ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,702, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dart NeuroScience LLC (Dallas).

"Substituted benzoxazole and benzofuran compounds as PDE7 inhibitors" was invented by Vincent John Santora (San Diego), Mi Chen (San Diego) and DeMichael Chung (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Substituted benzoxazole and benzofuran chemical entities of Formula (I):wherein, V, W, X, Y, Z, and m have any of the values described herein and compositions comprising such chemical entities; processes for making them; and their use in a wide range of methods, including metabolic and reaction kinetic studies; detection and imaging techniques; radioactive treatments...