ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,125, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aardvark Therapeutics Inc. (San Diego).

"Method for treating SARS and treating or preventing ARDS" was invented by Tien-Li Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed compositions and methods for treating and preventing Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) including ARDS caused by viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin such as coronaviruses. The present disclosure is based on a surprising discovery of significant efficacy in an acute lung injury model using intrapulmonary lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge in female CD-I mice. Based on these data, the test com...