US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Aug. 5 for "Chondroinductive peptides and compositions and methods of use thereof" (Maryland, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,191, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Chondroinductive peptides and compositions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Michael S. Detamore (Norman, Okla.) and Salma Mahzoon (Eldridge, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and peptides for enhancing formation of cartilage in a site of a cartilage injury or defect, or joint condition, and methods of the use of the compositions and peptides in such treatments. Examples of the sites may include a knee, ankle, wrist, shoulder, elbow, patella, hip, vertebrae, femoral head, temporomandibular joint, glenoid ...