Patents Examined by Golam M. Shameem
  • Patent number: 11259524
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as fungicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Thomas James Hoffman, Daniel Stierli, André Jeanguenat, Renaud Beaudegnies, Martin Pouliot
  • Patent number: 11260046
    Abstract: Stereomerically pure (+)-2-[1-(3-Ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylsulfonylethyl]-4-acetylaminoisoindoline-1,3-dione, substantially free of its (?) isomer, and prodrugs, metabolites, polymorphs, salts, solvates, hydrates, and clathrates thereof are discussed. Also discussed are methods of using and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the (+) enantiomer of 2-[1-(3-Ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylsulfonylethyl]-4-acetylaminoisoindoline-1,3-dione are disclosed. The methods include methods of treating and/or preventing disorders ameliorated by the reduction of levels of TNF-? or the inhibition of PDE4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: George W. Muller, Peter H. Schafer, Hon-Wah Man, Chuansheng Ge
  • Patent number: 11261171
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I): or tautomer or a solvate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the various substituents are as defined in the claims. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula (I), processes for making the compounds and the medical uses of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: ASTEX THERAPEUTICS LIMITED, CANCER RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Gianni Chessari, Steven Howard, Ildiko Maria Buck, Benjamin David Cons, Christopher Norbert Johnson, Rhian Sara Holvey, David Charles Rees, Jeffrey David St. Denis, Emiliano Tamanini, Bernard Thomas Golding, Ian Robert Hardcastle, Celine Florence Cano, Duncan Charles Miller, Martin Edward Mäntylä Noble, Roger John Griffin, James Daniel Osborne, Joanne Peach, Arwel Lewis, Kim Louise Hirst, Benjamin Paul Whittaker, David Wyn Watson, Dale Robert Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11261168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for synthesizing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from a fructose-containing feedstock in the presence of at least one aprotic polar solvent and at least one dehydration catalyst, in which process the maximum instantaneous fructose concentration 5.0 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Marc Jacquin, Damien Delcroix
  • Patent number: 11246860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to agonists of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptors and their medical uses. In one aspect the invention relates to 5-HT2A agonists of formula (I). In second aspect, the invention relates to selective 5-HT2A agonists of formula (II). In another aspect, the invention relates to mixed 5-HT2A/5-HT2C agonists of formula (III). In yet another aspect, the invention relates to 5-HT2A agonists for use in the treatment of a depressive disorder, more particular a 5-HT2A agonist for the use in the treatment of treatment-resistant depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lophora ApS
    Inventors: Jesper Langgaard Kristensen, Anders Asbjørn Jensen, Emil Märcher-Rørsted, Sebastian Leth-Petersen
  • Patent number: 11246865
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating drug addiction and reducing dependence or tolerance on a dependence-inducing opiate drug, wherein the method comprises administering to a subject a compound having the structure of formula (I): having the IUPAC name of (?)3-((S)-((2S,5R)-4-allyl-2,5-dimethyl-1-piperazinyl)(3-thienyl)methyl)phenol, or pharmaceutically acceptable esters or salts thereof, wherein the compound has activity on the mu, delta and kappa opioid receptors thereby providing added analgesia with an improved therapeutic index and reduced risk of respiratory depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: VERSI GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: Ebrahim Versi
  • Patent number: 11247977
    Abstract: The present application provides a compound in formula III, and further provides a use of the compound in the synthesis of a Brivaracetam intermediate and a crude drug, and a synthesis method. A raw material involved in the method of the present application is low in costs and easily available; (R)-4-propyl-dihydrofuran-2-ketone having high optical purity can be prepared; complicated separation and purification steps are avoided; costs are reduced, and the method is more applicable to industrial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIAN HAIXI PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Feng, Ruyong Wang, Yizhang Ye, Fengsen Zhang, Xuan Gong, Zhonghong Wang, Xinshan Kang
  • Patent number: 11236053
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to compounds and methods of treating or preventing a Nox related disease or condition comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a Nox inhibitor or pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Nox inhibitor disclosed herein, derivatives, or compounds disclosed herein optionally substituted with one or more substitutes including optional salt and prodrug forms. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to sulfonylurea compounds and uses reported herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: Emory University, Mercer University, Howard University, Union University
    Inventors: Osman Güner, Bernard Lassegue, Kathy Griendling, Qian Xu, David Brown, J. Phillip Bowen, Amol Kulkarni, E. Blake Watkins
  • Patent number: 11234964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of melatonin for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition suitable for intratumoral administration for the treatment of tumors. This composition comprises high concentrations of melatonin, melatonin derivatives or metabolites, such that melatonin exerts an oxidizing effect, increasing the production of free radicals and activating cell death.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Universidad De Granada
    Inventors: Germaine Escames Rosa, Darío Acuña Castroviejo, Ana Guerra-Librero Rite, Beatriz Irene Fernández Gil, Javier Florido Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11230517
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorination method comprising providing an aryl fluorosulfonate and a fluorinating reagent to a reaction mixture; and reacting the aryl fluorosulfonate and the fluorinating reagent to provide a fluorinated aryl species. Also disclosed is a fluorination method comprising providing, a salt comprising a cation and an aryloxylate, and SO2F2 to a reaction mixture; reacting the SO2F2 and the ammonium salt to provide a fluorinated aryl species. Further disclosed a fluorination method comprising providing a compound having the structure Ar—OH to a reaction mixture; where Ar is an aryl or heteroaryl; providing SO2F2 to the reaction mixture; providing a fluorinating reagent to the reaction mixture; reacting the SO2F2, the fluorinating reagent and the compound having the structure Ar—OH to provide a fluorinated aryl species having the structure Ar—F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of Michigan, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Melanie S. Sanford, Douglas Bland, Patrick S. Hanley, Megan A. Cismesia, Sydonie D. Schimler
  • Patent number: 11225493
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, such as a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, that are immunoproteasome (such as LMP2 and LMP7) inhibitors. The compounds described herein can be useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of immunoproteasomes. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and processes for preparing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Principia Biopharma Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Lou, Timothy Duncan Owens, Kenneth Albert Brameld, David Michael Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11214558
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel method for synthesizing DHPV, and more particularly, to a novel method for synthesizing DHPV (5-(3?,4?-dihydroxyphenyl)-?-valerolactone)) which is a major metabolite of cacao. This method has the advantage of not only facilitating a large-scale synthesis by a new synthesis method that can overcome existing defects, but also making it easy to select antioxidants and isomers exhibiting anti-aging bioactivities. Therefore, it is effective in enabling mass production of DHPV having high value as a functional material for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals in a simple and economical manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: SUNGKWANG MEDICAL FOUNDATION, CHA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: David Tae Aug Kim, A-Ram Kim, Young-Ger Suh, Jaehoon Sim
  • Patent number: 11213525
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein A, R, W, Q, L, n and m have the meaning according to the claims, can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tauopathies and Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Asceneuron SA
    Inventors: Anna Quattropani, Santosh S. Kulkarni, Awadut Gajendra Giri
  • Patent number: 11203613
    Abstract: The compounds of the present invention are represented by the following compounds having Formula (I) and Formula (I?): where the substituents R, R1, R3 R4, R?, W, X, Y, Z, k, and m are as defined herein and where the substituents R, R1, R2, R3, R4, X, Y, Z, and m are as defined herein. These compounds are used in the treatment of bacterial infections, parasite infections, fungal infections, cancer, immunologic disorders, autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, inflammatory disorders, or muscular dystrophy or for providing immunosuppression for transplanted organs or tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Gang Lin, Carl Nathan, Wenhu Zhan, Trevor Morgan, Ryoma Hara, Toshihiro Imaeda, Rei Okamoto, Kenjiro Sato, Kazuyoshi Aso, Tzu-Tshin Wong, Michael A. Foley
  • Patent number: 11198700
    Abstract: Preparation of O,O-dimethyl phosphoramidothioate and O,O-dimethyl phosphoroamidothioate. A process of making O,O-dimethyl phosphoroamidothioate is described including reacting sulfur with PCl3 to form PSCl3, reacting the PSCl3 formed with methanol to form O-methyl phosphorodichloridothioate, and reacting the O-methyl phosphorodichloridothioate formed with methyl lye to form O,O-dimethyl phosphorochloridothioate in solution in CH2Cl2, and reacting the O,O-dimethyl phosphorochloridothioate formed with sodium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide to form O,O-dimethyl phosphoroamidothioate in solution in CH2Cl2. Reacting the O,O-dimethyl phosphoroamidothioate formed with catalytic dimethyl sulfate to form methamidophos and reacting the methamidophos formed with acetic anhydride to form N-(methoxy-methylsulfanylphosphoryl) acetamide is also described. Throughout the process, the O,O-dimethyl phosphorochloridothioate and the O,O-dimethyl phosphoroamidothioate formed are maintained in solution in CH2Cl2 at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ARYSTA LIFESCIENCE INC
    Inventors: Vic Prasad, David Huang, Kamal Kataria, Christopher Lynn Larson, Cameron Seath Gibb, Stephen Cornes
  • Patent number: 11186595
    Abstract: This invention relates to glucose-sensitive albumin-binding diboron conjugates. More particularly the invention provides novel diboron compounds, and in particular diboronate or diboroxole compounds, useful as intermediate compounds for the synthesis of diboron conjugates. The diboron compounds are characterized by formula (I), which is: R1-X—R2, and wherein “X” is a mono- to multiatomic linker and where R1 and R2, which may be identical or different, each represents a group of Formula (11a) or (IIb) Also described are diboron conjugates represented by the general Formula (I?), which is: R1?-X?—R2?, in which either the moeities R1? or R2? or X? carry a drug that is covalently attached to the diboron compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Kruse, Mikael Kofod-Hansen, Martin Werner Borchsenius Muenzel, Henning Thoegersen, Per Sauerberg, Jakob Ewald Rasmussen, Carsten Behrens, Thomas Hoeg-Jensen, Vojtech Balsanek, Zuzana Drobnakova, Ladislav Droz, Miroslav Havranek, Vladislav Kotek, Milan Stengl, Ivan Snajdr, Hana Drusanova
  • Patent number: 11186541
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, and methods for the treatment of Canavan disease are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Ronald E. Viola, Bharani Thangavelu, Vinay Mutthamsetty, Qinzhe Wang
  • Patent number: 11180515
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes a phosphoric acid diester salt, which can suppress deterioration of charge-discharge characteristics of a power storage element, and can suppress the rise in internal resistance after storage at high temperature. The phosphoric acid diester salt is represented by the following chemical formula (1): in which Mn+ represents a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkali earth metal ion, an aluminum ion, a transition metal ion, or an onium ion, R1 and R2 are different from each other and represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and having at least one of a halogen atom, a heteroatom, and an unsaturated bond, and n represents a valence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Stella Chemifa Corporation
    Inventors: Toshitaka Sakaguchi, Sojiro Kon, Yoshifumi Katsura, Masashi Yamamoto, Tetsuo Nishida
  • Patent number: 11180450
    Abstract: The present invention concerns substituted indoline derivatives, methods to prevent or treat dengue viral infections by using said compounds and also relates to said compounds for use as a medicine, more preferably for use as a medicine to treat or prevent dengue viral infections. The present invention furthermore relates to pharmaceutical compositions or combination preparations of the compounds, to the compositions or preparations for use as a medicine, more preferably for the prevention or treatment of dengue viral infections. The invention also relates to processes for preparation of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    Inventors: Bart Rudolf Romanie Kesteleyn, Pierre Jean-Marie Bernard Raboisson, Jean-François Bonfanti, Dorothée Alice Marie-Eve Bardiot, Arnaud Didier M Marchand
  • Patent number: 11180465
    Abstract: The invention relates to 1,5-benzothiazepine and 1,2,5-benzothiadiazepine derivatives of formula (I). These compounds are bile acid modulators having apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) and/or liver bile acid transport (LBAT) inhibitory activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders, gastrointestinal diseases and liver diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Albireo AB
    Inventors: Per-Göran Gillberg, Ingemar Starke, Santosh S. Kulkarni