US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of California on Oct. 14 for "Compositions and methods for increasing muscle mass and oxidative metabolism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,716, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for increasing muscle mass and oxidative metabolism" was invented by Melissa Spencer (Los Angeles), Varghese John (Los Angeles), Irina Kramerova (Los Angeles), Jian Liu (Los Angeles), Jesus Campagna (Los Angeles) and Barbara Jagodzinska (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods of use for a compound having a chemical structure of Formula (I) and/or Formula (VII), or a pharmaceutically y acceptable salt or solvate thereof, to increase muscle mass, muscle oxidative capacity, and mus...