US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 18 for "Compositions and methods of treating age-related retinal dysfunction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,616, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods of treating age-related retinal dysfunction" was invented by Jennings Luu (Oakland, Calif.) and Krzysztof Palczewski (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating and/or preventing age-related retinal dysfunction in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that attenuates stress-induced chromatin remodeling associated with the age-related retinal dysfunction."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2021, under Applicatio...