US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on July 22 for "Sulfur-heterocycle exchange chemistry and uses thereof" (Virginia, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,579, issued on July 22, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Sulfur-heterocycle exchange chemistry and uses thereof" was invented by Ku-Lung Hsu (Charlottesville, Va.), Heung Sik Hahm (Atlanta), Emmanuel K. Toroitich (Charlottesville, Va.), Jeffrey W. Brulet (Glen Allen, Va.), Adam L. Borne (Charlottesville, Va.), Adam Herman Libby (Charlottesville, Va.) and Kun Yuan (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sulfonyl-triazole compounds and related sulfonyl-heterocycle compounds are described. The compounds can be used to identify reactive nucleophilic amino acid residues, such a...