US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and antibiotics against multidrug resistant bacteria" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,211, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and antibiotics against multidrug resistant bacteria" was invented by Daniel P Flaherty (West Lafayette, Ind.), Mohamed Seleem (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jatinder Kaur (Edmonton, Canada) and Xufeng Cao (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention described herein generally relates to novel therapeutic compounds, and in particular to carbonic anhydrase inhibitors as a narrow spectrum antibiotics against drug resistant bacteria and methods for treating those infection diseases in mammals using the d...