ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,760, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hongene Biotech Corp. (Union City, Calif.).

"Functionalized N-acetylgalactosamine analogs" was invented by Wing C. Poon (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaoyang Guan (Union City, Calif.), David Yu (Union City, Calif.), Ruiming Zou (Foster City, Calif.), Xiaojun Li (Union City, Calif.), Michael Su (Union City, Calif.), Gang Zhao (Union City, Calif.), Gengyu Du (Union City, Calif.), Yun-Chiao Yao (Union City, Calif.) and Aldrich N.K. Lau (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to functionalized N-acetylgalactosamine-analogs, methods of making, and uses of ...