US Patent Issued to UTI on April 14 for "Fluorinated N-acetyl glucosamine analogs and xylose derivatives" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,740, issued on April 14, was assigned to UTI LP (Calgary, Canada).

"Fluorinated N-acetyl glucosamine analogs and xylose derivatives" was invented by Voon Wee Yong (Calgary, Canada), Chang-Chun Ling (Calgary, Canada), Erin Laurel Stephenson (Calgary, Canada), Ping Zhang (Calgary, Canada), Michael Bradley Keough (Edmonton, Canada) and Khalil Sherali Rawji (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to fluorinated glucosamine analogs and uses thereof, including analogs of N-acetyl glucosamine fluorinated at 4- and/or 6-position(s) and derivatives of xylose at anomeric position for t...