ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,339, issued on May 27, was assigned to ORIC PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Polo like kinase 4 inhibitors" was invented by Chudi Ndubaku (Montreal), Jared Thomas Moore (San Rafael, Calif.), Paul Anthony Gibbons (San Francisco), Jae Hyuk Chang (Alameda, Calif.), F. Anthony Romero (Redwood City, Calif.), Xiaohui Du (Belmont, Calif.), Hiroyuki Kawai (Pacifica, Calif.), Stephane Ciblat (Montreal), Hong Wang (Montreal), Vincent Albert (Montreal), Lea Constantineau-Forget (Montreal), Hugo de Almeida Silva (Montreal), Dilan Emine Polat (Montreal), Amit Nayyar (Montreal), Daniel Gordon Michael Shore (San Mateo, Calif.), Kejia Wu (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Joann...