Patents by Inventor Brian K. Roberts

Brian K. Roberts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10137112
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., DiaTex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Patent number: 10098843
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and, more specifically, to pharmaceutical formulations as well as to intermediates used to prepare such formulations and to methods for manufacturing such formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. McWherter, Robert Louis Martin, David B. Karpf, Brian K. Roberts, Douglas Alan Lorenz, Rodney James Ketner
  • Publication number: 20180214420
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., DiaTex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20180055803
    Abstract: Methods of treating gout flares comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent are disclosed. In some aspects, the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Other aspects provide for methods of reducing the number, duration, frequency or intensity of gout flares experienced by a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Edward Lavan, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian K. Roberts, Charles A. McWherter
  • Patent number: 9801860
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., DiaTex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20160271111
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra SAHA, Brian Edward LAVAN, Charles A. McWHERTER
  • Patent number: 9439891
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., DiaTex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Patent number: 9433612
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., DiaTex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20160213618
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and, more specifically, to pharmaceutical formulations as well as to intermediates used to prepare such formulations and to methods for manufacturing such formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Charles A. McWherter, Robert Louis Martin, David B. Karpf, Brian K. Roberts, Douglas Alan Lorenz, Rodney James Ketner
  • Publication number: 20160051520
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Patent number: 9241924
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and, more specifically, to pharmaceutical formulations as well as to intermediates used to prepare such formulations and to methods for manufacturing such formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: CYMABAY THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles A. McWherter, Robert Louis Martin, David B. Karpf, Brian K. Roberts, Douglas Alan Lorenz, Rodney James Ketner
  • Publication number: 20150258053
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Patent number: 9060987
    Abstract: Methods of treating gout flares comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent are disclosed. In some aspects, the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Other aspects provide for methods of reducing the number, duration, frequency or intensity of gout flares experienced by a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: CYMABAY THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Edward Lavan, Gopal Chandra Saha, Charles A. McWherter, Brian K. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9023856
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Cymabay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20140128438
    Abstract: Methods of treating gout flares comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent are disclosed. In some aspects, the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Other aspects provide for methods of reducing the number, duration, frequency or intensity of gout flares experienced by a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Brian Edward Lavan, Gopal Chandra Saha, Charles A. McWherter, Brian K. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20140128439
    Abstract: Methods of treating gout flares comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent are disclosed. In some aspects, the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Other aspects provide for methods of reducing the number, duration, frequency or intensity of gout flares experienced by a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Metabolex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Edward Lavan, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian K. Roberts, Charles A. McWerther
  • Patent number: 8661405
    Abstract: A pattern implementation technique in which a pattern is defined as a software artifact that comprises a pattern signature representing one or more parameters of the pattern and a pattern implementation model representing one or more methods for expanding the pattern in a selected software context by assigning one or more arguments to the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Stevenson, James R. Abbott, Jeffrey M. Fischer, Scott E. Schneider, Brian K. Roberts, Martha C. Andrews, David J. Ruest, Shawn K. Gardner, Christopher D. Maguire, Eric O. Funk
  • Publication number: 20130302305
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method of lowering serum uric acid level in a subject with impaired renal function, comprising administering to the subject a compound of Formula (I), as disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian K. Roberts, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20130274331
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a urate-lowering agent and an anti-inflammatory agent. In some aspects the urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second agent is an anti-inflammatory agent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Brian K. Roberts, Charles A. McWherter
  • Publication number: 20130172368
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (?)-halofenate, (?)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Brian K. Roberts, Gopal Chandra Saha, Brian Edward Lavan, Charles A. McWherter