US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Indiana University, Kovina Therapeutics on Jan. 27 for "Small molecule antiviral drug treatment for human papillomavirus infections" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,339, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.) and Kovina Therapeutics Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Small molecule antiviral drug treatment for human papillomavirus infections" was invented by Elliot J. Androphy (Indianapolis), Samy Meroueh (Carmel, Ind.), Zhijian Lu (Indianapolis) and Anne Rietz (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for treating HPV infections including pre-malignant and cancers. Compounds that specifically bind to the HPV E6 protein and inactivate the protein are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2023, under Applicatio...