US Patent Issued to Pfizer on May 13 for "Modulators of STING (stimulator of interferon genes)" (California, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,190, issued on May 13, was assigned to Pfizer Inc. (New York).

"Modulators of STING (stimulator of interferon genes)" was invented by Ryan Patman (San Diego), Martin James Wythes (Solana Beach, Calif.), Eugene Yuanjin Rui (San Diego), Indrawan James McAlpine (San Diego), Andrew Fensome (Harvard, Mass.), Mehran Jalaie (San Diego), Ketan S. Gajiwala (San Diego), Chan Woo Huh (East Lyme, Conn.), Tuan Phong Tran (Ledyard, Conn.), Lei Zhang (Auburndale, Mass.), Dahui Zhou (Groton, Conn.) and Ethan Lawrence Fisher (Chester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds of the general formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt ther...