ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,394, issued on March 18, was assigned to Eisai R&D Management Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Methods for the treatment of bladder cancer" was invented by Dae-Shik Kim (Andover, Mass.), Frank Fang (Andover, Mass.), Atsushi Endo (Andover, Mass.), Hyeong-Wook Choi (Andover, Mass.), Ming-Hong Hao (Quincy, Mass.), Xingfeng Bao (Concord, Mass.) and Kuan-Chun Huang (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for the treatment of bladder cancer."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2019, under Application No. 17/058,817.

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