ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,222, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Foundry Therapeutics Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Implantable depots for localized, sustained, controlled release of therapeutic agents to treat cancer and related conditions" was invented by Steven Kim (Los Altos, Calif.), Karun D. Naga (Los Altos, Calif.), Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), James Su (Newark, Calif.), Nassireddin Mokarram-Dorri (Campbell, Calif.), Mark Deem (Portola Valley, Calif.), Stephen W. Boyd (San Francisco), Koon Kiat Teu (Singapore), Wei Li Lee (Singapore), Darryl Lim Wi Chung (Singapore) and Edward D. Gifford (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...