US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on Jan. 13 for "Modulating renal lymphatics to regulate blood pressure" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,427, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Modulating renal lymphatics to regulate blood pressure" was invented by Brett Mitchell (Belton, Texas), Dongin Kim (College Station, Texas), Mary Nabity (College Station, Texas) and Joseph Rutkowski (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for reducing blood pressure by stimulating lymphatic vessel growth and/or lymphangiogenesis in the kidneys."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2019, under Application No. 17/270,796.

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