ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,512, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).
"Benzimidazoles and methods of using same" was invented by Darrell Davis (Salt Lake City) and Shuanghu Liu (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is concerned with benzimidazole compounds and methods of using these compounds for the treatment of hepatitis (e.g., hepatitis C), RNA virus infections (e.g., Zika virus, dengue virus, Powassan virus, Chikungunya virus, Enterovirus, respiratory syntactical virus (RSV), Rift Valley fever, Influenza virus, Tacaribe virus, Mayaro virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever v...