US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Comb shaped antivirals ending with or without chain terminating bases" (Sudanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,163, issued on July 7.

"Comb shaped antivirals ending with or without chain terminating bases" was invented by Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim (Khartoum, Sudan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modified antisense mucleic acid molecules ending with or without chain terminating bases targeting the HIV-1 viral genomic RNA 3' LTR region, and uses thereof for inhibiting HIV-1 replication and infection, are disclosed. The antisense mucleic acid molecules more specifically target a sequence corresponding to about nucleotide 9628 to about nucleotide 9642 of HIV-1 clone pNL4-3."

The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2021, under Application No. 18/043,0...