US Patent Issued to Novartis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology on April 29 for "Antiviral 1,3-di-oxo-indene compounds" (South Korean, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,423, issued on April 29, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Keuven, Belgium) and Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Antiviral 1,3-di-oxo-indene compounds" was invented by Johan Neyts (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Daniel Poon (Piedmont, Calif.), Keith Bruce Pfister (Emeryville, Calif.), Young-Sik Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Bong Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Yashwardhan R. Malpani (Daejeon, South Korea), Prashant Chakrasali (Daejeon, South Korea), Bishyajit Kumar Biswas (Daejeon, South Korea), Chong-Kyo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Chonsaeng Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) ...