US Patent Issued to Georgetown University, The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on March 11 for "Radiation mitigator and method of use thereof" (Maryland, Oklahoma, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,011, issued on March 11, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington) and The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Radiation mitigator and method of use thereof" was invented by Milton L. Brown (Brookeville, Md.), Yali Kong (Fairfax, Va.), Courtney Houchen (Edmond, Okla.), Sripathi M. Sureban (Oklahoma City) and Parthasarathy Chandrakesan (Edmond, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods useful for preventing and mitigating radiation injury, including acute radiation syndrome, comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by formu...