Patents Examined by Shirley V. Gembeh
  • Patent number: 10842791
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, the invention relates to a new class of small-molecules having a quinazoline structure or a quinoline structure which function as dual inhibitors of EGFR proteins and PI3K proteins, and their use as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Christopher Emil Whitehead, Judith S. Leopold
  • Patent number: 10842760
    Abstract: A sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine is provided comprising pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a hardened oil or stearic acid. The sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine may contain a hardened oil or stearic acid in an amount of 100% by mass to 500% by mass with respect to the content of the pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In addition, the sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine may have a first part and a second part, the first part may contain the pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the first part or the second part may contain an optional active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAWAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nishikawa, Hiroaki Kikuoka, Michinori Oikawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Tomoya Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10842761
    Abstract: A method for the treatment or prevention of a cardiovascular event in a subject with atherosclerotic vascular disease comprising the step of: b) administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I), a known colchicine derivative and/or a salt thereof wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R9, R10, R11 and R12 independently represent hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, C2-4 alkenyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, halogen, C1-4 haloalkyl, nitro, amino, C2-4 acylamino, C1-4 alkyl or dialkylamino, hydroxyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C1-4 alkylthio, a group of the formula —SO2N(Rx)2 or SO2Rx where Rx is C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 acyloxy, or optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted phenoxy; R7 and R8 independently represent hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl or C1-4 acyl; and R5?, R5?, R6? and R6? independently represent hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, C2-4 alkenyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, halogen, C1-4 haloalkyl, nitro, amino, C2-4 acylamino, hydroxyl, C1-4 alkoxy or C1-4 alkylthio a group of the formula —SO2N(Rx)2 or SO2Rx where Rx is C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 acyl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MURRAY AND POOLE ENTERPRISES LTD
    Inventor: Mark Nidorf
  • Patent number: 10836788
    Abstract: Unusual and unexpectedly stable aqueous suspension formulation and water dispersible dry composition of Formula I compounds. It causes little or no injection site irritation and has superior properties over non-aqueous formulations. It stimulates autophagy, enhance innate immunity, down-regulates unproductive inflammation and exerts a Th1 immune bias. It demonstrates better efficacy in both in vitro and in vivo models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SD Chem, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu Ge
  • Patent number: 10836722
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a compound having Formula (I?): and in particular, Compound I-126: which modulates the activity of EGFR, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method of treating or preventing a disease in which EGFR plays a role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Michael Eck, Pasi Janne, Hwan Geun Choi, Jaebong Jang, Kwok-Kin Wong
  • Patent number: 10835466
    Abstract: The object is to provide a wrinkle improving agent having an excellent wrinkle improving effect. A compound expressed by the following Formula (1), or an acid addition salt thereof is used as an active ingredient of a wrinkle improving agent. (Wherein X represents an alkylene group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms in which a hydrogen atom may be substituted with a methyl group, Y represents COOR1 or CH2OR2, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or an optionally branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, or an optionally branched acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: POLA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Mori, Yuko Saitoh, Michiko Shono
  • Patent number: 10822454
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions of co-polymers having hydrophilic and biodegradable hydrophobic units or blocks, resulting in improved properties and functionalities suitable for biomedical applications as self-fitting tissue scaffolds or minimally invasive surgical implants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Jie Song, Ben Zhang
  • Patent number: 10821192
    Abstract: Disclosed are a macrophage-targeting nanoassembly capable of efficiently removing reactive oxygen species to minimize the occurrence of inflammation and an anti-inflammatory composition containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: Korea National University of Transportation Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
    Inventors: Yong Kyu Lee, Vishnu Revuri, In-Kyu Park, Santhosh Kalash Rajendrakumar
  • Patent number: 10813879
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a formulation of a shampoo conditioner composition comprising water, flaxseed, olive oil, jojoba oil, emu oil, honey, and preservatives. This composition provides desirable characteristics such as increased moisture and non-comedogenic effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Haute Herbotique, LLC
    Inventor: Marlene M. Smith
  • Patent number: 10806140
    Abstract: An antimicrobial composition including low molecular weight dendrimers of formula (1): Q is an antimicrobial moiety in monomer or dendritic form, N is a nitrogen atom, L2 is a linker linking each Y1 molecular spacer to the nitrogen atom, Y1 is a molecular spacer spacing each antimicrobial moiety Q from the L2 linker, there are two or more chains of antimicrobial moieties and molecular spacers, X is a linker configured to covalently bond to surface functionalities of the substrate, and Y2 is a molecular spacer between the linker X and the nitrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Physical Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorin V. Preda, Aaron R. Rathmell, Colin M. Hessel, John D. Lennhoff, Mitchell T. Antalek
  • Patent number: 10799435
    Abstract: Skin-tightening compositions and methods for using the same, which provide a long-lasting skin-tightening effect and a mattifying finishing effect are described. The skin-tightening composition may be in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion and comprise one or more polyvalent silicates; one or more cellulose thickeners; one or more clays selected from hectorite and organically modified hectorites; one or more polysaccharide film forming agents; one or more polyols; one or more acrylate polymers; and water. The skin-tightening compositions are useful for improving the appearance of skin, especially skin of the neck and face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Mariana Montoya, Nicole Burkhard, David Chan, Maggie Su
  • Patent number: 10792234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an in particular cosmetic or dermatological compositions comprising, in a physiologically acceptable support: • a) at least one merocyanine of formula (1) or (2) (1), (2) • b) at least one oily phase comprising at least one polyalkylene glycol of formula (4): (4) and to their use for caring for and/or making up a keratin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Didier Candau, Angelina Roudot
  • Patent number: 10792244
    Abstract: Carvedilol parenteral sustained release systems by IV infusion, injection, or subcutaneous routes are disclosed. Preparation of carvedilol disperse systems such as liposomes, biodegradable microparticles or nanoparticles, and polymeric microparticles or nanoparticles have been presented in the present invention. Compositions containing carvedilol encapsulated in liposomes showed higher bioavailability and lower clearance rate than that of the free solution after intravenous administration. In vitro release of those liposomes in buffer solutions shows drug extended release over 48 hours, and correspondingly the in vivo animal data shows that parenteral administration of carvedilol encapsulated in liposomal materials has sustained release PK profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ASCENDIA PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC.
    Inventors: Vera Ivanova, Kaoru Maeda, Wan Wang, Dongwei Guo, Jingjun Huang
  • Patent number: 10786445
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a method of treating a patient in need of treatment, comprising identifying a patient in need of treatment for stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, myocardial infarction, shock, organ ischemia, ventricular arrhythmias, ischemic injury, or hypoxia/ischemia; administering a bolus of glyburide to the patient; and administering a continuous infusion of glyburide to the patient at from about 15 ?g/hr and about 300 ?g/hr, wherein the continuous infusion glyburide is administered for a period of time more than about 20 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Biogen Chesapeake LLC
    Inventor: Sven Martin Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10774067
    Abstract: An amorphous form of 9-ethyl-6,6-dimethyl-8-(4-morpholin-4-yl-piperidin-1-yl)-11-oxo-6,11-dihydro-5H-benzo[b]carbazole-3-carbonitrile and a solid dispersion containing the amorphous form can be used extremely advantageously as drugs for oral administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Shiraki, Tadanobu Nakayama, Tomoaki Ota
  • Patent number: 10772898
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions including an effective amount of an antiandrogen or androgen antagonist in combination with a Plk inhibitor and methods of use thereof for treating cancer are disclosed. Administration of the combination of the active agents can be effective to reduce cancer cell proliferation or viability in a subject with cancer to the same degree, or a greater degree than administering to the subject the same amount of either active agent alone. The active agents can be administered together or separately. Methods of selecting and treating subjects with cancers, particular prostate cancers including castration resistant prostate cancer, breast cancers, particularly androgen receptor positive breast cancers, and pancreatic cancers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Michael B. Yaffe, Jesse C. Patterson
  • Patent number: 10766886
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for selectively activating chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), protecting cells from oxidative stress, proteotoxicity and lipotoxicity, and/or antagonizing activity of retinoic acid receptor alpha (RAR?) in subjects in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    Inventors: Ana Maria Cuervo, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Qisheng Xin, Bhaskar C. Das
  • Patent number: 10765608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sprayable composition for providing a translucent, transparent, semi-transparent or opaque sprayable hair product which exhibits a high level of hold and rigidity to hair such that hair can be held in a particular position for prolonged periods of time without unnatural hardness, superior retention of shape in conditions of heat and humidity, and imparting thickness and body compared to current hairsprays; the composition comprising: a propellant and at least one binder, wherein at least one binder comprises an ethylene vinyl alkanoate copolymer with a weight percent of vinyl alkanoate in the copolymer within the range of 19 wt % to 42 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Manel Torres
  • Patent number: 10759783
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and compositions thereof which are useful as inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: BIOGEN MA INC.
    Inventors: Brian T. Hopkins, Bin Ma, Timothy Raymond Chan, Lihong Sun, Lei Zhang, Gnanasambandam Kumaravel, Joseph P. Lyssikatos, Kevin Koch, Hua Miao
  • Patent number: 10759865
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a Janus kinase inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, or a therapeutically effective amount of intravenous immunoglobulin, or a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic agent that destroys B lymphocytes, or a combination thereof. The present invention also provides kits containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Eyal Levit