ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,482, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) and Lieber Institute Inc. (Baltimore).

"Compounds which inhibit RNA polymerase" was invented by Hester Hui Liu (Cockeysville, Md.), James C. Barrow (Arnold, Md.), Marikki K. Laiho (Kauniainen, Finland), Rajesh Kumar Nv (Baltimore), Pablo de Leon (Baltimore), Tony Dorado (Baltimore), Asma Begum (Baltimore), Wenjun Fan (Baltimore) and Gregory Stachelek (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and/or hydrate, and/or cocrystal, and/or drug combination of the ...