US Patent Issued to University of Jeddah on July 7 for "Compositions and methods for treating HIV/AIDS" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,080, issued on July 7, was assigned to University of Jeddah (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Compositions and methods for treating HIV/AIDS" was invented by Maryam Ahmed Al-Jaziri (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Arwa A. Makki (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Dina Hajjar (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for inhibiting HIV protease are disclosed. The compositions include an extract from Cassia acutifolia stems, or a fraction thereof, alone or in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The extracts can be obtained by subjecting Cassia acutifolia pulverized stems to methanol/dichloromethane (1:1) extraction. In a fir...