US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on June 30 for "Therapeutics for treatment of COVID-19 symptoms" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,581, issued on June 30, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Therapeutics for treatment of COVID-19 symptoms" was invented by Richard H. Gomer (College Station, Texas), Darrell Pilling (Bryan, Texas) and Tejas Karhadkar (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of treating Coronavirus-Associated Lung Damage (CALD) and cytokine storm using CALD-treating compounds. The methods can involve administering CALD-treating compounds to a patient suffering from CALD or cytokine storm."

The patent was filed on June 7, 2021, under Application No. 18/009,203....