ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,760, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CHEMICAL & BIOPHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORIES OF PATRAS S.A. (Patras, Greece).

"Amino diacids containing peptide modifiers" was invented by Kleomenis Barlos (Patras, Greece), Dimitrios Gatos (Patras, Greece), Kostas K. Barlos (Patras, Greece) and Zoi Vasileiou (Patras, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to peptide modifier compounds of Formula (1), or a salt thereof, wherein: a is an integer from 1 to 10, more preferably from 1 to 3; b is an integer from 0 to 7; Z is a terminal group and Y is a bivalent group. Further aspects of the invention relate to intermediates...