US Patent Issued to SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 22 for "Modulators of programmed death-ligand-1" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,965, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Modulators of programmed death-ligand-1" was invented by Mark J. Suto (Homewood, Ala.), Bini Mathew (Hoover, Ala.) and Rebecca Boohaker (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is concerned with substituted phenyl and heterocycloalkyl compounds for the treatment of various cancers such as, for example, sarcomas, carcinomas, hematological cancers, solid tumors, breast cancer, cervical cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, colorectal cancer, brain cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, thyr...