US Patent Issued to THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Bacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors and methods of use thereof" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,692, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami) and University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Bacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors and methods of use thereof" was invented by Fenfei Leng (Palmetto Bay, Fla.), Eddy Alfonso (Miami), Zifang Deng (Miami), Adel Nefzi (Miami) and Kyle Rohde (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides fluorophore-quencher nucleic acid molecules comprising relaxed or supercoiled DNA molecules, and their use in rapid and efficient high-throughput screening (HTS) assays to screen and identify compo...