US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on March 3 for "Inhibitors of human respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumovirus" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,494, issued on March 3, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC.

"Inhibitors of human respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumovirus" was invented by Douglas C. Beshore (Lower Gywnedd, Pa.), Brett R. Ambler (Blue Bell, Pa.), Kira A. Armacost (Doylestown, Pa.), Christopher James Bungard (Lansdale, Pa.), Danielle M. Hurzy (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Peter J. Manley (Harleysville, Pa.), Kelly-Ann S. Schlegel (Fleetwood, Pa.), Linda M. Suen-Lai (Malvern, Pa.) and Mahdieh Yazdani (Blue Bell, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula Ior a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and their us...