Patents by Inventor Xiao-Qing Tang

Xiao-Qing Tang 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).

  • Sweet flavor modifier
    Patent number: 9902737
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvate, and/or ester thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa S. Wong, Victor Selchau
  • Sweet flavor modifier
    Patent number: 9834544
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or salts or solvates thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy James Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa S. Wong, Victor Selchau
  • PROCESSES AND INTERMEDIATES FOR MAKING SWEET TASTE ENHANCERS
    Publication number: 20170327479
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Qing Chen, Peter Leeming, Tayyab Rashid, Daniel Levin
  • Processes and intermediates for making sweet taste enhancers
    Patent number: 9732052
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Qing Chen, Peter Leeming, Tayyab Rashid, Daniel Levin
  • Modulation of chemosensory receptors and ligands associated therewith
    Patent number: 9603848
    Abstract: The present invention provides screening methods for identifying modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands, e.g., by determining whether a test entity is suitable to interact with one or more interacting sites within the Venus flytrap domains of the chemosensory receptors as well as modifiers capable of modulating chemosensory receptors and their ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Haitian Liu, Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao-Qing Tang, Sara Werner, Marketa Rinnova, Qing Chen, Albert Zlotnik, Mark Zoller, Boris Klebansky, Richard Fine, Xinshan Kang
  • PROCESSES AND INTERMEDIATES FOR MAKING SWEET TASTE ENHANCERS
    Publication number: 20160289200
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Qing Chen, Peter Leeming, Tayyab Rashid, Daniel Levin
  • SWEET FLAVOR MODIFIER
    Publication number: 20160251372
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvate, and/or ester thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa Wong, Victor Selchau
  • Processes and intermediates for making sweet taste enhancers
    Patent number: 9382196
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Qing Chen, Peter Leeming, Tayyab Rashid, Daniel Levin
  • Modulation of chemosensory receptors and ligands associated therewith
    Patent number: 9181276
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for identifying modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands, e.g., by determining whether a test entity is suitable to interact with one or more interacting sites within the Venus flytrap domains of the chemosensory receptors, and modifiers capable of modulating chemosensory receptors and their ligands. The present invention also includes modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands having Formula (I), its subgenus, and specific compounds. Furthermore, the present invention includes ingestible compositions comprising the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands and methods of using the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands to enhance the sweet taste of an ingestible composition or treat a condition associated with a chemosensory receptor. In addition, the present invention include processes for preparing the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Guy Servant, Qing Chen, Vincent Darmohusodo, Richard Fine, Joseph R. Fotsing, Jeffrey Robert Hammaker, Xinshan Kang, Rachel D. A. Kimmich, Boris Klebansky, Haitian Liu, Goran Petrovic, Marketa Rinnova, Sara Adamski-Werner, Jeffrey Yamamoto, Hong Zhang, Albert Zlotnik
  • SWEET FLAVOR MODIFIER
    Publication number: 20150265711
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvate, and/or ester thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa Wong, Victor Selchau
  • METHOD OF IMPROVING STABILITY OF SWEET ENHANCER AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING STABILIZED SWEET ENHANCER
    Publication number: 20150245642
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods of stabilizing one or more sweet enhancers when they are exposed to a light source as well as liquid compositions containing one or more sweet enhancers and one or more photostabilizers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald Karanewsky, Xiao Qing Tang, Hanghui Liu
  • Sweet flavor modifier
    Patent number: 9049878
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvate, and/or ester thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa Wong, Victor Selchau
  • SWEET FLAVOR MODIFIER
    Publication number: 20150141527
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or salts or solvates thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Catherine TACHDJIAN, Xiao Qing TANG, Donald S. KARANEWSKY, Guy SERVANT, Xiaodong LI, Feng ZHANG, Qing CHEN, Hong ZHANG, Timothy James DAVIS, Vincent DARMOHUSODO, Melissa WONG, Victor SELCHAU
  • Method of improving stability of sweet enhancer and composition containing stabilized sweet enhancer
    Patent number: 9000054
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods of stabilizing one or more sweet enhancers when they are exposed to a light source as well as liquid compositions containing one or more sweet enhancers and one or more photostabilizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao Qing Tang, Hanghui Liu
  • NOVEL FLAVORS, FLAVOR MODIFIERS, TASTANTS, TASTE ENHANCERS, UMAMI OR SWEET TASTANTS, AND/OR ENHANCERS AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150093339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery that certain non-naturally occurring, non-peptide amide compounds and amide derivatives, such as oxalamides, ureas, and acrylamides, are useful flavor or taste modifiers, such as a flavoring or flavoring agents and flavor or taste enhancer, more particularly, savory (the “umami” taste of monosodium glutamate) or sweet taste modifiers,—savory or sweet flavoring agents and savory or sweet flavor enhancers, for food, beverages, and other comestible or orally administered medicinal products or compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Catherine TACHDJIAN, Andrew P. PATRON, Sara L. ADAMSKI-WERNER, Farid BAKIR, Qing CHEN, Vincent DARMOHUSODO, Stephen Terrence HOBSON, Xiaodong LI, Ming QI, Daniel H. ROGERS, Marketa RINNOVA, Guy SERVANT, Xiao-Qing TANG, Mark ZOLLER, David WALLACE, Amy XING, Klaus GUBERNATOR
  • Flavors, flavor modifiers, tastants, taste enhancers, umami or sweet tastants, and/or enhancers and use thereof
    Patent number: 8895050
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery that certain non-naturally occurring, non-peptide amide compounds and amide derivatives, such as oxalamides, ureas, and acrylamides, are useful flavor or taste modifiers, such as a flavoring or flavoring agents and flavor or taste enhancer, more particularly, savory (the “umami” taste of monosodium glutamate) or sweet taste modifiers, —savory or sweet flavoring agents and savory or sweet flavor enhancers, for food, beverages, and other comestible or orally administered medicinal products or compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Andrew P. Patron, Sara L. Adamski-Werner, Farid Bakir, Qing Chen, Vincent Darmohusodo, Stephen Terrence Hobson, Xiaodong Li, Ming Qi, Daniel H. Rogers, Marketa Rinnova, Guy Servant, Xiao-Qing Tang, Mark Zoller, David Wallace, Amy Xing, Klaus Gubernator
  • Sweet flavor modifier
    Patent number: 8815956
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or salts or solvates thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Xiao-Qing Tang, Donald S. Karanewsky, Guy Servant, Xiaodong Li, Feng Zhang, Qing Chen, Hong Zhang, Timothy James Davis, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa Sue Wong, Victor Selchau
  • MODULATION OF CHEMOSENSORY RECEPTORS AND LIGANDS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH
    Publication number: 20140235623
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for identifying modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands, e.g., by determining whether a test entity is suitable to interact with one or more interacting sites within the Venus flytrap domains of the chemosensory receptors, and modifiers capable of modulating chemosensory receptors and their ligands. The present invention also includes modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands having Formula (I), its subgenus, and specific compounds. Furthermore, the present invention includes ingestible compositions comprising the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands and methods of using the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands to enhance the sweet taste of an ingestible composition or treat a condition associated with a chemosensory receptor. In addition, the present invention include processes for preparing the modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SENOMYX, INC.
    Inventors: Catherine TACHDJIAN, Donald S. KARANEWSKY, Xiao-Qing TANG, Xiaodong LI, Feng ZHANG, Guy SERVANT, Qing CHEN, Vincent DARMOHUSODO, Richard FINE, Joseph R. FOTSING, Jeffrey Robert HAMMAKER, Xinshan KANG, Rachel D.A. KIMMICH, Boris KLEBANSKY, Haitian LIU, Goran PETROVIC, Marketa RINNOVA, Sara ADAMSKI-WERNER, Jeffrey YAMAMOTO, Hong ZHANG, Albert ZLOTNIK
  • SWEET FLAVOR MODIFIER
    Publication number: 20140128481
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds having structural formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvate, and/or ester thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet flavor modifiers. The present invention also includes compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of enhancing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SENOMYX, INC.
    Inventors: Catherine TACHDJIAN, Xiao Qing TANG, Donald S. KARANEWSKY, Guy SERVANT, Xiaodong LI, Feng ZHANG, Qing CHEN, Hong ZHANG, Timothy DAVIS, Vincent DARMOHUSODO, Melissa WONG, Victor Selchau
  • PROCESSES AND INTERMEDIATES FOR MAKING SWEET TASTE ENHANCERS
    Publication number: 20140107370
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SENOMYX, INC.
    Inventors: Catherine Tachdjian, Donald S. Karanewsky, Xiao-Qing Tang, Qing Chen, Peter Leeming, Tayyab Rashid, Daniel Levin