US Patent Issued to HETERO LABS on Aug. 5 for "Triterpenone derivatives as HIV inhibitors" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,281, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HETERO LABS Ltd. (Balanagar Hyderabad, India).

"Triterpenone derivatives as HIV inhibitors" was invented by Parthasaradhi Reddy Bandi (Balanagar Hyderabad, India), Rathnakar Reddy Kura (Balanagar Hyderabad, India), Panduranga Reddy Adulla (Balanagar Hyderabad, India) and V L Subrahmanyam Lanka (Balanagar Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel triterpenone derivatives of formula (I); and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. The invention also relates to novel triterpenone derivatives, rel...