ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,814, issued on April 8, was assigned to PULMOCIDE Ltd. (London).

"Process for preparing a compound useful to treat mycoses" was invented by Thomas Christopher Colley (London), Kazuhiro Ito (London), Garth Rapeport (London), Peter Strong (London), Peter John Murray (London), Stuart Thomas Onions (Nottinghamshire, Great Britain) and Mihiro Sunose (Nottinghamshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination therapy including one or more compounds of formula (I):wherein R represents hydrogen, halo, cyano, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 haloalkoxy, or SO2NR5R6, R1a and R1b independently represent hydrogen or halo; R2 represents hydr...