ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,311, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Renibus Therapeutics Inc. (Southlake, Texas).

"Tetrahydrocurcumin compositions, methods of making, and methods of using the same" was invented by Donald Jeffrey Keyser (Southlake, Texas), Alvaro F. Guillem (Lantana, Texas), Bhupinder Singh (Phoenix) and Richard A Zager (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel tetrahydrocurcumin (THCu) compositions, novel methods of manufacturing, and methods of using these compositions for therapeutic applications. The novel synthetic pathway(s) result in THCu compositions that generally lack hexahydrocurcumin (H...