ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,029, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nxera Pharma UK Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Orexin 1 receptor antagonists" was invented by Giles Albert Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Miles Stuart Congreve (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Andrew Christopher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nigel Alan Swain (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sarah Joanne Bucknell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anne Mary Stephenson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benjamin Gerald Tehan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mark Mills (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Anil Patel (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosures herein relate to novel compounds ...