US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 9 for "Treatment for aortic aneurysms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,181, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Treatment for aortic aneurysms" was invented by Gerard Boss (La Jolla, Calif.), Darren Casteel (La Jolla, Calif.), Hema Rangaswami (La Jolla, Calif.) and Renate Pilz (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for treatment of aortic disease in a subject in need comprising an effective amount of cobinamide. Aortic diseases include for example aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection, or aortic dilation. Aortic disease can be caused for example by Marfan syndrome or oxidative stress."

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