US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY, KOVINA THERAPEUTICS on March 24 for "Small molecule antiviral drug treatment for human papillomavirus infections" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,850, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.) and KOVINA THERAPEUTICS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Small molecule antiviral drug treatment for human papillomavirus infections" was invented by Elliot J. Androphy (Indianapolis), Samy Meroueh (Carmel, Ind.), Anne Rietz (Indianapolis) and Zhijan Lu (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for treating HPV infections including pre-malignant and cancers. Compounds that specifically bind to the HPV E6 protein and inactivate the protein are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2025, under Applicatio...