ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,951, issued on July 15, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Cyclic peptide antibiotics" was invented by Guosheng Wu (Beijing), Emily J. Hanan (Redwood City, Calif.), Marie-Gabrielle Braun (San Francisco), Sharada S. Labadie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Keira Garland (San Francisco), Richard M. Pastor (San Francisco), Paul Anthony Gibbons (San Francisco), Yuhong Fu (Beijing) and Yun-Xing Cheng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are antibacterial compounds, wherein the compounds in some embodiments have broad spectrum bioactivity. In various embodiments, the compounds act by inhibition of lipopro...