US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 7 for "Aptamers for personal health care applications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,486, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Aptamers for personal health care applications" was invented by Juan Esteban Velasquez (Cincinnati), Spencer Christopher Rupard (Morrow, Ohio), Amy Violet Trejo (Mason, Ohio), Adam Michael Pitz (Morrow, Ohio), Kelly Lee Schmeichel (Cincinnati), Erin Nicole Swigart (Cincinnati), Gregory Allen Penner (London, Canada), Hilda Andamiche Namanja-Magliano (Loveland, Ohio) and Matthew Scott Wagner (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aptamer composition is disclosed which has one or more oligonucleotides that include at least one of deoxyribonucleotides,...