US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on March 24 for "Materials and methods for the treatment of Lewy body disorders" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,894, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Materials and methods for the treatment of Lewy body disorders" was invented by Vinata Vedam-Mai (Gainesville, Fla.), Michael S. Okun (Gainesville, Fla.), Catherine Flores (Gainesville, Fla.) and Duane Mitchell (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for reducing Lewy Bodies in the central nervous system of a subject in need thereof by administering a T cell that is specific for an Alpha-synuclein mutant to the subject."

The patent was filed on April 3, 2019, under Applicati...