US Patent Issued to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Jan. 27 for "Method for preventing hair loss" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,359, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Method for preventing hair loss" was invented by Michael Rendl (New York), Nicholas J. Heitman (New York) and Rachel Sennett (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions useful in the prevention and treatment of hair loss. In some embodiments, compositions are applied to hair follicles to inhibit the transition of growth phases. In some embodiments, the composition is a myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) inhibitor alone, or in conjunction with other components. In some embodiments, methods are disclosed for identifying and/...