US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KAKE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION on July 15 for "Prophylactic or therapeutic agent for cancer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,612, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan) and KAKE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION (Okayama, Japan).

"Prophylactic or therapeutic agent for cancer" was invented by Takaaki Abe (Miyagi, Japan), Shinobu Ohnuma (Miyagi, Japan), Michiaki Unno (Miyagi, Japan) and Kenichiro Hayashi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a low molecular weight compound having a prophylactic or therapeutic action on cancer. A compound of the following formula (1), a compound of the following formula (2), or the like can be administered by a method such as oral administration to ...