ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,210, issued on May 13, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Naphthyridine compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Terry Kellar (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jun Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Sushant Malhotra (South San Francisco, Calif.), Rohan V. Mendonca (South San Francisco, Calif.), Michael Siu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Craig Stivala (South San Francisco, Calif.), John C. Tellis (South San Francisco, Calif.), BinQing Wei (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bryan K. Chan (South San Francisco, Calif.), Lewis J. Gazzard (South San Francisco, Calif.), Timothy Heffron (South San Francisco, Calif.), Graham Jones (Harlow, Great Britain), Michael ...