US Patent Issued to Island Pharmaceuticals on Dec. 30 for "Methods and compositions for inhibition of polymerase" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,266, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Island Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).

"Methods and compositions for inhibition of polymerase" was invented by Shanta Bantia (Birmingham, Ala.), Pravin L. Kotian (Hoover, Ala.) and Yarlagadda S. Babu (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for inhibition of viral nucleic acid polymerases, such as RNA and DNA polymerases, and methods and compositions that are useful for treating viral infections in subjects. The methods comprise administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of form...