ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,229, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHIONOGI & Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Stabilized peptide composition" was invented by Takashi Murakami (Toyonaka, Japan), Kazuyuki Takata (Toyonaka, Japan), Yoshie Niwa (Toyonaka, Japan), Shuichi Hatano (Amagasaki, Japan), Hidenori Kawasaki (Amagasaki, Japan) and Satoko Fujita (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a peptide composition that is highly stable and can be stored long term, said composition containing one or more types of peptides having an amino acid sequence represented by any of SEQ ID Nos. 1-5, or a peptide in which one or two of the amino acids of the...