BioRestorative Therapies Receives a Notice of Allowance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a Patent Application Related to its Obesity Program
BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. (“BioRestorative”, “BRTX” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:BRTX), a clinical stage company focused on stem cell-based therapies, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a notice of allowance for a patent application related to the Company’s metabolic ThermoStem® program. The notice of allowance was issued on October 26, 2023. The application is scheduled to issue as U.S. Patent No. 11,851,682 on December 26, 2023.
This will be the fourth U.S. patent granted under this particular patent family. Claims granted under the new patent cover methods of using differentiated human brown fat adipocytes as a platform to screen and identify compounds that can activate and regulate metabolic activity. These compounds, if discovered to provide metabolic benefits, can then be further developed into drugs targeting weight loss. Therapeutic benefits of using activated brown adipose have been demonstrated in various models and may provide a valuable therapeutic tool for treating a range of metabolic disorders. For example, studies have shown that GLP-based therapeutics interact with brown adipose tissue.
“This notice of allowance is an important milestone as it provides us with tools that can be used as a platform to screen large libraries of compounds targeting metabolic disorders such as obesity,” said Lance Alstodt, the Company’s CEO. “The prevalence of developmental pipelines targeting obesity has increased substantially over the past year. As a result there is a need for more advanced targeted and precise tools and methods for identifying such compounds. This notice of allowance will afford us the protections necessary to allocate resources to develop these extremely valuable tools.”
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