ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,354, issued on June 23, was assigned to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul) and ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"DRG-MDM2-4 for use as a novel mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) inhibitor" was invented by Serdar Durdagi (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Timucin Avsar (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Muge Didem Orhan (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Maide Nur Paksoy (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Gulsah Aydin (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey) and Mine Yurtsever (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds according to formula (I)and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof for use as novel inhibitor...