ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,967, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Arcus Biosciences Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Modulators of 5'-nucleotidase, ecto and the use thereof" was invented by Laurent Pierre Paul Debien (San Francisco), Juan Carlos Jaen (Burlingame, Calif.), Jaroslaw Kalisiak (Newark, Calif.), Kenneth V. Lawson (San Francisco), Manmohan Reddy Leleti (Dublin, Calif.), Erick Allen Lindsey (San Diego), Dillon Harding Miles (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Newcomb (Boulder, Colo.), Jay Patrick Powers (Sisters, Ore.), Brandon Reid Rosen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ehesan Ui Sharif (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds that modulate the conversion...