ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,835, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CHUGAI SEIYAKU K.K. (Tokyo).

"Peptide-compound cyclization method" was invented by Shiori Kariyuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Takeo Iida (Kanagawa, Japan), Miki Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryuichi Takeyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Mikimasa Tanada (Shizuoka, Japan), Tetsuo Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Hitoshi Iikura (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Matsuo (Shizuoka, Japan), Takuya Shiraishi (Shizuoka, Japan), Takashi Emura (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuhiko Nakano (Shizuoka, Japan), Koji Takano (Shizuoka, Japan), Kousuke Asou (Shizuoka, Japan), Takuya Torizawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Ryusuke Takano (Shizuoka, Japan), Nozomi Hisada (Shizuoka, Japan), Naoaki Murao (Shizuoka, Jap...