US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on April 15 for "Therapeutic compounds and methods of use" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,745, issued on April 15, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Therapeutic compounds and methods of use" was invented by Jason Robert Zbieg (Montara, Calif.), Paul Powell Beroza (Belmont, Calif.), Vishal Anil Verma (San Carlos, Calif.), Bing-Yan Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ramsay Beveridge (Montreal), Liang Zhao (Montreal), Melissa Leblanc (Montreal), Lisa Marie Barton (Burlingame, Calif.), Bryan Ka Ip Chan (Foster City, Calif.), Samir Bouayad-Gervais (Montreal), Anwesha Dey (Cupertino, Calif.), Marie Anne Evangelista (San Francisco) and Russell Tyler Smith (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This discl...