ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,434, issued on April 29, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Therapeutic, preventive, or improvement agent for inflammatory disease and allergic disease" was invented by Takahisa Murata (Tokyo), Tatsuro Nakamura (Tokyo), Taiki Hamabata (Tokyo) and Kohei Ashina (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a novel agent for treating, preventing or improving an inflammatory disease or an allergic disease. The present invention provides an agent for treating, preventing or improving an allergic disease, or as an agent for treating, preventing or improving an inflammatory disease or a...