US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Sept. 29 for "Quinine and its use to generate innate immune response" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,236, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Quinine and its use to generate innate immune response" was invented by Noam Cohen (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Robert J. Lee (Philadelphia), Susan R. Weiss (Merion, Pa.), Joel N. Maslow (Devon, Pa.), Christine C. Roberts (Zionsville, Pa.), Sara Cherry (Philadelphia), Michael Kohanski (Penn Valley, Pa.), Nithin D. Adappa (Philadelphia), James N. Palmer (Penn Valley, Pa.) and Li Hui Tan (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and compositions for assaying infectivity of viruses and potential treatments o...