US Patent Issued to Amgen on July 14 for "Apelin polypeptides" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,868, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Apelin polypeptides" was invented by Jerry Ryan Holder (Simi Valley, Calif.), Gayathri Swaminath (Brisbane, Calif.), Michael J. Frohn (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Brian Alan Lanman (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Anthony B. Reed (Newbury Park, Calif.), Leslie P. Miranda (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), John Gordon Allen (Newbury Park, Calif.), Alexander J. Pickrell (Westlake Village, Calif.), Aaron C. Siegmund (Ventura, Calif.), Lewis D. Pennington (Arlington, Mass.) and Bryant Yang (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides modified apelin po...