US Patent Issued to The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority on March 25 for "Compositions and methods comprising deoxy-pentitols" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,214, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods comprising deoxy-pentitols" was invented by Qi Long Lu (Charlotte, N.C.) and Pei Juan Lu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to pharmaceutical formulations comprising a synthetic deoxypentitol and methods of use thereof in treating cancer."

The patent was filed on June 2, 2022, under Application No. 17/830,858.

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