US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on March 18 for "Inducing caspase activity" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,399, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Inducing caspase activity" was invented by Caroline Woelfle-Gupta (Midland, Mich.), Andrew Scott (Midland, Mich.), Matthew LeBaron (Midland, Mich.), Daniel Wilson (Midland, Mich.), Susan L. Jordan (Doylestown, Pa.), Robert L. Schmitt (Harleysville, Pa.) and Raja Settivari (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards methods of inducing caspase activity. The methods include contacting a cell with a treatment compound represented by the following Formula (I), where the treatment compound is a random copolymer, R1 ...