US Patent Issued to PHARMASYNTEZ JOINT STOCK on Dec. 2 for "Antiviral agents for the treatment and prevention of HIV infection" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,121, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PHARMASYNTEZ JOINT STOCK COMPANY (Irkutsk, Russia).

"Antiviral agents for the treatment and prevention of HIV infection" was invented by Alexander Vitalievich Kurkin (Moscow), Ekaterina Vladimirovna Manasova (Moscow), Denis Nikolaevich Kazyulkin (Moscow), Vladimir Nikolaevich Ivanov (Yelets, Russia) and Mikhail Gennadievich Shurygin (Markova, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel pyrimidine derivatives, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and drugs contained in them, capable of inhibiting HIV replication are presented. These novel pyrimidine compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositi...