US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 18 for "SIRT1 activating compounds" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,505, issued on March 18, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"SIRT1 activating compounds" was invented by David A. Sinclair (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Conrad Rinaldi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for preventing or treating aging, or an aging-related disorder, a disorder associated with inflammation, or for modulating an immune response in a subject in need thereof. In some embodiments, the methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of Formulas I-XIII."

The patent was filed on Oct. 16, 2019, u...