US Patent Issued to SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY, MEDICAL CORPORATION KINSHUKAI, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Feb. 17 for "Compound or salt thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,578, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan), MEDICAL CORPORATION KINSHUKAI (Osaka, Japan) and HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Compound or salt thereof" was invented by Kenichiro Todoroki (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshitaka Hamashima (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiromichi Egami (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Nakagawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshihiro Sakai (Sakai, Japan), Osamu Inoue (Sakai, Japan), Shingo Nishiyama (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masakatsu Kanazawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hideo Tsukada (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a compound represented b...