ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,824, issued on April 8, was assigned to Blueprint Medicines Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Wild type kit inhibitors" was invented by Jason D. Brubaker (Cambridge, Mass.), Yinghui Dai (Cambridge, Mass.), Thomas A. Dineen (Cambridge, Mass.), Guangyan Du (Cambridge, Mass.), Cheng Fang (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrew Marc Haidle (Somerville, Mass.), Joseph L. Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), Emanuele Perola (Cambridge, Mass.), Thiwanka Samarakoon (Cambridge, Mass.) and Douglas Wilson (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a compound represented by Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The variables in Formula (I...