US Patent Issued to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The University Court of the University of Aberdeen on Aug. 26 for "Modulators of AMPA receptor signaling" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,139, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) and The University Court of the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

"Modulators of AMPA receptor signaling" was invented by Fang Liu (Toronto), Iain Greig (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Dongxu Zhai (Toronto), Stephen Allan Smith (London), Chiara Zanato (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Chih-Chung Tseng (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compounds of Formula (I) which have shown utility in modulating AMPA receptor signaling and thus preventing AMPA receptor-mediated toxicity, which may find use in the treatm...