US Patent Issued to The William Yarbrough Foundation on March 4 for "Method for treating infectious diseases with isothiocyanate functional compounds" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,626, issued on March 4, was assigned to The William Yarbrough Foundation (Peoria, Ill.).

"Method for treating infectious diseases with isothiocyanate functional compounds" was invented by Michael E. Silver (Lake City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating an infectious disease, including the step of administering an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to a patient having an infectious disease. In one embodiment, the protonated form of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant is represented by the following chemical structure:"

The patent was filed on April 25, 2023, under Application No. 18/139,012.

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