US Patent Issued to Cidara Therapeutics on Sept. 30 for "Compositions and methods for the treatment of viral infections" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,200, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cidara Therapeutics Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment of viral infections" was invented by Allen Borchardt (San Diego), Thomas P. Brady (San Diego), Zhi-Yong Chen (La Jolla, Calif.), Thanh Lam (San Diego) and Leslie W. Tari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for the treatment of viral infections include conjugates containing inhibitors of viral neuraminidase (e.g., zanamivir, peramivir, or analogs thereof) linked to an Fc monomer, an Fc domain, and Fc-binding peptide, an albumin protein, or albumin-binding peptide. In particular, con...