US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, The General Hospital on March 24 for "Compositions and methods for treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease" (Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,920, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease" was invented by Dudley K. Strickland (Brookeville, Md.), Joanna Cooper (Baltimore), Selen M. Catania (Brookeville, Md.), Mary M. Migliorini (Derwood, Md.), Brian Hampton (Gaithersburg, Md.), Bradley T. Hyman (Madison, N.H.) and Aurelien Lathuiliere (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and compositions for reducing internalization and/or trafficking of tau in neuronal cells compri...