US Patent Issued to Japan Science and Technology Agency on April 14 for "Inhibitor for V-ATPase activity, antibacterial agent, medicine, antibacterial method and screening method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,588, issued on April 14, was assigned to Japan Science and Technology Agency (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Inhibitor for V-ATPase activity, antibacterial agent, medicine, antibacterial method and screening method" was invented by Takeshi Murata (Chiba, Japan), Kouki Shimizu (Chiba, Japan), Fabiana Lica Yakushiji (Chiba, Japan) and Katsuhiko Moriyama (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inhibitor for Na+-translocating V-ATPase activity including a compound represented by where R1 represents a group selected from a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, and a haloalkoxy group, each bonded to an adjacent phenyl group via oxygen, or a group ...