Patents Examined by Jason Sims
  • Patent number: 9616134
    Abstract: A liquid preparation includes an etherified cyclodextrin derivative and a substituted benzimidazol, where the etherified cyclodextrin derivative is one of alpha-, beta, and gamma-cyclodextrin ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Folger, Stefan Lehner
  • Patent number: 9617265
    Abstract: Stable noribogaine salt ansolvates are useful for preparing pharmaceutical compositions and for alleviating nociceptive pain in a patient. Such ansolvates can be prepared by slurrying solvated forms, preferably MeOH solvated noribogaine hydrochloride in EtOH/water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: DEMERX, INC.
    Inventors: Richard D. Gless, Jr., William C. Schinzer
  • Patent number: 9604987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising compound of formula CB6 or CB8, the pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier, solvent, the salts thereof or a combination thereof which is used to treat autophagy-associated diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, etc. The present invention also relates to a method of treating these diseases by administering a therapeutically-effective amount of the compound to the subject in need of the treatment. The present invention further relates to the use of this compound in preparation of the composition to treat the diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hong Kong Baptist University
    Inventors: Min Li, Liang Feng Liu, Ju Xian Song, Hong Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 9593099
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel class of compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with abnormal or deregulated kinase activity, particularly diseases or disorders that involve abnormal activation of B-Raf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Array BioPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Shenlin Huang, Xianming Jin, Zuosheng Liu, Daniel Poon, John Tellew, Yongqin Wan, Xing Wang, Yongping Xie
  • Patent number: 9593100
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel class of compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with abnormal or deregulated kinase activity, particularly diseases or disorders that involve abnormal activation of B-Raf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Array BioPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Shenlin Huang, Xianming Jin, Zuosheng Liu, Daniel Poon, John Tellew, Yongqin Wan, Xing Wang, Yongping Xie
  • Patent number: 9592227
    Abstract: Delivery systems and compositions comprised of a biodegradable polyorthoester polymer, an aprotic solvent, and a drug are described. The solvent is selected to modulate release of drug from the composition, where, in some embodiments, the solvent is rapidly released after administration and provides a corresponding rapid rate of drug release. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the solvent is slowly released from the composition after its administration, and provides a correspondingly slow rate of drug release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Ottoboni, Lee Ann Lynn Schillinger
  • Patent number: 9594011
    Abstract: Physical property determination of a particle or classification of the particle as a function of the physical property by evaluating scattered light profile from a single particle is disclosed. The particle may include chemical structures that vibrate as a function of a physical property of the particle. The physical property may include an absorptive property of the particle or a chemical composition. From a detected scattered light spectrum, at least two anomalous dispersive regions may be identified. The physical property of the particle may be determined as a function of the at least two regions. A system employing the physical property determination can achieve sensitivities useful for low particle density applications such as detection for biological and chemical agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: William D. Herzog
  • Patent number: 9582639
    Abstract: Mobile telecommunications or personal computing apparatus may be specially programmed for predicting whether an unknown biological specimen of an individual to be identified originates from or is related to a member of a particular family. The apparatus may comprise an input device including a barcode reader and a virtual touch screen keyboard whereby DNA profile or mass spectrometry test data may be entered among other data for an individual to be identified, for example, a missing person, victim, crime perpetrator or other unknown individual in hypothetical relationship to another individual or to a family pedigree of typed family members. The typed family pedigree in relation to the individual to be identified in hypothetical relation may be displayed on an output display of the apparatus including at least two different profile typing indicators for each displayed member of the pedigree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: J. Douglas Birdwell, Carl G. Sapp, N. Quentin Haas, Scott Hansen, Timothy R. Wentz
  • Patent number: 9579418
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a composition that is useful as a filler for the correction of soft tissue volume loss, for example for the cosmetic treatment of wrinkles, or for the treatment of disorders such as lipoatrophy or lipodystrophy in general, said composition comprising agarose and hyaluronic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The particular interaction that takes place between the two components makes even high concentrations of agarose injectable and tolerable, said high concentrations being particularly useful for ensuring the duration and stability over time of the aesthetic results that are achievable using this filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED AESTHETIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Mauro Matteuzzi
  • Patent number: 9574238
    Abstract: Gene expression profiling is a powerful tool that has varied utility. It enables classification of multiple myeloma into subtypes and identifying genes directly involved in disease pathogensis and clinical manifestation. The present invention used gene expression profiling in large uniformly treated population of patients with myeloma to identify genes associated with poor prognosis. It also demonstrated that over-expression of CKS1B gene, mainly due to gene amplification that was determined by Fluorescent in-situ hybridization to impart a poor prognosis in multiple myeloma. It is further contemplated that therapeutic strategies that directly target CKS1B or related pathways may represent novel, and more specific means of treating high risk myeloma and may prevent its secondary evolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventors: John D. Shaughnessy, Jr., Bart Barlogie, Fenghuang Zhan
  • Patent number: 9563746
    Abstract: A method and system of physically solving the charge, mass, and current density functions of organic molecules using Maxwell's equations and computing and rendering the physical nature of the chemical bond using the solutions. The solutions can be used to solve the dipole moments in molecules or induced dipole moments between species that in turn can be used to solve condensed matter parameters and reaction kinetics. The results can be displayed on visual or graphical media. The display can be static or dynamic such that electron motion and specie's vibrational, rotational, and translational motion can be displayed in an embodiment. The displayed information is useful to anticipate reactivity and physical properties. The insight into the nature of the chemical bond of at least one species can permit the solution and display of those of other species to provide utility to anticipate their reactivity and physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BRILLIANT LIGHT POWER, INC.
    Inventor: Randell L. Mills
  • Patent number: 9549677
    Abstract: Methods for detecting a seizure, by use of a wavelet transform maximum modulus (WTMM) algorithm applied to body data. A non-transitive, computer-readable storage device for storing data that when executed by a processor, perform such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FLINT HILLS SCIENTIFIC, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Ivan Osorio, Alexey Lyubushin, Didier Sornette
  • Patent number: 9524369
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to logic for analysis of nucleic acid sequence data that employs algorithms that lead to a substantial improvement in sequence accuracy and that can be used to phase sequence variations, e.g., in connection with the use of the long fragment read (LFR) process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Complete Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Radoje Drmanac, Brock A. Peters, Bahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani
  • Patent number: 9522892
    Abstract: Novel anticoagulant reversal compounds are disclosed, as well as methods of making the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, methods of using the compounds to reverse the anticoagulant effects of coagulation inhibitors, and diagnostic assays comprising the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: PEROSPHERE INC.
    Inventors: Solomon S. Steiner, Bryan E. Laulicht, Sasha H. Bakhru, Edith Mathiowitz
  • Patent number: 9514272
    Abstract: Various short reads can be grouped and identified as coming from a same long DNA fragment (e.g., by using wells with a relatively low-concentration of DNA). A histogram of the genomic coverage of a group of short reads can provide the edges of the corresponding long fragment (pulse). The knowledge of these pulses can provide an ability to determine the haploid genome and to identify structural variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Complete Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani, Radoje Drmanac, Oleg Alferov
  • Patent number: 9506926
    Abstract: Herein is described the use of a collection of 50 breast cancer cell lines to match responses to 77 conventional and experimental therapeutic agents with transcriptional, proteomic and genomic subtypes found in primary tumors. Almost all compounds produced strong differential responses across the cell lines produced responses that were associated with transcriptional and proteomic subtypes and produced responses that were associated with recurrent genome copy number abnormalities. These associations can now be incorporated into clinical trials that test subtype markers and clinical responses simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Paul T. Spellman, Joe W. Gray, Anguraj Sadanandam, Laura M. Heiser, William J. Gibb, Wen-lin Kuo, Nicholas J. Wang
  • Patent number: 9474762
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof: wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification; a compound of formula (I) for use in the treatment of the human or animal body, in particular with regard to c-Met tyrosine kinase mediated diseases or conditions; the use of a compound of formula (I) for manufacturing a medicament for the treatment of such diseases; pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the formula (I), optionally in the presence of a combination partner, and processes for the preparation of a compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Haibing Deng, Haibing Guo, Feng He, Lei Jiang, Fang Liang, Yuan Mi, Huixin Wan, Yao-Chang Xu, Hongping Yu, Ji Yue Zhang
  • Patent number: 9464978
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems to combine the capabilities of a hematology analyzer with those of a flow cytometer to yield a far more powerful analytical system than either device alone. In one embodiment, a method of analyzing a cell sample includes receiving a first data generated by an analysis of a first aliquot of the sample on a first particle analyzer having a fluorescence measurement device such as a flow cytometer, detecting at least one unresolved cell population in the first data, and accessing a second data stored on a storage device wherein the second data was previously generated by interrogating a second aliquot of the sample using at least one of a cell volume measurement device and a cell conductivity measurement device in a second particle analyzer such as a hematology analyzer. The unresolved cell population in the first data is then resolved using the second data. Corresponding system embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Gutierrez, Cheng Qian, John S. Riley
  • Patent number: 9447028
    Abstract: The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to certain aryl-amido-aryl compounds of the following formula (for convenience, collectively referred to herein as “AAA compounds”), which, inter alia, are (selective) retinoic acid receptor ? (RAR?) agonists. The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, to (selectively) activate RAR?, and in the treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by RAR?, that are ameliorated by the activation of RAR?, etc., including cognitive disorders, memory impairment, memory deficit, senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease, early stage Alzheimer's disease, intermediate stage Alzheimer's disease, late stage Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, and mild cognitive impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: King's College London
    Inventors: Jonathan Patrick Thomas Corcoran, Sarkis Barret Kalindjian, Alan David Borthwick, David Reginald Adams, Jane Theresa Brown, David Michel Adrien Taddei, Jason John Shiers
  • Patent number: 9439885
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria in an infant formula comprising supplementing the infant formula with at least one diglyceride antimicrobial agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mead Johnson Nutrition Company
    Inventor: Bryon W. Petschow