ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,480, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh), The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of treatment using phenyl indole allosteric inhibitors of P97 ATPase" was invented by Donna M. Huryn (Allentown, N.J.), Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh), Matthew G. LaPorte (Pittsburgh), Raffaele Colombo (Pittsburgh), Marina Kovaliov (Pittsburgh), Chaemin Lim (Pittsburgh), Celeste Natalie Alverez (Pittsburgh), Zhizhou Yue (Pittsburgh), Lalith Palitha Samankumara (Pittsburgh)...