US Patent Issued to Enanta Pharmaceuticals on Dec. 30 for "Antiviral heterocyclic compounds" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,470, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Antiviral heterocyclic compounds" was invented by Adam Szymaniak (Boston), Kevin McGrath (Brighton, Mass.), Jianming Yu (Plainsboro, N.J.), Tyler J. Mann (Brighton, Mass.), Long Nguyen (Boston), Kaicheng Zhu (Belmont, Mass.), In Jong Kim (Lexington, Mass.) and Yat Sun Or (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof:which inhibit Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) or Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) inhibitors. The presen...