ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,723, issued on April 15, was assigned to JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV (Beerse, Belgium).

"Compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Matthew Lucas (Lexington, Mass.), Bertrand Le Bourdonnec (Northborough, Mass.), Iwona Wrona (Sharon, Mass.), Bhaumik Pandya (Bedford, Mass.), Parcharee Tivitmahaisoon (Boston), Kerem Ozboya (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin Vincent (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Tardiff (Arlington, Mass.), Jeff Piotrowski (Somerville, Mass.), Eric Solis (Milford, Mass.), Robert Scannevin (Hopkinton, Mass.), Chee-Yeun Chung (Brookline, Mass.), Rebecca Aron (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kenneth Rhodes (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Of...