ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,683, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIPPON SHINYAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Azabenzimidazole compounds and pharmaceutical" was invented by Koya Oikawa (Muko, Japan), Sho Hirai (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Wakita (Muko, Japan) and Akiko Fujibayashi (Muko, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide compounds having an M3 PAM action. Examples of the present invention include azabenzimidazole compounds represented, for example, by formula [I], and pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds have M3 PAM activity. In addition, because these compounds have M3 PAM activity, these c...