US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Sept. 23 for "Synthetic derivatives of cholic acid 7-sulfate and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,897, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Synthetic derivatives of cholic acid 7-sulfate and uses thereof" was invented by Abigail Sloan Devlin (Cambridge, Mass.), Snehal N. Chaudhari (Cambridge, Mass.), Eric Garland Sheu (Brookline, Mass.), David A. Harris (Arlington, Mass.) and Jinbo Lee (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods provided herein are related, in part, to the discovery of cholic acid 7-sulfate as a treatment for diabetes. Provided herein is a method for treating a metabol...