ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,091, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.), Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Ala.) and The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington).

"RNA-binding protein multimerization inhibitors and methods of use thereof" was invented by Louis B. Nabors (Birmingham, Ala.), Natalia Filippova (Birmingham, Ala.), Xiuhua Yang (Birmingham, Ala.), Subramaniam Ananthan (Birmingham, Ala.), Vibha Pathak (Birmingham, Ala.) and Peter King (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides compounds that inhibit RNA-binding proteins, such...