US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on March 18 for "Compounds and methods of treating retinal degeneration" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,373, issued on March 18, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland) and UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Compounds and methods of treating retinal degeneration" was invented by Krzysztof Palczewski (Ivrine, Calif.) and Yuanyuan Chen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating retinal degeneration in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I)."

The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/461,023.

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