Patents Examined by Kristin Vajda
  • Patent number: 12234222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a piperazine amide derivative as represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition thereof, and use of same as a therapeutic agent, especially as a selective Rearranged During Transfection (RET) kinase inhibitor. Ring a, ring e, X1, X2, X3, X4, R1, R2, R3, R4, R4?, R5, R5?, R6, R6?, R7, R7?, R8, m and n have the same definitions as those in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG HISUN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Panpan Zhang, Sunli Yan, Ying Li, Chenli Guo, Wenjian Qian, Cheng Ye, Zhengzheng Shi, Taishan Hu, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 12239015
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices comprising acceptor and/or donor sensitizers to increase absorption and photoresponse of the photoactive layers of the devices. In particular, devices herein include at least one acceptor layer and at least one donor layer, wherein the acceptor layer may comprise a mixture of an acceptor material and at least one sensitizer, and the donor layer may comprise a mixture of a donor material and at least one sensitizer. Methods of fabricating the organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Mark E. Thompson, Cong Trinh, Peter I. Djurovich, Sarah M. Conron
  • Patent number: 12226489
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to chemical moieties which, when bonded to pharmacophores, cause the pharmacophores to undergo first pass metabolism. By undergoing first pass metabolism, a pharmacophore may be made less bioavailable. Such compounds and related pharmaceutical compositions may be used for targeted treatment of diabetic and non-diabetic gastrointestinal disorders, with minimal systemic circulation beyond the gastrointestinal tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Wael N. El-Nachef
  • Patent number: 12226380
    Abstract: Methods for stimulating the G protein receptor (Gpr91) pathway in intestinal cells to release IL-25 and enhance a type II immune response in the subject are useful in the treatment or prevention of bacterial or parasitic infection. Similarly methods and compositions used therein to inhibit or stimulate GPR91 are useful for the treatment or inhibition of certain diseases, such as IBS, IBD and Crohn's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: Peihua Jiang, Weiwei Lei
  • Patent number: 12227501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) processes for their production and their use as pharmaceuticals. The compounds are inhibitors of Casein kinase 1 alpha and/or delta (CSNK1? and/or ?) useful for the treatment of proliferative disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Volker Schulze, Anne Mengel, Jens Schröder, Adelaide Clara Faria Alvares De Lemos, Wilhelm Bone, Ulf Bömer, Detlev Sülzle, Clara Christ, Roman Hillig, Christian Lechner, Steven Corsello, Katarzyna Handing, Alisha Caliman, Ulrike Rauh, Stefan Kaulfuss, Jérémie Xavier G. Mortier
  • Patent number: 12226400
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are small molecule compounds capable of disrupting Kv2.1-syntaxin binding. The compounds are useful for treating a variety of neurological disorders, diseases, and injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Inventors: Elias Aizenman, Carlos Jaime Camacho
  • Patent number: 12227503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds that are capable of inhibiting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and promoting hair growth. The disclosure further relates to methods of promoting hair growth or treating conditions or disorders affecting hair growth, such as baldness or alopecia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William E. Lowry, Michael E. Jung, Heather R. Christofk, Xiaoguang Liu, Aimee Flores
  • Patent number: 12221444
    Abstract: Compounds, specifically hepatitis B virus and/or hepatitis D virus inhibitors, more specifically compounds that inhibit HBe antigen and HBs antigen in a subject, for the treatment of viral infections, and methods of preparing and using such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Limited
    Inventors: John G. Catalano, Pek Yoke Chong, Hamilton D. Dickson, Martin R. Leivers, Jason Gordon Weatherhead
  • Patent number: 12208105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for attenuating graft-versus-host disease after transplantation of a graft comprising hematopoietic stem cells in a subject. The invention further relates to methods of limiting opportunistic microbial infections in a subject after transplantation of a graft comprising hematopoietic stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: James M. Coghill, Kenneth A. Fowler
  • Patent number: 12209096
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, or stereoisomer thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; and methods of using such compounds for treating joint damage or injury in a mammal, for inducing hyaline cartilage production or for inducing differentiation of chondrogenic progenitor cells into mature chondrocytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Ha-Soon Choi, Jiqing Jiang, James Paul Lajiness, Bao Nguyen, Hank Michael James Petrassi
  • Patent number: 12202848
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a phosphoramidite activator that improves a solubility of 5-benzylthio-1H-tetrazole in acetonitrile and does not reduce the yield and a purity of a target product. The present invention relates to a phosphoramidite activator containing (i) at least one compound that is selected from the group consisting of piperidine, pyrrolidine, N-alkylpiperidine, and N-alkylpyrrolidine, (ii) 5-benzylthio-1H-tetrazole, and (iii) acetonitrile; and a method for activating a phosphoramidite and a method for synthesizing a phosphate ester or a thiophosphate ester, both methods using the activator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM WAKO PURE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiho Kikuchi, Kimihiko Sano
  • Patent number: 12195440
    Abstract: A recycling method of polylactic acid in a single step by using supercritical or dense gas carbon dioxide is provided. The recycling method includes the steps of adjusting a temperature of a reactor to at least 120° C., and adjusting a pressure to values above or below a critical pressure of carbon dioxide, wherein the critical pressure is 73.8 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ORTA DOGU TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
    Inventors: Cerag Dilek Hacihabiboglu, Naime Asli Sezgi, Seda Sivri
  • Patent number: 12195452
    Abstract: Compounds and a method of treating a retinal disease that leads to photoreceptor loss or outer-retina degeneration, including administering compound of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a racemic mixture, a corresponding enantiomer or, if applicable, a corresponding diastereomer thereof, wherein: A is selected from 5-oxazolyl, pyridine-4-yl, triazolyl, oxadiazolyl, imidazolyl and 2-methyloxazol-5-yl residue, R1, and R12 are independently selected from hydrogen, fluoro, chloro, methoxy, trifluoromethyl, methyl and difluoromethoxy, B is selected from a residue of formulae (II)-(IX) wherein, “*” denotes the point of attachment to the remainder of the molecule, and R2, R3, R4, R5, R2I, R3I, R4I, R5I, R2II, R3II, R4II, R5II, R2III, R3III, R4III, R5III, R2IV, R3IV, R4IV, R5IV, R2V, R3V, R4V, R5V, R2VI, R3VI, R4VI, R5VI, R2VII, R3VII, R4VII, and R5VII are independently selected from hydrogen, linear or branched alkyl having 1-3 carbon atoms, fluoro, chloro, bromo, methoxy, ethoxy, pro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOGENA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Steger, Alex Mueller, Mauro Marigo, Bernhard Fasching, Daphna Mokady
  • Patent number: 12195654
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a luminescent particle having an emission maximum wavelength in a long wavelength range of 680 nm or longer and exhibiting a high quantum yield; and a compound having an emission maximum wavelength in a long wavelength range of 680 nm or longer and exhibiting a high quantum yield in the particles. According to the present invention, provided is a luminescent particle containing at least one kind of compound represented by Formula (1) (definitions of substituents in the formula are as set forth in the description) and a particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kousuke Watanabe, Naoyuki Hanaki, Kouitsu Sasaki, Tomoaki Yoshioka, Kazuhei Kaneko, Yoshinori Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 12187753
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to certain compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, and methods of making and using said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions. The compounds and compositions provided herein may be used for the treatment or prevention of a Retroviridae infection, including an HIV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie Farand, Tezcan Guney, Darryl Kato, John O. Link, James B. C. Mack, William J. Watkins
  • Patent number: 12187734
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to certain tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, and methods of making said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions. The compounds of the disclosure are useful in treating or preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Hang Chu, Ana Z. Gonzalez Buenrostro, Hongyan Guo, Xiaochun Han, Anna E. Hurtley, Lan Jiang, Jiayao Li, David W. Lin, Michael L. Mitchell, Devan Naduthambi, Gregg M. Schwarzwalder, Suzanne M. Szewczyk, Matthew J. Von Bargen, Qiaoyin Wu, Hong Yang, Jennifer R. Zhang
  • Patent number: 12186301
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides N-substituted hydroxylamine derivative compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions. In particular, the disclosed subject matter provides methods of using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions for treating heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Jacob Kalish, Frederick Arthur Brookfield, Stephen Martin Courtney, Lisa Marie Frost, John P. Toscano
  • Patent number: 12186359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) and the dipeptide L-Alanyl-L-alanine and their use for improving the performance and recovery during physical activity and for the prevention and/or treatment of muscle wasting associated to pathological or age-related conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DOMPÉ FARMACEUTICI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Allegretti, Andrea Aramini, Gianluca Bianchini
  • Patent number: 12187714
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved process for preparing an aminopyrimidine derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having a selective inhibitory activity against protein kinases, especially against the protein kinases for mutant epidermal growth factor receptors. Additionally, the present invention provides novel intermediates useful for said process and processes for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Yuhan Corporation
    Inventors: Sang-Ho Oh, Ja-Heouk Khoo, Jong-Chul Lim, Seong-Ran Lee, Hyun Ju, Woo-Seob Shin, Dae-Gyu Park, Su-Min Park, Yoon-Ah Hwang
  • Patent number: 12187700
    Abstract: Provided herein are free base crystalline forms, crystalline salts, solvates, amorphous free base, and cocrystals of Compound A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Amgen Inc., Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie Azali, Mary Chaves, Ron C. Kelly, Steven M. Mennen, Darren L Reid, Osama Suleiman, Ashraf Wilsily, Mark Wright