US Patent Issued to Tiny Therapeutics on June 10 for "Methods for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" (Nebraska, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,808, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tiny Therapeutics Inc (San Diego).

"Methods for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" was invented by Jian Zuo (Carlsbad, Calif.), Zhuo Li (Omaha, Neb.) and Marisa Laura Zallocchi (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, use of compounds as active agents to treat a hearing impairment and to prevent a hearing impairment, and methods of treating and/or preventing hearing impairments or disorders using the compositions are disclosed. Momelotinib and Fedratinib exhibit excellent protection against antibiotic-induced hearing loss in zebrafish and mice when administered prop...