ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,732, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bionomics Ltd. (Eastwood, Australia).

"Cyclic compounds as receptor modulating therapeutics and methods and uses thereof" was invented by Lorna Mitchell (Thebarton, Australia), Hamish Toop (Thebarton, Australia), Belinda Huff (Thebarton, Australia), Justin Ripper (Thebarton, Australia), Rajinder Singh (Thebarton, Australia), Christophe Morice (Widensolen, France), Jean-Marie Contreras (Westhouse, France), Patrick Bazzini (Strasbourg, France), Laurent Schaeffer (Fortschwihr, France) and Mathieu Michaut (Illkirch, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to ch...