US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 24 for "Nonmuscle myosin ii inhibitors" (Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,240, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Nonmuscle myosin ii inhibitors" was invented by Courtney Anne Miller (Jupiter, Fla.), Patrick Robert Griffin (Jupiter, Fla.), Theodore Mark Kamenecka (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Gavin Rumbaugh (Jupiter, Fla.), Matthew Surman (Albany, N.Y.), Steve Young (Lansdale, Pa.), Steven Duddy (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Laszlo Radnai (East Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention can provide compounds, analogs of blebbistatin, effective and selective inhibitors of nonmuscle myosin II relative to cardiac myosin...