Patents by Inventor Ichiro Nishimura

Ichiro Nishimura 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: 12514929
    Abstract: In various embodiments deformable nano-scale vehicles (DNV) are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments the DNVs are capable of transdermal delivery and can additionally cross the blood-brain barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Varghese John, Ichiro Nishimura, Naren Subbiah, Jesus Campagna, Patricia R. Spilman, Mohammad Parvez Alam
  • Publication number: 20250295586
    Abstract: In various embodiments deformable nano-scale vehicles (DNV) are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments the DNVs are capable of transdermal delivery and can additionally cross the blood-brain barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Varghese John, Ichiro Nishimura, Naren Subbiah, Jesus Campagna, Patricia Spilman, Mohammad Parvez Alam
  • Patent number: 12364661
    Abstract: In various embodiments deformable nano-scale vehicles (DNV) are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments the DNVs are capable of transdermal delivery and can additionally cross the blood-brain barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Varghese John, Ichiro Nishimura, Naren Subbiah, Jesus Campagna, Patricia R. Spilman, Mohammad Parvez Alam
  • Publication number: 20240245693
    Abstract: Using a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) technique, a mixture of antimycins A was separated into eight hitherto unreported subcomponents, Ala, Alb, A2a, A2b, A3a, A3b, Ma, and A4b. Although a base-line resolution of the known four major antimycins Al, A2, A3, and A4 was readily achieved with mobile phases containing acetate buffers, the separation of the new antibiotic subcomponents was highly sensitive to variation in mobile phase conditions. The type and composition of organic modifiers, the nature of buffer salts, and the concentration of added electrolytes had profound effects on capacity factors, separation factors, and peak resolution values. Of the numerous chromatographic systems examined, a mobile phase consisting of methanol-water (70:30) and 0.005 M tetrabutylammonium phosphate at pH 3.0 yielded the most satisfactory results for the separation of the subcomponents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ichiro NISHIMURA, Akishige HOKUGO, Takeru KONDO, Yoichiro SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20230013402
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for improving or accelerating wound healing in a subject comprising administering to a wound of the subject in need thereof an agent that suppresses expression of a clock gene, wherein the clock gene is neuronal PAS domain protein 2 (Npas2). This invention also relates to methods for regenerating alveolar bone, regenerating connective tissue at a wound site, and for decreasing wound area size comprising administering to a bone loss site or a wound site, in particular, an open wound site, of a subject an agent that suppresses expression of Npas2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ichiro NISHIMURA, Akishige HOKUGO, Hodaka SASAKI, Hiroko OKAWA, Lixin WANG, Robert D. DAMOISEAUX
  • Patent number: 11400104
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for removing or displacing bisphosphonates in skeletal tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, BioVinc LLC, University of Southern California
    Inventors: Frank Hallock Ebetino, Ichiro Nishimura, Shuting Sun, Mark Walden Lundy, Akishige Hokugo, Charles McKenna, Keivan Sadrerafi
  • Patent number: 11219697
    Abstract: In certain embodiments osteoadsorptive fluorogenic substrates of cathepsin K (or other proteases) are provided. Utilizing a bisphosphonate targeting moiety, the fluorogenic substrates provide effective bone-targeted protease sensor(s). In certain embodiments the “probes” comprise cleavable fluorophore-quencher pair linked by a cathepsin K (or other protease) peptide substrate and tethered to a bisphosphonate. Unlike existing probes that are cleared within a few days in vivo, the probes described herein (e.g., OFS-1) allow for monitoring resorption over the course of longer time periods with a single dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, University of Southern California
    Inventors: Ichiro Nishimura, Akishige Hokugo, Kenzo Morinaga, Charles E. McKenna, Boris A Kashemirov, Eric T. Richard
  • Publication number: 20210393857
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing or accelerating osseointegration of an implant into bone marrow of a subject, the methods comprising increasing expression of peripheral clock neuronal PAS domain protein 2 (NPAS2) in the bone marrow, are provided. Expression of NPAS2 is increased by administration of a Npas2 modulating compound to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ichiro NISHIMURA, Akishige HOKUGO, Kenzo MORINAGA, Hodaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210121485
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for removing or displacing bisphosphonates in skeletal tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Hallock Ebetino, Ichiro Nishimura, Shuting Sun, Mark Walden Lundy, Akishige Hokugo, Charles McKenna, Keivan Sadrerafi
  • Patent number: 10857165
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for removing or displacing bisphosphonates in skeletal tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, BioVinc LLC, University of Southern California
    Inventors: Frank Hallock Ebetino, Ichiro Nishimura, Shuting Sun, Mark Walden Lundy, Akishige Hokugo, Charles McKenna, Keivan Sadrerafi
  • Publication number: 20200215205
    Abstract: In certain embodiments osteoadsorptive fluorogenic substrates of cathepsin K (or other proteases) are provided. Utilizing a bisphosphonate targeting moiety, the fluorogenic substrates provide effective bone-targeted protease sensor(s). In certain embodiments the “probes” comprise cleavable fluorophore-quencher pair linked by a cathepsin K (or other protease) peptide substrate and tethered to a bisphosphonate. Unlike existing probes that are cleared within a few days in vivo, the probes described herein (e.g., OFS-1) allow for monitoring resorption over the course of longer time periods with a single dose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Ichiro Nishimura, Akishige Hokugo, Kenzo Morinaga, Charles E. McKenna, Boris A Kashemirov, Eric T. Richard
  • Publication number: 20200030457
    Abstract: In various embodiments deformable nano-scale vehicles (DNV) are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments the DNVs are capable of transdermal delivery and can additionally cross the blood-brain barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Varghese John, Ichiro Nishimura, Naren Subbiah, Jesus Campagna, Patricia R. Spilman, Mohammad Parvez Alam
  • Publication number: 20190209590
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for removing or displacing bisphosphonates in skeletal tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Hallock Ebetino, Ph.D., Ichiro Nishimura, Shuting Sun, Mark Walden Lundy, Akishige Hokugo, Charles McKenna, Keivan Sadrerafi
  • Publication number: 20180318216
    Abstract: In various embodiments deformable nano-scale vehicles (DNV) are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents. In certain embodiments the DNVs are capable of transdermal delivery and can additionally cross the blood-brain barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Varghese John, Ichiro Nishimura, Naren Subbiah, Jesus Campagna, Patricia R. Spilman, Mohammad Parvez Alam
  • Patent number: 9968661
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a bone regeneration agent and a bone supplementation formulation, in which a supplementation material itself is capable of promoting bone regeneration. The present invention provides a bone regeneration agent which comprises a gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid sequence of collagen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hiratsuka, Shouji Ooya, Ichiro Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150165001
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a bone regeneration agent and a bone supplementation formulation, in which a supplementation material itself is capable of promoting bone regeneration. The present invention provides a bone regeneration agent which comprises a gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid sequence of collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro HIRATSUKA, Shouji OOYA, Ichiro NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8987204
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a bone regeneration agent and a bone supplementation formulation, in which a supplementation material itself is capable of promoting bone regeneration. The present invention provides a bone regeneration agent which comprises a gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid sequence of collagen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Coporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hiratsuka, Shouji Ooya, Ichiro Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140378662
    Abstract: A method of producing a tissue repair material, the method including: (a) obtaining a gelatin-containing intermediate that contains a gelatin and has a mesh structure, using a gelatin solution in which the gelatin is dissolved in an aqueous medium; (b) drying the gelatin-containing intermediate; and (c) cross-linking the gelatin before or after the drying of the gelatin-containing intermediate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji OYA, Hidekazu SAKAI, Ai KAWAKAMI, Takahiro HIRATSUKA, Hideo FUSHIMI, Kazuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Ichiro NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka OONO, Izumi OGURA
  • Publication number: 20120165263
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a bone regeneration agent and a bone supplementation formulation, in which a supplementation material itself is capable of promoting bone regeneration. The present invention provides a bone regeneration agent which comprises a gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid of collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Hiratsuka, Shouji Ooya, Ichiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 7648726
    Abstract: A method including forming a first coating layer derived from an alkoxide on a substrate having a dimension suitable for an implant and forming a second coating layer on the first coating layer that promotes osseointegration. An apparatus comprising a substrate having a dimension suitable as a medical or dental implant and a coating on a surface of a first coating layer derived from an alkoxide and a second coating layer that promotes osseointegration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Chemat Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiankai Liu, Yuhong Huang, Ichiro Nishimura