US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, The General Hospital, Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud A.C. on Dec. 2 for "Compounds and methods for regulating insulin secretion" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,258, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud A.C. (Mexico City).

"Compounds and methods for regulating insulin secretion" was invented by Sean M. Burns (Boston), Bridget K. Wagner (Cambridge, Mass.) and Amedeo Vetere (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for inducing insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner and compounds for use in these methods."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/991,792.

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