US Patent Issued to BioVentures, The United States As Represented By The Department of Veterans Affairs on Feb. 17 for "Methods of protecting against neurodegeneration" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,763, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BioVentures LLC and The United States As Represented By The Department of Veterans Affairs.

"Methods of protecting against neurodegeneration" was invented by Robert Shmookler Reis (Little Rock, Ark.), Peter Crooks (Little Rock, Ark.) and Srinivas Ayyadevara (Little Rock, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method of preventing or reducing protein aggregates using combretastatin-A4 (CA4) or an analog thereof. The disclosure also provides methods of reducing the risk, delaying the onset, delaying or slowing the progression, or reversing the signs or symptoms of a neurode...