US Patent Issued to THE KENNEDY TRUST FOR RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH on June 10 for "Methods for reducing post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD)" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,744, issued on June 10, was assigned to THE KENNEDY TRUST FOR RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH (London).

"Methods for reducing post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD)" was invented by Mervyn Maze (San Francisco), Marc Feldmann (London), Niccolo Terrando (San Francisco), Mario Cibelli (London), Daqing Ma (London), Michael Fertleman (London) and Jagdeep Nanchahal (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides method, uses and agents for preventing or reducing cognitive decline in a patient following a planned inflammatory trigger. Such planned inflammatory trigger can be a surgical procedure or chemothera...