US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on Sept. 30 for "Combination therapies comprising schweinfurthin compounds for treating cancer" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,133, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Combination therapies comprising schweinfurthin compounds for treating cancer" was invented by Jeffrey Neighbors (Hershey, Pa.), Todd Schell (Hershey, Pa.), Raymond Hohl (Hershey, Pa.) and Joseph John Drabick (Hershey, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides methods and materials for treating cancer. For example, methods and materials for using one or more schweinfurthin compounds and one or more immune-checkpoint inhibitors to treat a mammal having cancer are provided."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2019, under...