US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Aug. 25 for "Peptides and methods of treating sepsis, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, stroke, heart attack and inflammation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,678, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Peptides and methods of treating sepsis, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, stroke, heart attack and inflammation" was invented by Xiaoping Du (Willowbrook, Ill.) and Ni Cheng (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides peptides that inhibit a binding interaction between a Beta integrin and a G protein subunit, as well as compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, particularly nanoparticle compositions, comprising the same and to methods of using the peptides to treat atherosclerosis, thrombosi...