ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,198, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
"RIG-I agonists and treatments using same" was invented by Akiko Iwasaki (Guilford, Conn.), Anna Marie Pyle (Guilford, Conn.), Xiaodong Jiang (New Haven, Conn.) and Olga Fedorova (Hamden, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides combination therapies that are useful for treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing certain cancers. In certain embodiments, the therapy comprises an immune-checkpoint inhibitor and a RIG-I agonist. In other embodiments, the therapy comprises a RIG-I agonist."
The patent was filed on June 20, 2019, under Ap...