ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,629, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cyclopentenyl purine derivative or salt thereof" was invented by Hidenobu Kuniyoshi (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Takehiro Yamane (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Takayuki Yamakawa (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Hideyasu Fujiwara (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Eiichi Kodama (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a compound exhibiting an excellent drug efficacy as an anti-adenoviral agent, and an anti-adenoviral agent. The present invention provides an anti-adenoviral agent including a compound represented by General Formula [1] ...