ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,899, issued on July 1, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Compositions and methods for therapeutics prescreening" was invented by Avi Schroeder (Binyamina, Israel) and Zvi Yaari (Kiryat Ata, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A theranostic composition and method for determining the cell-specific potency of drugs is provided. Further, compositions and methods useful for studying the therapeutic profile of one or more drugs within a cell microenvironment, including but not limited to a tumor, are provided."
The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/079,959.
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