US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, MOLECULIN BIOTECH on Sept. 15 for "Method of treating viral infections with hexose type monosaccharides and analogs thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,185, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and MOLECULIN BIOTECH INC. (Houston).

"Method of treating viral infections with hexose type monosaccharides and analogs thereof" was invented by Waldemar Priebe (Houston), Izabela Fokt (Houston), Rafal Zielinski (Houston), Stanislaw Skora (Houston), Donald Picker (Houston) and Walter Klemp (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of treating and preventing viral diseases and infections comprising the administration of hexoses and analogs and their prodrugs thereof that inhibit glycolysis a...