US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on June 9 for "Carotenoids for treating or preventing nausea" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,942, issued on June 9, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Carotenoids for treating or preventing nausea" was invented by Gary B. Ruvkun (Malden, Mass.), Jothi Amaranath Govindan (Malden, Mass.) and Elamparithi Jayamani (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions comprising carotenoids for the treatment or prevention of nausea, e.g., chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting."

The patent was filed on April 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/228,110.

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