US Patent Issued to Yale University on March 17 for "Compositions and methods for treating slow-flow vascular malformations" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,069, issued on March 17, was assigned to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

"Compositions and methods for treating slow-flow vascular malformations" was invented by Naiem Nassiri (New Haven, Conn.) and Prashant Patel (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates in part to the discovery that slow-flow vascular malformations (which can be venous and/or lymphatic) can be treated using direct intralesional delivery of an active drug, such as but not limited to a mTOR inhibitor, such as but not limited to temsirolimus, or a salt or solvate thereof."

The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2020, under Application No....