Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
37 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
37
37 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 3 in 2024 and 3 in 2023
Applications published
55
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
a former name, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'10'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Pharmaceuticals9
Organic fine chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Cara Therapeutics, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
31 granted
39 publishedTvardi Therapeutics, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
12 publishedTvardi Therapeutics, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 granted
0 publishedCara Therapeutics, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 6, 2024 | 12,053,444 | Therapeutic compounds, formulations, and uses thereof | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 12,043,640 | Prodrugs of STAT3 inhibitors | Organic fine chemistry | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| May 21, 2024 | 11,986,509 | Oligosaccharide formulations of kappa opioid receptor agonists | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Nov 28, 2023 | 11,826,315 | STAT3 inhibitors | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jun 27, 2023 | 11,684,674 | Oral formulations of kappa opioid receptor agonists | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jan 10, 2023 | 11,547,683 | Therapeutic compounds, formulations, and uses thereof | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Aug 3, 2021 | 11,077,077 | Therapeutic compounds, formulations, and uses thereof | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jun 15, 2021 | 11,033,629 | Oral formulations of kappa opioid receptor agonists | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jun 8, 2021 | 11,026,905 | STAT3 inhibitors | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Feb 9, 2021 | 10,913,769 | Synthetic peptide amides and dimers thereof | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 29, 2025 | 2025/0170079 | COMBINATIONS OF STAT-INHIBITORS AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR MANAGEMENT OF CANCER | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| May 29, 2025 | 2025/0170065 | THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS, FORMULATIONS, AND USE THEREOF | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Oct 3, 2024 | 2024/0327438 | PRODRUGS OF STAT3 INHIBITORS | Organic fine chemistry | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Feb 22, 2024 | 2024/0058284 | STAT3 INHIBITORS | Pharmaceuticals | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 2024/0033234 | THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS, FORMULATIONS, AND USE THEREOF | Organic fine chemistry | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Jan 18, 2024 | 2024/0018172 | PRODRUGS OF STAT3 INHIBITORS | Organic fine chemistry | Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc. · patent 12,043,640 granted from it |
| Nov 30, 2023 | 2023/0381265 | OLIGOSACCHARIDE FORMULATIONS OF KAPPA OPIOID RECEPTOR AGONISTS | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | 2023/0338546 | ORAL FORMULATIONS OF KAPPA OPIOID RECEPTOR AGONISTS | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Oct 12, 2023 | 2023/0321265 | KAPPA OPIOID RECEPTOR AGONIST-THERAPEUTIC ANTIGEN BINDING PROTEIN CONJUGATE (KTAC) COMPOUNDS | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Sep 14, 2023 | 2023/0285497 | ATOPIC DERMATITIS THERAPY WITH KAPPA OPIOID RECEPTOR AGONIST AS ADJUNCT TO TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROID | Pharmaceuticals | Cara Therapeutics, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Organic fine chemistry 3 · Pharmaceuticals 3.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.