Patents by Inventor Won Kyung Jeon

Won Kyung Jeon 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).

  • Publication number: 20210106550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating a cognitive impairment-related disease, which includes mumefural, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition; a health functional food composition; and a feed composition respectively for preventing or treating a cognitive impairment-related disease; a health functional food composition for enhancing learning ability, cognitive function, or memory, each composition including mumefural or an acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient; and a method of treating a cognitive impairment-related disease using the pharmaceutical composition. Due to excellent effects of the mumefural of the present invention on normalizing damage to the brain (i.e., basal forebrain, white matter, hippocampus, etc.) and excellent effects thereof on enhancing memory, the mumefural of the present invention may be effectively used to treat neurodegenerative diseases (i.e., dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Won Kyung JEON, Jihye BANG, Min Soo KIM
  • Patent number: 9814749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating dementia containing an extract of Prunus mume (Fructus Mume), and the Prunus mume extract of the present invention has outstanding effects in improving spatial recognition ability and in normalizing hippocampal damage (normalizing ERK phosphorylation, increasing ChAT and normalizing NF-kappa B) induced by chronic vascular brain damage in a vascular dementia animal model, and hence can be used to advantage as a medicinal product for preventing or treating dementia diseases and as a functional health food for preventing or alleviating dementia diseases that accompany vascular brain damage such as vascular dementia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
    Inventors: Won Kyung Jeon, Jung-Soo Han, Chang Hyun Han, Goya Choi
  • Publication number: 20130309334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating dementia containing an extract of Prunus mume (Fructus Mume), and the Prunus mume extract of the present invention has outstanding effects in improving spatial recognition ability and in normalizing hippocampal damage (normalizing ERK phosphorylation, increasing ChAT and normalizing NF-kappa B) induced by chronic vascular brain damage in a vascular dementia animal model, and hence can be used to advantage as a medicinal product for preventing or treating dementia diseases and as a functional health food for preventing or alleviating dementia diseases that accompany vascular brain damage such as vascular dementia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE
    Inventors: Won Kyung Jeon, Jung-Soo Han, Chang Hyun Han, Goya Choi
  • Publication number: 20110052644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for improving intestinal flora and enhancing immune response containing Cinnamomum cassia bark extract as an effective ingredient, more precisely, a composition containing Cinnamomum cassia bark extract is an effective ingredient that has the effects of increasing the growth of such intestinal beneficial bacteria as Bifidobacterium longum, Lacotobacillus sp. and Lactobacillus acidophilus and enhancing the proliferation of immune cells such as lymphocytes of general immune system as well as increasing the activity of intestinal immune cells. The composition of the present invention can be effectively used as a therapeutic agent for constipation or other intestine-related diseases and an immune enhancer owing to its activity of increasing immunity, particularly intestinal immunity, by increasing immune cell proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicants: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE, KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byoung Seob KO, Won Kyung JEON, Sin-Hyeog IM, Ho-Keun KWON, Ji-Sun HWANG, Dae Young KWON
  • Publication number: 20090317498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for improving intestinal flora and enhancing immune response containing Cinnamomum cassia bark extract as an effective ingredient, more precisely, a composition containing Cinnamomum cassia bark extract is an effective ingredient that has the effects of increasing the growth of such intestinal beneficial bacteria as Bifidobacterium longum, Lactobacillus sp. and Lactobacillus acidophilus and enhancing the proliferation of immune cells such as lymphocytes of general immune system as well as increasing the activity of intestinal immune cells. The composition of the present invention can be effectively used as a therapeutic agent for constipation or other intestine-related diseases and an immune enhancer owing to its activity of increasing immunity, particularly intestinal immunity, by increasing immune cell proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicants: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE, KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byoung Seob Ko, Won Kyung Jeon, Sin-Hyeog Im, Ho-Keun Kwon, Ji-Sun Hwang, Dae Young Kwon