US Patent Issued to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE on May 19 for "Methods and uses for apelin receptor agonists" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,352, issued on May 19, was assigned to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods and uses for apelin receptor agonists" was invented by Rangan Maitra (Cary, N.C.), Sanju Narayanan (Morrisville, N.C.), Kenneth S. Rehder (Durham, N.C.) and Scott P. Runyon (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in a patient in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an apelin receptor agonist."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/637,659.

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