ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,853, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gilead Sciences Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"HIV inhibitor compounds" was invented by Elizabeth M. Bacon (Burlingame, Calif.), Elbert Chin (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeromy J. Cottell (Redwood City, Calif.), Ashley Anne Katana (North Olmstead, Ohio), Darryl Kato (San Francisco), John O. Link (San Francisco), Nathan Shapiro (Belmont, Calif.), Teresa Alejandra Trejo Martin (Belmont, Calif.) and Zheng-Yu Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a compound of Formula I:or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as described herein. The invention also provides pharm...