US Patent Issued to Shionogi & Co. Ltd . on Sept. 1 for "Chronic kidney disease treatment or prevention method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,844, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Shionogi & Co. Ltd . (Japan).

"Chronic kidney disease treatment or prevention method" was invented by Ryuhei Sano (Takatsuki, Japan), Masao Yamanaka (Takatsuki, Japan) and Takeshi Ohta (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aim of the present invention is to treat or prevent chronic kidney disease. Provided is a treatment or prophylactic pharmaceutical composition for chronic kidney disease, that contains an SGLT1-inhibiting compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof."

The patent was filed on Sept. 3, 2020, under Application No. 17/639,553.

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