ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,425, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN (Munich) and MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (Munich).

"Agents and methods for the prevention or treatment of H. pylori infections" was invented by Anahita Javaheri (Munich), Tobias Kruse (Munich), Markus Gerhard (Munich), Bernhard B. Singer (Essen, Germany), Daniel Hornburg (Munich), Han Remaut (Vertrijk, Belgium), Matthias Mann (Munich), Felix Meissner (Gauting, Germany) and Steffen Backert (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to inhibitors of the interaction between H. pylori HopQ and a me...