Patents by Inventor Mahmoud A. Elsohly

Mahmoud A. Elsohly 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).

  • Deuterated cannabinoids as standards for the analysis of tetrahydrocannabinol and its metabolites in biological fluids
    Patent number: 5036014
    Abstract: New internal standards for use in gas chromatography/mass spectrometry test methods, comprising deuterated cannabinoids, have been developed for the analysis of tetrahydrocannabinol and its metabolites in biological fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Inventors: Mahmoud A. ElSohly, Thomas L. Little, Jr.
  • Method for effecting systemic delivery of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
    Patent number: 4933363
    Abstract: Compositions and method for accessing delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol into the system of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Inventor: Mahmoud A. ElSohly
  • Antiinflammatory and antimicrobial compounds and compositions
    Patent number: 4837228
    Abstract: The use of cannabichromene (CBC) and its homologues and isomers to induce hypothermia, reduce inflammation in mammals, and as antimicrobial agents is disclosed. Preferably, a compound selected from cannabichromene, its homologues and isomers, is administered as a novel composition, in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: The University of Mississippi
    Inventors: Mahmoud Elsohly, Carlton E. Turner, James C. Murphy, Phillip W. Wirth
  • Tolerizing and desensitizing compounds, compositions and methods of treatment against dermatological conditions caused by allergens from plants and trees of the Anacardiaceae and Ginkgoaceae families
    Patent number: 4428965
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and a method of treatment to tolerize and desensitize mammals sensitive to the allergenic moities found in plants of the Anacardiaceae and Ginkgoaceae families comprising the reaction product of poison ivy urushiol, poison oak urushiol, poison sumac urushiol & mixtures thereof, 3-n-alkane substituted catechol derivatives having 11 to 19 carbon atoms and the unsaturated olefinic congeners thereof with an acyl ester functioning group esterifying the catecholic hydroxy constituents of the aforementioned compounds or cell membrane residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: The University of Mississippi
    Inventors: Mahmoud Elsohly, Edna S. Watson, Coy W. Waller
  • Process for preparing cannabichromene
    Patent number: 4315862
    Abstract: The preparation of cannabichromene (CBC) and homologues thereof by condensation of citral with a substituted resorcinol in the presence of a primary amine, and the use of these compounds to induce hypothermia and reduce inflammation in mammals, is disclosed. Preferably, the cannabichromene is administered as a novel composition, in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent carrier. A new compound 2-methyl-2(4-methyl-pent-3-enyl)-5-hydroxy-7-methylchromene (CBC-C.sub.1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: The University of Mississippi
    Inventors: Mahmoud A. Elsohly, Carlton E. Turner
  • Paraquat detection method
    Patent number: 4187076
    Abstract: A method of detecting the presence of paraquat in biological tissues and fluid and soil and plant tissues, particularly marihuana, involving the conversion of any paraquat present in the tissue to 4,4'-bipyridine and analyzing the sample for that compound, the presence of which would indicate the presence of paraquat in the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: The University of Mississippi
    Inventors: Mahmoud A. Elsohly, Carlton E. Turner