ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,790, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).
"Drug combination for treating obesity" was invented by Victoria J. Vieira-Potter (Columbia, Mo.), Dennis B. Lubahn (Columbia, Mo.) and Eric D. Queathem (Columbia, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of treating obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes, and/or obese breast cancer, by increasing mitochondrial metabolism by increasing the activity of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) in adipocytes. The disclosed methods comprise contacting an adrenergic receptor agonist with an adipocyte in which the genomic activity...