Patents Examined by Robert Havlin
  • Patent number: 9585881
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the general formula (I), their salts and N-oxides, and solvates and prodrugs thereof (wherein the substituents are as defined in the description). The compounds of the general formula (I) are inhibitors of factor XIa, and are useful in the prevention of and/or therapy for thromboembolic diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Imagawa, Takashi Kondo, Taihei Nishiyama, Steve Courtney, Chris Yarnold, Osamu Ichihara, Stuart Flanagan
  • Patent number: 9573887
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds which can regulate VCP activity. The present invention provides the compound of formula (I) (R is as defined in the description) or oxides, esters, prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof. The compounds can regulate VCP activity, and thus are useful for treating VCP-mediated diseases such as neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: Daito Chemix Corporation, Kyoto University
    Inventors: Akira Kakizuka, Seiji Hori, Toshiyuki Shudo, Tomohiro Fuchigami
  • Patent number: 9556131
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to a beta-lactamase inhibitor, pharmaceutical compositions including a beta-lactamase inhibitor, methods of treatment of a condition (e.g., infection) or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Derek Nichols, Adam R. Renslo, Priyadarshini Jaishankar, Erica M. W. Lauterwasser
  • Patent number: 9556160
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating VAP-1-related diseases. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have conducted intensive studies on a compound having a VAP-1 inhibitory activity, and as a result, they have found that the compound or a salt thereof of the present invention exhibits an excellent VAP-1 inhibitory activity and is useful for preventing and/or treating VAP-1-related diseases, in particular, diabetic nephropathy or diabetic macular edema, thereby completing the present invention. In addition, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating VAP-1-related diseases, which comprises the compound or a salt thereof of the present invention, and an excipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Kousei Yoshihara, Daisuke Suzuki, Susumu Yamaki, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Hisashi Mihara, Norio Seki
  • Patent number: 9550759
    Abstract: New compounds of formula I are described. The compounds have potentially valuable pharmaceutical properties in the treatment of some central and peripheral nervous system disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: BIAL—PORTELA & CA, S.A.
    Inventors: David Alexander Learmonth, Laszlo Erno Kiss, Pedro Nuno Leal Palma, Humberto Dos Santos Ferreira, Patricio Manuel Vieira Araujo Soares Da Silva
  • Patent number: 9532993
    Abstract: Aprepitant L-proline solvate compositions and aprepitant L-proline solvate cocrystals are disclosed as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The compositions and cocrystals of the invention are: 1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline methanol composition; a 1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline methanol cocrystal; a 1:1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline ethanol composition; a 1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline ethanol cocrystal; 1 1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline n-propanol composition; and a 1:1:1 aprepitant L-proline n-propanol cocrystal: The aprepitant L-proline solvate compositions or cocrystals may be used in the same way as aprepitant to treat or prevent disorders relating to emesis, a neuropsychiatric disease, an inflammatory disease, pain, cancer, a skin disease, itch a respiratory disease, or an addiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: NUFORMIX LIMITED
    Inventors: Joanne Holland, Christopher Frampton, Alan Chorlton, Daniel Gooding
  • Patent number: 9493445
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): where A1, A2, A3, A4, G, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing compounds of formula (I), to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and molluscicidal compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I) and to methods of using the compounds of formula (I) to control insect, acarine, nematode and mollusc pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: Syngenta Limited, Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Peter Renold, Jerome Yves Cassayre, Myriem El Qacemi, Jagadish Pabba, Thomas Pitterna
  • Patent number: 9487478
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) and therapeutic methods of treatment with compounds of formula (I), wherein L1, L2, L4, R1, R4, R5, R6, and s are as defined in the specification. Compounds of formula (I) are EP4 agonists useful in the treatment of glaucoma, neuropathic pain, and related disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Cayman Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Douglas Barrett, Fred Lawrence Ciske, Joseph Michael Colombo, Gregory William Endres, Bradlee David Germain, Andriy Kornilov, James Bernard Kramer, Adam Uzieblo, Kirk M. Maxey
  • Patent number: 9481692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as inhibitors of HIF pathway activity for the treatment or prevention of cancer and other hypoxia-mediated diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Philip Jones, Maria Emilia DiFrancesco, Alessia Petrocchi, Christopher L. Carroll, Joe Marszalek, Barbara Czako, Ryan Johnson, Jay Theroff
  • Patent number: 9480746
    Abstract: Provided is a means for stably storing a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) below and/or a salt thereof, and for providing the pharmaceutical composition to the market. A resin container colored with a color having a hue (H) within the range of 7.0Y to 9.99Y or 7.0YR to 9.99YR, value (V) within the range of 1.0 to 6.0, and chroma (C) within the range of 0.5 to 7.5, according to Munsell color coordinates, is filled with a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) and/or a salt thereof, to store the pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: POLA PHARMA INC., NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Madoka Ito, Azuma Nishio
  • Patent number: 9481637
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel compounds comprising a moiety that leads to the metabolic production of ketones bonded to a ketone-potentiated anti-epileptic drug, compositions comprising these compounds, and their use, for example for the treatment of epilepsy, and other CNS diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Ketogen Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Araujo, John S. Andrews, Subhash C. Annedi, Guy A. Higgins, Norton W. Milgram, Paula J. Estey, Gary L. W. G. Robinson, Jaipal R. Nagireddy
  • Patent number: 9480259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pyrazolopyran of the general formula I wherein the variables are defined according to the description, including a tautomer, salt, cleavable prodrug, or mixtures thereof, in particular to said pyrazolopyran for use as a medicament and/or an inhibitor of the enzyme serinehydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT). The invention also relates to a process the preparation of a pyrazolopyran of the formula I, to compositions comprising said compound and processes for the preparation of these compositions. Further it relates to use of the pyrazolopyran of formula I as an herbicide as well as to a method of controlling undesired vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Frank Stelzer, Johannes Hutzler, Tao Qu, Thomas Mietzner, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Raphael Aponte, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Frederick Calo, Thomas Ehrhardt, Anja Simon, Liliana Parra Rapado
  • Patent number: 9469602
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of activating a compound for a chemical reaction comprising functionalizing a compound with a redox auxiliary group and oxidizing the redox auxiliary group that is bonded to the compound, thereby activating the compound, wherein the activated compound undergoes a chemical reaction to form a product and the oxidation of the redox auxiliary group is reversible. Methods of making and using these materials are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
    Inventors: Silas Blackstock, Lester Gray, Melody Kelley, Carl Saint-Louis
  • Patent number: 9464104
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to ONO pincer ligands that can be in a trianionic, protonated or protonated equivalent form. The ONO pincer ligand can be combined with a transition metal comprising compound to form an ONO pincer ligand comprising transition metal complex. By choice of the ONO pincer ligand structure, the steric and electronic properties of the transition metal complexes therefrom can be controlled. The ONO pincer ligands comprise a central nitrogen atom that is disubstituted with a pair of three atom comprising bridges where the three atoms are three sp2 hybridized carbons or the three atoms are a pair of sp2 hybridized carbons and an sp3 hybridized carbon or silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Steven Veige, Matthew O'Reilly, Muhammad Tariq Jan
  • Patent number: 9458106
    Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, A and W are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Hu, Min Jiang, Taiguang Jin, Rui Niu, Jianhua Wang, Min Wang, Song Yang, Taichang Yuan, Chengang Zhou, Zheng Zhou
  • Patent number: 9456998
    Abstract: Uses of a compound of any of Formulas I-VI as a cytotoxic inhibitor of undifferentiated cells are disclosed herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of any of Formulas I-VI, and methods for identifying a lead candidate for inhibiting undifferentiated cells. Further disclosed are uses of an SCD-1 inhibitor as a cytotoxic inhibitor of undifferentiated cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Ben-David, Nissim Benvenisty, Payal Arora, Qing-Fen Gan, Ralph J. Garippa
  • Patent number: 9446022
    Abstract: This technology relates generally to compounds and methods for stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, including post-natal hippocampal and hypothalamic neurogenesis) and/or protecting neuronal cell from cell death. Various compounds are disclosed herein. In vivo activity tests suggest that these compounds may have therapeutic benefits in neuropsychiatric and/or neurodegenerative diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, normal aging, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke, radiation therapy, chronic stress, abuse of a neuro-active drug, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, physiological weight loss associated with various conditions, as well as cognitive decline associated with normal aging, chemotherapy, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Steven L. McKnight, Andrew A. Pieper, Joseph M. Ready, Jef K. De Brabander
  • Patent number: 9446042
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, e.g., post-natal hippocampal neurogenesis) and protecting from neuron cell death.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Steven L. McKnight, Andrew A. Pieper, Joseph M. Ready, Jef K. De Brabander
  • Patent number: 9447030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or prodrug thereof, wherein U, J, V, X, R2a, R2b, R2c, R5 and t are as described herein. The present invention relates generally to inhibitors of histone deacetylase and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for promoting cognitive function and enhancing learning and memory formation. In addition, these compounds are useful for treating, alleviating, and/or preventing various conditions, including for example, neurological disorders, memory and cognitive function disorders/impairments, extinction learning disorders, fungal diseases and infections, inflammatory diseases, hematological diseases, and neoplastic diseases in humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation, The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Holson, Florence Fevrier Wagner, Michel Weiwer, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen Haggarty, Yan-Ling Zhang
  • Patent number: 9440918
    Abstract: A method for purifying (S)-oxiracetam is disclosed. Crude (S)-oxiracetam with the purity of 89% is dissolved in water; the solution is allowed to stand for 1 to 3 days at 0° C. to 18° C.; a colorless transparent crystal is precipitated; the solution is filtered and top-washed with cold water to 0° C. to 5° C.; and the product is dried in vacuum to obtain high-purity (S)-oxiracetam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CHONGQING RUNZE PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Ye, Zuyuan Rong