US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on March 18 for "IL-17A inhibitors" (Indiana, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,491, issued on March 18, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"IL-17A inhibitors" was invented by David Andrew Coates (New Palestine, Ind.), Kwame Frimpong (Indianapolis), William Glen Holloway (Brownsburg, Ind.), Brian Spencer Jones (Indianapolis), Adam Marc Levinson (Astoria, N.Y.), Charles Willis Lugar III (McCordsville, Ind.), Michael Enrico Richett (Indianapolis), Brian Morgan Watson (Carmel, Ind.) and Michael Edward Woodman (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides certain difluorocyclohexyl-imidazopyridazinyl-imidazolidinone compounds of formula II as IL-17A inhibitors, pharmaceutic...