ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,226, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Accro Bioscience (HK) Ltd. (Wan Chai, Hong Kong).

"Heteroaryl compounds as necrosis inhibitors, composition and method using the same" was invented by Xiaohu Zhang (Suzhou, China), Sudan He (Suzhou, China) and Haikuo Ma (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides heteroaryl compounds of Formula (I), processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use in the treatment of diseases and disorders, arising from or related to necrosis. Formula (I) is shown below:"

The patent was filed on Jan. 11, 2020, under Application No. ...