Patents Examined by San Ming R. Hui
  • Patent number: 10940156
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating a disorder, e.g., tremor, e.g., essential tremor; depression, e.g., postpostum depression; and anxiety disorder, the method comprising administering to a human subject suffering from a disorder, e.g., tremor, e.g., essential tremor; depression, e.g., postpostum depression, an anxiety disorder with a neuroactive steroid or a composition comprising a neuroactive steroid (e.g., pregnanolone, allopregnanolone, alphadalone, ganaxolone, or alphaxolone).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sage Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Kanes, Helen Colquhoun
  • Patent number: 10912777
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising (i) a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of the oncogene SLC29A2; and (ii) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, for use in suppressing proliferation, occurrence, and metastasis of cancer cells overexpressing the oncogene SLC29A2 in a cancer patient, and/or prolonging cancer patient survival. The inhibitor of the oncogene SLC29A2 may be at least one selected from the group consisting of dipyridamole, dilazep, draflzine, nitorbenzylthioinosine, and the derivatives thereof. The composition for use may further comprise sorafenib for the same use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ACADEMIA SINICA
    Inventors: Yuh-Shan Jou, Roger Shen
  • Patent number: 10907215
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating a subject having a cancer, methods of selecting a treatment for a subject having a cancer, methods of selecting a subject having a cancer for a treatment that does not include a Trk inhibitor, methods of determining the likelihood that a subject having a cancer will have a positive response to a treatment with a Trk inhibitor, methods of predicting the efficacy of a Trk inhibitor in a subject having cancer, methods of determining a subject's risk for developing a Trk inhibitor-resistant cancer, and methods of determining the presence of a Trk inhibitor-resistant cancer in a subject, based on the detection of a cell from a sample from the subject that has at least one of the the point mutations in NTRK1 and/or NTRK2 and/or NTRK3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: Loxo Oncology, Inc., Array BioPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Nisha Nanda, Joshua H. Bilenker, James F. Blake, Gabrielle R. Kolakowski, Barbara J. Brandhuber, Steven W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 10905702
    Abstract: Galectin 3 inhibitors and methods for treating sepsis using the same are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Gerardo Vasta, Lai-Xi Wang
  • Patent number: 10898501
    Abstract: Novel antimicrobial compositions comprise at least a form of a fosfomycin (or suitable analogs, or derivatives thereof), and at least one sulfonamide (or suitable analogs, or derivatives thereof), and/or at least one diaminopyridine (or suitable analogs, or derivatives thereof). Said antimicrobial compositions generally include two or more of said components as a novel combination, provided in a single combination or formulation, or provided independently with overlapping exposures of the two or more components. These novel compositions, when provided as the two or more components, are effective against susceptible microorganisms, and are effective against susceptible drug-resistant microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, parasites), including multi-drug resistant bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FLEURIR ABX, LLC
    Inventors: John Lee Pace, Marc Edwin Wiles, Stacy Michelle Adams, Elizabeth Hussey
  • Patent number: 10894043
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic agent for an ophthalmic disease comprising a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor inhibitor or an epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor inhibitor in a nanoparticle form, having a property to be retained in a posterior eye tissue when systemically administered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: KYOWA KIRIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Haniuda, Sachiko Enokizono, Tomoyuki Nakazato, Takuya Tokuda, Norie Fujiki
  • Patent number: 10894791
    Abstract: Bromocriptine citrate administered to a vertebrate, animal or human, can be used for any purpose including, e.g., the long-term modification and regulation of metabolic disorders, including prediabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and/or, e.g., the treatment of other medical disorder(s) including immune or endocrine disorders or diseases. Bromocriptine citrate is administered over a limited or extended period at a time of day dependent on re-establishing the normal circadian rhythm of central dopaminergic activity of healthy members of a similar species and sex. Insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia, T2DM, prediabetes, MS or all, can be controlled in humans on a long term basis by such treatment inasmuch as the daily administration of bromocriptine citrate resets neuronal activity timing in the neural centers of the brain to produce long term effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: VeroScience LLC
    Inventor: Anthony H. Cincotta
  • Patent number: 10894035
    Abstract: Methods for treating immunodeficiencies are provided using indole-based compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: DIACCURATE
    Inventors: Jacques Theze, Blanche Tamarit
  • Patent number: 10881642
    Abstract: Provided are a compound of chemical formula 1 or 2 and a use thereof. The compound can be advantageously used in the prevention or treatment of metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, or obesity, on the basis of a mechanism of autophagy activation through the promotion of lysosome production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Myung-Shik Lee, Hyejin Lim, Young Eui Jeon, Jin Hee Ahn, H. S. Pagire
  • Patent number: 10881650
    Abstract: Novel methods for treating or reducing the likelihood of acquiring symptoms or diseases due to the menopause, in postmenopausal women, particularly osteoporosis, vaginal atrophy and dryness, hypogonadism, diminished libido, skin atrophy, connective tissue disease, urinary incontinence, breast, endometrial, ovarian and uterine cancers, hot flashes, loss of muscle mass, insulin resistance, fatigue, loss of energy, aging, physical symptoms of menopause, in susceptible warm-blooded animals including humans involving administration of a sex steroid precursor are disclosed. Said method comprising novel ways of administering and dosing dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in order to take advantage of positive androgenic effects in the vaginal layers lamina propia and/or the layer muscularis, without undesirably causing systemic estrogenic effects in order to avoid the risk of breast and uterine cancer. Pharmaceutical compositions for delivery of active ingredient(s) useful to the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ENDORECHERCHE, INC.
    Inventor: Fernand Labrie
  • Patent number: 10882828
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel compounds that are useful in regulating the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and/or vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), and their use in the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases and related disease states, such as, for example, atherosclerosis, asthma, arthritis, cancer, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel diseases, and autoimmune disease(s). Also, disclosed are compositions comprising the novel compounds, as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Resverlogix Corp.
    Inventor: Henrik C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10874629
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising levodopa and an antioxidant for inhibiting the development or progression of visual disorders inclusive of visual disorders associated with diabetic retinopathy or Parkinson's disease, and myopia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA
    Inventor: Regan Ashby
  • Patent number: 10874105
    Abstract: Provided herein is an emulsifiable concentrate comprising a triazole fungicide, an aromatic hydrocarbon, and an amide of the formula (I) as defined herein. Further provided herein is a process for the preparation of said concentrate; an emulsion obtainable by mixing water, a triazole fungicide, an aromatic hydrocarbon, and an amide of the formula (I); and a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, wherein the concentrate or the emulsion is allowed to act on the phytopathogenic fungi, their environment, on the crop plants to be protected from the phytopathogenic fungi or on the soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kristin Tiefensee, Benjamin Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10869869
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of providing adjuvant treatment to a human patient which comprises administering to such a patient therapeutically effective doses of dabrafenib and trametinib for a time period sufficient to increase relapse-free survival (RFS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Sylvie Laquerre, Peter F. Lebowitz
  • Patent number: 10857157
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) and methods of treating cerebral aneurysm in a mammal with certain rho kinase inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BioAxone BioSciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Rosen, Steven Wayne Riesinger, Lisa McKerracher, Lisa Bond Moritz
  • Patent number: 10857163
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions containing isomerically pure forms of neurosteroids that permit preferential modulation of different subtypes of GABAA receptors, such as preferential modulation of ?4?3? GABAA receptors over ?1?2?2 GABAA receptors. The invention also provides methods of treating GABAA disorders using such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: ATHENEN THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Levin, Neil Buckley
  • Patent number: 10849888
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer with anti-androgens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Isan Chen
  • Patent number: 10849903
    Abstract: Pulmonary hypertension and related diseases, like pulmonary arterial hypertension, can be treated by administering an effective dose of a CDK inhibitor, including palbociclib, 6-acetyl-8-cyclopentyl-5-methyl-2-{[5-(piperazin-1-yl)pyridin-2yl]amino}pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-7(8H)-one, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Martin Evans
  • Patent number: 10842840
    Abstract: This invention provides a high molecular weight polysaccharide capable of binding to and inhibiting virus and related pharmaceutical formulations and methods of inhibiting viral infectivity and/or pathogenicity, as well as immunogenic compositions. The invention further includes methods of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells and of ameliorating a symptom of aging. Additionally, the invention provides methods of detecting and/or quantifying and/or isolating viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: WORLD FORCE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas W. Konowalchuk, Jack Konowalchuk
  • Patent number: 10842765
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing cardiovascular-related disease and, in particular, a method of reducing or preventing sdLDL oxidation in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising eicosapentaenoic acid or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amarin Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited
    Inventor: Richard Preston Mason