ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,149, issued on April 22, was assigned to Carmot Therapeutics Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Modulators of G-protein coupled receptors" was invented by Daniel Erlanson (San Francisco), Raymond V. Fucini (San Bruno, Calif.), Stig Hansen (Kensington, Calif.), Jeff Iwig (Berkeley, Calif.), Shyam Krishnan (Novato, Calif.), Enrique Moya (Berkeley, Calif.) and Steven Sethofer (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt) that modulate (e.g., agonize or partially agonize or antagonize) glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor ("GLP-1R") and/or the gast...