US Patent Issued to Debiopharm International on Feb. 10 for "Antibiotic compounds, methods of manufacturing the same, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same and uses thereof" (Swiss, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,672, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Debiopharm International S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Antibiotic compounds, methods of manufacturing the same, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same and uses thereof" was invented by Vincent Gerusz (Neuvecelle, France), Vasileios Tatsis (Oxford, Great Britain), Mihiro Sunose (Nottingham, Great Britain), Juan Bravo (Epalinges, Switzerland), Terry Finn (Geneva), Danig Pohin (Aigle, Switzerland) and Pierre-Michel Regenass (Charrat, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compounds of the general structure (I), which are suitable as antibiotic compounds...