US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on July 21 for "Compositions and methods for treating lung injury" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,739, issued on July 21, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore) and THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Compositions and methods for treating lung injury" was invented by J. Marc Simard (Baltimore), Vladimir Gerzanich (Elkridge, Md.) and Caron M. Hong (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of reducing lung injury in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an agent that inhibits the activity of SUR1."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2021, under Applic...