ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,633, issued on July 15, was assigned to Celgene Corp. (Summit, N.J.).

"Methods of treating cancer by targeting cold tumors" was invented by Ellen Filvaroff (Summit, N.J.), Brian Fox (Summit, N.J.), Ida Aronchik (Summit, N.J.) and Tracy Chow (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for the treatment of cancer or neoplastic diseases and the like, by administering 4-[2-(4-amino-piperidin-1-yl)-5-(3-fluoro-4-methoxy-phenyl)-1-methyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydro-pyrimidin-4-yl]-2-fluoro- benzonitrile (compound of Formula (I)) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds ...