ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,886, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).

"Inhibitors of IL-15 and their use in treating autoimmune/inflammatory disorders" was invented by Bin Guo (Sugar Land, Texas), Gomika Udugamasooriya (Katy, Texas), Satya Prakash Shukla (Houston), Kwang Bog Cho (Houston) and Shuang Zhou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to peptoids and peptoid multimers that inhibit IL-15 and their use in treating autoimomune/inflammatory diseases."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/624,523.

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