ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,897, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Pyridine derivatives with n-linked cyclic substituents as cGAS inhibitors" was invented by Annekatrin Charlotte Heimann (Biberach an der Riss, Germany), Sandra Ruth Handschuh (Biberach an der Riss, Germany), Christoph Hoenke (Biberach an der Riss, Germany), Cedrickx Godbout (Attenweiler, Germany), Christian Gnamm (Biberach an der Riss, Germany), Patrick Gross (Biberach, Germany), Joerg Kley (Mittelbiberach, Germany), Christian Andreas Kuttruff (Schemmerhofen, Germany), Dirk Reinert (Bad Duerkheim, Germany), Raphael Stuber (Schwendi, Germany), Marc Alexander Grundl (Biberac...