US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Use of annexins in preventing and treating muscle membrane injury" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,184, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Use of annexins in preventing and treating muscle membrane injury" was invented by Alexis R. Demonbreun (Mokena, Ill.) and Elizabeth M. McNally (Oak Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing the activity of an annexin protein to treat a cellular membrane injury in a patient in need thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2019, under Application No. 17/416,018.

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