US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Feb. 17 for "Compounds for increasing the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in a subject and methods of use thereof" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,760, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Compounds for increasing the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in a subject and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jesse Gordon-Blake (Chicago), Tom G. Driver (Chicago), Kiira Ratia (Chicago), Gregory R. Thatcher (Tucson, Ariz.), Victoria Weidig (Chicago) and Leon Tai (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, the disclosure, in one aspect, relates to compounds that increase the amount of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (...