US Patent Issued to Oregon State University on June 30 for "Furanic quaternary ammonium salts" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,578, issued on June 30, was assigned to Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Furanic quaternary ammonium salts" was invented by Konstantinos Goulas (Corvallis, Ore.) and Truc Phung (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for making a quaternary ammonium salt according to the formulaAlso disclosed is a method for making the ammonium salts from an oleofuran compound. The compounds are useful as antibacterial and/or antiviral compounds and methods for administering the compounds also are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/472,895.

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