ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,301, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Isoquinoline compounds for the treatment of cancer" was invented by Jun Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Rohan V. Mendonca (South San Francisco, Calif.), Michael Siu (South San Francisco, Calif.), John Tellis (South San Francisco, Calif.), Weiru Wang (South San Francisco, Calif.), BinQing Wei (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bryan Chan (South San Francisco, Calif.), Edna F. Choo (South San Francisco, Calif.), Joy Drobnick (South San Francisco, Calif.), Lewis J. Gazzard (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Timothy Heffron (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U...