US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "Compounds having excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) character for use in treating and/or preventing sunburn and/or preventing U.V. damage" (South African, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,711, issued on April 15, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG (Johannesburg) and JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY (Mainz, Germany).

"Compounds having excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) character for use in treating and/or preventing sunburn and/or preventing U.V. damage" was invented by Till Opatz (Mainz, Germany), Jonas Kuhlborn (Mainz, Germany), Charles B. De Koning (Johannesburg), Kennedy J. Ngwira (Johannesburg) and Quintino A. Mgani (Johannesburg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to use of cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) phenolics in the manufacture of molecules having E...