US Patent Issued to New York University on Oct. 6 for "Preventing and treating amyloid-beta deposition by stimulation of innate immunity" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,964, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to New York University (New York).

"Preventing and treating amyloid-beta deposition by stimulation of innate immunity" was invented by Thomas Wisniewski (Staten Island, N.Y.), Daryl Spinner (Staten Island, N.Y.), Henrieta Scholtzova (Fords, N.J.) and Richard Kascsak (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method of preventing or reducing amyloid deposition in a subject. This method involves selecting a subject with amyloid deposits and stimulating the innate immune system of the selected subject under conditions effective to reduce the amyloid deposit...