US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on April 29 for "Polypeptide and related products, methods and uses" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,460, issued on April 29, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Polypeptide and related products, methods and uses" was invented by Roger Sik Yin Foo (Singapore) and Vinh Dang Do (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an isolated polypeptide encoded by Sghrt and related uses. In addition, methods of assessing a heart function, treating impaired heart function by inhibiting Sghrt, identifying a potential drug for treating impaired heart function, and dedifferentiating and/or proliferating a heart cell by inhibiting Sghrt are claimed."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2020,...