ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,825, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zikani Therapeutics Inc. (Watertown, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"C10-alkylene substituted 13-membered macrolides and uses thereof" was invented by Roger B. Clark (Lexington, Mass.), Richard Alm (Berlin, Mass.), Wesley Francis Austin (Cambridge, Mass.), Philip Hogan (Brighton, Mass.), Ivan Jewett (Boston), Sushmita D. Lahiri (Lexington, Mass.), Jonathan F. Lawrence (Somerville, Mich.), Xiben Li (Lexington, Mass.), Shuhao Shi (Madison, Conn.), Wenying Wang (Boston), Yoshitaka Ichikawa (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrew G. Myers (Boston), Ziyang Zhang (San Francisco), Peter Niels Carlsen (Claymont, Del.), An...