US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 29 for "Penam derivative or salt thereof, pharmaceutical composition, and applications thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,440, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Penam derivative or salt thereof, pharmaceutical composition, and applications thereof" was invented by Muneo Shoji (Toyama, Japan), Kentaro Furuya (Toyama, Japan), Kei Matsuura (Toyama, Japan) and Tomofumi Nakae (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a compound and a pharmaceutical composition which exhibit strong antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria and drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. A compound represented by General Formula [1](the reference signs in Formula have the same definitions as ...