US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Jan. 13 for "3-(hydroxy)-pyridin-4(1H)-one compounds and methods of making and using the same" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,382, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"3-(hydroxy)-pyridin-4(1H)-one compounds and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Adegboyega K. Oyelere (Atlanta), Verjine Khodaverdian (Atlanta) and Subhasish Tapadar (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for inhibiting histone lysine demethylases are provided. Several new DFP-based KDM inhibitors which alter the velocity of HP1-mediated heterochromatin gene repression are provided."

The patent was filed on May 8, 2025, under Application No. 19/202,501.

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