US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, MMV MEDICINES FOR MALARIA VENTURE on Dec. 30 for "Anti-malarial agents" (American, British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,439, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Ky.) and MMV MEDICINES FOR MALARIA VENTURE (Geneva).

"Anti-malarial agents" was invented by Rodney Kiplin Guy (Lexington, Ky.), Jared T. Hammill (Fishers, Ind.), David Floyd (Pennington, N.J.), Jeremy Burrows (La Rippe, Switzerland) and Stephen Brand (Alyth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to new derivatives in the manufacture of a medicament for preventing or treating malaria. Specifically, the present invention is related to dihydroisoquinoline derivatives useful for the preparation of a pharm...