Patents Examined by Shirley V. Gembeh
  • Patent number: 10406164
    Abstract: The present invention relates to combination therapies for treating Alzheimer's disease or an amyloidosis-associated pathological condition comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of a first compound, and a therapeutically effective amount of a second compound. In certain embodiments, the first compound or the second compound inhibits AB peptide polymerization; is an anti-inflammatory; improves cognitive function, mood, or social behavior; is associated with Tau or alpha-synuclein; or regulates amyloid peptide washout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventor: David R. Elmaleh
  • Patent number: 10398704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to combination therapies for treating Alzheimer's disease or an amyloidosis-associated pathological condition comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of a first compound, and a therapeutically effective amount of a second compound. In certain embodiments, the first compound or the second compound inhibits AB peptide polymerization; is an anti-inflammatory; improves cognitive function, mood, or social behavior; is associated with Tau or alpha-synuclein; or regulates amyloid peptide washout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventor: David R. Elmaleh
  • Patent number: 10398714
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating cancer, with a combination of an arginase inhibitor and a chemotherapeutic agent. The invention further relates to methods of assessing efficacy of a cancer treatment by measuring arginine levels in a tumor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Inventors: Matthew I. Gross, Susanne M. Steggerda, Weiqun Li
  • Patent number: 10401365
    Abstract: The invention concerns an inhibitor of the expression of chemokine CCL7 or an inhibitor of the expression of the receptor CCR3 or an inhibitor of CCL7/CCR3 interaction for the use of same to prevent or treat the extension of prostate cancer outside the prostatic capsule in a subject. The invention also concerns a method for determining the degree of aggressiveness of a prostate cancer tumor in a subject suffering from prostate cancer, comprising a step of determining the concentration or level of expression of the receptor CCR3 in a sample of prostate tumor cells obtained from said subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
    Inventors: Catherine Muller, Victor Laurent, Adrien Guerard, Philippe Valet, Bernard Malavaud
  • Patent number: 10390532
    Abstract: Insecticide composition wherein the active ingredient comprises the combination of a neonicotinoid insecticide, thiamethoxam as synthetic insecticide molecule, and at least one synergistic agent, which is chosen among the insect repellent agents such as DEET and/or IR3535® and present at a molar ratio of said synergistic agent to thiamethoxam comprised between O.OOI and 0.2 in the composition. Synergistic effect is observed at low doses. Use of the insecticide composition wherein said composition is sprayed or deposited on, or impregnated to a support, such as net, fabrics, cloth or tent, in the fight against insects which are harmful to human, to animals and/or to crops, and in particular against pyrethroid, carbanate and/or organophosphate resistant mosquitoes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS
    Inventors: Mathilde Goulu, Véronique Apaire-Marchais, Olivier List, Valérie Raymond, Bruno Lapied
  • Patent number: 10391053
    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: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Biogen Chesapeake LLC
    Inventor: Sven Martin Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10391078
    Abstract: Methods for the treatment of systemic mast cell related disorders treatable with mast cell stabilizers, including mast cell related disorders, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Respivant Sciences GmbH
    Inventors: William Gerhart, Pravin Soni, Ahmet Tutuncu
  • Patent number: 10391073
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, or combinations thereof, as well as uses thereof. Such uses include promoting tissue self-repair or tissue regeneration of an organ, stimulating the generation of tissue growth, modulating (e.g. increasing) the level of a tissue-repair marker, treating physical injury in an organ, tissue, or cell, promoting wound healing as well as anti-aging applications. Corresponding compositions, methods and uses are also described. Formula I wherein A is C5 alkyl, C6 alkyl, C5 alkenyl, C6 alkenyl, C(O)—(CH2)n—CH3 or CH(OH)—(CH2)n—CH3 wherein n is 3 or 4; R1 is H, F of OH; R2 is H, F, OH, C5 alkyl, C6 alkyl, C5 alkenyl, C6 alkenyl, C(O)—(CH2)n—CH3 or CH(OH)—(CH2)n—CH3 wherein n is 3 or 4; R3 is H, F, OH, or CH2Ph; R4 is H, F or OH; Q is 1) (CH2),C(O)OH wherein m is 1 or 2 2) CH(CH3)C(O)OH, 3) C(CH3)2C(O)OH, 4) CH(F)—C(O)OH, 5) CF2—C(O)OH or 6) C(O)—C(O)OH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Prometic Pharma SMT Limited
    Inventors: Lyne Gagnon, Pierre Laurin
  • Patent number: 10383849
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and idalopirdine for reducing falls in patients suffering from a CNS disease, in particular patients with Parkinson's disease, wherein balance, gait or movement is impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: H. LUNDBECK A/S
    Inventors: Inge E. M. de Jong, Aaron Kucinski, Martin Sarter
  • Patent number: 10383877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of 2,3-dihydroimidazo[1,2-c]quinazoline compounds, and of pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, for the treatment or prophylaxis of multiple myeloma, as a sole agent or in combination with other one or more other active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventor: Ningshu Liu
  • Patent number: 10385019
    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 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Michael Eck, Pasi Janne, Hwan Geun Choi, Jaebong Jang, Kwok-Kin Wong
  • Patent number: 10377763
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a compound useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for various diseases and symptoms related to orexin receptors, and a medical usage of the same. The present invention provides a morphinan derivative represented by the general formula (I) below or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, the morphinan derivative having excellent selectivity for and antagonism against orexin receptors and excellent therapeutic and prophylactic effects on drug dependence, and an orexin receptor antagonist and a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for drug dependence each containing it as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagase, Naoshi Yamamoto, Yoko Irukayama, Tsuyoshi Saitoh, Masashi Yanagisawa, Yasuyuki Nagumo
  • Patent number: 10369147
    Abstract: Compositions for topical administration of a hedgehog inhibitor compound are described. In one embodiment, the hedgehog inhibitor compound is patidegib and the topical composition comprises the compound in a solvent system of a monohydric primary alcohol and a polyol in a w/w ratio of between about 0.9-1.8. In another embodiment, the hedgehog inhibitor is itraconazole and the topical composition comprises the compound in a solvent system comprising a monohydric primary alcohol and an optionally lower alkyl end-capped oligomeric alkylene glycol in a w/w ratio of between about 0.8 and 2.6 and a fused bicyclic ether. Method of using the compositions are also described, where in one embodiment, the compositions are topically applied for treating or preventing basal cell carcinoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PellePharm, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Barry Brown, Cameron Robert Stevenson, Charles Rodney Greenaway Evans
  • Patent number: 10357490
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of treating neuroblastoma in a cancer patient by administration of a Trk inhibitor in combination with one more chemotherapeutic agents. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Trk inhibitor and one or more chemotherapeutic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: IGNYTA, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Dolph Hornby, Gang Li, David Wesley Anderson, Garrett M Brodeur, Radhika Iyer
  • Patent number: 10357505
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides prodrugs of biologically active 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds, salts and hydrates of the prodrugs, compositions comprising the prodrugs, intermediates and methods for synthesizing the prodrugs and methods of using the prodrugs in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Somasekhar Bhamidipati, Rajinder Singh, Thomas Sun, Esteban Masuda
  • Patent number: 10342767
    Abstract: A pharmaceutically acceptable composition and method of therapy for a kinase-dependent malignancy in a patient in need of such therapy is provided. The composition contains, as the only active agents, the combination of (a) an inhibitor of c-Fos, (b) an inhibitor of Dusp-1, and (c) an inhibitor of a tyrosine kinase. The composition is administered to the patient in a dosing regimen for a period sufficient to provide therapy for kinase-dependent malignancy. Also provided is a method to eradicate leukemia initiating cells (LIC) or cancer stem cells (CSC) in a patient being treated with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Mohammad Azam, Meenu Kesarwani
  • Patent number: 10342872
    Abstract: A method of inducing hair growth by topical administration of minoxidil is described, including topically applying minoxidil to a skin region susceptible to induction of hair growth, wherein the applied minoxidil is administered to the skin region (i) in a formulation comprising a release composition that mediates a dermal flux of minoxidil of at least 1.5 ?g minoxidil/cm2 skin area/hour for a time of from 17 to 27 hours, at an applied dose of from 2 to 20 mg minoxidil to said skin region, and with a period of from 16 to 30 hours before any subsequent reapplication of the formulation, or (ii) subsequent to administration to the skin region of said release composition so that the sequentially applied minoxidil and release composition together mediate the dermal flux of minoxidil of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CELMATRIX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shane Malek
  • Patent number: 10344014
    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: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Shiraki, Tadanobu Nakayama, Tomoaki Ota
  • Patent number: 10342766
    Abstract: Derivatives of 6-shogaol are described herein. Also described herein are methods of preparing the derivatives, as well as methods of using the derivatives to activate Nrf2 and to treat diseases associated with inflammation and/or oxidative stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University
    Inventors: Shengmin Sang, Yingdong Zhu, TinChung Leung
  • Patent number: 10336966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition having improved or enhanced fidelity and/or longevity of the fragrance profile, comprising fragrance materials in a diamond construction and at least one substantially non-odorous fragrance modulator. The invention also relates to methods of use of the compositions for perfuming suitable substrates, including hard surfaces and body parts, particularly skin and hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lynette Anne Makins Holland, Christelle Marie Sandrine Bonnet, Fabienne Pastor, Jose Maria Velazquez Mendoza, Jonathan Richard Stonehouse, William Eoghan Staite, David Thomas Stanton, Oreste Todini, Stephen Robert Schofield, Sarah Kyakyo Kanyunyuzi Nyakana, Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Isabelle Guimet