ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,043, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

"Use of inhibitors of the activator protein 1 (AP-1) for preventing adhesions" was invented by Michael T. Longaker (Atherton, Calif.), Gerlinde Wernig (Woodside, Calif.), Jeffrey A. Norton (Redwood City, Calif.), Geoffrey Gurtner (Portola Valley, Calif.), Michael Januszyk (Daly City, Calif.), Deshka Foster (San Bruno, Calif.) and Malini Chinta (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods of treating a subject to reduce adhesion formation."

The patent was filed on June 17, 202...