ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,295, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Beerse, Belgium).

"Substituted straight chain spiro derivatives" was invented by Wei Cai (Shanghai), Xuedong Dai (Shanghai), Olivier Alexis Georges Querolle (Issy-les Moulineaux, France), Johannes Wilhelmus John F. Thuring (Antwerp, Belgium), Yingtao Liu (Shanghai), Lianzhu Liu (Shanghai), Yanping Xu (Noblesville, Ind.), Liqiang Fu (Shanghai), Ming Li (Shanghai), Lichao Fang (Shanghai), Xiangjun Deng (Shanghai), Qiwu Zhao (Shanghai), Kangying Li (Tianjin, China), Alicia Tee Fuay Ng (Shanghai), Nicolas Freddy J. Darville (Linkhout, Belgium), Edward Cleator (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Gregor Thomas Urbanietz (Boo...