US Patent Issued to Genentech on June 24 for "Bicyclic sulfones and sulfoxides and methods of use thereof" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,241, issued on June 24, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Bicyclic sulfones and sulfoxides and methods of use thereof" was invented by Snahel Patel (Foster City, Calif.), Gregory Hamilton (Atlanta), Craig Stivala (San Mateo, Calif.), Huifen Chen (Burlingame, Calif.) and Blake Daniels (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula I:wherein R1, RB1, RB2, n, p, q, the A ring and the B ring are as described herein, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compounds."

The patent was filed on June 6, 2021, ...