ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,709, issued on July 22, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL UNIVERSITAIRE JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION (Albi, France), UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III-PAUL SABATIER (Toulouse, France), INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN-NORMANDIE (Mont Saint Aignan, France).

"Immunomodulatory peptide" was invented by Khaddouj Benmoussa (Ramonville Saint Agne, France), Elsa Bonnafe (Albi, France), Agnes Coste (Blagnac, France), Jerome Leprince (Mont Saint Aignan, France), Bernard Pipy (Toulouse, France) and Michel Treilhou (Lescure-d'Albigeois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relate...