Patents Examined by Michael Meller
  • Patent number: 9186386
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods of obtaining an extract of Cannabis plant material as well as subsequent processing of the extract to provide a concentrate of Cannabis. The present invention also provides for pharmaceutical dosage forms (e.g., oral thin films and transdermal patches) that include the concentrate (or extract) of Cannabis, as well as methods of medical treatment that include administering the pharmaceutical dosage forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Gary J. Speier
  • Patent number: 9180078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic composition containing lingonberry extract and its use on skin cosmetology thereof. The present invention has provided a lingonberry extract wherein containing polyphenols components including anthocyanidin, procyanidin, resveratrol, catechin and so on. The present invention also relates to the application of lingonberry extract on skin cosmetology, including without limitation whitening, diminishing visible pigmentation, anti-wrinkle, moisturizing, smoothing and improving skin sensitivity. The invention also has revealed drugs, cosmetic compositions and food prepared by using lingonberry extract. Comparing with the prior art cosmetic compositions, the said lingonberry extract of the present invention has higher effects and safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING GINGKO GROUP BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY CO.
    Inventors: Chunhua Li, Yanmei Li
  • Patent number: 9181354
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions of modified pectin and methods for preparing and using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company
    Inventors: Mark Staples, James Rolke
  • Patent number: 9180157
    Abstract: Beneficial topical compositions for treating scar or aging skin are provided. In one embodiment, the compositions include Bulbine frutescens, Centella asiatica and a phenol derived from olives, such as oleuropein. The composition may be used in the treatment of scars formed during surgery. The composition may also be used cosmeceutically in the treatment of aged skin, and may include phosphatidylserine, vitamins, and other beneficial anti-aging ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventor: Alan David Widgerow
  • Patent number: 9180158
    Abstract: Beneficial topical compositions for treating scar or aging skin are provided. In one embodiment, the compositions include Bulbine frutescens, Centella asiatica and a phenol derived from olives, such as oleuropein. The composition may be used in the treatment of scars formed during surgery. The composition may also be used cosmeceutically in the treatment of aged skin, and may include phosphatidylserine, vitamins, and other beneficial anti-aging ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventor: Alan David Widgerow
  • Patent number: 9173915
    Abstract: The antioxidant eye drops is a topical ophthalmic formulation that contains four nutraceuticals (namely, astaxanthin, resveratrol, pyruvate and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)) having antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and chelating activity in a carbomer gel carrier. The active ingredients can reduce oxidative stress through free radical scavenging and chelating activity. The carrier is composed of a solution of deionized water containing about 0.4% Carbopol 980 NF, 5.7% sorbitol. 0.01% cetrimide, 0.01% EDTA, and sodium chloride and sodium hydroxide in adequate amounts to adjust both the viscosity and the pH of the topical carrier to pH 7.0-7.4. Use of the formulation may delay the development of cataracts, reduce retinal degeneration, and maintain normal tear flow in dry eye due to the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and chelating activity of the active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Inventor: Peter F. Kador
  • Patent number: 9168242
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for alleviating inflammatory-associated diseases and conditions. These methods include administering individual and/or a mixture of multiple flavans isolated from a single or multiple Acacia genus of plants. The present disclosure also includes methods for isolating and purifying from an Acacia genus of plants a composition of flavans having dual specificity for cyclooxygenase (COX-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Unigen, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Jia, Timothy C. Nichols, Eric E. Rhoden, Scott Waite
  • Patent number: 9161941
    Abstract: The present invention is a compound comprising an NSAID portion and at least one of a progestin portion and a progesterone portion. The compound may take for instance the form of a pill or pellet (for oral internal use or for subdermal implantation), an injectable solution, or a suppository. The compound is intended for use in treating subjects having or being at increased risk—especially genetically determined risk—of developing endometriosis. The compound may also be used for treating other disorders or as a contraceptive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Predictive Therapeutics, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley C. Robinson
  • Patent number: 9155771
    Abstract: A resin extract from the Ficus pertusa L.f and/or Ficus eximia Schott tree and method of use as an active principle in the production of a pharmacologically active product for the treatment of acute and/or chronic tissue lesions in both bone tissue and soft tissue. A method for obtaining the extract is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventor: Valeria Lucila Sainz Prestel
  • Patent number: 9149499
    Abstract: The present invention is a compound comprising a cannabis portion and at least one of a progestin portion and a progesterone portion. The compound may optionally also include an NSAID component. The compound may take for instance the form of a pill or pellet (for oral internal use or for subdermal implantation), an injectable solution, or a suppository. The compound is intended for use in treating subjects having or being at increased risk—especially genetically determined risk—of developing endometriosis. The compound may also be used for treating other disorders or as a contraceptive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Predictive Therapeutics, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley C. Robinson
  • Patent number: 9144577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of viral disorders, and in particular to viral obesity. Compositions comprising nutraceutical agents are provided for treating viral obesity. Additionally, compositions comprising nutraceutical agents targeting adenoviruses are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LIFE SCIENCE NUTRITION AS
    Inventors: Jan Remmereit, Ken Johnson
  • Patent number: 9138448
    Abstract: A supplement composition comprising materials derived from M. Oleifera and B. Pinnatum in combination with ascorbic acid. The composition has been observed to improve the health of patients to whom it was administered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Inventor: Alfred Sparman
  • Patent number: 9138453
    Abstract: A composition comprising an effective amount of a combination of mitochondrial nutrients sufficient to affect mitochondrial function. A method of affecting an aging process in a subject comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of a combination of mitochondrial nutrients sufficient to affect an aging process. A method of identifying a combination of mitochondrial nutrients sufficient to affect an aging process in a subject, the method comprising: administering a combination of mitochondrial nutrients to a subject; and determining whether the mitochondrial nutrients affect an aging process in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Xi Zhao-Wilson
  • Patent number: 9131691
    Abstract: Use of amide compounds represented by formula (I), for preventing or reducing settlement and/or fouling of marine fouling organisms on a surface of a submerged object is provided, wherein “-A-” has a formula —(CnH2(n-m))- which is either unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1 to C4 alkyls, and wherein the formula —(CnH2(n-m))- represents a divalent alkyl, or a divalent alkenyl having one or more double bonds, n is 1 to 15, m is 0 to 4, and 2(n-m)=2, and R is selected from piperidinyl, pyrrolidinyl, isobutylamino, piperazinyl or morpholinyl. Amide compounds of formula (I), a category of antifouling compounds, can be either isolated from natural resources or synthesized, which are nontoxic and environmental-friendly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yunnan University of Natonalities
    Inventors: Peiyuan Qian, Xiangzhong Huang, Ying Xu, Yu Zhang, Yue Him Wong, Yan Yin, Zhuang Han
  • Patent number: 9132145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating obesity or obesity-related disorders in a subject suffering from or predisposed to developing obesity or an obesity-related disorder, or for inhibiting the infectivity of HIV, by administering oleuropein, an analogue or derivative thereof, or the major metabolites of oleuropein including oleuropein aglycone, hydroxytyrosol, and elenolic acid or their analogues, or derivatives thereof, an iridoid glycoside, or a secoiridoid glycoside or analogues or derivatives thereof, or any combination of the foregoing including olive leave extract. The invention also relates to methods for screening/diagnosing a subject having, or predisposed to having obesity or a related disorder by measuring the expression profiles of an adipogenic gene selected from PPAR?2, LPL and ?P2 gene and gene product, or other adipogenic, lipogenic, or lipolytic genes and gene products in an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: New York University, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Sylvia Lee-Huang, Philip Lin Huang, Dawei Zhang, John Z. H. Zhang, Young Tae Chang, Jae Wook Lee, Ju Bao, Yongtao Sun, Paul L Huang
  • Patent number: 9125887
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments is a canola extract comprising greater than 30% sinapic acid, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods thereof
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KGK SYNERGIZE, INC.
    Inventors: Najla Guthrie, Robert A. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 9119775
    Abstract: A method of treating hypoptyalism in a subject is provided. The method includes administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition that includes pilocarpine and a bioadhesive polymer. The composition dissolves sublingually in the mouth of the subject and adheres to mucous tissues in the buccopharyngeal cavity. The pilocarpine then dissolves and binds to muscarine receptors present in cells of the subject's salivary glands, endobuccal submucous glands and submaxillary glands, is then absorbed by the cells thereby stimulating the glands to produce saliva.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventors: Philippe Perovitch, Marc Maury, Jean Deymes
  • Patent number: 9114089
    Abstract: Methods for preventing, ameliorating, or reducing dermatological signs of aging are provided which employ active agents, other than a retinoid, that stimulate thymosin beta-4 expression in the skin. Also provided are methods for screening for substances which stimulate thymosin beta-4 expression levels and the methods of using active agents identified by the screening protocol in the treatment of skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Avon Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Siming W. Chen, Qian Zheng, Satish Parimoo
  • Patent number: 9115012
    Abstract: A method for improving water quality in aquatic ecosystems is described. An effective amount of Quercus infectoria nut gall powder is added to the ecosystem to prevent excessive proliferation of pathogenic bacterial species thereby improving the health of aquaculture species in the ecosystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Kemin Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajalekshmi Mukkalil, Sripathy Ravichandran, Haridasan Chirakkal
  • Patent number: 9107891
    Abstract: The present invention provides new methods of intervention for anxiety associated disorders, in particular, trauma-derived disorders such as PTSD, and therapeutic or prophylactic agents for anxiety associated disorders that can be used as foods, beverages, and dietary supplements, for example, and which contain as an active ingredient n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in krill oil or fish oil, for example. The present invention further provides methods for alleviating fear memory or methods for preventing its formation by adjusting the proportion of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids to n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids as ingested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: NIPPON SUISAN KAISHA, LTD., NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
    Inventors: Masayuki Sekiguchi, Daisuke Yamada, Jiro Takeo, Wakako Seki, Keiji Wada