US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, CHIBA UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Methods of inhibiting formation of alpha synuclein aggregates" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,379, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Methods of inhibiting formation of alpha synuclein aggregates" was invented by Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, Calif.), Sung Hee Hwang (Woodland, Calif.), Kenji Hashimoto (Chiba, Japan) and Qian Ren (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of preventing, delaying, mitigating, reducing and/or inhibiting alpha-synuclein aggregates in the brains of a subject at risk of developing or suffering a cognitive disease associated with, caused and/or mediated at least in part by alpha-sy...