ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,157, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pfizer Inc. (New York).
"Method of treating COVID-19" was invented by Robert Louis Hoffman (San Diego), Robert Steven Kania (Del Mar, Calif.), Dafydd Rhys Owen (Concord, Mass.), Martin Youngjin Pettersson (Littleton, Mass.), Matthew Forrest Sammons (Quincy, Mass.) and Jamison Bryce Tuttle (Marblehead, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods of treating COVID-19 in a patient by administering therapeutically effective amounts of certain SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor compounds or pharmaceutical compositions containing them to a patient in need thereof. The invention also relates...