ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,598, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders" was invented by Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, Calif.), Sung Hee Hwang (Woodland, Calif.), Jun Yang (Davis, Calif.) and Kenji Hashimoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of preventing, reducing, ameliorating, mitigating, inhibiting, treating and/or reversing a neurodevelopmental disorder related to prenatal maternal immune activation in an individual in need thereof comprising administering to said individual an agent tha...