Patents by Inventor Michelle B. Ayer

Michelle B. Ayer 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).

  • Aryl-link-aryl substituted thiazolidine-dione and oxazolidine-dione as sodium channel blockers
    Patent number: 7348348
    Abstract: Aryl-link-aryl thiazolidine-dione and aryl-link-aryl oxazolidine-dione compounds are sodium channel blockers; pharmaceutical compositions that include an effective amount of the aryl-link-aryl thiazolidine-dione and aryl-link-aryl oxazolidine-dione compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a method of treatment of acute pain, chronic pain, visceral pain, inflammatory pain, or neuropathic pain, as well as initable bowel syndrome, Cnohns disease, epilepsy, partial and generalized tonic seizures, multiple sclerosis, bipolar depression, and tachy-arrhythmias by the administration of an effective amount of aryl-link-aryl thiazolidine-dione and aryl-link-aryl oxazolidine-dione compounds are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Merck & Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Howard C. H. Kuo, Michelle B. Ayer, Prasun K. Chakravarty, Peter T. Meinke, William H. Parsons, Sriram Tyagarajan