US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Oct. 6 for "Antioxidant and antiviral compositions and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,971, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Antioxidant and antiviral compositions and methods" was invented by Timothy Peterson (Rochester, Minn.), Atta Behfar (Rochester, Minn.) and Christopher Paradise (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preparations of exosomes and/or Purified Exosome Product (PEP) include antioxidant proteins and antiviral proteins. Compositions that include exosomes and/or PEP can be used to treat subject having, or at risk of having, a condition or tissue damage caused, at least in part, by oxidative stress. Also, compositions that ...