Patents by Inventor Fernando Pelaez

Fernando Pelaez 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).

  • Antibiotic producing microorganism
    Patent number: 5304485
    Abstract: An organism of the Sporormiella species produces a compound having the formula ##STR1## which is useful. The compound is useful as an antifungal agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald F. Bills, Fernando Pelaez
  • Process for forming cholesterol lowering compound using pseudodiplodia sp.
    Patent number: 5284758
    Abstract: This invention relates to a fungal microorganism Pseudodiplodia sp. (MF5767) isolated from bark discs of Hibiscus sp. and useful in a fermentation process to form compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## which are squalene synthetase inhibitors and thus useful as cholesterol lowering agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald F. Bills, Mary N. Omstead, Wendy H. Clapp, Fernando Pelaez
  • Processes for preparing novel squalene synthetase inhibitors
    Patent number: 5250424
    Abstract: This invention relates to strains of the species Curvularia lunata isolated from tree bark and useful in a fermentation process to form compounds of formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald F. Bills, Maria T. Diez, Mary N. Omstead, Fernando Pelaez
  • Squalene synthetase inhibitors and processes therefrom
    Patent number: 5200342
    Abstract: This invention relates to strains of the species Curvularia lunata isolated from tree bark and useful in a fermentation process to form compounds of formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald F. Bills, Maria T. Diez, Mary N. Omstead, Fernando Pelaez