ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,614, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Benzodiazepine derivatives as GABA a GAMMA1 PAM" was invented by Bjoern Bartels (Schopfheim, Germany), Giuseppe Cecere (Basel, Switzerland), Luca Gobbi (Buus, Switzerland), Maria-Clemencia Hernandez (Delemont, Switzerland), Roland Humm (Auggen, Germany), Andres Miguel Olivares Morales (Binningen, Switzerland), Angelique Patiny-Adam (Kembs, France), Valerie Runtz-Schmitt (Rixheim, France) and Christian Schnider (Biel-Benken, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel heterocyclic compounds having the general formula (I) or ...