US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on May 13 for "Substituted benzothiophene analogs as selective estrogen receptor degraders" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,939, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Substituted benzothiophene analogs as selective estrogen receptor degraders" was invented by Gregory R Thatcher (Tucson, Ariz.), Rui Xiong (Chicago), Jiong Zhao (Chicago), Yunlong Lu (Chicago), Lauren Gutgesell (Chicago), Carlo Ivan Rosales (Chicago) and Yangfeng Li (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to relates to substituted benzothiophene analogs which are useful as selective degraders of estrogen receptor, methods of making same, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, and meth...