US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on July 15 for "Silver-/gold-compounds and methods thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,657, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Silver-/gold-compounds and methods thereof" was invented by Hongzhe Sun (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Pak Leung Ho (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Runming Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Hongyan Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Qi Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing (a) polymyxin antibiotic and (b) a mobile colistin resistant proteins (MCRs) inhibitor. The inhibitor relates to silver/gold-compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are methods of making sil...