US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on April 14 for "Compounds to modulate intestinal absorption of nutrients" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,622, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Compounds to modulate intestinal absorption of nutrients" was invented by Jeffrey M. Karp (Brookline, Mass.), Yuhan Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), Ali Tavakkoli (Boston) and Tarawatie E. Deelman (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to compositions including formulated sucralfate or other aluminum-crosslinked sulfated agents for the modulation of nutrient absorption through the intestinal lining as well as methods for the manufacture of and the use of these compounds for treating disorders requiring a modulation of certain nut...