ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,040, issued on June 17, was assigned to Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Substituted benzofuranyl and benzoxazolyl compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Erkan Baloglu (Stoneham, Mass.), Sharon Shacham (Newton, Mass.), William Senapedis (Millis, Mass.), Dilara McCauley (Arlington, Mass.), Yosef Landesman (Brookline, Mass.), Gali Golan (Mesilat Zion, Israel), Ori Kalid (Pardes Hanna, Israel) and Sharon Shechter (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to substituted benzofuranyl and substituted benzoxazolyl compounds, and more particularly to a compound represented by Structural...