US Patent Issued to Arvinas Operations, Yale University on April 1 for "Compounds and methods for the enhanced degradation of targeted proteins" (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,157, issued on April 1, was assigned to Arvinas Operations Inc. (New Haven, Conn.) and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

"Compounds and methods for the enhanced degradation of targeted proteins" was invented by Andrew P. Crew (Guilford, Conn.), Craig M. Crews (New Haven, Conn.), Xin Chen (Trumbull, Conn.), Hanqing Dong (Madison, Conn.), Caterina Ferraro (Stamford, Conn.), Yimin Qian (Plainsboro, N.J.), Kam Siu (Milford, Conn.), Jing Wang (Milford, Conn.), Meizhong Jin (East Northport, N.Y.), Michael Berlin (Flemington, N.J.), Kurt Zimmermann (Durham, Conn.) and Lawrence Snyder (Killingworth, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The...