ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,524, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wintermute Biomedical Inc. (Corvallis, Mont.).

"Therapeutic compositions of undecylenic acid and arginine" was invented by Thomas F. Rau (Heidelberg Heights, Australia) and Geoffrey W. Rogers (Fitzroy, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions including a complex of fatty acids (e.g., including one or more C4 to C40 fatty acids, such as a C4 to C20 fatty acid) and one or more amino acids (and particularly one or more amino acids having electrically charged basic side chains, e.g., Arginine, Lysine, etc.) for use as an anti-pathogenic composition. These compositions may include the c...