ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,687, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RDISCOVERY LLC (Seattle).

"Drp1-filamin complex formation inhibitors" was invented by Akio Ojida (Fukuoka, Japan), Naoya Shindo (Fukuoka, Japan), Akiyuki Nishimura (Fukuoka, Japan) and Motohiro Nishida (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds represented by formula (I) belowand pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof and solvates of them; pharmaceutical compositions and dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1)-filamin complex formation inhibitors containing them; and uses of the compounds, salts, solvates, pharmaceutical compositions, and (Drp1)-filamin complex formation inhibitors for...