ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,154, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Chiral bimetallic cooperative catalysis system containing chelating ligand use thereof in asymmetric synthesis of bedaquiline" was invented by Wanbin Zhang (Shanghai), Feng Gao (Shanghai), Jing Li (Shanghai), Tanveer Ahmad (Shanghai), Yicong Luo (Shanghai) and Zhenfeng Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chiral bimetallic cooperative catalysis system containing a chelating ligand use thereof in asymmetric synthesis of bedaquiline are provided. Specifically, in the chiral bimetallic cooperative catalysis system, an equilibrium constant of a...