ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,635, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Compositions and treatments for ischemic injuries" was invented by Hadi Javan (Salt Lake City), Craig H. Selzman (Salt Lake City), Young Sook Lee (Salt Lake City), Jo-Anna Reems (Salt Lake City) and Jan L. Pierce (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions and methods for treating ischemic injury in a subject comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an acellular amniotic fluid (acAF) to an ischemic injury situs within a therapeutic time window."

The patent was filed on March 22, ...