ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,708, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nektar Therapeutics (San Francisco).

"Adenosine 2 receptor antagonists" was invented by Neel K. Anand (San Mateo, Calif.), Natalia Aurrecoechea (Oakland, Calif.), Anthony James Brockway (Oakland, Calif.), Haiying Cai (Cupertino, Calif.), Lin Cheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo-Liang Deng (San Ramon, Calif.), Donogh John Roger O'Mahony (San Mateo, Calif.), Zhongxu Ren (Foster City, Calif.) and Wen Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure provides novel adenosine receptor antagonist compounds, compositions, methods of making and methods of using. In a further aspec...