Patents Examined by Svetlana M Ivanova
  • Patent number: 10010534
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to a GMC1 co-solvent formulation. The GMC1 co-solvent formulation described herein can be used for the treatment of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and other hormone-related conditions involving androgen, glucocorticoid, and progesterone receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Marc Cox, Huan Xie, Oscar Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 9962392
    Abstract: There is provided a transnasal anticonvulsive pharmaceutical composition including a poorly soluble anticonvulsant. The anticonvulsive pharmaceutical composition comprising a poorly soluble anticonvulsant as an active component, which is transnasally spray-administered, comprises diethylene glycol monoethyl ether and fatty acid ester, wherein the fatty acid ester is selected from the group consisting of caprylocaproyl polyoxylglyceride, isopropyl palmitate, oleoyl polyoxylglyceride, sorbitan monolaurate 20, methyl laurate, ethyl laurate, and polysorbate 20. Also, the anticonvulsive pharmaceutical composition comprising a poorly soluble anticonvulsant as an active component, which is transnasally spray-administered, comprises diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, fatty acid ester, methylpyrrolidone, water and alcohol. Therefore, the transnasal anticonvulsive pharmaceutical composition may be useful to highly enhance the bioavailability of the poorly soluble anticonvulsant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Ki Baek, Jae-Hoon Jo, Hye-Jin Chang
  • Patent number: 9949947
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a complex of delphinidin and a sulfoalkyl ether-?-cyclodextrin for use in the treatment of malignant melanoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAPIOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Roewer, Jens Broscheit
  • Patent number: 9949958
    Abstract: The application describes treatment of hepatic encephalopathy using gastrointestinal specific antibiotics. One example of a gastrointestinal specific antibiotic is rifaximin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd
    Inventor: William Forbes
  • Patent number: 9943508
    Abstract: There is described a method for increasing the maximal tolerated dose and thus the efficacy of an acetyl choline esterase inhibitor (AChEI) in a patient suffering from an Alzheimer type dementia by decreasing concomitant adverse effects by administration of said AChEI in combination with a non-anticholinergic antiemetic agent, whereby an enhanced acetyl choline esterase inhibition in the CNS of said patient is achieved and alleviation of the symptoms of Alzheimer type dementia in said patient is thereby improved to a greater extent. The use of a non-anticholinergic antiemetic agent for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of Alzheimer type dementia in combination with an acetyl choline esterase inhibitor (AChEI) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising (a) a 5HT3 receptor antagonist, a dopamine antagonist, a H1-receptor antagonist, a cannabinoid agonist, aprepitant or casopitant as an antiemetic agent and (b) an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Chase Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas N. Chase, Kathleen E. Clarence-Smith
  • Patent number: 9943494
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating a complication associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the method comprising administering an effective amount of a nitric oxide precursor to a subject in need thereof. Methods and compositions for treating vasospasm, the method comprising administering an effective amount of a nitric oxide precursor to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Marshall L. Summar, Frederick E. Barr, Reid Carleton Thompson
  • Patent number: 9926273
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds and methods for modulating one or more components of a kinase cascade. The invention also relates to substantially pure compound 1 and substantially pure compound 1 salt (e.g., compound 1 hydrochloride salt and compound 1 benzenesulfonate salt). The invention further relates to methods of preparing substantially pure compound 1 and compound 1 salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Athenex, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Hangauer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9925274
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a complex of delphinidin and a sulfoalkyl ether ?-cyclodextrin for use as an antiphlogistic and/or immunosuppressive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAPIOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Roewer, Jens Broscheit
  • Patent number: 9925179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of decreasing cholesterol or low density lipid protein in a subject in need thereof comprising: administering to said subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of a composition comprising dextromethorphan. The present invention also relates to a method of treating a subject suffered from bipolar II disorder, comprising administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of valproic acid and a combination of dextromethorphan and memantine, wherein the dose of dextromethorphan or memantine is a low dose not sufficient to work as a N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist. The present invention further relates to a composition for treating bipolar II disorder, which comprises valproic acid and a combination of dextromethorphan and memantine, wherein the dose of dextromethorphan or memantine is a low dose not sufficient to work as a N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Ru-Band Lu
  • Patent number: 9925198
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a pharmaceutical composition and health food for preventing or treating hearing loss, wherein the pharmaceutical composition and health food contain carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts as an effective component. More particularly, a composition including carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts as an effective component is provided as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating ototoxic hearing loss due to the carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts prevent damages on auditory cells from ototoxic drugs such as cisplatin anticancer drugs, and the composition may be used as a drug for treating noise-induced hearing loss and age-related hearing loss, as well as ototoxic hearing loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC CORPORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yun-Hoon Choung, Yeon Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 9918984
    Abstract: Pharmaceuticals compositions comprising the 2S, 4R, ketoconazole enantiomer or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, and solvates, that are substantially free of the 2R, 4S ketoconazole enantiomer are useful to reduce cortisol synthese and for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, and other diseases and conditions, including but not limited to Cushing's Syndrome, depression, and glaucoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CORTENDO AB (PUBL)
    Inventor: Per Marin
  • Patent number: 9907786
    Abstract: Human therapeutic treatment compositions comprise at least two of a curcumin component, a harmine component, and an isovanillin component, and preferably all three in combination. The agents are effective for the treatment of human conditions, especially human cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Ions Pharmaceutical S.à r.l.
    Inventors: Gene H. Zaid, Thomas W. Burgoyne
  • Patent number: 9896442
    Abstract: A method of treating or preventing fungal infection, which includes identifying a plant or animal having a fungal infection and administering an effective amount of an anti-fungal composition to the plant or animal to reduce the fungal infection. In a preferred form of the present invention, the antifungal composition is compound 13 or 33 and is combined with an azole compound, such as fluconazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bruce Steven Klein, Brad Mark Tebbets
  • Patent number: 9889107
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating auditory impairments in a subject in need of treatment comprising administering to said subject an effective amount of a composition comprising, as an active agent, one or more of a carboxy alkyl ester, a quinic acid derivative, a caffeic acid derivative, a ferulic acid derivative, or a quinic acid lactone or derivative thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an acceptable carrier or excipient, so as to treat auditory impairments in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventor: O'neil W. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 9889113
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating soft tissue calcification in a subject, comprising a step of administering to said subject an effective amount of ferric organic compound, such as ferric citrate. The claimed methods may prevent, reverse, delay or stabilize soft tissue calcification in a subject having chronic kidney disease. Affected soft tissue calcification includes soft tissue calcification in the joint, skin, eye, in cardiovascular system such as heart valve, myocardium, coronary arteries and arteriole, or in internal organs such as kidney and lung.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Panion & BF Biotech Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Chan, Winston Town, Shou Shan Chiang
  • Patent number: 9888709
    Abstract: Compositions and methods useful to enhance neurologic development of a growing animal are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hlll's Pet Nutrition, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Yamka, Kim Gene Friesen, Steven Curtis Zicker
  • Patent number: 9867820
    Abstract: Compositions and therapeutic uses of HEPES and derivatives in the treatment of pain associated with cancers and side-effects including post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment are disclosed herein. HEPES is also used to treat neurodegenerative and neurological diseases, demyelinization injuries, and side-effects and withdrawal symptoms associated with benzodiazepines, anti-depressants, and other neurological agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Bespoke Bioscience, LLC
    Inventor: Ivan E. Danhof
  • Patent number: 9861698
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating disorders of the nail and nail bed. Such compositions contain a vehicle in which all components of the composition are dissolved, suspended, dispersed, or emulsified, a non-volatile solvent, a wetting agent, and a pharmaceutically active ingredient that is soluble in the non-volatile solvent and/or a mixture of the vehicle and the non-volatile solvent, which composition has a surface tension of 40 dynes/cm or less and has continuing spreadability, and which composition is effective in treating a disorder of the nail or nail bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DOW PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Gareth Winckle, Gregory T. Fieldson
  • Patent number: 9855251
    Abstract: The present invention provides uses of a glucokinase activator in combination with metformin. Uses include treating type 2 diabetes, lowering blood glucose, improving insulin sensitivity, enhancing phosphorylation of glucose, and improving the therapeutic effectiveness of metformin. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions that comprise a GK activator and metformin. The invention also provides a salt formed between metformin and a GK activator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: vTv Therapeutics LLC
    Inventors: Adnan M. M. Mjalli, Maria Carmen Valcarce Lopez
  • Patent number: 9849123
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treatment of conditions affecting skin and/or mucosal surfaces of a subject that make use of an imidazoquinoline compound and a retinoid agent are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: 442 Ventures, LLC
    Inventor: J. Mark Jackson