ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,415, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Disc Medicine Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Matriptase 2 inhibitors and uses thereof" was invented by Srikanth Venkatraman (Edison, N.J.), Subhendu Mukherjee (Serampore, India), Rajeev Goswami (Dehradun, India), Venkateshwar Rao Gummadi (Bangalore, India), A. Bharathi Raja (Krishnagiri Dist., India) and Murtuza Hadianawala (Rajkot, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compounds for inhibiting matriptase 2, or a mutant thereof, and compositions and methods of use thereof."

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2019, under Application No. 17/282,176.

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