ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,942, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Morphic Therapeutic Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Inhibiting (Alpha-v)(Beta-6) integrin" was invented by Bryce A. Harrison (Framingham, Mass.), James E. Dowling (Lexington, Mass.), Matthew G. Bursavich (Needham, Mass.), Dawn M. Troast (Bedford, Mass.), Blaise S. Lippa (Newton, Mass.), Bruce N. Rogers (Belmont, Mass.), Kristopher N. Hahn (Medford, Mass.), Cheng Zhong (Belmont, Mass.), Qi Qiao (Natick, Mass.), Fu-Yang Lin (Sudbury, Mass.), Brian Sosa (Cambridge, Mass.), Aleksey I. Gerasyuto (Flemington, N.J.), Andrea Bortolato (Metuchen, N.J.), Mats A. Svensson (New York), Eugene Hickey (Danbury, Conn.), Kyle D. Konze (Katonah, N.Y.), Tyler Day (New Y...