US Patent Issued to Washington University, Shriners Hospitals for Children on May 26 for "Compositions and methods for regulating fatty acids" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,695, issued on May 26, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and Shriners Hospitals for Children (Tampa, Fla.).

"Compositions and methods for regulating fatty acids" was invented by Farshid Guilak (St. Louis), Chia-Lung Wu (St. Louis), Robert Nims (St. Louis), Ruhang Tang (St. Louis), Arin Oestreich (St. Louis) and Natalia Harasymowicz (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure relates to methods and compositions useful in convert inflammatory dietary fatty acids (omega 6) to anti-inflammatory fatty acids (omega 3). Specifically, the present disclosure provides methods and...