ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,474, issued on July 1, was assigned to Meharry Medical College (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Antiviral agents" was invented by Donald J. Alcendor (Hermitage, Tenn.) and Waldemar Popik (Brentwood, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antiviral agent is provided, having a phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer with an antisense sequence to a portion of a genome of a strain of Zika virus (ZIKV). The antiviral agent finds many uses, such as in a pharmaceutical composition, a method of treating ZIKV-mediated disease, a method of preventing ZIKV-mediated disease, a method of reducing or preventing the replication of ZIKV in a host cell, a method of...