US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Sept. 29 for "Compounds and methods of inhibiting bacterial chaperonin systems" (Arizona, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,219, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.) and ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Compounds and methods of inhibiting bacterial chaperonin systems" was invented by Steven Johnson (Indianapolis) and Eli Chapman (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compounds and methods of killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria by disrupting chaperonin-mediated refolding of proteins."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2021, under Application No. 18/251,452.

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