US Patent Issued to Tosk on Dec. 30 for "Methods and compositions for reducing radiation induced toxicity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,265, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tosk Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for reducing radiation induced toxicity" was invented by William A. Garland (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian D. Frenzel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Philip Liaw (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for reducing radiation therapy induced toxicity, e.g., mucositis, in a subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include administering an effective amount of a radiation toxicity-reducing adjuvant to the subject. In certain embodiments, the radiation toxicity-reducing adjuvant is a 2,2'-anhydropyrimidine, or a derivative...