US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 4 for "Methods for treating alcohol-induced brain injury and reducing alcohol addiction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,996, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods for treating alcohol-induced brain injury and reducing alcohol addiction" was invented by Tatiana Kisseleva (La Jolla, Calif.), David Brenner (La Jolla, Calif.) and Jun Xu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In alternative embodiments, provided are compositions, including products of manufacture and kits, and methods, for reducing addiction to alcohol, and for ameliorating, reversing, treating or preventing Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD), or alcohol-induced brain injury, wherein optionally the alcohol-induced brai...