US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY-RAISON SOCIALE OBSOLETE, INSTITUT CURIE on Sept. 16 for "Azobenzene derivatives, process for their preparation and their use for therapeutic treatment associated with ionizing radiations" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,991, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY-RAISON SOCIALE OBSOLETE (Saint-Aubin, France) and INSTITUT CURIE (Paris).

"Azobenzene derivatives, process for their preparation and their use for therapeutic treatment associated with ionizing radiations" was invented by Guillaume Bort (Paris), Patrick Couvreur (Paris), Simona Mura (Paris) and Frederic Pouzoulet (Breuillet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new ionizing radiation-activatable derivatives, their preparation process and their therapeutic uses."

The patent was file...