ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,468, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUNDACIO HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D'HEBRON-INSTITUT DE RECERCA (Barcelona, Spain).

"Cell-penetrating peptides" was invented by Juan Sayos Ortega (Barcelona, Spain), Simon Schwartz Navarro (Sabadell, Spain), Joaquin Seras Franzoso (Mataro, Spain), Agueda Martinez Barriocanal (Barcelona, Spain), Diana Fernandes De Sousa Rafael (Barcelona, Spain) and Fernanda Raquel Da Silva Andrade (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a peptide of a length from 10 to 50 amino acid residues, which comprises the amino acid sequence Xaa1KXaa2WXaa3Xaa4Xaa5Xaa6Xaa7W (SEQ ...