US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on June 17 for "Inhibitors of histone deacetylase useful for the treatment or prevention of HIV infection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,044, issued on June 17, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Inhibitors of histone deacetylase useful for the treatment or prevention of HIV infection" was invented by Jian Liu (Edison, N.J.), Dane James Clausen (Rahway, N.J.), Wensheng Yu (Edison, N.J.), Joseph M. Kelly (Parlin, N.J.), Hyunjin M. Kim (Livingston, N.J.) and Joseph A. Kozlowski (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula (I): Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, Ra, Rb, A and B are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to c...