Patents Examined by Sean Basquill
  • Patent number: 9566303
    Abstract: Compositions comprising ferrous and/or ferric iron compounds and fiber in a complex, methods for preparing such compositions of matter, and the use thereof for treatment of adsorbing certain accessible targets in the gastrointestinal tract and in an extracorporeal system, are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Vidasym, Inc.
    Inventor: Jinshyun Ruth Wu-Wong
  • Patent number: 9554982
    Abstract: An aerosol antiperspirant composition is provided. The aerosol antiperspirant composition includes a propellant and an antiperspirant composition. The antiperspirant composition includes one or more liquid materials, wherein the one or more liquid materials comprise one or more non-volatile silicone fluids having a concentration from 40% to about 70% by weight of the antiperspirant composition; antiperspirant active particulates having a concentration from about 16% to about 32% by weight of the antiperspirant composition; one or more non-antiperspirant active particulates that are substantially inert, wherein the one or more non-antiperspirant active particulates that are substantially inert have a concentration from 10% to 30% by weight of the antiperspirant composition; and wherein the antiperspirant composition has a total particulate concentration from 30% to about 60% by weight of the antiperspirant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Frederick Swaile, Rajeev Kumar Passi, Ann Christine Zoller
  • Patent number: 9554971
    Abstract: The present invention provides dental bonding agents and dental bonding systems comprising the dental bonding agents. The dental bonding agents of the invention are characterized by having antibacterial properties, and in some aspects of the invention, remineralizing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Huakun Xu, Michael Weir
  • Patent number: 9554981
    Abstract: An aerosol antiperspirant composition is provided. The aerosol antiperspirant composition includes a propellant having a concentration from 30% to 65% by weight and an antiperspirant composition. The antiperspirant composition includes one or more liquid materials, wherein the one or more liquid materials comprise one or more non-volatile silicone fluids having a concentration from 40% to about 70% by weight; antiperspirant active particulates; one or more non-antiperspirant active particulates that are substantially inert; and wherein the antiperspirant composition has a total particulate concentration from 30% to about 60% by weight and the antiperspirant composition has a viscosity greater than 1,000 centipoise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Frederick Swaile, Rajeev Kumar Passi, Ann Christine Zoller
  • Patent number: 9549926
    Abstract: Provided are formulations comprising therapeutically effective amounts of ambrisentan or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and tadalafil or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and methods of treating and/or preventing pulmonary hypertension by administration of the formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Belardinelli, Hunter Campbell Gillies, Faquan Liang, John Shryock, Suya Yang
  • Patent number: 9539262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition suitable for ophthalmic use comprising one or more prostaglandin derivatives or salts, a stabilizing amount of polyethylene glycol hydroxystearate and pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SUN PHARMA ADVANCED RESEARCH COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Ajay Jaysingh Khopade, Arindam Halder, Subhas Balaram Bhowmick
  • Patent number: 9539193
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dispersion comprising a liquid or semi-solid continuous phase, a dispersed solid phase comprising a plurality of organic, inorganic or inorganic-organic particles, and an alkyl ketal ester having the structure wherein a is 0 or an integer of 1 to 12, specifically 1 to 6, more specifically 1 to 4; b is 0 or 1; R2 is a divalent C1-8 group optionally substituted with up to 5 hydroxyl groups; and R1 is C1-6 alkyl, and wherein at least a portion of the alkyl ketal ester is present in the continuous phase, on a surface of at least some of the dispersed particles, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GFBIOCHEMICALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Lee Richard Rieth, Dorie J. Yontz, Nicholas Morante
  • Patent number: 9526675
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dentinal tubule sealing material excellent in durability of dentinal tubule sealing performance (acid resistance) and also in storage stability. The present invention relates to a dentinal tubule sealing material including tetracalcium phosphate particles (A), calcium hydrogen phosphate particles (B), calcium carbonate particles (C), and a non-aqueous dispersant (D), the dentinal tubule sealing material including 5 to 75 parts by weight of the tetracalcium phosphate particles (A), 10 to 70 parts by weight of the calcium hydrogen phosphate particles (B), and 2 to 50 parts by weight of the calcium carbonate particles (C) per 100 parts by weight of the total of the tetracalcium phosphate particles (A), the calcium hydrogen phosphate particles (B), and the calcium carbonate particles (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Hatanaka, Shumei Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9511033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to products and methods for treatment of various symptoms in a patient, including treatment of pain suffered by a patient. The invention more particularly relates to self-supporting dosage forms which provide an active agent while providing sufficient buccal adhesion of the dosage form. Further, the present invention provides a dosage form which is useful in reducing the likelihood of diversion abuse of the active agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MonoSol Rx, LLC
    Inventors: Garry L. Myers, Eric Dadey
  • Patent number: 9504754
    Abstract: Methods and materials relating to a medicament preparation comprising a curcuminoid component and a euradit component provided as a curcuminoid-eudragit complex, which enhance the bioavailability of the curcumin component and are useful for the treatment of various diseases including cancer, neurodegeneration, inflammation, and immunodeficiency. In some aspects, the curcuminoid component comprises curcumin to prepare a curcumin-eudragit complex and a medicament comprising curcumin-eudragit complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: South Dakota Board of Regents
    Inventors: Hemachand Tummala, Sunny Kumar
  • Patent number: 9498472
    Abstract: Methods of treating, preventing or managing leukemias are disclosed. The methods encompass the administration of an immunomodulatory compound of the invention known as Revlimid® or lenalidomide. The invention further relates to methods of treatment using this compound with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy or immunotherapy. Pharmaceutical compositions and single unit dosage forms suitable for use in the methods of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Celgene Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome B. Zeldis
  • Patent number: 9492363
    Abstract: An aerosol cosmetic composition is provided that includes an oil soluble gloss enhancing film forming component, a solvent, a colorant, a propellant, and useful for application to hair or skin. An aerosol dispensing system and a method of preparing an aerosol sprayable color composition are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: AMERICAN SPRAYTECH, L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Joseph Lueschen, Aaysha Mustafa, Samantha Faith Gribben
  • Patent number: 9486357
    Abstract: A method to provide a therapeutic agent to an eye of a patient by implanting or inject a device that stably fits a particular location or position in the eye. The method thus provides agent inside the eye for a longer duration of agent release over a space-occupying area inside the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Inventor: Gholam A. Peyman
  • Patent number: 9463183
    Abstract: Provided herein are stable lisinopril oral liquid formulations. Also provided herein are methods of using lisinopril oral liquid formulations for the treatment of certain diseases including hypertension, heart failure and acute myocardial infarction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SILVERGATE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Gerold L. Mosher, David W. Miles
  • Patent number: 9446056
    Abstract: Parenteral (injectable) celecoxib emulsions and nanoemulsions are disclosed as are their use to treat pain in patients so afflicted. The emulsions are generally oil in water emulsions often comprised of an oil phase including an oil and a lecithin wherein the mean droplet size of the discontinuous oil phase is about 200 nanometers or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.
    Inventors: Franklin Okumu, Jan-Jon Chu, Julie Ann Webb, Rafael Anthony Sabino, Andrew Xian Chen
  • Patent number: 9439429
    Abstract: Described is a broad spectrum, synergistic fungicidal composition when used for the preservation of a glued wood product comprising as active ingredients: (A) triadimefon, and (B) cyproconazole characterized in that the weight ratio of (A):(B) is from about 20:1 to about 1:1, the composition being further characterized in that the application rate for the composition is from about 10 gai/m3 to about 6,000 gai/m3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ZELAM LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Molloy, Peter James Hayward, Paul Garry Lobb, George William Mason, Stephen Millward, Wallace James Rae, André Frederik Siraa
  • Patent number: 9433209
    Abstract: Microbial growth inhibiting solutions and methods of employing the microbial growth inhibiting solutions in flushing and coating medical devices are disclosed. In alternative embodiments, the microbial growth inhibiting solutions include combinations of a chelating agent with a C4-C9, C10 or C12 carboxylate antimicrobial agent, for example, such as n-capric, n-lauric, or n-octanoic acid. Methods of using these microbial growth inhibiting solutions for coating a medical device and for inhibiting catheter infection are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventors: Stanley L. Mills, Jacqueline L. Mills, Robert D. Maurer, Gary L. Rayburn, Marvin A. Cuchens
  • Patent number: 9433660
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and taste-modifying kits for facilitating cleansing of the gastrointestinal tract of a patient prior to a diagnostic, surgical or therapeutic procedure. The methods and taste-modifying kits can improve patient compliance, and thus, efficacy of the preparation. Specifically, the present methods make the gastrointestinal tract preparation composition palatable for the patient to consume. For example, for a patient preparing to undergo colonoscopy, the present methods make the bowel preparation solution taste significantly less salty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: MSM INNOVATIONS, INC
    Inventors: Steven Gorelick, Michael Schiffman, Melody Olmstead, Adam Gorelick
  • Patent number: 9427498
    Abstract: Microbial growth inhibiting solutions and methods of employing the microbial growth inhibiting solutions in flushing and coating medical devices are disclosed. In alternative embodiments, the microbial growth inhibiting solutions include combinations of a chelating agent with a C4-C12 carboxylate antimicrobial agent, for example, such as n-capric, n-lauric, or n-octanoic acid. Methods of using these microbial growth inhibiting solutions for coating a medical device and for inhibiting catheter infection are also disclosed. Methods of using these microbial growth inhibiting solutions, or portions thereof, as leaching treatment solutions to treat polymer syringes and the treated syringes are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Inventors: Stanley L. Mills, Jacqueline L. Mills, Robert D. Maurer, Gary L. Rayburn, Marvin A. Cuchens
  • Patent number: 9420791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to storage-stable biocidal compositions comprising at least one halogen-free isothiazolinone such as in particular 2-methyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one (MIT) and/or 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one (BIT) and/or salts thereof, and also stabilizing amounts of copper(II) ions, to a method for preserving technical materials by means of the aforementioned biocidal compositions, and to the technical materials treated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Uhr