US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 22 for "Compositions and methods for treating muscular dystrophies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,939, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for treating muscular dystrophies" was invented by Rachelle H. Crosbie (Los Angeles), Cynthia Shu (Los Angeles), Varghese John (Los Angeles), Jesus Campagna (Los Angeles), Barbara Jagodzinska (Los Angeles), Liubov Parfenova (Los Angeles) and Ekaterina Mokhonova (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compounds that increase sarcospan expression. The disclosure further relates to methods of treating a disease related to diminution or dysfunction of a dystrophin-related...