Patents by Inventor Vadivel Ganapathy

Vadivel Ganapathy 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).

  • Use of amino acid transporter atbo,+ as a delivery system for drugs and prodrugs
    Publication number: 20040142317
    Abstract: The present invention has revealed the compounds transportable by ATB0+. Based on the information about these compounds, drugs transportable by ATB0,+ may be designed, produced and screened. Such drugs may serve to treat and/or prevent the diseases in which NOS, phenylglycine, carnitine, D-amino NOS, phenylglycine, carnivolved. The ATB0,+ gene may be administered to patients to be used for gene therapy of the diseases as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Vadivel Ganapathy, Takahiro Hatanaka
  • Carnitine-containing peptides and a method for using the same
    Patent number: 5958886
    Abstract: A carnitine-containing peptide sequence, which is a substrate for a mammalian peptide transport system, which contains at least one carnitine residue with at least one amino acid residue bonded thereto via an amide or ester linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: A. Lee Carter, Frederick H. Leibach, David F. Lapp, Vadivel Ganapathy, Gianfranco Fornasini