ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,887, issued on July 15, was assigned to Gilead Sciences Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"IKAROS Zinc Finger Family degraders and uses thereof" was invented by Gayatri Balan (Bellevue, Wash.), Peter A. Blomgren (Issaquah, Wash.), Chen Chen (Newark, Calif.), Julian A. Codelli (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Zhimin Du (Belmont, Calif.), Musong Kim (Bellevue, Wash.), Dorothee Saddier Axe (San Carlos, Calif.), Gregg M. Schwarzwalder (Redwood City, Calif.), Rhiannon Thomas-Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Michael T. Tudesco (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Chandrasekar Venkataramani (San Carlos, Calif.), William J. Watkins (Saratoga, Calif.), Brian M. Weist (Dublin, Calif.), Suet C. Yeung (Redmond, Wash.) and Hele...