US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Tuskegee University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Nov. 11 for "Small peptide compositions and uses thereof" (Pennsylvania, Alabama, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,630, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh), Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, Ala.), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Small peptide compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Cecelia C. Yates-Binder (Pittsburgh), Jesse Jaynes (Tuskegee, Ala.), Monte S. Willis (Indianapolis), Richard J. Bodnar (Pittsburgh) and Zariel I. Johnson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interferon-Gamma-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) pept...