ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,279, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Compositions and methods for enhancing innate immunity in a subject for treatment of infections and cancer and other acute and chronic conditions of the eye" was invented by Steven Dow (Fort Collins, Colo.), Kathryn Wotman (Livermore, Colo.) and Lyndah Chow (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to novel immunostimulatory compositions of use to stimulate non-specific immune responses in a subject. In certain embodiments, immunogenic compositions disclosed here...