US Patent Issued to NANJING ANJI BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 2 for "Polypeptide having anti-aging activity, and application thereof" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,301, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NANJING ANJI BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Polypeptide having anti-aging activity, and application thereof" was invented by Joseph Martinez Jean Alphonse (Caux, France), Hanmei Xu (Nanjing, China) and Dong Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a polypeptide capable of prolonging the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The polypeptide has an amino acid sequence XKFAA SEQ ID NO: 1) (X: any amino acid, preferably T/A). Further, after one or more amino acids on the foregoing polypeptide sequence are deleted...