US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on Sept. 8 for "Macrocyclic broad spectrum antibiotics" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,129, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Macrocyclic broad spectrum antibiotics" was invented by Michael F.T. Koehler (South San Francisco, Calif.), Peter Andrew Smith (South San Francisco, Calif.), Dana Winter (Montreal), Boubacar Sow (Montreal), Claudio Sturino (Montreal), Guillaume Pelletier (Saint-Lazare, Canada), Jonathan Boudreault (L'Ile-Perrot, Canada) and Stephanie Roy (Lachine, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are antibacterial compounds, wherein the compounds in some embodiments have broad spectrum bioactivity. In various embodiments, the compounds act by i...