US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Pharma on Sept. 30 for "Water soluble adjuvant and composition containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,192, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Water soluble adjuvant and composition containing same" was invented by Hitoshi Ban (Osaka, Japan), Yosuke Takanashi (Osaka, Japan), Masashi Goto (Osaka, Japan), Natsuko Suginobe (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Imazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiko Iwata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a compound useful as a vaccine adjuvant for cancer vaccine, a preparation process thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and use of the compound as a vaccine adjuvant for cancer vaccine."

The patent was filed on...