US Patent Issued to Dignity Health on March 25 for "Treatment for hot flushes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,216, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).

"Treatment for hot flushes" was invented by Andrej A. Romanovsky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for treating hot flushes in a subject. In one embodiment, treating hot flushes includes administering to a subject in need of such treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of a transient receptor potential channel (TRP channel) blocker or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods for amelioration, alleviation, or prevention of the thermal discomfort in hot flushes, comprising: select...