US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Antimicrobial peptide derived from Pseudin-2 peptide and uses thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,459, issued on July 29, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Antimicrobial peptide derived from Pseudin-2 peptide and uses thereof" was invented by Yoonkyung Park (Jeollanam-do, South Korea) and Hee Kyoung Kang (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antimicrobial peptide according to an embodiment of the present disclosure has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein i) the 1st and the 20th to the 24th amino acids are deleted, ii) the 1st and the 20th to the 24th amino acids are deleted and the 11th or the 18th amino acid is substituted with lysi...