ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,264, issued on Nov. 18, 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), Samir El Andaloussi (Oxford, Great Britain), Graham McClorey (Oxford, Great Britain), Raquel Manzano (Zargoza, Spain), Michael J. Gait (Cambridge, Great Britain), Caroline Godfrey (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrey Arzumanov (Cambridge, Great Britain), Liz O'Donovan (Ballyanly, Ireland) and Richard Raz (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "the present invention relates to peptides, in partic...