Patents Examined by Joseph Kosack
  • Patent number: 8940905
    Abstract: A process is described for the preparation of a functionalized hybrid solid with an organic-inorganic matrix, crystallized, bearing at least one reactive group based on a triazole ring, from a hybrid solid with an organic-inorganic matrix, MOF—NH2, comprising: i/ introduction, in a polar solvent S1, of said crystallized hybrid solid MOF—NH2, of at least one organic compound Q containing a nitride function N3 and at least one intermediate reagent R containing a nitrite function NO2, ii/ reaction of said reaction mixture, iii/ introduction in the reaction mixture of at least one reagent A bearing an alkyne function or an activated cyanide function, at least one Cu-based catalyst C and at least one polar solvent S2, iv/ reaction of said reaction mixture, v/ filtration and then washing and vi/ drying of said crystallized functionalized hybrid solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: CNRS, IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Marie Savonnet, David Farrusseng, Catherine Pinel, Delphine Bazer-Bachi, Nicolas Bats, Vincent Lecocq
  • Patent number: 8937183
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful for detection of hydrogen peroxide and methods of using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Promega Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter Klaubert, John Shultz, James Unch, Michael P. Valley, Hui Wang, Wenhui Zhou
  • Patent number: 8937186
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for converting methane in a feed stream to acetylene. The method includes removing at least a portion of acids from a hydrocarbon stream. The hydrocarbon stream is introduced into a supersonic reactor and pyrolyzed to convert at least a portion of the methane to acetylene. The reactor effluent stream may be treated to convert acetylene to another hydrocarbon process. The method according to certain aspects includes controlling the level of acids in the hydrocarbon stream by use of adsorbents or basic solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
  • Patent number: 8933245
    Abstract: Compositions comprising ergothioneine and a trimethylamine absorber are provided. Also provided are methods for preventing, reducing or minimizing the fishy, amine odor, due to trimethylamine, that is associated with the processing and/or storage of a preparation containing ergothioneine, by combining with the ergothioneine, during processing or prior to storage, a trimethylamine absorber in an amount sufficient to prevent the detection of any trimethylamine odor by the human nose. A method is further provided for ameliorating the methylamine odor associated with an aqueous ergothioneine-containing preparation after it has developed a fishy trimethylamine odor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: ELC Management LLC
    Inventor: Daniel B. Yarosh
  • Patent number: 8933107
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aryloxy substituted phenylamidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Klaus Kunz, Jörg Greul, Oliver Guth, Benoît Hartmann, Kerstin Ilg, Wahed Ahmed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Peter Dahmen, Arnd Voerste, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Ralf Dunkel, Ronald Ebbert, Eva-Maria Franken, Olga Malsam
  • Patent number: 8933241
    Abstract: A method for producing high-purity olmesartan medoxomil is provided in which a solvent containing water is used in steps of tritylation and DMDO esterification of olmesartan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shigeo Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 8933056
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds and methods for inhibiting proteases. One aspect of the invention features pro-soft inhibitors which react with an activating protease to release an active inhibitor moiety in proximity to a target protease. In certain instances, compounds inhibit proteasomes and/or post-proline cleaving enzymes (PPCE), such as dipeptidyl peptidase IV. The compounds of the invention provide a better therapeutic index, owing in part to reduced toxicity and/or improved specificity for the targeted protease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Trustees of Tufts College
    Inventors: William W. Bachovchin, Hung-sen Lai, Wengen Wu
  • Patent number: 8927759
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing 2-cyanoacetic acid anhydride, comprising the steps of a) preparing a reaction mixture, containing as reactants 2-cyanoacetic acid, and at least one C4-20 carboxylic acid anhydride in at least one organic solvent, wherein the molar ratio of 2-cyanoacetic acid to C4-20 carboxylic acid anhydride in said reaction mixture is greater than 1.5:1, and b) subjecting the reaction mixture to a temperature of 0° C. to 100° C. to form 2-cyanoacetic acid anhydride. The present invention also relates to process for producing 2-cyanoacetic acid esters, 2-cyanoacetic acid amides and/or 2-cyanoacetic acid thioesters from 2-cyanoacetic acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbH
    Inventor: Stephen Hynes
  • Patent number: 8927757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of salts having perfluoroalkyltricyano- or perfluoroalkylcyanofluoroborate anions, ((per)fluoro)phenyltricyano- or ((per)fluoro)phenylcyanofluoroborate anions, phenyltricyanoborate anions which are mono- or disubstituted by perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 4C atoms or phenylcyanofluoroborate anions which are mono- or disubstituted by perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 4C atoms, by reaction of alkali metal trifluoroperfluoroalkylborate with trialkylsilyl cyanide and a subsequent salt-exchange reaction or by direct reaction of an organic trifluoroperfluoroalkyl borate with trialkylsilyl cyanide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Jan Sprenger, Maik Finze, Walter Frank
  • Patent number: 8927732
    Abstract: The present teachings provide methods that enable the preparation and purification of radioiodinated vectors without the need for HPLC purification, as well as novel precursors which include biotin-like substituents useful in such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Randall Lee Carter, Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Anup Sood, Michael James Rishel, John Fitzmaurice Valliant, Karin Ann Stephenson, Tao Wu, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 8920673
    Abstract: Phosphonium-based room temperature ionic liquids (“RTILs”) were prepared. They were used as matrices for Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry and also for preparing samples of dyes for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Rico E. Del Sesto, Andrew T. Koppisch, Katherine S. Lovejoy, Geraldine M. Purdy
  • Patent number: 8921586
    Abstract: A process for the epoxidation of an olefin comprising contacting a reactor feed comprising an olefin, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, with a catalyst comprising a carrier and, deposited on the carrier, silver, a rhenium promoter, and a potassium promoter; wherein the carbon dioxide is present in the reactor feed in a quantity of at most 3 mole percent based on the total epoxidation reactor feed; the potassium promoter is deposited on the carrier in a quantity of at least 0.5 mmole/kg, relative to the weight of the catalyst; and the carrier contains water leachable potassium in a quantity of less than 55 parts per million by weight, relative to the weight of the carrier; a process for preparing a 1,2-diol, a 1,2-diol ether, a 1,2-carbonate, or an alkanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Marek Matusz
  • Patent number: 8921589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrolyte formulations comprising at least one imidazolium fluorotricyanoborate or pyrrolidinium fluorotricyanoborate and their use in an electrochemical and/or optoelectronic device such as a photovoltaic cell, a light emitting device, an electrochromic or photo-electrochromic device, an electrochemical sensor and/or biosensor, preferably their use in a dye or quantum dot sensitized solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawata, Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Hiroki Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 8921542
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula in which the variables G, W, Q, X, Y, B1, B2, Z1, Z2, and R1-R7 are as defined herein, methods for the preparation of the derivatives and intermediates thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Soong-Hoon Kim, Robert M. Borzilleri, Gregory D. Vite, James A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8916712
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for cytoprotection. In particular, it provides zinc chelate compositions comprising at least one zinc ion and at least one aminothiol ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventors: Alexei G. Basnakian, Richard B. Walker, John R. J. Sorenson
  • Patent number: 8916713
    Abstract: An improved and efficient process for the preparation of 2-[3-cyano-4-(2-methylpropoxy)phenyl]-4-methylthiazole-5-carboxylic acid (febuxostat) that is substantially free from amide by-product is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Pranab Chatterjee, Asok Nath, Sarbjot Singh Sokhi, Mohan Prasad
  • Patent number: 8916594
    Abstract: This invention provides new compounds having NPY Y5 antagonistic activity. The present inventors found that a compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like; p, q and r are each independently 0 or 1; ring A is oxadiazole; and R2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like, has NPY Y5 antagonistic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohei Hayashi, Yuusuke Tamura, Naoki Omori
  • Patent number: 8916853
    Abstract: Use of transition metal complexes of the formula (I) in organic light-emitting diodes where: M1 is a metal atom; carbene is a carbene ligand; L is a monoanionic or dianionic ligand; K is an uncharged monodentate or bidentate ligand selected from the group consisting of phosphines; CO; pyridines; nitriles and conjugated dienes which form a ? complex with M1; n is the number of carbene ligands and is at least 1; m is the number of ligands L, where m can be 0 or ?1; o is the number of ligands K, where o can be 0 or ?1; where the sum n+m+o is dependent on the oxidation state and coordination number of the metal atom and on the denticity of the ligands carbene, L and K and also on the charge on the ligands carbene and L, with the proviso that n is at least 1, and also an OLED comprising these transition metal complexes, a light-emitting layer comprising these transition metal complexes, OLEDs comprising this light-emitting layer, devices comprising an OLED according to the present invention, and specific tr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Bold, Christian Lennartz, Martina Prinz, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Mukundan Thelakkat, Markus Baete, Christian Neuber, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Christian Schildknecht, Hans-Hermann Johannes
  • Patent number: 8916729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds with (perfluoroalkyl)fluorohydrogenphosphate anion, and to compounds containing (perfluoroalkyl)fluorohydrogenphosphate anion and to the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Anne Julia Bader, Berthhold Theo Hoge
  • Patent number: 8912345
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a method for preparing a (?)-clausenamide compound of formula (I), comprising: firstly, catalyzing the asymmetrical epoxidation of trans-cinnamate using a chiral ketone derived from fructose or a hydrate thereof as a catalyst, and then subjecting the product to amidation, oxidation, cyclization and reduction successively to finally obtain the optically pure (?)-clausenamide compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Yian Shi, Xianyou Peng, Peijun Li