ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,623, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Method for treating a disease or condition using a pyrazole compound or formulation thereof" was invented by Lu Chou (Burlingame, Calif.), Matt Duan (Foster City, Calif.), Ihab Darwish (South San Francisco, Calif.), Simon Shaw (Oakland, Calif.), Somasekhar Bhamidipati (Foster City, Calif.), Vanessa Taylor (San Francisco), Yan Chen (Foster City, Calif.), Dazhong Fan (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Zhushou Luo (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for treating a disease ...