US Patent Issued to UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO, UNIVERSIDAD SAN SEBASTIAN on March 17 for "Antiproliferative effect of agarophyton chilensis extract in prostate cancer" (Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,120, issued on March 17, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO (Santiago, Chile) and UNIVERSIDAD SAN SEBASTIAN (Santiago, Chile).

"Antiproliferative effect of agarophyton chilensis extract in prostate cancer" was invented by Francisca Bronfman (Santiago, Chile), Alejandro Godoy (Santiago, Chile), Camila Schmidt (Santiago, Chile) and Loretto Contreras (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition of an extract of Agarophyton chilensis, with antiproliferative effect in prostate cancer, comprising (a) 0.1 to 90% of an oleoresin of Agarophyton chilensis, with the following major...