US Patent Issued to The UAB Research Foundation on April 21 for "Treatment and prevention of pulmonary injury" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,424, issued on April 21, was assigned to The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Treatment and prevention of pulmonary injury" was invented by Sadis Matalon (Birmingham, Ala.), Saurabh Aggarwal (Birmingham, Ala.), Tamas Jilling (Birmingham, Ala.) and Rakesh Patel (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hemopexin, salubrinal, aurothioglucose, and nitrite find uses in treating pulmonary injury from several causes, alone and in combination. Methods of treatment, methods of prevention, and pharmaceutical compositions are provided with those components."

The patent was filed on Sept. 4, 2020, under Application No. 17/6...