ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,481, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aligos Therapeutics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).

"Anti-viral compounds" was invented by Koen Vandyck (Paal, Belgium), Dorothee Alice Marie-Eve Bardiot (Leuven, Belgium), Pierre Jean-Marie Bernard Raboisson (Wavre, Belgium), Leonid Beigelman (San Mateo, Calif.), Antitsa Dimitrova Stoycheva (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Sandro Boland (Leuven, Belgium) and Arnaud Didier Marie Marchand (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical comp...