ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,017, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System, William Marsh Rice University and The Trustees of Indiana University.

"Therapeutic carbon nanomaterial H 2 S oxidants for biological polysulfide synthesis" was invented by Thomas A. Kent (Houston), Paul J. Derry (Houston), David P. Huston (Houston), Anton V. Liopo (Houston), James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas), Emily A. McHugh (Houston), Kimberly Mendoza (Houston), Kenneth R. Olson (Berrien Springs, Mich.), Mansoor Kahn (Houston) and William Sikkema (Langley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic method for catalytically forming persulfide and/or polysul...