ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,143, issued on April 22, was assigned to Solasta Bio Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Insect neuropeptides 1" was invented by Julian A. T. Dow (East Dunbarton, Great Britain), Shireen A. Davies (East Dunbarton, Great Britain), Yousef Abul-Haija (East Dunbarton, Great Britain) and Lewis Archibald (Glasgow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to natural or natural-like analogues of insect pyrokinin neuropeptide [Hy]-SPPYSPPFSPRL-[NH2] (SEQ ID NO:2) having activity against insects, for example hemipteran, dipteran, lepidopteran and/or coleopteran insects, such as aphids, moths and fruit flies, and th...