US Patent Issued to Tampa Bay Research Institute on Oct. 20 for "Method of use for benzofuran compounds" (Florida, Ohio, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,126, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tampa Bay Research Institute Inc. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Method of use for benzofuran compounds" was invented by William Bradley (Seminole, Fla.), Amara Davis (Columbus, Ohio), Claire O'Connor (Denver), Jessica Mandula (Columbus, Ohio), Nicole Perekhodko (Clearwater, Fla.) and Akiko Tanaka (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orally bioavailable benzofuran is provided which possesses in vitro and in vivo capabilities able to overcome issues in loading of antigenic peptide on major histocompatibility class I complexes, including on the surface of professional antigen presenting ...