US Patent Issued to Merch Sharpe & Dohme, MSD R&D (China), The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research on June 24 for "Antimalarial agents" (American, Chinese, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,219, issued on June 24, was assigned to Merch Sharpe & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.), MSD R&D (China) Co. LTD (Beijing) and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Victoria, Australia).

"Antimalarial agents" was invented by John A. McCauley (Maple Glen, Pa.), Manuel de Lera Ruiz (Perkasie, Pa.), Zhuyan Guo (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Bin Hu (Shanghai), Michael J. Kelly III (Paoli, Pa.), Zhiyu Lei (Shanghai), David B. Olsen (Lansdale, Pa.), Brad Sleebs (Bundoora, Australia), Dongmei Zhan (Shanghai) and Lianyun Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of treating malaria comprising adm...