ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,471, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AyuVis Research Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and BPD-associated pulmonary hypertension" was invented by Suchismita Acharya (Grapevine, Texas) and Pragnya Das (Secane, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a composition and method for preventing at least one of: neonatal lung injury, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), or BPD-associated pulmonary hypertension (BPD-PH) comprising: a compound of formula (I) and variants thereof:in an amount sufficient to prevent at least one of: neonatal lung inj...