US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on Oct. 21 for "Diacylglyceride O-acyltransferase 2 inhibitors" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,384, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Diacylglyceride O-acyltransferase 2 inhibitors" was invented by Yeon-Hee Lim (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jianming Bao (Princeton, N.J.), Fa-Xiang Ding (Staten Island, N.Y.), Cedric Lorenz Hugelshofer (Oakland, Calif.), Victor W. Mak (South San Francisco, Calif.), James Patrick Roane (Brisbane, Calif.), Jillian R. Sanzone (San Francisco), Samantha E. Shockley (San Francisco) and Rose Yen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Invented are compounds of formula Iand the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, which are DGA...