ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,474, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.p.A. (Parma, Italy).

"Dihydrofuropyridine derivatives as rho-kinase inhibitors" was invented by Fabio Rancati (Parma, Italy), Alessandro Accetta (Parma, Italy), Anna Maria Capelli (Parma, Italy), Daniele Pala (Parma, Italy), Christine Edwards (Parma, Italy), Adele Elisa Pasqua (Parma, Italy), Prashant Bhimrao Kapadnis (Parma, Italy) and Arnaud Jean Francois Auguste Cheguillaume (Parma, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) inhibiting Rho Kinase that are dihydrofuropyridine derivatives, methods of preparing such compounds, ph...