US Patent Issued to Novartis on April 22 for "Compounds and compositions for inducing chondrogenesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,041, issued on April 22, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Compounds and compositions for inducing chondrogenesis" was invented by Ha-Soon Choi (San Diego), James Paul Lajiness (San Diego), Srinivasa Reddy Natala (San Diego), Bao Nguyen (San Diego), Hank Michael James Petrassi (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Zhicheng Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compounds of formula I:or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, or stereoisomer thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, ...