US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Sept. 16 for "Materials and methods for treating cancer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,974, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Materials and methods for treating cancer" was invented by Evanthia Galanis (Rochester, Minn.), S. Keith Anderson (Rochester, Minn.), Cheyne B. Kurokawa (Rochester, Minn.) and Ianko D. Iankov (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to materials and methods involved in treating cancer. For example, materials and methods for using one or more oncolytic viruses (e.g., one or more oncolytic viruses) to treat cancer in a mammal (e.g., a human) identified as having a cancer likely to respond to on...