US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Jan. 20 for "Compounds for treating tuberculosis" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,793, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Compounds for treating tuberculosis" was invented by Gerhard Gruber (Singapore), Roderick Wayland Bates (Singapore) and Shuyi Pearly Ng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a compound of formula (Ia) or (Ib) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a methyl group; R2 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group; R3 is an aryl group or a heteroaryl group, optionally substituted by one or more groups selected from halogen, alkyl or alkoxy; and, in Formula (Ia), X is CH or N an...