Patents by Inventor Helmut Meissner

Helmut Meissner 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: 7851483
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) a salt of formula 1 wherein: X? is an anion with a single negative charge; and (b) a steroid 2, processes for preparing such pharmaceutical composition, and their use in the treatment of respiratory complaints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Christopher John Montague Meade, Michel Pairet
  • Patent number: 7652138
    Abstract: A compound of formula 1 wherein: A is a group selected from X? is an anion with a single negative charge; R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-C4-alkyl optionally substituted with hydroxy or halogen; and R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are each independently hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkyloxy, hydroxy, CF3, CN, NO2, or halogen, with the proviso that at least one of the groups R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 is not hydrogen, processes for preparing these compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael Paul Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Patent number: 7586688
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope having an optics system which represents an object on an image sensor and a screen that shows the image data provided by the image sensor and which is the only output medium for visually observing the object, wherein the representation capability of the optics system and the resolution (A) of the image sensor complies with the following correlation: F×N/M=0.5 A, wherein F indicates a factor, N indicates the numerical aperture of the optics systems, M is the magnification factor and A indicates the resolution of the image sensor in pixels per millimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Wiederhöft, Helmut Meissner
  • Patent number: 7569581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new anticholinergics of general formula 1 wherein A, X?, and the groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 may have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael Paul Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Rolf Banholzer
  • Patent number: 7429600
    Abstract: Fluorenecarboxylic acid esters of general formula 1 wherein X? and the groups A, R, R1, R2, R3, R3?, R4, and R4? have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for the manufacture thereof and the use thereof as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhauser, Sabine Pestel, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Patent number: 7417051
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) a salt of formula 1 wherein: X? is an anion with a single negative charge; and (b) a betamimetic 2, or a solvate or hydrate thereof, optionally in the form of the enantiomers, mixtures of the enantiomers, or in the form of the racemates thereof, processes for preparing them and their use in the treatment of respiratory complaints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Christopher John Montague Meade, Michel Pairet, Ingo Konetzki
  • Patent number: 7405224
    Abstract: Xanthenecarboxylates of formula 1 wherein: A is a group selected from X? is an anion with a single negative charge; R is hydroxy, methyl, hydroxymethyl, ethyl, —CF3, —CHF2, or fluorine; R1 and R2, which are identical or different, are each C1-C5-alkyl which is optionally substituted by C3-C6-cycloalkyl, hydroxy, or halogen, or R1 and R2 together denote a —C3-C5-alkylene-bridge; and R3, R4, R3?, and R4?, which are identical or different, are each hydrogen, —C1-C4-alkyl, —C4-alkyloxy, hydroxy, —CF3, —CHF2, —CN, —NO2, or halogen, or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, processes for preparing, them and their use in pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Sabine Pestel, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Patent number: 7321039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new industrially useable process for preparing tropenol, optionally in the form of the acid addition salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Gisela Bodenbach, Andreas Mathes, Helmut Meissner, Peter Specht
  • Publication number: 20070121204
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope having an optics system which represents an object on an image sensor and a screen that shows the image data provided by the image sensor and which is the only output medium for visually observing the object, wherein the representation capability of the optics system and the resolution (A) of the image sensor complies with the following correlation: F×N/M=0.5 A, wherein F indicates a factor, N indicates the numerical aperture of the optics systems, M is the magnification factor and A indicates the resolution of the image sensor in pixels per millimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Holger Wiederhoft, Helmut Meissner
  • Patent number: 7214797
    Abstract: Fluorenecarboxylic acid esters of general formula 1 wherein X? and the groups A, R, R1, R2, R3, R3?, R4, and R4? have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for the manufacture thereof and the use thereof as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhauser, Sabine Pestel, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Publication number: 20070086951
    Abstract: Fluorenecarboxylic acid esters of general formula 1 wherein X? and the groups A, R, R1, R2, R3, R3?, R4, and R4? have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for the manufacture thereof and the use thereof a medicaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhauser, Sabine Pestel, Michael Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Publication number: 20060276441
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) a salt of formula 1 wherein: X? is an anion with a single negative charge; and (b) a steroid 2, processes for preparing such pharmaceutical composition, and their use in the treatment of respiratory complaints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Christopher Meade, Michel Pairet
  • Patent number: 7084153
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) a salt of formula 1 ?wherein: X? is an anion with a single negative charge; and (b) a steroid 2, processes for preparing such pharmaceutical composition, and their use in the treatment of respiratory complaints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Christopher John Montague Meade, Michel Pairet
  • Publication number: 20060058335
    Abstract: Fluorenecarboxylic acid esters of general formula 1 wherein X? and the groups A, R, R1, R2, R3, R3?, R4, and R4? have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for the manufacture thereof and the use thereof as medicaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Sabine Pestel, Michael Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Patent number: 6998406
    Abstract: Fluorenecarboxylic acid esters of general formula 1 wherein X? and the groups A, R, R1, R2, R3, R3?, R4, and R4? have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for the manufacture thereof and the use thereof as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Sabine Pestel, Michael P. Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck
  • Publication number: 20050197357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new anticholinergics of general formula 1 wherein A, X?, and the groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 may have the meanings given in the claims and in the specification, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michael Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Rolf Banholzer
  • Patent number: 6908928
    Abstract: Crystalline monohydrate of (1?,2?,4?,5?,7?)-7-[(hydroxydi-2-thienylacetyl)oxy]-9,9-dimethyl-3-oxa-9-azoniatricyclo[3.3.1.02,4]nonane bromide (tiotropium bromide monohydrate), processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: BI Pharma KG.
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Peter Sieger, Christian Kulinna, Michael Trunk, Manfred Graulich, Peter Specht, Helmut Meissner, Andreas Mathes
  • Publication number: 20050124813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new industrially useable process for preparing tropenol, optionally in the form of the acid addition salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Gisela Bodenbach, Andreas Mathes, Helmut Meissner, Peter Specht
  • Publication number: 20050107417
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of formula 1 wherein X? is an anion with a single negative charge, and a betamimetic, optionally together with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, the compound of formula 1 and the betamimetic optionally in the form of their enantiomers, mixtures of their enantiomers, their racemates, their solvates, or their hydrates, processes for preparing them, and their use in the treatment of respiratory tract diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Sabine Germeyer, Christopher Meade, Helmut Meissner, Gerd Morschhaeuser, Michel Pairet, Sabine Pestel, Michael Pieper, Gerald Pohl, Richard Reichl, Georg Speck, Ingo Konetzki
  • Patent number: 6891042
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new industrially useable process for preparing tropenol, optionally in the form of the acid addition salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Banholzer, Gisela Bodenbach, Andreas Mathes, Helmut Meissner, Peter Specht