ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,727, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sapporo Medical University (Hokkaido, Japan) and Nipro Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pharmaceutical composition for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" was invented by Osamu Honmou (Hokkaido, Japan), Masanori Sasaki (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuko Sasaki (Hokkaido, Japan), Shinichi Oka (Hokkaido, Japan), Masahito Nakazaki (Hokkaido, Japan) and Rie Maezawa (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating amyotr...