ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,234, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Airway Therapeutics Inc. (Marietta, Ga.).

"Methods and compositions comprising surfactant protein D (SP-D)" was invented by Jan Susan Rosenbaum (Cincinnati), Mark Cornell Manning (Johnstown, Colo.), Derrick S. Katayama (Timnath, Colo.), Giovanni M. Pauletti (Cincinnati), Shawn Grant (Cincinnati) and Ryan Holcomb (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provided herein relate to methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising recombinant human surfactant protein D or active fragments thereof. Some such embodiments include solutions or suspensions, and lyophilized solid forms ...