US Patent Issued to MERCK SHARP & DOHME on Jan. 28 for "PCSK9 antagonist compounds" (American, Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,145, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"PCSK9 antagonist compounds" was invented by Harold B. Wood (Westfield, N.J.), Hubert B. Josien (Jersey City, N.J.), Thomas Joseph Tucker (North Wales, Pa.), Angela Dawn Kerekes (Plainfield, N.J.), Ling Tong (Warren, N.J.), Abbas M. Walji (Lansdale, Pa.), Anilkumar G. Nair (Rahway, N.J.), Fa-Xiang Ding (Staten Island, N.J.), Elisabetta Bianchi (Rome), Danila Branca (Pomezia, Italy), Chengwei Wu (Ambler, Pa.), Yusheng Xiong (Plainsboro, N.J.), Sookhee Nicole Ha (Warren, N.J.), Jian Liu (Edison, N.J.) and Sobhana Babu Boga (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...