US Patent Issued to Eccogene on May 6 for "Thyroid hormone receptor agonists and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,518, issued on May 6, was assigned to Eccogene Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Thyroid hormone receptor agonists and use thereof" was invented by Jingye Zhou (Shanghai), Jiuxiang Zhu (Shanghai) and Mingwei Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a compound of Formula (I') or (I):or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, prodrug, stereoisomer, or tautomer thereof, which modulates the activity of thyroid hormone receptors, a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I') or (I), and a method of treating or preventing a disease or disorder regulated by thyroid hormone."

The p...