Patents Examined by Marcos Sznaidman
  • Patent number: 9168302
    Abstract: The present invention is directed generally to pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and kits for improving side effects associated with aromatase inhibitor treatment in a subject diagnosed with breast cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions, methods, and kits comprising an aromatase inhibitor and an androgenic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Chavah Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Stephen N. Birrell
  • Patent number: 9169269
    Abstract: This invention relates to new water-soluble solid pharmaceutical inclusion complexes and their aqueous solutions for oral, ophthalmic, topical or parenteral use containing a macrolide and certain cyclodextrins. More particularly the invention relates to new water-soluble solid pharmaceutical inclusion complexes and their solutions in aqueous solvents, said compositions containing a) as an active ingredient a macrolide such as Rapamycin, Pimecrolimus, Temsirolimus, Everolimus or Tacrolimus in an amorphous form and optionally in the form of their polymorphic hydrates or solvates e.g. solvates formed with acetone or ethanol. b) a large surface cyclodextrin, such as gamma cyclodextrin—whereby the weight ratio of said macrolide to said cyclodextrin ranges between 1:111 and 1:333.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: EUTICALS SPA
    Inventors: Alberto Mangia, Paride Grisenti, Elisa Verza, Shahrzad Reza Elahi, Riccardo Monti
  • Patent number: 9155721
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations exhibit a desirably low Cmax, among other properties, that contain particles of amorphous bardoxolone methyl, either in pure form or in the form of a solid dispersion, admixed with particles of a hydrophilic binding agent. Such formulations possess the advantage of higher oral bioavailability, relative to formulations based on the crystalline form of bardoxolone methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Colin J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 9149479
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula Ia***** in which the substituents have the definitions provided in the specification, are novel, effective PDE4 inhibitors, useful in the treatment of psoriasis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Takeda GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Kautz
  • Patent number: 9144245
    Abstract: A method and composition for reducing the cholesterolemic effect in mammals of ingesting a blended nutritional fat composition containing a palm mid-fraction (PMF) hardstock fat combined with an unsaturated vegetable oil. The composition is solid or semi-solid at 20° C. and fluid at 35° C., and includes between 15% and 45% by weight linoleic acid. The weight ratio of disaturated triglyceride (DST) molecules to trisaturated triglyceride (TST) molecules is greater than 10:1, and the PMF hardstock fat contains approximately 50% to 95% by weight DST molecules, the majority of which contain either palmitic acid or a combination of palmitic and stearic acids at the sn-1 and sn-3 triglyceride positions and either oleic acid or linoleic acid at the sn-2 molecular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Brandeis University
    Inventors: Daniel Perlman, Kenneth C. Hayes
  • Patent number: 9138389
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cosmetically treating oily skin, including the topical application onto the skin of a composition containing a jasmonic acid compound in a physiologically acceptable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Maria Dalko
  • Patent number: 9133103
    Abstract: Compounds for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of an affective disorder, which compound is represented by formula I: in which: the dotted line represents a single or a double bond; and R5 and R5? are independently —H, —OH or —OR6, where R6 is a linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl; X is —CH2O—; Z is —CH2CH2O—, —CH(CH3)CH2O— or —CH2CH(CH3)O—; m is 1; and n is an integer of 1-5; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, metabolite, or hydrate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Novaremed, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eliahu Kaplan, Irit Gil-ad
  • Patent number: 9126940
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods useful for modulation of signaling through the Toll-like receptors TLR7 and/or TLR8. The compositions and methods have use in treating or preventing disease, including cancer, autoimmune disease, infectious disease, inflammatory disorder, graft rejection, and graft-verses-host disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Array Biopharma, Inc.
    Inventors: James Jeffry Howbert, Gregory Dietsch, Robert Hershberg, Laurence E. Burgess, Joseph P. Lyssikatos, Brad Newhouse, Hong-Woon Yang
  • Patent number: 9119857
    Abstract: HslVU is the proteasome-related system composed of HslV peptidase and HslU chaperone. It is involved in intracellular proteolysis. The presence of HslVU homologs in pathogenic microbes and its absence in human makes it an antimicrobial drug target. The functional HslVU complex forms when HslV dodecamer is flanked at both ends by HslU hexamers. In the HslVU complex, intercalation of C-termini residues of HslU subunits into the clefts between adjacent HslV subunits results in allosteric activation of HslV. We identified small molecules capable of activating HslV peptidase in the absence of its natural activator HslU. Quinazoline and chromone derivatives were suggested by ligand docking to bind at the HslU C-termini intercalation pockets in the HslV. This was confirmed by HslV activation assays with these compounds that gave ED50 in sub-micromolar range. The results showed that small, extracellular non-peptidic molecules can activate the HslV peptidase which in turn would initiate intracellular proteolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventors: M. Kamran Azim, Yasmeen Rashid, Khalid M. Khan
  • Patent number: 9120801
    Abstract: Tricyclic indazole compound and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts of acid addition, use thereof, method and intermediates for preparing them, and a pharmaceutical composition containing them. The tricyclic indazole compound has the following general Formula (I): in which R1, R2, L1, L2, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, Y, W, m, and n have the meanings stated in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: AZIENDE CHIMICHE RIUNITE ANGELINI FRANCESCO A.C.R.A.F. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Maria Alessandra Alisi, Nicola Cazzolla, Guido Furlotti, Beatrice Garrone, Gabriele Magaro', Giorgina Mangano
  • Patent number: 9101573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical treatments for diseases and disorders. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of the lanthionine synthetase component C-like (LANCL) proteins as therapeutic targets for novel classes of anti-inflammatory, immune regulatory and antidiabetic drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Pinyi Lu, Raquel Hontecillas
  • Patent number: 9089532
    Abstract: The invention relates to improved and stable pharmaceutical formulations of phenylalanine derivatives and the use thereof as urokinase inhibitors, particularly for the treatment of malignant tumors and tumoral metastases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Wilex AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schmalix, Markus Bürgle, Klaus Koch
  • Patent number: 9089514
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting sulfide biogeneration from biofilms are described, as well as methods for preparing the compositions. The compositions comprise anthrahydroquinone and a biocide. The compositions may also include anthraquinone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Arkion Life Sciences
    Inventors: Edward D. Burger, Celia D. Youngren
  • Patent number: 9089139
    Abstract: Agri-horticultural pest control compositions having outstanding control effect on pests, in particular, agri-horticultural pests, which comprise as active ingredients one or more 4-(3-butynyl)aminopyrimidine derivatives represented by the general formula [I], namely, where R1 is typically selected from among: a) phenyl c) —SiR5R6R7 (R5, R6, and R7 which may be the same or different represent a linear or branched alkyl having 1-6 carbon atoms, a linear or branched haloalkyl having 1-3 carbon atoms which is substituted by one halogen atom, a linear or branched cyanoalkyl having 1-3 carbon atoms which is substituted by one cyano group, and phenyl); d) hydropgen atom; R2 typically represents a hydrogen atom; R3 typically represents a hydrogen atom; R4 represents a hydrogen atom and one or more agri-horticultural pest control compounds selected from among agri-horticultural antimicrobial compounds, say, multi-site contact active compounds, nucleic acids synthesis inhibitory active compounds, mitosis and cell
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: SDS Biotech K. K.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sakai, Tomoaki Matsumura, Satohiro Midorikawa, Takashi Nomoto, Tomoko Muraki, Ryutaro Katsuki
  • Patent number: 9084799
    Abstract: There is provided the use of a methylxanthine derivative such as theophylline and a steroid in a synergistic combination for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, wherein the combination is administered by the inhaled route for pulmonary delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Pulmagen Therapeutics (Synergy) Limited
    Inventors: Justian Craig Fox, Mary Frances Fitzgerald, Harry Finch
  • Patent number: 9084798
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for treating diabetes is provided in this invention. The composition contains a lanostane compound as a potent component. A suitable source of the lanostane compound is a Poria extract from metabolite, sclerotium, or fermentation product of Poria cocos (Schw) Wolf. The Poria extract contains 1-60% of the lanostane compounds by weight of the extract, and is devoid of secolanostane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sinphar Tian-Li Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (Hangzhou)
    Inventors: Hang-Ching Lin, Yu-Chuan Huang, Tsu-Chung Chang, Wen-Liang Chang
  • Patent number: 9066922
    Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and prevention of obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndromes, degenerative diseases and mitochondrial dysfunction-related diseases, comprising: a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by Formula I below, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate or isomer thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, a diluent or an excipient, or any combination thereof. wherein R1 through R8 and n are as defined in this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: MD BIOALPHA CO., LTD., KT & G CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Ku Yoo, Myunggyu Park, In Geun Jo, Taehwan Kwak
  • Patent number: 9066956
    Abstract: Sustained-release vaginal ring for comprising dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) or pharmaceutically acceptable thereof as active principle, and optionally a release-modulating agent of the active principle, wherein the amount of active principle is between 1% to 32% by weight, relative to the total weight of the formulation, and the modulator is selected from: polyvinylpyrrolidone K-30, lactose, microcrystalline cellulose and sodium lauryl sulfate. The vaginal ring of the present invention can be used to increase ovarian reserve in women, to be used as drug in assisted reproduction programs, and to relieve symptoms associated with menopause, such as symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy and sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: Universidad de Chile, Laboratories Andromaco S.A.
    Inventors: Frans Ariel Fuentes Garcia, Shu-Chen Chen, Marianela del Carmen Beltran Apablaza
  • Patent number: 9062056
    Abstract: Disclosed are small molecule inhibitors of the formula (I): and the pharmaceutical compositions thereof and processes of making the same. The compounds are useful in treating various diseases and conditions involving chymase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Michel Jose Emmanuel, Xin Guo, Jin Mi Kim, Ho Yin Lo, Peter Allen Nemoto, Kevin Chungeng Qian
  • Patent number: 9056842
    Abstract: Cosmetic compositions comprising substituted amino heterocyclic carbamoyl analogs and methods of using such compositions to impart anti-aging benefits to the skin are disclosed. The substituted amino heterocyclic carbamoyl analogs are believed to have modulatory activity against one or more biochemical pathways implicated in skin aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Avon Products, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Lyga