ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,865, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arisan Therapeutics Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Compounds for the treatment of arenavirus infection" was invented by Eric Brown (Santee, Calif.), Vidyasagar Reddy Gantla (San Diego), Nadezda Sokolova (San Diego), Michael Bruno Plewe (San Diego), Gregory Henkel (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Kenneth McCormack (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds as exemplified by compound A are useful in the treatment of arenavirus infections and viral infections mediated by arenavirus glycoproteins."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2019, under Application No. 17/299,270.

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