US Patent Issued to Bristol-Myers Squibb on July 22 for "Sulfone pyridine alkyl amide-substituted heteroaryl compounds" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,667, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Sulfone pyridine alkyl amide-substituted heteroaryl compounds" was invented by Chunjian Liu (Pennington, N.J.), Michael G. Yang (Narberth, Pa.), Zili Xiao (East Windsor, N.J.), Ling Chen (Doylestown, Pa.), Ryan M. Moslin (Princeton, N.J.), John S. Tokarski (Princeton, N.J.), David S. Weinstein (San Diego) and Stephen T. Wrobleski (Flemington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds having the following formula I:or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein, are useful in the m...