US Patent Issued to The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine on Sept. 8 for "Compounds for inhibiting LY6K and methods of using same" (District Of Columbia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,126, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Compounds for inhibiting LY6K and methods of using same" was invented by Geeta Upadhyay (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compounds that inhibit Ly6K. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit activity of Ly6K protein in a cell, to inhibit cell proliferation, to modulate expression of a gene in a cell, to reduce suppression of the immune response to cancer in a subject, to decrease tumorigenic growth of a cancer in a subject, and to treat...