US Patent Issued to Ting Therapeutics on June 23 for "Methods for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" (Nebraska, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,362, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ting Therapeutics Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" was invented by Jian Zuo (Carlsbad, Calif.), Pezhman Salehi Dermanaki (Elkhorn, Neb.), Marisa Laura Zallocchi (Omaha, Neb.) and Sarath Vijayakumar (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acquired hearing loss due to chemotherapy or noise exposure is a major health problem, and Cisplatin chemotherapy often causes permanent hearing loss in cancer patients. However, there are no FDA-approved drugs for the treatment or prevention of Cisplatin- or noise-induced hearing loss. In one aspect, use of Niclo...