-pyrrol-2-one compounds and methods of using them to induce self-renewal of stem/progenitor supporting cells, including inducing the stem/progenitor cells to proliferate while maintaining, in the daughter cells, the capacity to differentiate into tissue cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Frequency Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Loose, Bradley Tait, Rajesh Manchanda, Will McLean
  • Patent number: 10385023
    Abstract: Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: CYTOKINETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Paul Morgan, Alex Muci, Pu-Ping Lu, Erica Anne Kraynack, Todd Tochimoto, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10376511
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole pyrimidine derivatives which inhibit Casein kinase I (CKI) and/or Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAKI) and methods of their manufacture, compositions comprising them and uses thereof in methods of treating malignant disease and disorders and methods for treating inflammatory diseases and disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem LTD.
    Inventors: Yinon Ben Neriah, Guy Brachya, Ido Burstain, Waleed Minzel, Irit Snir-Alkalay, Joseph Vacca, Dansu Li
  • Patent number: 10377738
    Abstract: This invention relates to pyridone derivatives, processes for their preparation, phamaceutical compositions, and their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JANSSEN SCIENCES IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: David Craig McGowan, Pierre Jean-Marie Bernard Raboisson
  • Patent number: 10358414
    Abstract: Novel substituted N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) derivatives and related compounds and methods of using these compounds for the treatment of diseases and/or conditions, including but not limited to diseases and/or conditions of, or involving, the Central Nervous System (CNS), including schizophrenia adrenoleukodystrophy, mitochondrial diseases (e.g. Leigh syndrome, Alpers? disease, and MELAS), Huntington's disease, trichotillomania, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, drug craving, and drug addiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Promentis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Neary, James Nieman, Steven Tanis, Daniel Lawton, Garry Smith
  • Patent number: 10351822
    Abstract: The present invention relates compounds for stabilizing cells and methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Yue Xu, Sheng Ding
  • Patent number: 10351531
    Abstract: Pyrazole derivatives of Formula (Ia) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the serotonin 5HT2A receptor. Formula (Ia). Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are directed to methods useful in the treatment of insomnia and related sleep disorders, platelet aggregation, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, angina, stroke, atrial fibrillation, reducing the risk of blood clot formation, asthma or symptoms thereof, agitation or symptoms thereof, behavioral disorders, drug induced psychosis, excitative psychosis, Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, manic disorder, organic or NOS psychosis, psychotic disorders, psychosis, acute schizophrenia, chronic schizophrenia, NOS schizophrenia and related disorders, diabetic-related disorders, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yifeng Xiong, Martin C. Cherrier, Jin Sun Karoline Choi, Peter I. Dosa, Brian M. Smith, Sonja Strah-Pleynet, Brett Ullman, Bradley Teegarden
  • Patent number: 10336726
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula II: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof, useful as a CGRP receptor antagonist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Jennifer Anne McMahon, Miles Goodman Siegel, Russell Dean Stucky