Patents by Inventor Ralph Casale
Ralph Casale 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).
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Patent number: 12564572Abstract: An aqueous clear topical ocular solution of levcromakalim, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, is provided in an effective therapeutic amount to treat the anterior portion of the human eye without the use of a covalent prodrug approach, a polymeric delivery system or a high level of toxic components, and with at least 4 months of shelf life stability, through the use of specifically discovered combinations of excipient components.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2024Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignees: QLARIS BIO, INC., MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Thurein M. Htoo, Michael P. Fautsch, Gary Allred, Ralph Casale, Barbara M. Wirostko
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Patent number: 12564573Abstract: An aqueous clear topical ocular solution of levcromakalim, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, is provided in an effective therapeutic amount to treat the anterior portion of the human eye without the use of a covalent prodrug approach, a polymeric delivery system or a high level of toxic components, and with at least 4 months of shelf life stability, through the use of specifically discovered combinations of excipient components.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2024Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignees: QLARIS BIO, INC., MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Thurein M. Htoo, Michael P. Fautsch, Gary Allred, Ralph Casale, Barbara M. Wirostko
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Publication number: 20250387366Abstract: Aqueous ocular topical pharmaceutical formulations are provided that deliver an effective amount of (lev)cromakalim or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to treat an anterior or a posterior ocular disorder that responds to (lev)cromakalim, including glaucoma.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2025Publication date: December 25, 2025Applicants: QLARIS BIO, INC., MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Thurein M. Htoo, Michael P. Fautsch, Gary Allred, Ralph Casale, Barbara M. Wirostko
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Publication number: 20250108002Abstract: Aqueous ocular topical pharmaceutical formulations are provided that deliver an effective amount of (lev)cromakalim or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to treat an anterior or a posterior ocular disorder that responds to (lev)cromakalim, including glaucoma.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: QLARIS BIO, INC., MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Thurein M. Htoo, Michael P. Fautsch, Gary Allred, Ralph Casale, Barbara M. Wirostko
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Publication number: 20250108035Abstract: Aqueous ocular topical pharmaceutical formulations are provided that deliver an effective amount of (lev)cromakalim or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to treat an anterior or a posterior ocular disorder that responds to (lev)cromakalim, including glaucoma.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: QLARIS BIO, INC., MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Thurein M. Htoo, Michael P. Fautsch, Gary Allred, Ralph Casale, Barbara M. Wirostko
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Publication number: 20220280477Abstract: The present invention relates, in certain embodiments, to methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative damage (e.g., secondary cascade of neurodegenerative damage) and improving functional outcomes (e.g., outcomes associated with cognitive, behavior and sensorimotor function) caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) using neuroprotective lipoyl compounds. The present invention also provides, in various embodiments, compositions for use in treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, compounds for use in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, and methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing secondary brain damage caused by TBI.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, David A. DeWahl, JR., Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 11213509Abstract: The present invention relates, in certain embodiments, to methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative damage (e.g., secondary cascade of neurodegenerative damage) and improving functional outcomes (e.g., outcomes associated with cognitive, behavior and sensorimotor function) caused by traumatic brain injury using neuroprotective lipoyl compounds. The present invention also provides, in various embodiments, compositions for use in treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, compounds for use in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, and methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing secondary brain damage caused by TBI.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: ISCHEMIX, LLCInventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, David A. DeWahl, Jr., Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Publication number: 20200352904Abstract: The present invention relates, in certain embodiments, to methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative damage (e.g., secondary cascade of neurodegenerative damage) and improving functional outcomes (e.g., outcomes associated with cognitive, behavior and sensorimotor function) caused by traumatic brain injury using neuroprotective lipoyl compounds. The present invention also provides, in various embodiments, compositions for use in treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, compounds for use in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, and methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing secondary brain damage caused by TBI.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, David A. DeWahl, JR., Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 10744115Abstract: The present invention relates, in certain embodiments, to methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative damage (e.g., secondary cascade of neurodegenerative damage) and improving functional outcomes (e.g., outcomes associated with cognitive, behavior and sensorimotor function) caused by traumatic brain injury using neuroprotective lipoyl compounds. The present invention also provides, in various embodiments, compositions for use in treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, compounds for use in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, and methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing secondary brain damage caused by TBI.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ischemix LLCInventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, David A. DeWahl, Jr., Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Publication number: 20180303796Abstract: The present invention relates, in certain embodiments, to methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative damage (e.g., secondary cascade of neurodegenerative damage) and improving functional outcomes (e.g., outcomes associated with cognitive, behavior and sensorimotor function) caused by traumatic brain injury using neuroprotective lipoyl compounds. The present invention also provides, in various embodiments, compositions for use in treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, compounds for use in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing TBI in a subject in need thereof, and methods of preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing secondary brain damage caused by TBI.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, David A. DeWahl, JR., Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 9540417Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a substantially pure compound represented by Structural Formula I: and methods of using such compounds to activate cytoprotective kinases. The values and preferred values of the variables in Structural Formula I are defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Ischemix LLCInventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Publication number: 20160264622Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a substantially pure compound represented by Structural Formula I: and methods of using such compounds to activate cytoprotective kinases. The values and preferred values of the variables in Structural Formula I are defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 9359325Abstract: The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and compositions comprising said compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (Ia) or compositions comprising compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (Ia), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, to treat ischemia or ischemia-reperfusion injury are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Ischemix LLCInventors: Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Publication number: 20150329519Abstract: Provided herein are aqueous pharmaceutical formulations comprising monomeric lipoyl compounds, such as compounds of Structural Formula I: The formulations comprise a lipoyl compound comprising at least one acidic substituent; and an inorganic base in an amount sufficient to deprotonate each acidic substituent in the lipoyl compound. In certain embodiments, the formulations have a pH of from about 6.5 to about 8.0 and a tonicity of from about 250 mOsm to about 350 mOsm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Steven A. Kates, Ralph Casale, Alan S. Lader, Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes
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Publication number: 20150065564Abstract: The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and compositions comprising said compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (Ia) or compositions comprising compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (Ia), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, to treat ischemia or ischemia-reperfusion injury are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Publication number: 20140274917Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a substantially pure compound represented by Structural Formula I: and methods of using such compounds to activate cytoprotective kinases. The values and preferred values of the variables in Structural Formula I are defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Ischemix LLCInventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 8815937Abstract: The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and compositions comprising said compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la) or compositions comprising compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, to treat ischemia or ischemia-reperfusion injury are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Ischemix LLCInventors: Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 8772250Abstract: The present invention relates, in some embodiments, to compositions comprising a substantially pure compound represented by Structural Formula (I) and methods of using such compounds to activate cytoprotective kinases. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to methods for treating an ischemia or an ischemia-reperfusion injury in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of the invention (e.g., in multiple doses). The values and preferred values of the variables in Structural Formula (I) are defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Ischemix, LLCInventors: Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader
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Patent number: 8772249Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a substantially pure compound represented by Structural Formula I: and methods of using such compounds to activate cytoprotective kinases. The values and preferred values of the variables in Structural Formula I are defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Ischemix, LLCInventors: Alexander Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan Lader
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Publication number: 20130237483Abstract: The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and compositions comprising said compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la) or compositions comprising compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, to treat ischemia or ischemia-reperfusion injury are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Inventors: Alexander B. Baguisi, Reinier Beeuwkes, Ralph Casale, Steven A. Kates, Alan S. Lader