ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,491, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Bayer Pharma AG (Berlin).

"MASP inhibitory compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Donald Bierer (Haan, Germany), Ingo Flamme (Reichshof, Germany), Dmitry Zubov (Remscheid, Germany), Thomas Neubauer (Wuppertal, Germany), Adrian Tersteegen (Wuppertal, Germany), Cathleen Juhl (Hamburg, Germany), Marie Glatz (Wuppertal, Germany), Jan Dreher (Wuppertal, Germany), Simon Holton (Berlin), Carsten Terjung (Bochum, Germany), Lars Baumann (Wulfrath, Germany), Thorsten Poethko (Schwelm, Germany), Jiancheng Xiong (Wuhan, China) and Yibo Qiu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

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