US Patent Issued to THE BOOTS on April 7 for "Tetrapeptide and compositions comprising tetrapeptides" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,227, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE BOOTS COMPANY PLC (Nottingham, Great Britain).

"Tetrapeptide and compositions comprising tetrapeptides" was invented by Michael David Bell (Alfreton, Great Britain), Eleanor Jane Bradley (Beeston, Great Britain), Yegor Doush (West Bridgford, Great Britain), Michael John Sherratt (High Peak, Great Britain), Matiss Ozols (Manchester, Great Britain) and Alexander Eckersley (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tetrapeptide, capable of inducing dermal extracellular matrix protein upregulation, selected from the group consisting of tetrapeptides having the amino acid sequen...