ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,990, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (Kamataka, India).

"Peptide for disassembly of protein aggregates and methods thereof" was invented by Purusharth I Rajyaguru (Kamataka, India), Mani Garg (Kamataka, India) and Nayana V (Kamataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel, potent and effective disassembly biomolecule, specifically a peptide, and a robust method or a platform technology for synthesizing and/or identifying disassembly biomolecules that are capable of inducing disassembly of protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases."

The patent ...