Patents Examined by Shobha Kantamneni
  • Patent number: 9353081
    Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, A1, A2 A3 and n are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. The compounds of the present invention are useful as inhibitors of aldosterone synthase. The compounds may be used, for example, in the treatment or prophylaxis of chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, primary aldosteronism and Cushing syndrome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Aebi, Kurt Amrein, Serena Maria Fantasia, Benoit Hornsperger, Bernd Kuhn, Yongfu Liu, Hans P. Maerki, Alexander V. Mayweg, Peter Mohr, Michelangelo Scalone, Xuefei Tan, Mingwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 9296707
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treatment of sexual dysfunctions by administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a delta opioid receptor agonist in an amount effective to delay the onset of ejaculation in the subject during sexual stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: VERSI GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Kwen-Jen Chang, Klim King, Kestutis P. Biciunas, Robert W. McNutt, William Pendergast, Shyi-Tai Jan
  • Patent number: 9253978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid compounds, and methods for making and using them. The sulfoperoxycarboxylic compounds of the invention are storage stable, water soluble and have low to no odor. Further, the compounds of the present invention can be formed from non-petroleum based renewable materials. The compounds of the present invention can be used as antimicrobials, and bleaching agents. The compounds of the present invention are also suitable for use as coupling agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Ecolab USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, Richard Staub, David D. McSherry, Keith G. Lascotte, Steven J. Lange, Frank Everts
  • Patent number: 9238019
    Abstract: The antitussive and bronchodilator use for an enaminone ester relates to the use of ethyl 4-[(4-chlorophenyl)amino]-6-methyl-2-oxocyclohex-3-en-1-oate (also referred to as “enaminone E121”) for treatment of respiratory conditions, and particularly to use of the ester as the active ingredient in a cough suppressant for nonproductive cough. The ester may be used to achieve an antitussive effect, a bronchodilator effect, or both in a patient in need thereof. The ester may be formulated in any desired delivery form (such as a tablet, a capsule, a time-release capsule, a syrup, a liquid, an injection, a spray, or an inhalant), and be combined with any suitable pharmaceutical carrier, vehicles, binders, fillers, disintegrators, lubricants, solubilizers, emulsifiers, surfactants, and other excipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KUWAIT
    Inventors: Ahmed Z. El-Hashim, Ivan O. Edafiogho, Samuel B. Kombian, Mariam H. Yousif
  • Patent number: 9233932
    Abstract: The invention provides (among other things) small molecule drugs that are chemically modified by covalent attachment of a water-soluble oligomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nektar Therapeutics
    Inventors: Zhongxu Ren, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Michael D. Bentley
  • Patent number: 9227918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a pharmaceutically effective amount of an short-acting calcium channel blocking compound to treat ischemic heart conditions, cardiac arrhythmias, hypertensive crisis in an emergency room setting, hypertension before, during, or after surgery, no-reflow phenomenon following reperfusion, and diseases associated with decreased skeletal muscle blood flow. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions formulated for use in such methods and to kits for such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Milestone Pharmaceuticals
    Inventors: Martin P. Maguire, Elise Rioux, Harry J. Leighton
  • Patent number: 9186340
    Abstract: The invention provides for ischemia/reperfusion protection compositions having one or more ketone bodies and melatonin. The invention also provides for methods of using such compositions to reduce or prevent ischemia/reperfusion injury due to blood loss, stroke or cardiopulmonary arrest or surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Matthew T. Andrews, Lester R. Drewes, Greg Beilman
  • Patent number: 9168248
    Abstract: Heteroaromatic compounds of structural formula (I) are selective inhibitors of stearoyl-coenzyme A delta-9 desaturase (SCD1) relative to other known stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturases. The compounds of the present invention are useful for the prevention and treatment of conditions related to abnormal lipid synthesis and metabolism, including cardiovascular disease, such as atherosclerosis; obesity; diabetes; neurological disease; metabolic syndrome; insulin resistance; and liver steatosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Lachance, Jean-Philippe Leclerc, Chun Sing Li, Oscar Miguel Moradei
  • Patent number: 9161930
    Abstract: The invention relates to application of 4,4?-diphenylmethane-bis(methyl) carbamates (DPMC) extracted and isolated from Cortex Mori and preparation of medicine for diabetic nephropathy. The pharmaceutical composition is made up of DPMC as active ingredient and the normal drug carriers, and the weight percentage of active ingredient is 0.1-99.5%. For the remarkable effect of prevention and cure for diabetic nephropathy and convenience for use, it will be a new facultative drug for patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Guangzhou Consun Medicine R & D Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Quan Zhu, Xinghua Shi, Dan Tang, Zhaoguang Zheng, Bao He, Tingting Duan, Fei Gu, Huiquan Cheng, Xiaoling Huang, Yanxia Huang, Rushang Wang
  • Patent number: 9155703
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions, methods, systems and kits for the controlled delivery of an active agent within a polymeric network upon the binding of a molecule that decreases the structural integrity of the polymeric network at one or more micro- or nanovacuoles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Board of Regents, the University of Texas System
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Peppas
  • Patent number: 9138004
    Abstract: Dairy animals have been milked since prehistory. Because these dairy animals are often kept in confined areas the teat areas of these animals are often contaminated with bacteria. This invention is concerned with a process for sanitizing these contaminated teat areas by treating these areas with a solution of Chloramine T. The preferred solutions for sanitizing the teat areas have concentrations of from about 0.005 to about 1 weight percent. Treating solutions for use in this invention may further incorporate a coloring agents, wetting agent, surfactants, healing agents, dyes, thickening agents, skin conditioning agents, softeners etc. The process of this invention is fast acting and is effective against a wide spectrum of bacteria. After treatment the teat area of the dairy animal being milked is bacteria free and hence bacterial contamination of the milk, and Mastitis infections are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: H&S Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles A. Schneider
  • Patent number: 9125939
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a carbostyril derivative which is a dopamine-sero-tonin system stabilizer and a mood stabilizer in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The carbostyril derivative may be aripiprazole or a metabolite thereof. The mood stabilizer may include but is not limited to lithium, valproic acid, divalproex sodium, carbamaza-pine, oxcarbamazapine, zonisamide, lamotragine, topiramate, gabapentin, levetiracetam or clonazepam. These compositions are used to treat patients with mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder with or without psychotic features, mania or mixed episodes. Methods are provided for separate administration of a carbostyril derivative and a mood stabilizer to a patient with a mood disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Taro Iwamoto, Tsuyoshi Hirose
  • Patent number: 9060966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a compound of Formula (I??) or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate, isomer or prodrug thereof in the manufacturing of a medicament for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of arthritis and pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventors: Pedro Cuevas Sánchez, Guillermo Gimenez Gallego, Javier Angulo Frutos, Rosa Maria Lozano Puerto, Antonio Romero Garrido, Serafin Valverde Lopez, Maria Luisa Krauel
  • Patent number: 9023897
    Abstract: A biodegradable drug delivery compositions comprising a triblock copolymer containing a polyester and a polyethylene glycol and a diblock copolymer containing a polyester and an end-capped polyethylene glycol, as well as a pharmaceutically active principle is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: MedinCell
    Inventor: Georges Gaudriault
  • Patent number: 9023969
    Abstract: A powder surface-treated with an organopolysiloxane represented by the following average compositional formula (1): R1aR2bR3cSiO(4-a-b-c)/2??(1) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-30 alkyl, C1-30 fluoroalkyl, C6-30 aryl, and C6-30 aralkyl groups, R2 is a group represented by the following formula (2), provided that R2 is bonded to at least one terminal end of the organopolysiloxane when c equals 0, R3 is a group represented by the following formula (3): wherein R2 is as defined above, each R8 is, independently, selected from the group consisting of C1-30 alkyl, C1-30 fluoroalkyl, C6-30 aryl, and C6-30 aralkyl groups, Q is CdH2d or an oxygen atom, wherein d is an integer of from 1 to 5, k is an integer of from 0 to 500, and h is an integer of from 0 to 3, a is a number of from 1.5 to 2.5, b is a number of from 0.001 to 1.5, and c is a number of from 0 to 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Kamei, Ryuichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 9018142
    Abstract: Aqueous well treatment fluid compositions with biocidal activity are disclosed comprising a polymer for modifying fluid viscosity in the aqueous fluid, an organic monocarboxylic peracid being present in an anti-microbial amount of about 1 ppm to about 1000 ppm, and a controlled amount of hydrogen peroxide also being present. Peracetic acid is the preferred peracid. The viscosity-modifying polymer in the aqueous well treatment fluid composition may serve to reduce friction in the fluid or increase fluid viscosity. A method of using such compositions is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: PeroxyChem LLC
    Inventors: John M. Rovison, Jr., Shurong Huang, Henry A. Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 8952075
    Abstract: Bioactive liquid formulations are formed of combinations of absorbable, segmented aliphatic polyurethane compositions and liquid polyether for use as vehicles for the controlled release of at least one active agent for the conventional and unconventional treatment of different forms of cancer and the management of at least one type of bacterial, fungal, and viral infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Poly-Med, Inc.
    Inventor: Shalaby W. Shalaby
  • Patent number: 8946251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating a patient suffering from a thermoregulatory dysfunction, especially hot flashes and flushes associated with hormonal changes due to naturally occurring menopause (whether male or female) or due to chemically or surgically induced menopause. The method is also applicable to treating the hot flashes, hot flushes, or night sweats associated with disease states that disrupt normal hormonal regulation of body temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Noven Therapeutics, LLC
    Inventor: Patricia Allison Tewes Richards
  • Patent number: 8916558
    Abstract: This invention relates to powders for reconstitution comprising the NNRTI TMC278 dispersed in certain water-soluble polymers, which can be used in the treatment of HIV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
    Inventors: Lieven Elvire Colette Baert, Elke Van Gyseghem, Guy René Jaak Van Den Mooter, Peter Jozef Maria Van Remoortere
  • Patent number: 8871807
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel combined laundry detergent, bleach, and antimicrobial composition incorporating novel sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid compounds, and methods for making and using them. The sulfoperoxycarboxylic compounds used in compositions of the invention are storage stable, water soluble and have low to no odor. Compositions of the invention may be in the form of a liquid, a solid, or a gel. The sulfoperoxycarboxylic compounds useful in preparing compositions of the present invention can be formed from non-petroleum based renewable materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Gohl, Robert D. P. Hei, Thomas Merz, Peter Jens Forth, Matthias Kreysel, David D. McSherry, Junzhong Li, Jonathan P. Fast