ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,240, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazusa DNA Research Institute (Kisarazu, Japan).
"Peptide" was invented by Kousaku Ohinata (Kyoto, Japan), Yukiha Mori (Kyoto, Japan) and Hideyuki Suzuki (Kisarazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a peptide consisting of (i) the amino acid sequence LSSTOAOOSY (SEQ ID NO: 1), (ii) the amino acid sequence LSSTOAQQSW (SEQ ID NO: 6), or (iii) the amino acid sequence LSSTOAQQSF (SEQ ID NO: 7)."
The patent was filed on April 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/718,789.
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