US Patent Issued to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE on April 1 for "Fused ring compound having urea structure" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,159, issued on April 1, was assigned to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Fused ring compound having urea structure" was invented by Tsuyoshi Nakamura (Tokyo), Mayuko Akiu (Tokyo), Takashi Tsuji (Tokyo), Jun Tanaka (Tokyo), Koji Terayama (Tokyo), Mika Yokoyama (Tokyo), Anthony B. Pinkerton (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Edward Hampton Sessions (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel fused ring compound having urea structure that exhibits excellent NAMPT activating effect, and a method using the same for treating/preventing metabolic disorder, cardiova...