US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on June 2 for "Methods of inhibiting Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,808, issued on June 2, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Methods of inhibiting Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2" was invented by Yang Tang (Hong Kong), Chen Yang (Hong Kong), Chenyu Liu (Hong Kong) and Sheng Chen (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of at least partially inhibiting the function of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2 (KPC-2) or a variant thereof, the method including contacting the KPC-2 with a benzoxaborole selected from the group consisting of 5-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-hydroxy-2,1-benzoxaborole, 5-fluoro-1,3-dihydro-1-hydroxy-2,1-benzoxaborole, and mixtures thereof useful in t...