ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,943, issued on July 15, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of synthesizing testosterone-based thiazolidinone derivatives" was invented by Mortaga Mohamed M. Abou-Krisha (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman G. Alhamzani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Al-Hassan S. Mahdy (Shenzhen, China), Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Abd-Elsabour (Luxor, Egypt) and Abdullah A. Aldakhil (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing testosterone-based thiazolidinone derivatives including preparing a testosterone thiosemicarbazone as an int...