US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 14 for "Method for preventing and/or treating systemic inflammation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,424, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Method for preventing and/or treating systemic inflammation" was invented by Khoa Dinh Nguyen (San Francisco) and Edgar G. Engleman (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for preventing and/or treating aging-related cognitive impairment in the central nervous system. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof a Ppangela activator 2-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-1H-benzimidazole, 2-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenyl]-1H-benzimidazole, in an effective a...