ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,074, issued on May 12, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Polypeptides related to HMGB1 useful for promoting tissue regeneration, compositions comprising same, and uses thereof" was invented by Jagdeep Nanchahal (Oxford, Great Britain), Alvaro Vinals Guitart (Oxford, Great Britain), Wyatt Yue (Oxford, Great Britain), Nicola Burgess-Brown (Oxford, Great Britain), Tzung Yuan Lee (Oxford, Great Britain) and Ana Isabel Espirito Santo (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides polypeptides represented by the following formula:H2N-A-X-B-A-X-B-HOOCwhich are based on ...