US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, ANTEROGEN on Oct. 28 for "Prodrugs of L-BHDU and methods of treating viral infections" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,540, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Athens, Ga.) and ANTEROGEN Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea).

"Prodrugs of L-BHDU and methods of treating viral infections" was invented by Uma Sharan Singh (Athens, Ga.) and Chung Chu (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the invention is directed to prodrug compounds of L-BHDU according to the chemical structure I: Where R1 is a -(CH2)n-O-R1a group or a -(CH2)j-O-C(O)Ok-R2a group; R2 is H, a -(CH2)n-O-R1a group or a -(CH2)j-O-C(O)Ok- R2a group; R1a is independently a C6-C30alkyl group, often a C12-C22 alkyl group, often a C14-...