US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on Sept. 15 for "Prophylactic and therapeutic use of mitochondria and combined mitochondrial agents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,194, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Prophylactic and therapeutic use of mitochondria and combined mitochondrial agents" was invented by James D. McCully (Marblehead, Mass.) and Pedro J. del Nido (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to compositions comprising isolated mitochondria or combined mitochondrial agents, and methods of treating or preventing disorders or damage associated with ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) using such compositions."

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2019, under Application No. 17/607,975.

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