US Patent Issued to Genascence, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on July 29 for "Methods and compositions for treating osteoarthritis" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,240, issued on July 29, was assigned to Genascence Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Methods and compositions for treating osteoarthritis" was invented by Thomas W. Chalberg (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher Howard Evans (Cohasset, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating a human suffering from osteoarthritis are provided. Aspects of the methods include intra-articularly administering to the human a dosage comprising a nucleic acid coding sequence for a human interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) to treat the human suffering from osteoarthriti...