US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Sept. 30 for "Methods and materials for increasing level of phosphorylated AMPK protein" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,378, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and materials for increasing level of phosphorylated AMPK protein" was invented by Beibei Chen (Sewickley, Pa.), Toren Finkel (Pittsburgh) and Yuan Liu (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides methods and materials for increasing the level of phosphorylated AMPK. For example, compounds (e.g., organic compounds) having the ability to increase the level of phosphorylated AMPK within cells, formulations containing compounds having the ability to increase the level of phosph...