US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on July 15 for "Compositions and methods of synthesizing shape shifting cyclic peptides (Sscp) and their use in the identification of novel therapeutic compounds" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,952, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Compositions and methods of synthesizing shape shifting cyclic peptides (Sscp) and their use in the identification of novel therapeutic compounds" was invented by Michael Stowell (Boulder, Colo.), William Old (Boulder, Colo.), Brady Worrell (Englewood, Colo.) and John Mayer (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention described herein includes a novel platform for the development of novel shapeshifting drug-like compounds that overcome physical mass limitations as they possess the ability to interconvert internally and spontan...