US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto, Societe de Commercialisation des Produits de la Recherche Appliquee Socpra Sciences Sante et Humaines on May 12 for "Antiviral compounds, compositions and methods of use" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,896, issued on May 12, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto) and Societe de Commercialisation des Produits de la Recherche Appliquee Socpra Sciences Sante et Humaines S.E.C. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"Antiviral compounds, compositions and methods of use" was invented by David Scott Grierson (Vancouver, Canada), Maryam Zamiri (Vancouver, Canada), Peter K. Cheung (Burnaby, Canada), Benoit Chabot (Magog, Canada) and Alan Walter Cochrane (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are antiviral compounds having the structure of Formula (...