US Patent Issued to Chapman University, The Board of Regents of University of Texas System, Northeastern University on May 27 for "SK channel positive allosteric modulators" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,333, issued on May 27, was assigned to Chapman University (Orange, Calif.), The Board of Regents of University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and Northeastern University (Boston).

"SK channel positive allosteric modulators" was invented by Miao Zhang (Orange, Calif.), Keykavous Parang (Orange, Calif.), Naglaa Ibrahim (Orange, Calif.), Young Woo Nam (Orange, Calif.), Ilya Bezprozvanny (Austin, Texas) and Meng Cui (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:is provided. X1 is N or C-Y; Y is H, halogen, NH2, OH, SH, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, or aryloxy; A is O, NH,...