US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL on Aug. 25 for "Pharmaceutical composition for lowering blood cholesterol, preventing or treating cardiovascular diseases and reducing inflammation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,899, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition for lowering blood cholesterol, preventing or treating cardiovascular diseases and reducing inflammation" was invented by Hyo-Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun-Duk Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition and the like for lowering blood cholesterol, preventing or treating cardiovascular diseases and reducing inflammation, containing, as an active ingredient, an inhibitor of binding between CAP1 and PCSK9, an inhibitor of binding be...