Patents Examined by William Y Lee
  • Patent number: 10881647
    Abstract: Since each of the site I sodium channel blockers have a unique activity and cannot be used to extrapolate the same effective dosage for another site I sodium channel blocker, studies were conducted to identify dosages of neosaxitoxin (“NeoSTX”) and bupivacaine, alone or in combination with epinephrine, to provide two to three days of pain relief in humans. Bupivacaine-NeoSTX combinations produce more reliable blockade and longer duration blockade compared to NeoSTX alone. The three-way combination of NeoSTX-bupivacaine-epinephrine produces more prolonged local anesthesia than the two-way combination of NeoSTX-bupivacaine. Addition of epinephrine to this NeoSTX-bupivacaine combination dramatically prolongs the duration of complete blockade to a mechanical stimulus. These results led to development of specific combination dosage formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: THE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Berde, Daniel S. Kohane
  • Patent number: 10857211
    Abstract: Markers for genomic instability in Fanconi Anemia (FA) and other pathologies for therapeutic and diagnostic uses. In one embodiment, glycosphingolipid metabolism is altered in the FA deficient squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells, based on analysis of a metabolomics/lipidomics platform. The data indicated ganglioside metabolism was important in FA patients' susceptibility to SCC progression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Susanne I. Wells, Kenneth D. R. Setchell, Lindsey Romick-Rosendale, Wujuan Zhang, Xueheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 10857144
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for methods of treating a patient with a CYP3A4 substrate drug, wherein the patient is treated with posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient stops posaconazole treatment, waits for at least 2 days, and then is treated with the CYP3A4 substrate drug as soon as it is safe to do so. In some embodiments, treatment with the CYP3A4 substrate drug is delayed for about 2-42 days after stopping posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient is treated with a reduced dose of the CYP3A4 substrate drug for about 2-42 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BOW RIVER LLC
    Inventors: Sundar Srinivasan, Christina Chow
  • Patent number: 10851047
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds for use in inhibiting a microbial alternative oxidase (AOX) and/or cytochrome bc1 complex. The invention extends to the use of such inhibitors in agrochemicals and in pharmaceuticals, for treating microbial infections, including fungal infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
    Inventors: Anthony Lennox Moore, Mary Susan Albury, Luke Edward Young, Catherine Elliott
  • Patent number: 10849863
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this invention include methods for treating disease and methods for administering a compound of the invention. In some aspects of the invention, diseases can be treated by administration of compositions comprising a compound of the invention. Pharmaceutical compositions of some embodiments of the present invention comprise a compound of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: J. Christopher States, Ben Frazier Taylor, John O. Trent
  • Patent number: 10842767
    Abstract: The present invention demonstrates the therapeutic use of ketone esters for seizure disorders, Alzheimer's disease and malignant brain cancer, which are associated with metabolic dysregulation. The administration of ketone esters resulted therapeutic ketosis and neuroprotection against seizures resulting from CNS oxygen toxicity. Supplemental ketones were also found to reduce superoxide production in cultured cortex neurons exposed to hyperbaric oxygen and A?-42, and to decrease proliferation and viability in U87 glioma cells. These observations support the therapeutic effect of ketones for seizure disorders, Alzheimer's disease and malignant brain cancer. The ketone esters may be derived from acetoacetate and can include R,S-1,3-butanediol acetoacetate monoester, R,S-1,3-butanediol acetoacetate diester, or a combination of the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Dominic Paul D'Agostino, Jay B. Dean, Raffaele Pilla, Patrick Arnold
  • Patent number: 10835529
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for methods of treating a patient with a CYP3A4 substrate drug, wherein the patient is treated with posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient stops posaconazole treatment, waits for at least 2 days, and then is treated with the CYP3A4 substrate drug as soon as it is safe to do so. In some embodiments, treatment with the CYP3A4 substrate drug is delayed for about 2-42 days after stopping posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient is treated with a reduced dose of the CYP3A4 substrate drug for about 2-42 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: BOW RIVER LLC
    Inventors: Sundar Srinivasan, Christina Chow
  • Patent number: 10835507
    Abstract: The present specification provides methods of treating a muscular disorder with a combination of a RXR agonist and a thyroid hormone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Io Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roshantha A. Chandraratna, Martin E. Sanders
  • Patent number: 10827755
    Abstract: Substituted imidazole and substituted pyrazole compounds and compositions derived therefrom can be useful in controlling insect pests. Suitable imidazole compounds can be analogues of 2,4,5-triphenyl-1H-imidazole, wherein the C-2 phenyl group bears at least one substitution, the C-4 and C-5 phenyl groups are optionally substituted, and N-1 is unsubstituted. Suitable pyrazole compounds can bear a 1,3,4-substitution pattern, with an optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted alkyl group being present at N-1, an optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl group being present at C-3, and a secondary amide group being present at C-4. These compounds and compositions derived therefrom can be administered to a plant, seed, soil or insect to control a variety of insect pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Crawford, Matthew Dimmic, Rae Lawrence, Christina Marie Taylor
  • Patent number: 10815191
    Abstract: The invention relates to cosmetic formulations comprising specific ester quats based on isopropanolamine or tetrahydroxypropyl ethylenediamine, and to the use of these ester quats in cosmetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Schwab, Hans-Juergen Koehle, Kurt Seidel, Ursula Westerholt, Hans Henning Wenk
  • Patent number: 10799498
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of transitioning patients or obese patients being treated with vortioxetine to treatment with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). The methods provided include delaying administration of the MAOI for certain time periods after stopping administration of vortioxetine. The patients or obese patients possess various capabilities of metabolizing vortioxetine. The current disclosure also includes methods of switching patients to a MAOI intended to treat psychiatric disorders while being treated with vortioxetine. The methods disclosed further comprise determining vortioxetine plasma clearance and washout time for patients with different body fat status and/or different CYP2D6 metabolizer status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Rundle Research, LLC.
    Inventors: Sundar Srinivasan, Christina Chow
  • Patent number: 10792266
    Abstract: Compositions comprising fatty acid analogs are provided for treating metabolic syndrome, anemia, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, inflammation, insulin resistance, prediabetes, fatty liver disease, steatohepatitis, iron overload, neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, and other related conditions. Methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of metabolic syndrome and other conditions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Epitracker, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie Venn-Watson, John Reiner, Richard Lumpkin
  • Patent number: 10780068
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating glaucoma in a patient, comprising: obtaining a biological sample from the patient; testing the biological sample for presence of a mutation in Kir6.2 protein or KCNJ11 gene; and provided that the biological sample tests positive for the presence of a mutation in Kir6.2 protein or KCNJ11 gene, administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising tolbutamide or a physiologically equivalent salt or solvate thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also provided herein are methods of maintaining and/or improving eye health in a subject, comprising: administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising tolbutamide or a physiologically equivalent salt or solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventors: Nino Sorgente, Gabriele Thumann
  • Patent number: 10765673
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer treatment comprising compounds of Formulae I, II, and III. In some aspects, the invention relates to the treatment of B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers. In other aspects, the invention provides methods for treating particular types of hematopoietic cancers, such as, for example, B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more compounds of Formulae I, II, and III. Combination therapy with, for example, 26S proteasome inhibitors, such as, for example, Bortezomib, are also included. In another aspect the present invention relates to autoimmune treatment with compounds of Formulae I, II, and III. In another aspect, this invention relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Cardone, David J. Richard
  • Patent number: 10744119
    Abstract: A compound to inhibit a glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzyme activity having formula (I). The compound having formula (I) is an antimalarial compound that inhibits the growth of the Plasmodium spp parasites. The compound of the present invention inhibits the growth of a malarial parasite by 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: University of Puerto Rico
    Inventors: Adelfa E. Serrano-Brizuela, Emilee E. Colón-Lorenzo, Jürgen Bosh, Daisy Colón-López
  • Patent number: 10736863
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of inhibiting or reversing the progression of cataract formation or presbyopia in an eye by administering a bifunctional molecule comprising a substituted or unsubstituted amine, succinimide, carboxylic acid, isocyanate, isothiocyanate, sulfonyl chloride, aldehyde, carbodiimide, acyl azide, anhydride, fluorobenzene, carbonate, N-hydroxysuccinimide ester, imidoester, epoxide or fluorophenyl ester covalently linked to a molecular bristle. Both presbyopia and cataracts are caused by aggregation of the soluble crystalline lens proteins called the crystallins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    Inventor: Murugappan Muthukumar
  • Patent number: 10738018
    Abstract: Chemical entities of Formula (I): Including enantiomers thereof, wherein R1 has any of the values described herein, and compositions comprising such chemical entities; their preparation; and their use in various methods, including the treatment of depression, pain, cognitive disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, and other neurological and peripheral disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Dart Neuroscience, LLC
    Inventors: Laurent Gomez, Mark Eben Massari
  • Patent number: 10716769
    Abstract: A method for preventing and treating viral infection and tumor using a drug composition having a benzophenone compound and analogues thereof having a symmetrical core structure and having same or different number of hydroxyl substitutions in benzene rings. The drug preparation for preventing and treating HIV, herpes virus and papillomavirus infection and the diseases induced thereby, wherein such viral infections include AIDS, genital warts, flat warts, common warts, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, vaginitis, cervicitis, cervical erosion and senile dementia, as well as cervical cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer and colon cancer induced thereby. Preparation of hydroxy-substituted benzophenones and analogues thereof together with various compatible excipients into different medicaments or personal disinfected sanitary articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU JTREAT BIOSCI. LTD.
    Inventors: Weihua Qin, Guangyu Jiang
  • Patent number: 10709714
    Abstract: The provided embodiments are based in some aspects on the demonstration herein of a role for gastrin in regulating the aging gut-ovary axis and effects of targeting gastrin activity in reversing gastrin-mediated bone loss. Provided are methods, compositions and agents, including gastrin antagonists, for treatment, amelioration, and prevention of bone diseases and conditions. Methods for treating a bone disease or condition associated with hypergastrinemia in a subject in need thereof may comprise administering to the subject at least one dose of a therapeutically effective amount of a gastrin receptor-targeting agent, thereby treating the bone disease or condition associated with hypergastrinemia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Clifton Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Irvin Mark Modlin, Mark Kidd
  • Patent number: 10701938
    Abstract: The present invention provide chemical modulators of insect olfactory receptors. In particular, compounds and compositions are provided that can inhibit host targeting functions in insects such as mosquitos. Method of employing such agents, and articles incorporating the same, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Laurence Zwiebel, Gregory M. Pask, David Rinker, Patrick L. Jones