US Patent Issued to YALE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Manipulation of meningeal lymphatic vasculature for brain and CNS tumor therapy" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,395, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Conn.).

"Manipulation of meningeal lymphatic vasculature for brain and CNS tumor therapy" was invented by Akiko Iwasaki (Guilford, Conn.), Jean-Leon Thomas (Branford, Conn.) and Eric Song (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inducing lymphangiogenesis in the brain or central nervous system of a subject is provided in which an effective amount of a lymphangiogenesis inducer is administered. A method of inducing lymphangiogenesis in a tumor in the brain or central nervous system of a subject is provided in which an effective amount of a lymphang...