US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Sept. 29 for "Neutrophil elastase binding peptides and compositions thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,280, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland) and THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Neutrophil elastase binding peptides and compositions thereof" was invented by Anirban Sen Gupta (Cleveland) and Evi Stavrou (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic or diagnostic composition includes nanoparticle or microparticle constructs designed to target activated neutrophils. Each construct features an outer surface conjugated with multiple targeting peptides. These targeting peptides comprise an amino acid sequence with at least 60% ident...