US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on July 7 for "Lung-specific targeting-peptide (LTP), compositions, and uses thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,972, issued on July 7, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Lung-specific targeting-peptide (LTP), compositions, and uses thereof" was invented by Maliha Zahid (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a synthetic, non-naturally occurring 12-amino acid peptide, Lung-specific Targeting Peptide, belonging to the larger class of cell penetrating peptides, for delivery of both diagnostic and potentially therapeutic agents to the lung. Also disclosed are methods of treating pulmonary disease, e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, chr...