US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine on April 29 for "Compounds and methods for treating or preventing bacterial infections" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,418, issued on April 29, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Compounds and methods for treating or preventing bacterial infections" was invented by Timothy Palzkill (Houston), Doris Taylor (Houston), Justin Anglin (Houston), Nicholas Simmons (Houston), John Faver (Houston), Yong Wang (Houston), Zhuang Jin (Houston) and Martin Matzuk (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates, in certain aspects, to compounds that can be used to inhibit Beta-lactamases, such as but not limited to OXA enzymes, such as but not limited to OXA-24, OXA-48, and/or OXA-58. In certain embodiments, these compounds can be u...