US Patent Issued to GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on April 7 for "Amidines and amidine analogs for the treatment of bacterial infections and potentiation antibiotics" (Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,251, issued on April 7, was assigned to GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Atlanta).

"Amidines and amidine analogs for the treatment of bacterial infections and potentiation antibiotics" was invented by Binghe Wang (Marietta, Ga.), David W. Boykin (Atlanta), Manjusha Roy Choudhary (Atlanta), Arvind Kumar (Lilburn, Ga.), Bingchen Yu (Atlanta) and Mengyuan Zhu (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds and methods for the treatment of a bacterial infection or the potentiation of an antibiotic in treating a bacterial infection are described herein."

The patent was filed on June 13, 2019, under Application No. ...