ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,442, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"KIF18A inhibitors" was invented by Nuria A. Tamayo (Newbury Park, Calif.), Abhisek Banerjee (Karnataka, India), James Alexander Brown (Moorpark, Calif.), Michael J. Frohn (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Jian Jeffrey Chen (Camarillo, Calif.), Kexue Li (Newbury Park, Calif.), Qingyian Liu (Camarillo, Calif.), Jonathan Dante Low (Reseda, Calif.), Vu Ma (Oak Park, Calif.), Liping H. Pettus (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Mary Catherine Walton (Pacifica, Calif.), Ana Elena Minatti (Los Angeles), Matthew Paul Bourbeau (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Lei Jia (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...