US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on Dec. 23 for "Compositions and methods for trehalose phospholipids" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,482, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston) and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Compositions and methods for trehalose phospholipids" was invented by Ildiko Van Rhijn (Amsterdam), Adriaan J. Minnaard (Groningen, Netherlands), D. Branch Moody (W. Roxbury, Mass.), Tan-Yun Cheng (Ashland, Mass.) and Jeffrey Buter (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions of trehalose phospholipids and uses thereof, e.g., compounds and compositions comprising 6,6'-diphosphatidyltrehalose (diPT) and analogs thereof with modifications of the diPT...