ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,841, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).
"Light therapy treatment" was invented by Maik Huettemann (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.), John Kamholz (Coralville, Iowa), Icksoo Lee (Cheonan-Si, South Korea), Karin Przyklenk (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.), Lawrence Grossman (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Thomas H. Sanderson (Plymouth, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating reperfusion injury in a tissue of a subject in need thereof. The method includes applying light, to the tissue, that inhibits electron transfer from cytochrome c to cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) to molecular oxygen to attenuate creation ...