ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,889, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain) and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Cell penetrating peptides" was invented by Matthew Wood (Oxford, Great Britain), Suzan Hammond (Oxford, Great Britain), Melissa Bowerman (Oxford, Great Britain), Michael Gait (Cambridge, Great Britain), Frank Adendroth (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Graham McClorey (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to peptides, in particular cell penetrating peptides, of 40 amino acid residues or less comprising at least one directly ...