ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,786, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).
"Plasma kallikrein inhibitors" was invented by Jacqueline D. Hicks (Watchung, N.J.), Rongze Kuang (Green Brook, N.J.), Christopher J. Sinz (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Matthew J. Lombardo (Flemington, N.J.), Jovan Alexander Lopez (New Haven, Conn.), Rohan Rajiv Merchant (Burlingame, Calif.), Phillip Patrick Sharp (San Francisco), Zhicai Wu (Montvale, N.J.), Zhiqiang Zhao (Little Neck, N.Y.), Alan C. Cheng (San Francisco), Song Yang (San Francisco), Jianming Bao (Princeton, N.J.), Maoqun Tian (Forster, Calif.) and Galen Paul Shearn-Nance (Tiburon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pat...