US Patent Issued to ARJIL BIOTECH HOLDING on Oct. 7 for "Compounds and methods for prevention and treatment of coronavirus infections" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,901, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ARJIL BIOTECH HOLDING COMPANY Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compounds and methods for prevention and treatment of coronavirus infections" was invented by Jir-Mehng Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Yeh B Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Ju Liang (Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Hsin Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hao Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-Chung Chiou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to anti-coronaviral compounds. The disclosure includes a method for preventing and/or treating a coronavirus infection through the inhibition of a cysteine protease in a vir...