ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,821, issued on April 8, was assigned to UNIVERISTY OF SHARJAH (United Arab Emirates).

"Discovery of novel first in class nature-inspired compounds targeting the mitochondrial function and pharmaceutical composition thereof" was invented by Taleb H. Altel (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Vunnam Srinivasulu (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Saleh Ibrahim (Lubeck, Germany) and Paul Schilf (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel antitumor agents and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes and intermediates for the manufacture of these novel constrained cyclic frameworks of genera...