ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,427, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kumquat Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Heterocyclic compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Yi Liu (San Diego), Pingda Ren (San Diego), Liansheng Li (San Diego), Zhimin Zhu (San Diego) and Xiuwen Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of using the same. The compounds and methods have a range of utilities as therapeutics, diagnostics, and research tools. In particular, the subject compositions and methods are useful for reducing signaling output of oncogenic proteins."

The patent was f...