ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,934, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHANGHAI PUYOU BIOMEDICAL Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and compositions for preventing and treating atherosclerosis and related diseases" was invented by Yinghao Zhang (Shanghai), Guirui Yan (Shanghai), Yao Wang (Shanghai) and Jingpeng Fu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for preventing or treating atherosclerosis or atherosclerosis-related diseases in an individual in need thereof, the method comprising: administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of sDSS1 protein or a fragment or variant thereof, a nucleic acid encoding the sDSS1 prote...