Patents by Inventor Gerhard Scheffler

Gerhard Scheffler 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: 6017909
    Abstract: Salts of azelastine with acetic acid, gluconic acid, lactic acid or malic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Asta Pharma AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hettche, Reinhard Muckenschnabel, Gerhard Scheffler, Ilona Fleischhauer, Wolfgang Morick
  • Patent number: 5998403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts of azelastine having improved solubility in water. The salts of the present invention are prepared by reacting azelastine with acetic acid, gluconic acid, lactic acid, or malic acid. The azelastine salts are effective in providing a cytoprotective effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Asta Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Hettche, Reinhard Muckenschnabel, Gerhard Scheffler, Ilona Fleischhauer, Wolfgang Morick
  • Patent number: 5859003
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts of azelastine having improved solubility in water. The salts of the present invention are prepared by reacting azelastine with acetic acid, gluconic acid, lactic acid or malic acid. A pharmaceutical composition may be prepared containing an azelastine salt and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier or diluent therefor. The pharmaceutical composition is useful in the treatment of allergies, asthma, inflammatory and psoriasis disorders and provides a cytoprotective effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Asta Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Hettche, Reinhard Muckenschnabel, Gerhard Scheffler, Ilona Fleischhauer, Wolfgang Morick
  • Patent number: 5354750
    Abstract: Pharmacologically active compounds of the General Formula ##STR1## where X is oxygen or sulphur and the radical R represents a quinuclidyl radical, an C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl radical, a phenyl radical, a pyridyl radical, a phenyl or pyridyl radical substituted by the radicals R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and/or R.sub.3, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl radical substituted by pyridyl or alkylpyridyl or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl radical substituted by phenyl, where each phenyl radical may also be substituted by the radicals R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and/or R.sub.3 and the radicals R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, halogen, trihalogenmethyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkoxy, carboxy, Carb-C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkoxy, amino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -dialkylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -trialkylamino, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkanoylamino, or C.sub.2 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Asta Medica Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheffler, Ilona Fleischhauer, Bernhard Kutscher, Jurgen Engel, Stefan Szelenyi, Ulrich Werner
  • Patent number: 5232919
    Abstract: An embonic acid salt of azelastine is disclosed which does not possess the bitter taste of azelastine, and which therefore is suitable for orally administered formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Asta Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheffler, Dieter Sauerbier, Jurgen Engel
  • Patent number: 5086050
    Abstract: Salts of azelastine with acetic acid, gluconic acid, lactic acid or malic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Asta Pharma AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hettche, Reinhard Muckenschnabel, Gerhard Scheffler, Ilona Fleischhauer, Wolfgang Morick
  • Patent number: 4929607
    Abstract: This invention relates to new oxzaphosphorin-4-thio-alkanesulphonic acids and to the neutral salts thereof corresponding to the general formula I ##STR1## and to methods to use such compounds to treat cancer diseases and to produce immunosuppression in humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: ASTA Pharma Aktiengesellshaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheffler, Ulf Niemeyer, Norbert Brock, Jorg Pohl
  • Patent number: 4851420
    Abstract: 2,6-diamino-3-halobenzylpyridines of the formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is fluorine and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or chlorine as well as their physiologically acceptable acid addition salts, processes for their manufacture and their use in pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: ASTA Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Emig, Juergen Engel, Gerhard Scheffler, Carl H. Weischer, Bernd Nickel
  • Patent number: 4841047
    Abstract: There are provided 4-benzyl-1-(2H)-phthalazinone derivatives having antiallergic activity of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents fluorine, chlorine, bromine, trifluoromethyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, hydroxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkoxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkanoyloxy, amino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkylamino, di-C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkylamino, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkanoylamino, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkanoyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkylamino or a nitro group, R.sub.2 represents hydrogen or has one of the meanings given for R.sub.1, whereby R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different, the radicals R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, hydroxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkoxy, benzyloxy or C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkanoyloxy and A represents an azacycloalkanyl radical, the aza nitrogen of which contains a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl group which is substituted by various radicals, and processes for their manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Aasta Pharma AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Engel, Gerhard Scheffler
  • Patent number: 4785110
    Abstract: There is described a process for the production of 2-amino-3-nitro-6-(4-fluorobenzylamino)-pyridine which consists essentially of reacting 2-amino-3-nitro-6-methoxypyridine with 4-fluorobenzylamine in water at elevated temperature; in a given case the nitro group can be subsequently reduced and a carbethoxy group introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Winfried Orth, Jurgen Engel, Peter Emig, Gerhard Scheffler, Hans Pohle
  • Patent number: 4738983
    Abstract: This invention relates to new compounds corresponding to the general formula: ##STR1## R.sub.1 represents a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 cycloalkyl group substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl radicals, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.19 -cycloalkyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group which may be substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl radicals, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.8 bicycloalkyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.8 bicycloalkyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 tricycloalkyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 tricycloalkyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.9 tetracycloalkyl group or a C.sub.6 -C.sub.9 -tetracycloalkyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group,R.sub.2 represents hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group, a phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group which is substituted by halogen atoms, nitro groups, hydroxy groups, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkanoyloxy groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy carbonyl groups or carboxy groups,R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Degussa aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Emig, Gerhard Scheffler, Klaus Thiemer, Carl-Heinrich Weischer
  • Patent number: 4704387
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a benzyl group, a phenylethyl group, a methoxyethyl group or an allyl group having an antiallergic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: ASTA-Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Chemische Fabrik
    Inventors: Jurgen Engel, Gerhard Scheffler
  • Patent number: 4643995
    Abstract: There are disclosed pyridine-2-ethers and pyridine-2-thioethers having a nitrogen-containing cycloaliphatic ring corresponding to the formula ##STR1## the pyridine-N-oxides and/or amine oxides thereof and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds show analgesic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jurgen Engel, Vladimir Jakovlev, Bernd Nickel, Klaus Thiemer, Gerhard Scheffler
  • Patent number: 4623742
    Abstract: This invention relates to new oxazaphosphorin-4-thio-alkanesulphonic acids and to the neutral salts thereof corresponding to the general formula I ##STR1## and to methods to use such compounds to control cancer diseases and to produce immunosuppression in humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: ASTA-Werke Aktiengesellschaft Chemische Fabrik
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheffler, Ulf Niemeyer, Norbert Brock, Jorg Pohl
  • Patent number: 4618692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new 4-carbamoyloxy-oxazaphosphorins of the general Formula I ##STR1## as well as to a method for the treatment of malign tumor diseases in humans using such compounds as active agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: Asta-Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheffler, Ulf Niemeyer, Norbert Brock, Jorg Pohl
  • Patent number: 4239761
    Abstract: The present invention is related to new basically substituted ureas having the general Formula I ##STR1## and the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof which produce an improved antiviral activity against DNS- and RNS-viruses. The invention is further related to the treatment of humans or animals suffering from diseases caused by viruses by administering compositions containing such ureas or salts thereof as active agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Assignee: Asta-werke Aktiengesellschaft, Chemische Fabrik
    Inventors: Rolf Rebling, Gerhard Scheffler, Klaus Pressler, Klaus D. Schenk
  • Patent number: 4124716
    Abstract: Process for the treatment of spasmodic conditions in humans by administering a compound of the general formula ##STR1## or a pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt thereof to a human suffering from such conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: Asta-werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Emig, Hans Pohle, Gerhard Scheffler, Norbert Brock, Hans-Dieter Lenke, Jorg Pohl
  • Patent number: 4065501
    Abstract: The present invention is related to new basic enol ethers having the general formula ##STR1## and to the pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. The invention is further related to process for the treatment of spasmodic conditions in humans by administering a compound of the above general formula or a pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt thereof to a human suffering from such conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Asta-Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Emig, Hans Pohle, Gerhard Scheffler, Norbert Brock, Hans-Dieter Lenke, Jorg Pohl