US Patent Issued to University of Kentucky Research Foundation on Jan. 13 for "Accelerating repair of mucosal injury using gold(III) compounds" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,415, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Accelerating repair of mucosal injury using gold(III) compounds" was invented by Terrence Barrett (Lexington, Ky.) and Samuel Awuah (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of increasing mitochondrial respiration in a cell makes use of a compound having the structure of formula (I) or formula (II)."

The patent was filed on July 29, 2021, under Application No. 18/006,889.

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