US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Synthesis of tigilanol tiglate and analogs thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,264, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Synthesis of tigilanol tiglate and analogs thereof" was invented by Paul A. Wender (Menlo Park, Calif.), Nguyen Hong Quang Luu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Zachary Gentry (Palo Alto, Calif.), Edward Njoo (Freemont, Calif.), David Fanelli (Stanford, Calif.) and Owen Dennis McAteer (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for the isolation of phorbol from seed sources and the use of the phorbol for the generation of tigliane tiglate and derivatives thereof."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2...