US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on March 31 for "Inhibitors of histone deacetylase useful for the treatment or prevention of HIV infection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,099, issued on March 31, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Inhibitors of histone deacetylase useful for the treatment or prevention of HIV infection" was invented by Wensheng Yu (Edison, N.J.), Joseph Kozlowski (Princeton, N.J.), Dane James Clausen (Rahway, N.J.), Jian Liu (Edison, N.J.), Younong Yu (East Brunswick, N.J.), Ming Wang (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Bing Li (Towaco, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and A are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to c...