ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,749, issued on April 8, was assigned to Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain) and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Cell-penetrating peptides" was invented by Matthew Wood (Oxford, Great Britain), Raquel Manzano (Zargoza, Spain), Caroline Godfrey (Oxford, Great Britain), Graham McClorey (Oxford, Great Britain), Richard Raz (London), Michael Gait (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrey Arzumanov (Cambridge, Great Britain), Liz O'Donovan (Ballyanly, Ireland), Gareth Hazell (Oxford, Great Britain), Ashling Holland (Oxford, Great Britain) and Miguel Varela (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & ...