Patents Examined by Yong L Chu
  • Patent number: 10662150
    Abstract: A sulfonic acid salt composition includes compounds of formula (I), wherein n is 1 or 2, R1 is H or C1-C6 alkyl, R2 is COOM, SO3M or CH(OH)SO2—OM, each M is an equivalent of a multivalent metal, preferably magnesium, calcium, aluminum, zinc and combinations thereof. The molar ratio of a compound wherein n is 1 to a compound wherein n is 2 is below 0.1. The sulfonic acid salt composition is useful for color stabilization of non-living organic matter such as from lacquers, paints, powder-coatings, and polymers in particular water-absorbent polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: L. BRÜGGEMANN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Berghofer, Stefan Mark, Tamara Bittlingmayer, Jessica Schreiweis
  • Patent number: 10654793
    Abstract: 1-Aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid non-hydrate can be obtained by treating 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid hydrochloride with a tertiary amine in the presence of a C3-C4 alcohol and water, keeping the reaction mixture at 50° C. or below, collecting the precipitated crystal of 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid 0.5 hydrate by filtration, and heating the obtained crystal to 80 to 245° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Kawamura, Hiroaki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10646574
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for preparing intraarticular formulations comprising biocompatible pharmaceutical agents and use thereof in the treatment of diseases, such as degenerative bone diseases, including osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, or other joints, and similar chronic or acute destructive arthropathies resulting from autoimmune disorders or infectious disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Tarrand, Borje S. Andersson
  • Patent number: 10624871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) ?-lactam antibiotics and (b) a metallo-?-lactamases (MBLs) inhibitor. The inhibitor relates to Bi(III) compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present patent also provides methods of making Bi(III) compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also provided is a method for treating MBLs-producing bacterial infection using a metal replacement mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Hongzhe Sun, Richard Yi Tsun Kao, Runming Wang, Tsz Pui Lai, Hongmin Zhang, Hongyan Li
  • Patent number: 10618864
    Abstract: The invention describes processes to prepare levulinic acid, formic acid and/or hydroxymethyl furfural from various biomass materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: GFBiochemicals IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Brian D. Mullen, Cora M. Leibig, Louis A. Kapicak, Donald L. Bunning, Steven R. Strand, Daniel Joseph Brunelle, Marc David Rodwogin, Robert Page Shirtum, Andrew J. Louwagie, Dorie Janine Yontz, Matthew John Tjosaas
  • Patent number: 10617667
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for treating brain tumors, as well as a medicament for treating brain tumors. Provided is a medicament for treating brain tumors, the medicament containing a combination of 4-[4-cyano-2-({[(2?R,4S)-6-(isopropylcarbamoyl)-2,3-dihydrospiro[chromene-4,1?-cyclopropan]-2?-yl]carbonyl}amino)phenyl]butanoic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and an anti-PD-1 antibody. The combination exhibits an excellent effect for treating brain tumors, and is thus useful to treat brain tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., The Regents of The University of California
    Inventors: Hideho Okada, Tohru Kotani, Kazuhiko Takeda
  • Patent number: 10610525
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nevakar Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Puri, Prem Sagar Akasapu, Irfan A. Mohammed, Kumaresh Soppimath, Iouri V. Ilitchev
  • Patent number: 10603348
    Abstract: A composition comprising caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, said caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives extracted from any part of oil palm including but not confined to the vegetation liquor of palm oil milling and palm oil mill effluent, and a method for use in the preparation of a composition containing caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, said caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD
    Inventors: T.G. Sambandan, ChoKyun Rha, Anthony J. Sinskey, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Yew Ai Tan, Kalyana Sundram P. Manickam, Mohd Basri Wahid
  • Patent number: 10597387
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of any one of Formulae (I) to (V) (e.g., compounds of any one of Formulae (I-1) to (I-9)), and methods for treating Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) and other B cell neoplams in a subject using the compounds. The methods comprise administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the compounds. Also provided are methods to treat B cell neoplasms using the compounds in combination with inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK1), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK4), bone marrow on X chromosome kinase (BMX), phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), transforming growth factor b-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), and/or a Src family kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Treon, Sara Jean Buhrlage, Nathanael S. Gray, Li Tan, Guang Yang
  • Patent number: 10590127
    Abstract: The present application provides novel compounds and methods for preparing and using these compounds. In one embodiment, the compounds are of the structure of formula (I), wherein R1-R4 are defined herein. In a further embodiment, these compounds are useful in method for regulating one or both of the P2X3 or P2X2/3 receptors. In another embodiment, these compounds are useful for treating pain in patients by administering one or more of the compounds to a patient. In another embodiment, these compounds are useful for treating respiratory dysfunction in patients by administering one or more of the compounds to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Asana BioSciences, LLC
    Inventors: Scott K. Thompson, Aranapakam Venkatesan, Tony Priestley, Mrinal Kundu, Ashis Saha
  • Patent number: 10588884
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in part, modulators of prostate-specific G-protein receptor (OR51E2/PSGR) and methods of treating, preventing, and diagnosing prostate cancer using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Tatjana Abaffy, Hiro Matsunami
  • Patent number: 10584115
    Abstract: Amine substituted pyridine and pyrazine compounds and forms thereof that inhibit the function and reduce the level of B-cell specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1 (Bmi-1) protein and methods for their use to inhibit Bmi-1 function and reduce the level of Bmi-1 to treat a cancer mediated by Bmi-1 are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: PTC THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ramil Baiazitov, Soongyu Choi, Wu Du, Seongwoo Hwang, Chang-Sun Lee, Ronggang Liu, Young-Choon Moon, Steven D. Paget, Hongyu Ren, Nadiya Sydorenko, Richard Gerald Wilde
  • Patent number: 10583137
    Abstract: Provided herein are triazole compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds useful as modulators of DAGL(?) and DAGL(?). In some embodiments, the compounds described herein are selective DAGL(?) inhibitors. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative or neuroinflammatory disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Benjamin F. Cravatt, Daisuke Ogasawara, Andreu Viader, Hui Deng, Tom Van Der Wel, Marcelis Van Der Stelt
  • Patent number: 10583139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Inventors: Dominique Amans, Stephen John Atkinson, Lee Andrew Harrison, David Jonathan Hirst, Robert Peter Law, Matthew Lindon, Alexander Preston, Jonathan Thomas Seal, Christopher Roland Wellaway
  • Patent number: 10583116
    Abstract: Methods of preventing and/or treating bacterial vaginosis are provided. The methods involve administration of cholesterol lowering drugs in combination with agents that reduce cholesterol absorption, and compositions for performing the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kimberly K. Jefferson, Abdallah A. Abdelmaksoud, Philippe H. Girerd, Gregory Buck
  • Patent number: 10583132
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Nevakar Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Puri, Prem Sagar Akasapu, Irfan A. Mohammed, Kumaresh Soppimath, Iouri V. Ilitchev
  • Patent number: 10583117
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions including oxotremorine (e.g., oxotremorine methiodide or Oxo-M) and 4-PPBP (e.g., 4-PPBP maleate). Also provided are methods of treating a connective tissue defect in a subject with oxotremorine and 4-PPBP. In addition, provided are scaffolds and methods of making same that include multiple fibers that include Oxo-M, 4-PPBP, and optionally icariin or kartogenin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Chang Hun Lee, Solaiman Tarafder, Esther Chen
  • Patent number: 10576074
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Nevakar Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Puri, Prem Sagar Akasapu, Irfan A. Mohammed, Kumaresh Soppimath, Iouri V. Ilitchev
  • Patent number: 10568875
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nevakar Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Puri, Prem Sagar Akasapu, Irfan A. Mohammed, Kumaresh Soppimath, Iouri V. Ilitchev
  • Patent number: 10570127
    Abstract: Provided herein is a bulk composition comprising the trihydrate form of (3S, 4R, 3?R)-6-[4-(4-amino-5-chloro-2-methoxy-benzoylamino)-3-methoxy-piperidin-1-yl]-hexanoic acid 1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-3?-yl ester di-hydrochloride salt. Provided are also pharmaceutical compositions and dosage forms comprising the trihydrate form, and methods and uses for treating a gastrointestinal disorder in a subject with the trihydrate form. In some embodiments, the gastrointestinal disorder is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), dyspepsia (such as functional dyspepsia or functional motility disorder), gastroparesis, paralytic ileus, post-operative ileus, emesis, nausea, heartburn, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, enteral feeding intolerance (EFI), or esophagitis. In some embodiments, the gastrointestinal disorder is post-operative ileus, chronic grass sickness, constipation, megacolon, gastritis, gastrointestinal stasis, or abomasal emptying defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Renexxion, LLC
    Inventors: Pascal Jean Druzgala, Jien Heh Tien