US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on March 3 for "Preventing cytokine release syndrome" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,622, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Preventing cytokine release syndrome" was invented by Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore), Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore), Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Md.), Shibin Zhou (Owings Mills, Md.), Verena Staedtke (Baltimore), Renyuan Bai (Baltimore) and Gregory J. Riggins (White Hall, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and materials for preventing cytokine release syndrome (CRS). For example, methods and materials for using one or more catecholamine inhibitors to prevent a mammal from developing CRS are provided."

The patent was filed ...