Patents Examined by Sara E Townsley
  • Patent number: 9481639
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the treatment of skin disorders (e.g., acne, rosacea) are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Haregewein Assefa, Beena Bhatia, Michael P. Draper, Laura Honeyman, Oak K. Kim, Dennis P. Molnar
  • Patent number: 9452117
    Abstract: Alkyl nitrate ester compounds are provided for the delivery of nitric oxide to targeted muscle tissues, and in particular, to normal and dystrophic muscles. In one aspect, nitrate ester compounds are provided having the following formula: wherein, R1 is ONO2, CH2ONO2, CnH2n+1OH, CnH2n+1OH, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, or H; R2 is ONO2, CH2ONO2, Cn?H2n?+1OH, Cn?H2n?+1OH, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, or H; R3 is ONO2, CH2ONO2, Cn??H2n?+1OH, Cn?H2n?+1OH, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, or H; and R4 is ONO2, CH2ONO2, Cn??H2n?+1OH, Cn?H2n?+1OH, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, or H; wherein n is an integer from 0 to 9, n? is an integer from 0 to 9, and n? is an integer from 0 to 9, and n+n?+n??9, and wherein at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is an ester nitrate selected from the group consisting of ONO2, CH2ONO2, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority
    Inventors: Guqi Wang, Qi Long Lu
  • Patent number: 9365593
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I: along with compositions comprising the same and methods of using the same, such as for photodynamic therapy in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Katherine J. Franz, Katie L. Ciesienski
  • Patent number: 9358240
    Abstract: Treprostinil can be administered using a metered dose inhaler. Such administration provides a greater degree of autonomy to patients. Also disclosed are kits that include a metered dose inhaler containing a pharmaceutical formulation containing treprostinil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: United Therapeutics Corporation
    Inventors: Horst Olschewski, Robert Roscigno, Lewis J. Rubin, Thomas Schmehl, Werner Seeger, Carl Sterritt, Robert Voswinckel
  • Patent number: 9339507
    Abstract: Treprostinil can be administered using a metered dose inhaler. Such administration provides a greater degree of autonomy to patients. Also disclosed are kits that include a metered dose inhaler containing a pharmaceutical formulation containing treprostinil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: United Therapeutics Corporation
    Inventors: Horst Olschewski, Robert Roscigno, Lewis J. Rubin, Thomas Schmehl, Werner Seeger, Carl Sterritt, Robert Voswinckel
  • Patent number: 9339466
    Abstract: Polymorph forms of 4-trifluoromethyl-N-(3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl)-benzamide are disclosed as well as their methods of synthesis and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shanthakumar R. Tyavanagimatt, Melialani A. C. L. Stone, William C. Weimers, Dylan Nelson, Tove′ C. Bolken, Dennis E. Hruby, Michael H. O'Neill, Gary Sweetapple, Kelley A. McCloughan
  • Patent number: 9326972
    Abstract: Treatment of autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases associated with overexpression of Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) as well as Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and/or TLR3/TLR4 signaling in nonimmune cells, monocytes, macrophages, and/or dendritic cells in association with related pathologies. The use of phenylmethimazoles, methimazole derivatives, and tautomeric cyclic thiones for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases associated with TLR3 as well as TLR4 and/or TLR3/TLR4 cellular signaling in association with related pathologies is disclosed. Methods of treating a subject having a disease or condition associated with abnormal TLR-3 as well as TLR-4 and/or TLR3/TLR4 cellular signaling in association with related pathologies are also disclosed. The present disclosure also relates to the treatment of autoimmune-inflammatory pathologies and chemokine and cytokine-mediated diseases associated with TLR overexpression and signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Ohio University
    Inventors: Leonard D. Kohn, Norikazu Harii, Uruguaysito Benavides-Peralta, Mariana Gonzalez-Murguiondo, Christopher J. Lewis, Douglas J. Goetz, Giorgio Napolitano, Cesidio Giuliani, Ramiro Malgor, Frank Schwartz, Kelly D. McCall
  • Patent number: 9326978
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to allosteric modulation of A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) and provides for the use of an A3 adenosine receptor modulator (A3RM), for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for modulating the A3AR in a subject, as well as pharmaceutical compositions including the same and therapeutic methods including administering to a subject an amount of an A3RM, the amount being effective to modulate A3AR activity. The A3RM according to claimed subject matter are 1H-Imidazo-[4,5-c]quinolin-4-amine derivatives. Also provided are 1H-Imidazo-[4,5-c]quinolin-4-amine derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Universiteit Leiden
    Inventors: Anikó Göblyös, Johannes Brussee, Adriaan P. Ijzerman, Zhan-Guo Gao, Kenneth Jacobson
  • Patent number: 9314452
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating progressive neurodegenerative diseases, and their associated symptoms by administration of ibudilast (3-isobutyryl-2-isopropylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: MediciNova, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Kalafer, Kenneth W. Locke, Kazuko Matsuda, Richard E. Gammans
  • Patent number: 9284292
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new class of compounds that exhibit an inhibitory effect on influenza virus type A and B, which may or may not be resistant to other drugs, as well as on other types of viruses, such as flavivirus but also on protozoa and other micro-organisms, their preparation methods, pharmaceutical formulations containing them and their use as medicinal products for the treatment of various conditions caused by particular microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria and protozoa, which affect animal and human health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: THERAPICON S.R.L.
    Inventors: Paolo Alberto Veronesi, Pablo E. A. Rodriguez, Anna Maria Veronesi, Emanuela Peschechera
  • Patent number: 9259006
    Abstract: The invention provides antimicrobial compositions comprising one or more acid and one or more organic diol. In one embodiment, the invention's compositions have an acidic pH. The compositions may optionally further contain one or more oxidizing agent (including stabilized oxidizing agent and/or unstabilized oxidizing agent), and/or one or more surfactant. In particular embodiments, the acid lacks one or both of —NH group and —NH2 group. The invention's compositions are useful in all stages of handling agricultural products, in hospitals, and in commercial and household applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SmartWash Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Kel Eugene Lemons
  • Patent number: 9227937
    Abstract: Phenoxyalkyl pyridinium oxime compounds for use in treating organophosphate poisoning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mississippi State University
    Inventors: Janice E. Chambers, Howard W. Chambers, Edward C. Meek
  • Patent number: 9206142
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel Anilinopiperazine Derivatives of Formula (I), compositions comprising the Anilinopiperazine Derivatives, and methods for using the Anilinopiperazine Derivatives for treating or preventing a proliferative disorder, cancer, an anti-proliferative disorder, inflammation, arthritis, a central nervous system disorder, a cardiovascular disease, alopecia, a neuronal disease, an ischemic injury, a viral disease, a fungal infection, or a disorder related to the activity of a protein kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Gerald W. Shipps, Jr., Cliff C. Cheng, Xiaohua Huang, Thierry O. Fischmann, Jose S. Duca, Matthew Richards, Hongbo Zeng, Binyuan Sun, Panduranga Adulla Reddy, Tzu T. Wong, Praveen K. Tadikonda, M. Arshad Siddiqui, Marc A. Labroli, Cory S. Poker, Timothy J. Guzi
  • Patent number: 9181182
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds that have S1P receptor modulating activity and, preferably, apoptotic activity and/or anti proliferative activity against cancer cells and other cell types. Further, the invention relates to a pharmaceutical comprising at least one compound of the invention for the treatment of diseases and/or conditions caused by or associated with inappropriate S1P receptor modulating activity or expression, for example, cancer. A further aspect of the invention relates to the use of a pharmaceutical comprising at least one compound of the invention for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of diseases and/or conditions caused by or associated with inappropriate S1P receptor modulating activity or expression such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Akaal Pharma PTY LTD
    Inventors: Damian W. Grobelny, Gurmit S. Gill
  • Patent number: 9180192
    Abstract: Pyrazole compounds useful as allosteric potentiators/positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 4 (mGluR4); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of using the compounds, for example, in treating neurological and psychiatric disorders or other disease state associated with glutamate dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: P. Jeffrey Conn, Craig W. Lindsley, Corey R. Hopkins, Colleen M. Niswender, Rocco D. Gogliotti
  • Patent number: 9162984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to small molecule modulators of melanin expression and methods of making the small molecules. Also disclosed are methods of increasing pigmentation in a cell which involve providing compounds of the present invention and contacting a cell with the compounds under conditions effective to induce melanin expression in the cell, thereby increasing pigmentation. The present invention also relates to compositions containing compounds of the present invention and a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Benjamin L. Miller, Brian R. McNaughton, Peter Gareiss, Glynis Scott
  • Patent number: 9138390
    Abstract: The present invention discloses petrolatum based composition containing silicone oils which are structured with specific blend and ratio of fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamara Litvin, Joseph Oreste Carnali, Qiu Qiang, Alexander Lips
  • Patent number: 9114136
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating progressive neurodegenerative diseases, and their associated symptoms by administration of ibudilast (3-isobutyryl-2-isopropylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: MEDICINOVA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael E. Kalafer, Kenneth W. Locke, Kazuko Matsuda, Richard E. Gammans
  • Patent number: 9101619
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions are provided that are useful in treating diabetes. The compositions comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and an effective therapeutic or prophylactic amount of a nitroxide antioxidant that alters the expression of genes related to diabetes. Methods are also provided for the use of the pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment or prevention of diabetes. In a preferred embodiment, the nitroxide antioxidant is Tempol (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Mitos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Habash, Clarence Jones
  • Patent number: 9090624
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel aromatic bicyclic derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the CXCR4 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidyasagar Vuligonda, Richard L. Beard, Thong Vu, John E. Donello, Gerard Rodrigues, Veena Viswanath, Michael E. Garst