US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 1 for "Therapeutic or prophylactic agent for cachexia accompanied by ghrelin resistance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,845, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Therapeutic or prophylactic agent for cachexia accompanied by ghrelin resistance" was invented by Masashi Uchida (Kamakura, Japan) and Yu Omori (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a problem of providing a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for cachexia accompanied by ghrelin resistance. The therapeutic or prophylactic agent for cachexia accompanied by ghrelin resistance contains, as an active ingredient, an opioid Kappa receptor agonist compound represented by the formula (I):"

The patent was filed on April 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/...