ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,100, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Gilead Sciences Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Toll like receptor modulator compounds" was invented by Evangelos Aktoudianakis (Redwood City, Calif.), Gregory Chin (San Francisco), Richard L. Mackman (Millbrae, Calif.), Samuel E. Metobo (Newark, Calif.), Michael R. Mish (Foster City, Calif.), Hyung-Jung Pyun (Fremont, Calif.) and Jeff Zablocki (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to toll like receptor modulator compounds, such as diamino pyrido[3,2 D] pyrimidine compounds and pharmaceutical compositions which, among other things, modulate toll-l...