US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Medical Center on Nov. 4 for "Methods of attenuating an immune response by inhibition of BFL1" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,660, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati).

"Methods of attenuating an immune response by inhibition of BFL1" was invented by David A. Hildeman (Cincinnati), Andrew Herr (Cincinnati), Suhas G. Kallapur (Cincinnati), Jarek Meller (Cincinnati) and Alexander Thorman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods of modulating an immune response by inhibiting BFL1, and related methods for treating and preventing diseases and disorders characterized by inflammation, especially neutrophil induced inflammation."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2022, under Application N...