US Patent Issued to Kent State University on Oct. 7 for "Rationally designed lawsone derivatives as antimicrobials against multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,853, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kent State University (Kent, Ohio).

"Rationally designed lawsone derivatives as antimicrobials against multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus" was invented by Min-Ho Kim (Hudson, Ohio), Songping D. Huang (Kent, Ohio), Ronghui Song (Pittsburgh) and Bing Yu (Chesterbrook, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Naphthoquinone derivatives of Lawsone have been found to be effective against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Such compounds generally contain a substituent group at the 3-position of a specific naphthoquinone compound, i.e. 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoqu...