US Patent Issued to Capacity Bio on July 1 for "Methods and agents that stimulate mitochondrial turnover for treating disease" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,331, issued on July 1, was assigned to Capacity Bio Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and agents that stimulate mitochondrial turnover for treating disease" was invented by Amy E. Wang (Santa Monica, Calif.), Alejandro Martorell-Riera (Walnut, Calif.) and Kevin John Gaffney (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of stimulating mitophagy in a subject in need thereof administering to the subject a mitophagy-stimulating amount of a MAS receptor agonist or substance that triggers endogenous production of a MAS receptor agonist. The present disclosure also relates to medical intervention methods and agents, na...