US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The United States Governmment as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on April 21 for "Combination therapy for cancer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,371, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The United States Governmment as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Combination therapy for cancer" was invented by Michael J. Morser (San Francisco), Lawrence L.K Leung (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Timothy Myles (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating cancer using combination therapy with an anti-coagulant and a B-Raf inhibitor and/or a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MEK) inhibitor are disclosed. The anti-coagulant may be a direct inhibitor of th...