Patents Examined by Wu-Cheng Winston Shen
  • Patent number: 9296702
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for the treatment of diseases, particularly those diseases characterized by diminished or aberrant cellular function, including AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's Disease. The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of rosuvastatin enantiomer compounds in their (3R, 5R), (3S, 5R), or (3S, 5S) configurations, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Biologically-active rosuvastatin enantiomer compounds with (3R, 5R), (3S, 5R), and (3S, 5S) stereochemistry are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Terence J. Scallen
  • Patent number: 9295677
    Abstract: The invention provides, in part, polyhydroxylated bile acids for treating biliary disorders, for example, biliary disorders arising out of cholestasis of portal hypertension. The invention also provides, in part, polyhydroxylated bile acids for stimulating bile flow. New compounds 2?,3?,7?,12?-tetrahydroxy-5?-cholanoic acid and 3?.4?,7?,12?-tetrahydroxy-5?-cholanoic acid are disclosed, uses thereof and synthesis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Qing Bile Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Ling, Renxue Wang, Jonathan Ahab Sheps
  • Patent number: 9295639
    Abstract: Methods of treating at least one condition chosen from pain, inflammation, and fever in a critically ill patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the critically ill patient an intravenous pharmaceutical composition comprising ibuprofen using a first dosage regimen, wherein the first dosage regimen produces a first pharmacokinetic profile in critically ill patients that is about equivalent to a second pharmacokinetic profile produced by administration of the intravenous pharmaceutical composition using a second dosage regimen of ibuprofen to non-critically ill patients, wherein the at least one condition of the critically ill patient is thereby treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Pavliv, Amy Dix Rock
  • Patent number: 9290750
    Abstract: New highly functionalizable Huprine derivatives of formula I: and a method for preparing such compounds and their use for treating neurological diseases in which the level of acetylcholine is affected such as Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN
    Inventors: Cyril Ronco, Pierre Yves Renard, Ludovic Jean, Florian Nachon, Anthony Romieu
  • Patent number: 9289401
    Abstract: A process for improving the health of a subject, the process comprising orally administering a composition comprising hydroxytyrosol to the subject to provide the subject with a daily dose of about 0.1 to about 750 .mu.g hydroxytyrosol per kg of body weight, and a dietary supplement in dosage unit form for oral administration, the dosage unit form comprising a composition containing about 1 microgram to about 50 milligrams hydroxytyrosol or an ester or salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Darlene E. McCord
  • Patent number: 9290482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to amino-substituted imidazopyridazine compounds of general formula (I); in which A, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and n are as defined in the claims, to methods of preparing said compounds, to intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, in particular of a hyper-proliferative and/or angiogenesis disorder, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Knut Eis, Florian Puehler, Ludwig Zorn, Volker Schulze, Detlev Sülzle, Philip Lienau, Andrea Hägebarth, Kirstin Petersen, Ulf Bömer
  • Patent number: 9284252
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating benign hyperproliferative diseases of the epidermis by administering a composition comprising at least one jasmonate ester derivative. In particular, the present invention provides jasmonate ester derivatives as potent compounds useful for the treatment of disorders such as actinic keratoses with reduced side effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SEPAL PHARMA LTD.
    Inventors: Max Herzberg, Frederic Revah
  • Patent number: 9284341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form which may comprise carbamoyl glycinated chitosan, and particularly it relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form comprising the novel polymer in a lyophilized polymeric wafer form which shows rapid disintegration and dissolution characteristics in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar, Viness Pillay, Yahya Essop Choonara
  • Patent number: 9284250
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a pharmaceutical compound having the Formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the prevention or treatment of a cognitive, neurodegenerative or neuronal disorder or disease such as the Alzheimer Disease, a pharmaceutical composition and a method of preparing a pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: CESA ALLIANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Reiner Van Tilborg
  • Patent number: 9283199
    Abstract: Halogenated aliphatic carboxylic acids, salts and/or oligomers or polymers thereof, which exhibit a devitalizing effect of neoplastic tissues, are disclosed. Methods and uses that utilize these compounds for the treatment of medical conditions associated with a neoplastic tissue are also disclosed. Further disclosed are methods and uses that utilize these compounds for reducing or abolishing blood and lymph as well local dissemination of malignant neoplastic cells during a surgical removal thereof, thereby preventing recurrences and distance metastases, and/or inducing immune response to potentially malignant, pre-malignant and/or malignant cells. Further disclosed are novel oligomeric forms of halogenated aliphatic carboxylic acids, pharmaceutical compositions containing same and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Cimas Limited
    Inventors: Shalva Mardi, Rosa Mardi, Gymsher Mardi, Laura Mardi, Shimon Slavin
  • Patent number: 9284301
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds having the structure of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are soluble guanylate cyclase activators. The compounds are capable of modulating the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”) and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The compounds are useful for treatment or prevention of cardiovascular diseases, endothelial dysfunction, diastolic dysfunction, atherosclerosis, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, angina pectoris, thromboses, restenosis, myocardial infarction, strokes, cardiac insufficiency, pulmonary hypertonia, erectile dysfunction, asthma bronchiale, chronic kidney insufficiency, diabetes, or cirrhosis of the liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Darby Schmidt, Subharekha Raghavan, John Stelmach, Jian Guo, Jonathan Groeper, Linda Brockunier, Keith Rosauer, Hong Shen, Rui Liang, Fa-Xiang Ding
  • Patent number: 9278940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds, which are useful for inhibition of BET protein function by binding to bromodomains, and their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Zenith Epigenetics Corp.
    Inventors: David John Fairfax, Bryan Cordell Duffy, Gregory Scott Martin, John Frederick Quinn, Shuang Liu, Gregory Steven Wagner, Peter Ronald Young
  • Patent number: 9278097
    Abstract: The invention provides a medication for the prophylaxis and/or therapy against diseases or complications in connection with portal hypertension, particularly against bleeding complications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Universitatsklinikum Freiburg
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kreisel, Peter Deibert
  • Patent number: 9273064
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I wherein each of m and n is independently 0 or 1; R1 and R2, together with the carbon atom to which they are attached, form a heterocyclic ring comprising one or two heteroatoms selected from oxygen, sulfur, —S(O)— and —S(O)2—; R3 is —CHF2, —CF3, —OCHF2, —OCF3, —SCHF2 or —SCF3; X is a bond, —CH2—, or —NH—; A is aryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, arylalkyl, heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, heterocycloalkyl or heterocycloalkenyl, optionally substituted with one or more, same or different substituents selected from R4; and R4 is hydrogen, amino, thioxo, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, halogen, oxo, thia, or hydroxy; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates or solvates thereof, have been found to exhibit PDE4 inhibiting activity, and may therefore be useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LEO PHARMA A/S
    Inventor: Simon Feldbaek Nielsen
  • Patent number: 9273028
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful as inhibitors of Tec family kinases, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: Biogen MA Inc., Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Hopkins, Daniel Scott, Patrick Conlon, Tracy J. Jenkins, Noel Powell, Bing Guan, Julio H. Cuervo, Deping Wang, Art Taveras
  • Patent number: 9271948
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an ameliorating agent for a disease based on vesicourethral dyssynergia, comprising, as an active ingredient, 3-(15-hydroxypentadecyl)-2,4,4-trimethyl-2-cyclohexene-1-one, a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof. The disease based on vesicourethral dyssynergia is any of dysuria accompanying a lifestyle-related disease (such as diabetic dysuria), idiopathic dysuria, dysuria after pelvic surgery, dysuria accompanying spinal cord injury, dysuria accompanying spinal canal stenosis, dysuria accompanying benign prostatic hypertrophy, dysuria accompanying high-pressure voiding/high-pressure urine storage, neurogenic or nonneurogenic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), detrusor sphincter dyssynergia, and detrusor bladder neck dyssynergia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Hayashi, Atsushi Hakozaki
  • Patent number: 9265759
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating macular degeneration and other forms of retinal disease whose etiology involves the accumulation of A2E and/or lipofuscin, and, more specifically, for preventing the formation and/or accumulation of A2E are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Jordan, John E. Dowling, John Clifford Chabala
  • Patent number: 9266877
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds which inhibit the activity of anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL proteins, compositions containing the compounds and methods of treating diseases during which is expressed anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ABBVIE INC.
    Inventors: Le Wang, George Doherty, Xilu Wang, Zhi-Fu Tao, Milan Bruncko, Aaron R. Kunzer, Michael D. Wendt, Xiaohong Song, Robin Frey, Todd M. Hansen, Gerard M. Sullivan, Andrew Judd, Andrew Souers
  • Patent number: 9260431
    Abstract: Compounds and compositions for treating injuries caused by exposure to chemical warfare agents are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: HYDRA BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventor: Jayhong A. Chong
  • Patent number: 9248113
    Abstract: A method of eliminating or significantly decreasing shifts between dyskinesia and bradykinesia in a patient suffering from an advanced stage of Parkinson's Disease comprises for a predetermined time period intravenously, subcutaneously or intrathekally administering to the patient by continuous infusion a stable and therapeutically acceptable solution comprising at least 5 mg/ml of Levodopa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Dizlin Medical Design AB
    Inventor: Nil Dizdar Segrell