Patents Examined by Raymond Henley, III
  • Patent number: 9730920
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a novel polymorph of Compound (I): 2-((1-(2-(4-Fluorophenyl)-2-oxoethyl)piperidin-4-yl) methyl)isoindolin-1-one monohydrochloride dihydrate, i.e., Form (A) of Compound (I)•HC1•2H2O. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising Form (A) of Compound (I)•HC1•2H2O and related methods of treatment are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Minerva Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Remy Luthringer, Nadine Noel, Sandra Werner
  • Patent number: 9725455
    Abstract: Described herein is the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) inhibitor 1-((R)-3-(4-amino-3-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl)piperidin-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, including crystalline forms, solvates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include the Btk inhibitor, as well as methods of using the Btk inhibitor, alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases or conditions, heteroimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, including lymphoma, and inflammatory diseases or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Pharmacyclics LLC
    Inventors: Norbert Purro, Mark Stephen Smyth, Erick Goldman, David D. Wirth
  • Patent number: 9717718
    Abstract: Compositions comprising isolated ido-BR1 are described for use in therapy or prophylaxis, including the treatment of inflammatory diseases (for example as anti-inflammatory drugs) and to reduce inflammation. Also described are methods for monitoring the quality of a Cucurbitaceae extract, to processes for producing a Cucurbitaceae extract as well as to Cucurbitaceae extracts obtainable by such processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Phytoquest Limited
    Inventor: Robert James Nash
  • Patent number: 9713617
    Abstract: Described herein is the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) inhibitor 1-((R)-3-(4-amino-3-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl)piperidin-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, including crystalline forms, solvates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include the Btk inhibitor, as well as methods of using the Btk inhibitor, alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases or conditions, heteroimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, including lymphoma, and inflammatory diseases or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Pharmacyclics LLC
    Inventors: Norbert Purro, Mark Stephen Smyth, Erick Goldman, David D. Wirth
  • Patent number: 9713604
    Abstract: The invention provides non-irritating, stable topical compositions including at least Vitamin C, Vitamin E and a polyphenol antioxidant. Such compositions can be used to facilitate the prevention or treatment of free oxygen, nitrogen, and/or other free radical related skin damage. Also provided are methods for modifying free radical damage to skin by administering such compositions in an amount sufficient to treat and/or prevent free radical damage to the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: ANTEIS SA
    Inventor: Frank Dreher
  • Patent number: 9707243
    Abstract: The topical composition with Vitamin D3 includes Vitamin D3, one or more aromatic oils, and aloe vera gel. Vitamin D3 is soluble in aromatic oils, and aloe vera gel enables transport through the stratum corneum so that the composition may be used for fulfilling daily requirements, treatment of bone conditions, such as rickets and osteomalacia, and supportive therapy in osteopenia and osteoporosis. The aromatic oil may be a citric acid extract (e.g., orange oil extracted from orange peels), lavender oil, or any other aromatic oil in which Vitamin D3 is soluble. Optionally, the composition may include excipients, such as a permeability enhancer (e.g., glycerine and water), a preservative (e.g., a carbomer, methyl paraben, EDTA, or the like), or other additives that do not affect the active ingredients. The composition is preferably formulated as a cream or emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventors: Sadat A. Ali, Haifa Abdulaziz Alturki
  • Patent number: 9708276
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Mindy Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: 9700575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to high purity cangrelor, pharmaceutical formulations comprising high purity cangrelor as an active ingredient, methods for preparing such compounds and formulations, and methods for using the pharmaceutical formulations in the inhibition of platelet activation and aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Chiesi Farmaceutici, S.P.A.
    Inventors: Panna Dutta, Adel Rafai Far, Min Ding, Rajeshwar Motheram
  • Patent number: 9700534
    Abstract: Nitro oleic acid and related metabolites are agonists of PPAR-?. Surprisingly, nitro oleic acid is a more potent agonist of PPAR-?, relative to nitro linoleic acid. Thus, nitro oleic acid and its metabolites, as well as their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrug forms, are candidate therapeutics for the treatment of type-2 diabetes, which results from insulin resistance accompanying the improper functioning of PPAR-?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Bruce A. Freeman, Francisco J. Schopfer
  • Patent number: 9695132
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Celgene CAR LLC, Sanofi
    Inventors: Laura Akullian D'Agostino, Robert Tjin Tham Sjin, Deqiang Niu, Joseph John McDonald, Zhendong Zhu, Haibo Liu, Hormoz Mazdiyasni, Russell C. Petter, Juswinder Singh, Matthieu Barrague, Alexandre Gross, Mark Munson
  • Patent number: 9693995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for topical administration comprising a compound of formula I, 3-{4-[2-{5-chloro-1-(diphenylmethyl)-2-[2-({[2-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl]sulfonyl}amino)ethyl]-1H-indol-3-yl}ethyl]sulfonyl}phenyl}propanoic acid: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and to methods of treating inflammation comprising topical administration of a compositions comprising a compound of formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ziarco Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Wai Leung Liu, Lynn Purkins, Michael Yeadon
  • Patent number: 9694073
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to use of compounds and compositions as a chemosensitizers and/or radiosensitizers and/or inhibitors of PNKP phosphatase activity. The present invention provides pharmaceutical combinations and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, kits containing such compounds and/composition and methods of using such compounds and/or compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES
    Inventors: Michael Weinfeld, Dennis G. Hall, Feridoun Karimi-Busheri, Gary Kenneth Freschauf, Todd Randall Mereniuk
  • Patent number: 9695209
    Abstract: Amphiphilic calixarene glycoside compounds, the preparation of such compounds, and the use of such compounds for selectively extracting, solubilizing and stabilizing membrane proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: CALIXAR
    Inventor: Julien Dauvergne
  • Patent number: 9682081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical gastro-retentive solid oral dosage form comprising nilotinib as the active ingredient. The invention is further related to methods of preparing said dosage form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Anuj Kumar Fanda, Ravish Sharma, Kumaravel Vivek, Lalit Kumar Khurana, Shavej Ahmad, Romi Barat Singh, Ajay Kumar Singla
  • Patent number: 9682092
    Abstract: Methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions through the use of boron-containing small molecules are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Baker, Virginia Sanders, Tsutomu Akama, Carolyn Bellinger-Kawahara, Yvonne Freund, Kirk R. Maples, Jacob J. Plattner, Yong-Kang Zhang, Huchen Zhou, Vincent S. Hernandez
  • Patent number: 9682080
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for using compounds that activate pyruvate kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
    Inventor: Shin-San Michael Su
  • Patent number: 9676741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dapagliflozin-citric acid co-crystal, processes for its preparation, and its use for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. A dapagliflozin citric acid co-crystal. The dapagliflozin citric acid co-crystal of claim 1, characterized by X-ray powder diffraction peaks having d-spacing values at about 3.89, 3.90, 4.01, 4.35, 5.77, and 5.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Ramkinkar Santra, Tarun Kumar Singh, Ram Thaimattam, Mohan Prasad
  • Patent number: 9676797
    Abstract: The present invention features compounds effective in inhibiting active against Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”) polymerase. The invention also features processes of making such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat HCV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Hui-Ju J. Chen, David A. DeGoey, John Hartung, Nathan Ide, Vikram Kalthod, Allan C. Krueger, Yi-Yin Ku, Tongmei Li, John T. Randolph, Rolf Wagner, Jaclyn Chau, Geoff T. Halvorsen, Christopher C. Marvin, Eric Voight
  • Patent number: 9669032
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising inhibitors of mTorC1 and/or mTorC2. In some aspects, the invention provides for treatment regimens resulting in enhanced treatment efficacy and better tolerability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Intellikine LLC
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Lynne Bui, Michael Martin, Troy Edward Wilson, Christian Rommel
  • Patent number: 9668951
    Abstract: Biodegradable pharmaceutical compositions comprising 1,3-propanediol and its esters are provided. The 1,3-propanediol and its esters in the pharmaceutical composition are biologically derived, and as such, the pharmaceutical compositions exhibit a low anthropogenic CO2 emission profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Miller, Joseph Desalvo, Gyorgyi Fenyvesi, Melissa Joerger, Raja Hari Poladi, Ann Wehner