Patents Examined by Matthew Coughlin
  • Patent number: 9546159
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) in which: -m is an integer from 0 to 3, preferably from 0 to 2; n is an integer from 0 to 3, preferably from 0 to 2; m+n?1; EAG is an electro-attractive group chosen independently from among a halogen atom, an NO2, CF3, CCI3, CN, CO2H, (C?O)NR2, CH?NR, (C?S)OR, (C?O)SR, CS2R, SO2R, SO2NR2, SO3R, P(O)(OR)2, P(O)(R)2, B(OR)2 group where R is a (C1-C6) alkyl radical, a phenyl group or a hydrogen atom; A is a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon chain including 1 to 10 atoms of carbon; and R1 and R2 each represent independently from one another a hydrogen atom, a CO-(Ci-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6) alkyl, phenyl or phenyl-(C1-C6)-alkyl group, in which R1 and R2 form, together with the nitrogen atom they carry, a 5- to 15-member heterocycle, optionally substituted by a (C1-C6) alkyl group; including its stereoisomers and the mixtures thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Pascal Collin, Maxim Egorov, Bernard Delpech, Joanna Bakala, Maria Achab, Jérome Bignon, Odile Thoison, Michel Benechie
  • Patent number: 9540406
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for reducing palladium content in fosaprepitant dimeglumine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: HETERO RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, Kura Rathnakar Reddy, Dasari Muralidhara Reddy, Thungathurthy Srinivasa Rao, Bandi Vamsi Krishna
  • Patent number: 9533992
    Abstract: This invention is directed to compounds, which are PDE9 enzyme inhibitors. The invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention also provides processes for the preparation of the compounds of formula (I). The present invention further provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a neurodegenerative disorder comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I). The present invention further provides a compound of formula (I) for use in a method of treating a subject suffering from a psychiatric disorder comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventors: Niels Svenstrup, Klaus Bæk Simonsen, Lars Kyhn Rasmussen, Karsten Juhl, Morten Langgård, Kate Wen, Yazhou Wang
  • Patent number: 9527793
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds and compositions useful for reducing the risk of infection. In particular, disclosed herein are mandelic acid condensation polymers, compositions comprising such compounds, processes for producing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Robert A. Anderson, Jr., Xiao-Hui Diao, Lourens J. D. Zaneveld, Calvin J. Chany, II, Aleksej Krunic, Donald P. Waller, Duane L. Venton, Sanjay Jain
  • Patent number: 9526732
    Abstract: Disubstituted 3,4-diamino-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione compounds represented by the general formula (I) are described. Also described, are pharmaceutical compositions including these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions for the treatment of chemokine-mediated pathologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GALDERMA RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Branislav Musicki, Jerôme Aubert, Jean-Guy Boiteau, Laurence Clary, Patricia Rossio, Marlène Schuppli-Nollet
  • Patent number: 9522922
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an economic, simple, azide and aziridine complexity free process for the synthesis of osletamivir phosphate (Tamiflu) by stereospecific amidoalkylation of imidazothiazolone from easily available L-cysteine via Ramberg-Backlund reaction and Sharpless-Reich protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Subhash Prataprao Chavan, Prakash Narsing Chavan
  • Patent number: 9522876
    Abstract: Compounds having cytotoxic and/or anti-mitotic activity are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions having the structure: (T)-(L)-(D), wherein (T) is a targeting moiety, (L) is an optional linker, and (D) is a compound having structure (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ZYMEWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey C. Winters, Alexander L. Mandel, Bradley J. Hedberg, John Babcook, James R. Rich, Tom Han Hsiao Hsieh, Elyse Marie Josée Bourque
  • Patent number: 9522881
    Abstract: Inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatases are disclosed. The inhibitors include hydroxyindole carboxylic acids having a linker and an amine scaffold that are potent inhibitors of Src homology 2-domain containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong-Yin Zhang, Li-Fan Zeng
  • Patent number: 9518064
    Abstract: The present invention provides imidazothiadiazole compounds of Formula (I); Wherein W, Y, R0, R2, R4, Ra, Rb, X1, X2, X3 and X4 are as defined herein, or a stereoisomer, tautomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug ester or solvate form thereof, wherein all of the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are inhibitors of platelet aggregation and thus can be used as medicaments for treating or preventing thromboembolic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Universite De Montreal
    Inventors: Alain Martel, François Tremblay, Anne Marinier, Eldon Scott Priestley, Shoshana L. Posy, R. Michael Lawrence, Michael M. Miller
  • Patent number: 9517230
    Abstract: Small molecule inhibitors of bacterial ribonuclease (e.g., RnpA) and methods for their synthesis and use are described herein. The methods of using the compounds include treating and preventing microbial infections and inhibiting bacterial ribonuclease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Inventors: Paul M. Dunman, Patrick D. Olson, Wayne Childers
  • Patent number: 9512118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crystal of 1-ethyl-7-methyl-3-{4-[(3-methyl-3H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-yl)oxy]phenyl}-1,3-dihydro-2H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-one useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for schizophrenia and the like, which shows an X-ray powder diffraction pattern having characteristic peaks at interplaner spacings (d) of 13.59 plus or minus 0.2 and 6.76 plus or minus 0.2 Angstroms in powder X-ray diffraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9512127
    Abstract: A spherical morphology of the high explosive tetranitroglycoluril (TNGU) has been discovered. This new morphology exhibits approximately a twofold improvement in the response of the material to impact, more than a one and a half fold improvement in friction and the same high resistance to electrostatic discharge over non-spherical TNGU produced by other methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: William Matthew Sherrill, Joseph Erik Banning
  • Patent number: 9511073
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): and salts, racemates, isomers, diastereoisomers, enantiomers, hydrates, solvates, N-oxides, pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives or prodrugs thereof. Also provided the use of these compounds as antibacterials, compositions comprising them and processes for their manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TAXIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: David John Haydon, Lloyd George Czaplewski, Neil Robert Stokes, David Davies, Ian Collins, James T. Palmer, Jeffrey Peter Mitchell, Gary Robert William Pitt, Daniel Offermann
  • Patent number: 9512131
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor material for an organic transistor having a high charge mobility, solvent solubility, oxidation stability, and satisfactory film formability, and an organic thin-film transistor using the semiconductor material. The organic semiconductor material for an organic transistor is a seven-ring-fused heterocyclic compound having benzene rings at both ends, and having, therebetween, rings of a structure in which benzene rings A and pyrrole rings B are fused in the order of A-B-A-B-A. The fused heterocyclic compound may be substituted with an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aromatic group. In addition, the organic thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer using the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawada, Takuo Nagahama, Hiroyuki Hayashida, Kouta Masutani
  • Patent number: 9499501
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of agricultural fungicides and discloses a 2-mercaptobenzothiazole manganese zinc, preparation method therefor and application thereof. The chemical structure of the 2-mercaptobenzothiazole manganese zinc is shown as the above formula. Wherein m, n and n? are positive integers, m=2(n+n?), n?n?, n:n?=1:1˜9:1. Materials are prepared according to the stoichiometric ratio of the target products; 2-mercaptobenzothiazole is dissolved in sodium hydroxide solution. The aqueous solution of water-soluble manganese salts and water-soluble zinc salts solution are successively added to 2-mercaptobenzothiazole sodium solution under stirring, followed by stirring for mixing well, then the solution being allowed to stand, filtered and washed with water to obtain filter cake, and then dried in vacuum to obtain 2-mercaptobenzothiazole manganese zinc. The present 2-mercaptobenzothiazole manganese zinc may be used as an agricultural fungicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: HENAN XINXIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zhenjun Wang, Xu Zhang, Limin Wang, Hongyan Liu, Senxiang Cheng, Mengjiao Li
  • Patent number: 9493447
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pure enantiomer of 1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone, in particular, (S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone. The present invention is also directed a crystal structure of (S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone, a pharmaceutical composition of (S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone, a method of inhibiting PDE10 with (S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone, and a process and particular individual intermediates used in the production of (S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)furan-2-yl)-2-ethoxy-2-(4-(5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)phenyl)ethanone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Omeros Corporation
    Inventors: Neil S. Cutshall, Kenneth M. Ferguson, Charles Prince Zuta
  • Patent number: 9493432
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein n, L, X, Ra, Rb, R1, R2 and R3 their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited
    Inventors: Charlotte Fieldhouse, Angela Glen, John Stephen Robinson, Tatsuhiko Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9493435
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds which directly inhibit IRE-1? activity in vitro, prodrugs, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Such compounds and prodrugs are useful for treating diseases associated with the unfolded protein response and can be used as single agents or in combination therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MannKing Corporation
    Inventors: Qingping Zeng, Warren S. Wade, John Bruce Patterson
  • Patent number: 9487556
    Abstract: The present invention is directed compositions for delivery of RNA interference (RNAi) triggers to integrin positive tumor cells in vivo. The compositions comprise RGD ligand-targeted amphipathic membrane active polyamines reversibly modified with enzyme cleavable dipeptide-amidobenzyl-carbonate masking agents. Modification masks membrane activity of the polymer while reversibility provides physiological responsiveness. The reversibly modified polyamines (dynamic polyconjugate or conjugate) are further covalently linked to an RNAi trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Weijun Cheng, So Wong, Aaron M. Almeida, David B. Rozema, Andrei V. Blokhin, Jeffrey C. Carlson
  • Patent number: 9481659
    Abstract: Compounds that selectively modulate the sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor are provided including compounds which modulate subtype 1 of the S1P receptor. Methods of chiral synthesis of such compounds is provided. Uses, methods of treatment or prevention and methods of preparing inventive compositions including inventive compounds are provided in connection with the treatment or prevention of diseases, malconditions, and disorders for which modulation of the sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor is medically indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Celgene International II SÀRL
    Inventors: Marcus F. Boehm, Esther Martinborough, Enugurthi Brahmachary, Manisha Moorjani, Junko Tamiya, Liming Huang, Adam Richard Yeager