ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,302, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Solasta Bio Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Insect neuropeptides 6" was invented by Julian A. T. Dow (East Dunbartonshire, Great Britain), Shireen A. Davies (East Dunbartonshire, Great Britain), Yousef Abul-Haija (East Dunbartonshire, 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 kinin neuropeptide [Hy]-RQKTVFSSWG-[NH2] (SEQ ID NO:2) having activity against insects, for example hemipteran, dipteran, lepidopteran and/or blattodean insects, such as aphids, moths and fruit flies...