US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on July 29 for "Compositions and methods for treating malaria" (New Jersey, Illinois, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,183, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.) and UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Ky.).

"Compositions and methods for treating malaria" was invented by Spencer Knapp (New Brunswick, N.J.), Robert D. Barrows (New Brunswick, N.J.), R. Kiplin Guy (Lexington, Ky.), Jared Hammill (Lexington, Ky.) and Christopher Davis (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of treating malaria with tetrahydrobenzonaphtyridine carboxanilide (TBN) derivatives and related pyrrolinones and hydrolysis products thereof. These compounds are active aga...