ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,682, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Elanco Animal Health GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Isoquinoline derivatives and their use for the treatment of parasitic infections" was invented by Bernd Alig (Koenigswinter, Germany), Walter Huebsch (Wuppertal, Germany), Nils Griebenow (Dormagen, Germany), Hans-Georg Schwarz (Dorsten, Germany), Wei Zhuang (Monheim am Rhein, Germany), Daniel Kulke (Leverkusen, Germany), Claudia Boehm (Hannover, Germany), Iring Heisler (Duesseldorf, Germany), Isa Jana Irina Janssen (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Kirsten Boerngen (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention covers new is...