US Patent Issued to KYORIN PHARMACEUTICAL on May 20 for "15-PGDH inhibitors" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,897, issued on May 20, was assigned to KYORIN PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"15-PGDH inhibitors" was invented by Shyama Herath (La Jolla, Calif.), Mariangela Urbano (La Jolla, Calif.), Eun-Kyong Kim (La Jolla, Calif.), Chixu Chen (La Jolla, Calif.), Qiang Li (La Jolla, Calif.), Julia Ayers (La Jolla, Calif.), Kaikoo Nakamura (La Jolla, Calif.), Xiuwen Zhu (La Jolla, Calif.), Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, Calif.), Jonathan S. Rosenblum (La Jolla, Calif.), Melissa C. Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.), Yongsheng Liu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Masahiro Ueno (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound having one of formula ...