ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,368, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Suppression of neuroinflammation and composition and method therefor" was invented by Masatoshi Hagiwara (Kyoto, Japan) and Akiko Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical composition for suppressing neuro-inflammation; a pharmaceutical composition for assisting transplantation of neuron precursor cells, pluripotent stem cells, and/or neurons; a pharmaceutical composition for promoting the stabilization of Nrf2 protein in glial cells; a pharmaceutical composition for protecting nerve cells from neuro-inflammation are provided. Pr...