ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,528, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.), University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) and The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Compositions and methods for measuring and inhibiting calpain-5 activity" was invented by Vinit Mahajan (Redwood City, Calif.), Gabriel Velez (Palo Alto, Calif.), Young Joo Sun (Redwood City, Calif.), Kellie A Schaefer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alexander G Bassuk (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, methods, and kits are provided for ...