ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,540, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid molecules encoding binding proteins for gastric inhibitory peptide receptor (GIPR)" was invented by Junming Yie (Warren, N.J.), Donghui Shi (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), David J. Lloyd (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Jinghong Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Glenn N. Sivits Jr. (Newbury Park, Calif.), Murielle M. Veniant-Ellison (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Renee Komorowski (Ventura, Calif.), Neeraj Agrawal (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Darren L. Bates (Oak Park, Calif.), Brandon C. P. Clavette (Coquitlam, Canada), Ian N. Foltz (Burnaby, Canada), Shu-yin Ho (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Christopher Murawsky (Roberts Creek,...