ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,974, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FILECLO SP. Z O.O. (Lodz, Poland).

"Compounds constituting C20-modified salinomycin derivatives, a method for obtaining the same, a composition containing the same, a use of said compounds and a method for obtaining an intermediate product" was invented by Adam Huczynski (Poznan, Poland) and Michal Antoszczak (Biedrusko, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds constituting C20-N-acyl derivatives of salinomycin with the general formula (2):and their salts, where X denotes R, O-R or NH-R, and R is as defined in the claims and in the description. The invention al...