Patents by Inventor Chihiro Okuma

Chihiro Okuma 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).

  • Publication number: 20230321044
    Abstract: One aim of the present invention is to treat or prevent chronic heart failure. Provided are: a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of chronic heart failure, comprising a compound inhibiting SGLT1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and a method of treating or preventing chronic heart failure, comprising administering a compound inhibiting SGLT1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Chihiro OKUMA, Ryuhei SANO, Daisuke TOMIMOTO, Yoshitomi NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20230119894
    Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide therapy or prophylaxis of diabetes, obesity, or diabetic complications. The present invention provides a therapeutic or prophylactic medicine that is for diabetes, obesity, or diabetic complications, and that is characterized by combinational use of an SGLT1 inhibitor and at least one drug selected from SGLT2 inhibitors and DPP4 inhibitors; and a therapeutic or prophylactic method that is for diabetes, obesity, or diabetic complications, and that is characterized by administering an SGLT1 inhibitor and at least one drug selected from SGLT2 inhibitors and DPP4 inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuko MERA, Sohei KATSUMI, Chihiro OKUMA, Seiya MOCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20070027093
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anorectic containing a compound having a DGAT inhibitory activity (DGAT1 inhibitory activity) or a prodrug thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient. The present invention provides an anti-obesity drug which is an anorectic that does not directly act on the central nervous system and is satisfactory in terms of activity, and a therapeutic strategy for preventing or treating obesity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuya Ogawa, Chihiro Okuma, Noboru Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20060030623
    Abstract: Because the compound of the invention represented by the formula (1): or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt has excellent antidiabetic effect, anti-obesity effect and anti-arteriosclerosis effect, a medicine containing the compound of formula (1) as the active ingredient is useful as an agent for the prevention or treatment of diabetes (especially non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus), obesity (especially visceral fat obesity), or arteriosclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Furukawa, Yasuko Mera, Takashi Kawai, Mutsuyoshi Matsushita, Naoto Ogawa, Yukako Sumida, Chihiro Okuma, Takahiro Hata