US Patent Issued to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 2 for "Methods for the prevention or treatment of cytokine storm" (Massachusetts, Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,107, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods for the prevention or treatment of cytokine storm" was invented by Dipak Panigrahy (Boston), Allison Gartung (Boston), Anna Fishbein (Boston), Bruce Hammock (Davis, Calif.), Sung Hee Hwang (Davis, Calif.) and Vikas P. Sukhatme (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for treating, suppressing, or preventing detrimental cytokine and/or lipid mediator surges that can result from a variety of different diseases, conditions, and therapeutic treat...