US Patent Issued to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN, CHARITE - UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN on Feb. 10 for "Medical uses of thiol-functionalized polyglycerol derivatives" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,450, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (Berlin) and CHARITE - UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN (Berlin).

"Medical uses of thiol-functionalized polyglycerol derivatives" was invented by Rainer Haag (Berlin), Marcus Mall (Berlin), Daniel Lauster (Berlin) and Yinan Zhong (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method of treatment of a human or animal patient in need thereof to achieve a reduction of the viscosity of mucus of the patient which is carried out by administering a polyglycerol derivative having a linear or dendritic polyglycerol backbone and carrying at least one thiol group covalently bou...